… if you encounter this or a similar problem the easiest solution is to validate your feed.

To validate your RSS feed, simply go to http://feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=

Enter your Feed URL and hit enter. Now you know if the feed is valid or not. Most likely it is not. Write down the error line and find out what entry is causing the error. When you found the post you should remove any signs that might cause problems. In my case I had to remove the “&-sign”. Because HTML hex-codes normally start with the “&”-sign they are causing some problems sometimes.

We all hate them, yet there’s no way around them .. sometimes. Well, actually sometimes they can be even useful. What if you are programming a web 2.0 site and want to create some neat popups that explain how this or that works? Popups can also come in handy if you want to make sure that visitors to your blog don’t miss any important information.

Anyway, after looking around I found two solutions. From now on, I’ll always differentiate between the “Blogger solution” and the “Marketeer solution”. If you don’t know why I am doing that, I suggest you subscribe to our mailing list and grab your free eBook.
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Twitter has updated their TOS (Terms of Service). What does their new TOS say?

First of all, Twitter underlines that you own your tweets and not Twitter, but is allowed to share it with anyone.

Secondly, the Twitter TOS states that they may include relevant ads to the content:

The Services may include advertisements, which may be targeted to the Content or information on the Services, queries made through the Services, or other information.

Twitter wouldn’t be Twitter if they would go for the plain banner advertising, that’s why they will smartly integrate ads that are highly relevant – at least that’s what I expect from them.

There are rumors that they might also be launching a “pro” edition of twitter that gives you access to additional features and will probably not include advertisements.

Update: Oh yea, here’s the link if you want to read through the TOS http://twitter.com/tos

I’ve noticed that more and more people call all the methods that allow you to make money online “scams”.
Do you also think that making money with blogging is a scam?

Some people make beginners believe that they can earn money from blogging straight from day 1. They make you buy their tools, subscribe to their mailing list or lure you into a monthly subscription program that will cost you tremendous amounts of money. That’s why many people talk about a conspiracy and a so called “make money blogging scam”. There are even some affiliate programs that will lure you into their program by telling you that you can make $1000’s per month by putting links on a website.
It’s not that easy, but it’s also not as diifcult as many people think.
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Well, sometimes you might feel like writing your posts in Word until you realize that copying from Word to Wordpress doesn’t work very well.

What to do then? Well, it’s tricky, but I have found not just one, but several solutions. Some solutions are good for short posts without much formatting, others work better for long posts, ebooks or articles.

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I have just acquired a really good domain via Snapnames.com.
Initially there were 4 bidders, but luckily none of them was bidding more than the initial bid. Overall, I used three different backordering services.

Whenever you backorder a domain, you should make sure to know the *where* to backorder the domain. Every registrar gives special rights to some dropcatchers, which means that the “own” backorder services of the domain registrar will get a priority bonus that will allow you to pick up the domain with a higher chance. Makes sense, right? Domain registrars are not stupid they know how much money they can make with backorders (that are usually between $60 and $70 per domain), that’s why they are giving more kudos to their own backorder services.
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Are you looking for an online article rewriter? I want to present 4 of the best online tools that are working like a charm:

RandomPaper is a free online article rewriter that does not fully reorder sentences, but replace keywords with synonyms. This is very useful and will make your article unique. The disadvantage is that synonyms do not always have the same meaning and the search engines might still count this as duplicate content.

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Yesterday, I suddenly noticed that one of my wordpress blogs was hacked. How did I notice it? My permalinks were changed and at the end of every link there was a code line attached it.

Actually it looked a bit strange, but I was in a hurry and quickly changed my permalinks and did not think about taking a screenshot at that moment.

So, what was my emergency plan?

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I would like to introduce the concept of the “Ultimate Footer Ad” to you.
Well, you probably know about ad blindness, people get used to the ads on your site or to ads in general. That’s why we’re coming up with new ad specs, formats and ways to advertise effectively.

One of the most successful ad is the footer ad. I am using it on one of my sites and my sign-ups for my “free themes” have doubled. I am offering free themes as an incentive to get more sign-ups (you should use incentives too! this is crucial).

Well, let’s see what it’s all about: (click on read more)
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A very comfortable way to manage all of your e-Mail accounts on your server is: ConfigServer Mail Manage (cmm)
http://www.configserver.com/cp/cmm.html

This is an exclusive! and free! add-on product for cPanel/WHM. The product provides you with an interface to the cPanel user accounts email configuration without having to login to their accounts. It is domain based rather than account based and allows you to do all the following from within WHM:

* View, edit and delete email accounts
* View, edit and delete email forwarders
* View, edit and delete email filters
* View and modify email account quotas
* Modify email account passwords

How to install ConfigServer Mail Manager

1. cd /tmp/
2. wget http://www.configserver.com/free/cmm.tgz
3. tar -xzf cmm.tgz
4. cd cmm/
5. sh install.sh