I’m trying to come up with a design and strategy for a new blog, which will complement an existing site. Well it will be a new domain / site, but I know what the main content of the site will be. In my case a shopping site for jewellery. So why have a blog? Well [...]
What to do with http://www.mcls4u.com/shop … This shop is much older that kids math store, I origally had maths products in it, it had products but remained pretty much uncared for from 2006 until last year. I then moved the maths products to kms and put jewellery products in it instead. Since then, I’ve done [...]
A couple of months ago on this blog I wondered whether there was such a thing as an Adsense penalty. Over at my software downloads site, traffic had been building up nicely and I was getting over 2000 page views a day. I was starting to make a nice bit of Adsense income and looking [...]
Since I setup my first blogs / forums several / few years ago, I’ve always wondered how to get people from all over the internet to participate. I still don’t have a definitive answer, but I have several ideas. As far as forums are concerned, I think with my old forums (before I deleted them) [...]
As I wrote a few days ago, SoftwareLode has been disappearing from Google search results. I did have 3500 pages in the main index in mid-January but over the following weeks most of my pages were dumped from the index and my visitor levels crashed. Whereas I was making a good $5 a day on [...]
I’ve had a few thoughts on ways of optimising SoftTester to try and spread a bit more of the link-juice around the program details pages and up the number of visitors. I don’t know whether they will work or how much effect they will have but they could be worth trying out. First Thing to [...]
I’ve been doing some work on softtester and noticed my page errors table was 80mb, I was shocked. So I picked one record, one from an actual user, not a robot. However both are the same in this discussion. The record shows a page which doesn’t exist, correctly. However, google and other sites don’t get [...]
There have been a number of posts on this blog about improving the performance of SoftTester. The majority of these posts don’t apply to 321 as the script itself is already in good shape for on-page optimisation. The page titles, meta description and inter-page linking are all looking good. I’m guessing that 321 doesn’t get [...]
I’d just like to welcome Illusion (aka Dan) to the blog, me and Blue have known him for a while. Hes a student and studying programming at university, hes done work for us both on RentACoder. OK, I’m going to set the ball rolling and discuss his software site, which we will call 321 so [...]
I guess I hadn’t kept a close eye on things, but I was doing some updates to the site yesterday and noticed that I had PR on my sub pages. The home page is PR2 and several other pages are PR3 also, the ones linked by the recent searches at the top. Also the page [...]