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Switch to HostGator Proves They’re Awesome

by Patrick Daly on December 23, 2008

in General

Ten days ago I announced my switch from MediaTemple to HostGator hosting because things were very slow.
So check this out. Google Webmaster Tools fills you in on some metrics related to Google’s crawling of your site. Here’s what I found:
Time spent downloading a page (in milliseconds)
Notice that huge drop off towards the end. That means [...]

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Better WordPress Search Needed

by Patrick Daly on November 25, 2008

in WordPress

For a current client we are trying to improve the reliability of WordPress’ search engine. By default, WP sorts results by date. You could argue that this makes sense for a blog because the most relevant results may be the most recent, and WP obviously made that argument. Realistically, people want relevant results, no matter [...]

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MyBlogLog, You Could Be So Much More!

by Patrick Daly on October 20, 2008

in Reputation Management

Here’s my MyBlogLog account (awfully redundant…oh well). For those of you unfamiliar with MyBlogLog I’m not going to go into much detail, but all you need to know for this post is that it aggregates all of my feeds among many different web services. For example, the public page updates information from my Twitter accounts, [...]

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What Is WordPress?

by Patrick Daly on September 4, 2008

in General

WordPress, by definition, is a blog publishing system written in PHP and backed by a MySQL database. But really, it’s so much more than that.
I use WordPress for this site and pretty much all sites I develop. Sure it can run the best, most flexible blogs, but it’s because of that flexibility that I choose [...]

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SEMPO Certified

by Patrick Daly on August 28, 2008

in General

In May of 2008 I was given the opportunity privilege to take a SEMPO course on Advanced SEO.
SEMPO is a global non-profit organization serving the search engine marketing industry and marketing professionals. Our purpose is to provide a foundation for industry growth through building stronger relationships, fostering awareness, providing education, promoting the industry, generating research, [...]

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