Fake PageRank

Posted on September 5, 2011 by brandonc

It is actually possible to fake PageRank by setting up redirection.
Just a quick search amongst the domain name sellers in Australia actually found people doing this.

To check whether a domain is truly reflecting it’s own PageRank, simply Google:

info:exampledomainname.com

If the result shows another domain not as per the one you typed in search, you know there is redirection set up and the searched domain’s PageRank is actually the one you see being ‘reflected’ by the redirect. You would be a fool to be buying a domain thinking it has a high page rank when it has zero

A quick search in Google:

link:exampledomainname.com

Will also reveal some back-links Google recognise to the searched domain name. The more authoritative the back links to the domain, the more valuable the domain.

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Live website tracking

Posted on August 6, 2011 by brandonc

It’s seldom that I get excited enough about a product to actually write about it.

Recently I signed up for http://chartbeat.com for about $10 bucks a month. It allows me to track up to 5 websites. What it does:

How many visitors on the website at any point of time,
which page they are at,
where they are from geographically,
source of referral,
downtime/recover time alerts,
any twitter conversation pointing to my website

Essentially a dashboard to track my whole website status live… For a website with hundreds of pages, this is very useful indeed. It helps to zero in on pages which may be getting substantial traffic but not converting (or those pages getting minimal traffic and converting better). It makes me think more about the copy of the page… or design…  whatever may not hitting the mark in converting traffic into leads.

The downtime alerts and twitter conversation tracking is like icing on the cake. This is definitely a useful tool which compliments Google Analytics and ClickTale.

 

 

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Nice SEO tips from RSS Pieces

Posted on July 18, 2011 by brandonc

From RSS Pieces:

“You need to look for links from EDU pages that have some authority and some valuable content.  To find these pages you use common operators in Yahoo:”

  • linkdomain:example.com site:.edu sponsors
  • linkdomain:example.com site:.edu donors
  • linkdomain:example.com site:.org sponsors
  • linkdomain:example.com site:.org benefactors
  • inkdomain:example.com site:.edu hotlinks
  • linkdomain:example.com site:.edu bookmarks
  • linkdomain:example.com site:.org directory
  • linkdomain:example.com site:.org resources
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Digital Media for Brands

Posted on July 11, 2011 by brandonc

 

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Changing Default jQuery AJAX properties

Posted on June 29, 2011 by brandonc

$(document).ready(function() {
$.ajaxSetup({ cache: false });
});

http://api.jquery.com/jQuery.ajaxSetup/

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Great tool for interacting with Canvas or creating Canvas applications

Posted on June 23, 2011 by brandonc

http://kangax.github.com/fabric.js/test/demo/

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Understanding Delete in JavaScript

Posted on June 22, 2011 by brandonc

Really enjoyed reading this elaborate article explaining what can / cannot be deleted in JavaScript.

http://perfectionkills.com/understanding-delete/

 

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Looking for the Purple Cow

Posted on June 2, 2011 by brandonc
What keeps the love alive?
Same thing that change the tides
Something called love
Something called strength
Something called love
Something called motivation

If you’ve read Seth Godin’s book “Purple Cow”, you’d appreciate and fully understand the rate of change and the stakes in survival for businesses. The skinny of it is that whatever is novel or was novel will no longer be as attractive as before due to consumer familiarity. A cow which would be a thing to appreciate for a city boy who has never seen a cow before, will not initiate the same kind of excitement after he drives pass the country side and sees hundreds of cows in the course of a few hours…. Unless there is suddenly a purple cow.

Change is not only the constant, it is also the prerequisite for attention-grabbing. Everything stagnant will draw an expiry date fast.

I think it is insane that so much money is spent on marketeers using old marketing methods without any original content. How annoying are the Harvery Norman advertisements on TV… or GoodGuys……. it is simply turning people off from the TV medium in general. I’m fucking going for the mute button or reducing volume in a frenzy once I see shoes being thrown around in a TV advert… or ‘good guys’ screaming discounts and offers at my face. It is not surprising that the now and future is already spent more online than on TV.

Just last year, 135 million viewers watched 32 billion online videos in January.
This year, internet video streaming company Netflix dominates by grabbing 30% of downstream Internet traffic during peak times in the US.

How many handsomely paid (insert-fancy-title) managers can we replace with creatives (art direction) and content producers?

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Bagging the lot – Design, UI Development, Customised CMS

Posted on May 25, 2011 by brandonc

With jQuery, KnockOutJS and CMSFromScratch, web development has gotten a whole lot easier.

Looking forward to creating highly customised content managed websites from design right till finish w/o any need for back-end coding.

Uber cool!!!

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Disable jump to top of page for Form submit

Posted on May 24, 2011 by brandonc

Short entry for UI improvement:

In really long forms, or in a page with multiple forms, I really don’t want the page scroll jumping to the top when I click on the submit button.

A quick fix for this:
< script >window.scrollTo = function () { }< /script >

For really long pages with multiple submit/update/save sections, also make sure validation summary (if being used) for each submit on the page is within the user scroll-position view after the user clicks on the submit button if the above method is used to disable scrollTo.

In addition to the decision to disable scrollTo (top of page) for really long forms after clicking the submit button (at the bottom of the page), update panels can also be used to prevent the entire page from reloading.

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