Sometimes people, including me, post things on social networks that don't make a lot of sense as they lack context. XKCD's recent comic: … [Read more...] about If Social Media Updates Had Context
Automatically Generating Rich Snippets For Recipes
I've been blogging on and off about my experiences and progress with dieting over on my diet blog. One of the things that I've also been doing is sharing recipes for the various things I've been eating. In order to display them "sanely" I opted for a Wordpress plugin called "Easy Recipe" mainly for the display. I wasn't as concerned with the rich snippets and microformat … [Read more...] about Automatically Generating Rich Snippets For Recipes
Website Traffic And Hacks
A couple of months ago one of the sites I run was hacked via a nasty hole in a plugin that it was using. It took quite a bit of work to find the source of the issue and resolve it once and for all. Once the hole had been plugged properly the traffic levels returned to normal. But it's only when you have a reasonable amount of data that you can really see how much impact … [Read more...] about Website Traffic And Hacks
A New Broadband Connection
Last week, while I was up in Dublin, UPC came along and hooked me up to their fibre. Yesterday I got the fixed IP details and with Paul's assistance switched the UPC box over to bridging mode, reconfigured my Fritzbox and moved my home connection into the fast lane. It's nice With the standard UPC wireless access point I could get a respectable 35 megs, but once I … [Read more...] about A New Broadband Connection
Traffic Levels Returning After A Fix
It's been a week since I fixed the issue on a site that had been infected by some malware. As I mentioned in my previous post, the malware was stealing the site's search engine traffic. And the graphs show very clearly how things have improved in only a few days: And if you look at that over the course of a week it's even clearer Hopefully (fingers crossed) there … [Read more...] about Traffic Levels Returning After A Fix