Midnight of the new year signaled the reopening of CMF Ads.   Featuring a redesigned blog directory, redesigned blog promotion page, a blogging resource forum, and a soon to be released widget that pays publishers for ads shown on their site.  What began as a closed beta in October 2008 is now open to everyone meeting our blog [...]

If you look below each post on Turnipofpower.com you will see a collection of social media buttons created by the AddToThis WordPress plugin.   I really like this plugin for both it’s looks and the ability to easily customize it.  Ironically, the author of this plugin is now using the ShareThis WordPress Plugin and not his [...]

If you write your posts in a busy family environment as I do, you learn to hate WordPress post revisions.  Despite WordPress’s built in autosave feature, I like to save often, walk away, scream at the kids and then return to my writing.   By the time I’m finally satisfied with a post I’ve accumulated 20 revisions, thus creating [...]

Despite my previous post detailing efforts to lower my bounce rate, I didn’t want to abandon Social Traffic completely. Social traffic brings in new visitors and it’s the goal of Turnipofpower.com to review social sites. So sacrifices must be made to keep the tips and tricks flowing.  Today’s guide is a quick study in using StumbleUpon along [...]

My last article on Bounce Rates explained why it was important for bloggers to keep rates as low as possible to avoid being penalized in the search engine rankings.  All things being equal, lower bounce rates equals higher ranking.  To refresh your memory, the following is the Bounce Rate definition given by Google : Bounce Rate: Bounce [...]

Being one to ignore bounce rates, I didn’t really care how long people stayed on my page.  As long as I had any visitors I was happy.  Last April I even wrote a particularly vehement article against bloggers whining about bounce rates.  Since then new evidence has come out and I’m ready to change that opinion.  If you care [...]

Wow, I never expected posting the keywords “Entrecard” and “asshat” in a twitter post to show someone the folly of scraping another social network’s content would have such far reaching consequences.  Friends from across the world have posted on my blog and sent personal emails wishing me well, including the owners of two other social [...]

In typical asshat fashion, former Million Dollar Wiki boy blunder Graham Langdon has banned the Turnipofpower.com account from Entrecard for using the Twitter service.  In addition, he is censoring all negative tweets regarding his own service.  Funny how he suddenly has time to monitor his long neglected business when it comes to defending his hat, [...]

I spent the recent holiday cleaning up Turnipofpower.com.  Changing permalinks, removing database clutter, and fixing dead links were the three primary tasks performed.  All of these areas deserve a separate post, so today I am going to focus on fixing dead links. Dead links are links that give an error when you click on them.  Turns [...]

As John from Make Nothing Online first reported, websites displaying the sitehoppin widget code are affected.  All visitors will be automatically redirected to a parked ad site.  For an example of the redirecting widget, visit blogtomic.com.  Sitehoppin was created by Max of Zedomax.com.  I’ve never been a fan of Sitehoppin, having originally called them out in [...]