Just When I Thought Google Hated Me

Monday, October 9th, 2006

I don’t know about you, but my PR was showing as a 1 forever. Not that it really matters since I’m not really selling anything here, but it was kind of annoying. Why wouldn’t Google satisfy my ego like it does for everyone else? (Actually, it was more like, “I don’t suck that bad.”) The [...]

Moving a Site with Apache Redirects

Thursday, April 13th, 2006

My boss, Paul Allen (the lesser) asked me to blog about how I redirected his entire blog site to new domain without losing traffic. So at the risk of boring some of my more technical readers, but also in the name of retaining my job, here goes. :)
Before the Move
First, the part I didn’t do. [...]

SSS PageRank Now 0?

Sunday, March 5th, 2006

I just noticed that the PageRank (via the Google toolbar) for Software for Starving Students project sank clear back to 0 after a brief stint at 5. The crummy thing is, I can’t figure out why. Although the site has very infrequent updates, it is constantly getting new inbound links. Our traffic has decreased during [...]

SSS PageRank

Saturday, February 18th, 2006

The PageRank for Software for Starving Students (via Google’s toolbar) went clear from 0 to 5 with the latest data update. That’s pretty indicative of the almost immediate success the project has enjoyed. The site has only been up since the very end of December but has had some really incredible growth. Just check out [...]