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How a 9 Day Denial of Service Attack Affected Blog Traffic

February 28, 2010

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Got lemons? Make lemonade. Such a hideous old cliche, all the worse for it’s truth. Having your website squeezed will leave a sour taste, but the resulting traffic data turns out to be sweet.
Now that there’s a year’s worth of data for Website In A Weekend, let’s use the [...]

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Saturday Morning Surfing: How’s Your Blog Traffic Lately?

February 27, 2010

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Some high traffic blogs don’t earn much money, while some blogs with much lower traffic yield a substantial amount of revenue. But in general, more traffic is better.
There’s a lot of ways to increase traffic to your blog. Let’s make it simple and sort traffic generating activity into [...]

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Carlos Throws Down, and Closed Means Closed. Yep, the Week in Review

February 26, 2010

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You know those people who, once they succeed at something, turn right around and start succeeding at something else? Or that person who so elegantly spins a score of plates, never dropping one? Or those two people that can’t stand each other, until they finally meet each [...]

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World Class Copywriting: Are there Bird droppings on your catapult?

February 25, 2010

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What does a human catapult have to do with blogging?
Seemingly, not a heck of a lot, but my mind tends to move sideways through a series of non-sequiturs. Like getting the right answers using wrong data. It’s a talent. I guess.
So, last year I [...]

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How Julie Became a Published Writer (And you can, too)

February 24, 2010

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Julie Angelos is an American living in Italy, a journalist, a writer, and a recently converted blogger. Julie stopped by Website In A Weekend a while back, told a story about a shark, and I immediately knew I had to recruit her as a guest author! Julie writes [...]

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Wednesday Workshop – Speed Session I: WordPress Plugins

February 23, 2010

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Announcing the first Website In A Weekend Wednesday Workshop!
Speed Session I: WordPress Plugins
This coming Wednesday, February 23, 2010, we’ll spend a couple of hours speeding up our WordPress installation, focusing on how plugins are slowing down our loading speed.
WordPress – the need for speed
If you operate a self-hosted WordPress blog, [...]

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How Julie Became Successful Without Even Trying

February 22, 2010

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Caressing Alien Species, and, a (late) Valentine… Take cover! It’s two Weeks in Review

February 21, 2010

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Yeah, some numbskulls with too much time on their hands ran a botnet attack against my Bluehost shared server and shut everything down for over a week. I was going to update this article and run it on Friday 19 January, but the server went completely offline most of [...]

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Botnet Losing Steam (Under Attack! 2/17/2010)

February 17, 2010

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Have you ever gotten ready to fix something, then found somehow it wasn’t broken? That’s just about where we’re at here on Website In A Weekend. I’ve been psyching myself up to move the whole site, wrote out a game plan, then logged in to grab a fresh [...]

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Denial of Service, What’s It Like? (Under Attack! 2/16/2010)

February 16, 2010

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I’ve been watching Website In A Weekend melt down. It’s not been pleasant. Here’s a few notes.

Bluehost customer service has been pretty good through the whole fiasco. I’m going to continue recommending Bluehost as a result. No one is immune from denial of service attacks. If [...]

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