How often does someone create a Wordpress plug-in to combat Splogs and indirectly help out my own splogging efforts? Not very often but just now I am reading a post about a particular plug-in that combats splogs stealing your work (I’m not telling you the name of the plug). Also it won’t be long before I can stop claiming this as a splog plug-in because in reality once its fully finished it will be a perfect little site generator, a damn good one too that takes full SEO into account.

This is great because I thought it was going to be a bit difficult to incorporate a complete tracking system into SplogPress but it turns out it’s going to be quiet easy to do, of course I’m not going to steal this plug-in or steal chunks of the code for my own, that’s just wrong, no I’m taking the theory behind it and utilizing it in my own plug-in because the theory is pretty sweet, not a new idea but still pretty sweet.

That theory is digital fingerprints that you can insert into each and every one of your blog posts, its invisible to anyone reading your blog on your site but its visible in your RSS feeds to deter others from scraping your content, it returns information about the scraper site that may have taken your content from you.

Well that’s actually exactly what I need to provide my plug-in with backlink tracking, each time a post is stolen from our stolen sources I want to know where it wen’t so I can know how many backlinks I’m getting and I can know much faster how effective my efforts have been, instead of waiting for the search engines to index your backlinks.

I’m going to be testing that anti-splog plug-in on this site to test how effective digital footprints return results but I have faith because its not something new, I’ve known about digital footprints for a long time but once again the simplest idea slipped my mind.

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Over and over again everyone wants to know how to build tons of relevant backlinks quickly so they can get a better ranking and so they can beat out their competition in a particular niche, so I just wanted to toss out a few ways that still work today even though its a technique that has been used for many many years.

I used to do this all the time and I actually cut back on it quite a bit, that was until now because I’m seeing much more potential with it based upon the ever growing wordpress industry.

The trick is designing simple, easy, but catchy themes and templates and then uploading them to as many directories as possible, way back in the day I used to design html templates and then it advanced into CSS themes, which can still work fairly well but its much better to get into the Wordpress theme design.

If you haven’t figured it out the trick lies when you put your backlink in the footer, you make it small, clean, and out of the way so the end user doesn’t remove it, which most users don’t touch it anyway, the more web savvy people will though.

If you don’t know how to design then don’t worry its not all that hard but your overall goal is quantity while keeping enough quality to attract the end user, for instance (Big tip) there is a real lack of web 2.0 wordpress themes around, these types of themes are quite popular for the end user, it catches their eye and you get tons of downloads and tons of backlinks in return.

You don’t have to make the theme super complex, keep it simple and clean, once you make the first one its super simple to create 20 or so more in a matter of a few hours, what you do is keep your same layout and then you just tweak the colors, changing it enough to make it look like a brand new theme, then change the names around and make sure to include the footer links to which ever site you want.

Creating a theme with a general layout and then 20 or 30 variations enable you to push out a ton of them in a very short time, even shitty themes can generate 40 downloads per directory, but a good web 2.0 theme will gain you 1000+ downloads per each directory and this is all in a very short time frame.

So there you go a simple and easy way to generate some backlinks, you just need to know how to design a page properly, maybe learn the basic coding aspect, it requires a little bit of knowledge to do but if you can learn how to do it then its easy.

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The mythical A-List bloggers is what I want to talk a little bit about, well ok not really I just wanted to share with you a good old video of Loren Feldman talking about Robert Scoble and a few others. Particularly this one though because it is one of my favorite videos of him and its so true with every aspect I don’t care if your doing Arbitrage, Affiliate Marketing, Blogging, whatever, the reason why people like Jon from Wicked Fire, ShoeMoney, Scoble, every big player in there area of expertise is making more money then you is because THEY WORK HARDER THEN YOU DO. (Check out the video below).

I laugh every time I watch that he should be a comedian, however this is simply not always true even though I just said its the reason why they make more money then you do, it requires more then just hard work sometimes, dedication and sacrifice plays right along side hard work, learning is among them as well, without a mixture of these things you will have a hard time understanding how they do what they do.

As a last note Loren Feldman doesn’t push out anything good, he is more of a public speaker saying hey look at me and my life rather then focusing on more business related things, hence the reason why I’ve only shown you this one video of him because really its probably the best video he has ever done, all of them are just lame.

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Well a day and a half of work isn’t bad to push out a new web 2.0 theme for someone who doesn’t know all that much about design. I haven’t tested it out on all browser’s yet but I’ll get too it and there are still a few things I’m going to do with this theme, little image editing things.

I was just curious to get some opinions on what you think of the new theme and if there is enough people that like it then I’ll start pushing out some more web 2.0 wordpress themes for you all, they will be free of course, however I did see some websites selling themes in prices upwards of $700 US and the average professional theme which in my mind doesn’t look half as good as mine average $50 US besides the backlinks that might be something I should start making more of :).

Oh yeah and if your not using FireFox and you’r seeing some super messed up and ugly page, please let me know but tomorrow I’ll do some cross browser tests to make sure it looks half decent in the other’s.

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Well I know I haven’t made a post in a few days so I thought I’d toss this one up to let everyone know what was going on and the first thing that was going on was destruction, my good old computer that held me through the hard times has finally died on me, this time for good, I had to retire the old girl.

It was a old 750mhz, 40gb hard drive, and 600 or so mb RAM computer, it was quiet old but its lasted me for a very long time, I was able to run programs on that thing that would amaze any computer savvy person but for the last couple of month’s its been going downhill and early this month (May) I re-installed everything from scratch and in only one month it was down once again, I basically traced the problem down to a faulty hard drive but it was time to get rid of it.

Now I’m working on a newer 2Ghz, 120GB hard drive, 2GB RAM computer which runs circles over every other computer in my house, except for the all powerful new laptop which just tops this one.

Anyway enough of a useless post, for the past two days I have been working, not as much on SplogPress as I would have liked to but more on pushing out some affiliate sites, and mid-yesterday I began work on a new web 2.0 theme for this blog, which should be out late tonight or tomorrow sometime, depending on how much work I’ve got to do setting up the new computer.

I’ve also been checking out all of the color themes at kuler which is adobes newer type of color layouts where people can create and share what they’ve got, I looked through some business colors and pushed out two wordpress themes quiet quickly, inside a few hours and then uploaded them to a bunch of wordpress theme directories (Can you guess the hint in that last line?).

After I get my new blog 2.0 theme out I’m going to create a new section for free wordpress themes which all my readers can download, call it some incentive to visit and read my work or just call it an attempt to push out more backlinks (Now did you realize the tip?). So here are the two that I’ve quickly done up to test out the adobe color themes that I’ve found for business, the BankingBusiness theme isn’t that great but it was only for a color test but the CasualBusiness theme works quiet well considering I stood by the color theme I found at kuler.

BankingBusiness	CasualBusiness
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