Developing a Website Scanner
I run a traffic exchange and a common occurance is for people to advertise sites that cause problems while surfing. Sometimes it’s a mistake, and other times it’s on purpose.
Part of my job is to keep things in rotation clean. I’m doing this better by developing a website scanner in PHP. So far it’s working [...]
Increasing Alexa Ranking
I heard a rumor that putting the Alexa Widget on your website could increase your alexa ranking. So I decided to give it a whirl, and put it on the StartXchange Splash Pages in February.
There was a slight increase, but not significant enough to say that was the reason. Afterall, I also increased advertising StartXchange [...]
Mosso, I want a refund!
Well it’s been a week since I tried out Mosso. It was very promising, but it didn’t go the way I thought it would. I think all the publicity online has created too much interest in too short a period.
The problems I encountered:
A) Support – They are always there, but it seemed to take a [...]
Trying Mosso Hosting
I decided to give Mosso a try. Mosso is an enterprise level cluster host. You get unlimited this and that. Your only limit is disk space and bandwidth.
It’s the latest fad in shared hosts. Instead of having one shared server, and packing a bunch of sites onto it, they have a bunch of servers all [...]
Quality not Quanity
I’ve been going through my feed reader just about all day. It seems most of the blogs are all about trying to have “fresh content” everyday. Even if that means the posts have nothing to do about anything.
Well I’m different. If you notice sometimes it will be a long time in between posts. That’s because [...]
Top Rated Lists
Well I’ve been noticing that StartXchange isn’t always listed in the top exchange lists that users publish on their website. In fact, percentage wise most don’t list StartXchange at all.
I am trying to change that, but I’m not sure how. Do you think I should increase my advertising campaign? Is the site too hard to [...]
