Huge Core Dump Files in WordPress Folders
I was surprised to see my WordPress folder sizes increasing and FTP revealed huge ‘Core’ dump files in several folders of my WordPress installation. As…
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500,000 Pageviews!
After a long journey of several years, QOT traffic finally managed to cross 500,000 pageviews this month; to make that sound grander, that is half…
New Advertising Option: 125×125 Square Ads
QOT now supports a new advertising option for 125x125px ads via a new advertising service called BuySellAds. These square ads will be displayed on all…
Introducing QuickPress WordPress Theme
We are happy to launch QuickPress, a 3-column, widget-ready, SEO-optimized, Ad-ready, compatible wordpress theme which is useful for all types of bloggers. The premium theme…
Akismet Blocks 1 Million Spam Comments
Akismet is a powerful wordpress plugin that blocks spam comments and today Akismet clocked 1 million spam comments on this blog. Actively and efficiently stopping…
QOT Joins Forbes Business and Finance Blog Network
QOT has joined the Forbes Business and Finance Blog Network, and now you should see some high quality (large!) rich media advertisements on the site…
QOT Live on 9rules Blog Network
You heard that QOT was accepted by 9rules blog network to become a member. After fulfilling all requirements, this blog is now live on the…
Experiences with Hosting Downtime, Dreamhost, Googlebot, Shell
The site was down for 36 hours over the weekend as our web hosting provider Dreamhost disabled all sites on the account for overuse of…
9Rules Selects QOT! Round 6 Results Out
9rules blogging network has announced the round 6 results and QOT has been selected to join the network. Recently 9rules Vol 3 launched in a…
The BBC Effect: Hot Traffic Analysis
Last week QOT was featured on BBC Click, their flagship technology programme and a rush of traffic followed, but it was unlike the traffic you…
QOT Featured on BBC Click Webscape
A sudden spike in site traffic led me to the source – BBC Click! Click is the BBC flagship technology programme and Kate Russell presented…
15000 RSS Feed Readers!
Today our blog crossed an important milestone as our feedcount crossed 15,000 RSS feed readers for the first time. Its amazing that every new post…
QOT on Business Standard Newspaper
Hey! our blog QOT got a mention on the Business Standard newspaper, a respected financial news daily that features the best of economic news and…
QOT Readers Can Now Read Full Text Feeds!
Yes! we are trying free full text feeds again. As we cross the 14500 RSS reader milestone today and celebrate 2 years on wordpress, I…
2 Years on WordPress!
Time flies! 2 years have passed since we moved QOT from blogger to wordpress on this domain name. The journey has been great with this…
QOT Finally Gets 8 Google Sitelinks!
As I checked the Google Webmaster panel today, Google had finalized some Sitelinks for our site after so many years. Honored by this rare privilege…
Expanding the QOT Network
We have been gradually expanding the QOT brand beyond our regular blog. Based on the type of content, it was not possible to share all…
Have You Been QOTed?
Recently 2 friendly bloggers emailed to thank me that I QOTed his wonderful article and drove some nice targeted traffic their way with a spike…
Interactive Feed Analysis of Your FeedBurner Feeds
A new tool called Feed Analysis v1.0 from BlogPerfume provides bloggers with interactive statistics charts of their feedburner feed data to help them understand and…
Google Penalty Removed: Pagerank Updated PR3 to PR6
Around 3 weeks back our Google Pagerank dropped from PR6 to PR3. The blogosphere was abuzz as the pagerank crashed for several top blogs across…
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