Monthly Archive: July 2011
Useful fact of the day: WordPress MU (MultiUser) allows running multiple blogs from one installation, under different subdomains or directories Useless fact of the day: There are more Americans on Facebook than have passports. 150 million vs. 115 million. (Source: Tripl) And now onto today’s SEO links with my comments in italics: Mike Blumenthals pointed out three features that got...
Fun widget of the day: Google+ Feed Widget, used to showing off the Google + public stream on a blog or website. See it on the side of my blog too. Sad non-sign-up of the page: I have iTunes on my computer at work. I tried to get the artwork for the CDs I have been importing into it. To...
Useful tool of the day: Jetpack is a set of WordPress plugins, most of which was previously only available for blogs/sites hosted on WordPress.com. My two favorite parts: Shortcode for adding movies, images, and more to your posts and pages with a single line of code and the WP.me URL shortener. And now onto today’s SEO links with my comments...
Complex learning of the day: Using Google Event tracking I can tack now track with Google Analytics when somebody clicks a link, downloads a forms or calls a phone number (by clicking the number on the webpage in the smartphone’s browser.) Simpe learning of the day: CSS text-shadow. I knew that it was possible to crate dropshadow effect for text...
Learning of the day: A few days ago I was struggling with redirecting a whole directory to a single page using the RedirectMatch command. I was told I should use what works on our server, which meant RewriteRule. I found the solution today: RewriteRule ^oldsite/(.*)$ http://www.example.com/ [R=301,L] New fun tool of the day: I got my Spotify account today and started...
Last week I posted a note how my Amazon.com account ended. There I mentioned my attempt to set up a Barnes and Noble account as a substitute. Well, that didn’t live long. I received this email from them today: Dear Publisher, Thank you for your continued support of the Barnes & Noble Affiliate Program. Barnes & Noble has made the...
Today’s SEO links with my comments in italics: Early in the day I received via email a clear little booklet from one source on “How to Spot Bad SEO Services“. Later in the day another source asked me about my opinion about an SEO’s company. All I had to do was to point to sign #1: “Making Promises that are...
Today’s handy learning: AddThis, a social sharing tool, has great customization options (see my home page), but centering the buttons has to be done with extra CSS. And now onto today’s SEO links with my comments in italics: Blumenthals questions the ethics of business that deface Google Places listing with negative reviews and then offers the service of cleaning them....
The new tool of the day for me was Versions. 10-12 years ago I already used an SVN (Subversion), so the concept of “a software versioning and a revision control system” is not foreign to me. But now I was set up with one, I actually used it and it magically worked. On the other hand I couldn’t accomplish what I set...
I found that finding the “proper” URL of a business on Google Places, also known as Google Maps isn’t obvious, so put together this little tutorial. By “proper” I mean the simple (with no unnecessary information in the URL), unique identifier that will always take you to the right page as long as it exists or as long as Google...
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