I ran across a plugin that was touted by some as a "Great WordPress Plugin". When I saw what the plugin actually does I became livid. More tools for thieves. This is my reaction to that plugin and what I think of anyone that has use for it. If you care about Content Theft at all you'll read this. If you hate scraper sites, but hotlink ima

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O'Tim of Much That is Hidden examines the difference between a goatee and a Van Dyke in this satirical piece. This post comes complete with pictures of famous characters such as Shaggy of "Scooby Doo" fame and "Evil Spock". He hilariously goes through a brief history of the goatee, going all the way back to the first goatee which was wo

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Google's gone haywire again and changed the comment function of Blogger. There is much speculation about why Blogger has gone all funky and everyone has a different opinion. In this article I take a tongue-in-cheek look at the blogosphere chatter, share my own speculation about what's going on with the search engine giant, and find the silv

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Courtney Tuttle discusses how the Google PageRank reduction can be beneficial to other bloggers. He explains that higher ranking sites are losing their hold on the top search engine rankings creating opportunities for lesser ranked sites to claw their way to the top. With this latest Smackdown, Google seems to have leveled the playing field i

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Recently there has been a surge of insanity around the blogosphere because Google reduced pagerank for those selling links. Izea (PayPerPost) has rolled out "RealRank" for their bloggers. This is mostly based on traffic. What do you think bloggers will do for extra traffic? How far down in the muck will they wallow to make sure their RealRa

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Grizzly comes out with the stats that proves that Google isn't all EVIL. He explains that he does make money from them and offers up proof. Sure Google is heavy handed, but here's another to view that can make you think twice about that. Want to make money online? Grizzly will show you that boycotting the Big G isn't the way to go about do

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Today I read someone compare Google to the terrorists that attacked the United States on Sept. 11, 2001. This person blogged that when Google reduced pagerank for paid bloggers that they effectively acted like al Qaeda did when they sent their minions to blow up the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and force the downing of Flight 93. This is

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A friend signed up for Yaari. Little did he know that when he accepted their terms of service he was agreeing to provide Yaari with access to his email account. He naively provided the service with his email password, which is required for registrat

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Google's at it again! Watch in real time as bloggers who dared make money from something not AdSense are feeling yet another sting from Google's heavy hand. Seems the ones feeling the worst of the beating are regular Janes and Joes who are trying to make some supplemental income through blogging- and now their PageRank, which determines wha

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Want To Know How Many Websites Someone Has? This post shows how to see how many sites a person has or has had. It only works if the page is using Google analytics, but since a lot of people are using that the trick is really interesting. Just right

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Izea, formerly known as PayPerPost, has officially announced the release of their project code-named: Argus. Live at Postiecon in Vegas, Ted Murphy and the Izea crew unveiled Social Spark. According to the article, Izea is using this as a chance to

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Matt Ghosh is warning WordPress free theme users about Blogstheme.com. According to Matt, Blogstheme takes free themes, uploads them to their servers, then offers them for free download. What they don't tell you is that they take out the author's

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Andy Beard goes into more detail about SocialSpark and the implications to paid blogging, blog advertising, and Google smackdowns. Andy's one of the beta testers for SocialSparks and promises to keep all interested up-to-date on what's happening.

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It seems that Shoemoney, blog A-lister, lost half his subscribers overnight. One day he has 14,000+ readers, the next he's down to a paltry 6,068. Poor Jeremy! What happened to his loyal following? Well, apparently Feedburner happened. Since Feedbu

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Courtney Tuttle explains that he suffered a huge blow when Google did the Big Slapdown of '07. His PR went down to a 2 then bounced around for a while before settling in a 3. Here he explains how he got up to a 4 and why he's conforming to Google

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