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Archive for May, 2008

So many of us are blog­ging now and so many of us don’t really know what is going on ‘under the hood’. Let me explain.

I have a Word­Press blog. As most peo­ple do I mod­er­ated com­ments because there was so much spam. Even if I went in every other day to clean these out there would still be hun­dreds next time I went in. I have finally had to turn the com­ment func­tion off. Sad state of affairs I must say.

Any­ways, yes­ter­day I went to my blog to check for some audio cod­ing to send along to a client as an exam­ple and what I found was very unset­tling. When I did View Source I saw lines and lines of linked spam (see pic­ture below).

In my search to find out where this was com­ing from I found that these had been writ­ten to the Head­ers and Foot­ers in Word­Press. Yep — true.

So the next step is to turn off the write func­tion on the header and footer fold­ers. We will see what hap­pens (I will report back).

So for you blog­gers out there, it may be very worth­while to check out what is under your hood.

Jan

“Alexa cap­tures some activ­ity, of some users, some of the time. Its results are there­fore inher­ently flawed.”

There is no doubt that folks see Alexa as a rank­ing sys­tem. I did, cer­tainly not now.

Proper stats are a much bet­ter mea­sure­ment of what is going on. The only prob­lem with ‘stats’ is that we are the only ones that see them so the ‘vis­i­tor rank­ing’ only shows to us and not our vis­i­tors. So Alexa may not be cor­rect but I am sure many think what they show to be fact.

Read more on this topic at my fav forum:

http://www.webproworld.com/search-engine-optimization-forum/68568-omg-what-happened-my-alexa-ranking.html