Tagged: Google

May 25, 2012

A week doesn’t make any difference with web traffic

I didn’t post for a week and it didn’t make any difference in the web traffic I received. In fact, on Monday my views were higher than last week. So clearly posting is less important than the stuff I have already posted. Interesting.

I like surfing and trying out new WordPress plugins. I tried one that said it would increase SEO by suggesting terms and analyzing your writing, but I wasn’t impressed. My goal isn’t really to get views, it is to share things that I think will help the average person. If someone wants to see something added, I am open to suggestions.

May 25, 2012

Broken Links WordPress plugin not working?

I really like the Broken Links WordPress plugin. It scans all the web links on my website, and tests them to make sure they work. If they don’t work, it gives me a list and then I can try them to double-check they don’t work.

However about 6 months ago it stopped working. It might have been because I added new plugins in that time. Anyway, I deleted it and reinstalled and now it is working great. This is just to share that reinstalling plugins sometimes makes them work again. Most of the time plugins just work, and they continue to work through WordPress upgrades.

April 29, 2012

Blekko spam free search engine

Image representing Blekko as depicted in Crunc... — Image via CrunchBase

Today I saw my first search request from a site called Blekko. I have never used it before, but one of my top articles showed up on the front page for it. It is interesting that it says it is spam free. I wonder how it accomplishes that? Interesting that I wasn’t the first listed, but the person still choose me. I wonder why?

April 29, 2012

WordPress › Bad Behavior « WordPress Plugins

Excuses for Bad Behavior (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

WordPress › Bad Behavior « WordPress Plugins. I was looking for options to reduce spam from subscribers. I am continuing to search to reduce spammers who try to create accounts to launch spam from. This is another great tool to keep a quality blog.

Ok forget this plugin. I just uninstalled it. Apparently it also blocks helpful bots like MSN/Google so your site won’t be indexed and search traffic will decrease. How disappointing. Instead use Wordfence. It has some great features and even a paid version.

April 24, 2012

Google Docs bumps up free storage to 5GB, primes servers for Drive? — Engadget

Google 的貼牌冰箱（Google refrigerator） (Photo credit: Aray Chen)

Google Docs bumps up free storage to 5GB, primes servers for Drive? — Engadget. Interesting strategy to alienate customers. Why not offer the people who have supported your company the same extra 5GB? It just doesn’t make sense to treat customers this way.