Help Me With Understanding My Site StatsSeptember 5th, 2007 I noticed something funny with this site's statistics. On average people are spending 4 minute 8 seconds on the site.
DNS Servers Leveraged For DDOS AttacksMarch 25th, 2006 In a vicious twist of standard DDOS attacks, now attackers are using the DNS servers to do their dirty work. They send requests to DNS server with a spoofed reply address pointing to the victim's machine.
Why does my Google Desktop search contact internet?December 14th, 2004 Occassionally Google Desktop Search contacts internet, even when I am not using it. This makes me nervous.
Dutch internet search engine claims to offer total privacyFebruary 2nd, 2009 AMSTERDAM - A Dutch company says it has developed the world's first internet search engine that guarantees users' absolute privacy. Ixquick (www.ixquick.com), established in 1998, is a so-called meta-search engine, which uses the search results of several search engines to provide its own list of results.
Long Tail Traffic Statistics & Impact on Caching StrategySeptember 17th, 2008 Simple Thoughts Traffic
I am sure you have heard about long tail theory on web traffic. Just how important is it?
The pie-chart on your left shows the long tail traffic on Simple Thoughts blog.
Why is My Google AdSense eCPM Tanking?July 9th, 2007 It appears Google is heavily compensating for my increased traffic with significantly lower eCPM these days. It is about 60% of what it was a month or two back.
Google And The Puzzle of Dropping EggsJune 10th, 2006 Google is also known for its interesting interview questions. Enjoy this one and my solution.
A fine way to scam for linksFebruary 10th, 2004 Let us begin by defining three new words: linkslut and blogcrapper = bloglinksluts. The people who drops their links in blogs, which allows comments, indiscriminately.
Best and Worst Browsers - Choice of the InternetJanuary 18th, 2006 Search best browser on Google and Mozilla Firefox is returned as the first result. If you are into I'm Feeling Lucky search then it will directly take you to Firefox home page.
Stats: Over 55.5 Million Pages Powered By WordPress...September 24th, 2007 A simple google search reveals over 55.5 million pages are generated using WordPress today. The WordPress search volume shows a healthy increase over time as can be seen from the graph.
Microsoft's Paids Release Click Up by 8% Within a Week of Bing'June 12th, 2009 We had highlighted Bing's power to woo-the-advertisers in our previous article. Things are heading according to the augury.
Google Warns Australia of Going Back To Pre-Internet EraNovember 8th, 2006 Internet search engine leader, Google has warned Australia (why does Google start sounding like Microsoft with each passing day?) of going back to "pre-internet era" if the proposed changes to Australia's copyright laws are legislated. "Given the vast size of the Internet, it is impossible for a search engine to contact personally each owner of a web page to determine whether the owner desires its web page to be searched, indexed or cached," Google said Tuesday.
What is SEO?February 19th, 2007 Search engine optimization (SEO) is a subset of search engine marketing, and deals with improving the number and/or quality of visitors to a web site from "natural" (aka "organic" or "algorithmic" search engine) listings. In effect, SEO is marketing by appealing to machine algorithms to increase search engine relevance and ultimately web traffic.
Compete: Free Website Ranking & AnalyticsSeptember 3rd, 2007 Compete is a relatively new player in website ranking and third party analytics, a space dominated so far by Alexa rankings and Google PageRank. Whereas Google PageRank is an approximate ranking for a single page, Compete rankings are, like Alexa, for the entire site and they offer it for free.
Angsuman's Translator Plugin Pro Increases Web Traffic by 400% in 3 MonthsDecember 12th, 2006 Sue Cline, one of our valued client, tested the effects of Translator Plugin Pro, a plugin to automatically translate your blog to 13 (with version 4.0; currently in testing) different languages, on Jen Burke's Transcending Gender blog since October. They found over 400% increase in site visitors and over 150% increase in links crawled by Google.