The Google Numbered Results Firefox Plugin has been updated. It’s been quite a while since anyone has updated it, but you can check it out here: Google Numbered Results Firefox Plugin. You’ll need to install Grease Monkey if you haven’t already.
Links to the Google Numbered Results plugin and Grease Monkey are on that page.
Happy Rank Checking! 
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Monday, August 23rd, 2010
Cobra Subsidy Extended By 5 Months
Tuesday, June 8th, 2010I just found out that the Cobra Subsidy that President Obama put into affect last year was extended for an extra 5 months…what does this mean for you? Money, that’s what!
My Cobra Subsidy ran out November 2009 so after that I was paying the full price for my health coverage for 4 months…what this means is that I get a refund of almost $1,000 because that extension covered the time I was paying the full price. My Cobra Insurance ran out March 31st.
If you were terminated, laid off or whatever after September 1st 2008, you’ll get that extra 5 months:
“The federal COBRA subsidy was created in 2009 by the federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). ARRA provided subsidized premium reductions for COBRA and state-specific COBRA for individuals who were involuntary terminated between September 1, 2008, and December 31, 2009. Since its creation, the eligibility period for the subsidy has been extended three times.“
The employers were supposed to notify ALL ELIGIBLE EMPLOYEES, but mine never did, as I’m sure yours didn’t either! I would call your insurance company and get your Cobra Subsidy refund!!
OneArmedSEO – Dan League Attribution Marketing & Market Infusion Exposed!
Monday, May 10th, 2010Dan League of Attribution Marketing, formerly Market Infusion is exposed for the con-man rip-off artist that he is. Read about his child like behavior and how he deals with the problems that he himself created…I promise you’ll get a chuckle!
Dan League in his infinite wisdom has hired some poor kid in India, whom he’s probably also ripped off, to post slanderous articles about me, Oliver Bodnar and my company, OneArmedSEO.
I’ve given Dan League of Attribution Marketing many chances to just do the right thing, and that is to pay for the services that I provided…instead, he made many excuses as to why he couldn’t pay, which were all lies…did I mention he is a pathological liar? My favorite Dan League lie was when “he couldn’t pay because the person in charge of signing checks was on that plane that crashed in Buffalo, so everything was tied up in legal matters”…why would someone lie about that, I thought to myself, so I gave him more time, but nothing.
After enough chances and enough time had passed, I posted on my blog about it, if you type Dan League in Google, you’ll see it in the #1 and #2 spot, or you can click Dan League and read about it. After I posted that, all the contractors that he’s ripped off started coming out of the woodwork and finding it and started posting comments about how he’s ripped them off too…the funny thing is, he started posting comments as well under his alter-ego: “SEO Girl”…very funny. But wait there’s more…
One day he decided to call me and say he wanted to pay and he apologized for taking so long, claiming financial troubles…blah, blah, blah…the truth of the matter is, he was losing business because of my post, people were reading it and finding out what a scumbag Dan League of Market Infusion is…he asked if we could set up a payment plan and I was totally fine with that, but then when I got home that day and checked my email, he sent me a message saying that he wanted me to sign a legal document saying I would remove the post and submit a removal request to Google…I’m thinking, what balls this guy has! I replied with: “You are in NO position to request anything, and that when you are paid in full, I would amend the post to say that he made good on his debt”…I never heard from him again on the matter…so obviously, once he got that signed document, I never would have seen a cent! He then changed his company name to Attribution Marketing thinking that would make everything go away, did I mention he wasn’t that bright? But wait, there’s more…
Yesterday, I was notified of a comment on that original Dan League of Market Infusion Sucks post, it came from some illiterate kid he hired in India to post slanderous articles about me, Oliver Bodnar and my company, OneArmedSEO.com…they’re all quite funny, because they read as if some third grader had written them. The real sad thing is this kid, Bahnu or whatever his name is, is most likely going to be Dan League of Attribution Marketing’s next victim. I’m sure he’s filled this kids head with all sorts of lies and probably promised to pay him a lot of money…the sad truth is, he’ll probably never see a cent. Here’s the comment he left:
“Hey…you seems to have so much time to abuse your clients..You are getting a bad name to SEO profession. SEO is for the good. Not for bad.. You are using your SEO skills with a bad motive. Don’t think that google is your property.. I too know how to make your life miserabale.. I started my fight..Get ready to get fucked…” That was cut and pasted from the comment section of the original post.
He’s begun his fight…what fight is that?? He’ll soon realize that he’s on the wrong side.
Dan removed the original post from his blog…his lawyer probably advised him of that, but here’s a screenshot from Google’s cache:
Here are a couple others that this kid has been posting…you have to read them, they’re very funny!
http://www.dizzydogmusic.com/seo/unprofessional-oliver-bodnar-and-onearmedseo-com-harassing-seo-clients
http://www.webpublishedpoetry.com/tag/onearmedseo.com
And this one right on Dan League’s blog:
http://danleague.com/2009/06/05/oliver-bodnar-and-onearmedseo-com-abusing-clients/
The point of all this is to warn people about Dan League, Attribution Marketing and Marketing Infusion…steer clear of this person, he is a pathological liar, his business tactics are unscrupulous, he cares about one thing and one thing only and that is Dan League…his main purpose in life, it seems, is to find out how to get the money out of your pocket with the least amount of work put into it.
If you’re looking for an SEO company, I would AVOID Dan League of Attribution Marketing like the plague…I’m not saying use me instead, I’m just trying to warn you about this person and how he works.
Please read the posts he’s done in his smear campaign against me and read the original post about Dan League of Attribution Marketing, then called Market Infusion. Make sure you read all the comments!
I’ll post more of the lies he posts and also I’m going to start posting the emails he’s sent making excuses as to why he couldn’t pay…below are the one’s where he said the “head honcho was on the flight that crashed”
Email 1
“Sorry Oliver.. I’ve passed this over and we’re just waiting on the head honcho to approve so payables to proceed..
As mentioned yesterday.. she’s traveling with limited email access and we’ve reminded her by voicemail several times now..
sorry..
Dan”
Email 2
“Oliver
I apologize – something we’ve been doing too much.
First of all, we had a crisis with a key company official – they were on the Continental flight which crashed last week.
Consequently, my attention and company resources are focused on this and all matters will unfortunately be delayed.
I can only commit to paying your invoice – given the circumstances I’m not sure how quick.
Again my apologies,
Dan League
310.944.2067
Email 3:
“Oliver,
Yes it takes minutes to process a paypal transaction and I appreciate your empathy.
If it was easy it would be done however the circumstances aren’t. Bottom line is bankin processes and legal requirements have slowed things. Our bank is only allowing payment on payroll and other critical items until the legal dogs are finalized.
All of our vendors are delayed and we hope to have this resolved in a week.
I can’t tell you what not to do as a result but the threats will not facilitate things at all. Pursuing small claims is your call but also takes time – 3 weeks for a court date perhaps. I know cause we have a few in works now.
So again my apologies – we have every intent to pay but our hands are tied presently.
Dan League
310.944.2067
Please excuse any typo’s
Sent from my iPhone”
Take away from this what you will…my honor and dignity remain intact…Dan League has never had either of those!
Removing Google Sidebar or SideWiki, Everything Bar
Wednesday, May 5th, 2010Google has started implementing their ridiculous Google sidebar or sidewiki…it’s such a pain in the ass and useless! At first I would just clear my cookies and then go to Google again and it would be gone…then that stopped working!
Here’s how you remove it…Right Click on your Google Toolbar, go to Show Buttons, then click SideWiki, refresh your page and it should be gone. But then I saw it on the tool bar, so if you right click again on the Google Toolbar =>> Click Google Toolbar Options =>> Tools =>> Uncheck Sidewiki
So many people complain about this useless screenhog, I’m not sure why Google implemented it. I think they were trying to get people to click on the links that are normally at the top more…that’s all the sidewiki has…the same links that are already at the top left of Google.
I just found a post on TweakGuides.com that removes the Google Everything Bar, this is for Firefox, Chrome and Opera…there wasn’t one for Internet Explorer but if you’re still using IE, it serves you right!
Firefox
To remove the Google Everything Bar in Firefox, you will need to edit a UserContent.css file to add customized code. Follow these steps:
1. Go to the following folder in Windows XP: \Documents and Settings\[Username]\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\[randomstring.default]\chrome\; or in Windows Vista or Windows 7: \Users\[username]\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\[randomstring.default]\chrome\
2. Rename the existing UserContent-example.css file to UserContent.css, or create a new text document with that name.
3. Open the file with Notepad or any text editor.
4. At the bottom of the file, copy and paste the following text into the document exactly as shown:
/* Remove Google Everything Bar*/
div#leftnav { display: none !important; }
#center_col { margin-left: 0px !important; }
5. Save the document and close it.
Close all instances of Firefox and then restart it, and when you next launch a Google search, on the search results page you should see the familiar (old) appearance for search results. To undo this change, simply follow steps 1 – 3 above but this time delete the text above and save the document, then close and restart Firefox. Note that the full details of how to add custom CSS code to Firefox are on this page of the Firefox Tweak Guide, including samples of other useful codes.
Google Chrome
To remove the Google Everything Bar in Google’s own Chrome browser, unfortunately you cannot simply edit a user-based CSS file as in Firefox, so the best way to accommodate customization to the appearance of web pages is with the free Stylist Extension. Install Stylist, and then follow these steps:
1. Click the spanner icon at the top right of Chrome and select Extensions.
2. Click the Options button next to the ‘Chrome Stylist’ extension and select the Styles tab.
3. Click the ‘Add new style’ button, then in the box presented with the greyed ‘Stylesheet text’ prompt, copy and paste the following text:
div#leftnav { display: none !important; }
#center_col { margin-left: 0px !important; }
4. Tick the ‘All site’ box, enter a name in the ‘Style Name’ box (e.g. Remove Everything Bar), then click the Save button at the bottom of the box.
There is no need to close or restart Chrome, the change will be implemented immediately. If at any time you want to disable or remove this change, follow steps 1 – 2 above then click the box with the name of this style, and either click the Disable button to stop it, or click the Del button to remove it altogether.
Opera
To remove the Google Everything Bar in Opera, you will need to create a custom CSS file which Opera can then force Google to use when loading in your browser instead of its default one. Follow these steps:
1. In Windows Explorer create a new text file by right-clicking in an empty area under a directory and select ‘New>Text Document’. Open this document and copy and paste the following text into it:
div#leftnav { display: none !important; }
#center_col { margin-left: 0px !important; }
2. Save this document and rename it to google.css.
3. Copy this file to the \Program Files (x86)\Opera\styles\ directory – note the (x86) part of the directory name doesn’t exist on 32-bit versions of Windows.
4. Open Opera and browse to the main Google Search page, then right-click in an empty area of the page and select ‘Edit Site Preferences’.
5. Select the Display tab and at the bottom of the dialog box click the Choose button, navigate to and select your custom google.css file, then click OK.
You do not need to close and restart Opera; the change will be implemented immediately when you refresh the page. To undo this change you can either delete the google.css file, or follow steps 1 – 5 this time removing google.css from the end of the file path under the Display tab.
Note: Using the methods above has been confirmed to cause the folder list on the left side of Yahoo Mail Classic to disappear. You can resolve this by switching to the new Yahoo Mail view.
Anyway…good luck!
Melrose Place No Strings Attached
Friday, March 12th, 2010This was an episode of Melrose Place I was in. It’s about 6 lines and very drab. I tried to add some character to it, but the director told me not to…bastard!
The sound is bad because I recorded it from my laptop.
The name of the Melrose Place episode is: No Strings attached:
WMI Provider Host Has Stopped Working
Sunday, February 21st, 2010I have Windows Vista on my laptop and I am constantly getting that annoying error pop-up WMI Provider Host has stopped working. I searched for a solution a couple months ago and couldn’t find anything…I just searched again, 2-21-10, and found this: WMI Provider Host Stopped Working Hotfix.
Looks like Microsoft has finally come up with a Hotfix for the WMI Provider host stopped working error, but you have to send a request for the hot at the link above and here is the actual link they sent me to download the WMI Provider Host Stopped Working Hotfix.
If you don’t trust downloading from my site, this is what I typed in Google to find it: “wmi provider host” without the quotes, and it was the first result, which sent me here: support.microsoft.com/kb/935553
Funny, I just looked at the url my blog produced for this post and the number is 411…so you can get the 411 on the WMI Provider Host Has Stopped Working error you’ve been getting on your Windows Vista machine.
I tried the hotfix that I downloaded and it said: “This Hotfix Does not Apply To Your Machine”, so back to the drawing board! Maybe it’ll work for you though…doesn’t hurt to try.
It just occurred to me that this “hotfix” may be a way for Microsoft to to tell if you’re running a bootleg copy of Windows on your machine, so download use at your own risk.
Removing Bing Toolbar Added By Skipscreen
Monday, February 1st, 2010I just installed Skipscreen, and the motherfuckers who created it have it install the Bing Toolbar without any warning whatsoever, they also hijacked my homepage and added Bing as my default search engine in the upper right search box in Firefox. I’m surprised they didn’t change my default browser settings so IE would be my default browser!
I installed it on the recommendation of a friend, and then when it prompted me to restart Firefox, I did…then I saw the Bing Toolbar and thought WTF!!!
They know you’re not going to want to keep it, so they disabled right click and gave it the name Search 1.04 or some BS like that so it would be harder to find! It’s also not in the uninstall programs section of your control panel.
Anyway, here’s what you do to remove it”
- Go to Start=>>Computer=>>Double click your hard drive on that screen…it most likely has the letter “C”=>> Program Files =>> and then look for Search Bar, or Search 1.04, I can’t remember…delete that folder. This is what I did, you may want to just go to step 2 first and see if that works. I just deleted that folder because I hate when the scumbags install a bunch of crap on your machine!
- Open Firefox, Go to Tools=>> Add-ons=>> Scroll down until you see Search 1.04 or whatever number, it may say Search Toolbar, powered by Bing, select it and then click uninstall.
If you like Bing and want the toolbar, then you’re good to go…but if you’re like everyone else, you’ll be pissed because Skipscreen did it without asking…I would avoid installing Skipscreen, unless you really need it because you download a lot of things online.
Why the makers of Skipscreen would hook up with Bing is beyond me…All Bing is, is MSN with a face-lift! They still suck, their search results are just as jacked as before…it just shows you how desperate Microsoft, like Yahoo is, that they’ll allow people to add an automatic installation of their toolbar with out ever giving the option to not install. The same thing happened when I installed Skype…only with them, it was that damn eBay highlighter. I also wrote how to uninstall that here: Removing ebay Browser highlighter
I uninstalled Skipscreen, because I don’t download a lot, and I don’t need JUNK on my machine! The makers of Slipscreen can kiss my fat ass!!
Adding NoFollow To Your Blog Roll Links
Thursday, December 10th, 2009I found this bit of code a while ago that’s handy if you want to add someone to your blogroll or just want to stop the link juice from being drained by the default links in your blogroll…that is if you haven’t deleted them already…anyway, open this page in an html editor or notepad or whatever you use…I use Homesite because it colors the code to make it easier to read…download and open this file: (note: always download files first, that way you’re sure to get the latest copy…even if you’re the only one touching the site, just get into the habit of downloading first, that way it becomes automatic, so whenever you’re working on a site, you’ll just do it…trust me, you’ll thank yourself at some point down the road…and download twice, put one in your backup folder and then download one to work on…)
Download: (I’ve turned the brackets around in order to show the code…that code tag I think is supposed to makew it readable in posts, but it doesn’t so…when adding it to your Wordpress blog, turn the brackets around!)
wp-admin/edit-link-form.php
Look for this line of code around line 190:
>tr<
>th scope=”row”< >?php /* translators: xfn: http://gmpg.org/xfn/ */ _e(‘identity’) ?< >/th<
Then insert this chunk of code right before the opening TR:
>!–Start nofollow code–<
>tr<
>th scope=”row”< /th<
>tr<
>th scope=”row”> nofollow >/th<
>td<
>label for=”nofo”<
>input class=”valinp” type=”checkbox” name=”nofo” value=”nofollow” id=”nofo” >?php xfn_check(‘nofo’, ‘nofollow’); ?< /<
nofollow>/label<
>/td<
>/tr<
>!–end nofollow code–<
I added the comment code as well so when you look at it in the future or want to copy it again, you can just go into the admin and copy it. Personally I keep a code snippets folder on my machine and every time I find something useful I open a Notepad file and cut and paste it, then save with a name that will be easy to identify in the future. I open a separate Notepad file for each code snippet.
After you've added that code and uploaded the file, go to your links section, scroll down and you should see the nofollow check box as in this this image:
Malicious Code in WordPress Template
Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009I downloaded this template http://www.wordpresstemplates.com/?s=professional+business from the site a while ago and used it on 2 different sites. One day I noticed at the very top of the header in small text it said “cannot connect to database”.
I thought to myself, that’s weird, if the site couldn’t connect the database it wouldn’t show up…so I didn’t think anything of it, but then the other day I was working on one of the sites and jacked up the CSS file (luckily) because then I saw at the top this link with the anchor text: “HGH”, I was like, WTF is that!
Upon further investigation and a lot of help from my php god programmer it was being called from 3 encrypted files: start_template.php, theme_license.php there was also a lines of code in header.php, functions.php and sidebar.php that were altered, see below:
I’ve had to delete the code because it was messing up the page; If you’ve downloaded the Professional Business Wordpress template and you see those two files, send me a message and I can tell you how to fix it.
These are the files that were affected:
Header.php
Sidebar.php
Functions.php
Look for the part that has the 2 encrypted files.
The two encrypted added files:
start_template.php
theme_licence.php
Please repost this on your blog and help stop these douchebags from cheating their way through life!!!
The Crusade Continues!!
GIMP.org the FREE Photoshop Equivalent
Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009I just downloaded and installed GIMP from http://www.gimp.org. Before I did I looked a few review sites and the consensus was: “If Photoshop is a 10, this one goes to 11″. Nice reference to Spinal Tap.
This program can do everything that Photoshop can, it can open PSD files as well as all the others. The only thing is, you’ll have to learn a new program…but it’s FREE!
I recommend GIMP especially if you can’t shell out the $700 for Photoshop. I’ve already uninstalled my trial version of Photoshop…bbesides, learning something new is always good!