I’ve noticed the Dmoz monkies have been removing my sites from their grubby little database of late and wanted to remind them that I still have the Transformers the Movie website Transformersthemovie.com listed.
If they are out on a mission to remove all of my sites as I suspect then they’ll need to remove that one too.
Come on Dmoz, jump to it!
Finally I have a data pack with my phone! This means at long last I can access my email wherever I am, and more importantly I can access Google from anywhere. What does this mean? It means I can cheat my tits off in pub quizzes, and how.
As a test last night during a quiz I wasn’t playing in I accessed the big G just to check an answer to a question. Sure enough, in less than 20 seconds I had the answer on my HP Smartphone. Awesome.
I shall be putting the plan into operation this week sometime and will let you know how it turns out. Go go Team Internet!
I’m going to be posting a video about this in coming few days as part of Google’s Adsense contest, but I wanted to mention it now as it’s got me really excited. Last week I switched on my computer for the first time in a few days to see I’d had my best ever day on Wednesday for Adsense earnings, then again Saturday I had my second best ever day.
The reason for this sudden and welcome increase in earnings? Well, there’s two reasons. Firstly I changed one of websites last week to go from using ASP to WordPress, meaning it was faster and all of the pages were search engine friendly. The main reason though was I changed my highest traffic website from having a dynamic ASP front page to being a static HTML page that I update every few days with the latest content.
This means that the page loads far quicker, increasing page views, ad views, clicks and of course earnings.
That’s one of the things I like about Adsense, as I’ll talk about in the video this coming week, you can increase your earnings dramatically with minor tweaks to your websites.
I just received an email from Fasthosts saying they’d been hacked and I should change my password. Luckily I don’t use Fasthosts anymore due to their really piss poor customer service, so as far as them being hacked goes… good. Couldn’t have happened to a nicer bunch of tossers.
Fasthosts once switched off one of my websites on a Friday saying I had to email their abuse department to find out why and when I asked to speak to someone they said the abuse department didn’t have any phones. I shit you not.
Whoever hacked Fasthosts, well done.
Important information about your UKreg account
Dear Darren
We are writing to inform you that we have recently discovered evidence of a network intrusion involving a Fasthosts server. We have reason to believe that the intruder has gained access to our internal systems, and that this may have in turn given them access to your username and some service passwords.
We have since closed the vulnerability through which access was gained, and have taken steps to ensure that this cannot happen again.
We therefore recommend, as a precaution, that you now change the control panel login password on your account.
This can be changed within your control panel and further details on how to change your password can also be found in the support section of our website.
We strongly recommend that you choose a secure password so that it cannot easily be guessed. The password should include the following:
- It should be a minimum of 8 characters long
- It should contain an upper case and a lower case letter
- It should also contain at least one number (numeric)
We recognise that this may cause some inconvenience and concern, and for that we sincerely apologise. Please be assured that your account security is extremely important to us, and we have taken every step possible to secure your information against any future intrusion attempts.
If you have any questions relating to this, please contact our Customer Support team on 0870 888 3600 or customersupport@fasthosts.co.uk who will be happy to help you.
Yours sincerely,
The Fasthosts Internet team
Swedish Internet Marketing company Getupdated has acquired Just Search, making us one of the largest companies in the online marketing business.
This is great news for Just Search and on a personal level I’m quite excited at the chance to renew some friendly rivalry with Getupdated’s Marcus Westberg who finished above me in last year’s V7n SEO contest. He placed 5th while I only managed a lousy 7th.
Let’s get it on!
About a year ago now I received some attempts at threatening phone calls from some pre-pubescent Citroen Saxo drivers such as Jezpick and Scott Newham. I’d forgotten all about Scott until I noticed someone had found my website by searching Google for ‘scott newham saxo’… Why I don’t know. I’m sure they found what they wanted though.
Anyhow, this little to-rag (pictured right) made several phone calls to me in an effort to put the ‘frighteners’ on me. As you can see, he is indeed very scary.
I was petrified.
The cause of all of this tomfoolery was the chav car website YouCarIsShit.com and the glut of Citroen Saxo photographs uploaded by outraged members of the public.
Why this post? Two reasons. Firstly to publically expose Scott and to piss him off (Hi Scott) and secondly to announce a new feature coming to YourCarIsShit.com very soon – Chav Drivers Exposed!
That’s right, we’ll be posting up photos of the chavs who’ve emailed us, phoned us and made comments defending their ‘pimped up rides’.
Look forward to that one, Scott will figure of course…
The SEO Ninjas have posted the first of what they say will be a regular feature on their website where they’ve named an SEO company who use black hat SEO techniques. The company is called Business First, and according to the Ninjas they’ve spammed up their clients’ websites with links to other sites.
Check out what the SEO Ninjas say about Business First here.
I just came across this offer on Best of the Web, which is an Internet business directory that’s been around since about the dawn of time. They’re offering a free 60 day trial for their directory whereby you can add your website or business to their site for free, for 2 months.
Can’t say fairer than that can you?
Check out the 60 day free trial offer here.
