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04.30.09Updated Google Analytics Keyword ExtractorOK, I'll admit, my last post was downright shameful... The code was poorly presented, and poorly formatted. It wasn't at ALL my normal caliber of work, so I went ahead and rewrote the concept into a tighter little wrapper. I am using the Gattica gem to interact with the Google Analytics API. This little script provides a wrapper around the gem that easily allows you to extract your sites organic keywords and sort them based on the number of unique entrances to your site via each keyword.
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10.04.08People are talking about your niche, but where?!?!My curiosity has always been a great asset. I've always been interested in the social psychology behind word-of-mouth marketing, group trends, memes, etc. I've learned a ton from tracking emerging memes and seeing how/where they spread. The techniques and discipline applied to researching memes can also be applied to brands and niche specific search queries. Its useful to research this kind of information because it lets you know where your audience is communicating. Knowing where your brand/niche evangelists are communicating is an incredible asset, because they really have their fingers on the pulse of that brand/niche, and people LISTEN to ...
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08.26.08Effective and Efficient ways to Mass Install WordpressBlah...commencement of pleasantries.....blah blah....witty charming banter....blaah....introduction to mass install wordpress..blaaah......more witty commentary....blah blah.....install this...ftp that...blah...incredibly complicated....blah..self aggrandizement....blah...... Situation: Shared Host CPanel No SSH Access Solution 1: FTP Transfer Folder to server, Mechanize/CURL Install Process: 1) Collect variables: database, username, cpanel login, cpanel password, keywords 2) If necessary, create databases and users on CPanel host (using CURL, or Mechanize) Here is a function I use to create CPanel DBs: def self.create_db(base_url, cpanel_loc, cpanel_user, cpanel_pass, db, dbuser, dbpass) agent = WWW::Mechanize.new agent.user_agent_alias = $USER_AGENTS[rand($USER_AGENTS.length)] agent.basic_auth(cpanel_user,cpanel_pass) url = "http://#{base_url}#{cpanel_loc}/frontend/x/sql/" agent.get(url) agent.get("#{url}adddb.html?db=#{db}") agent.get("#{url}adduser.html?user=#{dbuser}&pass=#{dbpass}") agent.get("#{url}addusertodb.html?user=#{cpanel_user}_#{dbuser}&db=#{cpanel_user}_#{db}&ALL=ALL") end 3) For each keyword in the keyword list, create a different blog 3a) Write local wordpress-config file with ...
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05.30.08Interested in Learning how to Break CAPTCHAs?With the number of people openly discussing CAPTCHA solving techniques and posting examples, the efficacy of the CAPTCHA as a method for curbing spam is becoming questionable at best. People are automating CAPTCHA decoding left right and center, and those few CAPTCHAs that can't be easily automated are simply run through services like captchasolver.com which use Amazons Mechanical Turk API (at least, I think it uses Mechanical Turk. I may be wrong.) At any rate, blackhat-seo.com just posted a great list of CAPTCHA breaking resources, so if you are interested in reading more about how to break CAPTCHAs, or you ...
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04.17.08WeAllHateQuickBooks (.com)If you were the head of the Marketing / PR team responsible for the QuickBooks brand, would you not lay an egg upon seeing http://weallhatequickbooks.com/ ? This is a great example of how Twitter can be used to impact brand reputations on the Internet. It's reminiscent of the @TechCrunch vs./ Comcast incident. Regardless, it's a brilliant promotion for the folks at less everything
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