Dinotopia artist James Gurney posted this video about a “change blindness” experiment. 75% of the participants didn’t notice that the experimenter who bent under a counter was replaced by a different person. Says Gurney: “Here’s proof that most of the time we look but don’t see.” I think Matisse said something to the effect that he didn’t really see things unless he was painting them.
There may be the beginnings of an explanation for something that we have all observed in many forms.
In Windows Vista and Windows 7 you can increase the performance of external hard drive by increasing its speed in just a few easy steps. This is possible because Windows Vista and Windows 7 operate external hard drives connected by USB differently than internal drives. By default, in Windows 7 and Vista, write catching is disabled so that you can safely remove the drive at almost any time. This works perfectly fine if you insert and remove your external hard drive very frequently; but if you have a large hard drive that you never disconnect from your computer write caching is still disabled which can decrease performance.
Step1: Click on the Windows start button, then right click on Computer and select Manage.
Step2: Click on Device Manager on the side menu.
Step3: Expand Disk Drives and select your external hard drive from the list.
Step4: Right click on the drive and select properties.
Step5: (Vista only) – on the Policies tab, select Optimize for performance
Step 6: (Vista only) Next, check enable write caching on the disk and enable advanced performance
Step 7: (Windows 7 only) Click on Enable write caching on the device.
Step 8: Press OK and Reboot the machine to enjoy the increased performance.
It has been a little less than a week and it appears that Google has decided to let the the site start playing with the rest of the internet. Over the past week the SERP for “Personalized Children’s Book” has shifted from 180’s to the 120’s that a pretty decent drop for a week.
This begs the question, Is this a result of being “released” from the Google age delay filter?, or just the mere fact that Google has index additional pages and is slowly building and calulating our Page Rank.
We have made a few changes to the site, minified the Javascript and CSS which I will talk about a later time, compressed images and added a few more backlinks. Today is exactly 2 months from the day the domain was registered so I am happy with the way things are shaping up so far.
A hardwired Ethernet network is, by nature, safer and more secure than WiFi, but it is still vulnerable. Instead of breaking into the network, as with WiFi, hackers usually break into one of the PCs on the network, which can give them access to the information on all the PCs. The following security tips apply to both wired and wireless networks. While there is no such thing as absolute security, the more of these tips you follow the more secure your wireless network will be.
Secure both the network and each PC
Use security software that comes with your wireless or wired router to secure the network.
• Rename your network. Out of the box, most routers use their own easily identifiable names (SSIDs) that make them easier for hackers to crack. Change the router name to one that doesn’t give you or the network type away.
• Use the media access control (MAC) feature that is usually included with your router. It lets you name each PC on the network and restrict network access to only those PCs.
• Secure each PC with its own firewall, so that even if a hacker gets into the network, he/she won’t be able to access the PCs on it.
Use strong password security
• The security software that comes with most routers usually offers several levels of password protection. Don’t use WEP (wired equivalent privacy) passwords as they are easily hacked. Use at least WPA (Wi-Fi protected access) or WPA Personal passwords, or an even more secure format, if offered.
• Create hard to decipher passwords. Don’t include your name, birth date, address or other obvious words or numbers. The best passwords are a random mix of letters, numbers, and characters, eight or more characters long.
• Change your password often.
Use up-to-date security software
• Firewall protection for each computer in the network.
• Transaction security to help ensure your online shopping or banking transactions are secured.
• Antivirus protection to help keep viruses, Trojan horses and worms from infecting your PCs.
• Antispyware to block hackers from placing spyware on your PC.
• Email scanning to remove viruses from email.
To maximize the effectiveness of your Internet security software, make sure it is always up-to-date so that you are always protected from the very latest security threats.
Internet security software will help you maximize the safety and security of your home network. It adds security features that neither PCs nor network routers offer.
301 redirect is the most efficient and Search Engine Friendly method for webpage redirection. It’s not that hard to implement and it should preserve your search engine rankings for that particular page. If you have to change file names or move pages around, it’s the safest option. The code “301″ is interpreted as “moved permanently”.
Below are a Couple of methods to implement URL Redirection
$q = new CGI;
print $q->redirect(“http://www.new-url.com/”);
Ruby on Rails Redirect
def old_action
headers["Status"] = “301 Moved Permanently”
redirect_to “http://www.new-url.com/”
end
Redirect Old domain to New domain
Create a .htaccess file with the below code, it will ensure that all your directories and pages of your old domain will get correctly redirected to your new domain.
The .htaccess file needs to be placed in the root directory of your old website (i.e the same directory where your index file is placed)
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.newdomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]
Please REPLACE www.newdomain.com in the above code with your actual domain name.
In addition to the redirect I would suggest that you contact every backlinking site to modify their backlink to point to your new website.
Note* This .htaccess method of redirection works ONLY on Linux servers having the Apache Mod-Rewrite moduled enabled.
Redirect to www
Create a .htaccess file with the below code, it will ensure that all requests coming in to domain.com will get redirected to www.domain.com
The .htaccess file needs to be placed in the root directory of your old website (i.e the same directory where your index file is placed)
I have read many articles and speculations about the so-called Google “Sandbox” or “Age Delay” filter, from what I have experienced it seems that such a filter does exist. Performing a query for allinanchor:”personalized children’s books” which is the top keyword/phrase I am targeting results in the site being listed on page 2/3 yet querying for keyword/phrase “Personalized Children’s Books” has us on page 18/19.
So how long does this filter apply? How long will the site be “Sand Boxed”? No one really knows the answer to this, but the speculation is that for new domain’s with similar content / material Google wants to keep the ”Age Delay Filter” for approximately 6-12 months. Is this fair? I am partial to both opinions it will help reduce spam sites ensuring the site/domain is something that is going to be around, but on the other hand legitimate sites will take a penalty for quite some time reducing the potential traffic.
Let’s see how long Google makes our site play in the “Sand Box”.
Fix IE Utility is a small, freeware and portable application designed to help fix Internet Explorer after a Malware attack. Fix IE Utility will re-register 89 DLL and OCX files that are often de-registered in a Malware attack and are required for Internet Explorer to run smoothly. You will still need to run your usual malware removal applications but if Internet Explorer still wont work correctly after the system as been cleaned, its possible the malware de-registered some files and this is where Fix IE Utility helps. Many people would just suggest that the client could just switch to Firefox. However, the core of Internet Explorer is still used inside many other programs so it needs to be operational, even if you don’t use Internet Explorer as a web browser
Fix IE Utility has been tested on IE7 and IE8 on both Windows Vista and Windows 7.
SEO is the active practice of optimizing a web site by improving internal and external aspects in order to increase the traffic the site receives from search engines. Firms that practice SEO can vary; some have a highly specialized focus, while others take a more broad and general approach. Optimizing a web site for search engines can require looking at so many unique elements that many practitioners of SEO (SEOs) consider themselves to be in the broad field of website optimization (since so many of those elements intertwine).
So I have been doing a lot of work with SEO for my wife’s website http://www.MyFairyTaleBooks.com she sell’s Personalized Children’s Books and is playing in a pretty competitive online marketplace. I will be using her site as my case study and be reporting on how my SEO strategies are coming along.
