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Wednesday, 30 May 2007 |
I forgot about this screenie I took back in my Dialup only days, but yes, this is an authentic non-Photoshopped image of what Windows reported my speed to be on a Dialup connection I made in the past. Though I doubt it is accurate, I just can't help but poke fun, and add that I still think Kubuntu is far superior to Windows. This has happened to me more than once, too...hard to believe, isn't it?
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Tuesday, 29 May 2007 |
I am so sorry about all of this. I know that many of you are getting 404 errors for links from other sites, and that is because I migrated to a different CMS and am using a different SEF extension as of today. I will look over the logs and 301 redirect all of the links that send you to erroneous pages, so that they will send you to the correct page. Hopefully Google will reindex soon and this whole nightmare (supplemental pages + having to migrate) will be over. Keep checking back!
As I have recently re-structured my
site (hopefully the last time), and with Google's recent update, I am
having issues with Google putting me in the supplemental index. If you have a website, blog, or MySpace page, I ask a favor: that you would put a link to http://www.mattparnell.com on it. In return, I will post a link to your site in my Links/Friends area, just email me when you link to me. Thanks!
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Tuesday, 29 May 2007 |
Apparently, Joomla and Mambo aren't good when it comes to staying out of Google's supplemental index (appropriately named "Google Hell"), especially if an unaware webmaster enables the PDF and print icon options. I was previously unaware, and found that of my 700-800 links in Google's index, 699 of them were supplemental, meaning they are displayed at the very back of all of the search pages, and are rarely scanned by the Google spider. The cause of such a problem is either having duplicate content in large quantity, having lots of "nofollow" links (appear to Google as "spammy"), as well as links that appear to be purchased for PageRank purposes. Google sees these things as "spammy," a characteristic of the recently banned "Made For Adsense" sites. There are probably other reasons a site may be cast into this terrible place, but they are unknown, as Google likes to keep it's secrets.
The Joomla/Mambo specific problem is mainly the print and pdf function. As Google's spiders crawl the printable versions and PDF versions of pages, it sees them as duplicate "spammy" content. Thus, the PDF and the original content page counterpart are sent to Google Hell. To fix this problem, you need to do a few things:
First, and most simply, hide the print and PDF links by going into your Global Configuration area, and select the Content tab. Choose "Hide" for the PDF and Print icons. From now on, as Google scans your articles, it won't see those links.
The problem now is that a lot of your content is still in Google's index as "duplicate content" in PDF form. To fix this, you have to give Google an error the next time they scan the PDF's location. To do so, add the following to your main .htaccess file:
# Getting Rid of PDF Files
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^option=com_content&do_pdf=
RewriteRule ^index2\.php$ - [G]
# Getting Rid of print preview Files
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^option=content&task=view&id=
RewriteRule ^index2\.php$ - [G]
Note that this will disable completely the ability to view PDF and print versions of your pages.
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Monday, 28 May 2007 |
I ran across PageRank10 while browsing today, and it is an interesting site. Whoever the person that owns it is, he/she has an interesting goal: get from PageRank 0 to PageRank 10 in 730 days. Currently, the site has 327 days left and has a PageRank of 6. The site relies on inlinks from other sites, with the top referring sites listed on the front page. Why not drop a link to their site, and sign up! It won't hurt anything, and may even end up getting you more traffic to your blog or site! I am personally skeptical, as I am not sure it can be done, with Google's recent retooling of their algorithms. Whatever the case, take a look!
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Friday, 25 May 2007 |
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I am guilty of one or two accidental clicks on ads running on my site. The first time it happened was last year, as I was redesigning the layout. As I was examining the results, I accidentally clicked one. I felt terrible about it for a while, and then just made sure to not click my ads. The last time it happened was just a while ago when I noticed what looked like a YouTube video on my site. I thought "I don't remember putting this up..." and clicked the play button. What I didn't realize until later was that it, in fact, was an AdSense advertisement. That made me feel bad, because it earned $1.54. I was going to contact google until I found this "Accidents Happen" blog post. I did search for a solution,because I need to see ad placement and can't just run adblock on my site. That is how I found this Greasemonkey script. It doesn't allow your clicks on Google ads to do anything when the publisher identification number matches yours. Just download and install Greasemonkey, then install the script. Simple fix!
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