Feed copyrights as protection against sploggers
I’ve talked before about plugins that are supposed to prevent people splogging your WordPress blog, as this one has been splogged oh so many times. But the very best weapon remains setting your feed to excerpts only. Then sploggers can only conveniently grab the excerpt, and sploggers are notoriously lazy, so they just move on in search of an easier target.
The problem is that visitors don’t like summary feeds. And ... READ MORE
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Over the years, I’ve collected quite a few online tools for web development. This is the monster list. I’ll be adding to it as I write new stuff that belongs on it.
Really basic & newbie tools
Check your site’s overall health from an SEO perspective. I refer to this site frequently – no tool is 100% complete, but this one is really helpful every time.
Monitor your website for downtime, free – ... 
It’s ideal to have your content as close to the top of the source code as possible – maybe even crucial. I’ve run the same site both ways, run two sites simultaneously both ways, and every time the theme with the content closer to the top enjoys a boost from the SERPs. SE bots have short attention spans. You’ve got to grab them fast.
The main problem with most themes is ... 
I posted a while back that Project Wonderful was pretty cool. I was using it on B2 Bomber, which is notoriously hard to monetize, and it was doing better than most ad networks I’ve tried.
Then B2′s traffic tripled inside a month, and the PW earnings did not. People weren’t bidding each other up, like you’d expect. They were just enjoying the high amounts of traffic at ridiculously low prices. And ... 
Can you believe Blue Mushrooms is five years old? It’s true. To celebrate, I’ve put together a list of tutorials I’ve found over the years which I still consider useful and valuable. As I write more stuff, I’ll add whatever’s worthy onto this list.
The basics:
Learn basic HTML, even though you don’t have to if you’re starting a site using a CMS. A basic grounding in HTML will make it so ... 
Recently, I tried to reopen my old account with MorningFalls, a CPM network. It didn’t work, so I emailed them. Nothing. I called them – no one was home, no way to leave a message. Then I called them again and finally spoke to someone who assured me they would port my old account to the new thingumbob by the end of the day.
Nothing.
Called again the next week and spoke ... 