Archive for January, 2008

Google Supplemental Index now mainstream, tag dead

Posted on January 31st, 2008 by admin

The Google Supplemental Index is not going away, however, the tag that displays on supplemental results is.
Onl July 31st, Google announced that they will drop the Supplemental tag from showing in the SERPs.

…we’ve decided to stop labeling these URLs as “Supplemental Results.” Of course, you will continue to benefit from Google’s supplemental index being deeper […]

Make Money Online

Posted on January 29th, 2008 by admin

Did that get your attention?
Not sure what it says about us, but key that headline into Google and you get 313,000,000 results. Yes, that’s 313 Million.
Everybody says they hate the get rich quick schemes, yet someone is digging for them and trying them.
Anyway, if you want to get rich quick, I certainly can not help […]

Why are you blogging?

Posted on January 24th, 2008 by admin

Are you blogging to have a voice in this new age of information?
Are you blogging just to make money?
Maybe it’s a little of both?
Whatever the reason; be honest, to yourself and to your readers.
I started building websites in 1994, why, because it was the next logical step in software for me. I was developing database […]

Google Alerts

Posted on January 19th, 2008 by admin

Most bloggers I talk to subscribe to a lot of feeds. Subscribing to feeds will definitely help keep you up to date with what your favorite bloggers have to say. I like to also keep up with specific topics. These topics range from my own domain names to my kids. And there is one tool […]

Plan your Blog, Blog your Plan

Posted on January 19th, 2008 by admin

Same theory, different words. For years I have listened to business consultants say “Plan your work, work your plan”. A blog is no different. You just have to decide what it is you want to accomplish. Some bloggers just want people reading their blog, others want to make money blogging. Whatever the goal, managing your […]

Time is still Money

Posted on January 13th, 2008 by admin

Some things don’t change, even if we think they do!
For some reason the new Internet market has made some people forget (or not learn) some very basic principles of business and how to manage their work. In a brick and mortar world it has been said that “Time is money”. When you can save time, […]

Import Blogger to Wordpress error

Posted on January 11th, 2008 by admin

If you have tried to import a blog from Blogger to WordPress 2.2 you may have been frustrated by an error. The system just returns a message that it can not login to your Blogger account. There is a very simple fix for this error that requires a one character change in the wp-admin/import/blogger.php file.
On […]

Blogger Play

Posted on January 9th, 2008 by admin

This is a just a for fun thing, but interesting. The Google Blogger team has come up with a site to allow us to watch images as they are uploaded to the Blogger platform. Blogger Play
If you select “show info” in the bottom right corner it will show you the blog and profile of the […]

Subscriber Stats and updates to Webmaster Tools

Posted on January 5th, 2008 by admin

Google has added subscriber stats to their Webmaster Tools. This is a nice addition, however I noticed it was only working with internal feeds and not Feedburner. I left a comment and hopefully this problem can be resolved. The system works with any Google product for aggregating feeds.
The updates to the interface are nice […]

Google AJAX APIs

Posted on January 2nd, 2008 by admin

Google AJAX API is a huge emerging technology that a lot of mainstream bloggers know about but don’t put forth the effort and time to learn about. As I am a very successful programmer and web developer and bring a lot of business to the table for many clients I work with, utilizing Google AJAX […]