Archive for the 'General' Category

Is Wayback Machine Broken?

Monday, February 6th, 2006

It’s been several days that I’ve been looking for some archived pages of one of my sites on Wayback machine archive, but with no success… In all attempts, I’ve been getting the error message:
Sorry, we can’t find the archived version of this page. The URL has been archived but not indexed. Try another request or […]

Free Admission to WMW Las Vegas

Tuesday, November 1st, 2005

Jim Boykin of We Build Pages is offering a free admission pass to WMW here in Las Vegas. All you need to do, is go to his blog and leave a nice comment with your reasoning for getting the ticket (considering you can attend offcourse…).
The show is Nov. 15th through the 17th and these […]

SEO is Booted by Martha

Thursday, October 27th, 2005

For a while now Martha Stewart had an SEO on her “Apprentice” TV show. Well, his apprenticeship trip had gotten to an end today, when he got FIRED…
Anyways, a thread on WMW mentions this guy and claims that in this guy’s closing sales pitch for this job, “he mentioned that Martha’s site was nowhere in […]

Recent Search Patents in Review

Thursday, September 29th, 2005

Barry points to 5 Cre8asite threads created by the admin Bill Slawski and cover 5 recent search patents recently registered.
Threads Cover:
- Variable personalization of search results (Google)
- Google Help with Advertising Creatives (Google)
- Yahoo! Color Graphing and Personalization (Yahoo)
- Inverse searches and User Annotations (Yahoo)
- Assigning textual ads based on article history (MSN)

Foreign Backlinks Can Sabotage Rankings?

Thursday, August 25th, 2005

The above issue is addressed in a post named Warning: mass local language inbound links can damage your health. The idea is that since Google places a lot of weight on anchor text in determining relevance, having disproportionate amount of backlinks in different languages, may cause your site to disappear from the index…
Google chooses the […]

Yahoo Sitemaps, Now Available

Tuesday, August 23rd, 2005

Yahoo has added their own version of sitemaps, but this time created a simplified version. No need for special tools, nor XML knowledge. Just a simple text file with one address listed in each line.
To submit go here: http://submit.search.yahoo.com/free/request. As you may notice they added the following line:
You can also provide the location of a […]

Running Both IE7 and IE6 at the Same Time

Friday, August 12th, 2005

Following is a tip for people interested in running both IE7 and IE6 at the same time. I haven’t checked IE7 yet, but I know of several people who have installed it to check their sites and start preparing their sites ahead of time. Anyways, it seems as if all you need to do is […]