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Who is Stealing your Mojo? RSS Feed Scraping, Splogs and How to Fight them

If your site gets any traffic at all, chances are your RSS feed is scraped and misused by some one trying to score on SERP for the work you have toiled on. This very blog is constantly ripped by sploggers who have no regards to intellectual property rights or just plain simple dumb to realize [...]

// Tagged Awareness, Code, Contextual Ads, Design, Economics, Google, Google Adsense, HTML, Javascript, Malaysian, Media, RSS, SEO, Search Engine Optimization, Spam, Splog, WP, Web, Web traffic, blog, blog traffic, hacks, how to, resources, tag, techniques, tips, wordpress, wordpress templates, xhtml // 05.06.2008 at 7:14 pm // 5 Comments »

No More RSS Feeds on WordPress.com

I guess folks at WordPress.com start talking about copyright violation only when it hits home. When we cried foul about WordPress themers ripping our work and calling it their own, no one cared except Thomas (and Lorelle).
The reality is, you can’t stop people from stealing content or code, it pinches those of us on the [...]

// Tagged Announcements, Google, Matt Mullenweg, Oddities, RSS, Spam, WP, Web, Yahoo, blog, blog traffic, blogosphere, competition, internet, mandarinmusing, news, socio-political, technology, wordpress // 08.10.2007 at 10:13 am // 3 Comments »

5 Blogging Mistakes I Make that you Should Avoid

I know a lot of people who write posts about how one should blog based on their personal experience, I get a lot of emails asking for pointers, so here’s a list I compiled that is the anti-advice or what I call “5 blogging mistakes I make that you should avoid”.

Be irrelevant: Over 50 percent [...]

// Tagged Blogging Mistakes, Blogging Tips, Content, Humor, Stupid, blog, blog traffic, blogging, blogosphere, socio-political // 08.07.2007 at 3:27 pm // 4 Comments »