Recently I tweaked my robots.txt file on one of my blogs, and accidentally made a rule to not index any posts (duh, stupid me.) It was a simple mistake and easy to fix, but by the time I found out what I did, Google had already ran through it and un-indexed all my posts.
My traffic [...]
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The Importance of Multiple Sources of Monetization
Published June 2nd, 2007 in Money and Webmaster. 2 CommentsAsk.com, Google, Microsoft Live Search and Yahoo! finally all use the same autodiscovery method for your website’s sitemap. Since you should already be using a robots.txt file (right?) to tell search engines where and where not to index, all you have to do place the location of your sitemap file at the top of the [...]
Yes, I’m going to be a bit evil today with this hack.
We all know how inaccurate Alexa can be, but how can we fight back? First, we all need to download the Search Status plugin, but is that really enough?
There’s been talk around the blogosphere recently about ways to increase your Alexa ranking, and [...]
Ever since Google introduced the “nofollow” tag for following links back in Feb. 2005, comment contributers and spammers alike have been crying. While the intentions of this tag are good, in practice it doesn’t work so well.
This isn’t necessarily Google’s fault, but by default, Wordpress automatically adds “nofollow” tags to all comment and author links [...]
Alexa and the Search Status Plugin
Published April 10th, 2007 in Firefox, Internet and Webmaster. 8 CommentsMost of us know that Alexa Rankings are (terribly) flawed, but those of us that advertise still depend on them due to sites like ReviewMe, PayPerPost, and Text Link Ads still using them to determine how much we make from our advertising efforts. It sucks, but we don’t really have a choice.
Your site was ranked [...]
Tomorrow is the second annual CSS Naked Day. Remove your CSS and see how well your website falls back on it’s code. The idea of course is to promote proper web standards. Don’t have a properly coded site? I don’t recommend participating. You can check to see how your site will look tomorrow by installing [...]
