Archive for April, 2010
You know how I know someone’s stealing your Top Commentator’s link? I constantly catch people doing it on my blog and then I do some research to backup up my theory with hard evidence. Well, it seems people have found a loophole to the Top Commentator’s Wordpress plugin and they simply benefit from it. Of course, when someone benefits from it another person gets their benefit taken away from them. Let’s work on getting this problem fixed.
How To Steal Someone’s Top Commentator’s Link
This information is only for educational use to build awareness and not intended on promoting hijacking of links.
For the record, I think this is unethical and a very cheap way of stealing someone elses’ work of commenting with their thoughts. But to do it, essentially you would find a name on someone’s “Top Commentator” list and simply comment using the same exact name and just enter in your website information.
Of course, that same person will probably be back to comment again but say it took them 20 comments to make it on the list, all the hijacker has to do is comment once and then they’ll be on the list in no time. Now all the hijacker has to do is just make a new comment after the original commentator makes another one.
Example of A Top Commentator Hijacker (With Proof!)
I’ve seen this done before, by accident and on purpose. You can hijack by accident if someone comments with their generic name. For instance, if I commented with “Jason” or “Jay”, I’m sure I’m not the only ones with that name that could possibly have commented. Though, some people obviously steal and hijack on purpose.
Here’s an example:
This is a guest post by Tom and I just wanted to apologize to him for taking so long to post this article! Check out his website at the end of this post.
Fortunately or unfortunately, outsourcing continues to be a hot topic among many industries. While it helps some and hurts others, it’s hard to deny the business logic behind this strategy. And by costing them stable jobs and careers, it’s the bane of many blue-collar workers’ existences in certain developed nations. Meanwhile, it is building previously considered third world countries into economic
powerhouses.
As outsourcing begins to level the world’s economic playing field, it would behoove people in many sectors, industries, and economic classes to understand more about this process and its effects on people, companies and nations. The more you know about outsourcing, the more prepared you can be to deal with its effects or harness its power. And what better way than by reading a book? That being said, here are a few titles that might better help you understand outsourcing.
1. The Black Book of Outsourcing: How to Manage the Changes, Challenges, and Opportunities (by Douglas Brown)
Published in 2005, this book has recently been revised and is broken down into three parts. Part one focuses on how to plan for and manage outsourcing, part two deals with finding an outsourcing career, and part three is a guide for outsourcing entrepreneurs.
I haven’t really had a “weekly” update for about two months now so it seems as though it is long overdo. I have a few things that I wanted to go over on these DatMoney weekly updates and definitely wanted to address the lack of posts this month.
I usually post my weekly updates on a Friday or the weekend but I didn’t want to wait to give you guys updates. So, let’s get started with the boring stuff, shall we?
Where Have I Been? - In the month of April, I have only posted three times (if you include this post) which is pretty bad. That’s basically like one post per week and that shows that I’m slacking… well, my on the lines that I’ve been busy.
Lately, I’ve been setting priorities and the big thing was to finish my taxes (which I did the day before the deadline) and I decided that I would do it by myself this year online. I’ll write a post on the details later because it was definitely a good learning experience… and a headache at the same time.
On top of that, I’ve just been busy and I’m trying to catch up on everything. It’s tough especially since I have a full-time job on top of everything I do online but please bear with me. I mean, I have post topics and drafts but I just haven’t had a chance to finish them.
Server Crashed/Sites Were Temporarily Unavailable – Most of you guys probably didn’t even notice it but there were two, maybe three times in which my server crashed for about like 10-15 minutes in the last week or two and it was due to high CPU load. Since one of my sites got into Google News I’ve been getting good traffic on top of my traffic from all my other sites. This has been affecting my CPU load on my dedicated server and I think I fixed it.
As you guys know from my last post How to Get Listed in Google News, one of my sites was accepted into Google News and the very next day that our articles was actually indexed, our traffic spiked instantly. Honestly, I don’t think it’s going to go back down as long as we continue posting.
Before I continue, if there are any authors who are interested in joining our team then feel free to drop me a note. We do have Adsense revenue sharing which appears on your individual posts. Though, to be fair to our current team members, you would have to post 10 posts before you are able to add your Adsense information.
Our site was running for a little over a month before we were accepted into Google News. We were building links and our traffic was steady but not extremely impressive. I think we eventually starting averaging around 100 visitors daily with a mix coming from search engines and other websites. The day after our site got indexed in Google News and our posts started showing up our traffic spiked to around 3,200.
Was this a fluke? I wouldn’t say it’s a fluke because if we post consistently like we should be doing then I would say the traffic should continue to climb.
The interesting part of all of this is every post that I manage to write gets instant traffic. And when I say “instant”, I mean we would probably get at least 100 visits to that one post within a couple of minutes, if not more.
Of course, it depends on the topic and if its actually appealing to readers and if its being searched for.
I know a few thousand unique visitors isn’t much to brag about but that number was based on the first day which I think is a very good stepping stone. It’s definitely far from the 50k daily but small steps will eventually get you where you want to be. 
Anyways, that was just a simple update in case you guys were interested.
How To Get Listed In Google News – If you guys have been following this blog for at least the last month or so, then you would have read my post How I Plan On Getting Accepted Into Google News. Well, it is official, one of my sites got accepted! (Not DatMoney)
It was a little bit of a relief but this morning I received an e-mail from “The Google Team” that started off like:
Hi Jason,
Thank you for your note.
Great news! This message is to confirm that we’ve reviewed and added your site to Google News. The inclusion of your articles should be processed within the next few days. Please retain this message and refer to it should you have any issues with your site in Google News.
Of course, the rest of the e-mail went into technical stuff that I need to do to make sure my articles are getting picked up.
So, what did I do to get accepted into Google News? Well, if you didn’t read my previous post that I linked to above, here’s a quick overview on what I did.
