Over a year ago I first put some form of linux on my laptop. My distro choice at the time was Mandrake 9.1, but I moved on to try other distributions. To date my old Dell has seen: Mandrake 9.1 Mandrake 10.0 Suse 9 Ximian (on Suse - I know it's not a distro, but it is a big change) Debian testing Ubuntu Mandrake 10.1 (official) The last one went on this evening :) … [Read more...] about Mandrake (mandriva) on the laptop
Google PR update – still going
Judging by what I'm seeing the Google PR update still hasn't settled down. A couple of days ago I was seeing a clear PR of 5 on this blog, but now I see 4, while other people see 5. The only way to see what it is across all Google data centres is to use a tool like this one You can change the URL to your own :) … [Read more...] about Google PR update – still going
Meta content – where is it?
John had posted some interesting statistics based on his crawling of the IE namespace: Websites With Title, Keywords and Description: 10460 That's out of a corpus of 36198 domains!! So, if John's stats are true, and I have no reason to doubt him, approximately 66% of Irish websites have no meta content. Some SEO experts may say that meta content is not as important as it used … [Read more...] about Meta content – where is it?
Google Sitemaps – funky addons
Not so many moons ago I mentioned Google Sitemaps which may help with indexing your site. Google are now providing a handly list of plugins, produced by 3rd parties, that hook into their API. For bloggers there is a plugin for Wordpress, while there are others for popular applications such as oscommerce, vbulletin, phpbb and plone (to mention but a few) I've noticed some fellow … [Read more...] about Google Sitemaps – funky addons
WordPress plugins
I've been trying to get the runphp plugin with plugins used working. I was hoping to get a simple static page in Wordpress to do this, but for some silly reason it's refusing to work :( I have, however, managed to get it to work for an external page, so you can now see which plugins I'm using. … [Read more...] about WordPress plugins