Blogging the Meme

As I’ve started posting here again, I’ve taken the time to do a little tidying – I’ve implemented fucoder’s Permalink Redirect WordPress Plugin. The URLs here were silly – ‘p=id’ stuff. /yyyy/mm/name/ – much nicer :0 Its an easy plugin. I recommend it if you haven’t implemented it, or something similar.

Its ridiculous how often some of us track our adsense earnings – really, logging in once a day should be enough. But Checking The Stats can become addictive – just one more update, to watch the numbers increase some more… It doesn’t mean anything and doesn’t change the total at the end of the month, [...]

Finally, a Dave Pasternack entry worth supporting! (Darn, dude – I am annoyed I didn’t think of that myself!)

Google is getting cleverer at picking locations out of queries

Danny, in his momentous and excellent decription for Jason Calcanis of why SEO isnot what he thinks it is, mentions that the public still doesn’t understand SEO. He’s right, and I don’t see it changing soon.

Google Local is now available in Australia.

James Edwards dropped a great quote about how to draw the line between priorities of accessability, usabiltiy and aesthetics.

OK, I’ll play too – Dave asked for links to Matt’s blog, using the .co.uk variant. I thought I would link to a fake of Matt’s discussion of Page Loading delays not affecting rankings. This topic concerns me, in a negative way – I’m of the school that, short of a page failing to load, [...]

Rand recently ranked 50 SEO Blogs and I thought a nice comparison would be a whys-and-wherefores of the SEO blogs I read. I’m not going to directly ‘rank’ , I don’t think, instead I will group them in order of importance to me The majors, or A-list SEO blogs. These are the guys who are [...]

I’ve been noticing some common practices across sites which are reducing the general accessability of the webpages served. Below is a list I have been making that might be useful to you in making your pages more accessable. On Using Forms Required fields are often marked with a little star, or asterisk. JAWS (one of [...]