Google seems to have made some significant updates to page rank for a lot of sites in the last few days. SEO experts were expecting updates to the search index, but nothing seems to have changes as yet. This site now has a PR of 4, which is quite respectable for a personal blog site. The company site has now got a PR of 6 on the main page, which is nice, but not as impressive … [Read more...] about Google PR updated
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Google PR for firefox
Measuring a page's Google PR is important if you are doing online marketing. Although PR is not the only element in a successful online marketing campaign it is a good indicator of how Google "views" your site. Unfortunately Google's toolbar only works with Internet Explorer on Windows, so measuring PR on any other platform is awkward. I came across a handy extension for … [Read more...] about Google PR for firefox
more Blog spam solutions ….
Blog spam is a real pain in the neck. Tom and I have been swapping notes about this over the last month or so. I had some initial "success" with the builtin filters, which I then augmented with the SURBL plugin, but that still meant having to manually delete all the junk that was being put in the "moderate" queue. At Tom's recommendation I've now installed "auth image" which … [Read more...] about more Blog spam solutions ….
Moving mailboxes
Moving mailboxes from one server to another can be a painful experience. Formail is a handy command that makes this a lot easier: cd /var/spool/mail/;formail -Y -s sendmail -oi $user@domain < $mailbox replace $user@domain with the real alias you want to send to eg. michele@blacknight.ie replace $mailbox with the local mailbox name eg. michele1 The only thing to watch out for … [Read more...] about Moving mailboxes
Bored with system utilities?
Niall came across this the other week, but I am yet to see it in action. It's a little application that displays a "Hot babe" As your system load increases the "babe" strips. Kind of silly … [Read more...] about Bored with system utilities?