I really have to wonder when I hear people complaining about bounce rates.   Google defines a bounce rate as the percentage of single-page visits or visits in which the person left your site from the entrance (landing) page.  It has NOTHING to do with a measure of quality.  Some brain-dead people have a single page [...]

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I recently installed the Noscript plugin for the Firefox Browser.  I use IE7 for general web browsing, but use Firefox for Entrecard dropping, stumbling, and for my Alexa toolbar. For those who drop cards off a list and want to get through their 300 as quickly as possible, read on. For those who like pages [...]

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If you like this free eBook, feel free to sign up for my RSS feed or Mailing list. The third edition of Free E-book Friday presents a title called The Yellow book Of Turbo Marketing Secrets available here.  Unlike most eBooks, this one claims to have been handwritten.  That explains the abundant use of bold type, italics, and colored [...]

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Only the most loyal of readers would.  There were two winners who were supposed to send in pictures of somebody wearing the Turnip T-Shirt.  Here was the original post: Turnip T-shirt contest.  Nissa of Nissa’s Niceties was kind enough to send in her picture.  Unfortunately, she chopped off the head of the person wearing the shirt, [...]

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There is no one foolproof method for securing your WordPress installation against attacks.  You simply follow a series of best practices against known attacks.  Some new hack can always come along tomorrow and make you vulnerable.  You do what you can and hope for the best.  The following is a quick guide to some precautions.  [...]

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Why do I let my good nature get in the way of common sense?  After reading this excellent post Blog Contests are Kind of Lame at 45n5.com, I knew participating in other people’s contest benefits nobody but the other blog.  Sure I’ll get a few backlinks in exchange for giving up 30 days of ad space next [...]

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The second edition of Free E-book Friday presents a title called Blogging Traffic: Discover The Little-Known Secrets Of Blogging – Free Website Traffic From Blogs!  Sounds exciting and you can get your copy right here: Free E-Book #2 . Just to remind you, the author states “You may distribute this eBook in any way you like, [...]

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Newton’s theory, for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction, is at work, 24/7/365, in our wired world.   It takes its toll on how you feel and your body. Being sedentary creates a chain reaction of illness and health related problems that are less likely to happen if you exercise.   I’ve [...]

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Recently I was approached by a fellow blogger interested in writing a guest post for Turnipofpower.com.  The entire concept was new to me and would be a first for this blog.  Hmm, Yes or No?  I really didn’t like past guest bloggers on johnchow.com, but I do like the idea of varied articles expanding my [...]

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With the wealth of new info available to advertisers in Entrecard, how do you know on which sites to advertise after all the recent changes?  Sure, plenty of credit wasters advertise on any site 8 credits and below, but you can get more for your money.  I have several simple rules of thumb. Rule 1: If [...]

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