April 2012
9 posts
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How to Automate Shopzilla Cost Reports
I have a sincere love/hate relationship with reporting. Many, many times I’ve found myself day-dreaming of having a clone who’s sole purpose is to put together reporting for me to base my daily business decisions on. Then I realized that I could!
I’ve already written about and provided several examples of how I automate reporting. So far I’ve written posts on how to...
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How Free Services Make DDOS Attacks Easy
I don’t think DDOSing a site is ok. That’s not the point of this post. In fact, the only reason I’m sharing this story is because it won’t work anymore. However, there are other similar free tools out there that will.
While reading the blog post titled, “How I attacked myself using Google Spreadsheets and I ramped up a $1000 bandwidth bill”, I was reminded of...
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Why I Learned to Automate Things... (Infographic)
I cannot claim this image but it perfectly supports why I started learning shell scripting and programming. I’ve always had the mentality but for a long time I lacked the know how to end my frustration with repetitive tasks.
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The reason I started this blog was to share as many situations as possible where I’ve been through each stage in the image above. If it makes sense...
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A Shopping Engine Click Fraud Story
First, let me just say that this story is non-fiction. Besides a few specifics like names the emails below are word for word.
I’ve personally managed cost per click advertising of various types since January of 2007. I realize that 5+ years isn’t a humongous amount of time and I’m not quite the “grey beard” I sometimes feel like. With that said, I’ve seen...
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Google Keyword Suggest Scraper Tool
I just came across a service called Ubersuggest.org. If you’re familiar with Google’s keyword suggestion tools then you’re already familiar with what the Ubersuggest service is after. Basically their service automatically scrapes the Google Suggest service using any seed keyword or phrase of your choosing. In addition to simply running one query for the keyword you provide, it...
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How to Remove the Tumblr Controls iframe
Again, I’m on my way to learning JQuery. Today I learned a little something something. It’s not too glamorous, but it was helpful for me.
If you need or want to remove the Tumblr buttons listed at the top of your Tumblog, all you have to do is modify your template and paste the following code at the bottom of the page just before the closing </html> tag.
<script...
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Google AdWords API Bash Scripts
You may or may not know that the Google Analytics APIs provide the ability to pull Google AdWords data. This API is strictly limited to reporting calls. Updates like bidding are not permitted. I previously wrote about how to automate Google Analytics reporting. I recommend that you read that post before continuing on with this because it will give you a good overview of how my scripts work and...
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Canonical URL Checker Script
Today, TheNextWeb announced they had recently been a victim of a black-hat SEO who breached their site. The attacker’s sole purpose was to modify posts and pass page rank back to his/her site.
The attacker used two different strategies to pass page rank after he/she had control over the site’s CMS.
Create rich anchor text back links. Sometimes being as bold as to create them in the...
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Google Analytics without JavaScript or Cookies
The title is correct. You can use Google Analytics to track visitors in circumstances where JavaScript execution is not possible. If you think about it I’m sure you can come up with a handful of situations that you currently do not track, which will be possible with what I’m about share with you. This will also work for visitors who have cookies completely disabled.
My opinion is...
