Oct 18, 2007

I was browsing through all of the Google Gadgets today and, while there are some really interesting ones, I have to wonder "do Google Gadgets work to help keep visitors on your website/blog?" Does embedding a game of Pac-Man make anyone stay on a website any longer if there is

Oct 16, 2007

How different would Google's home page look if they had to create it for Google, or any search engine really. The only thing that needs to be added is the whole nonsense of the rel="nofollow" tag. You would want to control the flow of PageRank through the site and those

Oct 15, 2007

I was looking through my list of domain names and have come to the conclusion that I will never develop thewebhostingforum.com into a website. I currently have the domain parked over at Namedrive, and while it has brought in the odd click I think I would rather give it to

Oct 14, 2007

When I checked my blog on Saturday I had a large amount of comment spam that had been caught by Akismet, larger than usual for my little place on the web. Browsing through it briefly, I quickly noticed a common thread, they were all from the same IP address. I

Oct 12, 2007

Mike posted a good question on my earlier post on how to Disable Indexes using .htaccess. Is there a way to specify what page to redirect to if there is a 404? Currently it’s displaying one created by my web hosting company, which I would prefer to get rid of. If

Oct 11, 2007

For everyone that might be following the controversy about Google punishing websites for selling paid links you need to read "NoFollow is for Blog Spam...no Paid Text Links, wait...Paid Ads...Aww Heck, Just Stop Linking and Let Calacanis Decide the Rankings" series by Jennifer Laycock over at Search Engine Guide. [Part

Oct 9, 2007

There are some days that StumbleUpon just sends me to the right places. Today was one of those days. Check out these more than 100 Web 2.0 Online Generators. There is enough there to keep you busy for hours. Some of my favorite sections are the robots.txt generators, HTACCESS generators

Oct 8, 2007

Everyone seems to be talking about Google the last few days and how they have started to penalize websites that sell text links, such as Text Link ads. Search Engine Watch has an interesting article on the topic and Daily Blog Tips has decided to stop selling text link advertising

Oct 8, 2007

There are some things that make me happy. This is one of them. I don't know if it was me banning the IP address from this site, or the 403 error image I started to serve to the website that was scraping my feed but the posts are all taken

Oct 8, 2007

It appears that I have a fan, ok maybe not a fan. I have a website scraper that is just not smart enough to actually read the content they are scraping so they are getting my nice RSS feed additional content and posting it in the site. They have many