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Spread the Word About Your Geek Blog

Robin Parrish — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 19:19:55 +0000

So you’ve got a blog. You write for it regularly, you tell everyone you know about it, and you cultivate relationships with your readers. It’s time to take it global.

ForeverGeek’s sister site, BlogSearchEngine, has just been redesigned and relaunched, making now the perfect time to take your geeky words out to the masses. Every day, Splashpress Media’s web portal features blogs from all over the Internet, and those in-the-know visit it to find the web’s new superstar voices.

You can be that voice. With four subscription packages to serve all needs and budgets, you’ll get a personal write-up/review of your blog to go with your listing at BlogSearchEngline, along with the additional services that come with each package. Any and all kinds of blogs are welcome — geek blog or something else entirely — and there are almost 70 categories in which to find your home.

There are readers out there, looking for what you do. Now you have a way to find them. BlogSearchEngine.com is ready to help.

WordPress.com has added the snow effect so it must be cool

andy — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 13:43:36 +0000

I haven’t quite caught on to the Christmas spirit just yet (I’m working on it, but the mild temperatures and the fact there are still roses growing in my British garden doesn’t help) so perhaps there’s a bit of Bah-Humbug about this post.

WordPress.com (the free hosted version of the WordPress blogging platform — you knew that) has decided that the new snow effect is cool enough to add to its front page.

Having suffered a range of CPU-killing websites over the years — on both dinosaur computers (my fault) and high-spec ones (website owners fault) — I’m wary of the following statement on WordPress.com’s announcement:

Older computers may run slow or stop responding due to snow.

It proves how little I visit WordPress.com blogs (or the blogs of people that turn the effect on) because I hadn’t realised the snow had been around for the previous two years.

I’ve visited plenty of websites that add seasonal effects, but the number does appear to have diminished recently.

Maybe that’s because people running professional web sites are keener to keep things simple, or because we no longer live in a GeoCities world, or because animated GIFs are generally naff.

Still, JavaScript lovers rejoice. Let’s hear it for snowstorm.js!

Do you like the wintry effects added to web sites or should we save it for the real world and leave cyberspace free from snow and flashing Christmas decorations?

Matt Cutts switches everything around and blog still works

andy — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:23:54 +0000

Presumably using his decent screen real estate to ensure that all the required windows were open at the same time, Google software engineer Matt Cutts decided he was going to mix things up over the weekend.

I took one of my domains, dullest.com, and moved it to TigerTech from pair Networks.
I installed the latest version of WordPress on dullest.com and copied the MySQL database from mattcutts.com to dullest.com.
I changed my blog layout to the excellent Thesis theme by Chris Pearson. Previously I was using the Almost Spring theme.
I added an .htaccess file that will do 302 redirects from www.mattcutts.com/path/file.html to www.dullest.com/path/file.html.

Bit of an experiment and nice to see someone at Google publicly breaking “the rules” of how you should carefully and sequentially move things around.

“Sometimes it’s fun to mix things up. It’s not as if I make any money from my blog, so I don’t mind if my search rankings drop for a while. In fact, it will be a pretty interesting experiment to see what happens with search engines and traffic.”

I moved a bunch of sites from one host to another, but I didn’t dare attempt other changes at the same time. They can wait.