Looking at analytics today we noticed that those who visit from the blogs of other friendly, intelligent bloggers are reading many more posts when they visit than those arriving from other sources. We thought our readers would appreciate knowing specifically where these other friendly blogs full of quality information can be found. It is also an opportunity to painlessly learn something about Web Analytics. The percentages shown are bounce rates which indicate the percentage of visitors who … [Read more...]
Watch Out for Recent WordPress Gumblar PHP Exploit
Kristi wrote a guest blog post at TechJaws about the attack last weekend on her well known Kikolani Blog by the PHP Script Injection Exploit in WordPress 2.7.1. Kristi explains how she restored her blog and dealt with the issue. The UnMask Parasites blog provides additional details on what is known about this particular malware which has been dubbed the Gumblar .cn Exploit. Gumblar exploit does NOT affect only WordPress. It can target any site using .php including Drupal, PhotoPost and even … [Read more...]
WordPress 2.7 Threaded Comments Works In Thesis
Regular readers of GrowMap will be happy to know that Derek turned on WP 2.7 threaded comments. For those who may be interested in using this feature here is some information on who can immediately use this particular method of allowing specific comments to be answered. In his excellent post Seven Great Examples of Using WP 2.7 Threaded Comments Jeff Chandler at Performancing shared this: "With the public release of WordPress 2.7, end users now have the ability to enable threaded … [Read more...]
New Type of Scraped Comment Blog Spam
Image by Getty Images via Daylife The spammers took their games up another notch today with a new type of blog spam that scrapes one of the blogger's own comments and/or someone else's real comment and reposts it as a "new" comment in the same post. This makes the comments seem relevant to the post and might result in their slipping them more successfully into blogs. Wouldn't you think someone sharp enough to do such a thing could find a more productive way to spend their time? The good news … [Read more...]
Why You Can NOT Rely Solely on Organic Search Listings for Traffic and Revenue
Every time I take a peek into the Web analytics accounts for a blog or especially an online store I see something I consider to be VERY frightening! The percentage of traffic and sales being derived from traffic from only one source is frequently 50-70+%! Can you imagine what would happen to your blog or business if your traffic and sales suddenly dropped by 50-70%! Don't think it can happen? It does all the time. The most famous blogger Darren Rowse of ProBlogger and TwiTip wrote an excellent … [Read more...]
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