Written on June 5th, surf Active Apparel website Sell Homemade Video zone.at 05:06 pm by Darren Rowse
More Site Graphs
I thought I’d have a little more fun with the website graphs and have plotted some competing sites against each other:
First Google (left) vs Yahoo (right) - very interesting to see how simple Google keep their homepage in comparison to Yahoo
Secondly the battle of the tech blogs - Engadget (left) vs Gizmodo (right)
And lastly a little friendly inter-blog network rivalry - 9rules (left) vs b5media’s (right) home pages - of course 9 rule’s has the prettier one :-)
Written on June 5th, surf Active Apparel website Sell Homemade Video zone.at 04:06 pm by Darren Rowse
Adbrite Loading Problems
I want to apologize to those readers who have been complaining of loading problems with enternetusers of late. I’ve had a number of issues to deal with and think that I’m slowly identifying the problems.
One of the issues was that i was running Google Analytics on my blog which as an external script seemed to slow things down a little, perhaps in combination with a couple of other external scripts. I’ve stopped using it - not that I was really checking it much anyway as I found it to be too heavy a stats program.
But the main problem seemed to be revolving around AdBrite ads. The loading of pages seemed to intermittently stop when it got to the point where the AdBrite ads should have been showing our b5media ads. It would pause loading while it tried to run them meaning that everything after them in the source code would not load (ie 90% of my blog as my Adbrite ads were in the left hand sidebar - some blogs with the same problem would at least have content showing as they have right hand sidebars). It would then load the rest of the page (sometimes taking up to a few minutes) without the ads which should have shown. I’ve noticed this happening for a week or two but the last few days it’s worsened.
I’ve noticed the same loading problem on my other blogs with Adbrite ads on them also. (update: I’m seeing the same loading issues on lots of blogs with adbrite including Gawker). Has anyone else or is it just some of us? One thought I had was that maybe it’s a browser problem (I’m using Firefox 1.5.0.4) - but the same issue seems to be happening for me with IE and Safari.
I’m not sure what the problem is - I’m seeing the same thing happen on our other b5 blogs today also. It doesn’t happen all of the time but enough to give me and quite a few of you a pain in the neck. If this is happening to every Adbrite publisher today there must be ALOT of blogs not loading properly!
We’ll be looking further into it as Adbrite do bring in a good income to our blogs but in the mean time I’ve removed them temporarily from my sidebar and have contacted Adbrite regarding it.
Update: I’ve just noticed that Isolf.com has the news that Adbrite have announced an upcoming down time of their server while they upgrade in a couple of days time. I’m not sure if this is in connection to these problems.
Written on June 5th, surf Active Apparel website Sell Homemade Video zone.at 10:06 am by Darren Rowse
How to Blog on Slow News Days
Andy Merrett has a post on how to Blog on slow news days where he gives a few options of what to do on days when there is very little happening in your niche:
- Do nothing
- Post opinion / forum / consumer views
- Stray from your niche
- Revisit old news
- Publish an article you’ve written in advance
He writes more on each one - head over and add what you do in his comments.
Written on June 5th, surf Active Apparel website Sell Homemade Video zone.at 12:06 am by Darren Rowse
enternetusers as a graph
I like a pretty picture so when I saw Websites as graphs - an HTML DOM Visualizer Applet I just had to have a play with it.
Here’s enternetusers as a graph:
- blue: for links (the A tag)
- red: for tables (TABLE, TR and TD tags)
- green: for the DIV tag
- violet: for images (the IMG tag)
- yellow: for forms (FORM, INPUT, TEXTAREA, SELECT and OPTION tags)
- orange: for linebreaks and blockquotes (BR, P, and BLOCKQUOTE tags)
- black: the HTML tag, the root node
- gray: all other tags
Just a bit of fun for the weekend.
Found via Weblog Tools Collection
Written on June 4th, surf Active Apparel website Sell Homemade Video zone.at 04:06 pm by Darren Rowse
Lawyers Send Anticipatory Cease and Desist Letters to Bloggers over World Cup
I’ve known a few bloggers to get cease and desist letters from lawyers from time to time but today I saw a first - a preemptive one to Boing Boing around the anticipation that BB will stream FIFA World Cup matches.
Now there’s a great way to engage the blogging community!
I wonder how they decided which blogs to send that letter to and how many other bloggers might have received them.
found via blog herald
Update - Apparently the lawyers, Baker and McKenzie, have been sending out the same sort of letter to a variety of other web sites and ISPs according to Paid Content’s links pointing here, here, here and here.
Written on June 4th, surf Active Apparel website Sell Homemade Video zone.at 12:06 am by Darren Rowse
54 Ways to Get Traffic to Your Blog
Seth writes 54 ways to get traffic to your blog.
What do you agree or disagree with? What would you add?
Written on June 3rd, surf Active Apparel website Sell Homemade Video zone.at 01:06 pm by Darren Rowse
enternetusers Comment Spam Situation
David at Blogging Pro has a piece on why b5media has decided to buy an Akismet license.
In short - with 125 Active blogs the load of comment spam is massive and we were finding that other tools were just not killing enough of it.
Here at enternetusers I’ve been using the Spam Karma plugin for the last few months and have found it killed most of my comment spam but for some reason it became incompatible with some other aspect of my blog in the last few weeks and caused some issues with my commenting system (many of you noticed that comments didn’t seem to be getting through - or went through twice). I was also not getting any notifications of comments.
I then disabled Spam Karma and the problems were fixed with my commenting but the spam flooded in. I never realized how much spam I get - it was coming in at around 6 spam comments per minute!.
As a result I’ve been using Bad Behavior this week which has killed over three quarters of my comment spam but is still letting through a comment every couple of minutes (they all are being moderated at this point - hence a lot of your comments are being moderated too at the moment).
With this afternoon’s upgrade to WP 2 I’m going to be able to use Akismet for the first time with the b5 license. I’m really looking forward to seeing how it works and will give a report after a day or two.
Update: Thanks to some wonderful help from Rachel and Regan at Cre8d Design the update seems to be completed. There were a few hitches along the way in terms of plugin compatability and a couple of odd things happen but thanks to Rachel and Regan the new version of WP is working well and spam is under control - Akismet is doing it’s job very nicely so far.
My next task is to try to speed up my loading time a little as I’ve had a few people telling me that it’s crawling at the moment. I’ve made a few tweaks and have improved things a bit but think I have a few external scripts running that are causing some issues so will attempt to work on them in the coming day or two.
Thanks for everyone who emailed to let me know of issues that they saw during the update - hopefully we’ve found all the bugs.
Written on June 3rd, surf Active Apparel website Sell Homemade Video zone.at 11:06 am by Darren Rowse
AdSense Calendar
The AdSense team today announced AdSense Calendar (learn how to subscribe here)which interests me on two fronts.
Firstly it will be handy to follow as an AdSense publisher. The information on the calendar will include ‘monthly payment schedule, a record of AdSense blog posts, future system maintenance periods, and upcoming events–all backdated to the beginning of April 2006.’
Secondly it’s one of the first uses of Google Calendar that I’ve seen interacting with a blog and it’s got me wondering what other uses bloggers could put Google Calendar to.
I do have a Google Calendar but don’t really use it very well. I tend to use my email client’s (Entourage) calendar feature to keep track of my life - but I’d be interested to hear from any bloggers who are using Google Calendar in a public format in conjunction with their blog in some way.
Written on June 3rd, surf Active Apparel website Sell Homemade Video zone.at 10:06 am by Darren Rowse
Updating enternetusers
Just a quick note to let readers know that we’ll be doing some WP updating this afternoon (we’re finally going to WP 2) and as a result there might be a little down time and a bit of quirky behavior. Let us know if you have any issues - thanks for your patience.
Written on June 3rd, surf Active Apparel website Sell Homemade Video zone.at 12:06 am by Darren Rowse
Mark Cuban on ClickFraud
Mark Cuban posts on Why I think ClickFraud is far greater than imagined. The whole click fraud thing continues to nag at me as a publisher who is attempting to make an honest living. I know as the current state of play stands that things are good for honest folk like us - but as click fraud continues to rise it can only threaten us. I’m not sure where it’s all headed or how (or if) it will be resolved but leaves me with a nagging worry.
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