I have had this very annoying problem happening with Firefox for the last couple weeks. Whenever I did a search using Google, I would have some links that would redirect me to clickcheck.ru and then I would be redirected to an Advertising website.
Permanent Fix for Clickcheck.ru – Thanks to EefJe
You can click on the link below to go to GeeksToGo Forum that has the Fix posted. Just remember to flush out your DNS entries after you have fixed the problem. » Read the rest of the entry..
The most common issue that I run into with Godaddy is their email system. For the lowest service you are only allowed to send out 250 emails a day, each email is considered a "Relay SMTP sent email". Once you go past that, well you can’t send out email again until it resets sometime in the evening. Another common issue is not being able to receive emails, and various pop3 and imap issues.
So to summarize what this article is about, it’s how to switch over to a much better email server, which is Google Apps Standard which is free to use and easy to setup, effectively getting rid of Godaddys email relay problem and various issues with email receiving problems. I promise this fix does not mess with with php email script, such as WordPress sending out user confirmation emails.
Here is the walk through – Complete with pictures. This is very easy to do just takes a small amount of time.
So lets start from the beginning. Registration
Time To start with the Tutorial
I recently started doing High Definition videos for one of my customers, and I ran into a problem with mp4 files streaming on websites. What was happening was the mp4 file had to download in full before it would start playing. Come to find out, the metadata for an mp4 is located in the back of the video file information, and the video will not play until it reaches the metadata information.
I found a program that moves the metadata information from the back of the mp4 file to the front, so that the file will start playing instantly and stream on a website, instead of waiting to start until the entire video is downloaded. This program is really easy to use, and works extremely fast, all you have to do is open the program up in a Windows OS, open the folder the movie file sits in and press edit all files in the lower left, then wait for it to work, takes a minute or less of time, and then you are done. Now the metadata is at the front of the mp4 file and it will play instantly without having to download the entire video file.
Download the program from this website.
Metadata Mover – Streaming MP4 Files.
http://rndware.info/content/MetadataMover
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Example of streaming .mp4 file using h.264 High Def Video codec in a flash player, high quality, small file size, no quicktime player. Video from InternetsVideo – Promotional Videos & Production.If you are unable to play the video it means you have an out dated Adobe Flash player, and I would recommend following this link to get the latest Adobe Player.
A few days ago I was trying to find a code to embed wmv video on a website, and I stumbled upon this handy media code generator that writes the code needed to display videos on a website. All you have to do is fill in the information, press submit, copy the code, and paste it into your website and you are done.
The embed code generator works for the following video formats:
Flash ( .FLV ), Windows Media ( .WMV ), Real Player ( .RM ), and Quicktime ( .mov ).
While looking around at the latest plugins that are available for WordPress, I noticed on wordpress org, that the second most popular plugin is WP-DB-Backup. As I continue browsing through the most popular list of plugins, I find several other plugins that optimize the WordPress database, and plugin that will help you restore your database if it’s corrupted, then a few other plugins to help you back up your database much like DB-Backup.
After a while of looking through this list of popular plugins I start thinking to myself, "Why don’t more people know about the all in one database plugin that does everything you could possibly want with a Database without the need of installing multiple plugins to do the job."
So in attempt to save my visitors time and hassle, I would like to recommend WP-DBManger plugin.
WP-DBManager is a wordpress plugin I have been using for » Read the rest of the entry..
Whenever I take over a website to help with improving the organic rankings, I always take a look at what Google has indexed and is currently displaying in search results for the website. In almost all case, if it’s a WordPress site, the search will show the theme folder has been indexed along with all the files in wp-content, wp-admin, and cgi-bin folder. Needless to say, Google, MSN, Yahoo, etc. has now indexed redundant files that have nothing to do with your website and in most cases this opens up possible security issues and can cause a hit to your organic search results by indexing these files.
The sad part is that all this can be prevented by the use of a good Robots.txt file that you can upload right to the root directory of your website. Takes a few minutes to do, and then you have to wait for the search engines to update your website indexing.
How to make a Great Robots.txt File.
WP Security Scan – This handy plugin will scan your wordpress installation to look for any possible security / vulnerability holes in WordPress. Most of the security items that it finds, it can fix automatically by itself, with no work on the users part. The only things that need to be performed by the user is to change the chmod permissions of files indicated as security risk. Easy to install, just extract to your plugin directory and activate the plugin.
Nofollow Reciprocity – Essentially what this plugin does, is look through a list of websites that use nofollow rules for links on their website. It then checks your blog for links going to these website, and adds nofollow to these links so you do not bleed off your pagerank which can cause a loss of serp because of non-recriporcal links. The plugin website goes into indepth detail of why you need to run this plugin and how it will help you with Organic Search Ranking. Easy install, just activate the plugin and it does the rest for you.
Note: My only complaint with Nofollow was the link it puts in the footer that says
This blog contributes to the web with Nofollow Reciprocity.
So I decided to remove it because it was messing up my theme, and looks bad to have a link hanging at the bottom of my website outside of my wp theme.
Here are instructions to remove it, if you wish to do so. » Read the rest of the entry..
This article is intended to help people get immediate traffic to their website(s) from search engines.
It’s a common dream among website owners to be number one in organic search ranking for certain keywords, but the mistake that they make, is not realizing that this is only a dream. They believe they can have amazing keyword ranking right from the start with common keywords, not even realizing that this type of ranking feat can take several hundred hours of time, energy, work, and dedication. In the end, the website owner gets burned out, loses a lot valuable time and over looks very simple ways to get traffic and customers.
Instead it would have been wiser to start off with geographically localized keywords. As a result they would be trying to get ranking results over a handful of websites instead of competing against hundreds, possibly thousands of websites for a common keyword. » Read the rest of the entry..
I have been using StumbleUpon since the very beginning of this website, which is a little over a month ago, and I have had good success with it, considering I had no friends on the service to vote I Like It. StumbleUpon brings over 100 visitors, and growing each day. I have noticed that unlike Digg, Stumble has a delay time before you start getting traffic, usually around 2 to 4 days, but unlike Digg traffic, Stumble traffic is stable and visitors continue to come day after day, long after the article / website was posted.
The process of submitting a website to StumbleUpon is an easy uncomplicated process and takes all of a minute to do. Then in an ideal world, people will come to your website or blog entry and click I like it on the stumble bar and this votes up your website, which results in more traffic.
I do not see a need to write a full article about this service, because so many people have written amazing articles on StumbleUpon and the several ways to use it effectively. I have read everyone of these pages and recommend them to anyone who is actively trying to get traffic or least quality backlinks to their websites. I have listed 3 links to websites explaining everything and anything someone would want to know about the service, and how you should build your StumbleUpon profile so that you can get people Stumbling your page or pages.
How to Use StumbleUpon for Your Business: The Definitive Guide
Build Super Links and Traffic With StumbleUpon
A Comprehensive Guide to StumbleUpon: How to Build Massive Traffic to Your Website
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I am writing this post as a result of my lack of due diligence. I am usually good at checking the important parts of a website to make sure everything is working and correct, but this little tiny thing that I forgot to check, went unnoticed until today.
So here I am, testing out some search engine ideas for my website, and I noticed in Google search that the description for howbits was way off, in fact it was nothing like what I had put into the all in one SEO plugin. So off I go, back to my website to investigate this weird issue and come to find out, when I changed website design I had forgotten to remove the default meta description and keyword code for the theme.
I learned that, all in one SEO loads it’s meta tags after the themes header information, so if a meta tag is used before all in one SEO meta tags, the first meta tags are shown and not the later ones. As a result all in one SEO description was not showing up, and my website description was the default blog description.
So for anyone who has a WordPress website, who uses themes, and the plugin All in one SEO, you may want to follow this list of what to remove out of your themes header file. » Read the rest of the entry..
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