James Bachini

Development

  • Deno JS | Deno vs Node.JS

    Deno JS | Deno vs Node.JS

    Deno is a Javascript and Typescript runtime from the creator of Node.js For anyone that doesn’t know Node.js is a server-side Javascript runtime. It’s used by millions of projects across the globe and powers the backends and API’s of many of the world’s leading websites. Then came Deno (aka Deno.js or Deno JS), an improved…

  • Lead Magnets, Autoresponders & Tripwires | The Modern Sales Funnel

    Lead Magnets, Autoresponders & Tripwires | The Modern Sales Funnel

    This article is part of a free online course where you can learn digital marketing. Lead magnets, autoresponders and tripwires form key components of a very popular sales funnel. Traffic is pushed into the funnel from traffic sources such as paid ads, content marketing and social media outreach. The visitor is directed to a landing…

  • What is Online Marketing? | A Definitive Guide

    What is Online Marketing? | A Definitive Guide

    This article is part of a free online course where you can learn digital marketing. Introduction In this document I explain how online marketing works, provide online marketing tips and show how online marketers make money. There is a deep dive into building web properties, which traffic sources are being used and how to scale…

  • ReasonLIGO | Building Smart Contracts & Dapps On Tezos

    ReasonLIGO | Building Smart Contracts & Dapps On Tezos

    Tezos smart contracts are compiled from a custom low level language called Michelson. For web developers however learning a new low level programming language is a barrier to entry… Enter LIGO and specifically ReasonLigo. ReasonLIGO  is the most accessible way to develop smart contracts for web developers. ReasonLIGO is based on ReasonML which is based…

  • How do you turn a website into an app in 7 steps

    How do you turn a website into an app in 7 steps

    This is a step by step guide to using a open-source package called Cordova to turn a website into mobile app on Android and iOS. I’ll be using a windows device for this but all the packages are also available for a Mac. To publish an app to the iOS app store you need to…

  • Micro Conversions | Complete Guide To Optimising & Scaling With Micro Conversions

    Micro Conversions | Complete Guide To Optimising & Scaling With Micro Conversions

    What are micro conversions? Micro conversions are minor events such as clicks and scrolls that we can use to track visitor behaviour and optimise advertising and landing pages faster. They are generally not directly linked to key performance indicators for an advertising campaign but can be used to scale (increase traffic volumes) more effectively. James…

  • 8 Tips For The Perfect Blog Post

    8 Tips For The Perfect Blog Post

    This is the revised 2020 complete guide to the best practices when creating content for your blog. You can use this framework to create a “perfect blog post” and move your site up the search engine rankings. James On YouTube The Title The title or headline of a blog post should be a close match…

  • How to encrypt text file in Visual Studio Code (VSCode)

    How to encrypt text file in Visual Studio Code (VSCode)

    I wanted a way to quickly encrypt and decrypt text files in VSCode using a memorised pass phrase so I created an easy to use plugin to encrypt text in Visual Studio Code. VSC has become the text editor of choice for most developers and it is relatively simple to create and publish a plugin…

  • Prevent Mobile Browsers From Turning Off

    Prevent Mobile Browsers From Turning Off

    The following code has been published to prevent mobile browsers from turning off and going into sleep mode. This was affecting setTimeout functions as the javascript code in the browser is effectively paused preventing the event loop from processing once sleep mode is activated. I originally looked at nosleep.js but ended up simplifying the code…

  • Search For Satoshi

    Search For Satoshi

    In 2008 an anonymous user with the alias Satoshi Nakamoto posted the original Bitcoin whitepaper to the Cryptography mailing list. Satoshi mined a lot of the early Bitcoin blocks and the rewards that are held in bitcoin wallets associated are estimated to be around 1 million BTC or 10 Billion USD. If Bitcoin eventually reaches…

  • Setting up HTTPS (SSL) with Cloudflare and WordPress

    Setting up HTTPS (SSL) with Cloudflare and WordPress

    If you are just running a wordpress blog or simple website you can setup Cloudflare to manage SSL for you. Cloudflare acts as a proxy between your website and the user. I recently setup Cloudflare which provides a SSL certificate with their free account plan. Step 1. Setup Cloudflare Register for an account. Then select…

  • Pop Under Code 2020

    Pop Under Code 2020

    Updated September 2020 This pop under code is used for running pop under traffic on your own site. It adds an onclick function to every link on the page which opens a new tab with the clicked link and changes the existing window (underneath) to a popped ad URL. Opening links in new tabs isn’t…

  • Capitalisation of Links (www.MySite.com) CRO Test

    Capitalisation of Links (www.MySite.com) CRO Test

    I thought an interesting split test would be to test if text links on a landing page that are capitalised get more clicks than ones that don’t. For example: https://www.jamesbachini.com/ – standard (control) https://www.JamesBachini.com/ – Capitalised This was for a site that wasn’t a personal name and contained a full directory and page like http://www.MyGreatWebSite.com/example/page.htm…

  • PHP Redirect with Parameters | Passing GET variables in a Redirect

    PHP Redirect with Parameters | Passing GET variables in a Redirect

    Update March 2023 To do a 301 PHP redirect with parameters to another page we can use the following code: The entire query parameter string is stored in the following variable. Everything after the question mark. So for the URL: server.com/index.php?test=123&hi=hellothe $_SERVER[‘QUERY_STRING’] will contain this string “test=123&hi=hello” We can then pass this out when redirecting…

  • Wasabi AB Testing Platform

    Wasabi AB Testing Platform

    Update July 2020 – Wasabi is no longer maintained or supported. Check this article for more information on conversion rate optimisation. Wasabi AB Testing Platform Intuit have opensourced a enterprise grade A/B testing platform called Wasabi. This runs as an API on a separate server from your site/landers. It isn’t the easiest thing to setup…

  • How to display different banners for mobile

    How to display different banners for mobile

    I had a situation where I wanted to use different ad banners depending on the screen size of the visitor. To display different banners for mobile and desktop traffic. What I wanted was a dynamic ad block that displayed different ads depending on the width of the browser window so it wouldn’t mess up the…

  • Beautiful Email Template [Download]

    Beautiful Email Template [Download]

    Here is a beautiful email template layout which you can download from here: http://jamesbachini.com/misc/email.zip View the HTML page: http://jamesbachini.com/misc/email.htm Update all the images and links before you send out. The background skyline is in the zip file, you could modify to suit your niche just keep the color the same.

  • robots.txt Disallow All | Block Bots

    robots.txt Disallow All | Block Bots

    In this article we are going to look at how to block bot traffic using the robots.txt disallow all feature, then some of the more advanced uses of the robots.txt file. How To Disallow All in robots.txt Custom robots.txt for Specific Bots and Directories Complete List of Bots – robots.txt How To Disallow All in…

  • Vibrate Phone with Javascript

    Vibrate Phone with Javascript

    The following javascript uses the Vibrate API to make a phone vibrate when a page is loaded. You can time it with setTimeouts or onclick/onscroll if required. There’s more information available at: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Navigator/vibrate This can be used to draw a users attention to the landing page or to create message effects etc.

  • Node.js client for Moz API (MozScape)

    Node.js client for Moz API (MozScape)

    Update 2020: This is outdated now and not maintained. I’d recommend using one of these packages: https://www.npmjs.com/package/moz-api https://www.npmjs.com/package/moz-api-wrapper Original Post: I was doing some work with SEO domains and realised there wasn’t a node.js client for the MozScape API… so after Googling and not finding what I was looking for I built one. What this…

  • REGEX | A Complete Guide With Examples

    REGEX | A Complete Guide With Examples

    Regexes are a powerful way to do search queries on a text string. They can be used to replace text, sanitize user inputs and much more. Contents Introduction to REGEX REGEX Cheatsheet REGEX Examples REGEX Javascript Code An Introduction to REGEX A REGEX or regular expression is used to match text strings in many programming…

  • A simple floating feedback/support button

    A simple floating feedback/support button

    Updated for 2020 with a cleaner design. This uses the mail command in PHP to send the email but if this is disabled on your server you can connect it to Sendgrid/Mailchimp/AWS etc for the sending of email queries. There is a working example at: https://jamesbachini.com/misc/feedbackexample.html The code for this is really easy to implement…

  • New: Facebook interest targeting brainstorm tool

    New: Facebook interest targeting brainstorm tool

    This is more for my use but others might find it helpful when trying to come up with targeting ideas for interests on Facebook Ads. Facebook Ads Targeting Tool

  • Alert box on click through to offer

    Alert box on click through to offer

    The following example will allow you to create an alert box when the user clicks through from your landing page to the offer page. This can be useful to remind users of your offers value proposition, sign-up requirements (double-opt in?) or just to increase conversion rate on the offer end. A working demo is available…

  • A simple iOS / Android traffic splitter in PHP

    A simple iOS / Android traffic splitter in PHP

    The following basic PHP code will split traffic by device with iOS traffic going to the first out link, Android to the second and leftovers to the third. TIP: This uses a 301 redirect however you can do any type of programmatic variation based on the user agent. You can copy and paste this into…

  • Splitting traffic to different offers on mobile

    Splitting traffic to different offers on mobile

    If you are buying bulk traffic to a mobile offer the chances are that you can split some of your traffic off to different offers. For example if  you have a pin submit that only accepts android but has a much higher payout then you can separate your android traffic and increase your bottom line.…

  • RAM & CPU Usage PHP Script | Server Health Check

    RAM & CPU Usage PHP Script | Server Health Check

    This single file server health check script works on Windows, Linux and possibly others. It is written in PHP to show CPU usage, RAM usage, Incoming Connections and Hard disk usage. Update September 2020 Server Check PHP was getting a lot of downloads so I’ve updated the code and open sourced it on Github. If…

  • Basic exit intent pop up script

    Basic exit intent pop up script

    The following script will launch a pop up and redirect if the user moves the mouse off the page. You can add this to your landing page targeted at desktop users, on mobile it wont work obviously. This is just a basic version but you can change the popUp() function to load an email capture…

  • Resize youtube/vimeo iframe to maximum available height and width

    Resize youtube/vimeo iframe to maximum available height and width

    Here is the code to make a flexible youtube.com or vimeo.com video fit both the height and width of the containing div. Like a flexible adsense unit it will take up the maximum available space on the page or be constrained within a containing object such as a div. CSS: .vcontainer { position:relative; padding-bottom:56.25%; padding-top:30px;…

  • Calculate distance between two geocooridnates

    Calculate distance between two geocooridnates

    Here is a javascript function to calculate the distance between two latitude and longitude coordinates. function deg2rad(deg) { return deg * (Math.PI/180) } function calcDistance(lat1,lon1,lat2,lon2) {   var R = 6371; // Radius of the earth in km   var dLat = deg2rad(lat2-lat1);   var dLon = deg2rad(lon2-lon1);   var a =     Math.sin(dLat/2) *…

  • Building Basic Websites

    Building Basic Websites

    Every now and again you just need a basic site setup to have an internet presence. Normally this occurs for me when a friend or family member tells people I “do websites” and I get roped in to helping them out. So what options are there for a basic, modern website template. The obvious answer…

  • Option to Disable Adsense Ads

    Option to Disable Adsense Ads

    In some cases it is beneficial to provide a link or option for visitors to a site not to see the adsense ads the first time they visit a page. Ads can sometimes be viewed negatively and for the first visit or under certain circumstances it is best to temporarily disable them. Here is the…

  • Download: Basic Email Newsletter Template

    Download: Basic Email Newsletter Template

    Here is a template for a basic email newsletter: http://www.jamesbachini.com/misc/emailnewsletter.zip http://www.jamesbachini.com/misc/emailnewsletter.html Some important things to note when creating email newsletters: Inline CSS Only, no style sheets or <style> tags as they will be stripped by most clients. Make it responsive, a lot of email is read on mobile, it should collapse and expand beautifully. Add…

  • Automatic Redirect for Mobile Landing Page

    Want a mobile lander with a 90%+ “CTR”? Simply add the following javasript: <script> function go() { location.href = ‘http://www.jamesbachini.com’; } function init() { setTimeout(function() { confirm(‘You have two friends who recommended this app’); },3000); setTimeout(function() { go(); },5000); } </script> Then run the init function on body load like so: <body onload=”init();”> This does…

  • Checking landing page load times

    Checking landing page load times

    Landing page load times can make a big difference to the conversion rate of an affiliate campaign. Here’s a great free site for checking load times and getting suggestions on how to improve the page load speed. http://gtmetrix.com As you can see I could do with tweeking wordpress to display the images a bit better…

  • Setting Up Retargeting Pixels for Adwords and Facebook

    Setting Up Retargeting Pixels for Adwords and Facebook

    Retargeting works by placing a image pixel or code snippet on your website. You can then launch advertising campaigns targeted at those specific users that have visited the page and “seen” the hidden pixel. This is how to set it up… Facebook Go to Ads Manager > Audiences > Create Audience > Custom Audience >…

  • Setting up Maxmind GEOIP2 Legacy Database with PHP or Javascript

    This is the php code I use to access geoip data from Maxmind’s geoip database: <?php $gpath = getcwd() . “/GeoIPCity.dat”; if (isset($_SERVER[‘HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR’])) { $myip = $_SERVER[‘HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR’]; } if (isset($_SERVER[‘REMOTE_ADDR’])) { $myip = $_SERVER[‘REMOTE_ADDR’]; } include(“./geoipcity.inc”); $gi = geoip_open($gpath,GEOIP_STANDARD); $record = geoip_record_by_addr($gi,$myip); $city = $record->city; $countrycode = $record->country_code; geoip_close($gi); echo ‘countrycode = “‘.$countrycode.’”; city =…

  • Dealing With Googles Mobile Friendly Algorithm

    From the 21st April Google will be penalising sites for mobile search which don’t appear mobile friendly. You can test your site here: https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/mobile-friendly/ If you haven’t done any mobile design you’ll probably get some warnings like this: Text too small to read Links too close together Mobile viewport not set Content wider than screen…

  • Tool to generate a guest blog post request

    Tool to generate a guest blog post request

    This tool can be used to generate a guest blog post request for SEO purposes. This is a great way to not only build SEO juice but it also gets your name out there and helps interact with the community surrounding your niche. http://www.jamesbachini.com/misc/guestpostrequest.php Simply enter your name,site,niche and theirs and it will generate a…

  • Designing Banners in Place

    Designing Banners in Place

    Something I don’t hear a lot of affiliates talk about is taking the placement in to consideration when designing banners. Sometimes if you are targeting multiple sites/positions this isn’t possible but for traffic sources like Facebook this is something every affiliate should consider. Simply take a screenshot of the page where you intend to advertise…

  • Google Friendly Mobile Pages Test

    Google have provided a tool which checks to see if a site renders clearly in a mobile browser. The tool looks like it is setup at 320px and if your site works at this you’ll get a “mobile-friendly” tag in your organic search listings. Here’s the link to check your sites: https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/mobile-friendly/ Some other good…

  • A Simple Mobile Landing Page Template

    A Simple Mobile Landing Page Template

    Here’s a quick design template which is very flexible for mobile app / pin submit type offers. You can view the page at: http://jamesbachini.com/misc/simplemobile.htm And download it from: http://jamesbachini.com/misc/simplemobile.zip Obviously be careful that your button is above the fold on old and new phones. Big image + long headers can push it below which wouldn’t…

  • Daily Calcs Profit And Loss Spreadsheet Download For Affiliate Marketers

    Daily Calcs Profit And Loss Spreadsheet Download For Affiliate Marketers

    Here is the spreadsheet I use to monitor my profit and loss accounts on a daily basis. It’s provided here as a downloadable spreadsheet but I would recommend setting it up how you want and then uploading to Google Docs so it can be worked on from anywhere by anyone. This document works by inputting…

  • How Groupon’s landing page has evolved in two years

    In 2012 Groupon was at the cutting edge of performance marketing. They had big budgets and were doing big business with affiliates. I thought it would be interesting to analyse a landing page from back then and then one they use today. The lander actually reminds me a bit of some of the dating landing…

  • Mobile eCPM’s still not competing with desktop

    Here’s some stats I ran off today from a Google Adsense account I have for some old seo based domains with various sites and “general” mainstream traffic. It’s interesting to see that the eCPM’s for desktop traffic are still way above that of high end mobile devices: Platform Page views Clicks Page CTR CPC Page…

  • Upgrading to WordPress 4.0 a breeze

    I always get the fear when doing major upgrades on any platform. Something is bound to be non-compatible and get messed up. In this instance upgrading to WordPress 4.0 took about 5 minutes, didn’t mess up the themes and everything is still where it should be… right? WordPress is, in my opinion, the best platform…

  • Passing Through Landing Page Variables

    This was inspired by another post which is well worth a read at: http://affplaybook.com/blog/affiliate-marketing/the-ultimate-guide-to-landing-page-tricks/ So many traffic sources provide you with tags such as {keyword} {countrycode} {device} etc. You can add these variables to your url so it would look something like: http://www.myserver.com/landingpage.htm?kw={keyword}&device={device} Then in the code to your landing page you can access these…

  • Refactoring for ROI in affiliate marketing

    The importance of refactoring is well documented in the programming world. But I haven’t seen it mentioned in an affiliate marketing context. So what is refactoring? Basically starting again from scratch. So instead adding variations to your banners or landing pages, start again and use everything you’ve learned to produce a better campaign. If you…

  • Big list of Cordova/Phonegap Plugins

    I needed a big list of Cordova plugins to search through: android.support.v4 This is a Cordova plugin that adds the Android Support v4 client library. It is meant to be depended on by other plugins. android.support.v7-appcompat This is a Cordova plugin that adds the Android Support v7 AppCompat client library. It is meant to be…

  • Simple PPC List Builder

    Simple PPC List Builder

    I used to use a programme called JAH Simple PPC to build out wordlists for pay per click campaigns. Basically it would combine different key word variations. I couldn’t find it anymore so decided to build my own and get a bit of practice with javascript. Hope this is useful to someone. http://www.jamesbachini.com/misc/ppc.htm http://www.jamesbachini.com/misc/ppc.htm The…

  • Ideas for improving landing pages

    The following is a list of proven methods that can improve the ctr and cvr of a landing page. Big Bright Buttons – Have you split tested different buttons, button text etc? Copy and Text – Persuasive text is key and an art form in itself. Images – Every image on that landing page should…

  • Using Google Fonts on Landing Pages

    This is how you can use Google web fonts on your landing pages, blog posts and web pages. The benefit of this is that the font is loaded from a remote server include on the Google APIs so it does not depend on the local storage of that font on the users computer. This makes…

  • Email Bounce Handling

    Here’s some PHP code developed to handle bounced email responses. This will give each response a code to $resno and a category to $rescat. There are 4 categories: Unknown – Hard bounce user or email address isn’t valid Spam – Soft bounce, blocked by spam filters Full – Soft bounce, user is out of resources…

  • Online Banner Design Tool

    Need to design/modify banners but don’t have Photoshop installed? Try this online image editor: http://pixlr.com/editor/ A great little tool for the affiliate that only does image editing once in a blue moon, you lucky souls. Pixlr – The online alternative to photoshop

  • Coding PHP for Affiliates | A Getting Started Guide

    Coding PHP for Affiliates | A Getting Started Guide

    Coding for me is one of the most important skills you can have as an affiliate marketer. I’ve met plenty of affiliates that are running huge volume, making millions and can’t write a single line of code. “I just outsource it all” but for me I couldn’t imagine coming up with a tweak to a…

  • Pretty icons in vector format

    Download Font Awesome Vectors and spruce up your sites, ads and landers. Preview below:

  • Direct Linking and Retargeting

    Here is how to do it, you’ll still need a server and a domain. Point all your traffic towards a php file i.e. http://www.mydomain.com/trackandforward.php Then place all your retargeting pixels in to the trackandforward.php file and put a meta refresh at the the end. The page will load the retargeting cookies will be placed and…

  • Automatic backup of MySQL database

    Would you like to have a backup of your critical MySQL database emailed to you automatically? The following script was moified from backup2mail and needs setting up as a cron job, instructions are in the code. Download it for free here This is what the code looks like: <?php /// Setup /// // Test it…

  • Stupidly Simple AB or Multivariate Testing

    Stupidly Simple AB or Multivariate Testing

    Here’s a simple way you can setup a simple multivariate or A/B split test without any software just using the subid variables provided by an affiliate network and some really basic php. <?php $out = ‘http://www.myaffiliatelink.com/page1.php?affid=123&subid1=’; if (rand(0,1) == 0) { $out.=’g1′; $girlimg = ‘1.png’; } else { $out.=’g2′; $girlimg = ‘2.png’; } // this…

  • Redirection Methods and Referer Passing

    The following are some methods you can use to redirect users from one place to another. I generally use 301 redirects for anything where I want the referer passed through because this is the fastest. Double meta refresh for anything where blank referer is important and a custom script which incorporates the form submit redirect…

  • Combining Maxmind GeoIP with Google Maps iFrame

    This is a quick script which uses Maxminds geoip location db downloadable for free from here with Google Maps iFrame. I haven’t tested this enough to find out if Google restrict the number of requests by referrer but you could always put a meta refresh page in the iframe to blank the referrer if thats…

  • Resizing images and adjusting landing pages based on screen resolution

    So many browsers so many different screen resolutions. Here’s a way to modify html code based on the screen resolution of the browser. In this example I have changed an image but there is no reason why you cant change text, font size or even use it to redirect users who have mobile sized screens.…

  • Loading a conversion pixel on click through

    Mobile campaign optimisation throws up a number of issues in regard to tracking. One thing I’ve found really useful is to load a conversion pixel on click through from the landing page to the offer page. This can be a traffic source pixel which can then be used to give some indication of site/device/carrier quality…

  • iframe to a specific div id on a landing page

    Below is the code to iframe an offer page but cut out all the stuff you don’t need. This is useful if you just want to iframe the form while using your own images etc. This is setup so you just enter the url and div id you want to jump to at the top…

  • Mobile Multivariate Testing with SubID’s

    Due to slow page load speeds it is advised to keep tracking software to minimum when running mobile campaigns. This caused me a problem when trying to develop and optimise a mobile landing page. Because I wasn’t using prosper or any other tracking software I couldn’t plug in my custom multivariate testing scripts. I was…

  • Prosper202 Mod – Set preferences before crashing server

    Had a bit of an issue with Prosper crashing once the database got too big. I would log out and leave the analysis preferences set to my biggest traffic source and when I logged back in the server would crash as it tries to pull a report before you can modify the search critieria. I…

  • What was that Country Code?

    Have problems remembering all the different country codes for geolocation scripts etc? Switzerland gets me everytime! Here’s a handy list you can use to check before you code. I use Maxmind but this will be accurate for any software that uses the ISO 3166 standard. AD = Andorra AE = United Arab Emirates AF =…

  • Ideas for Banner Ad Split Tests

    Here are a few ideas for split testing your banner ads. You could quite easily use these to take a single ad and knock up a 100 variations. Test them optimise out the losers and see what works best. There is no single best banner advertisement, everything needs testing and optimising continuously.

  • Bing URL Ripper for Dorks

    This is a URL ripper which uses bing to search for a dork i.e. “powered by wordpress” and output a list of thousands of wordpress sites. This example was actually setup to rip ning sites but you can adjust accordingly. Written in ruby for linux… #!/usr/bin/env ruby require ‘net/http’ require ‘uri’ class Search def search(search)…

  • Script.aculo.us – Interactive Landing Pages

    Interaction is key in modern web design and one of the tools I’ve found to be very helpful in making a more interactive environment is script.aculo.us It is basically a javascript inlcude which can provide you with a whole load of effects and functions to use on your landing pages. Check out a simple example…

  • UK Postcodes for major cities

    This is useful for PoF advertising. A list of postcodes (Zip Codes) for major cities in the UK. Can be used for all sorts of other uses, as you can see this was formatted for a php geo-targeting script. $postcode[‘London’] = ‘W1D1AP’; // use for england radius 75miles $postcode[‘Birmingham’] = ‘B46QS’; $postcode[‘Leeds’] = ‘LS18TL’; //not…

  • Direct Response Marketing Pushing CPC Prices Up – The Future for Google Adwords

    I was asked to setup a little campaign for an offline electrical company on “The Google”. The business they operate in is electrical testing or PAT testing as it is known here in the UK. It’s the kind of industry where I wouldn’t expect to find much competition when it comes to online marketing. That…

  • Ruby & Selenium Script to Check Google SERP ranks

    Haven’t used this in a while but it used to work really well untill google would throw a captcha at you after the first 5000 queries. Might be of use to someone. It’s designed for linux and you’ll need selenium up and running to work it. #!/usr/bin/env ruby require ‘rubygems’ gem ‘selenium-client’ require ‘selenium/client’ system(‘java…

  • Captcha Cracker For PHPBB written in Ruby

    It’s been a while since I’ve done much in SEO so I am going to start publishing some of my old scripts. This is a captcha cracker which uses gocr and image magick to decipher phpbb captchas. It’s written in ruby and was designed as part of a backlink building module. You’ll need linux, gocr,…

  • Rotating Offer Pages and Landing Pages in Prosper202

    It is really easy to setup rotation of urls in Prosper but if you actually want to track which url is doing better or you want to test different landing pages it can be a little more challenging. One way to do this is to set each url or landing page up separately and then…

  • My Favourite Buttons For Banner Design

    Below is a list of my favourite buttons I keep handy when designing banners. I’m a bit old school and still use Fireworks MX for design simply because I know where everything is on it and it does everything I want it to. After 6-7 years it would be really annoying to switch to Photoshop.…

  • Prosper 202 Mods 2012

    Prosper202 mods 1) increase session life – stops it logging you out every five minutes when you are trying to work add the following line just before session_start(); in 202-config/connect.php ini_set(‘session.gc_maxlifetime’,99999); 2) bypass adverts on first page – bit naughty but I prefer to jump straight into the spy section to see whats been going…

  • Custom Facebook Share and Twitter Tweet Buttons as WordPress Widget

    The following is the php code to make your own dynamic Facebook share and Twitter tweet buttons. Just place the images in the root directory and install the Samsarin PHP widget. Copy this code into a Samsarin Php widget and drag it to your sidebar. <a target=”_blank” href=”http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=<?php echo “http://” . $_SERVER[‘HTTP_HOST’]  . $_SERVER[‘REQUEST_URI’]; ?>”><img…

  • Using Adsense Section Targeting

    If you are getting lots of Groupon and Three ads on your adsense niche site the chances are it isn’t optimised correctly. By simply writing a short, keyword rich, snippet of what your site is about and surrounding it in the following tags you can manipulate which ads are shown. <!– google_ad_section_start –> Jet internet…

  • Facebook Share button more effective than Likes?

    A recent post at SEOMoz suggested that their research has found a better correlation between facebook shares than Facebook likes. The full post is here and makes for an interesting read. One of the things that really caught my attention was in the comments and I quote: “After chatting with our Google rep it seems…

  • Custom WordPress 404 Page For SEO

    I have recently been purchasing used domain names from Godaddy Auctions and Dropcatch. When I get the domains the first thing we do is look at what traffic they were pulling for what topics via google cached web search. If there is some good content on there and things we want to keep we will…

  • Setting up twitter feed to post to Twitter and Facebook accounts

    If you don’t already have a facebook and twitter account for your company they are really easy to setup. On facebook remember to click the “Create a Page for a celebrity, band or business” link on the homepage. Once you have those accounts setup head over to twitterfeed.com and sign up for an account. Enter…

  • Setting up custom facebook and twitter buttons using php

    The canonical tag has been a god send for us helping to get pages indexed and clean up site structures. In many sites we use the same php variable for our share buttons. This is a great way to setup custom twitter and facebook share buttons for your pages. We always use an external template…

  • Mixing php with javascrip – Heredoc

    My main issue with javascript is the fact it is full of ‘ and ” which can be a real pain when coding. I’ve started using a method called heredoc to set a start and end point, example below. // Heredoc string // $sstring = <<<TEST Hello World TEST; The word TEST could be anything…

  • Poor mans GeoIP – Quick and Easy Geolocation

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