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Licensing
Image Smilie Flag Generator
Freedom
So the other weekend I came across this smilie generator website, so I generated a smilie and pop up it comes “Hello World!” and in the bottom right corner BY A-WEBSITE.COM not actually that website its just a example, which kind of bugged me considering they also flooded the pages with adverts.
Seeing what I’ve seen from these adverts I set out to make my own website with freedom from the adverts, I looked at the options pay for a script which I believe was around $10-$20 for a rather simple script or I could have some fun and shuv my own script on a subdomain.
Guess what I choose, well if you guessed I payed for it, who are you kidding like I would spend money!
I built my own!
We can roll alright!
It took a matter of two days before I began the bug testing, now a few more days later and a few more coffee’s later its ready to rock and roll, I still have more I would like to add to them but for now I’m on a small break before I shart working on it again.
My Choices of Content Management Systems
In my books their are three main CMS (content management systems), the main one is Drupal after that in order of my personal favorite is Wordpress and Joomla.
Now if your a member of many webmaster forums you will notice people trying find which is better between Drupal and Joomla. Normally I like to respond by saying don’t be so stupid try them yourself or at least I’m thinking it!
They all come into their own in different fields, so I’m not going to feed you a load of crap on what is so good about them as you shouldn’t rely on any blogger to tell you what to use, you need to find out for yourself I’m just here to offer options for what you can use.
Joomla
Joomla, this is like Marmite you love it or you hate it their are those of us that like to take the development site of websites as well as design and this isn’t all that easily modified as its just such a large script, you really need to be able to rely upon the plugins you or someone else has created to modify anything within the script.
SEO on the bench (Watching your Logs)
If you take note of the date of my last post and the date of my current post many of you will notice that I have taken a long time off as I started running out of material to write about which could be noticed as my posting was all over the place about everything, which in some way I enjoyed, but many SEO readers would suggest that its a bad idea for the search engines.
So after my time away it allowed me to sit back and watch my statistics. Which in some way was helped by not posting anything or editing any of the website, I did try to keep up to date with wordpress updates to keep secure, which caused some trouble with some plugins. Such as related content links plugin stopping me from gaining more links within my websites own tree, but it didn’t effect the unique visitors as much as the spiders.
It allowed me to stand back and watch the main pages that I used for experimentation with my SEO, and then compare them to the ones that only have things like links within the website etc.
Plusmo is scraping my content!
This week I’m ticked off I have been checking my stats to see how well my website is doing, and I came across plusmo they offer a service to alert your cell phone about RSS updates, okay this service is a good idea but the part that just gets me really wound up is they use your content to promote their website instead of giving your keywords by using your title as a link back they have a stupid little read more link.
But if you don’t want them to scrape your content you have to write a 10 page essay on why it is your site and tonnes of proof, I’m sorry but I shouldn’t have to do this for some dumb ass company stealing my content for their one use.
They could at least be nice and not allow any search engines to visit their site but no, instead of that they use it to their advantage okay maybe I’m being hard on them they do only use a limited amount of words!