I found this blog when someone posted in the PPCF Forum about a new free version of SpeedPPC that someone had cooked up. Being a user of SpeedPPC myself and of course also a coder, I just HAD to check this out. I’ve got too much on my plate right this second to put it through its paces, but the overview sounds great and I’ve little doubt that it will be a very handy script indeed!
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So, a few months back I heard about this soon-to-be-released course all about marketing CPA offers (Cost Per Action for those who don’t know the lingo) via PPC traffic (Pay Per Click like Google Adwords, etc.) This was something that really interested me in no small part because I had some friends who had just made a BUNDLE of cash in a very short amount of time from CPA lead offers. They weren’t using PPC, but still… it intrigued me.
You may or may not have heard of PGInsider, but if you are into the black/grey-hat portal building game, or want to be, it’s a very useful site, in terms of both the discussions that go on there, and especially the tools that get developed. Adam actually goes and builds the tools that the members ask for, and gives them to everyone for free. Pretty dang cool, if you’re willing to chase the search engines.
A while back, a “big league” adsense earner gave me some heads up about using properly formatted code on my pages, so that the SE spiders would handle it better and rank the pages better. His arguments on the whole made sense, and I certainly couldn’t argue with his income levels. But I just never took the time to really figure out all the areas of proficiency I needed to have when it came to coding my templates properly. HTML and CSS can be such a pain in the rear!
If you have lots and lots of websites, you almost undoubtedly at SOME point or another have found yourself staring at hundreds, perhaps THOUSANDS, of empty folders because of some script or another that you ran. How do you get rid of them all without going insane in the process???
I was just faced with this dilemma, and of course a little web searching turned up the solution!
This is a shell (SSH) command, so you must have shell access in order to execute it. The command is:
find -depth -type d -empty -exec rmdir {} \;
Anyone building portal web sites or doing any type of AdSense or other PPC oriented income stream, has undoubtedly run across “scraping.” It’s the concept of grabbing content from another web site, and displaying it on your own site. Now, issues of legality or ethics aside (don’t even get me started down those roads - I have vary strong opinions on the subjects that go a bit against the “mainstream”) - this has been used for a long time and is a cornerstone of how RSS feeds are used today. But it really gives you no power… all you can do is regurgitate the content. Sure, some clever people will run it through their own processor first, changing keywords, or in some cases swapping out links with their own (oh you dirty black hatter… 
). But it’s possible to do MUCH more, with the same basic idea… just taken up a level.
Here’s a little something that can work both as a security feature if enabled, and a debugging tool if disabled.
Anywhere you have include statements (especially your satellite index.php if using my method), you can use the @ symbol to determine if errors are output to the browser, or hidden (suppressed).
So for example, this:
< ? include ("somefile.html"); ?>
Would display all sorts of ugly errors if the file couldn’t be found, or if there was generally any problem with it.
However, this:
< ? @include ("somefile.html"); ?>
I have decided to begin to take down my thoughts & ideas on programming, with the eventual expectation of turning them into some kind of course, book, autoresponder series, SOMETHING. In the mean time, they will begin to appear here as I sit down and blast them out. So, watch for ‘em! You just might learn a thing or three.
I found that on certain computers, the script ran a bit too fast and could blow up, so… I have slowed it down ever so slightly.
That’s what I get for being a “speed freak” 
Yes, that’s right, I just can’t leave anything alone. Gotta make it better, faster, cleaner, smarter… we have the technology, we can rebuild it!
So, here is the version 1.3 of the script.
Read the notes at the top of the file to see what’s changed. Definitely the best edition yet.