Hatnohat Publishing: May 2012

Thursday, May 31, 2012

[BS] HNH Digest May 2012 Week 4

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HNH Digest May 2012 Week 4

[BS] WordPress Prevent Spider Access

SpyderSpanker WordPress Plugin Saves Bandwidth by Blocking Select Spiders…

Hey Fellas,

I just picked up SpyderSpankers plugin to help keep unwanted spiders off my site and and save bandwidth. In the past there was a free plugin that came highly recommended called Chennai Central , but this plugin is no longer supported and did not provide the options the hand select which spiders to approve or not to approve.

Why should I use this WordPress plugin?

In today’s times it’s not uncommon for more spiders to visit your website than humans and this can cause a serious drain on bandwidth.
There are more un-benificial spiders than helpful spiders. Some spiders are probes for private data centers, others can be malicious spiders looking for holes in security.
Those two reasons were enough for me to bite and I’ve already purchased and installed the plugins on most of my sites.

I’ve picked up the plugin and hopefully some of you find this lead helpful and pick up the plugin too. Cheers!

In the mean time here’s a video provided by the developer that demonstrates the capabilities and settings found within the plugins:

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Wednesday, May 30, 2012

[BS] Why doesn’t Google provide free Geotargeting by IP to Webmasters?

Google provides many service & scripts Â to website developers via their Google Libraries scripts .
Why not provide webmasters with a geo-location script?

Right now webmasters are using an excellent free service provided by GeoPlugin . The service is excellent and GeoPlugin is very liberal with the number of calls they permit an ip to request per hour, but I wonder… What has taken so long for Google to add this service to their Google Libraries?

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[BS] One Click Email Opt-ins.

One Click Lead Capturing: Facebook, Google, and Twitter:

OptinPressor leverages the Facebook API and the Google API to collect the user’s email address, and then forward it to Aweber or whatever list management service you use… they support up to 27 different email services. You can see we are using it on this blog if you look to the right. Feel free to signup! Our newsletter runs weekly and covers aspects of the online development and marketing industry. To setup Optin pressor it takes 10 minutes and I made a video showing you what it looks like and explaining]how to install it:

(click to open video in browser)

Â Integratable with these Email Autoresponder Opt-in Services!

(Prices vary according to the state of the dime-sale, but I was able to get it for under 30.00)

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[BS] Facebook Liking a page subscribes to a FB Fan Page

I read a promotional email the other day describing a WordPress plugin that re-routed facebook page likes to a Facebook Fan Page like , automatically subscribing the visitor to a fan page.

I am not sure if the plugin likes the 3rd party page as well as subscribes to the Fan Page or just re-routes the like directly to the FB Fan Page. It would be best if it did both but I’ve not had a chance to confirm.

Why is the concept cool?

Well since this is a news source who’s audience is professional developers and marketers I shouldn’t have to point it out but, still, pointing it out is a labor of love.

Facebook Fan Pages are like email lists. The content you post to a fanpage will be redestributed to all your Facebook subscribers’ newsfeeds where they can like and comment on articles. Fan pages are a great way to interact with your readerbase and pull traffic to your site.

Bonus Features of the Plugin.

The plugin video (posted below) says that you can customize which Fan Page a post’s like button subscribes the user to. This will allow you to target one post’s like to a FB Fan Page while targeting another’s to a different Fan Page. Options like these are good!

How this plugin can help.

It’s deceptive it’s true. It’s most likely against Facebook’s terms of service because in a way, it’s cheating the opt-in funnel standard that Facebook has setup, but still it can be a quick and affective way to build your subscriber list that did not place too much emphasis on Facebook.

Honestly Facebook should provide this option natively in their like button; showing a prompt to opt into a fan page after liking something related to itâ€¦ but they don’t and so this option is a second class solution.

I’ll probably check it out and give it a try to see if my subscriptions increase.

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[BS] WordPress Automation Switch links to point towards hompage or random post

In this latest update we’ve added two new options to the link management setting:

Convert Links to point at Homepage
Convert Links to point at Random Blog Post.

Our full list of options look like this:

Leave links intact.
Strip links out.
Convert links to site search using anchor.
Convert links to tag search using anchor.
Convert links to point to homepage.
Convert links to point to random blog post.

Each setting provides a unique way to handle links contained within the content being imported from a source. BlogSense sources content from a variety of targeted sources (youtube, contentkaboom network, amazon) as well as provides tools to import content from a limitless variety of custom sources (custom source targeting,link-specific content extractions,rss feed extractions).

Convert Links Screenshot

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[WPTT] Set Priority of Keyword Based Redirect Profiles

Occasionally when creating redirect profiles a user will have multiple keyword based profiles that target the entire site. In a case where a post contains keywords that match more than one global profile we will want to be able to decide which redirection has priority. For these rare circumstances we now have a Piority input area for our redirect profiles. Most likely a normal user will never need to edit this setting so it can be left blank. Cheers! Hope you enjoy!

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[WPTT] Placing advertisements in header & footer blocks Ad Management Plugin & Tip

In WP Traffic Tools we have the ability to place ads conditionally in the following locations:

Above a post
In the middle of a post (withoutÂ interruptingsentences)
Below a post.
In up to 6 different widget locations.

A couple of users have asked to be able to insert & target ads to custom places using a shortcode.
Here is a a technique that will help you to do that.

Each of WPTT’s widgets are updated with advertisements using jquery that target div containers that look like this:

The above represents all six potential ad placement widgets.
If you have a header or footer area that needs an ad placement,
insert one of the empty div containers below and then tell the
ad placement profile to target that widget
and the div will populate with content on page load.

Hope this tutorial helps!

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[WPTT] Link Management Append parameters onto masked link and have them appended onto redirect URL, also pass organic keywords.

We’ve gained the ability to add _GET paramaters to our masked url.
These parameters will carry over the the redirect url. For example:

http://www.wptraffictools.com/go/parameter-example+test=1

Will redirect to:

http://www.yahoo.com/?test=1

We also now have the ability to use our keyword monitoring systems
and append the discovered keyword associated with the visitor
onto the redirect url. For example:

http://www.wptraffictools.com/go/parameter-keyword-example+query=%25keyword_query%25

Will redirect to:

http://www.yahoo.com/?query=The+Keyword+Arrived+On

The masked link with keywordtoken is not very pretty, as you may can tell.
But it is functional!
If you have suggestions on how to make it prettie leave it as a comment below.
I’ve some ideas but you might have some better ones
and I wait to hear from you.

Hope you enjoy this feature update!
Cheers!

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[WPTT] Negative Keywords for Cookie Placement, Regex Redirect profile as Popunder, HTML attributes in keyword autolinking.

Negative Keywords for Cookie Placement

We can now prevent cookie placements on posts that meet keyword discoveryÂ criteriaÂ and also contain our designated stop words. For example. All posts that contain the keyword ‘google’ can receive a placement unless the post also contains the keyword ‘yahoo’. Our keyword searches can be extended to content in post as well as keywords discovered in the referring URL.

Â Regular Expression based redirects now can be fired as an unblockable popunder profile

Our regular expression based redirection module allows us to conditionally redirect visitors based on pattern matches in the referring URL and the landing page URL. We now have the option to both instantaneously redirect the visitor or enable an unblockable popunder which will fire when a user clicks anywhere on a landing page.

HTML attributes in keyword autolinking

In our Link Management module we have the ability to create masked links and auto-link keywords in our post content to those masked links. We now have the ability to add additional HTML attributes to generated links, such as ids,rels,classes,styles, and more.

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[WPTT] Redirect Spiders while Retaining Human Visitors

In WP Traffic Tools we have the option to differentiate between human and spider visitors with our redirects.
This latest updates permits us to redirect spiders while retaining humans on-page.

ScreenShot of New Setting:

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