Every time I see someone selling or trading a link bragging about it coming from a PR4 page, I'm not sure whether to chuckle or boggle. "PR4?" I think. "That's supposed to be impressive?" I guess it impresses some people, even if it doesn't impress us all. Which raises the question, what is "good" PageRank?...
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So, you want your site to show up as high as possible on Google. Join the club. 20 gazillion other websites are clamoring for the same thing. And guess what? Google has its own agenda. They don't care whose site comes up on top--whose business gets the free advertising. What they want is to give...
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There are a million ways to make money (or if you're already making money, there are a million ways to make more money). But none of us has time to do all of them. And few of us have the desire to do all that we have time for. Part of the secret to success...
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Circuit City is busted
by ZetaGecko | Issues/Problems
Yesterday, I was thinking about replacing my CRT monitors with LCD monitors, so I went online and checked prices at a few places. Circuit City had a good deal on what looked (from the many positive reviews) like a good product--certainly for the price--so I made up my mind and headed over to pick two...
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ongoing – Internet Stamps
by ZetaGecko | Email
Ugh! Not this again! Tim Bray appears to be in favor of a scheme for reducing spam by having people pay a little bit for each bit of content they send or post that they want getting past the spam filters of the future. ongoing - Internet Stamps. Since such a system would require some...
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You’ve got great traffic and PageRank. Now what?
by ZetaGecko | Business
Okay, so you've done your SEO work, gotten lots of incoming links, traffic is swelling, and your PageRank is high enough that even your grandmother realizes things are going well. Now what? Sure, you'll sell more products and make more off AdSense. But that's not all you can do with it.
I finally took a...
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Preventing abuse of your DNS server
by ZetaGecko | Server Administration
If you are running BIND on your server, here's a tip I discovered the hard way for reducing the probability of your server being abused. A few days ago, I started seeing major explosions in the amount of bandwidth running through my server. I scoured my Apache and email logs, looked at what processes were...
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There's something of an online lovefest underway for Chris Pirillo's newly launched metasearch site, gada.be (pronounced "gotta be", I believe). Since I can't find anyone else mentioning this, I'll blow my own horn. Unless things have changed since late last month, CaRP is the RSS processing engine under the hood. It's one of the most...
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I've posted an Affiliate marketing example showing a way to create a search page for multiple affiliates programs. A few noteworthy notes:
1) The affiliate search results are displayed on your website so that if your visitor doesn't find anything interesting in their searches, they're still on your site.
2) Default search terms relevant to...
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Trans fats can’t be all that bad
by ZetaGecko | Humor
Trans fats can't be as bad as people make them out to be, because everyone named Tran that I've ever known has been pretty skinny.