Posted in DIY, Experiments, SEM on Dec 4th, 2007 1 Comment »
The Reverse Ego Search
Ever curious to know if someone is searching your name on Google ?
The habit of searching people on the net has become very popular. If you are going to meet someone (blind date, job interview, …) one of the first thing to do is search their name on Google to get […]
Posted in DIY, Tools on Nov 13th, 2007 3 Comments »
News flash: The web is not just Google. There are many other crucial information sources (a.k.a search engines) available out there that serve a purpose different than What Google’s engine is meant for. For example, if you want to find a job, don’t search Google. Use instead the search engine that specializes […]
Posted in Code, DIY, SEO, Tools on Nov 4th, 2007 No Comments »
SEO is a key element to marketing success, right ?
When you start doing SEO work on your pages, you wanna know as soon as possible when the Googlebot came to visit. It’s even more relevant when working on pages that have not been modified for a long time, and by now all the bots know […]
Posted in DIY, Web Hosting on Oct 28th, 2007 No Comments »
HostGator has a nice write up here on how to smoothly transfer your site from one host to another. I recently had to do that but unfortunately didn’t follow their exact guidelines so I paid the price of 7 days of downtime !!!
HostGator haven’t stressed a few things worth mentioning:
It may take the […]
Posted in DIY, Tools on Oct 18th, 2007 No Comments »
After installing Wordpress, with or without fantastico, go through this checklist.
This is relevant to wordpress-2.3 and maybe to future versions.
Reset password for admin.
Choose theme - note that each time you change the theme, you’ll need to redo the mods for Feedburner stats.
Upload theme heading picture.
Put your personal favicon.ico in the blog root dir. This may […]
Posted in Code, DIY on Sep 19th, 2007 No Comments »
I have an experimental blog on Blogger.com and I was curious to know how users find the posts. In other words - what’s the Referrer set to when they come in ?
Problem is, I don’t own blogpsot.com yet and therefor don’t have access to the raw log files or any other analytics […]