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Re: Ron Paul on Tech Policy

barry b. — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 15:12:57 -0000

I don't work in the technology field but I would say the reason I don't want the internet tampered with is that it represents freedom to me. With regulation comes less free speech and the delivery of ideas. It's a great alternative to the corporate driven main stream media. Like a grassroots newspaper that anyone can read. I think it's just a question of time though - they'll come for it sooner or later.

Re: The Carnival of Financial Goals III

barry b. — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 19:02:04 -0000

Thanks so much for the Brip - your time and effort is appreciated.

Barry

Re: Optimizing your Wordpress Blog for Google: Part 1

barry b. — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 19:38:27 -0000

I don't like your advice about going to partial feeds. Here's why. First of all feed readers don't want to have to come to your site - that's why they reading the 'feeds' instead. Also, I read an article recently from a high profit website that compared the number of hits to their site once they switched to FULL FEEDS - it was dramatic. This article removed the fears of full feeds out of my head. Using Full feeds doesn't mean these readers will never come to your site - I use feed burner and a lot of my readers end up coming to the site. Anyway I'll shut up about that subject.

On my blog, at the main index page, I only show an 'excerpt' of each page. This limits the duplicate content - and also allows readers to more quickly scan the latest articles to get a feel for what they want to read. Next on my 'categories' page - I only list the title. I'm trying to help my readers find what they want and fast before they take a hike!!!

Also, I removed the 'archives' section of the sidebar. From my perspective it's a complete waste of space and gets longer with each passing month.

Thank you for the info about robots.txt - I copied your example and updated my file. Anywho - I enjoyed the read and will be back!!!

Barry

Re: Optimizing your Wordpress Blog for Google: Part 2

barry b. — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 14:48:06 -0000

I've implemented all of these ideas I think. I recently blocked the trackback links using the robots.txt file. Now google generated 69 trackback errors because of that (viewed in google webmaster tools) - i suppose it's just telling me that there was a link for it, but google bot couldn't follow it. In any case it was just a little frightening seeing all those 'errors' but I don't think it will hurt anything.
bb

Re: Optimizing your Wordpress Blog for Google: Part 2

barry b. — Thu, 01 May 2008 14:29:37 -0000

Oh yeah - sorry - reading a little deeper on the google webmasters page clearly says "if you've blocked access to these links using robots.txt then you shouldn't be concerned about these errors" - or something like that. I always speak to damn soon.....

Re: War on Terror Ends!

barry b. — Sat, 24 May 2008 19:15:38 -0000

I'm with you. How the hell do you declare war agains a tactic???? WTF. Thanks for saying what people need to hear.

barry