ALLLRRIGHTY… So… I downloaded a few WP Themes… I added a whole lotta links to all of my WP blogs w/ PR. Sort of a massive interlinking campaign… or test… Problem is I was using the default template on most of the sites, so just adding them to the blogroll meant they only showed up on the home page… I also want to keep going on PPP and advertisers are less likely to pay someone 10 times over… so I wanted unique templates!!!

Okay… so WordPress themes site is freakin’ dead… or just slow as crap… it was annoying me, and you sort through a whole crap load of VERY bad templates… many that don’t help and give you links all over the blog…

Finally found a site that does provide great templates for free! Ok, so they’ve got some levitrol and other crap links that you DO NOT want on your site in the footer… no problem right?

JS encrypted?

Worse…
See JS encrypted you could just delete it!

modern WP templates require just before the tag or wp won’t load

They figured out a way to get wp_footer() to echo out their links!!!

Worse yet… they quadruple encrypted the information mangled with required files between 3 template files… Got one template fixed and uploaded to a site… only 5 more to go

Oh, and it gets even more fun! Or rather engenius, didn’t make it any harder to decode… but they were drawing the link information from their site, so they could change the links on literally hundreds of sites all at once! I imagine that the links are sponsored links helping them pay for their coding.

OH SHIT!!!!!!! Just found some more encrypted information… They’ve got a tracking image, and a kill switch for your blog!!! If you install the template, they can check out your site, after checking out your site if you’ve figured out how to remove the links, but don’t remove the encoded kill switch they can click a button on their sites that shuts down yours!!!
These guys are maniacle genius bastards!!!

Actually kinda glad I didn’t use the WP theme depository (heck coulda run into the same thing anyways)

Lol.. well, I didn’t quite get the stuff coded that I wanted to… which ironically also made me miss out on posting today. I gave myself yesterday, and didn’t get much done. Taking Rose to work really cuts a LOT out of my day. I gave myself a day, and missed blogging… eh… oh well, it’s still technically “today” so blogging now isn’t so bad… but with the screwed up time on my server this would post as tomorrow, except I’ve changed that because cheating is okay some times Gonna have to actually do my blogging tomorrow… my brain is so fried right now… I tried updating to CakePHP v2.0.3 for my coding project, but that turned out pretty disastrous! Okay, so I wasn’t far along, basically just had a few things baked right? So it was the perfect time to upgrade… or so I thought… Baking with CakePHP v2.0.3 is a pain! I am not able to do anything! I open up bake, and all it does is give me errors, errors about not having a database file (which I do have) then I put in all the information and it gives me errors saying that the database template file something or other is missing… I tried searching for answers but found no one with the same problems I’m having… I might give it another go tomorrow… but I might just let it go and go back to CakePHP v1.3.12 at least I’ve got a working site… and it might make more sense as there isn’t as much documentation for v2.x.x yet… I will probably just go back to v1.3.12 or whatever the latest 1.3.x is

Well, been at this blogging for five days, gone above and beyond most days so far, and that’s good. 25 days left for my 30 day challenge, not that I’m hurting so much to get it done, or that I plan to stop at the end of the challenge… but over the last 6 months or so I’ve set myself on several of these 30 day challenges and not made it through any of them. I guess since money isn’t as much of a concern on this one it might be better than the last few times. So here is to twenty-five more days of good blogging

Okay, so I shoulda known something was up when I looked at reviews on their site… but FurHatWorld.com doesn’t post any reviews that are less than 5 stars… Yeah… it’s complete crap, so this is the review that I tried to submit for a rabbit fur ushanka Rose bought for me last winter. I should be able to get it replaced… but it is still very frustrating when a company covers up legitimate reviews of their products to deceive people about the quality of their work.

When I first received this hat I was just as fascinated with it as many of the comments on here suggest. It seemed to be the perfect hat! It was warm no matter how cold it was, soft as a kitten, light weight, and the color was beautiful! It’s much better looking than any rabbit I’ve ever bagged in the wild. After about two weeks of constant wear (it seriously just about never left my head) it developed a small tear at a seam in the back. It was then that I noticed an inherent problem with these hats, and that is the tanning process. The hat is constructed in China (nothing wrong with that) the problem is that it is also tanned in China the rabbits are killed, skinned, and eaten in North America then the skins are frozen and shipped over to China where they are tanned. Making the process very difficult and most of the skin is worn away in order to remove the blood that soaks deep in during this process. It’s really a shame, it is such a beautiful, warm hat. Sending it back and getting a new one seemed pointless, besides I figured it was probably my wearing it in the car rubbing against the headrest as I drive that caused the blowout. So I stitched up the hole myself and decided to be very, very gentle with the hat. Since then just shy of a month has passed that I’ve owned the hat. Both ear flaps have torn at the bottom by the tie straps, and another tear is developing at the base of where the ear flap attaches to the rest of the hat.

I should be able to get it replaced… I’ll update here when we go through that process and I see how easy, or difficult it is to get the thing replaced. Or if they live up to their 1 year warranty that they claim. Since their site seems to be one big scam (from what I’ve found they claim huge discounts, but it looks like the products are manufacturer direct, they don’t allow bad reviews, or even moderately satisfied reviews) so we’ll see what it is like trying to get them to back their work.

Every time I sit and linger on this blogs home page I get a little bit mesmerized by the flash banner… I spent a lot of time creating, what is essentially a very simple banner, but really tells a story in a short amount of time. I’d love to get back into that. Hopefully by this time next year I’ll be able to get Adobe Flash Pro CS5 (or whatever the current edition of the time is) so I can work on it again. While this banner is great, it really is left a little bit incomplete… and I wouldn’t mind getting back to it maybe updating it a bit, or starting fresh.

So there is even MORE inspiration to keep working hard over the next weeks/months updating, adding to, and keeping moving on my websites so that I can build back my income that I once had! I remember back in the day when I was updating my blogs 6+ times a day… it did amazing things for me, and that is where I’d like to see this place next year. I’m thinking of downloading the 30 day trial, and see if I can’t pull off a new banner before that expires I also looked at the idea of a subscription, I’d still have to be making more money, but $35 a month is more manageable than $700 upfront I’d also have to be doing something to make a living with the program to justify a subscription I think… since it would end up costing a TON in the end. I could always go back to SwishMax (what I used before) but after I sampled Flash Pro years ago (what I made this banner with) SwishMax just doesn’t quite give the umph I enjoyed.

Well finally did something that I’ve not done in quite some time, I made a new game page on kclanparty.org! There is now an Alliance of Valiant Arms page that I can create some hacks pages for. Since for a while this was my bread and butter so to speak online… Figured while I’m getting my sites in order I should go back to the basics. CodySortore.com is my goal, but a light update here and there on kclanparty.org will serve me well! Don’t know that I’ll be keeping up with any other sites yet… but I think those two basic sites is a good start.

Okay, so after a few quick google searches… I have determined that if I stay active and post EVERY SINGLE vacuum cleaner review that I’ve written, slowly, over time it will pay off in spades. The problem is sticking with it and posting all of the reviews! haha, yeah it’s a pain. No literally it’s a pain. The extended use of my new Saitek Cyborg R.A.T. 7 mouse gave me excruciating pain in my hands. I’ve switched back to my rickety old Logitech G9 and it’s better, most of the pain has gone away, though, a little bit of extra pain is appearing. The same pain, and reason I bought a new mouse… I’m working on making a new ergonomic cover for it out of fiberglass (it’s what I’ve got to work with)… hopefully it turns out good. If it turns out I plan on buying a Logitech G9x to fix some of the quirks my G9 has developed over the uh… 5ish years it has been in operation. Otherwise I’ll just buy another more ergonomic mouse to use.

I think everyone reading this knows that I’ve been working on the backlink game for all of my sites. Back in the day when I just had 3 websites keeping up on backlinks was an easy task. In fact, this being one of my first site has huge backlinks advantages, along with being syndicated so heavily that each and every article I post here temporarily has over 1,000 links back to it. Now that may sound like a little thing, but when you can rank in Google for just about any term in the headline that can be a powerful tool. Gaining backlinks can be difficult, and expensive though, it’s good when you can pick up some free

It has been my experience that once you start to dwindle in traffic it’s best to take a step back and let the search engines do their job. I’ve added over 20 something reviews in the last week to YourVacuumGuy.com and originally was having amazing success in doing so! Especially with the blogging effort that went along with that. But now things have slowed way down! Originally I thought it was because of the 4th of July, so I kept going thinking things would pick up after the holiday, but now 2 days later traffic continues to drop. So I’m taking a step back, saving the hundred or so Amazon.com vacuum cleaner pages that I have open as bookmarks and going to come back to do the same thing here in 3 months after the search engines have thoroughly spidered the website and all the other websites attached. Once the backlinks are solidly established and traffic starts coming back in about 3 months I’ll add 20 to 30 new reviews blogging about them yet again to let the SE’s pick up traffic during the Holiday shopping season. Then do it yet again for the Spring Cleaning season… heck I think the major off season of the summer and how much traffic I was able to pick up during a slow time should be a testament to how effective this technique can be. Just imagine how things will go down once we have this campaign solidified and I begin the next campaign again during a peak season? Since my competition in the vacuum cleaner reviews world haven’t updated their websites in the 3 years that I’ve been doing this I think I can leap past them with a bit of a sneak attack

For now I’m going to work on something that I’ve wanted to work on for years now that I’ve got more experience in Blender I can start that process better, and also with a better grip on CakePHP I think the A2562 may become a reality soon… I was wanting to do something with the AgapeBeacon site… but I don’t even know where to go with that I’ve got so many ideas and they are so scattered. I will definitely get to work on it at some point, the original goal was to use A2562 to learn some major skill sets in Blender and CakePHP so that I could make AgapeBeacon awesome… so for now I’m sticking to that plan hopefully I can get a bit of a crew together with A2562 also so I won’t be working alone on AgapeBeacon I think that’s my biggest set back… I never have backup on these sites, even the ones that I start with someone else (Jordan, my dad) they always back out from the plan before we make it to anything. Wouldn’t mind starting a joint venture with Jordan, but he’d have to stick with it for once…

Well I’ve got my wine moved over to its secondary fermenter, got some stuff cleaned up and cleared out off of my computers, and I got another review up on YourVacuumGuy.com Black & Decker CHV1210 Dustbuster 12-Volt Cordless Cyclonic Hand Vac Well to be honest I haven’t quite got around to the review part, it’s just a product description right now… I’ll get to the review here shortly, or after I take a nap… since Connor has been asleep for several hours now it would make sense that I went to bed at some point in time. At the very least a post here couldn’t hurt to keep things rolling before I head off to dream land, then to finish up my review… or finish the review first maybe. Oh, and I’m getting paid from multiple sources which is always good, especially since it’s the middle of the summer, usually these kinds of deals come in around December or February. Oh well I’ll take what I can get, it’s a good sign for my sites to be growing and making money like this even in the summer when sites generally die off with people out of school, off work, and away from home for vacations.