I've been trying to figure out whether there's a way that I can automate digging through the "referrals" on my site so I can see what searches people did to end up on one of my Web site pages. I'm running a Linux server and have Apache installed, so I get a huge log file with tons of info. But what I'd love is a simple script that will let me get email once a...

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I got a really weird email from a friend on Facebook: it was just a Web site URL and when I went to it, I got a warning message that it was an "unsafe" and that it'd been blocked. What the heck? What's going on?...

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Now that I have some songs available through the iTunes Music Store [ed: it's now just the "iTunes Store" since it's more than just music. :-) ] I want to link to what I have from my MySpace profile. I don't want to have a per-song or, planning for the future, per CD link, I want to link to all the results people get from searching for my name in the Store. Can that be...

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Giving out a link to take a survey is pretty easy, but I think it would be much easier if I could just put a survey directly it into my website. So my questions is, how do I put a survey into my website without having to send out a link?...

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In previous blog entries (see How do I sponsor searches on Google? and Advertising cannot be your only online marketing channel), I've talked about how to use paid services to promote your business online, focusing specifically on Google Adwords and how it lets your company appear as "sponsored" results on a search page. Then we talked last week about the distressingly ephemeral nature of paid advertising and explored examples of how mindshare rapidly declines once...

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In an earlier blog entry (see How to sponsor a search result), I talked about how to use Google AdWords to promote your business and how to get "sponsored" results in search engines like Google and Yahoo. I continue the conversation by talking about low cost grassroots ways that you can promote your business online through having a great content-based Web site, social networking and other avenues. But first, I want to talk about why...

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I'm going just a bit crazy with MySpace. The latest is that whenever I log in, I have dozens of friend requests, but they're all from spammers or weirdoes. Is there some way to make it harder for the automated spam tools to send friend requests? Please?...

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My system administrator is telling me that I need to add a "capcha" [actually, it's "captcha"] system to my site so that I get less spam. What's a captcha system and why would I want it?...

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We're living in a noisy world. There a millions of blogs, and photos and radio shows and podcasts and websites, and… whew! There's a lot of stuff out there. So if you're just starting out, or even if you've been doing it for awhile, you probably wonder how you're going to get noticed. The bad news is if it was easy, you'd be noticed already. The good news is that there's never been a greater...

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I've just recently signed up for orkut and am wondering if the "friend requests" from people I have never bumped into before are legit or not. I've sent you the invite: can you tell me how to know whether it's a phishing attempt before I actually click on a link?...

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I get all sorts of idiotic comments on my MySpace account and am wondering if there's a way to tweak things so that comments have to be approved before they show up on my account?...

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I've been on LinkedIn for quite a while but only recently jumped into Facebook and, wow, Facebook has so many cool capabilities that make it more interesting! The one that really stands out, though, is that I really want to connect my weblog to my LinkedIn account. Is there ANY way to do that, Dave?...

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Hey Dave. I wanna search MySpace to find some of my friends at my high school. Is there some way to do that, or do I need to get their MySpace contact info from them directly?...

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One of the main reasons we don't yet have a blog or other presence online is because the Big Boss is paranoid that we'd be a magnet for negative comments and criticism online. I tell him that it's already out there and he pales and asks how the heck we're supposed to control it. I don't really know how to answer him, though......

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Stupid MySpace and its stupid applications, I now am drowning in invitations to sign up for goofy applications that are supposed to make my experience in MySpace better. Duh, it's about my friends, not these apps. How do I stop these MySpace applications from taking over my experience there?...

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Now that I have built up a pretty good network on LinkedIn, I would like to send out a few quick questions now and then, soliciting feedback and input from the group. How do I do that on LinkedIn?...

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I own ledzeppelintickets.com and have 50,000 tickets to the concert that never happened. The story is on the home page. How do I harness the blogsphere to create a buzz for this item that is so targeted to a genre? I know that there must be a way to really jump start my sales with this method. Your resume is impeccable and I trust your input....

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I've been using Hotmail for years without a problem but suddenly it rejects my password, and when I go to the password recovery option, it doesn't like my zip code or other secret information. I have vital information in my inbox! Can you reset my password for me or tell me the new password?...

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Is it possible for someone to access sites when i'm online ? Sites have appeared in the history of my mothers computer that i was using but did not access. As you can imagine these weren't particularly desirable sites.It also mentioned about inserting a disk something else i just didn't do. Is it possible to hack somehow whilst i'm online ? at the time i was using google and visiting sites such as myspace and...

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I read your earlier article about how to change your default MySpace profile photo, but the suggestions did not help me at all. The way your instructions were explained, they did not flow with the current MySpace screens in either "classic" or "new" mode. Can you post an updated tutorial, please?...

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