Archive for April, 2007
Monday, April 30th, 2007
I still have the button at the bottom of each post that lets you bookmark your site with whatever social bookmarking service you like but I’m getting rid of the Digg buttons at the top right. Why?
I’m convinced they just highlight the low Digg numbers. They don’t seem to be encouraging anyone to Digg posts – even when they comment about how great the posts are. Digg is still a ...
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Thursday, April 26th, 2007
If you have an RSS feed on your site, there are a number of ways to let people sign up for email updates. But there’s a potential for spam issues if you handle it yourself. RssFwd is a third party service that lets people sign up on their own. To promote your feed, just go to this page and grab the code you like. Or if you prefer a simple ...
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Wednesday, April 25th, 2007
Have you ever made a change on your website only to have it not show up when you load the refreshed pages? If it’s not your browser, it could be your ISP. But failing that, it could be at the server level.
In Cpanel, there’s a harmless way to make sure this isn’t the problem. Go into "disk usage viewer" and select "Clear File Usage Cache".
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Wednesday, April 25th, 2007
Search Engine Journal has an interesting piece about some domain names Google has supposedly bought recently, with the centerpiece as "claimyourcontent.com". There’s a lot of speculation about what this might mean. I’d love a way to keep scrapers out or establish my articles as the primary version of that material. There are other things it could be, but that’s the one I’m hoping for.
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Tuesday, April 24th, 2007
Can you have too much content on your sites?
About a month or so ago, I committed myself, removed pages from v7n that were xxx number of days old, had less than xxx number of page views, and less than xxx number of responses. Just to be sure that I didn’t remove any worthwhile discussions, I went through the list and checked anything that might be remotely worthwhile.
And I did not ...
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Tuesday, April 24th, 2007
For the last few updates – maybe starting with Firefox 2.0 – that browser has caused me more trouble than it’s worth. It keeps caching pages when they’re all screwy, and absolutely nothing I do will force it to refresh the cache. Opera doesn’t do this. IE doesn’t do this.
I’ve spent hours and hours trying to fix things that weren’t broken, because Firefox kept showing me messed-up versions of ...
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Sunday, April 22nd, 2007
I needed a way to embarrass trolls on one of my sites. I was going to try Disemvoweler, but when I tried to enter an IP into the array, it broke everything. Don’t ask me why.
I finally found Troll Cap, which is cracking me up. That’s the instruction page – to download it, you have to go to WP-Plugins.net and search for "trollcap". The plugin takes some fearlessness of MySQL ...
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Sunday, April 22nd, 2007
Click fraud’s up. Rather than address the problem and cut into their stats, Google prefers to sabotage text link competitors by scaring everybody into not using them anymore.
People seriously need to figure out that Google only benefits itself. It’s not that awesome for searchers. It’s of little use to webmasters, except those who enjoy gaming the engines to make AdSense money. And they’ll steamroll over anybody that gets between them ...
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Saturday, April 21st, 2007
Seriously. What if all the SEO/marketing blogs online just didn’t talk about Google. For, like, a day. Two days? Is it possible?
What good is talking doing, anyway? Very soon, Google is going to patent You and send you a cease and desist notice (to stop being You) and you will be forced to go live in the fringes amongst the other displaced people Google now owns. A robot that looks ...
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Saturday, April 21st, 2007
Okay, so my title doesn’t quite dance to the tune of "Video Killed the Radio Star", but on a particularly busy week in the who’s-buying-who sphere, it’s tempting to think Google’s determined to leverage everything in existence. SEObook points out that as soon as eBay bought StumbleUpon, Google released its own stumbling bookmark tool
Google can buy out or clone any service that threatens their ad market and media dominance.
Since StumbleUpon ...
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