If you have email subscribers with Feedburner, you might have users who have not completely finished the verification process to subscribe to your newsletter. I originally discovered this concept from Daniel Scocco at Daily Blog Tips. However, it was a hard process to manually copy and paste each unverified email address. Therefore I’ve written a tool that solves this issue!

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I’m running out of time to get all my projects sorted, so I basically need to start outsourcing my work. However, my experience with finding writers has been very hit and miss. I’d love to hear ideas and your experience on hiring different types of content writers.

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I’ve finally given in to trying out Twitter for a while, so please come and check my feed out. Let me hear your ideas on how to exploit it!

This week’s article is a collection of 5 tips that I use personally on my small portfolio of websites. I’ve got tips on adding a favicon to a theme, using transparent favicons, running php within a widget, adding tabs to an article, and how to fix the admin section if saving doesn’t work.

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It’s clear that the current economic climate is stressful for many people. With the threat of redundancies, banks going bust, big companies going into administration, and poor pension performance, no wonder the global economic mood is a little pessimistic.

However, rather than wait to be made redundant (if you’re in full time employment) or wait for a job (if you’re looking for a job), I recommend investigating how you can work for yourself and earn an extra income. Sure it’s a difficult time to make money, but it’s worth being proactive to make some cash to prepare for the worst. You never know, your sideline might even become a full business!

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So my feeds have now moved over to Google, but with their supposedly “more accurate reporting method”, my feed values have dropped significantly. My feed count for Daily Eco Tips was 108 before the move, and it dived to 78 (a 27.7% drop); my feed count for EnviroGadget was 165 before the move, diving to 112 after the move (a 32.1% drop); my feed count for PowerDosh was 43 before the move, and now 23 after the move (a 46.5% drop).

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It’s a natural and common feeling to get bored of your work. Finding the motivation to get back into work can be really difficult. Here are some of the tricks that I use to try and find motivation to get back into the swing of things.

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I’ve done some link building using article directories before, but I recently had a thought that they might be worthless these days. The search engines are always updating their algorithms (particularly Google) to present users with the most accurate results for their search terms. Since the search engines work so hard to drop link farms from their results, surely article directories now fall into that bracket?

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Well, 2008 is nearly up, so it’s about time for a summary for the year. Despite my setbacks with RSI, I’ve achieved a lot this year. I had some very soft targets for this year, and I met all of them. However, my goals for 2009 will be more difficult to achieve. So here we go…

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So here I am again with one of my frustrations in the webmaster world - link exchangers.

Link exchanging, if done correctly, is a perfectly valid method of building backlinks. However, I receive a few link exchange requests per week, and they are worded so badly. So this article is about the don’ts of link exchanges from my own perspective, drizzled in dry wit and sarcasm.

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