If you find this in your apache error.log: Premature end of script headers in index.php and get a 500 error on your wordpress blog, then you should check your suexec log. When it reaches 2GB you will receive a 500 error and the message: Premature end of script headers

You can find the log here: /var/log/apache/suexec.log or simply enter locate suexec.log

Also check your /var/log/suphp.log … if it is over 2GB large you will receive the 500 error!

If you find this error in your apache error.log you most likely have rebuild your system and broke a few apache modules.

I received the error after rebuilding my system with EasyApache and using APC + Memcache. I compiled memcache and APC myself, so after rebuilding the system via EasyApache it would receive the error: child pid exit signal segmentation fault 11

If that is not your problem, you should rebuild apache without eaccelerator, acp or memcache, because they can cause the problem.

… 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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