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iamlost: Jumping Ads On Msn Rant (Usability and Accessibility)

Fri, 09 May 2008 04:58:30 GMT

Interesting find EGOL.

I run FF with NoScript on (it says there are 62 scripts running on that page) and it kept switching between:
1. a blank spot on the page between 2

lines labeled advertisement,
2. an LL Bean image link between the lines and label
3. the NoScript logo and 4 text links.

In each instance above I right clicked and checked Frame Source and Info revealing a ton of different code.

Given that it is apparently an LL Bean paid ad spot finding the following in amongst all the various code offerings was especially interesting (my line breaks)(note the last two lines):

CODE

http://ad.doubleclick.net/click%3Bh=v8/36bb/3/0/%2a/w%
3B194377498%3B7-0%3B0%3B24685969%3B4307-300/250%
3B26347689/26365543/1%3B%3B%7Esscs%3D%3f
https://www.lowermybills.com/servlet/LMBServlet
?the_action=NavigateHomeLoansAdRedirect&sourceid=24685969-194377498-26365543

joedolson: Guilty And Dumped By Bluehost - No More Cre8pc Blog (Online Marketing and Promotion)

Fri, 09 May 2008 03:54:26 GMT

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Joe, your hosting service looks too good to be true. Is there no minimum length of contract? I didn't spot it in doing a quick look-see.

Yes - 1 year. What's great about my hosting service is reliability and competence. Tech support is fast; uptime is great. And the user interface for the control panel is, in my opinion, the easiest to USE I've ever seen.

I may be biased, of course.

QUOTE

My bet.... BlueHost's tech people are incompetent.

Yes, that's a significant possibility.

Respree: Jumping Ads On Msn Rant (Usability and Accessibility)

Fri, 09 May 2008 03:38:02 GMT

I'm sorry, which ads are rotating (graphic ad sandwiched in the middle of the article)? Is the entire page refreshing for you in FF? Not sure what you mean by the browser window jumps around. I can't see it because I'm using IE.

EGOL: Jumping Ads On Msn Rant (Usability and Accessibility)

Fri, 09 May 2008 03:31:38 GMT

MSN is making a huge mistake with their "jumping ads". These ads reload periodically and if you are trying to read an article in firefox the browser window jumps around when the ad reloads. Extremely annoying. I've bailed on a few articles today. I hope that they are making a lot of money because people like me are going straight to the competitor news site.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24526645

bwelford: Guilty And Dumped By Bluehost - No More Cre8pc Blog (Online Marketing and Promotion)

Fri, 09 May 2008 03:31:28 GMT

Joe, your hosting service looks too good to be true. Is there no minimum length of contract? I didn't spot it in doing a quick look-see.

EGOL: Guilty And Dumped By Bluehost - No More Cre8pc Blog (Online Marketing and Promotion)

Fri, 09 May 2008 03:22:34 GMT

My bet.... BlueHost's tech people are incompetent.

About a year ago I was investigating wordpress and got a domain there because they were offering pre-configured wordpress blogs. I wanted to experiment with it. A few months ago (after my contract expired and I was long gone from their system) I received an email message that they were not going to offer wordpress any longer and that I should make alterative arrangements if I needed that.

So, they were probably getting hacked right and left and didn't know how to keep the spammers out. I bet that they were being mined for links big time with a ton of free WP installs and nobody patching them.

Anybody left there better bail out now. If the Boss's blog gets hacked and stays hacked that is a really bad sign and a sorry place of biz.

joedolson: Guilty And Dumped By Bluehost - No More Cre8pc Blog (Online Marketing and Promotion)

Fri, 09 May 2008 03:21:37 GMT

One likely culprit for the email problem is that a spam bot is using @cre8pc.com addresses as the spoofed return address for their spamming. These @cre8pc.com addresses don't require any interaction whatsoever with your server, but they WILL generate massive quantities of rejection notices from spam filters --- this could easily result in tagging you as a spammer.

It is, however, COMPLETELY out of your control --- there's nothing at all you can do about it, and it's not something that they should hold against you.

What I find so particularly disturbing about this is the complete lack of information they've provided you with, and the lack of communication. No information about your supposed spamming, no communication directly with you. It makes it patently obvious that they just don't care about maintaining customers --- which is probably true.

The problems I've had with Bluehost in the past are different from these, but are easily sufficient that I have no intention of ever using them for one of my own projects or any client project in which I have any _say_ concerning the hosting.

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Who is your host Joe?

http://www.icdsoft.com

dazzlindonna: Guilty And Dumped By Bluehost - No More Cre8pc Blog (Online Marketing and Promotion)

Fri, 09 May 2008 03:08:33 GMT

Wow, that's a very strange situation. Luckily, moving a blog to a new host isn't too terribly hard, so the blog should be back up and running shortly. Still, it would be nice to really understand what is going on so that it can be prevented in the future. strange...

bwelford: Guilty And Dumped By Bluehost - No More Cre8pc Blog (Online Marketing and Promotion)

Fri, 09 May 2008 01:47:28 GMT

I'm only passing through quickly so cannot comment at length. The irony of this is that Matt Heaton's blog
http://mattheaton.com/
was hacked by goro (who also hacked two of my blogs at the end of January) and remained hacked for months. It was a factory for pharmaceutical links. Matt Heaton is the CEO of Bluehost. It was only cleaned up recently.

I had in mind to switch to Bluehost in the next little while. This is a dreadful situation.

Why did you receive so many emails. I use Akismet so most of the spam is siloed by that in the database. That's thousands per day. I only receive a small trickle of emails about questionable ones and most of the emails I get relate to good comments.

SEOigloo: Guilty And Dumped By Bluehost - No More Cre8pc Blog (Online Marketing and Promotion)

Fri, 09 May 2008 01:04:27 GMT

Well, you've just decided for me that I'll never be recommending BlueHost to any of my clients, friends or loved ones.

Kim, these people have got to be idiots!

I am so annoyed on your behalf.

Grrrr.
Miriam

cre8pc: Guilty And Dumped By Bluehost - No More Cre8pc Blog (Online Marketing and Promotion)

Fri, 09 May 2008 01:03:30 GMT

Mike, my Wordpress blog comments are sent to my gmail account, not cre8pc.com

What would the host see?

cre8pc: Guilty And Dumped By Bluehost - No More Cre8pc Blog (Online Marketing and Promotion)

Fri, 09 May 2008 00:52:17 GMT

What kills me is that I don't use them to send email. All of my inbound and outbound email is routed through Netaddress, to help me control the huge volume of spam I get for having an old domain.

I also use Gmail more than my own domain.

I've changed my pw to my server several times, and even that hasn't helped.

So. It's a hack situation and if so, they don't bother to help customers??? This floors me and its why I'm going public here. They wouldn't talk to me on the phone and sent me two disable notices, as if I'm a criminal.

projectphp: Guilty And Dumped By Bluehost - No More Cre8pc Blog (Online Marketing and Promotion)

Fri, 09 May 2008 00:41:30 GMT

I bet it would be because the WP emails about each comment, especially the spam comments, throws an alarm.

In any case, that is a crap outcome!

MaryKrysia: Css Flyout Menu Working In Ie7 Not Firefox Or Opera (CSS, Style, and Positioning)

Fri, 09 May 2008 00:27:27 GMT

QUOTE

Further, you do realise that means IE6 etc. users won't get any benefit from the menu?

No, I did not know this. I have used CSS for 2 years but in very limited ways. Since search engines do not read javascript, I was hoping to create a flyout navigation menu without the use of javascript -- one that would work in all browsers, including IE6. Darn.

Thank you for the link, autocrat, but it sounds like will have to add javascript to the navigation menu.

I checked the link you refered me to and found information about Javascript.

Thanks,
Mary

cre8pc: Guilty And Dumped By Bluehost - No More Cre8pc Blog (Online Marketing and Promotion)

Fri, 09 May 2008 00:15:15 GMT

Who is your host Joe?

Fortunately, usabilityeffect.com is on a friend's server.

joedolson: Guilty And Dumped By Bluehost - No More Cre8pc Blog (Online Marketing and Promotion)

Fri, 09 May 2008 00:05:42 GMT

Although it's pretty shocking, I'm not honestly surprised -- [name removed] is crappy web hosting, in my honest opinion.

Do find new hosting -- I'll recommend my host (I'll even sell it to you at a discount and help you move!)

Best,
Joe

cre8pc: Guilty And Dumped By Bluehost - No More Cre8pc Blog (Online Marketing and Promotion)

Thu, 08 May 2008 23:43:11 GMT

[Note: Links to the host disabled. It's against our rules to flame companies. I decided that as a warning and customer service to our membership, I'd leave the name in text. We're often asked whom to recommend for hosting. This thread will provide as a reminder of who not to and why, as well as guide for things to check when looking for a new host. Customer service and protecting YOU are important. - Kim )

This is the most absurd thing I've ever heard of. My host has dumped me.

They claim I am a spammer and do spam mailings. All of my email is split between NetAddress and Gmail, but they refuse to listen to me.

I have no idea where to take Cre8pc. The Cre8pc blog is no longer online.

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On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 7:31 PM, (host name removed) wrote:

Dear Customer:

We regret to inform you that your account has been suspended due to violations of our Terms of Service Agreement that you accepted at signup.

[Insane host removed]

Your mailings continue to be reported as spam. If you are not sending these mailings, then your account has been hacked, but the mail is still going out & being reported as spam, which could get our mail servers blacklisted, thus effecting millions of our clients.

At this time we must ask that you please seek an alternative hosting provider. Despite your violation of our TOS we as a courtesy will allow you 72 hours from this point forward to remove your account from our servers.

After 72 hours your file and data will be completely deleted from our servers and in accordance with our refund policy a prorated refund will be issued back to the source used for original payment.

When you have found another hosting provider and are ready to make the necessary changes to you DNS and transfer your registration please give us a call, submit a Terms of Service/Abuse Complaints ticket via our help center or hop on live chat and we would be glad to take care of those changes for you.

Below you will find a link to assist you in making this change as convenient as possible.

[Not helpful link removed]
If you need help moving your data, please visit this site:

[Not helpful link removed]

projectphp: A Website (Design) Oddity (Web Site Design)

Thu, 08 May 2008 23:41:32 GMT

$2.5 million for 100 shares.... WoW!!!!

I like that site a lot. It screams "Fad be damned. This baby is UTILITARIAN!!!!"

Autocrat: Css Flyout Menu Working In Ie7 Not Firefox Or Opera (CSS, Style, and Positioning)

Thu, 08 May 2008 21:12:34 GMT

Additional to those problems, your structure for the list was a little off...
you were closing the containing LI.

You could try this as the basic start point...
(basic SuckerFish)
http://www.htmldog.com/articles/suckerfish...e/vertical.html

Works wiht no JS needed for browsers baring IE6 (and maybe NS6?).

If you want to go a step further... look at SuperFish... which is a JQuery version.
Works without JS for the good browsers... but with JS works in IE6 and allows for Keyboard navigation etc.

Autocrat: Css Flyout Menu Working In Ie7 Not Firefox Or Opera (CSS, Style, and Positioning)

Thu, 08 May 2008 20:44:03 GMT

Well, not wanting to be the bearer of bad tidings...

But the use of visibility/hidden values can cause some problems with assistive/alternative technologies - which may mean that some user types cannot make full use of that navigation.

Further, you do realise that means IE6 etc. users won't get any benefit from the menu?

bundles: Need Rec: Digital Asset Management (dam) System (Graphics & Multimedia Design)

Thu, 08 May 2008 19:18:17 GMT

Thank you Yannis... I admit I had to run out & google "WAMP."

I'm not sure if a CMS can be a solution for us, although I have very little knowledge of them, other than once installing Wordpress. The thing is, it seems that any web-based solution would be a problem in that web apps can only "work with" (display) jpeg, gif or png images. Unless i'm completely wrong. (It has happened. )

IF I'm right about that, then in order for a web-based solution to work, we would have to create and maintain web-compatible images of each piece of media referred to, which would be a pain.

Am I making sense at all?

We have Sharepoint available, and it seems we could easily use that -- IF we were to manually create thumbnails of everything.

I'm looking for a magic solution. Sigh. I would so love to have a compilation of all our digital images, including our stock art collection, upon which we could search by keyword, by project, or customer, etc. I think that Lightroom would come close to ideal -- IF its data catalog could be stored on a shared network drive.

Where's the LOVE?

MaryKrysia: Css Flyout Menu Working In Ie7 Not Firefox Or Opera (CSS, Style, and Positioning)

Thu, 08 May 2008 18:59:28 GMT

My first attempt at a pure CSS flyout menu!

Armed with lots of help from CSS Web Sites, I have attempted to create a pure CSS flyout menu. The problem is that it is only working in IE7, and not in Firefox or Opera. I am thrilled that this is working at all! Not being a pro at CSS, I have no idea what is needed for this to work in all browsers. (I am not sure I really understand how this is working in IE7).

The test site is at http://www.wingsdove.com/agg/menus.htm. The CSS code is at http://www.wingsdove.com/agg/include/styles.css. Any insights or ideas?

Mary

Autocrat: Is There A Way To Keep Fixed Elements From Falling Off The Screen? (Usability and Accessibility)

Thu, 08 May 2008 18:58:04 GMT

Are we dealing with a fixed width setup or a variable one?

Lyle: Is There A Way To Keep Fixed Elements From Falling Off The Screen? (Usability and Accessibility)

Thu, 08 May 2008 18:35:14 GMT

To my knowledge, no there's no way of doing this for a position:fixed element without resorting to Javascript.

You could (in theory at least) sniff the browser window size using j/script, and then use the DOM model to change the styling (fixed position location in particular) once the page has loaded.

The alternative would be to use a float:right for the element, then use margin-left: 900px (or whatever) to move the div to the correct place. Then if the browser window is too small, it *should* just drop to the bottom of the page anyway - although I'm not sure if you would then have to still re-write the margin-left value using j/script.

carpeliam: Is There A Way To Keep Fixed Elements From Falling Off The Screen? (Usability and Accessibility)

Thu, 08 May 2008 18:01:42 GMT

I have an element on my page which we'd like to keep fixed, so that it never falls off the screen. Unfortunately, on small resolutions like 800x600, this element isn't completely visible, and you can't scroll to get to it. I'd like to build my site for 1024x768 while still keeping my site accessible to people with smaller resolutions. Is there any way that a fixed element can be aware of where the edges of the screen are, and to make sure that the element doesn't go over those edges? Thank you.

iamlost: A Website (Design) Oddity (Web Site Design)

Thu, 08 May 2008 17:38:25 GMT

Berkshirewear is, however, a giggle on many fronts.
My favourite (bolded emphasis mine) is:

QUOTE

In preparation for the upcoming 2008 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholder's Meeting, some styles on this site may not be available for immediate shipment on orders placed from April 14th through May 15th. After merchandise is returned from the meeting, normal availability will resume. You may still place orders during this time however, they may not be filled until after May 15th. Please contact Customer Service to determine specific item availability for any order that must be shipped between 04/14/2008 and 05/15/2008.

What that tells me is that they:
* maintain minimal stock
* only sell to social climbers - and making them suffer on the journey just might be an in-joke.
* or to shareholders - and they can buy at the meeting just like at an SEO/M convention.

Which has the most caché - a BH t-shirt or a BOTW t-shirt?

bwelford: Landing Pages (Search Engine Optimization)

Thu, 08 May 2008 17:27:24 GMT

Well to the Forums, tracischarf.

I really enjoyed what you wrote. I too feel that would be a good use of the specialized entry approach (landing page).

iamlost: A Website (Design) Oddity (Web Site Design)

Thu, 08 May 2008 17:25:02 GMT

Berkshire Hathaway Inc. is a conglomerate holding company that has never had a stock split.
* the price fluctuation for a single (BRK-A) share price (today): $128,300.00 - $129,099.99
* the price fluctuation for a single (BRK-A) share price (last year): $107,200.00 - $151,650.00
Yes, that is correct - one share for over a hundred thousand dollars.
Over 12.5 million dollars for a single block of a hundred shares.

Even their cheapie (30 shares = 1 ownership value, 200 shares = 1 vote) - (BRK-B.) - is currently valued at over $4200.00 a share. Or over $42,000.00 for a single hundred block.

They have nothing to prove, no need to develop, market, sell or service via the web. It needs only be a corporate placeholder with links to sufficient information to minimise office calls.

I suspect that perhaps 2% of web users are prospective BRK-B investors.
I doubt that 0.0001% of web users are prospective BRK-A investors.

Give me one good reason for going beyond a minimalist website?

bwelford: A Website (Design) Oddity (Web Site Design)

Thu, 08 May 2008 17:22:04 GMT

I agree with you, Pierre, that his basic webpage does not need to be more elaborate. Indeed, he perhaps wants to spread the message that KISS (Keep It Simple, Sweetheart ) is his watchword.

On the other hand, for his online Hathaway shop, that's another matter. One concept, I often use in situations like this is who are you losing by any decision you take. Perhaps most visitors overlook the shortcomings and will purchase anyway, given the Hathaway reputation. However there may be a small percentage 'on the edge' of purchasing who just drop out (click away). I think it's always wise to look at that percentage, who are on the edge. If you can keep them with you by small changes then that is very effective use of your effort. After all the hardest task is to get them to come to the website

iamlost: Wordpress Camp Vancouver (Tutorials & Virtual Learning)

Thu, 08 May 2008 16:34:08 GMT

Thank you, Kulpreet, for taking the time to write such a comprehensive article about the WP Camp. What with your details and the various links I spent much of an hour reading about a CMS I don't use.

Your passion and skills really come through.

tracischarf: Landing Pages (Search Engine Optimization)

Thu, 08 May 2008 16:17:21 GMT

Want to chime in here on dedicated landing pages, and whether they are worth pursuing:

I can actually think of a number of examples where you'd definitely want to create specific landing pages, rather than just sending traffic to the most relevant page on your site.

For example, if I'm advertising a weight loss coaching service on Facebook, I might want my ad to link to a landing page that is Facebook-specific. Maybe the landing pages has this cute intro about how you can keep your "thin" photo up on Facebook for years, etc. Maybe even make that the graphic on the landing page -- "you now: 165 lbs" : "your facebook photo: 145 lbs". You know, have a light touch and make people laugh with a Facebook-specific example, and get them go to (and fill in) a 3-field form for their free 30-min consultation.

You could actually do a similar thing with advertisements on match.com. (Quick note: I'm not even sure if you *can* advertise on match, but you probably get my point.) A specific landing page for each would likely connect better with people and generate higher response than just pointing them to a web page within your site that doesn't pick up on the conversation or the context at all.

So, what I'm saying is that there are instances where you would be smart to do dedicated landing pages. Not indexed. Not orphaned either probably (you *would* want them to link to your lead generation form, in the example I gave above). And you could indeed measure everything about the page in your analytics -- how many people clicked through to the submit form, how many people actually completed that form, etc.

Just my thoughts on the matter. But I *did* want to come to the defense of the people who think landing pages have their place!

cre8pc: Question For Bloggers Re: Multiple Topics (Blogs, RSS and Syndication)

Thu, 08 May 2008 15:01:01 GMT

I go off topic too. I have a category called "When I Have the Talking Stick", which is a Native American custom of whoever has the "talking stick", is allowed to speak about anything they wish to.

I didn't start this until I had developed a following however and established a rapport with my readers. They wanted to hear more from me and my life and responded with positive feedback to my off topic posts.

I think sometimes it depends on the writing and openness of the blog owner to share. I've seen other blogs try to get personal and they don't pull it off. It's not them. It's their writing. They don't connect well.

cre8pc: A Website (Design) Oddity (Web Site Design)

Thu, 08 May 2008 14:48:40 GMT

Guessing here...

The goal of the site may be to provide information only, in the fastest way possible, which is direct links. There may be no business decision to present a brand, or any elements that would slow down load time.

That said, it's sending all kinds of messages about the company and few of them are positive.

This cracked me up.

QUOTE

If you have any comments about our WEB page, you can either write us at the address shown above or e-mail us at berkshire@berkshirehathaway.com. However, due to the limited number of personnel in our corporate office, we are unable to provide a direct response.

yep. Nobody is home alright

eKstreme: A Website (Design) Oddity (Web Site Design)

Thu, 08 May 2008 14:22:31 GMT

Why would he need a more elaborate design?

yannis: Need Rec: Digital Asset Management (dam) System (Graphics & Multimedia Design)

Thu, 08 May 2008 14:04:15 GMT

QUOTE

If you have any suggestions, I'll all ears!!

Here is my suggestion (implemented a similar one for an engineering office both for documents, images, CAD Drawings and the like)

1. Download WAMP
2. Install it on the server
3. Use localhost to access it
4. Download a CMS that you are familiar
5. Organize your download directories
6. Have a front page or more with links to the main directories

From this point onwards you can go as fancy as you want!

We implemented it on Drupal, but could easily use wordpress. We added a couple of php scripts that list the contents of a directory on a page automatically. (Too lazy to generate pages or MySQL!)

Yannis

webdesignernew: A Website (Design) Oddity (Web Site Design)

Thu, 08 May 2008 13:56:35 GMT

All I can say is shocking!

bundles: Need Rec: Digital Asset Management (dam) System (Graphics & Multimedia Design)

Thu, 08 May 2008 13:02:28 GMT

Hi all...

I am a web designer working in a marketing dept of 14 people. We use a shared drive to store all of our digital media: photographs, logos, print projects, web projects, etc.

We're at the point where we could really use a system for organizing our digital media, to include: jpegs, tifs, eps, ai (Illustrator), InDesign files, etc.

We need to keep track of which photos are used by which customers. Some photos can be used by any; some are exclusive to the customer. Which photos are used with which project, etc.

I've been investigating many options, including using Lightroom, Bridge, Extensis Portfolio, MS Expression Media, etc. I've looked at Zenfolio and Smugmug, but of course they mainly work with jpegs gifs (and video formats: Smugmug).

I'm considering a FilemakerPro solution, but that would 1) require me developing it and 2) me maintaining it. Or we could possibly purchase a ready-made FMPro solution. (We already own FMPro)

Requirements

We need to work across the shared drives. (so [b]Lightroom is out)[/b
The system needs to support various file formats, such as .ai (Illustrator) and .eps and .psd.
Needs to be fairly easy for our dept to maintain (no IT required!), since we're all busy (and IT will be ticked off anyway that we're doing this ourselves!)
Hmm, there are many others, but this gives you an idea.

If you have any suggestions, I'll all ears!!

Thanks much.

zero_digit: Highend Traffic Statistics? (Other Search Engine Discussion)

Thu, 08 May 2008 12:13:03 GMT

nice post guys, some of them i didn't knoe, it is really a big help....

zero_digit: Are Seos Better Searchers? (Other Search Engine Discussion)

Thu, 08 May 2008 12:09:44 GMT

I think so, because they search every site and every hour....

zero_digit: Clicking On The Cached Link (Other Search Engine Discussion)

Thu, 08 May 2008 12:06:54 GMT

nice post guys, i think cache builds traffic for the site...

zero_digit: Let's Write A Keyword Research Tool (Other Search Engine Discussion)

Thu, 08 May 2008 12:04:15 GMT

nice information, congratulation...

A.N.Onym: Spam Index And Its Influence In Seo (Search Engine Optimization)

Thu, 08 May 2008 10:40:29 GMT

Well, you'll have to share in what discussion you came across this phrase, firstly.

Examples of what would you like?

allok7: Spam Index And Its Influence In Seo (Search Engine Optimization)

Thu, 08 May 2008 10:27:40 GMT

Hi A.N.Onym,

Thanks for share info here, can i have some brief explanation with examples.

Thanks again

A.N.Onym: Spam Index And Its Influence In Seo (Search Engine Optimization)

Thu, 08 May 2008 10:12:10 GMT

Heh, I thought it's a neat discussion going on here by looking at the stats.

Anyway, spam index is the whole indexed spam pages in SE indices. Since the PR value depends on the total amount of pages on the Internet, the more pages you have, the less PR each page has (because there are only 10 digits for all the pages).

Now, when it comes to traffic, it means nothing, because it is not the absolute PR value that matters, but the relative one. You need to have more links to get more PR to be higher in the SERPs, than your online neighbour, that's all.

Basically, it means just keep on working on creating useful content and promoting it to get more links and stand out.

P.S. At least, that's what I have gathered from previous discussions on the topic. I am sure someone more knowledgeable can chime in to correct me. If it is related to email - and top pages in SERPs say so, then I don't see how it is related to SEO. It is hard for spam to outrank clean sites in Google.

Perhaps the context where the phrase "spam index" was used and why it should or should not help SEO might help the matter.

A.N.Onym: Great Linkbait Idea (Social Media And Tagging)

Thu, 08 May 2008 09:14:42 GMT

When you talk about a one-pager and distraction, you are thinking about a working linkbait. The one you just launched. Keeping it on a one-page site is fine.

I am talking about moving and redirecting the bait to a site section (of another site) instead of bluntly redirecting it to commercial content. Since you move the thing anyway just to gain link weight, what does distraction has to do with it? You'll still be gaining occasional links to your piece this way and won't alienate the visitors via links (and possibly social site users).

Another option is to continue building the viral content on the baited piece. Do you think starting a new site for every piece is more worthy?

EGOL: A Website (Design) Oddity (Web Site Design)

Thu, 08 May 2008 09:04:14 GMT

minimalist design

projectphp: Great Linkbait Idea (Social Media And Tagging)

Thu, 08 May 2008 08:28:34 GMT

QUOTE

d figure a better way would be to put it in a section of a site

You think? I'd argue the opposite, that a one-pager helps by not distracting people from a single, simple idea.

curiousone: Wordpress Camp Vancouver (Tutorials & Virtual Learning)

Thu, 08 May 2008 08:22:40 GMT

I didn't talk to you afterwords but was one of the people asking questions during your presentation ie the amazon wp thing.

A.N.Onym: Great Linkbait Idea (Social Media And Tagging)

Thu, 08 May 2008 08:14:53 GMT

The concept is nice. I was contemplating the idea, too. I reckon Wit was playing with one site=one idea style, no report from him yet.

I'd figure a better way would be to put it in a section of a site after a while not to be too rude to the interested parties and those, who linked to it. It'd simply give more weight to the domain you move it to.

Or just place several links to your most important pages on the site w/o moving it, that'd work nicely, too.

The thing is, you can always play further with the idea and branch it out in more social media content. And you have the audience by then, too.

P.S. Too bad the content is in an image. It'd be much, much better in text. And it needs more work, imho. But the idea is nice.

projectphp: Great Linkbait Idea (Social Media And Tagging)

Thu, 08 May 2008 07:53:44 GMT

http://www.hillaryis404.org/ is a great little idea. The elements are ideal;:
1. Take a current event that Diggers support.
2. Build a one page site, so no oneknows who it is.
3. Write a funny page.
4. Submit to Digg.
5. A few months later, redirect to {YOYURWEBSITEHERE}. Perfect

Seem like a good idea to anyone else?

A.N.Onym: A Website (Design) Oddity (Web Site Design)

Thu, 08 May 2008 07:32:29 GMT

The gem at Berkshire Wear that amazed me was the end of the phrase about IE: "or placing an order my produce unexpected results". Now that's a welcome message to 50% of the users.

There are plenty of people, whose free work will be much, much better, than that. I'd say the site was made in '97.

fisicx: A Website (Design) Oddity (Web Site Design)

Thu, 08 May 2008 07:22:22 GMT

Even worse, when I looked at the Berkshire Wear site I got a big flashing message telling me the site requires IE5 or higher!

Are you sure it cost as much as $100?

A.N.Onym: A Website (Design) Oddity (Web Site Design)

Thu, 08 May 2008 07:17:25 GMT

Not sure about design, more like information structure. Can't get head or tail there, really. Maybe the site is for Mr Buffet himself?

Respree: A Website (Design) Oddity (Web Site Design)

Thu, 08 May 2008 07:05:38 GMT

I'm scratching my head over this website oddity.

The company is Berkshire Hathaway. The name may not be too familiar, but most likely, the CEO's name will ring a bell. His name is Warren Buffet, who recently overtook Bill Gates as the richest man in the world.

What I can't quite figure out is the 'why'. Why would a company that did over $118 billion in revenue last year have a website that looks likes he hired a kid to do it for $100 bucks.

I know Mr. Buffet enjoys investing in companies with low cost structures. Perhaps this is his personal statement of that investing philosophy.

I think if it were me, I'd splurge a little.

SEOigloo: Spam Index And Its Influence In Seo (Search Engine Optimization)

Thu, 08 May 2008 06:49:41 GMT

Hi Allok,
Like Barry, I hope you can explain a bit more about what you mean so that we can help you.

Welcome to Cre8asite
Miriam

Lyle: Converting An Phone # Post To A Timezone Variable (Web Site Programming)

Thu, 08 May 2008 05:30:51 GMT

Yes, you'll need to use $offset as the value in your PHP - that's the time difference you needed.

So your PHP would be

$offset1 = $_REQUEST["time_zone_c"];
$offset = $offset1/60;

It's divided by 60 for minutes because the javascript timezoneoffset is done in minutes.

Hell, you could change it in the html to say

var x = d.getTimezoneOffset()/60;

which will then give you the time offset on the html in hours instead of mins. It's up to you.

A return value of 420 would be something like GMT + 7 hours , if that helps. I don't know where your ~~server~~ [Edit : Doh! It's not the server this is working on, is it? I meant 'client' as in webclient/browser etc.] is based. For me in the UK it returns +60 (i.e. GMT + 1 hour, which is (of course) BST ).

SEOigloo: Question For Bloggers Re: Multiple Topics (Blogs, RSS and Syndication)

Thu, 08 May 2008 05:15:07 GMT

Hi Kulpreet Singh,
If the blog is a business blog (for example, dealing mainly with SEO, or design) why not have a personal/creative category in addition to your technical categories? If you keep the category name broad enough, you could put pretty much anything in it that didn't fit in your tech categories?

We did this on our blog. We have a section called Inside the Igloo where I've posted stuff like news about us, awards, etc.

That might not be quite what you are looking to do, but I think I'd rather see randomness organized into one category rather than a long list of random categories with only a post or two in it.

Good luck with this. I like your idea of The Hunt!
Miriam

SEOigloo: Can You Reproduce This Error? (Cross-Browser Device Assessment Panel)

Thu, 08 May 2008 05:09:51 GMT

Hi Joe,
That was some awesome troubleshooting! Thank you. We can see it now, too, by enlarging with control +

It's taken me 2 days to get back to being able to work on it.

So, we've set a fixed width in the WP stylesheet and in the sidebar. Yet, when we do enough control +, it's still eventually making the lower green boxes jump over into the main body of the blog.

Here are the sections of the stylesheet I've changed:

QUOTE

#sidebar {
float:left;
width:150px;
height:100%;
margin:0 0 0 1px;
padding:0 2%;
padding-left:1px;
padding-top:0px;
font-family:Tahoma, Arial, Verdana, times, serif;
background: #fceec2;
font-size:8pt;
}

(the width used to be at 20%)

#content {
float:right;
background:#FFFFFF;
color:#333;
width:547px;
margin:0 1px 0 0;
padding:0 4% 0 0;
}

(the width used to be at 73%)

Here is the section of the sidebar I've changed - the table that contains the list of articles:

..etc

(the table width used to be set at 100%)

Is there something else I should change to prevent the error from happening?

Thanks, Joe & Barry.
Miriam

Ron Carnell: Question For Bloggers Re: Multiple Topics (Blogs, RSS and Syndication)

Thu, 08 May 2008 04:23:02 GMT

The real question here is whether you want to think of your blog as a series of short stories, related perhaps but otherwise distinct, or whether your blog is going to be a novel?

Why the distinction?

Because no one wants to read 500 pages of non-stop action. No one want to read 500 pages of sultry romance, either. Or page after page after page of humor. A novel may well concentrate on any one of these things, but it has to offer a balance of sorts because action gets pretty boring unless carefully woven with less exciting fare. It's the contrast that gives action or romance or humor its edge.

It's called pacing and it's often one of the hardest things for a writer to master. In my opinion, yes, a blogger should definitely mix it up a bit. It shouldn't be haphazard or spontaneous, though. It should be very carefully planned. Got a really big, really important post in the works? Slow down the pace a little before making that big post, and your big post will seem all the bigger because your readers have been prepared to ramp up their heart rates. If your mix-up post can subtly foreshadow what is to come, so much the better.

Sometimes, I think you have to step back and look at the bigger picture. You can bet your readers do, even if only subconsciously.

Respree: Question For Bloggers Re: Multiple Topics (Blogs, RSS and Syndication)

Thu, 08 May 2008 01:00:19 GMT

Although I'm not a blogger or read many blogs, I would venture to guess its pretty difficult to write something out of the ordinary every time (that hasn't been regurgitated a thousand times before). I tend to gravitate toward insightful, thought-provoking styles of writing that I can relate to. Many times, an interesting personal story about a certain situation hits home for me and makes me connect with the author in ways a very clinical, impersonal style cannot.

I see nothing wrong with the ocassional vent, but if the blog or site is riddled with them, I find I'm not attracted to negativity.

In terms of annoying readers, I think comments (or perhaps, lack thereof) can give you some good indicators of whether they found what you've written annoying. Keep in mind, however, about taking comments with a grain of salt. What the minority may have found annoying, could also be the same article that the majority found spectacular.

Not sure if these thoughts are helping any, but that's what I think, for what its worth.

jason_sot: Converting An Phone # Post To A Timezone Variable (Web Site Programming)

Thu, 08 May 2008 00:10:51 GMT

ok, so this time it returned "420"

I have this in the form:

<script type="text/javascript">
var d = new Date();
var x = d.getTimezoneOffset();
document.write("");

and this on the php page:

$time_offset = $_REQUEST["time_zone_c"];
$offset = $time_offset/60;

where 'time_zone_c' is the name of the input field. Im assuming my issue is in the 2nd line of the php code because Im not calling that $offset anywhere?? And would i be dividing by 60 minutes? or 3600 seconds (as i saw it mentioned elsewhere)??

EGOL: Question For Bloggers Re: Multiple Topics (Blogs, RSS and Syndication)

Wed, 07 May 2008 23:10:50 GMT

Matt Cutts is a very popular blogger and often has posts divergent from his "Gadgets, Google and SEO" theme. Some are on recreation that he enjoys and some about his cats. He is a very influential person with very valuable things to say... so that gives him an unusual opportunity to deviate beyond his "gadgets, google and SEO". He could write about dust balls under his couch and Cuttlets would read it.

If I wrote about cats on my blog I don't think that I could get away with it. I think that a person might gauge their ability to depart from their theme by the types of comments that people post on those departing posts. If you get no comments then those posts are stinking up your blog. If you get lots of nice comments and questions then you can get away with it.

To be safe you should always allow just a few lines of these posts to display on the front page of your blog.... I don't want to scroll and scroll and scroll to get past the pictures of a bloggers pets.

EGOL: Google - Publisher Or Advertiser? (Google)

Wed, 07 May 2008 22:41:54 GMT

Thanks for tell us about the blog post. I enjoyed it.

A few reactions....

You said... "the more you pay the more visible your Adwords will be".... I get it now.. that's the same thing as, "the more links you pay for the higher your SERPs". You are right. And, I never viewed it that way.

Also..."Such a clear distinction is what the Federal Trade Commission has ruled must occur on Search Engine Report Pages (SERP�s).".... I didn't know that. I thought that a search engine could do ANYTHING on their property.

OK... so based upon that concept, would the presence/absense of Adsense on a website be an inappropriate element of their webpage ranking algo? How about Yahoo! demoting pages that run Adsense?

Great blog post, thanks again.

Lyle: Converting An Phone # Post To A Timezone Variable (Web Site Programming)

Wed, 07 May 2008 21:23:24 GMT

I've just been playing with this myself (just for fun - I really *am* that said)

I have to say, I'm not great with Javascript, so putting the value into the function is becoming a pain in the bum.

So what I've done is just put in a javascript piece where the input should go, letting j/script do the hard work so I didn't have to. *grin*

<script type="text/javascript">
var d = new Date();
var x = d.getTimezoneOffset();
document.write("");

yannis: Php - First Words Of A Text (Web Site Programming)

Wed, 07 May 2008 20:57:41 GMT

Alas PHP 5.0 and less does not understand unicode! It is hopefully coming in PHP 6.0. There are work arounds where you can use mb string functions etc or some libraries but support is patchy. Strange enough regular expressions understand unicode chracters if you use the U modifier.

If I understand it correctly the script you are trying to use counts a number of words from a string, try this.

$pattern='/(\b[[:alpha:]]+\b){0,5}/Uisx';
preg_match_all($pattern,$text,$values);
print_r($values);

Replace the 5 for the number of words or use a variable. Use a character class rather than a-z, which will only see the normal characters. ($text is your string);

Hope it helps

Yannis

jason_sot: Converting An Phone # Post To A Timezone Variable (Web Site Programming)

Wed, 07 May 2008 20:51:56 GMT

Hmmmmm... i like where youre going with this and you have never steered me wrong in the past!

This is just returning the value: java script:document.write(d.getTimezoneOffset());

I tried with the initial js in both the head and body

?

bwelford: Google - Publisher Or Advertiser? (Google)

Wed, 07 May 2008 20:35:58 GMT

I hope you're right, Egol, that Google's rankings will be determined by searchers' clicks. After all, its relevance to the searcher that counts.

I still feel that Google chooses not to grapple with the thorny problem of major companies which may have a whole network of interconnected websites. Buying paid links is a much more visible way of improving SERP ranking that major companies do not need to use. Paid links are a very minor part of the reason why rankings may be distorted.

Given that Google has an Adwords program, which is a competitor of paid links, I do feel this raises some ethics questions. Should Google perhaps have an ethical journalism policy as the New York Times has? As Ron pointed out, newspapers are wrestling with this editorial / advertising dilemma. Newspapers are going through hard times financially. Google can hardly claim that as a reason for its actions. I've discussed this at greater length in a blog post today.

kulpreet_singh: Who Else Talks To Their Blog? (Blogs, RSS and Syndication)

Wed, 07 May 2008 20:08:48 GMT

This is so cool I didn't know it was so easily available and that the technology was actually good.

kulpreet_singh: Question For Bloggers Re: Multiple Topics (Blogs, RSS and Syndication)

Wed, 07 May 2008 20:07:36 GMT

Hi everyone,

I've started this new thing on my blog called "The Hunt" where I point out a problem and throughout the week I solicit input from others in the relevant fields for ways to solve/kill the problem. I'll be taking excerpts from peoples comments to put up on the blog.

I'd appreciate your input on this one:

Many bloggers have faced this issue. You start a blog to focus on a few topics in a general field or industry, but sometimes you feel the urge / need / responsibility to write something out of the ordinary. It might be due to a necessity, or just for fun. You might need to vent, or you might be excited about some personal accomplishment. In any case, you don�t want to annoy your readers who regularly visit for the specific topics you introduced at the start. In fact, let�s say you don�t only want to write these topics once in a while, but you always want to write on different issues. So is it more advantageous to have more blogs to cover the different areas, or should you keep it all on one blog? If so, how?

thank you,

-kulpreet singh

kulpreet_singh: Wordpress Camp Vancouver (Tutorials & Virtual Learning)

Wed, 07 May 2008 19:37:54 GMT

Thanks Miriam and Donna

The event (or the followup discussions) also got recently covered in 24hrs, a local daily newspaper: http://www.miss604.com/2008/05/wordcamp-ge...e-24-hours.html

Lyle: Converting An Phone # Post To A Timezone Variable (Web Site Programming)

Wed, 07 May 2008 19:36:49 GMT

No, you do it all on one form, then process in php (or ASP, although I'd have to look at date functions in that) and (having looked at the j/script date object) it turns out you can make life even easier by using the getTimezoneOffset method.

HTML :

<script type="text/javascript">
var d = new Date();

[whatever else is in the form]

PHP:

$time_offset = $_REQUEST["clientdatetime"];
$offset = $time_offset/60;
[all the other form processing]
?>

Job done.

jason_sot: Converting An Phone # Post To A Timezone Variable (Web Site Programming)

Wed, 07 May 2008 19:20:51 GMT

yeah that does make sense.

so that js can be placed no the page with the form.

then on the processing page, i woudl convert it to the desired format (pst, est, etc) and use another POST? so processing page would end up like this:

//convert the time difference to desired format
?>

http post just the timezone

//stuff needed to post to the server
?>

????

Lyle: Converting An Phone # Post To A Timezone Variable (Web Site Programming)

Wed, 07 May 2008 19:09:10 GMT

For the timezone part - and bear in mind it won't handle things like daylight savings - is to use javascript to set a hidden input field with just the date/time (which'll also help take into account international date line issues)

When the form is submitted, compare the j/script-generated date/time to the server time (or to gmt time, which is possibly easier, using PHP's gmdate() function ) .

The difference will be your time zone.

gmdate("H") - j/script_hour = time_difference

Hope that makes sense.

jason_sot: Converting An Phone # Post To A Timezone Variable (Web Site Programming)

Wed, 07 May 2008 18:56:41 GMT

ok so I am trying to figure out the best/easiest way to create a TimeZone variable based on a leads phone number that they enter into a form.

Curretnly, we have a website with a form (http posting) that posts to a php processing page that dumps the data into our CRM.

My thoughts are to add to the php processing page a way to grab the phone number, strip it down, calculate the time zone based on the 1st 3 digits, assign it to a new variable to be posted along with the lead info... and possibly, while Im at it, reformat the phone number to a dedicated format.

Any ideas?

Lyle: Php - First Words Of A Text (Web Site Programming)

Wed, 07 May 2008 18:24:17 GMT

OK, I've had a proper look at this now, and it seems like they've made it more complex than it needs to be.

As such, I've rewritten it using explode instead of str_word_count , and it seems to work nicely regardless of characters etc.

CODE

function first_words($string, $num, $tail=' ...')
{
  /** words into an array **/
  $words = explode(" ", $string);

  /*** get the first $num words ***/
  $firstwords = array_slice( $words, 0, $num);

  /** return words in a string **/
  return  implode(' ', $firstwords).$tail;
}

[Edited to take out the debugging stuff I'd added]

Autocrat: Php - First Words Of A Text (Web Site Programming)

Wed, 07 May 2008 17:11:29 GMT

Okay... please note that I suck at programming...
Additionally... I'm sure someone will poitn out a much simplier method (and/or a better one!)

create a new array, using
explode(' ',$textitem)

Then foreach through, assigning a key

In the foreach, create an If statement
the condition being that the $key is lt X
(X being the number of words to return)

inside the If condition, create a new array

close the If

Close the foreach

The use implode (' ',$nameofnewarraybasedonkey)

Then output the contents....

as I said, I'm not a programmer... but this is what I use in Xaraya...

CODE

<xar:set name="breakinput">
explode(' ',$inputtext)
</xar:set>

<xar:foreach in="$breakinput" key="$key" value="$value">
    <xar:if condition="$key lt 6">
        <xar:set name="buildoutput[]">#$value#</xar:set>
    </xar:if>
</xar:foreach>

<xar:set name="output">
implode(' ',$buildoutput)
</xar:set>
#$output#

As I said, not perfect, but seems to work... and I tested with chacters including á & ^ $

p3rh: Php - First Words Of A Text (Web Site Programming)

Wed, 07 May 2008 15:18:18 GMT

hmm.

I tried to do it like this $words = str_word_count($string,2,'æøå');

but then it wont work at all? it only shows the tail '...'

:-/

Jozian: Mobile Site For Indy 500 Fans (Website Hospital)

Wed, 07 May 2008 15:01:58 GMT

Hi all. It's been a while since I have been able to post in Cre8, thought i have been following a few discussions. Since I have been hired at ChaCha.com they have kept me very busy!

One of the things I do for ChaCha is to build tools and UI's to make our Guides faster and more effective. Some of these efforts are more generalized and others are focused on a specific content area.

For focused content like Sundance Film Festival, SXSW Music Festival and the Indy 500, I've employed wiki strategies to make content easier to locate and more quickly indexed. If the content is new, dynamic, or low on Google's priority list, it can take hours or days to see it. If I can get it into a wiki, the internal indexing makes it findable immediately.

A focused content portal can also add value in its ability to organize info and quickly convey complex relationships.

I've endeavored to do this with a some tools I have created for the Indy 500, as ChaCha is an official sponsor of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and this event.

Some of those tools are internal, but others appear to me to have some public value, including this mobile-optimized Indy 500 portal.

http://indy500content.chacha.com

I'm seeking your input and thoughts on the site, both for web and for mobile access.

One thing I'm already working on is a way to use Google CSE and Ajax API to integrate search results into a single page. While this is in the works, I think the custom search results are pretty powerful anyway, but usage may not be as intuitive as it could be.

Note that there is no real menu structure presented on the main page, it's more of a long list. Does that work or does it need more organization?

From the mobile perspective, a lot of the links on the main page go to non-mobile-centric places. Ok? Or should they be otherwise identified/deleted ?

Overall, these wikis are valuable internally to our Guides. Do they have external value or should I keep them hidden as I have in the past?

Lyle: Php - First Words Of A Text (Web Site Programming)

Wed, 07 May 2008 14:53:58 GMT

It's probably to do with not being able to process entities ( ø etc. ) within that function.

Looking at the PHP Help for the str_word_count function , it adds that you can put in extra characters that don't split the word...

str_word_count($str, 1, 'àáãç3');

so if you add the necessary characters to the line

$words = str_word_count($string, 2);

that should do it

bwelford: Spam Index And Its Influence In Seo (Search Engine Optimization)

Wed, 07 May 2008 13:56:00 GMT

Hi allok7. Welcome to the Forums.

I've never heard the term 'spam index'. Where did you see this used?

bwelford: Landing Pages (Search Engine Optimization)

Wed, 07 May 2008 13:54:29 GMT

I'm with you 100%, fisicx. Excellent advice.

bwelford: Wordpress Camp Vancouver - Blog Post (Cre8asite Blog Posts)

Wed, 07 May 2008 13:52:34 GMT

You're welcome, Kulpreet. You did a great round-up and it's a good read. It's got 15 Sphinns as I write so I'm sure it will become a Hot Topic. I hope all our readers will read it and sphinn it.

p3rh: Php - First Words Of A Text (Web Site Programming)

Wed, 07 May 2008 13:48:27 GMT

I use this function: http://phpro.org/examples/First-Words.html

But the problem is that if the text contains norwegian special characters such as æ ø å, the function just seem to replace them with a space. I dont get why?

Anyone got a solution to this problem, or maybe another way to get the same result? :-)

swainzy: Wordpress Camp Vancouver (Tutorials & Virtual Learning)

Wed, 07 May 2008 13:37:58 GMT

Congrats Kulpreet. Keep up the good work.

positivelyjim: Pages On My Site (Web Site Programming)

Wed, 07 May 2008 13:26:15 GMT

Gentlemen, thanks for the quick response. I sincerely appreciate it. I think I'm going to thoroughly enjoy being a part of this forum.

Regards

Jim

fisicx: Pages On My Site (Web Site Programming)

Wed, 07 May 2008 12:49:38 GMT

As rynert suggests, they are temporary files. If you preview your webpages whilst running contribute (or any other application), a temporary file is created. If you then upload all your webpages to the server while the application is still running you will copy across all these temp files.

You can safely delete all these files from the server. If you don't want this to happen again, don't preview the webpages before uploading.

Hope this helps.

zero_digit: Finding The Values Of Social Media Marketing (Social Media And Tagging)

Wed, 07 May 2008 12:46:42 GMT

nice post regarding the social bookmarks, i think SB and forums are the top site submission to have a large traffic...

zero_digit: Site Keyword Phrase Optimization (Search Engine Optimization)

Wed, 07 May 2008 12:44:56 GMT

try searching your keyword on google, and see how many potential search it have, the hight numbers the more it give you traffic...

positivelyjim: Pages On My Site (Web Site Programming)

Wed, 07 May 2008 12:28:34 GMT

[attachmentid=794][attachmentid=793]Hi Rynert, thanks for the welcome and the reply.

I edit my site through Contribute 3. I've included two screen shots, one from the Contribute 3 "Viewer," the other from the Control Panel of Host Excellence, who are my hosts. All the files are empty, except for one which just has some a few characters of random gibberish.

The Control Panel indicates they were all created on the same day, at almost the same time.

wyliet: Google Analytics (Search Engine Optimization)

Wed, 07 May 2008 11:37:49 GMT

Thanks to all of you for your comments. I shall go ahead, install and analyse.

Thanks once again,

Tom

allok7: Spam Index And Its Influence In Seo (Search Engine Optimization)

Wed, 07 May 2008 10:49:29 GMT

Hi all,

I like to know what is spam index and its influence in Search engine optimization.

please help me in this.

Thanks a ton for help provided.

fisicx: Landing Pages (Search Engine Optimization)

Wed, 07 May 2008 07:45:39 GMT

Re-reading all the posts it seems that confusion stems from the definition of a landing page. According to SEObook et al, a landing page is defined as:

The page on which a visitor arrives after clicking on a link or advertisement.

Which means any page on the site can be a landing page. It may be that you want to track visitors to a particular page. You can do this using an analytics package - there are plenty to choose from. You may want to limit how people get to a particular page (as Ron suggests) and provide a single point of entry.

But supposing you have this orphan page. How are your going to test its effectiveness? How will you know if people respond to your call to action? How are you going to entice them to return and consider the rest of the website?

If the whole site was linked and each page built to meet a specific purpose then surely this would be better for the visitor. There is no need to create a specific page to manage links from a blog or advert or social media site. All you need do is point to the most relevant page on the website. The analytics will tell you how people arrived at this landing page.

As projectphp said, you seem to be creating a problem that doesn't exist. Build the site with SEO in mind, then market specific pages using blogs, adverts and social media and then use an analytics package to see how people arrived on each page and what they did next.

A.N.Onym: Seeing Massive Increases In Se Traffic? (Search Engine Optimization)

Wed, 07 May 2008 07:43:02 GMT

Well, I am not following algo changes, so I can't comment.

Enjoy the moment, it may not last forever.

kulpreet_singh: Wordpress Camp Vancouver - Blog Post (Cre8asite Blog Posts)

Wed, 07 May 2008 07:17:06 GMT

Thank you very much Barry and Elizabeth!

rynert: Pages On My Site (Web Site Programming)

Wed, 07 May 2008 06:25:55 GMT

Hi Jim, welcome to the forums

Could they be TeMPorary pages? Perhaps drafts that we auto saved?

Do they look like an existing page on your site, or part completed page?

Failing that, what control panel do you use?

SEOigloo: Wordpress Camp Vancouver (Tutorials & Virtual Learning)

Wed, 07 May 2008 06:14:35 GMT

Congratulations, Kulpreet Singh!
Well done!

Looks like loads of fun.
Miriam

SEOigloo: Anyone On Satellite Internet? (Computer Maintenance and Security)

Wed, 07 May 2008 06:13:15 GMT

Hi Guys,
Well, I learned a ton from this thread! You sent me in a bunch of different directions of research and now I feel so much better informed about my options.

That particular house we were looking at just wasn't going to work out, but as we keep looking in the country, I feel much better prepared now to deal with options like satellite, etc.

Understanding FAP is really important, too! A whole different world out there.

I sincerely thank everyone for the amazing replies to this thread. I know it would help anyone who comes across it seeking information!
Miriam

kulpreet_singh: Wordpress Camp Vancouver (Tutorials & Virtual Learning)

Wed, 07 May 2008 05:39:28 GMT

Hi Donna,

The WordPress Camp was great!

Thank you to Cre8asite Admins for offering me the opportunity to guest blog about it at Cre8ive Flow: http://blog.cre8asite.net/archives/477

jaybong: Seeing Massive Increases In Se Traffic? (Search Engine Optimization)

Wed, 07 May 2008 05:28:15 GMT

I just checked the most popular keywords used in keyphrases (from AwStats) and plugged them into Google Analytics comparing the past 4 days to the same 4 day period last week.

Although there is an improvement in some keywords that are based around recent events in the niche, there is also an improvement for generic keywords that are often used to find content related to the niche. If it was just a topical spike I would expect the generic keywords to be still sending the same amount of traffic.

(Some of the generic keywords have nothing to do with the topical keywords so I don't think they are influencing each other - for example a spike in "barrack obama" might also trigger a spike in "politics". I don't think that is the case here).

A.N.Onym: Seeing Massive Increases In Se Traffic? (Search Engine Optimization)

Wed, 07 May 2008 04:36:24 GMT

Just to make it clear, I am not talking about long tail phrases. I am talking about single words that are used in phrases. AwStats shows such statistics, for example. The topic can be spread over the entire site, though given not a single page is popular, it can very well be just the extended results of design change, though.

jaybong: Seeing Massive Increases In Se Traffic? (Search Engine Optimization)

Wed, 07 May 2008 04:26:28 GMT

Yeah I thought of that, but there doesn't seem there has been any big news that would cause the sudden spike, and I have also looked at the page views of the top 100 or so pages (ranked in terms of page views) which haven't spiked either. Most articles on the site get less than 100 visits/article and this hasn't changed. In the last few days there are only a couple articles with more then 100 page views.

Looking through the long tail keywords there is a noticeable improvement but it it across the board, not just related to a couple of particular topics.

I have been monitoring the site for over a year and haven't seen anything like this - SE traffic usually goes up, but around 5%/month, not 40% in 4 days.

A.N.Onym: Who Else Talks To Their Blog? (Blogs, RSS and Syndication)

Wed, 07 May 2008 03:46:59 GMT

Thanks, Barry. I guess I now need a good microphone. Maybe something the company will invest in =)

bwelford: Who Else Talks To Their Blog? (Blogs, RSS and Syndication)

Wed, 07 May 2008 03:33:51 GMT

I haven't done any precise time measurements but I'm sure if I did the saving would be considerable. I would guess a 50% reduction.

The other advantage is that you can relax. It's no longer like working.

@Respree That A.L.I.C.E. site could be addictive. I'd never seen that before. Off course this is all Off-topic. LOL

A.N.Onym: Who Else Talks To Their Blog? (Blogs, RSS and Syndication)

Wed, 07 May 2008 03:19:18 GMT

I type pretty fast, too, but compared to speech, still a bit slower. And much slower, than I think, too =)

And yes, talking is more natural, than typing. Though editing is what scares me. Might make a good speaking practice, too.

Still, have you compared how much faster it takes you to talk a post up instead of writing? Basically, that's the only reason I can consider DNS for now.

Respree: Who Else Talks To Their Blog? (Blogs, RSS and Syndication)

Wed, 07 May 2008 03:18:26 GMT

I think what's even more impressive than talking to your blog is having your blog talk back to you.

I remember seeing a program called A.L.I.C.E. a couple of years ago. Just revisited the site a couple of minutes ago and boy its that entertaining.

I think they call them 'chatbots'.

Have a look (click on the leftmost link that says "Chat with Alice").
http://alicebot.blogspot.com/

Would love to hear from anyone who knows how this works. Fascinating.

A.N.Onym: Seeing Massive Increases In Se Traffic? (Search Engine Optimization)

Wed, 07 May 2008 03:15:23 GMT

Well, then your site might have covered the news that the Americans and Canadians are interested in.

Maybe playing with the keyword data might reveal it. For example, do you have the data for the most popular keywords used in phrases? That might help.

AbleReach: Wordpress Camp Vancouver - Blog Post (Cre8asite Blog Posts)

Wed, 07 May 2008 02:52:42 GMT

I shared it with friends on StumbleUpon, where it's doing well.

Stumble at will!

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