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Preventing Comment Spam

July 13, 2007

The recent problem of spam comments bypassing the Akismet filter made me realize that its too bad to rely completely on one service. For one I spent considerable amount of valuable time deleting comments. The other problem was created when these spam comments made their way as “subscription comments” and I got many mails from [...]

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Theme update for the site

July 11, 2007

There are thousands of WordPress themes available out there;every now and then I stumble on amazing themes which I would love to use for my site. The only thing keeping me off from doing this regularly is the effort required in modifying/customizing the theme. I have made another theme change (4th) and this time I [...]

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What’s with Akismet ?

July 10, 2007

Akismet, one of the best anti-spam webservice has helped lot of websites including mine in identifying and blocking spam comments and trackbacks. However from the past few days, I am spending more time deleting spam comments and these comments are also making way as comment subscription notifications. The comment text is generally the same: “Nice“, [...]

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Showing Top Commentators

June 16, 2007

The sidebar now displays the list of Top commentators for this blog. This has been overdue from some time now. Nate Sanden’s Top commentator plugin eased the task of showing the top commentators. It is currently shown only on the home page. In order to accommodate this list on my 2 column theme, I have [...]

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Feedburner FeedCount

June 2, 2007

The RSS subscribes for this site is tracked using the Feedburner service. From the past week I have been observing an change in the way the feed count is reported/calculated. I am not sure if I am the only one seeing this change. The site had an average reader count of around 130 feed subscribers. [...]

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Blog Layout Tweaks

May 4, 2007

The blog now has a new look and feel ! There is no major change and only the header layout is re-designed. I always wanted to move the “Page” links on the sidebar and now it has a new place at the bottom of the header. However I almost spent hours together for the right [...]

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Mint – Flexible Web Analytics Program

May 1, 2007

Web Analytic tools are “must have” for anybody running a website. They give interesting insight into your site’s traffic patterns. The tools give data on number of people visiting your site, the search engine used to arrive at your site, the keyword used in the search engine and much more information about every visitor visiting [...]

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Technorati Favorite Exchange

April 25, 2007

Kawaiikuma at DoshDosh has been running a interactive experiment from some time called as “Ultimate Technorati Favorites Exchange“. (Thanks to Garry for pointing me to this programme) After I left a comment in DoshDosh’s post 100 people have add this blog as their favorite. (Before I “enrolled” for the programme, the count stood at 7). [...]

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Checking backlinks

April 16, 2007

Backlinks are the incoming links to a website or web page and the number of backlinks is an indication of the popularity or importance of the website or a web page. Search engines often use the number of backlinks that a website has as one of the factors for determining the website’s search engine ranking. [...]

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Landing page for the blog

April 11, 2007

A landing page is the first page seen by a visitor visiting a site. (Generally from a search engine) Seth Godin hailed as the ultimate entrepreneur of Information Age has a very interesting say on Landing pages. Taking a cue from that article I integrated the “Landing Site” plugin for WordPress. The plugin does the following tasks: [...]

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