Monthly Archive for December, 2008

I really like www.watchforeclosure.com site's design's integration with adsense ads. You could hardly tell the ads from the content itself. For someone trying to monetize their site, it works.

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PHP Parse ATM Date to Normal Date

netnerds.net has a great post on how to convert an ATOM date to a normal PHP date. I found it very useful as I was trying to do this for my sites www.stormwarriorsmovie.com and www.roguebargains.com and it worked great!
Here's the code from Chrissy of netnerds.net
$atomdate = '2006-04-22T10:00:00.000Z';
$datetime = strtotime(substr($atomdate, 0, 10) . ' ' . [...]

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I was able to do a search the next day and the Digg entry came up on 2nd page of Google. So that's not bad. I need to do that for all the sites now.

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Here's an idea for parsing out those <dc:creator> or <dc:date> using PHP and SimpleXMLElement.
Do a string replace.
Another idea is to go use the children() to get children of node.

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Here's an idea for parsing out those <dc:creator> or <dc:date> using PHP and SimpleXMLElement.
Do a string replace.

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There's a great interview with Donnie Yen on SCMP site about his new film IP Man.

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I suggest using MYSQL Dump Importer. It works great! I have used it to move several hundred megs of mySQL databases on hostgator and it works great. The problem with hostgator is they do not allow mysql commands on Shell. So you can either ask their admins to do it or use the MYSQL Dump [...]

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Heelcandy is a blog about shoes

Heelcandy  blogs about shoes and serves as affiliate for zappos. I really like the design and her reviews.

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There's some good XML and RSS parser scripts.

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There's some good XML and RSS parser scripts.

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http://www.instantmeat.com is an example of a Google Adsense for Domains site. It is similar to Godaddy's Cashpark program I believe.

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Changing Directory in PHP

<?php $wd_was = getcwd();chdir("photos-event");$dirname = "photos-event/";include("build.php");chdir($wd_was);?>

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Quick Minisite is a domain adsense page that you can use to make money off your domains. It is actually pretty neat php script.

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Most Profitable Keywords

Xedant has an interesting comparison of most profitable keywords vs most expensive keywords.

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Simple Effective Cache using PHP

Coderprofile has a great php cache script for use with php files. Written by Scott Thompson.

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UnrealMedia has posted some really simple code to parse a RSS feed.
$file = file_get_contents("Feed URL");
$xml = new SimpleXMLElement($file);
foreach($xml->channel->item as $feed){
echo $feed->title.'<br>';
}

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It's a tad bit more complicated than usual to do.
1. Add domain to Dreamhost hosting using Fully Managed2. Delete the domain under Web Hosting column3. Now click on DNS link under domain name and edit the settings

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This automysqlbackup does a good job of backing up mysql database.
And you can use cron to backup hostgator file directories.

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I hear celebrity wit makes a lot of money from ads. It's kind of a simple site. But yeah, it's addictive and funny too. I think humor sites are good bets.

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This is kind of an interesting idea. Creating a single page for targetting with Google and adsense.

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There's a free plugin to allow you to build a BANS online ebay store for free.

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$1.6 billion went to bank execs

Damn.. that really makes me angry. The American tax-payers are constantly helping these big corporations and finance all sorts of things that we dont like (like Iraq war) and always getting the short end of the stick. When is government ever going to work to help the average american to have a better life instead [...]

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I am still trying to figure out how people make money off adsense. Google must be making a lot of people money and I am constantly seeing tons of sites on how to make money off the adsense machine. But so far, I still have not seen it for myself. It would be nice to [...]

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This site has some great information on using YUI to find an element's size and position.

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Ultimate Money Making Theme

This theme is touted as the ultimate money making theme.

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Here's an interview with Marhgil Macuha and how he makes money with macuha.com

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Host Gator SSH Request Form

You can request a SSH form through this SSH request form. I had to talk to a support rep in live chat.

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Check Web Site Load Time

I was trying to determine which of my sites loads faster. The site at Dreamhost or the site at Host Gator. So I used a tool from iWebtool and discovered the Host Gator site loaded a bit faster. Although to me, both sites loaded the same. That could be due to the fact that Dreamhost [...]

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Stargeek.com has some good PHP scripts for various things.

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Dreamhost makes a lot more money off me from domains than hosting itself. I think it makes a whole lot of sense. For $9.99 they host my domain. It's not cheap and fairly expensive compared to other places. I only do it because I have hosting there as well.
But I am thinking about switching to [...]

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I am really excited about orca 2. I think I'm going to implement it in one of my sites and see how it goes.

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FluxBB and PunBB is very fast!

Really like FluxBB and PunBB for forum. It is powered by PHP and mySQL.
Orca 2 is an 100% AJAX forum script with many features. Seems interesting too.

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Open source million dollar script

There's an open source version of the million dollar script. And there's a commercial million dollar script that's pretty good.

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SELECT *FROM item_infoWHERE  match(item_name) against('"exercise bike" "hdtv tv" widescreen' IN BOOLEAN MODE)

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Does anyone know how to let Google Spider know my content has changed and come and update my site? I looked through Google Webmaster Tools but cant find anything there. And Google search turns up nothing.
Update: Just found this site that talks about Google blog ping service which I just tried.

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Really cheap VPS at $5 month

This New York Noc site lists super VPS for $5 a month. Wonder if it's legit.

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Google and SEO Friendly URL

This post says Google officially dont want people to do URL rewrites. That would certainly save a lot of heache.

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Bargainscent.com online
bargains helps you find the latest deals on electronics, TVs, HDTV,
cameras, iphones, games, consoles, etc. It shows you the price and you
can sort bargains by price or freshness. It aggregates data from
several well known bargain sites.

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I got rid of the QuickAds on ScribeFire but the editor still is slow to start.

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Heroes is getting kind of stupid

I am kind of flabbergasted by some of the stupid things people do. Like this week's episode, the trio of fools find the notebook of Isaac Mendez's drawings. Instead of flipping through it quickly to see what happens, they turn the page one at a time and make stupid talk while the bad guys are [...]

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