But not ALL websites. Sometimes you don’t mind if someone hotlinks from a forum or a review about your product, etc. However there are those that you DO want to block.

You can use the code below and place it into your htaccess file.

I placed the code in the .htaccess file inside my images folder, to just protect that folder, and to keep things straight forward.

If you wish to send a differnt image to the offending website, change the last line to an image that is outside your domain, or in a folder a level above where your .htaccess file is located.

Example: If I placed the code in the .htaccess file inside http://example.com/images, then my “nohotlink.jpg” image should be located http://example.com/nohotlink.jpg (otherwise it will blocked by it’s own rule).

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://(.+\.)?ebay\.com/ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://(.+\.)?ebay\.ca/ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://(.+\.)?abc\.net/ [NC]
RewriteRule .*\.(jpg|gif|bmp|png)$ http://example.com/nohotlink.jpg [L]

• SEO friendly (keyword, and urls)
• Easy to use (template driven)
• Low cost (under $200)
• Ownership (not leased or rented software)

Then I would recommend using CubeCart. I found this CubeCart review very helpful as well.

<?
//set your link expiration date here.
$expiry = strtotime(”8/12/2008″);
$today = strtotime(”now”);

if ($today > $expiry) {
$new_status = ‘<p>non-paid link info</p>’;
} else {
$new_status = ‘<p>paid link info</p>’;
}
echo $new_status;
?>

Simple, right.

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Using a rank checking tool is a real time saver. Rather than try to dig through results to find your site, this will give you the data in just a few seconds. The best way would be to export the data each time and name each file with the date it was run. This way you can track your ranking changes over time.

You can run the wordpress software with most hosting packages that supports PHP and MySQL. Don’t hesitate to get your business up on the web, register your domain name, and at least get something up and running. The longer you have your site out there the better it is in the long run for your website and business.

My preferred method of getting web statistics is to download my log files, and process them locally on my own. To do this I use an ftp script I wrote to download the log files each day. Then I use awstats to process the log files into nice readable reports. Awstats works great for me, but it is a little bit more work to setup.

If you are looking for a super-easy way to get stats from your site, try Google Analytics. All you have to do is place a few lines of javascript code onto each page of your website everything else is done for you. Anaytics produces very snazzy graphs, and is simple to use, but I find there is SO much information there it can be hard to get to the basic stats I want to see.

Sometimes, you might think that you will just add stats later on once the site is running a bit, but let me tell you the best time to setup your stats is right there while you are putting your site up for the first time. It can be very hard (or impossible sometimes) to go back and get stats from the past. So just go ahead get it setup right from the get go. You’ll get addicted to your stats real quick.

This tool lets you select virtually any color from anywhere on your screen. This can be useful when you see a color you like, simply fire up the software and grab the color.

Google did a nice thing for webmasters by creating a handy tool to help track sites and also to upload your newly created sitemaps.

Visit Google Webmaster Tools and sign up account, or use an existing Google account if you have one.

Since then a few of the other major search engines jumped on board the wagon, and now it is supported by Yahoo and Microsoft too.