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I’m So Unspectacular

Posted by Tricia in Wednesday, August 27th 2008

My Toronto blogger friend, Lyndon from Lyndonology, tagged me last week with the Six Unspectacular Quirks meme.
I don’t do this kind of meme very often, but sometimes they are kind of fun and I think they give readers a better idea of who the blogger is, so I decided I’d give it a whirl.
If you’d […]

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I HATE spammers!

Posted by Tricia in Friday, August 15th 2008

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It seems that every single day I get more and more spam. By spam I mainly mean comment spam on my many blogs. I could just as easily complain about email spam, but that’s really another issue.
I’ve written about spam and spammers recently and the measures I’ve taken to combat spam on my blogs. […]

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What’s happening with Adsense this month?

Posted by Tricia in Thursday, August 14th 2008

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Do you use Adsense on your websites? Have you noticed that you’re making less money this month?
I have!
My Adsense income has been on a steady increase since last September and after making some changes to my sites in April I started to make truly decent income. However I’ve noticed that this month I’m only […]

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Trying to make the sidebar more appealing

Posted by Tricia in Tuesday, August 12th 2008

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I spent some time today rearranging the sidebars on a few of my blogs. It’s amazing how much time tinkering with the look of your site can take! I think I’m good at finding ways to waste time.
Anyway … I didn’t make too many changes to this sites sidebar, but I was […]

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Comment Relish- the WP plugin that greets new commentors

Posted by Tricia in Sunday, August 10th 2008

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What would you think if I added a plugin to my site that would keep track of new commenter and send them a personal greeting?
The plugin is Comment Relish and it identifies new commentors and allows the blog owner to automatically send out a pre-defined message to that new visitor.
With so many new blogs being […]