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Some days, the first page of the upcoming list on Sphinn is 50% spam.
Three clicks on the "Report as Spam" button, and it is gone...
I only just clicked on that for 8 items, just before writing this.
I'd expect that the majority of signature-laden forums were marked as Bad Neighbourhoods,
Few sites take accessibility into account, and many suffer for it. Older surfers just can't use some sites.
It is? I don't think so. My opinion of some people's moral fibre has been altered somewhat by Lisa's revelations.
Story: SEO Plagiarism
I recently had some content ripped off by someone who posts in here. It took several requests for the material to be removed from their website, but the cheeky bugger didn't remove it from the RSS feeds so it still got copied out to yet other places. You know who you are!! You've lost a lot of respect pal.
I have blocked whole chunks of Asia for some sites; where 100% of the traffic from those areas was just scrapers, rogue bots, and attempted hacks.
For once I am not going to comply with what Google wants. In this case, they are out of order; however I have changed the response from "403" to an "Under Construction" page.
*** SEO scammers generally offer their services at a much lower price point than honest operators ***
... really? Some of the worst offenders are also very expensive.
I often get this feeling when navigating between WMT and Analytics at Google.
Prior Precision Planning Prevents Piss-Poor Performance.
That's the British version, the "seven P's" rule.
Nasty if true.
If you truly live in a "free society" why does your government have to keep reminding you of that?
Story: Happy Birthday Lisa Barone!
Heh, soon, I am guessing that there will be a flurry of "I joined Sphinn exactly one year ago" posts.
Why is it an "unfair" advantage? A properly designed site with good content deserves to rank higher.
I use the HTML Validator extension for Firefox instead.
Just look for the Green Tick in the bottom right to know the code is 100% correct.
If there is a yellow exclamation mark or a red cross, then click it to bring up a list of errors.
I get rid of every HTML error. It doesn't take long to do.
I don't have to worry about things breaking in any way.
Use alt text on images. It is a required attribute. The alt text is shown when the image fails to load or when image loading is turned off. The alt attribute is required but the value can be blank (alt="")
The title attribute is more usually used with links. The title text should pop-up on mouseover.
The alt attribute text pops up on mouseover in IE, but that is a bug. It is not the correct behaviour per HTML standards. It is only the title text that should pop-up on mouseover.
Now is my bank barclays.com or barclays.co.uk or bank.barclays or barclays.bank?
Actually its my card details I need to access, maybe that is barclays.cc or barclays.card or barclay.card or barclays.credcard or barclays.visa or creditcard.barclays or cc.barclays or cc.barclays.bank or something else?
Which of those is the phishing site?
This is a BAD MOVE. ICANN are doing this for the MONEY not for any benefit to the users of the internet.
Don't give me that crap about running out of domain names. That's garbage. If the existing namespace were better managed there would be plenty to go round.
Now is my bank barclays.com or barclays.co.uk or bank.barclays or barclays.bank?
Actually its my card details I need to access, maybe that is barclays.cc or barclays.card or barclay.card or barclays.credcard or barclays.visa or creditcard.barclays or cc.barclays or cc.barclays.bank or something else?
Which of those is the phishing site?
This is a BAD MOVE. ICANN are doing this for the MONEY not for any benefit to the users of the internet.
Don't give me that crap about running out of domain names. That's garbage. If the existing namespace were better managed there would be plenty to go round.
If you're moving to a new domain it is also important that internal path names, filenames, and so on, stay the same; and that there is a one-to-one correlation with the redirect going to the same page on the new domain as was on the old domain. Don't change the domain name and the site structure at the same time.
Story: The Google Dance
Google has built a large number of new datacentres in the last year or so, and many of those have come online in recent months.
I have to wonder if the new hardware also runs new software that works in a different way to what went before... sort of like BigDaddy all over again.
I'd like to say that a Tin Foil Hat would protect you, but technical advances probably make that untrue by now.
Story: Sphinning out of Control