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86,674 Visitors In 10 Months - Can it get better?

Joe Matthew — Wed, 9 Jul 2008 08:50:33 -0500

86,674 unique visitors over a ten month period representing an average of 320 visitors daily, visiting on averaging 2.49 pages spending 3 minutes and 40 seconds per visit, all SEO traffic (no paid traffic or SEM traffic at all), can this be improved?

Solving the Email Spam Problem

Joe Matthew — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 03:27:14 -0500

In the last two years online spam has increased exponentially. Until a few months ago, I used to get a 1:1 ratio of spam messages relative to personalized messages, addressed to me. Somehow, when I post comments on external sites or list an email address online like at the LinkedIN OpenNetworker Group, these email ids tend to attract “lottery winnings”, “15M transfer to my bank account”, “great stock picks” and the many other mails not worth mentioning.

Solving the Drupal Comment Spam Problem

Joe Matthew — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 03:06:40 -0500

While I had contained my email spam problem, recently someone asked me how I manage Drupal comment Spam, as they got 45 spam messages over a few minutes. It is a fact, as your blog ages, you attract higher spam comments. She was expecting me to solve her problem, when I told her that I use a sophisticated Drupal SPAM module and I then moderate the comments.

Using RSS Feeds filetype:rss

Joe Matthew — Sat, 1 Mar 2008 18:52:10 -0600

Almost once a month I get question on RSS, what it is, how to read rss feeds and should I use rss. This blog answers this question. First let’s start with what it is:

How to Add Email Subscription To Your Drupal Blog

Joe Matthew — Sat, 1 Mar 2008 04:42:04 -0600

This a $700 dollar video! I got an email from a reader of SeoEcom that she had a quote of $700 to add an email subscription to her drupal blog site. If you can follow along to this video, you can learn how to

Social Networking: Never Out Of Time, Place and Action

Kathy Austin — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 06:04:18 -0600

With the embark of the cut throat competition and hunger for affluence, social relationships were on the point of gradual extinction, when suddenly the twist in the doomsday had the thunderous breakthrough with social networking emerging from its embryonic cocoon.

You find youngsters and business networking people hooking up to these for their own reasons. Virtually though, the connectivity has soared by simultaneously widening the dimensions of its existence and erasing out the need of face-to face once needed encounters.

Blogrush gets the boot

Joe Matthew — Tue, 5 Feb 2008 23:35:04 -0600

After two months of giving Blogrush a full chance on my site, placing it above the fold as recommended, I have joined the ranks of Court and others who have given it the boot. I will explain the rationale and how this could possibly work for you, and its drawbacks.

Yahoo + Microsoft vs Google ??? What could this mean?

Joe Matthew — Sat, 2 Feb 2008 23:15:03 -0600

Gone are the good old days for Microsoft where they could just buy competitors and dominate the market. Remember how Foxpro was acquired by Microsoft and at that time FoxPro was superior to Microsoft Access. Now Foxpro doesn’t exist any more, perhaps some legacy databases exist some where, that’s it. Since the Microsoft’s anti competitive practices case, Microsoft has become near extinct with Google online domination of search and online properties, until now.

Google Analytics Code Changes

Joe Matthew — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 20:39:40 -0600

Most would have seen this coming after the purchase of Urchin by Google, it is time to brand the urchin product as Google, wipe every trace of Urchin. What is changing? Everything, Should you change? Well you have till December 2008. First off, let’s look at what the change is, its benefits, how to make the change and how to confirm everything is well, which is the scope of this article.

Why LinkedIN? My Top Ten Reasons

Joe Matthew — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 01:48:12 -0600

Myspace, Facebook, Stumbleupon, Youtube, LinkedIN – I am an active member of all these sites, but I spend most of my “available” Web 2.0 time on LinkedIn. Here are my top ten reasons with some introspection on why I give LinkedIN this honor: