Because I’m not a coder, I have to dig around looking for tools and tweaks that are publicly available and then bend & twist them to my will.
Here’s an eBay workaround I’ve found that helps make affiliate life a little easier:
Install and activate the firstRSS WordPress Plugin. This will allow you to display RSS feeds [...]

On the spur of the moment, a group of friends and I have decided to whip up a blog that we’ll all be authors for. WordPress is such a dream to work with!
Here are some tips:
You’ll want a private area to review and store content before it’s published. In this case we have a few [...]

I did some cleaning up around SuperAff on Friday, and realized later that night my feed wasn’t working. The message I got was:
The XML page cannot be displayed
Cannot view XML input using XSL style sheet. Please correct the error and then click the Refresh button, or try again later.
Solution: Double check the files you were [...]

I’ve been looking at my blog comment spam counts lately and although Spam Karma is doing a fantastic job catching 99.9% of them, I’m still having to go in daily and remove 200 - 300 comments caught in my spam traps. Sometimes more.
I’d like to go a layer deeper now and try to stop blog [...]

I had a few old dogs kicking around that I thought was high time to spiffy up. Page after page of hand coded html. Messy html at that.
What easier way to spruce things up than converting them to WordPress! Free, gorgeous templates are plentiful and upgrading a site to include RSS is a bonus. Word [...]

Here are a few things I’ve implemented for myself to try keeping things organized, save myself time as well as better utilize my time online:
Blogging
I enjoy blogging but I find it can eat a big chunk of my time each day. I don’t normally write just a paragraph or two and the time spent can [...]

I find building targeted traffic to be the most trickiest thing to accomplish online. Especially if it’s a thin affiliate site.
Forget about link building in terms of SEO for a moment. Forget about search engines and manipulation tricks and all that jazz and look at article marketing in terms of building exposure for your [...]

When I’m working at my computer, I don’t have a lot of stuff going on. No podcasts, no audio mp3 files, or videos playing, things like that. I get so involved with what I’m working on that I end up missing quite a bit of what’s being said. Which can get frustrating because I really [...]

The blog comment spam here on SuperAff has ramped up again. My new record is 300+ overnight. You have no idea how much p0rn and guru make money fast and adsense superkits and yada yada your eyes have been spared ;).
The good news is that Spam Karma is really holding well and only an [...]

Last week I talked about cutting time wasters and so far so good on my end. But I did something sneaky for myself just to make sure and kick away that evil gremlin beckoning me to goof off:
For those bad habit daily haunts–I added the domains to my router’s banned domain list (look under parent [...]