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Entries for November, 2009

Tutorial on setting up the Google Custom Search Engine on your Wordpress blog

In all likelihood, you’ve seen where you perform a search on a website and the results look just very much like what you get when you do a search on Google. Well, in case you’re wondering how that works, Google has a product called Google Custom Search that lets you do just that. There are […]

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References to help you decide on a replacement Blog Commenting system

We recently decided to replace the built-in commenting system that comes with Wordpress on Gizmos for Geeks due to its limitations and that we were spending too much time dealing with spam comments. We looked at the 4 most popular/capable comment replacement systems available now: IntenseDebate, Disqus, Backtype and JS-Kit’s ECHO. We briefly considered Facebook […]

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The Power of the “Season”

I love this graph. It is so telling. This is a track of our visitors to one of Halloween costume websites. Look at how it rises steadily to the height of traffic on Halloween day (interestingly enough - probably from people looking for last minute ideas) and then falling precipitously the next 2 days (the […]

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Insurance Money well-spent: a concrete example

Over a year ago, we wrote about being ‘penny-wise, pound-foolish’, or rather advising not to be! Well, I have another very concrete example of how spending a bit more money up front saved me a whole lot of time and by extension, money.
I’ll nutshell it up front: I built my computer with the operating system […]

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