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June 28, 2006

There's a Naked Man in My AdSense!

Omnipotent Google

Surprised by a picture appearing in one of Google AdSense's new verticle image units.

June 27, 2006

Vaastu Shastra

Mixed, Motley, Sundry, Variegated

Dr Smita Narang, author of Web Vaastu, a new book that teaches the ancient philosophies of vaastu shastra and Chinese feng shui for web design and SEO.

June 26, 2006

MFA Diectories

Web Directories

How many directory sites are - like blogs - created only in hopes of monetizing them via Google AdSense?

June 24, 2006

Error 404 : Webmaster Brain Cell Not Found

Webmaster Mistakes

Ever done something really stupid to one of your websites? Share your story with me: I've made many a mistake as a website publisher.

Dvorak and the Mac Fanbase

Mixed, Motley, Sundry, Variegated

Apple user community is easily manipulated, linkbaited by PC Magazine columnist.

June 23, 2006

Silly, Silly Sitemaps

Omnipotent Google

The search engine may be crawling your website even when the sitemaps page says it hasn't.

The Problem With Webmaster Forums ...

Mixed, Motley, Sundry, Variegated

When, say, asking which CMS is the best don't you wish those who reply would explain why they think a certain contest management system is superior to the others?

June 22, 2006

Don't Be Evil. Don't Be Stupid.

Omnipotent Google

Google Answers silence on the search engine itself make the company look like the average American political hack.

June 21, 2006

Sitemaps: Does My SE Lover Understand Me?

Omnipotent Google

Will the search engine care for me more, think me a beautiful darling, love me until the end of time because I submitted my site map? Should I put my hand in Google's and hope it will be my preacher, teacher until the end of time?

SEO : The Magic Bullet

SEO Ignoramus

Individuality will triumph all the tricks and techniques of search engine optimization: nothing can help you in the long run if you are a bore.

Yahoo News Spammed

Spam & Scam

El Cronista Regional a defunct Argentina online newspaper used to stuff Yahoo news searches with links to porn sites.

June 19, 2006

Will MySpace Implode?

Mixed, Motley, Sundry, Variegated

Webmasters go to jail, advertisers flee: is this the future of the youth market and user generated content on websites in America - The Girls of MySpace?

June 18, 2006

Subdomain Redirection

Domain Names

Edit your .htaccess file so that an old subdomain directs visitors and traffic to your new website and you don't lose anything.

June 17, 2006

Pinging Yahoo?

Movable Type

http://api.my.yahoo.com/RPC2 failed - Why is Yahoo rejecting my pings after months of accepting them happily?

June 16, 2006

Too Many Domains, Not Enough Time

Domain Names

How do you develop or make money from domains once you've bought more than you can deal with properly, adequately?

June 15, 2006

Yahoo Sitemaps

SEO Ignoramus

Convert Google sitemaps to the Yahoo site map format via a php script.

June 14, 2006

Men! Boys! Women! Girls! MSN Wants You!

SEO Ignoramus

Joke - Microsoft seeks workers able to compensate for the deficiences in their search engine technology: essentially they are hiring people to manipulate their own SERPs. - Joke.

Directories: Sad and Bad ...

Web Directories

Directories that offer free submissions: their errors, mistakes, faults: how to better operate a directory site and get more websites submitted to your directory.

A Blog Is No Place for the Misanthropically Inclined

Meta-Weblog

On the often uncontrolled bias and hatred found in comments left on weblogs.

June 13, 2006

--!> ... !

Webmaster Mistakes

How adding an extra exclamation point caused my HTML comments to confuse Internet Explorer. For some reason Firefox didn't mind.

Convert Your RSS Feed into an Image

Mixed, Motley, Sundry, Variegated

Why transform your website feeds into artwork?

June 12, 2006

Whois You?

Mixed, Motley, Sundry, Variegated

People use domaintools.com - whois.sc - to look up my sites registry data but as far as I know they do nothing with the information.

Whew . . . !

Webmaster Mistakes

TIme to leave webmastering away for a few days, get some rest.

Richard, I Can't Read Your Site ...

Unhappy Websites

Not all of the three column themes from the Six Apart related style contest display properly in Internet Explorer or Opera.

June 11, 2006

Hello - AdBrite? - Fix the Site

Money Honey

My AdBrite rate mysteriously dropped and the site is broken.

June 10, 2006

Congress Saves the Web!

Politics

Telecommunications de factor monopoly to be extended to the web to protect telephone companies from other US corporations.

Server 500 Errors

Movable Type

When your MovableType installation starts putting file is writable by others in your error log.

June 09, 2006

Images Can Be Ugly .. !

Unhappy Websites

Pictures may enhance AdSense CTR and make the web site less appealing to visitors' eyes.

Those Thrilling Webmaster Forum Sigs

SEO Ignoramus

Do you comment on forumsfor Page Rank, to learn, for fun - are forums a waste of time for webmasters?

Long Deferrered Movable Type 3.2 Upgrades

Movable Type

Movable Type remains my CMS of choice: I like the power, template system, extensibility of MT compared to other blog and content management softare.

June 08, 2006

Referral Log Spammers

Spam & Scam

You bought an ebook or program that you hoped would make you rich? Ha, you'll never see any return for spamming my site with false visits!

Technorati

SEO Ignoramus

David Sifry's service may get you some traffic but won't make you a penny as an affiliate marketer or AdSense publisher.

Death to PR!

Omnipotent Google

Webmasters spend far too much time worrying about Page Rank.

June 07, 2006

Mr. SEOBlackHat

SEO Ignoramus

Laudable, funny, interesting blog about the internet and search engine optimization.

Persnickety Directory

Web Directories

Website directory has a silly grammar and syntax parsing algorithm that is often wrong.

June 06, 2006

That Darn Style Contest

Movable Type

Sponsors of The Style Contest try to help makeup for Six Apart's negligence in providing attractive and diverse layouts for Movable Type blogs.

June 05, 2006

The Great No Follow Brouhaha

SEO Ignoramus

Maybe Google or other search engines will punish webmasters who use no follow too much ... ?

June 01, 2006

Dear Mr. Directory Owner

Web Directories

Webmasters buy directory software but don't put enough effort or thought into establishing directories.

You Just Never Know ...

Web Directories

My directory was refused a listing by a directory of directories.