Posted: November 30th, 2008 | Author: Mihai Bojin | Filed under: Google, SEO, Search engines | Tags: domain, Google, PageRank, PR, redirection, SEO, TBPR | No Comments »
Some time ago I was telling you about my full site redirect experiment.
In the meantime a Google Toolbar PR update took place and the new fresh domain got a PageRank of 4.
It seems that if you decide to move one domain to another, the new one will receive almost all of the old one’s authority.
This is good to know and could succesfully be used in some of the following cases:
- You have a site idea and you get a domain for it; sometime in the future you see that it’s not the best "choice of words"; no problem, you get a new domain name and move the website to it, redirecting 1:1; In this case you keep almost all of the old domain’s authority
- You get hold of a related (or unrelated) older domain; instead of moving your working website, you redirect all traffic from the related domain to your website; this will raise your website’s authority; if you can get hold of some good quality/good PR domains with traffic which you don’t have anything to do with, I suggest you use them to boost a domain of you choosing’s traffic and authority up
I’m sure you could find other uses for full domain 301 redirection and I’d appreciate if you could post any ideas you could share in the comments!
Posted: November 28th, 2008 | Author: Mihai Bojin | Filed under: Troubleshooting, Web | Tags: analytics, clean home, problem, theme, wordpress, wordpress theme | 2 Comments »
Is anybody using the clean-home theme from wordpress ?
If so, if you’re wondering why a plugin that uses the footer to output some analytics data (like Joost’s Google Analytics for Wordpress plugin) doesn’t quite work… read on !
I didn’t check my analytics stats for arond 2 weeks, only to find that I had absolutely no visits during that time.
The solution:
Go edit the footer.php file in the clean-home theme and add the following line just above the </body> tag:
<?php wp_footer(); ?>
Now all the plugins that register actions to that zone will be able to properly output the HTML/JS/whatever code.
Posted: November 27th, 2008 | Author: Mihai Bojin | Filed under: Affiliate marketing, Free databases | Tags: Affiliate marketing, AM, free zip code database, zip, zip code, zipcode database | 1 Comment »
I was reading some affiliate marketing stuff last night and I found this free zip code database.
UPDATE: After waiting for 2-3 days now, it seems that this one is a hoax. They didn’t contact me at all, but thanks to a reader (Tim) I found another database that you can actually get hold off: http://www.zipcodeworld.com/zipcodefree.htm
It’s always useful to have such a database at hand, not only for AM but also for coding or general information lookup.
The fact that zipcodes rarely change (if they ever do!?) make it a valuable resource.
The only requirement is to link to their webpage from your blog, which I find totally acceptable… or there’s the alternative of buying it for 25 bucks.
Do you know any other free databases out there ?
