From the monthly archives:

August 2005

Google Confused About CSS Hacks

August 28, 2005

Umm … Hey Google … umm when I search for [css hacks] I’m NOT looking for counter strike source hacks (css-screenshot.jpg).
Categories:( google | css)

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Star Powered Traffic for Your News Blog

August 25, 2005

When I talk with people about adding a blog to their sites many of them don’t get it. They say things like “c’mon is anyone really going to read a mortgage/bankruptcy/adult/dating news blog”. I have to honestly answer no probably not. However IMHO they are just taking too narrow a focus on things. If you [...]

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O’Reilly and Link Spam

August 25, 2005

I’ve been making a conscious effort to make things more positive around here, but every so often something is going to get under my skin and get my hackles up. The bru-ha-ha over this O’Reilly link spam thing did it today.
Google Engineer Matt Cutts recommends the following:
As others have noted, if you’re going to sell [...]

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Add to Del.icio.us JavaScript

August 25, 2005

Get a better social bookmarking script here at Social Bookmark Scripts & Widgets
If you run a blog, forum, news website, or anything other kind of website that you want people to add to their del.icio.us bookmarks, feel free to grab my Add to Del.icio.us JavaScript. It’s a nice simple little piece of code that gets [...]

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Free Wardrobe Malfunctioning Unicorns Named Jessica

August 24, 2005

Ok so you’re not sure if your aggregator is on the fritz or if GW’s been tripping out on some funky mushrooms. Have no fear all is well just having a little fun with the Yahoo Buzz report, spammers scrambling indeed.
Free Wardrobe Malfunctioning Unicorns Named Jessica

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A Call To Action

August 21, 2005

I started Call to Action (noaff) and looked at the receipt and realize I was remiss in sending out a thank you. Thank you to Darren and Brandy of WebmasterRadio.fm fro ending me a free copy back in May … I’m so ashamed.
Categories:( webmaster.radio )

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Blogging Tip : Permalink

August 21, 2005

If you write a blog or read them regularly chances are you come across the term permalink. A permalink is supposed to do two things:

First it establishes a cool URI (see Cool URI’s don’t change).
Secondly it helps combat linkrot.

So most blogs have permalink or similar concept, which is a good thing. The problem however [...]

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Blog News : Scrapes, Fakes, And Remakes

August 21, 2005

If you’re a regular reader here you know I’m a big fan of integrating a trend or news blog into your website. I think it’s a great idea for keeping things from becoming old and stale, and a fun and educational way to play some of the “freshbot” games. I’ve been experimenting with different kinds [...]

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Free Backlink Analyzer

August 20, 2005

Aaron Wall who writes SEO Book released a beta version of Free Backlink Analyzer. I’ve taken it for a spin around the block and have to say I’m pretty impressed so far.
Categories:( seo | tools | seobook | aaron.wall)

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Personal Observation on Concentration

August 18, 2005

I can work on all but the most complex programming and coding with a DVD and people’s voices in the background. However I am unable to write any sort of content under the exact same conditions. It’s strange how the mind works sometimes.

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Splogs Are a Good Thing

August 18, 2005

Mark Cuban of Ice Rocket has launched a holy war in the blogosphere against what he considers the scourge of the online world, spam blogs or splogs for short. He’s so upset about it he’s threatening to ban all blogs from Google’s blogspot domain, since he feels that’s where the majority of splogs come from. [...]

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Google Sitemaps Review

August 17, 2005

I launched multiple new websites in July (more than 2 but less than 10) and decided to give Google new Sitemap tool a try. To keep things as even as possible I put links to each of the new websites on different established website home pages, which had a PR of 4 or 5 (pagerank [...]

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Jason’s Blog 500 Salvation Day

August 16, 2005

Bloggers rejoice, the day of emancipation is at hand. Self-anointed savior of the blog world, Jason Calacanis announces the feedster 500, releasing us from the servitude of the Technorati 100.
tags: (jason calacanis | jasoncalacanis | feedster 500 | feedster500 | feedster | technorati 100 | technorati100 | technorati | weblogsinc )

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Technorati &amp Del.icio.us Bookmarklet

August 16, 2005

Here’s an updated version of a Technorati and Delicious Bookmarklet corrected version. It’s based on this version, with the prefix corrected from [http://del.icio.us/tedernst/] to [http://del.icio.us/tag/].
via: (threadwatch)
Categories:( technorati | technorati.tag | delicious | delicious.tag | threadwatch | bookmarklet)

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Putting a Content Based Website Together

August 13, 2005

We’ve covered long term content and short term content, information pages, and touched briefly on advertising. Now it’s time to bring it all together.
File Structure
One of the absolute biggest mistakes I made when building websites was to not plan far enough ahead. So I ended up with pages like “www.example.com/keyword.html“, “www.example.com/keyword.php”, or “www.example.com/keyword.asp“. Really [...]

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Advertising on Content Based Websites

August 12, 2005

After spending time on research, creating content, buying a domain and paying for hosting, it only makes sense that you are compensated all of your effort. The most effective way to do this is with some form of advertising or affiliate program.
Affiliate Programs
In an affiliate program you are compensated for generating a sale or driving [...]

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Website Informational Pages

August 11, 2005

Now that I’ve covered long term content and short term content I’m left with the parts of a website that is either the most difficult, most tedious or most boring to work on, the basic information pages. Some of these pages aren’t neccesasry, but they will go a long way towards making your site look [...]

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Short Term Content

August 10, 2005

I spoke about long term content in the first article in this series. Now I am going to talk about short term content, which again strangely enough is content which will have a value only for a short period of time. Personally I draw the line between long and short term at one year. If [...]

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