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Friday, December 6, 2013 at 9:20AM Today's Archive Dive dates back to Dec. 12, 2012, when "How to Make Webcomics" co-author passed along a great tip on thwarting comic scrapers.
Passed along by "How To Make Webcomics" co-author Dave Kellett, here's a simple way to stop people from scraping ["hotlinking"] your comic. From the site...
Thursday, December 5, 2013 at 9:12AM Gumroad and Sendowl are two Web-based apps that facilitate digital merchandising that we've discussed here repeatedly in the past. (Here are the SendOwl posts and here's the Gumroad archive.)
In the interest of updating out files on them, I want to mention that each has a way for you to incorporate the usage of their apps into your Google Analytic reporting. This is very useful as you track your site's user behaviors to see what's working and what's not.
Wednesday, December 4, 2013 at 5:00AM This post was generously submitted by Philip M. Hofer (“Frumph”), Comic Press developer and creator of the Comic Easel WordPress theme (Comiceasel.com).
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Tuesday, December 3, 2013 at 5:00AM 
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Ten Tips Towards Better Time Management
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