Asked and Answered: A Digg Widget for Blogs

** Thanks for the Bugg Fixes Everyone! WordPress Mangled the Code, But Everything Works Now! Just Copy-and-Paste ** A recent story on Digg requested that a digg widget be created for bloggers to add to their sites. Digg already provides a javascript list of stories dugg, but it does not offer things such as how many diggs it has received, nor does it offer links to the actual stories themselves (just to the page on digg). So, without further adieu, a Digg Widget for everyone else. <script> // YOUR USERNAME var username = "your user name"; // NUMBER OF STORIES TO SHOW, MAX 11 var stories_to_show = 5; // DATA TYPE: dugg, submitted, or commented var data_type = "dugg"; document.write('<scri','pt...

Congratulations, Rand…

So, if you were like my wife and I, you anxiously awaited the “Superbowl Proposal Commercial” which an unnamed individual was raising money for over the last few weeks. Well, the cat is out of the bag and it is one of our own! Rand Fishkin of SEOMoz, one of the most talented, vocal, and well respected SEO’s in the industry, has proposed to “Mystery Guest”. (She said yes) A big congratulations from the Virante team, Rand. No tags for this post.

Ways Registerfly Could Make Their Service Worse.

Skip Directly to List Some of you may be familiar with my recent debacle regarding Registerfly. Quick recap: they won’t either register my domains or refund my money. Suffice to say, I was pretty angry about the whole series of events and requested a full refund several weeks ago. In my initial post, I ranted about how they refused to respond to the refund support ticket and would be unwilling to refund it because the first time they screwed up, I let them give me a credit rather than directly refund my credit card. (I am disputing it now through my CC, by the way) Lo and behold, when I thought that customer service could not get any worse, Registerfly did the unbelievable. Instead of just ignoring my support ticket, they deleted it. Now, that might seem a...

Google changes html output again

Replaced <a class=l href= with <a href=… class=l> for all you scrapers out there. No tags for this post.

Yahoo Helps the Rich Get Richer

Like most good application service providers, Yahoo Search Marketing sends out tips from time-to-time to help you learn how to best utilize their product. Some of you may have received an email yesterday from YSM entitled… 3 Key Steps to Take Advantage of the New Ranking Model On the other hand, you may have received an email entitled… 5 Key Steps to Take Advantage of the New Ranking Model Or, if you are like Virante, and manage several accounts for clients, you may have received both… While I cannot say that the steps provided were of really any value, and certainly would not be “new” to anyone who had spent any time doing CPC, it is interesting that Yahoo is taking the time/energy/budget to separate its clients into low-spenders...