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Plagiarise and you will be found out...
Tuesday, July 31, 2007
While doing a routine check on my Alexa stats, I decided to look at some of my blog's backlinks that Alexa lists. One of the sites listed had decided to use one of the articles I wrote and submitted to several article directories at some point in the past. The resource box at the bottom contained a link back to the LittleFish Web Design blog and it was here that Alexa found the backlink.
When I looked at the site, I saw my article but there was no resource box so it looked like the site owner had written the article him or herself. How rude!
There was no way of contacting the webmaster listed on the site, nor on any other site that was linked to and appeared to be owned by the same person.
So, I trotted over to allwhois, typed in the domain, found an e-mail address and typed a perfectly polite but firm e-mail asking them to reinstate my author information. I never did receive a reply, but a further check showed that my entire article has now been removed.
Another and admittedly easier way to check your content for plagiarism is to use Copyscape.
Message to people who copy other people's content and pass it off as their own..? Either reinstate the author's resourcebox or you will get found out far more often that you would have guessed at.
1and 1 domain prices increasing
Thursday, July 26, 2007
I received an e-mail from 1&1 (in the UK) today to let me know that from 3rd September, the price of their domain names will be increasing.
I do recommend 1&1 due to their easy registration process and competitive prices, so it remains to be seen whether the prices stay competitive:
* .com, .net, .org, .biz, .info, .name, .eu, and .us. will be increased from £8.89 to £8.99 per year
* .uk domains will be increased from £1.99 to £2.99 per year
Labels: domains
Free website hosting at HostMe123
Monday, July 16, 2007
This post has been updated.
HostMe123 is a new free hosting site with lots of features:
- 250 300 MB Disk Space
- 6 10 GB Monthly Transfer
- 3 7 MySQL Databases
- 5 Add-On Domains
- 5 Sub Domains
- Webmail
- POP E-mail Accounts
- Auto Script Installer
- PHP MyAdmin
- FTP Access
- Integrated File Manager
- PHP Flags Manager
- Password Protected Folders
It is ad-supported but unusually for this type of hosting, there is a clear policy on the sort of ads to expect and even a demo, so you can see exactly what ads will be shown:
"HostMe123 is a free web host supported by banner advertising, but bears your needs in mind as a web user. One banner ad at the bottom of each page is required BUT we will not display any advert that is deemed unsuitable for a family audience, contains flashing images or is context-based."
Even better, you can now pay just $7 to remove the ads for the lifetime of your hosting account.
Rather refreshing don't you think?
Labels: hosting
15 minute SEO checklist
Whether you're just developing a new website or have been running one for a while, the free 15 minute SEO checklist will certainly help you.
It is a weighted checklist of all the different factors that can make the difference to your search engine rankings.
Positive, negative and neutral factors are all considered and the list is split into various sections - keywords, links, metatags, content, visual factors and domains.
The list is skewed towards Google, but can affect your rankings in MSN, Yahoo! and other search engines.
If you don't understand any of the terms used, there is a reference tutorial to explain everything in more detail.
Rotary District 1270 Website now back online
Monday, July 09, 2007
The Rotary District 1270 website can now be found at www.rotary1270.org and documents events happening throughout the district, provides information on Rotary and displays the latest news stories.
Labels: misc
Opening Office 2007 documents
Sunday, July 08, 2007
If you want to be able to open, edit and save Word documents, Excel workbooks and PowerPoint presentations in the new Office 2007 formats, download the 'Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack'. This is a 27.5MB download, which should take care of compatibility issues if you have not yet upgraded from Office 2000 or Office 2003.
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