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Googles Panda Update, Brands and Negative PandaRank
More information has been coming out about the Panda update. Google have released a article on their webmaster blog describing how they see quality content. There were a few things that really stood out:- Would you recognize this site as an authoritative source when mentioned by name? This seems to be a big hint towards…
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Affiliate Network and Payment Terms
There has been news this week of Epic/Azoogle stopping all weekly payments to affiliates. This has sent rumors of financial difficulties and cash flow problems circling the forums for one of the giant CPA networks. Just when the dust settles Maxbounty sends out a network email informing all affiliates they are improving their payment terms…
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Slow Site Speed Prevents Google Indexing Pages
We had a problem with one of our database sites not getting indexed as well as we have come to expect. After about a month it still only had arround 10% of the urls indexed from the sitemaps. We looked at the differences between this and other sites we had which were all going well.…
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Domain Trust Ranking Sites Without Backlinks Or Social Network Indicators?
For the last decade or more the SEO community has been obsessed with backlinks. Whether it be filling out profiles to get a quick link such as the famed Angela and Pauls packages or automated tools such as Xrumer and SENuke. Blog commenting, shout boxes, wordpress templates, sql injection, website widgets are just some of…
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The future of MFA (Made for Adsense) sites after the Google panda update
The big content directories such as ezinearticles, hubpages, articlesbase etc. All took a big hit with the Google panda update. It seems Google targeted low quality article databases with heavy blocks of adverts. These article directories have been abused by black and white hat link builders for the past decade. They allow people to post…
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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…
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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…
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Perfect Site Structure
It is widely accepted that Google places the most weight on the first 100 links it finds on a web page. With that in mind we can design a website that is optimised so that every single page is as close to the root domain as possible. Even with a 1,000,000+ page website you can…
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Looking for an angle
My most successful campaigns are normally also my most creative and abstract. If you can take an offer and think of a way to promote it which is “outside of the box” then you are on to a winner. Coming up with the idea is the difficult bit and I’ve laid out an example of…
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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…
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Poor mans GeoIP – Quick and Easy Geolocation
//poor mans geoip $country=trim(file_get_contents(“http://api.hostip.info/country.php?ip=”.$_SERVER[‘REMOTE_ADDR’])); //You can then redirect customers to different offers depending on country. I wouldn’t recommend this for critical or high volume use. if ($country == ‘MyCountry’) { yadda yadda yadda; }
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Two php functions for scraping content and extracting links
////// Grab webpage ////// function webFetcher($url) { $crawl = curl_init(); curl_setopt ($crawl, CURLOPT_URL, $url); curl_setopt($crawl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); $resulting = $resulting.curl_exec($crawl); curl_close($crawl); return $result = $resulting; } //////////////////////////////// //// extract links //// function extract_links($text) { preg_match_all(‘/<\s*a[^<>]*?href=[\’”]?([^\s<>\’”]*)[\’”]?[^<>]*>(.*?)<\/a>/si’, $text, $match_array, PREG_SET_ORDER); $return = array() ; foreach ($match_array as $serp) { $full_anchor = $serp[0]; $href = $serp[1]; $anchortext =…
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Three ways to debug php
Method 1 – error.log For this to work you need to be coding in a linux environment with php, apache etc setup. This is the best way I have found and what I currently use to debug my applications/web pages. open up a new terminal and type: tail -f /var/log/apache2/error.log This will give you a…
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CPA Tips
Maxbounty tracking with subid in prosper202: /tracking202/static/gpb.php?amount=&subid=#S1# The standard conversion rate I use (probably out of date): //$ > £ = x 0.64 Note that what you buy and sell dollars for is very different, 2-4% Consider setting up US bank account. Not possible without visiting the states to the best of my knowledge. Phi…
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list to php array list2phparray
Code below for a script to take a list and turn it into an array. Comes in pretty useful. <?php if ($_POST[‘list’]) { $splist = explode(“\n”, $_POST[‘list’]); $out = ‘$x = array(‘; foreach ($splist as $line) { $out = $out.”‘$line’, “; } $out = substr($out,0,-1); $out = substr($out,0,-1); $out = $out.’);’; echo $out; } else…
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Prosper202 Hacks and Modifications
JiM’s Prosper202 mods 1) increase session life (stops it locking you out every few minutes) add the following line just before session_start(); in 202-config/connect.php ini_set(‘session.gc_maxlifetime’,99999); 2) Cchange the first page you see. edit 202-login.php line 80: header(‘location: /202-account’); to header(‘location: /tracking202’); or /tracking202/spy/ If you are doing email submits or any volume loging into spy…
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Dynamically modifying the landing page with TrafficVance using php
I ran into a silly issue today when dynamically modifying a landing page using TrafficVance. The script I was using was a pretty straight forward: <?php if ($_GET[‘t202kw’]) { $kw = strip_tags($_GET[‘t202kw’]); } if(strpos($kw,’jetinternetmarketing.co.uk’) !== false) { $page = ‘<h1>Dont target JiM on traffic Vance</h1>’; } ?> The problem was that the url I was…
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Welcome to the blog
Thanks for visiting this is the first post at JiM’s Blog. To tell you a little about why we are starting a blog could take a while but in short we are trying to improve our communications throughout the industry and this is one method we are using. If you are interested in getting in…
