Archive for April, 2006

Google is Weird

The more I research and see the results first hand, I am convinced - Google is weird.
Today I checked, again, to see if my newer pages (or any pages knowing Google) are showing up. Well now, the old index.asp pages are now showing up in Google results even though the do not exist. Also, the [...]


Further tests to fix Techorati ping issue

As you may have noticed in my last few posts, I have been having issue with my post showing up in Technorati correctly. This post is to try and see if a change that just made is going to work.
I will post my findings of what caused this when available.
Technorati : [...]


Fixing Touble with Technorati Links

Duh - I forgot to Include Technorati links in the last post. Here it is again so can try to get it listed in Technorati.
Here are the posts -

WordPress, Godaddy, and Permalinks - Where I talk about what you need to do to get permalinks working on Godaddy.
How to setup WordPress MySQL and Permalinks info [...]


Trouble with Technorati Links

I am putting this post up just to reference my last few post because they have not been listing correctly on Technorati.
Here are the posts -

WordPress, Godaddy, and Permalinks - Where I talk about what you need to do to get permalinks working on Godaddy.
How to setup WordPress MySQL and Permalinks info on Godaddy Hosting [...]


How to setup WordPress MySQL and Permalinks info on Godaddy Hosting

I am posting a followup to yesterday’s post - WordPress, Godaddy, and Permalinks in which I spoke of what you need to enable permalinks on Godaddy hosting.
From that post I got an email asking about how to setup the wp-config.php file with the correct MySQL info.
Here are my notes about how to get it setup [...]


WordPress, Godaddy, and Permalinks

I thought I would be helpful and post my recent research results in getting WordPress setup on a Godaddy hosting account. I did searches on Google and Technorati and nobody had a definitive answer.
The problem that I had was trying to setup permalinks for WordPress. Even though I had setup the .htaccess file and given [...]


WordPress on a stick for Meeting Notes - E-mail Meeting Attendees

I had an additional idea about using WordPress for meeting notes after seeing Vicent Pratts’ Email Users Plug-in.
Basically this plug-in gives you ability to e-mail a post to people registered to your blog.
The way that you could use this for meetings is that after you take the notes, you enter the meeting attendees as users [...]


Round Rock Web Design Blog # 6 on Google

I did a quick check this morning on Google for the Phrase “Round Rock Web Design” and low and behold - the blog I setup on wordpress.com is # 6 in Google results.
The coolest thing about it is that I did not put quotes “” around the phrase so I was not looking for the [...]


WordPress Permalink Post Names for SEO

In my post “themastersfamily.net - Page Rank 4” - I mentioned that I had changed the permalink structure for SEO purposes to the following -
websitename.com/postname-postid.htm
I did this based on the theory that Google puts more emphasis of pages from the root of the site then a page in a sub-folder like this -
websitename.com/category/postname/
Well another thing [...]


WordPress on a Stick for Meeting Notes

Recently Lifehacker.com had an article about how someone figured out how to put a complete WordPress installation on a USB stick.
Some would ask what this could possible be used for. Some answers where if you wanted to work on your WordPress blog or theme for your blog offline that this would be a good idea.
I [...]