Tuesday, 4th November 2008
I just joined FriendFeed to find out what the fuss was all about. It seems like FriendFeed combines all the things you do on a lot of social networking sites and compiles them at one central hub. I can’t make much sense of it at the moment because it seems like a bloody mess!
I added 2 new sections to my sidebar. Check out the new “Connect with Vincent” section which has a very new picture of me with a text bubble with my latest status from Twitter. I synchronize all my social networking status messages with Ping.fm. My latest Twitter status message is imported via the Twitter for WordPress plugin. I tested quite a few Twitter plugins for WordPress and this was the one I found to actually work without a lof of fuss.
The “Recent Readers” section is just an updated version of my old “Blog Readers” section. I used the Tabber tab script to display MyBlogLog and Blog Catalog’s list of readers without taking too much space.
I made all these upgrades to keep up to date with the latest on internet marketing and blogging. I have left this blog to rot …
Tagged As: Blog, blog catalog, Facebook, friendfeed, MyBlogLog, Social network service, tabber, Twitter, wordpress
Friday, 24th October 2008
I made some tiny but important upgrades to my blog.
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Monday, 25th August 2008
I will no longer be posting posts about WordPress, web development, web design and search engine optmization on this blog. Instead, I will post them on my new site Maverick Web Creations, which I created to advertise my WordPress services.
Friday, 18th July 2008
I was surprised how quickly WordPress 2.6 was released. I still have an unresolved bug about the WordPress 2.5 wp_list_pages function. Unfortunately, they did not fix this bug or maybe they don’t plan to.
Back to WordPress 2.6. I am kind of confused by all the features WordPress has to offer. This video from WordPress will show you some of the new features in WordPress 2.6.
Upgrading from WordPress 2.5.1 to WordPress 2.6 was a snap for my blog. If you have not started with WordPress 2.6, now is a great time to start.
Thursday, 19th June 2008
Last year, I posted a list of my favourite WordPress plugins. Today, I use a slightly different lineup of WordPress plugins because I have found better plugins to replace some of the older plugins I used and the latest WordPress has made certain plugins obsolete.
The 2007 WordPress Plugin List
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Tagged As: All in One SEO Pack, FeedBurner FeedSmith, ShareThis, wordpress, wordpress plugins, WP-reCAPTCHA, Zemanta
Monday, 31st March 2008
I just upgraded my blog to WordPress 2.5. I really like the new admin interface but I found a few bugs with WordPress 2.5.
1. wp_list_pages function does not excluded sub pages from the exclude list. I posted this WordPress 2.5 wp_list_pages error at the WordPress support forum. I simply copy and pasted the wp_list_pages function code from WordPress 2.3.3 to replace the buggy WordPress 2.5 function.
2. Selecting a page for the home page works fine but it seems to mess up if I try to get the blog posts to show up in a non root folder like “/blog/”. I fixed this by installing the Filosofo home page control plugin, setting the “Front page displays” option to “your latest posts” at “Settings -> Reading”.
Overall, I really like this new WordPress. I feel it is great step forward for WordPress.
Tagged As: WordPress 2.3.3, WordPress 2.5, wp_list_pages
Thursday, 27th March 2008
I have never really understood how to use nofollow links until last night. I guess I must have been very slow to pick up this technique of preserving your Google Pagerank.
On Wikipedia’s entry on nofollow links:
Search engine optimization professionals started using the nofollow attribute to control the flow of PageRank within a website. This is an entirely different use than it was intended originally. Nofollow was designed to control the flow of PageRank from one website to another. However, SEOs realized that a nofollow used for an internal link should just work as well as nofollow used for external links. It makes sense, for example, to use nofollow for internal links to pages that are not relevant for search engines and only for visitors who are already on the website. This includes pages, such as “About Us”, “Contact Us”, “Terms of Use” or “Privacy Policy”. Matt Cutts, one of the initial designers of the nofollow attribute, encouraged this use of the attribute.
At the bottom of this snippet, there is a reference to an interview with Matt Cutts, in which he endorses the use of the nofollow link. Evisibility has a great blog post about …
Saturday, 24th November 2007
I used to use Keywords Analyzer and Domain Dashboard but I don’t need them any more. Today, I only use NicheBot and Niche Inspector for all my keyword research needs. Therefore, I do not recommend anything else at the moment. In fact, I think my previous recommendations of Keyword Topia is obsolete with the current version of NicheBot.
If you are interested in getting your hands on Keywords Analyzer and Domain Dashboard, please drop me a line and we can work something out.
Tagged As: Keyword-Topia, keywords-analyzer, Niche Inspector, NicheBot, SEO Software
Saturday, 3rd March 2007
Some time between the last week of January to the first 2 weeks of February, my ex web server was hacked. Somehow, a hacker got into my server and decided to use my server to attack another server. My ex web host, ServInt, could not find out who did it or how they did it. Neither could I do anything about it… Lucky for me, the hacker did not seem interested in what I had on my web server as my files were left intact.
It took an extraordinarily long time for ServInt to revive my web server. I believe they were too sloppy dealing with this issue and I got very fed up when they did not answer my technical support queries over one of the weekends. Their sales director later admitted their technical support should have done more to help my situation after I decided to move out of their servers. It was a very sad end to my 1.5 years at ServInt.
I don’t really want to reveal more information about this unfortunate incident because I still believe ServInt is one of the best VPS web hosting companies out there. The problem with them and with a lot of …
Tagged As: good-web-host, hack, servint, web-host, web-hosting
Tuesday, 17th October 2006
According to Google AdSense’s Blog Opimization tips, this is how you should layout your blog for best results with Google AdSense…
I followed the second example and moved the link unit up to the top of the page above all the blog entries and just below my menu. I tried the link unit on the just like the first example and it did not work very well for me so i removed them. Through my Google AdSense AdLogger logs. I highly recommend AdLogger for your Google AdSense tracking needs. It is free and open source. I bet some of the paid Google AdSense trackers are modified versions of AdLogger.
I might try the 120 x 600 pixel skyscraper ad on the right hand side of this blog. Google allows a maximum of 3 ads on your web sites. I do have 1 more ad to place on my site if I choose to. Some people recommend putting 3 Google AdSense ads on your web site while others do not. Whatever you have read about optmizing your sites for Google AdSense still requires testing to verify if it works positively or negatively on your web site.
Tagged As: google+adsense, google+adsense+optimization, google+adsense+tracker
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