Simon's SEO Blog

When using the new auto plugin installer in WordPress it failed miserably with the following error message: Downloading install package from http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/addthis.1.6.6.zip… Warning: touch() [function.touch]: SAFE MODE Restriction in effect. The script whose uid is 587 is not allowed to access /tmp owned by uid 0 in /long-path/wp-admin/includes/file.php on line 199 Download failed. Could not [...]

Finally after a couple of hours of work all four of my blogs have been upgraded to WordPress 3.0 and if feels good! Here’s what you need to watch out for when upgrading: Automatic Upgrade Glitches The automatic upgrade feature of WordPress does not work if your web host is running PHP in safe mode, [...]

Michael Campbell, publisher of the Internet Marketing Secrets Newsletter and creator of the GooBert 2.0 social media marketing method, has released a controversial website on how to get nearly instant search engine rankings using social media sites and bookmarks. He calls it Jiggling the Web Regardless if you’re a SEO expert, an anti spam crusader [...]

I just started using Ping-O-Matic, a service for broadcasting your ping to multiple other ping services at the push of a button. The problem is there’s something wrong with Pingomatic.com and Firefox (and IE in some instances). I can successfully submit the first feed, but when submitting the next feed the form breaks and I [...]