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4th Cheque Arrives

Oh my fourth cheque has arrived (I took ages to cash my other one) so I guess I’ll be getting another £26 or so in a weeks time. I’ve also sold 7 books in June (I’ve sold 7 for the last 2 months) – I’m hoping to exceed this amount now I have a four [...]


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The book I wrote gets its first review

So I decided to check out how many books I’d sold this month and whether anyone had reviewed my book – dreading someone had given it one star. So I searched for my book in Amazon.com and found my book had been reviewed! Four stars out of five. I must say I’d have to agree [...]


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Bad Hosting

My hosting has been playing up – thankfully Anthony just informed me (otherwise I may have missed it). Basically my host is letting my site down at the moment. I’d ask Ant to check out my page rank (it was blank so I had got worried lol – turned out its cos I was looking [...]


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How to get Feedburner subscription links at the end of every post

I’ve had a lot of visitors for my site with the keyphrase “feedburner at the end of every post” so I thought I best write a guide on how to do it. Firstly I want to make it clear that I am using WordPress, if you are not using WordPress then I suggest you do [...]


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Optimizing for Bing

Ok so it turns out Microsoft’s new search engine is pretty good and it is starting to steal market share (from Google or Yahoo? Who knows?) What this means for the SEO community is that we may have to consider the possibility of optimising for two sites. Currently, probably 99% of SEO’s optimise for Google [...]


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Cheque #3 Arrives

Ok so my 3rd cheque has arrived, thats another £27.80 to add to the total, making it £107.64. I really need to do something useful with this money…


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How to use nofollows correctly

Ok so today I read an article by Aaron Wall about nofollows being largely a waste of time, I didn’t quite understand what he was talking about until I scrolled down on my RSS reader to find Matt Cutts had already blogged about this. Basically, in a nutshell – no follows don’t pass page rank, [...]


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How to fix _weak_escape() error after upgrading to WordPress 2.8

I just got the WordPress error: Call to undefined function: _weak_escape() when trying to login to WordPress admin after upgrading to WordPress 2.8. I looked it up and someone mentioned it was a problem to do with the redirection plugin – but to hell with disabling that, I love that plugin!!! So instead I looked [...]


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