by El Plumber (admin) on January 11, 2010
Found another great WordPress plugin the other day, this one called DoFollow Trackbacks. If you link to any article on The Electron Plumber you get a dofollow link in return back to your site from that article! What is dofollow? By default, WordPress has a built in feature for both trackbacks and pingbacks, both methods [...]
by El Plumber (admin) on December 11, 2009
We get asked a question all the time when helping friends and family learn to make money online by setting up websites and writing content. That question is, “I see all these free webhosting places advertised everywhere. Can I just do that?” The answer is of course not. There is not a free host on [...]
by El Plumber (admin) on December 1, 2009
A commenter named Steve pointed out yet another variant of the latest Facebook virus, this one posts a message with the web site called “www,articlecash,cn”. Seems like the perpetrator of this virus is trying hard to stay one step ahead of their URLs being branded as attach or scam sites by changing the web address [...]
by El Plumber (admin) on November 29, 2009
There now appear to be multiple variants of the ArticleGet,cn Virus that are hitting Facebook. The latest creates a post on someone’s wall that looks like this: “Is this something you can do ? www,ArticleCar,cn” Articlecar.cn appears to link to a traditional Easy Google Profit scam fake news site, but there very well might be [...]
by El Plumber (admin) on November 29, 2009
Quick note about something that many people on Facebook are running into. There appears to be a Facebook post hack or virus or scam (not really sure what form it is taking since we have not seen it live in the wild yet) where it appears that someone posts a message to their wall that [...]
by El Plumber (admin) on November 27, 2009
We get a lot of questions about removing or blocking popups and adware from one source or another, especially pop up ads for all the different Google Biz Kit and Easy Google Profit scams that are out there. Fake news sites and fake blog sites popping up seemingly at random as you are surfing the [...]
by El Plumber (admin) on November 15, 2009
I absolutely love WordPress. It is by far the best basic site content management tool on the planet today and I challenge anyone to dispute that. Note that I said BASIC site tool. If you want to do anything far outside the “blog” type of site, it will likely not meet your needs. But for [...]
by El Plumber (admin) on July 21, 2009
The PayPal system contains a method to generate a single use credit card number linked to your PayPal account. Don’t want to read the rest? Click here to sign up for a Paypal account and use their Single Use Card feature. Why would you want to use a single use credit card? Well, the most [...]
by El Plumber (admin) on July 13, 2009
First, I’d like to thank everyone at Adwords support who helped to bring our Adwords account back to life. I received very courteous and helpful messages from a few different folks from Google Adwords Support over the past weekend regarding the status of our Adwords account and their efforts to restore it. You can read [...]
by El Plumber (admin) on July 9, 2009
UPDATE: Our Adwords account has been restored! Click here to read about it: Google Adwords Account Unsuspended! Note: We like to dot our i’s and cross all our t’s here at the Electron Plumber. A reader pointed out that since we did not receive express permission from Google for posting their support email correspondence, it’s [...]