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@Dappered Gets @Disqus Commenting
We upgraded Dappered.com to the Disqus commenting system this weekend. Went fairly smoothly (there are still a few minor issues to tackle). If you’re transitioning from the WordPress default to Disqus, here are a few tips: Make sure to update your custom style sheet path. Our development site is password protected, and I couldn’t figure [...]
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How The Verizon iPhone Could Backfire For Apple
For years now, owning an iPhone has been like partying at a crowded club: it’s difficult to get accomplish basic tasks (have a conversation, ask somebody out), it’s crowded with people (AT&T’s data lines), and the cover charge is a pain (Yay, tiered data plans!). But there’s a line out the front and a velvet [...]
Why The Traffic Drop After @CloudFlare? Google Hates Me.
CloudFlare is an interesting beast. On one hand, I love it because I like the bandwidth savings. However, CloudFlare is tanking my traffic. Why? Google doesn’t like something. Here’s a chart of Google organic referral traffic to this site: The annoying thing is that it didn’t happen right away. It took a bit. So [...]
Nope, StumbleUpon Is Not Bigger Than Facebook, Sorry StatCounter
If you believe StatCounter (and probably StumbleUpon as well), StumbleUpon drives more traffic to external sites than Facebook. According to this blog, “StatCounter is measuring the share of traffic sent out from seven major social media outlets …” Which is fine until you start thinking about it. Here’s why it’s misleading at best: That last [...]
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Did @CloudFlare Tank My Organic Search Traffic Or Do People No Longer Care About Blake Lively’s Ass?
I was afraid of this. Overall traffic to my site has been down about 75% for the past two days. I agree with Dave Taylor — DNS changes affect search engine rankings. I’ve seen it in the past and I think I’m seeing it again. Well, it’s that OR people have stopped searching for Blake [...]
I Got An Axe For Christmas (And It Wasn’t Body Spray)!
Not sure if you caught it, but Mashable and Lifehacker were doing their best to whore themselves out for Christmas traffic with “Setup Your New __” / “How To __” tech posts. Kinda got sick of ‘em. With that and the “Top 10″ posts that everybody else runs at the end of the year, I [...]
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My Bandwidth Usage Is Down 39% With @CloudFlare (So Far)
I’m just a few days in and things are looking good. First, when I run a traceroute on my site, I find it in 11 hops instead of 16. I’m not sure why that is, but fewer is better, so I’m happy. Second, I looked at daily bandwidth usage for the first 16 days of [...]
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Time To Nut Up Or Shut Up — pauldavidolson.com Gets @CloudFlare
So I just turned on CloudFlare for this domain … my primary domain that’s tied to my primary email address. Scared as hell. Results to follow.
I Think 75% Of My Twitter Followers Are Prostitutes
I’m not an avid Twitter tweeter. Or Twitterer. Or Tweeter (that’s got to be trademarked, right?). Anyway … I’m not on the Twitter a lot. But I’ve got some followers. I looked at them today, and I think they’re almost all prostitutes. Seriously, check these out: @sf_meg (maybe), @Inezbu64 (definitely), @Hannalouise_24 (um, naked profile pic), [...]
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Google’s Not Getting Worse, Facebook Is