With big sites like Blog Flux, when you deliver a service, you better have it ready for scaling. We cache every single pagerank request to our Pagerank Checker. Obvious reason – PR updates rarely, and when it does, we can just flush the cache. In the meantime, if we keep asking Google the pagerank every […]
Easy explanation: Its indexing is faster and smarter Case in point: tracking spider hits for a PR7 site with 1+ million pages: Just compare those numbers. Yahoo! has over 5000 links to the index page – and yet it can’t even crawl 100 pages in a day? That’s only half the story. How about the […]
Note: This is part of a ‘three-setter’ on internet morals and what not: Moral Relativism: I’m better than you Love & Hate are not like Black & White Moral Superiority in the face of Hypocrisy While very mis-understood (and hated by a lot), the domain industry is on fire. With big sales like Vodka.com for […]
Note: This is part of a ‘three-setter’ on internet morals and what not: Moral Relativism: I’m better than you Love & Hate are not like Black & White Moral Superiority in the face of Hypocrisy I don’t like telling what our bloggers write about. I do point out mistakes (including logical ones), but by-the-by, they […]
Note: This is part of a ‘three-setter’ on internet morals and what not: Moral Relativism: I’m better than you Love & Hate are not like Black & White Moral Superiority in the face of Hypocrisy I saw this: is it time for a blogging code of conduct? and I just shook my head. Thankfully, one […]
Synergy was an awesome buzzword. Not only does it mean something, it just sounds awesome. If you had synergy, you couldn’t go wrong. People have often asked me – is there something wrong with me? Do I have ADD? (not to imply ADD is wrong, but you get the idea). Why can’t I just *focus* […]
I just wanted to point this out … I keep seeing those damn ads where they talk about how they spend 10000 engineering hours to improve the best-in-class-awesome-towing-capacity-insane-fuel-efficiency truck. But is it all that impressive? Based on 40 hours a week, the average employee (working at 50 weeks a year) works for 2000 hours. So […]
We get all sorts of legal threats and what not. The latest one (in a long line of bizarre ones) comes from ISPhost.org. Yet another web hosting company out there (with what has to be one of the ugliest designs out there) sent us a nice little letter threatening to sue us. It was boilerplate: […]
The newest local search site has arrived, and this time its Canadian: ZipLocal My standard practice of welcoming a new site is to usually point out about a dozen mistakes they have commited (usually over at Greg Sterling’s blog). But things change, and this time I have my own blog – huzzah! Furthermore, in terms […]
We operate a plethora of sites. Some are updated a dozen times a day, some once a year. The sites that generate the most amazing ROI are usually the ones that are most targeted. For example, we have a rarely updated site based loosely on finance. Today it generated a pithy 28 pageviews. The earnings […]