Interwebs archive

Anything and everything vaguely internet related. Blogging, industry, social media: if you can find it online, I've talked about it in here.

Jem’s Top Traffic Tips

I’ve given advice on Promoting Your Website as well as my Top Five SEO Tips before, but neither really address how to get the traffic coming in once you’ve followed the tips and suggestions. In this article I hope to give you a head start in getting those all important hits by providing you with… read full entry »

DreamHost Security Breach

As you may or may not have heard, there was a recent security breach at DreamHost affecting roughly 3,500 accounts (and they were just the ones they admitted to). I don’t know the exact details of the hows and whys, but I do know that the most common ‘side effect’ is that people are finding… read full entry »

Google’s Mistake

How can we expect a generation of young coders and developers to learn what the meaning of words like “syntax”, “property”, “element” and “attribute” are, if even Google gets it wrong: Make sure that your TITLE and ALT tags are descriptive and accurate.(source) Ten points for anyone who can spot the mistake there. (Why should… read full entry »

Blogging For Cash

When people talk to me about blogging and maintaining websites for the sake of earning money, they tend to walk away with the impression that I am against the use of this delicious medium that we call the Internet as a financial aid. The only problem with this is that strictly speaking… I’m not. Don’t… read full entry »

Revisiting Alexa

A week ago I blogged about Manipulating Alexa. At the time I called any gain in rank “fake”, but since then I’ve considered whether my statement was logical. Considering that the majority of you — if you’re anything like me — are likely to visit your site at least once daily anyway, surely this is… read full entry »

Manipulating Alexa

I’ve noticed over the past couple of weeks a lot of websites are suddenly sporting little badges boldly displaying their Alexa rank with pride. This coincides “nicely” with the increase of PPP bloggers and other sponsoring programs because some of these services use Alexa as a measurement of how good your blog is and how… read full entry »

New Script: BellaBiblio

The more observant (or should that be nosy?) of you will have noticed a new page appeared in my scripts section this week titled “BellaBiblio” (mucho thanks to Hayley for the creative name). BellaBiblio is a new flat file PHP-based book rating/listing script for those avid readers out there. It uses a single plain text… read full entry »

Cynical Me

Is it wrong that every time I visit a new blog I assume a post that recommends a product is PPP related?