I’m thinking I’m going to like this one…

A while back, a “big league” adsense earner gave me some heads up about using properly formatted code on my pages, so that the SE spiders would handle it better and rank the pages better. His arguments on the whole made sense, and I certainly couldn’t argue with his income levels. But I just never took the time to really figure out all the areas of proficiency I needed to have when it came to coding my templates properly. HTML and CSS can be such a pain in the rear!

Have you heard???

There are BIG changes proposed to the domain
name registry system - and they are definitely
NOT GOOD for us.

In fact, they could put a lot of us out
of business, or at a minimum subject us
to a massive “tax” - based on the market
value of our domains - every time we go to
renew them.

Got a valuable web business? You might be
facing a $1,000 or $10,000 - or an unlimited
number - boost to your domain name renewal fee.

OK, so this is on a bit of a tangent from what I normally talk about on this blog… but I couldn’t resist.

There’s been a bunch of hype lately about Google once again going after the world to stop everyone from using their name as a verb. That’s right, if you say that you “googled” something - YOU’RE A CRIMINAL! Johnny, tell them what they’ve won!

But here’s the really stupid bit, in my opinion. “google” has been used as a verb since at a MINIMUM, July 8th 1998, when Larry Page made the following post (archived here):

I’ve been out for a few hours so hadn’t been watching my sites. I got back and popped open my traffic tracking software and… thought for sure there was some massive error in the data. After investigating further, it’s no error.

By the end of today, I will have exceeded my daily unique visitors from a month ago, by a factor of TWENTY. That’s right, my traffic (in terms of unique IP addresses) today, is 20 times larger than it was just under 1 month ago, on July 5th.

HOLY !!@$!

www.macroking.com/uncs/

Check it out!

Existing customers will be sent their free update shortly…

If you’re already an owner, or you are on my announcement list, then you already know. Version 3.0 of my Ultimate Niche Creator Setup system will be released shortly… it is technically ready, I’m just testing the download & delivery mechanisms now to make sure everything works reliably. I can’t handle doing this through email again!

I have not yet settled on how many copies I will sell this time, nor on exactly what the price will be. I’m considering several possibilities, and once I decide then I will make the order page live. Current legal owners (yes, there are non-legal ones out there… *sigh*) will be upgraded at no cost.

I know I sure was. Keeping track of when it was up, down, or sideways. Finding out only AFTER my sites had been down for a day or two that they were offline. Lost income, frustration, even PANIC when the server completely craps out for some unknown reason.

Myself - I’m not a big server guy. I know just enough Linux shell commands at this point to be dangerous, and don’t want to have to babysit my server when something goes wrong. I also hate having to install shell scripts on my own, and really don’t enjoy mucking about with SSH if I don’t have to.

OK, someone explain this one to me. I am still being hit with as many as a few dozen comment spams per day. The latest one that just came in has me really scratching my head. The link in it is to www.google.ru, Google in Russia. I say it again - THE COMMENT SPAMMER’S URL IS GOOGLE.RU.

Now, the conspiracy theorist in me is screaming that this is somehow Google up to “no good” and employing their own blackhat tricks. But - WHY??? If it’s just a random comment spammer, what the hell could they possibly stand to gain by spamming a Google URL? Makes absolutely no sense to me.

David from the NicheCreator forum has a nice blog going, I finally went to read it. Good stuff David! Nice thorough reviews of various tools & whatnot. I’m going to have to pop over there regularly to see what’s a keeper and what’s a sleeper!

Check it out!