Monday, August 11th, 2008
[en]
Recently I'm seeing a lot of hired commentators promoting loads of *.RU domains registered just a couple of weeks before comment time. It seems logical to automatically remove all comment author URLs which are in .ru TLD. See below for a WordPress plugin for that.
[ru]
Заметка о наёмных комментаторах не подействовала: пачки сайтов продолжают бесстыдно продвигаться. И хоть мне не очень жалко Google Juice (т.е. частички Page Rank), считаю, всё же, дурацкие ссылки портят вид блога. Надо было придумать что-то действенное.
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Thursday, January 10th, 2008
Попала в руки книга. Вроде ничего особенного, обычная книга доинтернетной эры. Но читаю, читаю и чувствую, что-то не так. Посмотрел внимательнее и понял – да это же прямо блог распечатанный!
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Saturday, January 5th, 2008
Первый итог, первый доллар… Прошло 10 дней как был открыт эккаунт AdSense и вот сегодняшний отчёт Гугла: 3162 показа, [censored] кликов, Page CTR 0.[censored]%, eCPM (фактическая стоимость тысячи показов) $0.32, Total earnings $1.00.
Если бы не круглая цифра, я бы и не написал об этом. Многие считают оскорбительным предоставлять тысячу импрессий за несколько центов. А мне интересно понаблюдать, так что пока убирать рекламу не буду.
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Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008
(or old mail in the Inbox for that matter)
I have outlived a good number of different web browsers already: Netscape Navigator 3.0, Netscape Communicator 4.0, Mozilla, Opera etc. Sometimes I’d transfer the bulk of bookmarks over to a new browser, other times I’d … just forget. And you know what? I never cared.
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Monday, November 26th, 2007
Opera browser – the pioneer of the browsing sessions concept – now allows saving only the active window as a session.
Previously, if one worked on several projects and wanted to restart the browser for some reason they had to restore all the projects’ browsing windows on browser startup, or…go tweak the saved session file. That’s surely quite a mess, hindering the purpose of focusing on a single project.
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Saturday, November 24th, 2007
After a week of non-writing at STEREO website statistics showed Google search’s contribution for traffic diminished somewhat noticeably – by as much as 20% (approx).
This was deduced from observing the proportions of contributions from two of the top 3 search engines topical for STEREO – Google, Windows Live and Yandex.
Yandex is new here, yet it is perceived as important traffic supplier having provided 1/4 of the Google’s traffic during previous two months. This week the distance between the two was shrinking.
BTW “Add to bookmarks” figure in AWstats felt a bit too: from the whopping 36.6% in the beginning of the month to 34% for the 24 days of November. So you rather have a good reason to suspend writing like this.
Small wonder the traffic in general continued to grow as usual, 1% a day on average – this is the momentum at work.
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Friday, November 2nd, 2007
Traffic growth for www.STEREO.org.ua looks promising now:

Especially so in the light of STEREO.org.ua having been largely neglected until late July 2007 since the last record was published in January. No wonder traffic plummeted then.
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Friday, October 26th, 2007
Есть такой вебмастер, под псевдонимом Wishmaster, известный своим проектом www.kievsat.com и соответствующим форумом. И был ещё одни форум – lifeforum (http://www.kievsat.com/lifeforum/), который внезапно оказался закрыт и удалён из-за причуды того же мастера желаний – Wishmaster’а.
Бывшие участники lifeforum’а начали работы по воссозданию сообщества. Кажется, никто особого восторга не испытывает по поводу появившихся хлопот и утраты архивов.
Эта история вызывает вопрос общего плана:
Как организовать работу веб-сообщества, чтобы максимально обезопасить его от прихотей отдельных личностей?
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Thursday, October 18th, 2007
Google strives to acquire user data. All those services – Gmail, Earth, Maps, … you name ‘em – are geared to harvest personal behavioral information to “better serve ads to the customers”. G doesn’t even hide its intentions and directly states them in ToS (Terms of Service) pages.
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Thursday, October 4th, 2007
Very long ago I heard a tale (perhaps from Google itself) about how bad (and dangerous from SEO / SE banning point of view) it is to use extremely low contrast text, i.e. bright yellow text on white background or dark-brown on black. It went like you could be banned from the search engine index immediately for that kind of stunt.
It is pretty clear – by this deceptive tactic you could hide irrelevant keywords from human visitors and present them with some unwanted content of your choice. At the same time those keywords presumably are indexed by search engines making your pages findable by wider audience.
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Friday, September 28th, 2007
The two most common approaches in Web analytics are:
- Web server logfile analysis
- Page tagging
Page tagging is the method of choice from the commercial standpoint. However, it’s got its characteristic drawbacks:
- changes to the web application are needed
- vendor lock-in of some sort takes place (regardless whether you use a subscription-based solution or acquire a hosted one).
On the other hand there is one nice web stats tool operating in the old good logfile analysis realm, which is AWStats. Until recently it was a reliable work horse for many webmasters delivering quite useful reports about origin breakdown, sessions (visits duration), lists of landing pages (”entry”) & exit pages – categories commonly associated with the more complex page tagging statistics systems.
What happened to it?
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Wednesday, September 19th, 2007
Крупнейшая американская газета Нью-Йорк Таймс онлайн (13 млн. уникальных посетителей в месяц) отменила плату за доступ к большей части своих статей и архивов в Интернет. Платными остаются только некоторые материалы, защищённые законом об авторских правах, за период с 1923 по 1986 год.
Эксперимент с взиманием платы с веб-читателей оправдал надежды – прибыли с него достигли $10 млн. в год с 227 тыс. подписчиков, которые платили $50 за год или $8 за месяц каждый.
Тем не менее, руководство New York Times online посчитало, что эта бизнес-модель сдерживает рост и в перспективе больше можно заработать на рекламе и свободном доступе.
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