Modern Street

One of the common problems faced by some webmasters is slow or non indexing by Google. As we know, Google is currently the top search engine in the world, and so if you have a website on whatever, the first thing you can do for it is to try to get it indexed and listed by Google. The Google bot is one of the most active search engine spiders in the Web world, always crawling the Web looking for good content on sites, and so, it is quite rare these days to have a problem with getting indexed.

One of the situations when indexing fails to occur is when the domain has been blacklisted by Google. This may be due to the current or previous owner, failing to adhere to Google’s webmaster guidelines. Read the rest of this entry »

The past week has seen another Google Pagerank (PR) update, which has just about concluded. And I’m pretty glad to see my Pagerank updated to a PR 4! Here is a Pagerank checking site. Although webmasters will tell you that Pagerank is not important, they all secretly value it. Bragging rights maybe. I bet you will still hear all the moans and groans from those who lost PR at each update. So let’s be honest, we want a nice Pagerank, but we don’t need it.

Not too long ago, my blog was having a PR 3, and then it became “not available” in the last update. This recent update, Google seems to have gone generous again, and more websites once again report rises in PR, rather than drops. Probably a sign that Google is satisfied with all the cleanups it has done so far in punishing PR selling

Oh, but what am I talking about Pagerank at all? Does it really matter in the “success” of a website? It does, in a way. What is more important, is traffic. That’s why Alexa’s recent changes have been received positively by most webmasters. Read the rest of this entry »

One of the things I am thinking of doing here on my blog is putting more weight on tech topics. That doesn’t mean I won’t write on Web stuff, but I admit tech topics can be often fun - especially if it is something ALL of us can relate to.

Now, I don’t claim to be an expert, but after toying around with PCs for more than a decade, and often surrounded with my real life technician friends, I think it’s perfectly alright to write on tech topics here, more than once in a while. So today, I decided to do a write up on the Windows registry, and what is the best registry cleaner for the purpose of cleaning the registry. Read the rest of this entry »

April 22 is designated as Earth Day, and if you use Google, you would have noticed that today, with their peculiar logo do-up. In the spirit of Earth Day, I just want to share a little known resource, which I think not many people are even aware exists, and that is none other than Google.org. That’s Google with an .org extension.

Google has been quietly building this site as a platform to further its own initiatives in researching things like climate change and disease, all of which (potentially), have VERY far reaching impacts. So, although this post might not fit in with most of the other stuff on this blog, I think it’s still appropriate just to highlight Earth Day today (in my own small way). Read the rest of this entry »

I have decided not to use MyBlogLog anymore due to a number of issues with it. Firstly, I just ran across a post by Shoemoney that the tracking by MyBlogLog is wide open to interpretation and may be against Adsense TOS. Then again, Google has never come out and said anything against MyBlogLog. So, as usual, things like this become a gray issue, and I think to be on the safe side, it’s best to ditch MyBlogLog.

That brings me to my second point. Ever since MyBlogLog was sold to Yahoo, I’ve noticed things are not the same anymore. Many people don’t put up their avatars in MBL anymore. Compared with Blog Catalog, I see a major difference now, in that more and more people are jumping ship to Blog Catalog or elsewhere. By the way, I haven’t noticed any blank avatars in Blog Catalog compared to MyBlogLog. So, that just means people aren’t bothering with MyBlogLog anymore to even bother putting up avatars (even if they are Yahoo avatars). Read the rest of this entry »

I read this article a couple of days ago, and wanted to write what I thought about it since, because it would have sounded quite absurd a few years ago. I mean, you see this with video games, and other activities which I can easily imagine as being detrimental to health if overdone, but blogging? Some of you might have seen an article in the New York Times about “blogging to death.”

Ok, this piece of news is pretty interesting for a blogger like me, because it shows once again just how fragile the human body really is. I don’t want to think that maybe one of the causes was their age factor, but I did notice those guys were all over 40. Would that have been a factor? Or has blogging evolved over the past several years into an “angst” ridden masochistic activity? Read the rest of this entry »