Archive for November, 2006

List of Official Google Blogs

Today Danny Sullivan posted an entry in SearchEngineWatch that lists all official Google blogs. Coincidentally, this is a piece of information I’ve been looking for myself. The links listed in that post were XML files, which are difficult to read for most of us. So, I am listing these sites in a more friendly format [...]

Domain Search Engine PCNames.com

PCNames.com is a new domain search engine offering some pretty cool functionalities. First, its front page has a Google suggest-like feature that allow you to instantly see whether a domain you are interested in is available. Â
The site also offers several additional tools for people interested in domaining (or those who are just [...]

Hilarious post at Seoblackhat

QuadsZilla posted a hilarious piece on his blog at seoblackhat.com today titled I just got a Linux Car! It’s a funny post that everyone who has ever tried to build a kernal in Linux can identify with, and I sure got a good laugh out of it. Go check it out!

Study on best reward credit cards

I have just done a study on the reward credit cards. In conducting this study, I gathered the reward offers for these credit cards, made some assumptions on typical monthly charge amounts, and calculated the amount of spending needed to get the first $100 in rewards, as well as the second $100 in rewards. [...]

Salaries for SEO professionals

Rand has a posting on SEO salaries in SEOMoz Blog. In the post, he listed average salaries for various SEO positions for both in-house and agency.
His numbers appear to be on target, although the range he gave is quite large. And because it’s impossible to provide numbers for every metro area in the [...]

Japanese Web Page Not Rendering in IE6

I had been working on some web pages in Japanese, and found some of the pages showed up blank in IE6. This was quite strange for a couple of reasons:
1. The same pages rendered ok in Firefox, Opera, and even IE7.
2. When I do a “view source”, I can see the full [...]

Browser Market Share, October 2006

Below is the % browser share, based on traffic to my two highest trafficked sites in October 2006:Â

IE:Â 68.2%
Firefox:Â 28.0%Â
Opera:Â 2.0%
Safari:Â 0.8%
Mozilla:Â 0.6%
Netscape: 0.3%
Konqueror: 0.1%

Compared to the September 2006 numbers, IE declined by 1.5%, and Firefox gained 1.5%. There was no significant change in the smaller players.
It’s [...]

New search engine Zotspot pays users to search

Yesterday Zotspot announced the official launch of its search engine. What’s different about this search engine is that it is paying users to search. Users may also donate the money they earned to charities. Users can also earn money from referrals.