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

Well, what I am going to share with you is very crucial for every webmaster and maybe even for every website in general.

Your website might suffer from a google penalty without you even knowing about it.

Here are some of the most common google penalties and how you can identify them easily:

Google Agressive Linkbuilding Penalty:

This is the most obvious. Most beginners will sooner or later run into this thinking they can beat Google by adding as many links as fast as you can. You should avoid adding a lot of links in a short time, especially when your site is new. The backlinkbuilding penalty won’t trigger that fast for established sites with PageRank. But, if your site is pretty new, you should avoid adding more than 5 backlinks per day and make sure that not all links come from the same page. E.g. adding 5 stories to digg on your first day wouldn’t be a good idea.

Penalty: For aggresive linkbuilding your site will drop out of the index. It is the so called Sandbox effect. You will stay in the sandbox for 1 week+, longer if you keep adding links from the same sources. Google likes natural links!

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Some very important shortcuts that will help you to control Putty a little bit better. Canceling a command for example is very important. Therefore CTRL + Z is a very important shortcut that you should remember.

Shortcuts:

Ctlr + A – go to the beginning of line

Ctrl + E – go to the end of line

Ctrl + W – delete a word

Alt + f – Move forward

Alt + B – move backwords

Alt + BackSpace – Delete backward from cursor

down arrow – browser command history backwords

up arrow – browse command history upwards

Ctrl + r – Recall command

Ctrl + z – Suspend/ Stop the command

Search the history backwards

Ctrl + l – clear the screen

Before you move a wordpress blog to a new host you should prepare a few things.

First of all make a backup of your database. Next you should copy your complete site to the new host or directory. Once it’s there make sure you got no 403 forbidden error. If you do read the previous post.

When everything is set, you should now open that “general” settings page in your wordpress admin panel and add the new domain names (don’t save yet). Also open the .htaccess file of your old site and add the following:

Options +FollowSymLinks 
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?olddomain\.com
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.newdomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]

Now, quickly save both the wordpress admin page and your htaccess file. I can do both in less than 5 seconds, so you can do it too.

If you are *not* using permalinks you also got to run this SQL query:

UPDATE wp_posts SET guid = REPLACE(guid, 'http://www.old-domain.com','http://www.new-domain.com');

Did you link internally? Yes? Good! It’s good for seo to do interlinking to your important sites. To update your posts run this query too:

UPDATE wp_posts SET post_content = REPLACE(post_content, 'http://www.old-domain.com', 'http://www.new-domain.com');

Voilà, you now moved your wordpress blog to a new domain!

If you are moving or copying a site to another directory on your server then it might happen that you can no longer access your site.

A 403 error message will popup. How can that happen, you copied the exact same files?!

The reason is simple, once you copy the files they no longer have execute permission. To display your web files, a file requires execute permission!

Apache 403 forbidden fix:

chmod a+x would give all (user group and others) execute permission

Example:

If you have a directory like /here/abc/ then you got to run this query:

chmod -R a+x /here/abc/

I hope that solves your 403 forbidden problem!

Are you looking for a plugin that can do this job? Then you came to the right place.
Wordpress is mainly a blogging platform, however it is very common to use Wordpress as a CMS. As of right now, Wordpress does not include the option to reorder categories, pages or posts. This is usually one of the basics of a CMS and it is needed in many situations.

Here are three plugins that extend Wordpress functionality and allow you to reorder links, categories and pages:

My Link Order

My Category Order

My Page Order

Cheers!

No worries, I won’t add any popunder to this site. However, a pop under is still a good marketing strategy for some sites where you want to make sure that visitors don’t miss that very special offer!

Most of the scripts you will find on the net are blocked automatically by Firefox and IE7+8.
It’s a bit sneaky to be honest and I recommend to use it rarely and only if you are sure that visitors don’t know what popunders are. This script will send out a welcome message your visitor has to close. When the visitor does that he allows the browser to load the pop under beneath the current windows. Smart, eh?

I’ve found the script on this site:
http://www.guysindex.com/
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I’ve been using Aweber for a while and they are definetly a must have nowadays for any real webmaster.

However, I think Aweber is doing their best to loose as many clients as possible.

First of all they increased the price to ridiculous high amounts. Any smart person knows that there are Aweber PLR sites, which still offer the old price e.g. Profollow (ProSender sucks they have the new price).

Then today I noticed a major flaw (I almost freaked out). Your fancy aweber scripts makes the internet explorer crash. Can you even imagine that? They are in business for 10 years+ and they make your sites crash. Ridiculous. Sorry, but I’m very disappointed. It was sheer luck that I noticed it and I already lost tons of visitors because of that.

Errors:
Javascript error: “Object not found”. (IE8)
Javascript error: Internet Explorer Cannot Open the Internet Site Operation Aborted. (IE7) – Some sources say Kontera has the same problem.

Luckily, I do not give up that easily. I found a workaround for the second error.

Add this to your javascript code:

defer="defer"

It could look like this now:

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://forms.profollow.com/form/xx/xxxx.js" defer="defer"></script>

What is Javascript “defer”? Defer explained

Some of you will use GeoIP for geotargeting (a tutorial about this will follow).

One of the few things you’d have to manually if there was no cronjob, is to update the GeoIP.dat regularly.

Put this little sh script into cron.daily and it will be updated automatically:

#!/bin/bash
 
UNGZIPPED_FILE=GeoIP.dat
GZIP_FILE=GeoIP.dat.gz
REMOTE_PATH=http://geolite.maxmind.com/download/geoip/database/GeoLiteCountry/
LOCAL_PATH=/tmp/
LOCAL_FINAL_PATH=/www/vhtdocs/geo_ip/ #update this to your directory of choice
 
cd $LOCAL_PATH
wget -N -q $REMOTE_PATH$GZIP_FILE
gunzip $GZIP_FILE
cp -f $UNGZIPPED_FILE $LOCAL_FINAL_PATH$UNGZIPPED_FILE
 
exit