Market research is an important exercise. You should know: What people have What people would like to have What people need (not the same as above) What is on offer (in the market) How it is offered There's probably a more scientific way of presenting those ideas, but you should get the general idea. In the hosting market it is not uncommon to contact competitors to seek … [Read more...] about Do we look stupid? Market research gone wrong
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How to get banned from directories – anti-seo
Human edited directories take time to manage. If you insist on breaking the rules you will end up being banned. A few things to avoid: Submit the same URL more than once Request link exchanges Spam Argue with the editors I've also made a point of posting some of this over on the new browse.ie forums … [Read more...] about How to get banned from directories – anti-seo
How many installs of WordPress?
According to the Wordpress download counter close to 400,000 downloads have been recorded of the 1.5* release. So how many installs are there? If you take into consideration the number of blogging platforms based on WP or MU the number grows exponentially and this is without even considering the number of hosting providers offering it preinstalled. … [Read more...] about How many installs of WordPress?
SPF to IP translation
Spamcop has a handy little tool to convert SPF record entries to IP address and/or ranges. Simply feed it a domain name and it will read in the SPF record if it exists and convert it to IPs. If no SPF is present then it will use the MX record. I suppose you *could* use this to check your own SPF records .... … [Read more...] about SPF to IP translation
Rewrite conflicts – WordPress plugin hell :(
Although I managed to get an internal cosmos and tagging thing working last week I seem to have run into a rewrite rule conflict due to my choice of wordpress plugins. The feedburner plugin I installed a few weeks ago uses mod_rewrite to pass all requests for RSS feeds, regardless of the format, over to the feedburner URI. As the tagging plugin is also rewriting the URLs this … [Read more...] about Rewrite conflicts – WordPress plugin hell :(