I was planning to write this post for several days now as I faced this problem personally. And today finally I have found the enthusiasm. So few weeks back when I tried to open a website in my Google Chrome, I couldn’t open a single link. It showed the message:
To say the least, .CO.CC domain is down and out. Just a few days ago Google search has banished it from their index. As most of you know and many of you have done it by themselves, .co.cc had become a free domain service where you just go, register and create a low quality site or blog with little content. It’s like a bulk service where you create almost same sites like article or web directories, put some ads and then forget about it. Even many of those .co.cc sites have been used to spread malware over the internet. So Google has taken strict action and banned any site with .co.cc as domain name from their index. You can debate whether you want to punish all for some other people’s mistake, but Google has the right to choose what to show on their own search and I guess it will clean up the results in a big way 
I use AddThis dashboard to check the data on how my blog has been shared across social bookmarking sites. And as I use AddThis widget to show Google +1 button on my blog posts, I can also get the sharing trend of Google +1 button from my blog pages. But just a day or two ago Google +1 Metrics has been added in Google Webmaster Tools. Now if you open your site dashboard from Webmaster Tools, you will see +1 Metrics Menu at the sidebar. Click on it to get all the sub-menus and explore all the detailed info including how many unique visitors clicked Google +1 button on your site and which pages have been shared and when. There is another interesting aspect of measuring the search impact of Google +1 button on your site. As you can see from the screenshot, you will find the number of +1 annotated impressions on Google search results page compared to the total impressions for your site. You can get the same data on actual results page clicks on your site link. And if you generate enough traffic to gain a substantial data, Google will show the difference on CTR for pages shown from with & without + annotated results.
If you buy or transfer a domain to NameCheap, you will get a free WhoisGuard subscription. So in that case there is no worry to purchase WhoisGuard subscription separately. But when you do a domain renewal with them, you are not going to get any extension for your WhoisGuard. If you want to renew a single WhoisGuard subscription it will normally cost you $2.88 per year. But there’s a long running coupon code WGSPECIAL that reduces the price to only 99 cent. In case, you are purchasing WhoisGuard subscription separately, you can use this same coupon code for your new purchase. Moreover, this coupon code also works for WhoisGuard Dual Pack and 5 Pack. So just go to NameCheap.com account and buy one to hide your personal information from Whois public database
Many of you have argued over time how to put an Adsense ad block on your iFrame page and still not violate Google Adsense Policy. Previously there was no explicit mention of iFrame in Google Adsense Policy. So many publishers tried to put some content on their iFrames and add Adsense ad block because the main condition was that you can only add Adsense code in a page if it has some content. But if you are still following this trick you might soon get into trouble. Do you know Google made a Policy change in last May and it has a major change? Now Google has mentioned explicitly in Adsense Policies that you cannot put Adsense ads in any iFrame:
.FREE is a new generic TLD which is expected to be launched in first quarter of 2012. And you can secure your first .free domain name free of charge as part of the pre-registration process. It is open for free pre-registration for quite a while now and already more than 80,000 domain names have been registered. I heard about it sometime ago, but couldn’t gather enough enthusiasm to register a domain name with them . I thought good domain names would have been already registered. And besides I was somewhat skeptical about the whole thing and perhaps still am. It is a initiative started by a Czech-startup company dotFree Group and still needed ICANN approval. But today while I was searching I saw some really cool domain names still available. And I registered hosting.free domain name with them.
Perhaps in last few days you have played your own guitar tune online several times through Google Les Paul doodle. Sadly I missed on that as I always use the encrypted version of Google search where I couldn’t see this wonderfully interactive doodle. And I missed the news as I was busy with my work. But today I just heard about it. But the doodle has already been removed from Google standard homepage though it got an extension for a day. Still I was pretty sure that it must have got a separate enclosure in Google’s doodle collection as was the case with PacMan doodle that I mentioned in a previous post.
To simply put it, you can not upload SWF files directly from Google Blogger dashboard as you would have done for video or image files. But if your main purpose is to embed the Flash file in your blogspot blog and show the animation in your blog post, there is a work around for it. You need to upload the SWF flash file in your own web server or free file hosting service and then use the below HTML code to embed it to your Blogger blog post.
Have you deleted some files from Recycle Bin and now you need to get them back? If you have already searched online you might have learned that you can still recover them using a deleted files recovery software. It is because when you delete files from Recycle Bin in Microsoft Windows, it only removes the location of the files from File Allocation Table (FAT). That means Windows doesn’t recognize the data as being available and next time when you store some data in your disk that can be stored on the same space as the current files are now. But until some new files overwrite the disk space, your files are still there in hard drive and you have the chance to recover it.
Long time back I wrote a blog post on securing your whole WordPress admin area without any plugin. But that was for private SSL. It is really a pain if you try to do it using Shared SSL certificate. So if you are trying to find a way to secure your WordPress login and admin using shared SSL, you have come to the right place. Unless you know the trick, it might take a long tiring search in Google to make that work
I will keep it simple. In your WordPress directory open wp-config.php and then add the below two lines:
define('WP_SITEURL', 'https://cp32.hostable.com/~USERNAME/BLOG_DIRECTORY');
define( 'WP_CONTENT_URL', 'http://www.waveofweb.com/wp-content');