Spam Elimination Technique

I’m assuming this wouldn’t do well full scale as the spammers would catch on, but I recently saw a wordpress plugin which adds input fields to your comment forms that are hidden using CSS (e.g. display: none). Then if data is submitted in those inputs you can tell it wasn’t a human with a browser, [...]

Posts vs. Traffic

Image via CrunchBase People have often questioned what the affect of irregular updates on a site have on their traffic ranking. Blogs have been introduced to many websites in order to help keep them “fresh” and make sure that search engines come back often. This has a direct impact on advertising earnings as well as [...]

Twilight Series

If you’re a fan of the Twilight Series (the movies, the books, Alice..) like we are you’ll be interested in Twilight Series, a South African blog about everything related to the Twilight Saga.

As you most likely know we have a comment of the month competition here which gets you a link on our blogroll (covering several PR5, 4 and 3 pages). The previous winner was Xbox Gaming and this months best comment goes to Justin Hartman for his explanation of AdGator! Congratulations, and remember to keep the [...]

We posted an entry called “Triple Your WordPress Blog Hits in a Week“, which essentially guides you through installing an automated blog translation tool in order to attract non-English readers to your blog – this is an update to that post. Now in the beginning it did look like we had tripled our readership but [...]

This is why you’re fat. It’s a pretty harsh sentence, and an even harsher site name but hold onto your anger because this site is most definately a reason to be fat. A corn dog pizza? Nevermind the mile high Oreo, “This is why you’re fat” is a blog type site that posts pictures of [...]

This is especially valuable if you’ve been rolling a WordPress install thats been around for a while (such as ours); a plugin which deletes old post revisions, spams, and optimizes the tables in your database! WP-Optimize [plugin] is pretty simple but it may save you a lot of space, and speed things up a bit [...]

UPDATE: Please read the comments, Justin of Adgator has answered a lot of our questions and given some good news about the future! We’ve been trying to work out the difference between a great day on AdGator and a terrible one to work out whether its worth our time at all, and stumbled across some [...]

For anyone who doesn’t know, Gravatar is the global avatar system used by a lot of bloggers, specifically supported by the latest WordPress. Essentially, it associates an avatar with an email address you use to comment, so you can have your avatar show when you comment on blogs! Now, naturally its important to have an [...]

January Comment Competition

As we posted last month, we were running a comment competition with the prize being a backlink from one of our higher PR pages. The criteria for the competition was Relevance to the topic Insight Adding to the discussion Based on this, we’d like to award the prize to Denouncer of Xboxgaming.co.za for his input [...]

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