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The Electron Plumber Adds DoFollow Trackbacks

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 used to [...]

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Why Free Site Hosting Is A Waste Of Time And Money

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 the [...]

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www,articlecash,cn – Yet Another Facebook Virus Variant

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 slightly [...]

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www,ArticleCar,cn – Another Facebook Virus Variant

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 something [...]

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Articleget.cn Facebook scam or virus or app hack

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Search and Replace with Wordpress

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 [...]

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How To Get A Free Single Use Credit Card

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 important [...]

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