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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 »

Hottest headlines: eBay Acquires StumbleUpon

Google, AOL and eBay had been eyeing StumbleUpon for acquisitions for a while now. StumbleUpon site has 2.1 million users, up from 1.7 million in December 2006, where more than 4 million sites are “stumbled” daily, so it’s no surprise that Google would want to buy StumbleUpon, as Google buys everything that’s hot!
For a change, [...]

// Tagged GigaOm, Google, Web traffic, ebay, stumbleupon, technology // 04.18.2007 at 1:52 pm // Have your say »

The Other Point of View – A Designers Opinion on Sponsored Themes

I took the backseat for much of this debate that has been raging for a few weeks now, but it’s time for my response. At Headsetoptions, we are two designers with over 70 themes to our humble credit, some original, some modified and most ported from free CSS templates designed by our friends, and most [...]

// Tagged Activism, Ads by Google, Advertisements, Announcements, Blogger, Economics, GPL, Google, Google Adsense, Non-profit, Oddities, Sponsored Themes, WP, WP Theme Viewer, Web, Web Design, Web traffic, Weblogtoolscollection, blog, free template, technology, web sites, wordpress // 04.09.2007 at 8:06 pm // 39 Comments »

SEO Checklist: Easy Tips to Generate FREE Web Traffic

Here’s a quick checklist of tips on improving site traffic (in no particular order):

Submit URLs to search engines and web directories to start the ranking process: Technorati, Google, Alexa, DMOZ.
A good domain name and targeted meta tags can help improve search engine rankings. Keep your tags relevant to your data.
Check your site validation from time [...]