2009
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More Progress Being Made
For those who have been keeping track, it has been a longer than we originally hoped to get the author review process in place to remove the nofollow from your links (Read about the nofollow and other changes here). Thanks in part due to a call from a distressed author, we got the programmer [...]
Wordpress Plugin Playground
Today we upgraded to the latest version of Wp Super Cache – which I think is just great. It is pretty tried and trued and has saved us a lot of head aches in other projects.
We are also running w3 total cache, but experimenting with using its built in memcached funcationalities to cache database [...]
Weekend Update End Of October
We are approaching roughly one month since we put into place a LOT of changes to the site. We are still working on many more improvements to the site and decrease page load times and optimize the speed of the site as well as quality of the information delivered.
Traffic to the site has increased [...]
McDonald’s Leaves Saves $2,000 A Day By Skipping Items
Just saw this on twitter – and while I would like to hope its a joke, it would certainly make sense if it wasn’t.
I don’t really if ever go to McDonald’s but i know other drive thru places quite often screw up orders. Every time something is messed up you have to [...]
Verizon Wireless + Google = Love?
Verizon Wireless and Google announced today that they will be working together to co develop several phones to take advantage of VZW’s 3G network as well as the Google Android platform.
I’m quite thrilled about this, I’ve been waiting for something neat to come out that doesn’t run on the AT&T network — around [...]
Articles Promoting Online Pharmacies Removed
There shall be no linking to online pharmacies, whether they are in canada, europe or anywhere else in the world. Linking and promoting and encouraging people to order drugs without a perscription is not allowed on this site.
We have removed over 10,000 articles by authors who also promoted these sites. Most of these [...]
Article Directory Clean Up Continues
We have been continuing to clean up some of the articles on the site, so if you notice any that you think we should remove, please email the urls and or the url to the author profile to us and we will have the editors take a look at them.
So far we have removed a [...]
OMG Article Directory Google Slapdown!!!
July and August were terrific months traffic wise, the best we have ever had over here at ArticleSnatch.com. It was a nice test of scale for the platform that we are running on. At the end of August we noticed something that other sites have seen – the dread Google Slap!
Google Slap
Toward the [...]
Bryan Eisenberg Shares 69 Free (or Low Cost) Tools to Improve Your Website
Bryan Eisenberg, the co-author of the bestselling books “Call to Action”, “Waiting For Your Cat to Bark?” and “Always Be Testing”, has a new personal blog named, Bryan Eisenberg. (Does he owe his parents royalties for using that name for his blog?)
And he’s just posted an incredibly useful list of 69 Free (or low cost) Tools to Improve Your Website.
(I should disclose that I’m mentioned in the 69th listing, which is for Market Motive, but so are Avinash Kaushik, John Marshall, Todd Malicoat, Matt Bailey, and Jennifer Laycock, who are also members of the Market Motive faculty.)
So, check out the complete list of low-cost and free tools. Yes, yes, you’ll find ones like Google Analytics and Google Website Optimizer, that you already knew about. But there are plenty of others that I’d never heard about before.
And while you are visiting Eisenberg’s new blog, let him know if there are other free (or low cost) tools that should be added to the list. Hey, improving your website is hard, so we want to know as many options as possible.
Oh, and if you come to SES Chicago 2009, thank Eisenberg in person. You can’t miss him. He’s the New York Yankees fan being interviewed by the Boston Red Sox Nation citizen in the video below.
Bryan Eisenberg, Future Now, at SES London 2008 on SEO
Chance Card: Design a 3D Building for Monopoly City Streets Using Google Sketchup
Hasbro, the makers of Monopoly, have launched a contest where you can design a 3D building for their new interactive version of the popular board game: Monopoly City Streets.
But you’ll have to hurry. The deadline for the contest is next Tuesday, October 6, 2009 at 11:59pm EST.
You’ll need to use Google SketchUp to design your building and then upload it to the Google 3D Warehouse to enter. Learn more about the contest rules here.
Monopoly City Streets, which launched earlier this month, uses Google Maps for its interactive game.
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