Be afraid, be very afraid!
So you have a great idea for a site, you buy a domain, throw a WordPress site up on your shared hosting and upload a free template and every cool plugin known to man. Within an hour you’ve written 5 blog posts and dropped a link at dp so within 2 more hours the spiders [...]
Auckland hosts WordCamp, and aint it great!
When you’re a WAHM freelancer the first thing you notice is the lack of techies to talk with so it’s great to be able to break out and attend events like Auckland’s WordCamp. I only made it to the afternoon session but the techie sessions were worth going to: An intro to HTML5 and CSS3 [...]
WordPress: too clever for its own documentation!
Any time you start using Widgets you forgo control and sometimes you need to take it back! A while ago I needed to control the sort order of the Links widget and found the “right way” to do it. Today, I needed it again but could I find the documentation anywhere? In the end I [...]
DIY Adsense Ban for your competitors
I’ve always thought that Adsense had the best tools for picking up on click rings etc and fraudulent use. I particularly like how they string bad users along to garner the really damning evidence. I was surprised, though, that their tools didn’t show that DigitalPoint was being targeted by disgruntled ex-users of the forum. See [...]
Fuzzuck: sane and sensible SEO, for a change!
Some days I feel like the internet marketing world has gone mad so it was a relief to find Fuzzuck.com, a straight shooting, ethical search engine optimization blog. Fuzzuck is run on WordPress so it is comfortable to use with a nice clean theme. The latest post is Self Service Links and Why I Hate [...]
Countdown Supermarkets: slick newsletter header
I guess when you have the advertising budget that Woolworths (owner of Woolworths, Foodtown and Countdown) have then you can put some slick little gimmicks into your online newsletters. I wonder how many people actually noticed their name? One flaw in their system is that the email is from 21K7GCo2DCVN5@onecard.eid.co.nz. I’m a Thunderbird user so [...]
Newspapers & TV News: for fun or facts? Their role is changing!
We get the NZ Herald delivered and its a staple part of our morning and in the evening we watch the news. Their role is steadily changing and they need to respond. Go back 10 years and there weren’t the “fun sites” and social networking of today. If you wanted oddball humour you had to [...]
Interactive Google Ads at Ask Dave Taylor
This is a first for me. Google Ads with forms you can complete and the “click” doesn’t happen until you hit the submit button. Its nothing new to fake a form, and when the user goes to enter their email they are taken to the advertisers page. But on this one, you can actually fill [...]
