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There was a time when a Google PageRank update took but a few days to complete, but the current update seems to have been dragging on for ages. An alternative theory being that they've moved the model completely OR that they had to redo it... In any case I've just been informed that IWF *should* get a PR of 4! Why do I care? I can think of a couple of reasons, but the most … [Read more...] about Google Pagerank Update Still In Progress

A couple of the plugins that I used to have installed on here were bloated and won't be coming back anytime soon. Others, however, are incredibly useful, but I do worry about the silly number of SQL queries that they can add. Brian's latest comments, for example, seems to add quite a few SQL queries which may not be necessary. Does anyone have an alternative that offers the … [Read more...] about Light WordPress Plugins?

While Adam may enjoy poking fun at my reluctance to simply "dive in" and upgrade my Wordpress install it seems that I may be proven correct :) Looking at the WP testers list today there are a number of people who've run into issues. While an upgrade may work fine for someone using a standard install with a fairly standard theme and plugins, there is no guarantee that it won't … [Read more...] about I am not a wuss!!

Associate-o-matic 3.0.4 has been released on schedule. You can read the full release notes on their site There are hints of some very funky new features in the release notes with the developers teasing us with the promise of documentation. I hate teases :) … [Read more...] about Associate-o-matic Update Released

Niche search is a fascinating area. A lot of people seem to think that Google IS the answer to all your searching needs, whereas I would tend to think that it is just part of the answer. GoogleBot (or Slurp) cannot always tell the difference between a keyword rich splog and a keyword rich website. It's for this reason that I believe human edited directories still play an … [Read more...] about Swicki Anyone?