Merry Christmas and Site Hackers
First Merry Christmas everyone, sure Christmas is December 25th, but that was yesterday, so I’m a tad late. I hope you had a safe and happy holiday. Just got done fixing the site after some hacker at 5:33 EST from an ip address of 211.72.36.100 decided to hack our site and insert a random redirect [...]
Monday Updates Dec 14
Its been a pretty busy weekend, we have been reviewing authors to get the nofollow removed, if you would like us to review your account send us an email, most who email us have accounts reviewed within a business day hour. So far we have reviewed authors who have contributed 74000 total articles (UPDATE 12/14 [...]
More Progress Being Made
For those who have been keeping track, it has been a longer than we originally hoped to get the author review process in place to remove the nofollow from your links (Read about the nofollow and other changes here). Thanks in part due to a call from a distressed author, we got the programmer kicked [...]
WordPress Plugin Playground
Today we upgraded to the latest version of Wp Super Cache – which I think is just great. It is pretty tried and trued and has saved us a lot of head aches in other projects. We are also running w3 total cache, but experimenting with using its built in memcached funcationalities to cache database [...]
Weekend Update End Of October
We are approaching roughly one month since we put into place a LOT of changes to the site. We are still working on many more improvements to the site and decrease page load times and optimize the speed of the site as well as quality of the information delivered. Traffic to the site has increased [...]
McDonald’s Leaves Saves $2,000 A Day By Skipping Items
Just saw this on twitter – and while I would like to hope its a joke, it would certainly make sense if it wasn’t. I don’t really if ever go to McDonald’s but i know other drive thru places quite often screw up orders. Every time something is messed up you have to stop and [...]
Verizon Wireless + Google = Love?
Verizon Wireless and Google announced today that they will be working together to co develop several phones to take advantage of VZW’s 3G network as well as the Google Android platform. I’m quite thrilled about this, I’ve been waiting for something neat to come out that doesn’t run on the AT&T network — around here [...]
Articles Promoting Online Pharmacies Removed
There shall be no linking to online pharmacies, whether they are in canada, europe or anywhere else in the world. Linking and promoting and encouraging people to order drugs without a perscription is not allowed on this site. We have removed over 10,000 articles by authors who also promoted these sites. Most of these articles [...]
Article Directory Clean Up Continues
We have been continuing to clean up some of the articles on the site, so if you notice any that you think we should remove, please email the urls and or the url to the author profile to us and we will have the editors take a look at them. So far we have removed [...]
Comment Spam
By ArticleSnatch on December 17, 2009
We have a comment policy on this blog, it is linked from every page as well as by the comment form, yet we continue to get “people” who leave comments using a keyword instead of their name. Even though the comment form very clearly says to use your Name. Well we have stopped reading these [...]
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