Archive for April, 2008

Don’t re-invent the wheel!

One of the most important lessons I have learned in life is “Don’t re-invent the wheel.”
The idea is simple: Don’t work really hard figuring something out when you could look at someone else who is really successful at this thing and do what they do.
If you want to play basketball like an NBA star then [...]

How spending $0.95 increased my productivity by 10x

To begin with I should say that I believe all of God’s creatures have value and place on the Earth.
The notable exception to this would be flies (and possibly mosquitoes). I rather strongly dislike flies. Whether it be at a picnic in the park, or at a family barbecue, or (like [...]

IE, Firefox, and Screen Resolutions

It is important to know something about your visitors. Included in the list of things you should know is what browsers visitors use and what screen resolutions people are running.
On one of my sites that gets a lot of traffic the browser usage is as follows:
Internet Explorer: 84.85%
Firefox: 10.87%
Safari: 2.94%
In designing my websites I [...]

Ask Nick: How to Deal with the Google Yoyo Effect?

Nick
More and more people report a yoyo effect with google,
and I am facing these too:
One day, you have 50 pages ranking nicely on a site
The next day, suddenly these 50 pages rank >500 (all
simulatenously), even for ‘ultra simple’ long tail
keywords
Once in a while, 50 pages rank again nicely (usually
not the same as previous)
One of [...]

Tracking Website Visitors

It’s one thing to put up a website on the vast Internet. It’s another thing to know how many visitors you get, how long they stay, what pages they visit, etc.
Every successful website owner needs the ability to track visitors’ actions.
There are many services out there that are free. Some tell you only how many [...]