This week’s link is Google Code University. This website provides tutorials and sample course content so CS students and educators can learn more about current computing technologies and paradigms. In particular, this content is Creative Commons licensed which makes it easy for CS educators to use in their own classes. The Courses section contains tutorials, [...]
5Gb of online content. Is this true? Sounds too good, but it is true. File Dropper is “The Simplest File Hosting Website Ever“, as they say. Upload movies, software, music (all legal, though), all in the limit of 5Gb. I want to see how long this service will last. Or how long this service will [...]
This is the first post after upgrading to WordPress 2.5. It went smoother than any other upgrade. I was a little scared after reading some forum discussions about fatal errors and undefined stuff. Not a single problem for me. Cheers! Later edit: I don’t like where the categories are placed, should have been to the [...]
As you’re getting used to it, I sometimes write a “Link Of The Day” or “Link Of The Week” article. Well, this week’s link is SimplePie. Recently updated to 1.1.1 “Blackberry” version, it is currently working on my cgGiant and Club Politica blogs. SimplePie is a very fast and easy-to-use class, written in PHP, that [...]
I have recently created an account with PayPal and added the Buy Me A Beer plugin. You can see a pint at the end of each article. Are you wondering why? I need the money to work on my open-source projects (Butterfly Organizer, adButterfly and butterfly.mailr), my commercial projects (em(phasis)), and to expand a little [...]
Coming up after my previous article, I would like to show you how to build a self-sufficient blog using WordPress and some RSS plugins. Today’s example is cgGiant. Requirements: WordPress Blog Platform FeedWordPress Plugin Step 1. Install. Install WordPress Install FeedWordPress Plugin Step 2. Add content. Customize syndication options. Tip: do not create hundreds of [...]
The dream of every web entrepreneur (read blogger) is making money online. If the income is passive, while I drink a beer, it’s for the better. That’s why I decided to increase my self-sufficient web sites. I now have a politics RSS news aggregator portal, a Romanian recipes blog with a projected count of 3000 [...]
New updates to Butterfly Media Romania Blog. I decided to save some bandwidth and remove the SezWho plugin, the SezWho badge and Red Carpet, the square AdSense block in the right sidebar, the Blog Catalog Badge showing a score of about 55.6, the Alexa rank image, as true optimizers have the Alexa plugin in their [...]
This tip may be a little extreme, but it’s real. How do I know it? I experienced it. Ever since I started my money-making blog. When you write about how to make money using Google’s AdSense, you let people know what’s AdSense, how does it work and how to customize it for best results. If [...]









How To Build Backlinks
Chip on 22 March 2008 | 4 commentsI would say the easiest method of building backlinks is commenting on other blogs. However, on most blogs, the rel=”nofollow” attribute is enforced. So you don’t gain anything from those particular blogs, except for some visits, depending on traffic. This is good too, but on the long term, the visits would decrease. Find blogs stating [...]