Gary is Technical Director at threenine.co.uk, an independent software vendor specialising in IoT, Field Service and associated managed services, enabling customers to be efficient, productive, secure and scale-able.
When writing SQL scripts it’s always a good idea to write them with the thought in mind that we will have to end up re-running… Read More »How to check if schema exists in SQL server database before creating
If you have followed along with any of my previous posts on how to block referrer spam from affecting your website analytics, you have successfully… Read More »How to filter referrer spam from google analytics historical data
The following is a list of know referrer spammers which is updated as soon as new URLs become known. [ebs_well type="well-lg"]
** Important notice **
The sites listed below may be unaware that they have been involved in a referrer spam attack. They may have been implicated by some low grade SEO consultancies who have attempted to improve traffic count to the sites by using referrer spam approaches.
If your site appears in a referrer spam list then you need to take action against the your SEO consultancy or the whoever has implicated your website in a referrer spam attack
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Spammers devised shady methods to draw traffic to their sites, ‘referrer spam’, also known as referral spam, log spam or referrer bombing. The traffic a website receives, the more opportunities there are to encourage more conversions and revenue, as well as to improve ranking.
Selenium is a suite of browser automation tools to help with automating web browsers across a number of platforms. It’s a really handy tool to help with automating web applications for testing purposes
The small steps you can take ensure the security of your small business. There seems to be a lot of hype in the media at… Read More »Guard against cyber attacks
Modern era can easily be defined as the age of software. Software is so pervasive that it literally encroaches on every aspect of our lives,… Read More »Software : Engineering or Craftmanship ?
A guide to block referrer spam Detailed instructions on how to effectively start blocking referrer spam from your website and to stop affecting analytics reports.… Read More »How to block referrer spam
If you are constantly updating your linux installation you may find over time that your boot partition may be running out of space and if… Read More »Remove All Unused Linux Kernel Headers, Images and Modules from ubuntu boot
This post is a first in a series of upcoming posts detailing the effects of spam on your websites performance and the steps and processes… Read More »What is Referrer Spam?
An insight from a freelance software developer to why making money from software is alot harder than you might think. Building a business involves more than developing software.
In this post I will provide an explanation of what is information architecture to provide an understanding of one of the most fundamental steps and processes for a successful search engine optimization campaign.
I have previously posted a How To: install mean.js on ubuntu, In this post I will provide additional instructions on how to remove the error… Read More »Remove Failed to load c++ bson extension message from MEAN.js application start
review one of the many wireless speaker products that rely on Bluetooth technology as the main method for delivering audio content. I recently purchased the gear4 StreetParty wireless portable speaker with speakerphone.
In this post I will be providing a quick set of instructions and a script to install AdobeAir & Balsamiq on a Unbuntu desktop. These… Read More »Install AdobeAir & Balsamiq on ubuntu 14.X
A top 10 list of any sort is purely subjective, for instance the top 10 music charts are based on sales following a set of criteria, they don't necessarily relate to all the music people are actually buying, and there are top 10 charts for every genre. In fact there are literally 100's of top 10 music charts. In much the same vein there are 1000's of top 10 WordPress plug-in charts.
In all honesty, maybe the title of this post should be Top 10 WordPress plug-ins for a freelance software developer blog, but I feel that loses some panache and besides Google doesn't like long titles. So I've gone with the punchy title.
Read More »Top 10 WordPress plug-ins for blogging
I recently decided to change my default search engine. Call it a mid life crisis, or maybe just a sign of boredom, but I felt… Read More »Made the switch to Duck Duck Go
In this post I will be discussing how to stream CSV to JSON via FTP , which will enable you to integrate your application with any number of legacy applications to extract data.
The Raspberry Pi is a great device for tinkering and hacking around different technology and hardware. This evening I thought it might be fun to… Read More »How to setup node.js on a raspberry pi
A quick how to explaining how to set up a network shared folder on your raspberry pi enabling you to access the pi from a windows 8 computer