Every so often, I come across a really useful articles on other blogs. The way I tag them is by clicking on the “Share” icon in Google Reader.

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Last week I received a letter from the Domain Renewal Group claiming to offer to renew my domain DailyEcoTips.com because my domain is close to expiry. However, it felt really odd, as I already knew which registrar the domain was registered with, and I had never heard of the Domain Renewal Group. Something smelt fishy, a quick google turned up lots of information about a scam.

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So another mixture of useful tips and resources today. An inspirational article by someone with a long term illness that caused them to re-evaluate their life (in a way I did with my RSI), how to optimise your Wordpress blog for high traffic, how to recover unverified email subscribers and a little humour with some very unfortunate choices of domain names.

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A little cocktail of links today, based on a few things that have interested me recently. The odd photo of fruit was meaning fruit cocktail, and link cocktail. A tenuous link, but I liked the photo.

These tips include a NoFollow/DoFollow indicator tool for Firefox, news about context-advertising in PDF documents, issues with Google and Feedburner transfers, how to forge your earnings without using photoshop (and why you shouldn’t trust ‘proof’ of earnings), plus a few other resources from blogs I read regularly.

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I’ve recently been contacting other bloggers who have green or eco blogs, and I’ve found a couple things that really bug me. Firstly, only 25% responded to my email. And of the blogs I contacted, about 40% didn’t have any way of getting in touch with the blog owner, except via a comment!

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We’ve all been seduced by adverts promising untold wealth for very little effort or for very little investment. Sadly a few of us actually part with our hard-earned cash on a pointless scam. These scams are usually written with highly attractive sales copy designed to encourage us to buy into something that usually only results in lots of cash for the scam artist. Here are a few tips to help you identify potential scams quickly and easily.

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A few small tips for you today. How to implement an e-shop within Wordpress, optimising your Meta Description Tag in Wordpress, the benefits of long tail keywords, fixing the alignment of images in based on features introduced in Wordpress 2.5+, and how to reduce your eBay and Paypal fees.

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When you decide you want to design a new website, it’s often difficult to find an idea that you can use, let alone one that might actually make you money. Have you run out of ideas for a website? Are you keen to create a site rather than buy a potentially expensive yet established website? Then how do you go about coming up with ideas? Here’s my little guide on idea generation that I personally use to come up with my new concepts.

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Just a short post to show you some bits and pieces I’ve found recently that might interest you. A short discussion on trading hours for money, detecting hacks on your site and a wordpress plugin to help manage your banner advertising.

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This is a shameful error, but it does happen and I’m pleased I actually found it and was able to fix it. Due to a CSS error, I lost the adsense box, comments and categories from the sidebar on the PowerDosh site when viewed in Internet Explorer. Since I use Mozilla Firefox all the time, and although I do check my sites in IE on occasion, I obviously had forgotten to do so when I made a recent change to the sidebar.

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