Bad Behavior plugin blocks site administrators - plugin now updated to resolve problem

Just a quick note - I just wrote a post over on the The Webfiles about being locked out of all of my own sites due to my IP address being blocked by the Bad Behavior plugin I’m using on my sites to block out the majority of spam I receive.

If you are […]

Posted on Thursday, December 6th, 2007
Under: Blogging, Site Maintenance, Site Traffic, Software, Technology, Wordpress, Wordpress Plugins | 3 Comments »

Kontera Control Plugin to be updated

Lucia over at Big Bucks Blogger created a fantastic wordpress plugin over the summer that helps bloggers who use Kontera on their sites decide where and when Kontera ads should show up.

When I recently widgetized one of my sites the Kontera Control Plugin started acting up on me - putting ads in posts that […]

Posted on Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007
Under: Affiliates, Blogging, Wordpress, Wordpress Plugins | No Comments »

Is Stumble traffic really good traffic?

In the last few months I’ve seen more and more bloggers getting excited about Stumbleupon and adding “stumble” buttons to their posts in order to encourage their visitors to stumble their latest entries.
While it’s nice to see your traffic stats go up I’ve often wondered if there’s any value to traffic from sites like Stumbleupon.

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Posted on Sunday, October 14th, 2007
Under: Blogging, Site Promotion, Site Traffic, Social network, Traffic exchange | 9 Comments »

We’ve got to get a new TV

I think it’s about time that my husband and I start looking for a new television set. We have a fairly nice Samsung DLP that we bought in 2004, but the light bulb has burned out twice now and the price of a new DLP light is NOT going down.

Also, when […]

Posted on Friday, August 24th, 2007
Under: Electronics, Entertainment, Great Sites, Shopping and supplies, Technology | 6 Comments »

Removing widgets to speed up site load

Earlier this evening I discovered that my sites were hanging. I could see that it was the blogcatalog widget that was hanging. I guess they had a problem with their site late in the evening.

That’s the trouble with widgets and badges and banners that have to pull data from another site. If […]

Posted on Friday, August 24th, 2007
Under: Affiliates, Blogging, Social network, Technology, Wordpress | 2 Comments »