Audio ads? Not such a good idea

January 21, 2008

 
Thanks to web 2.0, we have much more inno­v­a­tive ideas than what we have a few years ago. Now comes a new ad which sounds promis­ing (lit­er­ally), which utilises a lesser used medium, known as the ear. Instead of hav­ing ban­ner ads that are already annoy­ing already, why not pop in an audio ad instead? […]

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Sloppy PageRank update?

January 17, 2008

 
Seems like Google had it all half done, prob­a­bly one of the very few times you get to see Google make a few mis­takes here and there. The last known change in PageR­ank was in 10th Jan­u­ary 2008. I was hop­ing this update to con­tinue, but it stopped right there — exactly half-way through. Then again, […]

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Do site-wide links help?

January 16, 2008

When it comes to links, it is known that the more links there are, the mer­rier. What about site-wide links? All it takes is to add a link to every page, and you’ll get plenty of links. Site-wide links comes in all fla­vors: Exter­nal ones, inter­nal ones. Inter­nal site-wide links are easy: put a link […]

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Q1 2008 PageRank review">Q1 2008 PageRank review

January 13, 2008

 
The entire update for the first quar­ter of the year is not yet over at the time of this post, con­sid­er­ing that a ran­dom selec­tion of pages had their PageR­ank updated. Of course, since it is not yet over, things can pretty much change over the next few days.
It is quite nice to know that the PageR­ank update […]

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First strings of a PageRank update? *update*

January 12, 2008

 
Seems like Google is silently dish­ing out small PageR­ank updates to mul­ti­ple sites. But, since the scale of the update is so minor, we can’t really say that it is an update right?
Some sites are affected, notably Dig­PageR­ank [2 to 0 to 3], Stat­counter [9 to 10 to 9, again], The WWW Observer [3 to 4],  and Andy […]

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Minor downtime at GMail

January 12, 2008

Looks like Google mail might be offline for a short while, see­ing reports that some are unable to access their Google mail accounts while oth­ers can. The down­time is tem­po­rary and only pre­vents users from access­ing GMail via web inter­face. For­tu­nately, the secured E-mail feeds and POP3 access (i.e. the thing used by mail clients) will still con­tinue to […]

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Non-profit turned profit

January 11, 2008

 
Who says going free will reduce the amount of rev­enue you get from your site? Pro­vid­ing free ser­vices has a nice thing that makes peo­ple less hes­i­tant of using them — they are free. Because you pro­vide them at no charge, peo­ple will not hes­i­tate to use it, unlike paid ver­sions. So, if you hap­pen to make some­thing that […]

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Wordpress plugin “uninstalls” woes?

January 8, 2008

Look­ing up at a great post by Weblog tools col­lec­tion, I’m pretty sure there is a pretty good rea­son (or reasons) why plug-in authors do not wish to remove the left­over data­base stuff installed by Word­press plu­g­ins. Entries cre­ated by plug-ins serve as a record of set­tings used by the plu­gin. Leav­ing them there ensures that if […]

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The importance of sitemaps

January 7, 2008

 
Sitemaps are under­uti­lized despite being a valu­able tool in get­ting as many pages indexed as pos­si­ble. A pri­mary rea­son is that it is dif­fi­cult to gen­er­ate sitemaps, and most sitemaps gen­er­ate are spe­cific to cer­tain sites. If course, you can man­u­ally update a sitemap on your own, but that’s painstak­ing work as when­ever you cre­ate a […]

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Wordpress 2.4 skipped

January 6, 2008

 
Sounds like Word­press devel­op­ers can’t keep up with their planned schedule(and judg­ing from the devel­op­ment copy, I can see why), and had to skip Word­press 2.4 which was planned for late Jan­u­ary. Rather, the next revi­sion of Word­press will be released between March to April. As Word­press 2.4 is skipped, don’t expect to see 2.4 any­time soon. Instead, 2.5 will take […]

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