Link To Full Story: howardneu.com
Under Federal law, web sites are generally not liable for comments posted by others on the sites. However, the courts have held that they can be forced to reveal the poster's identity if the post includes false facts. Calling someone names like "jerk" or MORON", is safe from a lawsuit because it is stating an opinion, which is not actionable. But if the comments are factually false or malicious like he is a thief or he wrongfully put taxpayer's money in his pocket, these words are defamatory and are the basis of a libel or slander suit.
Link To Full Story: TiaWood.com
Resources for getting traffic to your blog.
Link To Full Story: www.mattbartus.com
On February 17, 2010, the Word of Mouth Marketing Association released a guide which may begin to set some industry standards for how to provide appropriate disclosures (in not too many characters). Examples include:
- I am an employee [or representative] of company name.
- I received product or sample from company name to review.
- I was paid by company.
- For microblogs such as Twitter, include the hashtags #spon, #paid, or #samp.
The social media world continues to evolve very quickly and surely corporate compliance with the new FTC endorsement guidelines will evolve as well.
Link To Full Story: www.readwriteweb.com
WordPress' iPhone app (iTunes link) just got a nice update and now allows you to geotag your mobile blog posts. WordPress launched official support for geotagging posts through the web interface on Wordpress.com blogs last November, though bloggers with self-hosted WordPress installations have long been able to geotag their posts with the help of numerous plugins.
While the iPhone app supports both Wordpress.com and self-hosted WordPress blogs, users with self-hosted blogs won't see any advantage in geotagging their blogs until WordPress releases its own geotagging plugin in a few weeks.
Link To Full Story: www.catswhocode.com
Thematic
Being a WordPress fan, I really love the concept of Theme frameworks. For those who doesn’t know what it is, Theme frameworks are WordPress themes which contain lots of functions and styles. You can extend both in looks and functionality by adding a child theme.
For example, my other blog Cats Who Blog is using the Thesis theme framework that I extended using my own styles and functions.
Many commercial frameworks are availables, but Thematic is 100% free. A definitive must download if you’re into WordPress!
» Visit Thematic
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Link To Full Story: www.onextrapixel.com
Why Write Guest Articles?
Why would anyone want to write a guest article? Good question! Depending on who you talk to, there are many different reasons as to why you may want to consider writing a guest article. Perhaps it is for the publicity, or maybe it is for the good of the community and to lend a helping hand. Either way, there is no right or wrong answer. Let's take a look at a few reasons you may want to think about writing a guest article.
Contribute to the Community
One of the biggest reasons for wanting to participate in writing a guest article is to give back to the web design and development community. Think about everything you know about the subject today. Would you be where you are today if it was not for others that were willing to share what they know and have learned over time? Be thankful to the community and embrace the opportunity to give back.
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Link To Full Story: www.smartpassiveincome.com
Income Breakdown
GreenExamAcademy.com Product Sales:
- Ebook Only: $1198.00
- Audio Only: $15.00
- Ebook + Audio Package: $1,468.35
- Total: $2,689.35
- Last Month: $2,979.10
- Difference: -$289.75
- eHow Earnings:
- Total: $131.09
- Last Month: $135.03
- Difference: -$3.94
- Affiliate Earnings:
- Total: $4,997.75
- Last Month: $4,957.78
- Difference: +$39.97
- iPhone Applications:
- Total: $2,448.44
- Last Month: $1,927.84
- Difference: +$520.60
- Gross Total in January: $10,266.63
- Last Month: $9,999.75
- Difference: +$266.88
A wonderful month, finally breaking the $10k mark once again. As far as how much time I spent in total to earn this amount, the iPhone apps and the eHow earnings took zero hours of my time and my product sales from GreenExamAcademy took about 1 hour of work (answering emails and responding to comment on the blog). It’s hard to determine the exact time I spent on my affiliate earnings because the time I spent promoting the Smart Passive Income Blog does have an effect on that total, although it’s not a direct correlation. I’ll just ballpark it and say 5 hours total.
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Link To Full Story: www.viperchill.com
If you’re wondering why guest posting isn’t working for your site or why you can’t seem to get past 100 visitors per day, this is for you. If you are desperate to get your feed count past 1,000 subscribers then, this is also for you. If you’re looking for an A-list blogger to mention you work and put you on the radar, then guess what? This post is for you as well.
Let’s begin, shall we
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Link To Full Story: www.onextrapixel.com
Change Default "Admin" Username
Every default WordPress installation will create an account with a default Admin username. This is wide spread knowledge, everyone who uses WordPress knows this. However, this can be a security issue because a hacker can brutal force your WordPress admin panel. If you can change your default “Admin” username, you will give your WordPress admin panel additional security.
Solution:
1 | UPDATE wp_users SET user_login = 'Your New Username' WHERE user_login = 'Admin'; |
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
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OK now that we’ve got the duplicate content issue resolved, why would anyone want to use tags in the first place? Can’t you achieve the same results with categories? Yes and no. Here’s an example of how I would use categories and tags: let’s say you have a celebrity website with categories like “baby bump,” “fashion,” “news,” “rumors,” etc. You are also going to have celebrities who are always in the news like Paris Hilton or Britney Spears. What I would do is create tags for each celebrity and, whenever I did a post about the celebrity, I’d tag it with his or her name.
Another example. You have a travel website with categories like “adventure travel,” “family travel,” “skiing,” “cruises,” and so on. I would set up tags for countries, states, or cities, like Bahamas, France, or Colorado. You could have a white water rafting page in the adventure travel category tagged with Colorado. You could have a Skiing in Vail post in the skiing category also tagged with Colorado. You can also have a family travel article about visiting the Museum of Science and nature and Botanic Gardens in Colorado. Those three separate articles would be interconnected by using the Colorado tag.