Archive for 2007

I’d update to WordPress 2.3.1 and now Im working on plugins compatibility. At the time being download and polls is disabled. default FTW

Latest update fixes various securities holes and patched the popular memory corruption bugs.

The BlogRush system is based on TWO things: QUALITY and FAIRNESS. ~ John Reese

Blogrush is a traffic sharing services for bloggers, its fairly new and its making a lot of buzz in blogosphere network. There is few reason why you should consider Blogrush.

• Its a Free Services. (but limited to blogs that meet their Quality Standards)
• Feeds Syndication is 100% manually reviewed. Things like Non-English, Junk, Drugs, Enlargement stuff, XXX , and any low-quality blogs will be filtered out. Just to verify this, here is a screenshoot from my WordPress stats .
  It might be BlogRush Auditor or their spider/indexer. I’m not sure of it. But they do their homework before approving any members feeds.
• BlogRush Content will matches your headlines and your category listing so you will get targeted readers instead of passer by.
• Per Post Statistics & Addition Of “Buzz Meter”

  [..] you’ll be able to see how many times each of your posts is syndicated across the network and how many people clicked to read that individual post.[..]

  “Buzz Meter”.This new meter will tell you if that post is HOT, COLD, or somewhere in between. The meter ‘temperature’ is calculated based on the average click-rates per headline for your blog’s category.[..]

• Blog Post Controls.
  [..] you can control exactly which posts of yours will be syndicated. This can help you maximize your Click Rates and, ultimately, the traffic you receive from the BlogRush network. [..]
• Blogrush Widget is not a link exchange, so they will not hurt your blog in Google PageRank.
• Widget Keyword Filter
  you can block any post titles that match your filter criteria and they will not load in your widget.
• For more features and announcements check out their official websites & blog.

Does BlogRush Violate The Google AdSense Terms Of Service?

Most of you are aware of Google Strict TOS so I think its important to highlight this issue, Excerpt from BlogRush FAQs.

[..] Google TOS is against traffic generation services that “artificially inflate page impressions” which BlogRush does not do. The only traffic BlogRush sends to your blog is natural, REAL traffic when an interested visitor clicks on one of your blog title links they noticed on another related blog. [..]

Referral and Syndication Credits

[..] Syndication credits are earned based on the following formula: You earn credits on your own traffic using a 1:1 ratio. (One credit for each time the widget is served.) You then earn credits based on your referrals traffic (and their referrals traffic) through 10 generations of referrals based on the following ratios: 1st and 2nd generation (i.e. your direct referrals and their direct referrals) 1:1, 3rd - 6th generation = 1:4 ratio, 7th - 10th generation = 1:8 ratio. After all the math is calculated, there is a surplus of 1 headline space (5 spaces in each widget load) for every 10 that are served. So 10% of all the headline space is reserved for BlogRush itself to sell or use. [..]

If you are interested. You can sign up here with my refferal links. :p

I get to many spams lately. Some of this deliberate spammer has many artificial technique ie predefine message, questionnaire, using a famous name, one liner etc… And surprisingly all the spammer has a commons things, there is no hyperlinks in their comments post. So this make it a trends in spam evolution. Here is some of my findings.

Predefine post

What a joy, they come in pair.

Questionnaire

What Daniel’s meant by interesting is actually more prosaic than the real meaning. he was hammering my blog for 4 days long with the same repetitive comments. I’d to quickly blocked him via .htacess and submit his particular details to spam reporting services.

According to Google lore, company founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin were not terribly fond of each other when they first met as Stanford University graduate students in computer science in 1995….By January of 1996, Larry and Sergey had begun collaboration on a search engine called BackRub … Google Corporate History

Happy 9th Birthday Google

Google is celebrating its 9^th birthday, on 27 September 2007. They were incorporated as a privately held company on September 7, 1998. So much has been written on the Google that it’s not easy to ignore the way things have changed over these 9 years.

Time flies when we are having fun. What can we expect for the next 9 years?

Edvard Munch’s Birthday - December 12, 2006

Related links

• Google various logos
• Google Web Support “When is google birthday”
• Google Search Appliance - Standford University

I just update my WordPress from 2.0 to 2.3 (Change Logs). Upgrade is smooth but I had to disabled few plugins - Ajax posting, post ratings and the Extended Live Archives. Might see it back in few days.