I got rid of Text-Link Ads

February 5, 2008

Google Penalizes Paid Links Last fall, Google started cracking down on paid links. To understand what this means, you first have to understand that Google lists sites in its search results in part by examining who the site links to and who links to it. Some websites pay money to other websites so that they [...]

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What Happens to Your Blog Post After You Publish It

January 27, 2008

Thanks to Doug Green (via a listserv), I learned of this fascinating animated chart demonstrating The Life Cycle of a Blog Post, From Servers to Spiders to Suits — to You. I had a clue that some of this stuff was going on, but didn’t realize the scope of it.

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Asus Eee PC

January 20, 2008

I don’t plan to make a habit of discussing products I haven’t used myself, but I saw a patron at our local public library using one of these things, and it’s gotten stuck in my head. My first reaction when I saw it was, “Oh, how cute!” My second reaction was, “I want one!” Boy, [...]

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How do I comment on a Blogger blog and automatically link back to my website?

December 19, 2007

Blogger changed its comment form Recently many bloggers have become upset upon discovering that a comment they write for a Blogger blog no longer links back to their own blog–unless they have a Blogger/Google ID. Blogger has responded by saying these commenters can post using OpenID. As the official OpenID site explains, …people are already [...]

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How to protect your RSS feed from plagiarism

December 9, 2007

Recently, Annie at The Transplantable Rose discovered her blog was being plagiarized. Although this type of content theft has been going on for a while, the gardening community is just discovering it. Stealing is Easy Syndication feeds (RSS and Atom being the most common) make it easy for others to steal your content. Anyone can [...]

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