Month: September 2005

September 27, 2005 / Search Engine Optimisation

Search the web long enough for ideas on boosting your site’s ranking and you are bound to find pages with text like this

Did you know that you can dramatically increase the number of visitors that come to your site on a daily basis from Google? And it’s not constantly improving your position in Google search engine result pages (SERPs) for your competitive keywords which can take some time after working on your search engine marketing campaigns.

September 21, 2005 / Directory Management

Redirects are where a link to a site looks like http://www.mysite.com/go/143/ or http://www.mysite.com/goto.php?site=143

These are great for the directory owner because they can track the popularity of a link and capture other statistics. They are, however, almost worthless for the site owner.

September 21, 2005 / Directory Management

Every day there are new directories being created and keeping up with them can be quite a trial. If you have a series of sites that you submit then adding them manually can be a bit of a struggle.

Solution: have a generic descriptor file for sites to identify the main sections of the site that might be submitted to a directory.

September 21, 2005 / Other Stuff

I never expected to paraphrase Star Trek’s Dr McCoy – but there you go, there’s a little trekkie in all of us waiting to get out.

I sat down last night and watched Downsize Me, one of the latest reality shows leading us mere mortals out of the darkness and into the light of good living. We have parenting programs, makeovers and now lifestyles. Who ever thought healthy living would make good TV?

September 19, 2005 / Search Engine Optimisation

I just got spammed by an Australian crowd with this on their own blog…

Blog spammers
For all those newbie blog spammers out there that are looking for top blogs to spam, well SearchEngineBlog has a link to the top500 blogs in the world.

Proceed with caution as most of these blog will spot a spammer from a mile off.

September 19, 2005 / Books

I read this a few months ago but have been putting off writing the review. Catherine Chidgey wrote this novel and I was drawn the serenity of the cover.

September 17, 2005 / WordPress
September 17, 2005 / PHP & Web Development