Posted on February 20th, 2007 by pilkster
Just 24 hours after my first WordPress theme auction started it received a Buy It Now bid. The sponsorship slot was bought by Maiahost, a hosting company who specialise in wordpress web hosting. It is a great buy for them as their link will be seen by thousands of tightly targetted potential customers.
Spurred on by this success I have decided to auction another theme called ‘Flowers‘. You can see Flowers in action on Themey.com until the end of the auction (at least). Again, I would love to hear comments on the theme and the new site.
The auction is here.
Posted on February 19th, 2007 by pilkster
For anyone who would like a bunch more inbound links to their website, here is a great opportunity to buy a shedload for cheap!
Themey is auctioning the Glow WordPress theme over at DP. The starting bid is only $1.
Buying sponsored links on a WordPress theme is a great way to build (potentially) thousands of links. The links are build steadily over time, and you get to specify the anchor text. Check out this article on sponsored theme link building for more on the advantages of building links using this cost-effective method.
Posted on February 18th, 2007 by pilkster
For those of you who appreciated my SEO Adsense WordPress Theme, I have created a new and improved theme called (simply) AdSense. The theme is being released through Themey, a new site dedicated to WordPress Themes.
AdSense theme is widget ready and has been designed for WP 2.1 (Ella). I’m hoping that the grey background and grey text should lead the readers eyes to the adsense adverts for a good conversion rate. Again, this theme has been designed without the use of images so it is quick and easy to implement on any WordPress blog.
If you do download and use the theme please let me know what you think by commenting on the theme over at Themey.com 
Posted on February 15th, 2007 by pilkster
In my previous post I detailed some steps for removing comment spam and trackback spam from old WordPress blogs. Checking the logs for one of those sites (topic: computers), showed that it was actually receiving natural search traffic for ‘penis enlargement’.
Posted on February 15th, 2007 by pilkster
I have been getting a huge amount of comment and trackback spam on some of my old WordPress blogs, it has got to the point where I am having to take action!
Upgrading from 1.2 and 1.5 to 2.1 is of course the first thing I am doing to plug the security holes, and then I am activating Akismet in the hope of combating future spam. The one thing that has always bugged me is the time it takes to delete the existing comment spam, either using ‘mass edit mode’ in the WordPress Dashboard, or by editing the database manually.
The problem with using ‘mass edit mode’ is that it shows 20 comments at a time, and that to me isn’t mass at all! Deleting 20 comments at a time obviously isn’t practical, but a here’s the tip: searching in ‘mass edit mode’ returns all relevant results on the one page. I search for ’1′ (as most IP addresses contain a ’1′), and this gives all the comments on the blog. Check the checkall checkbox, hit delete, and you’re done until next time.
A second tip: when setting up blogs that you don’t intend to maintain, change the default settings for comments & trackbacks. In the WordPress Dashboard go to Options >> Discussion and uncheck ‘Allow link notifications from other Weblogs (pingbacks and trackbacks.)’ and ‘Allow people to post comments on the article’. Then delete the ‘Hello World’ post and comment as pingbacks and trackbacks are enabled on there (stupid). This should cut down on future work
