Archive for the 'Geek' Category

The “U Comment, I Follow” Revolution

Monday, January 7th, 2008

Recently I became aware that the default installation of WordPress marks all comment links with the rel=’nofollow’ tag. The effect of this tag is that search engine spiders such as GoogleBot will not follow the link to your site, thus the only effect of the comment is if a human follows the link.
The origins […]

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Win 500 Entrecard Credits

Saturday, January 5th, 2008

Recently I joined the free Entrecard service in order to attract more traffic. An Entrecard is an online business card of sorts and is used to “drop” on other bloggers websites who also participate in the service. Whenever you drop a card you, and the person receiving the card, are given an Entrecard […]

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Improve Wordpress Performance

Friday, January 4th, 2008

Whilst cruising around the Entrecard member sites dropping cards I often find some great articles and tips. The latest little gem is a real corker. It is the How Fast is your Wordpress Blog. It came in very handy for me as I was noticing increasingly slow load times on SCHWOIT. […]

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The Geek Rides Again

Wednesday, December 19th, 2007

Today the geek in me has been dominant. I have today upgraded WordPress, fitted the relevant code to make the theme widget aware, converted the sidebar as much as possible to become a widget hive. I even submitted the site to a couple of directories. I have also taken delivery of a […]

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Sockos Spot Gets a Face Lift

Sunday, April 1st, 2007

Sockos Spot has received a major facelift and has, like SCHWOIT, migrated to WordPress an away from bL0gK33p3r. The main driver for it was a junk spammer that kept poisoning the site with utterly crap links for insurance companies. The move to WordPress and the requirement for registration and moderation will prevent this idiot from […]

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