Why I liked Asana invitation/sharing widget?

I use Asana for project management. It’s free (upto 25 users) and its minimal interface/concept makes you more productive.

Well, Asana has this really cool invitation/sharing widget for first time users. I really hate sending annoying invitations for new services I found but this one was something different. See image below and let me know if I’m right.

Asana invitation

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An ‘Exact Match Domain’ case

You have read all about Exact Match Domain (EMD) algorithm effect and how it is supposed to remove the low quality websites tricking to get the higher ranks. Here is what Matt Cutts tweeted:

Well, I have a case to share. I was going through my SpyFu account and searching for keywords with highest CPC. A link to those keywords.

mesothelioma firm is listed on 57th place with CPC of $207.83. I validated this CPC data using Google Adwords tool and it was confirmed. $214.64 for a click. Can you believe that?

emd mesothelioma firm cpc

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Google Ecommerce tracking in 3DCart

Jenny hired me for a small project – To set up Ecommerce tracking in her 3DCart store. I thought it as a small task but it took more than 15 days. A really long story with so many problems.

What was the major problem?

The major problem was use of Shared SSL  or Lack of Dedicated SSL. She was using shared provided (Free one) by 3DCart.

Why shared SSL for 3Dcart is a problem for Ecommerce tracking?

Because if you use shared SSL, all your secure pages will be hosted on subdomain.3dcartstores.com.

And as it is not your primary domain, you need cross-domain tracking to keep up the original traffic source between your domain and subdomain of 3dcartstores. Otherwise you will have self-referral issues and Google Analytics will report that all the sales are coming from yourdomain.com/referral.

3DCart Self Referral

Other traffic sources has $0 revenue

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How did a plugin almost f**cked my blog

The Short Story

A spammer hacked this blog and left some spam links on theme files. I changed all the passwords and removed the links but they were keep coming back.

The hackers also edited my robots.txt file and added some links there too.

Seriously, who does that? Spammer, what is purpose of adding link to a text file? Tell me if you are reading this. Leave a comment as anonymous. I swear I won’t try to hunt you down.

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