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13 July 2006
Just a quick note that I have coded avatars and signatures into the forums (my seo-board forum script). Now you can put an avatar picture and place your sites in your signature. Another new feature is that all links on the forums are now without the nofollow tag. Now you can get link credit for your posts. I guess having your links in the forums is a nice opportunity, since the SEO Guide has decent link popularity.
06 June 2006
I have been meaning to redesign this SEO Guide site for a long-time. I have been traveling for the last 3 months and haven’t really been able to work on anything on my sites. After such long layoffs from work, I am always scratching my head and hesitating where to start work from.Well, I decided to warm-up with something more enjoyable – reskinning the SEO guide. My Google Analytics stats show than only about 9% to 12% of my visitors on all of my sites use smaller screen resolutions than 1024x768. To me, that signifies the death of 800x600 designs. 3-column fixed-width 1024x768 designs, make it a lot easier to produce a usable web site, with a nice navigation including lots of links and of course, there is bigger and less annoying ad space. I sat and made something quite simple. It was easy to skin the blog and the forum because they are running my own scripts. I guess there are still some spacing and color issues I will be fixing, but overall I like the simplicity of mostly text designs with very few colors. I would be releasing a brand-new web development blog and the next upgrade of my blog script would be a comments system, which I am not sure I will enable on this site. The next version of my SEO-Board is also under heavy development, with full-blown features including avatars, signatures, a great plug-in system, skin system etc. My plans for the forums at SEO Guide include upgrading the script to offer signatures, avatars and AdSense revenue sharing. That’s the news for now.
15 January 2006
I am restarting the blog from scratch with a new script that I wrote and a slightly different blog format. Here are the changes:1. No Comments, Please. I got sick of deleting spam messages. I researched the “does my blog need comments enabled?” question and I now think it is better to run my blogs without comments. Less spam and a bigger chance for someone linking to specific posts. 2. Categories are dead. Long live tags. Tags are great for attracting traffic from sites like technorati.com. I am organizing all my blogs around tags. If you are not familiar with the concept run a search on google with keywords like “blogging tags versus categories”. 3. A different navigation structure Navigation now revolves around tags and I have also introduced latest posts, related posts and top rated posts (you can rate my posts). I hope you will find it much easier to find stuff when the blog gets more content. 4. Use my own script I wrote a tiny blog script that perfectly suits my needs in less than 5 days. That gives me a lot of freedom in customizing the hell out of it. I am also releasing a web development blog, and honestly, I consider it shameful to not run it on my own blog script. Every time I start digging the documentation of wordpress or any other script and I get nervous. I am tired of looking at someone else’s code. I am used to my coding style and am now using my own blog script, affiliate tracking script and forum script. In the future, I will implement archives. Now, the bad news. I am too lazy to import the old posts. That also falls perfectly in love with my tendency to abandon old stuff and restart from scratch. Also, the blog is moved from blog.seoguide.org to www.seoguide.org/blog/ The urls of the rss/atom feeds have also changed. Your comments are welcomed. Oh, I forgot that you can’t comment on my blog any more. |
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