Category: WordPress
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GBuy, new Google weapon against PayPal
28th June, Google will initiate the operation of GBuy. There was a persistent rumour of the interest of Google to go foray into the PayPal market. It seems that GBuy will be a new payment system (exactly like PayPal from eBay), but it will also be connected to the global search engine. This could give…
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Choose your WordPress visits statistics
Early on, the priority of a serious blogger becomes to confirm factually the number and the origin of the visits to her web site (usually, this is the first step to optimize the paying advertisment). In order to fulfill this goal, several management packages may be found. I tested several of them (with WordPress, even…
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Akismet 1.15 – More for less SPAM
Akismet did it again. They upgraded slightly their excellent SPAM-fighting tool. It is currently protecting my web site against SPAM in the comments and trackbacks. I wouldn’t do without it. Highly recommended.
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Tired of SPAM on WordPress
Tired of running around to cancel spammers messages since I setup the feature of comments on this site, I decided to reinforce the filtering policy and to setup an automated filter. For that purpose, since I use WordPress, I chose Akismet whose operation is very efficient. The vast majority of the SPAM is simply detected.…
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AdSense, delay to sense
Your blog contains AdSense ad banners and you are wondering whether they are always taking into account the real content of the articles you publish. A few remarks from a mere user.
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Need more traffic, do not pay for site submission
There is a deafening advertisment flood to increase your web site traffic. This looks like snake oil to me: Need more traffic, xxx$ for site submission.
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Pages moved, inform the user but don’t tell
Actually, on my web site, a number of pages have been moved around in the last year. Additionally, some pages are now located so deeply in the site structure that access paths are quite convoluted. The solution seems to go through the use of server page redirection. In Apache (the web server roumazeilles.net is based…
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Contextual advertisment for safaris?
I just noticed (on my own web site) a contextual ad from Google that seemed quite well targeted. Titled “Wildebeest migration” (gnus migration), it promotes a Tanzania safari en Tanzanie in June-July for this great moment of Nature: 15 millions gnus and 3 millions zebras simultaneously leave Tanzania to go back to Kenya. Big show!…
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WordPress, keywords are impossible (are they?)
Keywords are not naturally generated by WordPress. But, if you know how, you can easily correct this. I will not let you tell me that keywords are useless in modern search engine. It is more or less true, but not totally true. Their lack in the header of an HTML page is not without effect…