This is my list of Banned Email Domains on my wpmu.

You can use to protect against spammers with another protection tools. You cat put this domain in your WPMU admin on Option -> Banned Email Domains.

.co.cc
2424blog.com
900-numbers-livetoday.co.cc
azbestsellers.com
buffalomission.org
conficker-worm-removal.com
d6327.com
dazzlepedia.org
danielamail.com
dentistinnewportbeach.com
discoverrome.org
ddoforums.com
emaildesechable.info
emailfile.info
emailftw.info
fatbookmarks.com
filmstarwallpapers.com
free-drumlessons.com
freebassguitarlessons.net
freeeeemail.com
googlemails.net
hopandshop.co.uk
ihonn.net
internetsalestactition.com
iwantmail.org
lung-research.com
medialeaks.com
mexicanemail.info
mirroraty.org
mypainbuster.com
my-secret-tips.com
mysace.info
onlq.com
partyopedia.com
slrreview.net
solarhotwaterheater.eu
solutionsinnovative.com
thailandtravelview.com
uricacids.com
yargies.com
waystoquitsmoking.eu
williamemail.com

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After running WordPress MultiUser for more then a year the biggest problem wasn’t the comment spam , but the fact that if I leave the site open for registration of new accounts the spam bots find it and start the attack.

I have tested a few plugins with different levels of success , all have a high level of false positive which didn’t satisfied me.

And so , I have turned to google to search a better solution for my problem and find this page about using .htaccess files to stop comment spam. After some modification now running it on with success with the apache logs showing that the bots are still attacking but they are not able to register and the positive fact is that valid users don’t encounter any problems on registration.

What is nice about this technique is that you don’t need anything from WordPress , no plugins or mu-plugins or some anti-hacker core files, the Apache steps in and kick spammers out.

Check this example:

# BEGIN ANTISPAMBLOG REGISTRATION
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} POST
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} .wp-signup\.php*
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !.*yourdomain.com.* [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^$
RewriteRule (.*) http://myfastblog.com/ [R=301,L]
# END ANTISPAMBLOG REGISTRATION

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Finally we have a new version of WPMU Fast Verification plugin. The new features add fast verification for Bing Webmaster Center & Alexa Siteowners.

So now you have one plugin for verify meta key for Google Webmaster Tools, Yahoo! SiteExplorer, Bing Webmaster Center & Alexa Siteowners

You can download from here.

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This plugin will allow you to do fast verification for your WordPress MU websites with Google Webmaster Tools and Yahoo! SiteExplorer.

Is an easy and faster tool. Easy to install. Easy to use.

1. Download the plugin, extract in a folder
2. Upload fastverification.php to your wmpu plugins folder on your server, /wp-content/mu-plugins
3. Upload directory /fast-verification to your wmpu plugins folder on your server, /wp-content/mu-plugins
4. For settings every user can it set from Sentings -> Fast Verification
5. Go to Google Webmaster Tools and Yahoo! SiteExplorer to get your verification/authentication information.
6. Enter the meta value on the Fast Verification page and Update Options.
7. The plugin will generate meta tags on the homepage of your blog.

Download WPMU Fast Verification.

Also you can download Romanian version WPMU Fast Verification [Romanian].

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Because is winter and a lot of people love winter is time to have your blog personalized for winter time. This help your readers to feel more confortable on your blog.

For installing theme you need to follow the next steps:
1. Unpack this archive
2. Copy in your plugins directory /fonts /let-it-snow /wp-cufon
3. Copy /snowexplosion in your themes directory.
4. Go to Admin WordPress and select Plugins and activate Let It Snow! and WP-Cufón plugins
5. Select theme.

Download: Snow-Explosion WP Theme v.1.0

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This question pops up due to the rapid growth of blogging. But how to put a price?

Well i will try to answer to this question presenting the best techniques to determine how much your Blog is worth. Next question form you side is : Why not using a website pricing tool? and the answer is simple : they don`t have accuracy because this tools , in general , take in consideration the statistics ( pagerank , links to it , traffic details etc.) generating a price to high or to low .

In my opinion the income of a blog shod be the first factor to take in consideration when buying or selling.In case of selling is important to have a proof of the previous month incomes , at least , in order to consolidate your trust with a potential buyer.
Pay attention to not disclose any confidential information when showing proof of income , as example if you are using Adsense you shod erase information such as your CTR if you don`t want to lose your account.

Make sure if you have received income through several different sources to provide information for each one in order to have a large view on this subject. The next thing to do when providing your blog income is to total up per month/trimester/year and if you transfer this information to a graphic chart it will be a good approach in order to catch the eye of a potential buyer.
The total income is not the only factor to take in consideration , this is only the first step in pricing your blog.By providing additional statistic data you increase the value.

The traffic statistic correlated with the income statistic will show the tred of the blog and by providing a large amount of information about the traffic like ( region , time , peek hours, etc.) you will bust up your price and help the potential buyer to calculate more precise the rate of return of investment.

Like for the income statistics the traffic statistic shod be provided per month/trimester/year and all the data correlated in order to obtain a price per visitor that will determine the potential o of the blog.

The next think to take in consideration is the number of subscribers witch is a important statistic factor by proofing that a precise number of people read your content that you publish each day. Similar think is with the newsletter members with a plus due to the fact that you are able advertise products or services very easy to them, so another point to increase the price.
Other important factors to take in consideration are the number of articles that you have published on your blog, the site age, the SERP (Search Engine Results Page) and a detailed table of the keywords you are ranked.

By using this list of factors you could make , fore sure, a realistic calculation as to how much your Blog is worth but don`t forget one think “A Blog is only worth what someone is willing to pay”

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Finally, I finish my work on this plugin. Is a very useful plugin for displaying yours twitter followers in wordpress sidebar.

For download first version: FastTwitterCounter

I hope the new version will work as a widget too and will have more display options in admin.

Please send me any sugestions to make this plugin better via e-mail.

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To display last N updated blogs in Wordpress MU main page, just add code below to the sidebar.php of your theme:

<?php
$blogs = get_last_updated();
$blog_limit=10;
if( is_array( $blogs ) ) {
?>
<ul>
<?php
foreach( $blogs as $details ) {
$blog_limit = $blog_limit-1;
if ($blog_limit < 0 ) continue;
?><li><div class=”blogslinks”><a target=”_BLANK” href=”http://<?php echo $details[ 'domain' ] . $details[ 'path' ] ?>”><?php echo get_blog_option( $details[ 'blog_id' ], ‘blogname’ ) ?></a></div></li><?php
}
?>
</ul>
<?php
}
?>

You can set $blog_limit to 10 or whatever you want.

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Duplicate content or content that is accessible through multiple URLs has been haunting webmasters for a long period. After long discussions no definitive solution was found, in order to introduce canonical tag in search engines.
Google, Yahoo and Microsoft decided to unite in order to reduce duplicate content on the internet. This kind of tag allows you to specify your preferred version of a URL. This can confuse people. Here is an example that shows how duplicate content, especially on dynamic sites, may occur because a site might allow various sort orders for a page:

1. http://forums.digitalpoint.com/forumdisplay.php?f=5
2. http://forums.digitalpoint.com/forumdisplay.php?f=5&daysprune=-1&order=asc&sort=title
3. http://forums.digitalpoint.com/forumdisplay.php?f=5&daysprune=-1&order=desc&sort=lastpost

From this example we can see that the same link can be accessed through multiple links. This can affect the site and each page may not work properly.
In order to avoid it, you can add the tag from the following example:

<link rel=”canonical” href=”http://forums.digitalpoint.com/forumdisplay.php?f=5″ />

Google will understand that duplicates all are pointing to the canonical URL.
This tag will operate in a similar way to a 301 redirect for all URLs that display the page with this tag.

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Let’s talk a little about an editorial that explains why we can’t make money online blogging, made by Daniel Lyons, known for two years as “Fake Steve Jobs”.

Big traffic, no money

When his identity was revealed in New York Times, more than half-million people visited his site in a single day. For that traffic he got about a hundred dollars with AdSense and entire month he made more than $1.000. Not enough for what he expected and after some time he gave up. So the following quote from Newsweek it’s eloquent for our work in blogging:

I learned the hard way: while blogs can do many wonderful things, making huge amounts of money isn’t one of them.
Fake Steve Jobs

The expert weighs in

Another interesting article was made by Paul Verna, an analyst with eMarketer. He is adopting the following issue: “the lack of a clear business model that can generate substantial revenues.”
If our business model is “ I want to make money on the Internet” you won’t go very far with it. But of course there are few fortunate situations when people made some good money from successful blogs.
So to sum up, like Fake Steve Jobs said, if you don’t have a good business model you won’t make any money.

Blogs are not television

In television, if you want to watch a movie, than you have to watch also his ads. When someone visits your site, if the ad isn’t something that he is looking for he won’t click on it, he won’t even look at it. So if you have huge traffic this doesn’t mean that you will earn huge money.

If you want to make money in the real world, solve real problems

The following quote explains the best what ideas you should have on your blog:
If you don’t offer customers something they dearly want, whether it’s to gain some great pleasure or escape some great pain, you’re not going to make any money.
We, bloggers, we must be as creative as musicians to make something special, else no one will take a look at it.

It’s time for online business to grow up

We all thought that if we made a site, than we will be rich. This kind of “business” worked for a while, but now it doesn’t. Now we must focus on what works, what always worked. Valuable content, solving problems, fix what’s bugging people.

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