Gary Eckstein Search Engine Optimization 0 bookmarking, dmoz, feedburner, link promotion, mybloglog, Search Engine Optimization, search engines, seo, urls, website, WordPress
What difference does Search Engine Optimization really make? Is it worth spending the time and money on SEO? From experience it is obvious that SEO is an effective activity however I thought it’d be fun to compare two identical websites; one with a bit of SEO performed and one with very little SEO. I have [...]
Gary Eckstein Search Engine Optimization 1 google, google pagerank, keywords, meta tags, search engine results, seo, wikipedia
One of the Sites I manage sells Blu-ray Movies and Blu-ray Players. There is a lot of competition for the search term ‘Blu-ray’ with tens of millions of results being returned on the SERPs (Search Engine Results Pages). I have started doing some SEO on the site to try to improve where the site appears [...]
Gary Eckstein Internet 1 Atom, feed, feedburner, Feeds, google, Icerocket, index, indexing, ping, PingShot, publishing, PubSubHubbub, rss, search, search engines, SERPs, technorati, web, yahoo
I’m sure I read a quote somewhere saying that PubSubHubbub is like the Web on Crack (I can’t seem to find the quote). I’m not crazy enough to have tried Crack but it must be good if it’s anything like the new publish/subscribe messaging paradigm. PubSubHubbub is the Google initiative which, in plain English, monitors [...]
Gary Eckstein Internet 0 categories, hproduct, microformats, Nielsen, product categorization, rdfa, rich snippets, search engines, Tags
Reading through the Nielsen article ‘Organized Chaos: Global Data Harmonization’ which describes, in the context of categorization, the challenges faced by a single product being used for different purposes, it became very clear how awesome Internet tagging is. Tagging is effectively the ability to designate a single item to multiple categories. The Nielsen article shows [...]
Gary Eckstein Internet 22 cron, godaddy, hosting, how to, instructions, Linux, rss, troubleshoot, tutorial, WordPress, wp-o-matic
WordPress Wp-O-Matic not working with godaddy? Here is the solution… GoDaddy is used by many people to host their websites. Among the many Tool offered with GoDaddy Linux hosting is a Cron Manager. Cron is very simplistically the Linux / Unix equivalent of Windows ‘Scheduled Tasks’. The GoDaddy version simplifies the usual command based Cron [...]
