about 1 day ago - 2 comments
I was greeted with this little gem tonight and couldn’t resist the urge to fire up Paint and make my mark… it reminded me of an article that was posted on the New York Times recently titled, Digital Devices Deprive Brain of Needed Downtime. As of late I would say that I agree with the
about 1 month ago - 4 comments
I shouldn’t really call it an upgrade per se but I managed to find some time yesterday (vacation day) to rebuild my home desktop personal computer with Windows 7 (64bit) replacing my Windows Vista (64bit) installation. I backed up all my files to an old server I had setup running Openfiler, it’s amazing how much
about 3 months ago - No comments
Happy Memorial Day! Cheers! Related posts:Memorial Day Weekend 2009 Memorial Day Weekend Happy St. Patrick’s Day 2010 Home Desktop Upgrade 2010 Philadelphia Flyers in the 2010 Stanley Cup Finals
about 3 months ago - No comments
Our father who art in Philly. Hockey be thy name. Thy will be done. The cup will be won. On ice, as well as in the stands. Give us this day our hockey sticks. And forgive us our penalties, as we forgive those who cross-check against us, Lead us not into elimination. But deliver us
about 3 months ago - 11 comments
I had a little nostalgia on Saturday when Google placed a copy of the game Pac-Man on their homepage. I grew up playing Pac-Man and Mrs. Pac-Man so it brought back a whole lot of memories. I have very fond memories of the Atari 2600, it was an amazing piece of technology for it’s time. I can probably
about 4 months ago - 7 comments
I’m truly amazed at how fast the time flies. I’ve been blogging for 2 1/2 years now and it’s been a very exciting adventure. It all started back in October 2007 when I created an account on Blogger. In July 2008 I decided to branch out by purchasing my own domain name. At the same
about 5 months ago - No comments
Happy St. Patrick’s Day to everyone out there. It’s amazing how fast the time goes by, yet another year in the past. If you’re looking to listen to some traditional and folk music straight from Dublin, Ireland browse over to www.liveireland.com. Related posts:Happy St. Patrick’s Day Merry Christmas & Happy New Year Home Desktop Upgrade
about 8 months ago - No comments
It’s almost hard to believe yet another year has come and gone. I hope everyone has a very Merry Christmas and a safe and joyous New Year! Music credit to John Lennon “So This Christmas” PS: There was an issue with Flow Player and Internet Explorer 8 that was causing a ‘operation aborted’ error whenever
about 8 months ago - 1 comment
Our own Philadelphia Flyers will be playing in this years NHL Winter Classic being held at Fenway Park in Boston, MA on January 1, 2010. I enjoy playing the game myself and watching the NHL, AHL and college games. I’m only hoping that the Flyers, a team named by some as a contender for this
about 10 months ago - No comments
I thought it was well past time for me to write about this topic. I’m just going to post some links and ask everyone to make up their own minds or at the very least to consider what Net Neutrality means to you. I will tell you that I’m a huge Net Neutrality advocate. I
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about 1 year ago
Michael,
Congrats on getting the forums up and going. I checked them out, they look good. I’m curious about what you did for SEO, anything you care to share here?
about 1 year ago
Hi Mark,
I installed a few add-ons to the Simple Machines Forum installation to help improve the search engine optimization (SEO) of the site.
I installed Pretty URLs by Dannii and SMF Sitemap by SlammedDime and RSS Feed Icon by vbgamer45 along with Ad Management by jerm.
The ultimate success of any site these days relies on the ability to capitalize on Google and the other search engines on the Internet. While “word-of-mouth” is a great starting point folks can’t find your site if your not being indexed by the search bots. I also have an account on Google’s Webmaster Central where I can setup the sitemap and review any errors that Google might encounter indexing my site.
The ultimate determination of it’s success will be the content itself.
This blog is getting between 400 and 600 visits daily which is much more than I ever thought it would after almost 2 years now. Thankfully the ad revenue generated by the site covers the costs of hosting so there no outlay of money on my part to setup experiments such as the discussion forums.
Thanks for the comment!