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 [...]
The moderation challenge facing YouTube
Video Marketing is big business these days as companies try to use the visual media as a way to reach their audiences. Bandwidth gets cheaper and users don’t hesitate to jump from clip to clip. Even nonsense like “Fred goes swimming” is talked about in the playground and my son has tried to create his [...]
World of Warcraft: have you sold your account? Phising Alert
The latest phishing scam I’ve seen is supposedly from Blizzard.com telling me that I need to verify my account at World of Warcraft and that I’m not allowed to sell my accounts. One confused 10 year old boy later and we see that accounts need to be bought and he doesn’t have even have a [...]
