More Memory For Laptops

I found this great tool that checks your laptop and suggests what add-on memory will help make it more powerful. The tool checks your laptop memory just by clicking the on screen button.

I use USB flash drives. The 8g ones are now only $30.00 when you buy online. Even video cards have dropped to $50 especially if you buy them online.

I find that adding extra memory makes my computer work better. I have 2g of ram in my computer now. The computer is less than 1 year old and I want another 1g to increase my speed.

Blog Review: Personal Finance

I found another blog worth reviewing. The template is nice and clean. The articles are easy to read. I think the thing that caught my attention is that the articles are not the eye-popping 1000 word marathons that run down an entire screen.

The topic of personal finance advice is an interesting one for us all. I think I like some of this author's work better than mine. I tend to say too much at once. I like the 'bite size' articles.

I did like the way the blogroll is NOT on a PHP link. This is so much better for SEO purposes. The writer has a few smart ideas that I haven't seen before. I always look forward to blogs that talk about personal experience. This author makes no excuses when admitting that everything he blogs about was learned from personal experience.

I did take a look at ithemes to see if I could find something more interesting than the templates I currently use.

Search Engines Won’t Index Your Blog: Website Problems

There are a few reasons why a website may not be indexed. First, is broken links. Search engines may stop at a broken link and assume the site is down. They may remove a site that was previously indexed.

Some websites such as Google and HotBot will not index sites with no inbound links. One way to get indexed is to link to a website or blog on a page ‘other’ than the index page.

Flash intros, videos and images may result in the spiders skipping a website. The index page must link to the rest of the site, if not – as in the case of flash intros – there is no links to the index page from the inside pages. Result, search engines will not index the site.

Most search engines will not index a free site.

Linking to a banned or benched website may result in the search engines refusing to index a site.

Submitting the site monthly can result in the site being ‘pruned’ from the database, or just not indexed in the first place.

Dynamic URLs are often overlooked. Any domain name that contains symbols and ? and &, are often ignored.

Only text is indexed. If the page has no text, then there is no index. Search engines cannot enter passwords, fill in forms, sign up for RSS, or newsletters. If the website asks people to do any of these before continuing – the sub pages will not be indexed.

Search engines will not index large pages, or ones that load slow. No web page should be more than 50k

404 message. Web hosting companies are not 100%. If the site is down when the robot comes looking then they will ignore the website.

Scripts cannot be indexed. A scripted menu is harder to index than a static one written in HTML.

Sometimes frames and scripts can make a search engine think they are at the end of the site and leave.

Template may be so complex, with far too many tags. This can make it difficult to get indexed. The webmaster may need to change templates.

What Next?

If the site is still not indexed and has a blog in it, try to manually ping the blog to a service such as pingoat.com or some of the others.

Search Engines Won’t Index Your Blog

I have a couple of blogs that the search engines will not index. I can run the site through my WEBCEO software program and it shows the sites indexed on Google and Yahoo, plus a few others, but when I check out the site, it is not indexed.

In fact, there are websites with PR3 which are still not indexed. Not being indexed does not necessarily mean the webmaster has done something wrong.

SiteMap

There are several ways to index a site. One way is to add a site map to the website. This might not always be possible. If you have a Google account, try adding your FEED file and let Google use that as the site map – as with all Google tools, it doesn’t always work. I find that it works on two-thirds of my blogs.

Google has a hard time verifying Google’s own blogger. I’ve followed 3 sets of instructions and none of them worked. However, I verified Drupal and Wordpress without any problems. If you can get your site verified and use the sitemap tool to get indexed.

I did a little twist and got one of my sites indexed. The site was http://work-at-home-guru.blogspot.com/ WEBCEO said 61 pages were indexed. I did a site and link search and found almost 70 pages. But, when an advertiser did their search they didn’t find any search engines had indexed the site. Google wouldn’t let me ad /feed to the sitemap. I tried to verify the site – wouldn’t work.

So, I made a RSS feed at www.feedburner.com and let Google search that. Do not worry about errors. The objective is not to get the site indexed well, but to make Google take a look at the site.

AdWords

If the site is commercial and the site needs to be indexed quickly, then join Google’s PPC program. Their rules state that there is no minimum, but people I know who have AdWord accounts state that the minimum is $50. This is not bad because you get advertising for it.

The benefit of this program is that Google must index the site before finding websites to advertise on. That means an instant index.

Spring Shopping

I am going shopping tomorrow. I'll be looking at the latest bulbs, garden supplies, and spring furniture. I usually prefer bamboo and teak patio furniture. I love the set on the front page of the thosbaker.com website.

I love to go shopping, but I almsot always buy online. The models and variety at stores is always limited. I live outside in the summer. I want 'real' furniture that won't collapse while I am trying to work.

I also want furniture that will look nice surrounded by gardens. That is not always easy if you think of some bushes being 4' high and 8' wide. They can dwarf some furniture sets.

A Reason to Blog Hop

Have you ever wanted to go blog hopping without the guilt? Smorty has created a new system that allows you to do just that. Much in the same way Diva Network is designed to let bloggers work together to build links, Smorty has added a tool that lets bloggers review each other's work. Best of all, it is free.

It is about time someone created a system where bloggers could support other bloggers. This is a great system. For every review you do for another blogger, someone does one for you. You do not need to activate all the blogs that are listed with smorty. All you need to do is activate the ones that you want to promote.

If you want someone to write a blog review your home blog then you will put the review on your home blog. To make it more 'fair,' smorty also matches blogs by Page Rank. This way, a blogger will not find themselves writing posts for PR0 sites and then posting a review on a PR4 site.

This is not a reciprocal links system. Smorty set up the system so that Blogger A reviews Blogger B. Blogger B reviews Blogger C. Blogger C reviews Blogger A. This keeps all the SEO and Page Rank algorithms clean.

Make Money on YouTube

No one touches the web without learning what YouTube is. Now they are testing a new program in Australia where contributors earn money in exchange for a banner being placed on the ad. This revenue sharing is designed to help contributors who create good content.

http://au.youtube.com/partners

The program has been operating in the United States and United Kingdom for months. Some contributors are already earning thousands of dollars each month.

"It has certainly been an incentive for people to create more content," a YouTube Australia spokesman said.

"There are people overseas who have millions of video views and are earning thousands of dollars."

Many people have worked hard to become celebrities on YouTube. The secret to success is found in building a community and interacting with viewers.