Archive for September, 2007

Dynamic URL rewriting in Yahoo!

Thursday, September 27th, 2007

Yahoo! is rolling out dynamic URL rewriting configuration to webmasters. What this means is that you can tell the search engine what dynamic URL parameters to ignore, such as sessions variables or tracking parameters that are useful for you but might appear to search engines as though there are many copies of a page at […]

Changes at BlogRush and abuse problems

Wednesday, September 26th, 2007

We introduced BlogRush in a previous post, and now they have disclosed the source of some intermittent availability problems. In addition to hardware failures at their ISP, they have run into problems of abuse.  I suspect (hope?) they had some ideas about how their system could be manipulated early on; even if they didn’t they […]

Getting more blog traffic with BlogRush

Monday, September 24th, 2007

We’re trying out BlogRush to see if it generates more traffic and links to this blog. (Note that this is a referral link.)
BlogRush is an interesting little tool that shows headlines from “related” blog posts alongside your own blog. All you need to do is sign up for an account and insert a little snippet […]

Website usability is critical

Monday, September 17th, 2007

Too often I come across websites that have what appears to the designer/owner to be a slick, beautiful, or otherwise superior design that presents challenges to users. All too often usability comes a distant 2nd or 3rd to other design considerations.
Website usability is a critical determinant of how effectively you convert visitors in customers.
Put another […]

Search engine share and advertising network statistics

Thursday, September 13th, 2007

The comScore Data Center offers useful information about search engine market share and top advertising networks and sites. The statistics are published/updated periodically. Search engine share compares month to previous month and the same month from the year before. The statistics are quite broad and likely aren’t particularly useful for making detailed decisions […]