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Comment Spammer Blacklist?

seangw — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 05:00:10 +0000

Not a big surprise, running a blog I get tons of comment spammers. Lots of “Good info” and “I really like this, can you elaborate more”. Does anyone know of a comment spammer blacklist? I’ve been thinking of starting one. Manually writing down IPs that are obviously spamming trying to get more inbound links. I’m [...]

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How to speed up your WordPress Blog

seangw — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 12:30:29 +0000

I finally got around to speeding up my WordPress blog and wanted to share with everyone the various things I did. I reduced my average page load time on certain pages from 15 seconds to about 1.5 seconds. That’s a big change. My favorite test was a quick click through. On my new host I [...]

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Do-Follow Experiment: Comment URLs are Do-Follow!

seangw — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 15:05:30 +0000

Most blogs out there have been advised (or forced) to have all comment URLs as nofollow because you don’t want to pollute the worth of your blog. As of today, this blog will have all comment URLs listed regularly, without a nofollow “rel” tag. This will be an experiment with updates. This post will discuss [...]

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Jonathan Schwartz: Ex Sun CEO Blogs about “What I Couldn’t Say…”

seangw — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:15:05 +0000

In a position of leadership Jonathan Schwartz, the ex CEO of Sun Microsystems, couldn’t say what he wanted. Now that he is an “ex”, he is telling some great “war stories”. Anyone thinking of working in tech, working in tech… developers, managers, CTOs, CEOs … should read this blog. The most recent post, Good Artists [...]

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Do readers like tag clouds on blog sites?

seangw — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 23:22:56 +0000

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Twitter Traffic Experiment

seangw — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 03:47:27 +0000

We’re doing an experiment right now. I’ve been wanting to get into Twitter to see how it is. Something I hve been investigating over the last few months is the impact of various methods in building traffic and exposure on the web (the two are tightly intertwined… sometimes unfortunately). I have a few friends on [...]

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OpenDNS – Free powerful DNS service

seangw — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 22:11:52 +0000

Two days ago I setup OpenDNS for my home network, and it changed my browsing (ever so slightly, but noticeably). I no longer had issues whenever I wanted to load a lot of pages at a time. My DNS resolution has been much more consistent.

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Feedburner, WordPress and Blogs

seangw — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 15:18:02 +0000

Running and maintaining a blog is a learning experience for me. First thing I’m learning, there is no instant gratification. Second, fortunately, there are tons of tools out there to help you. I’ve just stumbled across a post at TD Creative, with regards to Feedburner. It highlights some things that feedburner will do for you. [...]

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