Merry Christmas
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To my readers, and their families and anyone visiting here, I wish you a Merry Christmas and hope you enjoy the day and the season. Christmas day and the whole Advent and Christmas season is a time to enjoy Spouses, Family, Friends and the time to relax. And to you Scrapers, Spammers and SEO Spoofers, [...]
RSS Feed Dies Here?!?
Yup, here I am resurrecting this site and posting about what I am learning about Social Media and such, and I have managed to kill the RSS (Really Simple Syndication) for this site, which is at least ironic, but very infuriating as well. I first noticed that my previous post Scrapers and How to Trap [...]
Exponential Growth of Spam Comment Numbers
As my site has drawn more readership lately, it has also drawn a great deal more SPAM comments. These comments are mostly crap, some are funny, but it is annoying too (since I have to at least look at the SPAM list to see if AKISMET has set some genuine comment as a SPAM). The [...]
Scrapers and How to Trap Them
For those who are not sure what I mean by a scraper, it is someone who steals your content without giving you credit for your work. They typically put Adsense all over their pages, and use your RSS feed as the mechanism to get your content. I have found many “mirror” sites of my content [...]
How Do I Know Social Media is Working?
That is an excellent question that I asked myself and then scribbled down on a piece of paper, which I finally have gone and looked at. The best tool that I have access to this type of data is Google Analytics (which is now hooked in with my Adsense account). Google Analytics gives lots of [...]
Taboo Subjects and Blogging
I found an old post I had done last year (when I was in a particularly silly mood), called Men’s Health, which never really caused as much of a commotion as I had hoped, so I had forgotten about it. Tip of the Week As most of my Twitter followers know, I actually put 2 [...]

