Greg Grothaus of Google’s Search quality team posted a video on the Google Webmaster Central Blog dispelling the duplicate content penalty myth. The video is a reproduction of a talk he gave at the Search Engine Strategies conference in San Jose last month on Duplicate Content and Multiple Site Issues.
In the video, Greg explains that [...]
Everyone knows that most web site usage statistics are tracked by web servers, including user local, operating systems, page views, unique visits, etc. However, if you’re really serious about tracking your user’s activity, you’ll use an analytics solution such as WebTrends, which is used by the New York Times to log on-screen actions which cannot be tracked by traditional means. Using the WebTrends dcsMultiTrack function, it’s possible to capture virtually any event that can trigger a JavaScript function, whether it’s on a static HTML page or inside a flash application.
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I have a good number of my clients running Joomla on their web sites, many of them large organization web sites with hundreds of articles and some of the most data-intensive extensions. I had been following the development progress of Joomla 1.5 for several months after its release, at which point I was still chained to the 1.0.x series for most existing sites because compatible extensions hadn’t been released. Now that most of the extensions that matter are at the very least compatible in legacy mode, I’ve been slowly working over the summer to get my clients migrated from the 1.0.x series to 1.5. It’s not the easiest process, in fact I think it’s the most complicated, rage-inducing software upgrade I’ve ever had to deal with… However it has gotten easier as I’ve encountered some common issues that can be (sometimes easily) avoided. Read More »
I recently got the itch to renew a never-ending project that will keep me up nights and threaten to steal my focus from money-making endeavors; therefore there is a somewhat updated look here at DTH as well as a completely different publishing platform… Don’t get me wrong, I love Expression Engine. I just couldn’t get over the numerous blogging features and addons that WordPress has over EE. For certain projects I would definitely pick EE over WordPress just as I would even choose Joomla over both for many applications. Anyway, recently I’ve developed a few web sites professionally using WP and I think that as far as blogging software is concerned, it is pretty hard to beat.
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It was a Thursday afternoon, and I had just checked in to a hotel room in Truckee, CA. I had driven an hour or so from Colfax to attend a wedding and visit my parents who were flying in from Idaho later that night. The girl at the front desk had looked at me with some worry when I walked in with my full military rucksack complete with a machete strapped to the side, but I didn’t really have any other option. The majority of Team Bersheisse had green lighted a weekend trip to begin the following night, and it would be the last time such a large number of the core would be together. I had forgotten about the wedding, which was scheduled for 3pm on Friday, about 6 hours before I was supposed to be in Sierra City to meet the Team. So, this is how I ended up walking through the doors of a Hampton Inn wearing formal clothing and carrying enough equipment to survive alone in the Sierra Nevada mountains for around a month. Read More »

