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 {} \;

I know I sure was. Keeping track of when it was up, down, or sideways. Finding out only AFTER my sites had been down for a day or two that they were offline. Lost income, frustration, even PANIC when the server completely craps out for some unknown reason.

Myself - I’m not a big server guy. I know just enough Linux shell commands at this point to be dangerous, and don’t want to have to babysit my server when something goes wrong. I also hate having to install shell scripts on my own, and really don’t enjoy mucking about with SSH if I don’t have to.

I’m going to make this available for sale one more time, as well as upgrading all former owners free of charge. Go to http://macroking.com/uncs.htm if you want to be notified of 3.0 availability. I’m not sure how many copies I’ll make available this time, but I’ll at least make it available to everyone who signs up on the announcement list. I anticipate I should have everything ready and documented within a couple of weeks at most. I haven’t yet settled on a price, but it will be higher than before.

OK, someone explain this one to me. I am still being hit with as many as a few dozen comment spams per day. The latest one that just came in has me really scratching my head. The link in it is to www.google.ru, Google in Russia. I say it again - THE COMMENT SPAMMER’S URL IS GOOGLE.RU.

Now, the conspiracy theorist in me is screaming that this is somehow Google up to “no good” and employing their own blackhat tricks. But - WHY??? If it’s just a random comment spammer, what the hell could they possibly stand to gain by spamming a Google URL? Makes absolutely no sense to me.

I’ve had Website Position Wizard ever since it was first announced, and when the paid “Pro” version was released, I jumped on the upgrade. As mass ranking-check programs go, this one was the easiest to work with in terms of push a single button and get all your results. Only thing was, I had to run it manually every day if I wanted daily data. Yes, I could’ve written an AutoHotKey script to automate the process, but that takes time and frankly it just never seemed to warrant that much effort.

I have been repeatedly comment spammed recently by someone or someones. I haven’t spent enough time on it to bother seeing if it’s the same IP on all of them or not.

Bottom line is - you are wasting your time (even though they are clearly being automated - and in an odd sort of way, for that I commend you! =) I just go into my admin panel and mass-delete the comments with one button push. It is at most, mildly amusing/annoying. However you should know that I went ahead and contacted various channels and pointed them in your direction, so it’s possible you’ll get a phone call/email/visit in the near future to, er… kindly ask you to stop.

I have gotten so used to this amazing little gem, that I tend to forget about it. Well, I just did a major computer upgrade, which means I have to reinstall all my tools, including this one. Which of course reminded me of how absolutely hooked on it I am, and that I really should be telling everyone else about it!!

The nice part is, I already wrote about it some time ago, in this post! So, I don’t even have to write again. Just this little reminder of how absolutely awesome this tool is. The instant I don’t have it installed any more, boy do I know it! Not a happy feeling.

OK, I think I know what you’re thinking… “What the hell kind of blog post title is THAT???” Well, you’ll probably see in a minute what I meant.

Many of you probably know by now that I am no longer using blogs for portal building. Not that they aren’t good tools or anything, I just decided a few months back (just before all the new blog automation tools came out) that they took too damn much effort and time to set up, post to, and maintain. Not to mention the extra resources all those MySQL calls and RSS2Blog activity were hogging. So I simply stopped using them and have developed techniques that don’t require blogs.

David from the NicheCreator forum has a nice blog going, I finally went to read it. Good stuff David! Nice thorough reviews of various tools & whatnot. I’m going to have to pop over there regularly to see what’s a keeper and what’s a sleeper!

Check it out!

I felt I needed to go on record somewhere publicly about something, and I’m not going to say what it’s about.

I’m on to something big. REALLY big. Can’t let the cat out of the bag, and to be honest I don’t know if I’ll EVER let it out of the bag, but I wanted this post to exist as a sort of “bookmark” to the day when it became really clear just how big this will be. Then, if/when it goes public, I’ll be able to point back to this little whisper in CyberSpace and say…