Free Google Adsense Monitor

This is new to me, SysSense Google AdSense Monitor
SysSense is your personal desktop Google AdSense monitor. It keeps your current Google AdSense information in the Windows system tray.
It displays your adsense imps, clicks, earnings and more.
I haven’t had a chance to install or test it, and I don’t know if it tracks one [...]

Blogs To Riches Offer

Just an update on the Blogs To Riches offer I wrote about in January (Free Offer - Blogs To Riches):
I did receive the ebook from Jim Kukral yesterday, but haven’t had a chance to read it yet. I sent an email to him on Sunday asking about the offer as I hadn’t received the ebook [...]

Top 10 Reasons Why We Cloaked (Google Spoof)

To continue on with this entry:
Busted: Google And Cloaking Scandal, let’s have some fun and list a few excuses Google could use:
Top 10 Reasons Why We Cloaked (Google Spoof)
10. Alegra went horribly, horribly wrong
9. Was that the title tag? We thought it was the keyword tag!
8. We knew that deal was [...]

Busted: Google And Cloaking Scandal

Oh boy.
2005 is not shaping up to be the Year Of The Google now is it? First the Autolink scandal and now this flat-out-jaw-dropping-eye-popping newsflash:
From ThreadWatch: Google Caught Cloaking And Keyword Stuffing?
What’s all the fuss about? Cloaking is a method of manipulation used on search engines. You show one page to your visitors, and another [...]

Web Host Cloaking Scam

Heads up and check your pages:
Obnoxious Cloaking Scam
The scam is perpetrated by a hosting company on its hosting clients. When a search engine spider, such as Googlebot, requests a client’s page, the host adds a bunch of links to the page that is returned. The client has no idea that it happens. The links are [...]

Better Bad News Google Video

The movement against Google’s new autolink feature is gaining momentum with the just released video from BBN (Better Bad News) …
Google Pollutes Links Stream With Evil Precedent For Market Censorship
In this 12 minute Video Blogmash the Better Bad News panel re-mixes commentary and analysis of a pending threat to online free speech drawn from [...]

Referrer Spam

Well I seem to have drawn the attention of a few ‘unsavory’ characters as I have some nice referrer stats showing in awstats. Think ‘P-P-C’ and I don’t mean Pay Per Click!
Here’s what I implemented today and I’ll keep you updated if I experience any problems:
From Tom Raftery’s blog: Using .htaccess To [...]

Free Datafeed Cleaner

AMWSO has released a new beta version of its datafeed cleaner. You can grab it here:
Datafeed Cleaner 2.0 Beta
Version 2.0 Beta is NOW available for download, testing and feedback. New Features/fixes in version 2.0.
1. Load data from local or remote Anonymous FTP / HTTP location.
2. Load data from local [...]

PHP Tutorials

Here are a few php tutorials and resources you may be interested in:
W3Schools PHP Tutorial
php mysql Tutorial
PHP Freaks Tutorials
PHP & MySQL Tutorials - SitePoint
Gurus Network PHP MySQL Tutorial
WebClass PHP Programming Tutorials
PHP/MySQL Tutorial - Free Webmaster Help
Zend PHP Beginners
PHP For Beginners
PHP Virtual Guide (php training by video - free)

More Directory Submission Tips

Create an email just for directory submissions. Although 99% of my submissions haven’t generated any spam, it does happen. Plus there are a few directories that you must opt in to their newsletters in order to be listed. An email just for directory submissions help seperate the email generated from your regular mail.
Use a different [...]