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Build Your Own Bot Trap

Monday, November 8, 2010

Build Your Own Bot Trap

With Amazon now imposing usage restrictions on their API data feed, it becomes more important than ever to make sure you’re not wasting resources on unwanted visitors to your sites. By ‘unwanted’ of course, we are referring to search engine spiders who comb your site, indexing hundreds (if not thousands) of pages, and give you [...]

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WordPress (part 1)

Sunday, December 6, 2009

One question that seems to crop up all the time concerns marrying AOM to WordPress.  I just want to briefly discuss some ‘hot-to’ and ‘not-to’ situations concerning making these two systems work together. The first point I want to emphasize is that Associate-O-Matic is not a plugin for WordPress. I see a lot of questions [...]

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Index.php vs. Shop.php

Thursday, March 12, 2009

I admit to being confused about the actions of many AOM users regarding the shop.php file. Specifically the need to rename it, usually to index.php. I understand why some people may choose to rename the file in this way; a directory is generally designed to display an index file during a call. So if you [...]

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Go, Daddy, Go!

Friday, January 9, 2009

As I mentioned in an earlier post, many Associate-O-Matic users have problems with GoDaddy as a hosting service. And I’m not keen on it myself – I think their control panel is so simplistic as to actually make it more difficult to use, and they don’t make simple tasks any easier by dumbing them down [...]

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Mod_rewrite: A Users Guide

Friday, December 12, 2008

Mod_rewrite: A Users Guide

Setting your AOM site up for mod_rewrite can be a crucial step towards making your site both more user-friendly, and search engine-friendly. But to many people, especially those without much experience, it can seem like a daunting task. We’re going to break the steps down, and make this important area look like the easy setup [...]

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