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How To: Using .htaccess to Cloak Affiliate Links

July 7th, 2008

In August of last year I explained how to hide your affiliate links, which received some good feedback. That post is my preferred method, as it uses PHP redirects to cloak the affiliate link and allows me to upload a single file to multiple websites.
The drawback of this method is that these can still sometimes [...]

How To: Doing a Trademark Search

June 23rd, 2008

How To

Okay, so I promised to explain how to do a trademark search in my last post, so here it is as promised. However, first I want to ramble a bit about when or why you would need to do a trademark search.
Doing a trademark search is a process that is very important for domainers, as [...]

How To: Finding a Good Business Name

June 19th, 2008

How To

Since Monday’s post about starting your own business, I’ve received a lot of positive response as well as a few questions. My friend Mark of MeAndMyDrum wrote a great followup post about what you might not know about DBAs and also asked the question about how I came up with the name for my new DBA business, Apricot [...]

Tips On Moving Your Website

April 21st, 2008

How To

As most of you probably remember, I moved this site to a new domain back in January of 2008. Prior to that time, this blog was known as Kyle’s Cove. It has been about 3 months now since the move and everything has settled nicely, with traffic continuing to grow from where it [...]

How To: Add Ratings To Your Blog

October 18th, 2007

Blogging, How To

Have you ever noticed that many blogs now collect instant feedback from their users through a AJAX based rating system? This has become a popular trend around the blogosphere, allowing readers to give quick feedback on your posts instead of requiring them to take the time to submit a comment. As of today, adding a [...]

How To: Create Your Own Feed Flare

October 10th, 2007

How To

One of the great features of having your feed with Feedburner is the ability to easily integrate your website’s feed with one of their most popular features, FeedFlare. This can be found by going to the Optimize tab and clicking on FeedFlare.
However, unlike in the movie Office Space where you are required to have [...]