Splogs, and how to tackle them

December 12, 2007

Spam blogs are the men­ace of blogs. Designed to scrap off con­tent from a site, many blog own­ers find it frus­trat­ing that some peo­ple would sim­ply not hes­i­tate to profit from other people’s work. They take the form of blogs, and are cre­ated in the hope­ful hopes that it cause the splog to look like […]

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SEO?">Blackholing as SEO?

December 11, 2007

 
Of course, Google have explic­itly men­tioned that back­links will add to a site’s PageR­ank. How­ever, through expe­ri­ence it is found that out­bound links have an oppo­site effect to back­links. So, before you add that link to your site, think again. Sim­i­larly, inter­nal pages act as out­bound links, except that you have more con­trol over them. This is based […]

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Link black-holes you should watch out for

December 11, 2007

 
If you stud­ied quan­tum physics, you prob­a­bly know about black holes. Even if you didn’t, you prob­a­bly heard of it right? A link black­hole is like a black­hole — it eats links, but gives back few links that are taken into account by search engines in rank­ing. Gen­er­ally, if they get pop­u­lar enough, they would […]

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Google may treat sub-domains as folders

December 10, 2007

 
Orig­i­nally, sub-domains remained in the grey area, treated as more of an inde­pen­dent domain. Thus, mul­ti­ple pages from the same site may appear at once in the results page in Google. Now, Google decided to final­ize the deci­sion to treat sub-domains as fold­ers. This means that sub-domains under a domain will appear at most twice in the search […]

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phpBB 3 — in 3 days time

December 10, 2007

 
phpBB 3 would be released in a few days time, specif­i­cally 13th Decem­ber, as stated by a phpBB devel­oper. For a few months now, phpBB 3 still remained in the devel­op­ment stages - so with any­thing that stays “beta” for a long time, expect plenty of upgrades over the pre­vi­ous ver­sions.
In case if you do not […]

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Social dropdown

December 10, 2007

A beta ver­sion of the Social Drop­down plu­gin has been released on Tevine! This plu­gin helps put all your social book­marks into one nice drop­down — acces­si­ble by click­ing on a button.

This effec­tively reduces clut­ter, and occu­pies lit­tle space on your page (unlike oth­ers which prac­ti­cally plas­tered tons of social book­mark­ing icons just below your post). […]

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XHTML friendly">How to: Make your websites XHTML friendly

December 9, 2007

 
XHTML has grown in pop­u­lar­ity ever since Word­press and Wikipedia decided to show its love for standards. If you are won­der­ing what XHTML is, you can say that it is another type of HTML alto­gether - sim­i­lar, yet different. Generally, it is a pain to get a nicely val­i­dated site going, so this guide shall act as a walk-through […]

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Complete guest posting

December 8, 2007

 
Orig­i­nally we allowed only reg­is­tered mem­bers to post their own posts on Tevine. Though, it is not very pop­u­lar — so we decided to bring it one step fur­ther and make it com­pletely guest post­ing! You no longer need an account in Tevine to guest post, mak­ing it com­pletely guest post­ing.
What is guest post­ing?
Guest posting […]

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How to: Moderate in a way people like

December 7, 2007

 
Mod­er­a­tion is some­thing pretty sim­ple — hit the “delete” but­ton and it’s all gone. Though, go over­board with it and you will get mod-haters. This guide will be a basic how-to as to how you can get mod­er­a­tion done — in a way almost every­one likes it.

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DigitalPoint banned from AdSense? Nope!

December 7, 2007

 
Whew… just because Dig­i­tal­Point forums have a blanked out Google ad in its forums, it spread out rip­ples appear­ing on other sites like Sphinn! Well, the thing is, Dig­i­tal­Point is an ad-revenue shar­ing forum, and a ban from Google Adsense is a scary thing, because it means everyone’s ad is in dan­ger. But, wait, DigitalPoint […]

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