Part of Jaimie Sirovich's adventure in SEO, Other
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Excerpt: Apparently, he entered a deep bout of depression on June 27, and never acted quite the same since then. Matt Cutts stated something extremely vague in response here. "I believe any changes on the 27th were refreshing data used by an existing algorithm." Cryptic indeed. And many screame ...
Part of Jaimie Sirovich's adventure in SEO, Spam
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Excerpt: I have never seen such horrible irrelevent link exchange requests from fellow webmasters since Axandra's Arelis product caught on in a big way a few years back. The site is called LinkMetro, and it stinks.Google finally squashed the 2-way link exchange as the SEO-currency; but now LinkMetr ...
Part of Jaimie Sirovich's adventure in SEO, Viral / Link Bait
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Excerpt: Link Bait is the hottest new fad in link building, and I keep my eyes open for obvious examples. If it weren't on CNN, I wouldn't even believe it. This is one of the funniest articles I have read in awhile:"Study: More Americans too fat for X-rays, scans" http://ww ...
Part of Jaimie Sirovich's adventure in Other
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Excerpt: Recently, the performance gap between Intel and AMD has been closing -- first with AMD leading and gaining some much-earned credibility, then, more recently, with Intel making a comeback. Intel also apparently leads in performance per watt now, too. But Google had to know about the "comeb ...
Part of Jaimie Sirovich's adventure in SEO, Spam
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Excerpt: I said awhile back in my post, Google Violates Computer Science that people have too much faith in Google. I said that even light obfuscation of Javascript redirect code, such as rot13ing the offending code would likely trick even the formidable Google. I may have changed my mind. ...
Part of Jaimie Sirovich's adventure in SEO
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Excerpt: Should the need exist to change hosting companies, the process must be completed in the proper order. Not doing so may result in a time window where your site is unreachable; and this is clearly not desirable -- from both a general and SEO perspective. The focus of this elaborate process ...
Part of Jaimie Sirovich's adventure in SEO, Cloaking
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Excerpt: This class can be used to detect where a site visitor is located and tailor their page content accordingly. For example, you may want to say "We surrender!" for French users, instead of the usual "Hello." No offense to Frenchies of course; but I had to poke some fun t ...
Part of Jaimie Sirovich's adventure in PHP
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Excerpt: This function, comprised of a simple regular expression, will remove most of the bloat from larger CSS files. Not that the effects are very substatial or groundbreaking, but it does save quite a few kilobytes to run things like this over your CSS and HTML. Using mod_gzip also has a favor ...
