Posted October 12th, 2009 in Social Sites

Users of twitter and of twitter’s API are noticing issues with the social networking sites.

Requests made to twitter today are taking upward to 10-15 second if not longer for processing, and that includes those made via the API.

If your application or website is having problems you are not alone! Twitter has noticed.

On the bright side, twitter has also been …


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Posted July 27th, 2009 in Blogging

If you’ve recently encountered issues like strange page redirections and vanishing data with Wordpress when entering or editing posts, then you may be a  victim to a bug in Firebug. That’s what’s hit me.

I just upgraded to Firebug 1.4 and now when I use Firefox and go into my Wordpress to create a new post, the screen redirects to a …


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Posted July 19th, 2009 in Social Sites

I’ve been meddling around Facebook’s business or fan pages. One think I’ve learned is that Facebook really doesn’t like to make it easy.

If you don’t have a personal Facebook account already, you’ll need one in order to set up a page for your business even though they say it’s not required. But good luck trying to create a …


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Posted May 2nd, 2009 in Domain Names

So where are the best places to register a domain. Well, for me it’s real simple. It’s namecheap.com. I prefer namecheap and i’ve been using them for years because of their services, prices and console.

Godaddy.com is probably the most recognized of the registrars thanks to their commercials, but their user console is absolutely bloated. To register a domain …


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Posted April 21st, 2009 in SEO

If your webpage ranked in Google, and now it no longer ranks, then yes, maybe you have been penalized by Google.

First, though, a common misconception is that many webmasters often mistake a penalty for a simple algorithmic change. It’s widely known that Google updates its search algorithm routinely if not daily so it’s more than conceivable that what once worked …


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Posted March 1st, 2009 in Windows XP

I am a big fan of using the hitting that scroll wheel on my mouse. But one of the things I find is that it doesn’t scroll as fast as I’d like, and when I change the scroll speed to a higher number, say from 1 to 5, it resets back to 1 the very next time I boot up. …


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Posted February 23rd, 2009 in Windows XP

I wasn’t looking for it, but I found ClearType fonts on Windows XP, and I’m glad I did.

I had purchased a new laptop a few months back and I was tweaking the fonts and sizes to get it right on a screen that was bigger than my old laptop, and that’s when I came across the ClearType font option in …


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Posted January 28th, 2009 in Link Building

As the title says, is paying Yahoo $299 for inclusion into their directory worth it? Well, that depends. https://ecom.yahoo.com/dir/submit/intro/

First, paying the $299 only gets you a “site review”. It does not guarantee you inclusion into the Yahoo Directory. So even if you fork over the $299 (I like how they say “only $299” in their landing page!), you still …


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Posted January 20th, 2009 in Link Building

Putting any website on the “map” means getting backlinks. It’s that’s simple. If you have site with no backlinks the site be virtually no existent on the web, unless you can muster a fair amount of type-in traffic, but that’s not a good business model for any legitimate website.

Before embarking on a link building program, you should first determine the …


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Posted January 13th, 2009 in SEO

By using a 301 you can easily redirect visitors including search engine spiders like googlebot from an old page to a new page on your website. But how long does this redirection instruction need to remain in your .htaccess file or in your page header? Well, unfortunately in most cases a long, long time!

Actually, it does depend. If it’s a …


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