Thursday, March 1st, 2007
I finally got B-2 Bomber working right – turned out to be a bad plugin. It was a pagination script that turned those little “previous/next entries” tags at the bottom into nice little numbers. Unfortunately, I think it must have been doing a total page count every time a page loaded. That’s why the homepage was loading slowest of all – it had to count every single page in the ...
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Tuesday, February 27th, 2007
B-2 Bomber’s home page is loading really slowly lately. None of the other pages are borking up, just that one. I looked for differences between it and the others – there aren’t any between it and, say, the category pages which use the main WordPress template, too. I’ve gone nuts for two days now trying to figure out what the problem is. Suddenly we’re getting a lot of new traffic… ...
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Sunday, February 25th, 2007
I’ve noticed lately that Project B-2 Bomber is loading slower than my other WordPress blogs with virtually identical setups. It has more posts than most of the others, but a recent experience with a malfunctioning database table causing slow load times on Project Mai Tai got me thinking: B-2 had 22 database tables. That’s 12 tables plugins had added over the years. I took a long hard look at what ...
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Tuesday, November 14th, 2006
Project Mai Tai is still being ignored completely by Google. But it just got a new sidebar link from a Blogger blog that’s not run by anyone I know. So is it sticky? Well, a handful of people seem to think so, which means maybe if enough people saw it, it would start to build links. So, as always in this game, the question is: how to get it in ...
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Thursday, October 26th, 2006
Time for a general update/assessment.
Project Mai Tai is still out with Google, in with Yahoo and MSN LiveSearch. Not that it’s actually had any search traffic. But the bookmark rate is up, and Alexa puts it in the 300,000′s. Which, considering I have older and better sites doing worse is… um, whatever. The point is, it still has only two organic links from other sites, which I guess ...
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Saturday, October 7th, 2006
Project Mai Tai has a page in Yahoo! and MSN now. It has a subdomain which is still not in any of the SERPs, but is outranking the main domain on Alexa – which just proves Alexa’s on crack, because the subdomain has had 7 visitors so far this month, and not one link in. But whatever! My latest genuine inbound from someone is definitely bringing a ...
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Friday, October 6th, 2006
Most of my time this week has centered on launching Project Mai Tai and getting Project B-2 Bomber to the next level.
Mai Tai has gained a new inbound since yesterday, and it’s sent a couple of visitors. Modest, I know, but it’s a PR3 blog. The link bait is starting to get nibbles, but so far the affiliate links are being left alone. And still nothing in ...
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Wednesday, October 4th, 2006
I wrote Technorati last week to find out why their blog directory claims the B-2 Bomber blog doesn’t exist, even though it ranks quite decently overall on their service. Got no response. Of course, their phone line doesn’t answer, either, and the voice mail message says they won’t respond to phone messages for tech support – use the email form.
Got news for ya, Technorati! Ya don’t respond ...
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