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Free Icons for your Website 2007-06-05 21:24:58 Whether you’re creating the next Facebook or if you just need a nice “Mail me” button, there are a ton of icons on the web. Unfortunately, you can’t just take what you want and use it on your site. (Well technically you could, but it would be immoral). That’s why I’ve compiled a list of free icons you can use along with my rating of the icon quality. And when I say free, I mean completely free, linkbacks and acknowledgments are optional!
Completely Free Icons
Ganato Design
Very nice 3d looking icons for toolbars, blogs, desktop apps and more (5/5).
Milk and Green
A few small white and green icons. It’s amazing how much a talented artist can do with just 16×16 pixels. (4/5)
E-Lusion Greyscale
These icons are all in grayscale but you can easily color them yourself. They’re simple and clean icons, nothing too fancy but very professional (3/5).
Drunkey Love
Love is right, I’m in love with these icons! He has almost everyth
Agloco Viewbar Released and Reviewed! 2007-06-04 22:03:20 After months and months of waiting, Agloco has finally released their Viewbar today! Apparently they have not managed to implement all their ad-networks but due to the huge amount of customer complaints, they have released a version of the Viewbar with a workaround.
What does this mean to the user? It means… well nothing. I guess you won’t have a wide variety of ads to see but let’s be honest, who’s installing the Viewbar to see ads? It’s to make money!
You can login and go get it but the Agloco site is very very slow right now, I suspect it is being hammered by the millions of users rushing to download it.
Here’s a couple screenshots of the Viewbar in action on my computer:
Viewbar Options
It appears that the Viewbar does not have multi-monitor support; this means you can have it running on one monitor while you use the other to do your work without distraction! It also comes in 4 colors to match your windows skin: blue, green, purple and re
Favicon - It’s About Time! 2007-06-03 21:59:52 I’ve been putting off making a favicon because I haven’t found anything I liked that could be fit into a 16×16 icon. So this weekend, I finally spent a little time to create a favicon for my site.
What is a favicon?
A favicon (short for “favorites icon”) is the little image that shows up beside your URL in the address bar, beside your site title in opened tabs and beside bookmarks of your page. Favicons are displayed in almost all browsers (Firefox, IE7, Safari and more).
In my opinion, a favicon is one of the most important things you can do to brand your site and make it memorable. Ideally, it is something that should be done before even launching the site so I’m kind of ashamed it took me over 3 months to get it up. Since the release of Internet Explorer 7, this icon is even more important since this means almost all users will have the capability of seeing it!
How do I make one?
It is essentially a 16×16 icon (.ico) file. Creating one
Month in Review - May 2007 2007-06-02 22:38:17 Another month, another monthly update. Here were the goals I set last month:
Increase RSS Subscribers over 175
Well looks like I shattered this record with almost 300 subscribers (with the help of my evil RSS boosting method). I kind of feel like I’m cheating, although before implementing this method I was on my way to surpassing 175 anyway so I don’t feel half bad.
Increase Alexa ranking to over 90,000
I accomplished this goal as well with a comfortable margin. I’m currently at 83,584. And here I was thinking I was being too ambitious with 90,000.
Boost Technorati ranking into the top 10,000.
Yup, no worries, 6972! Although competition seems to be getting pretty stiff. I’m no longer on a constant rise - two steps forward, one step back.
Maintain at least a post a day.
So close! I forgot to post one day (I was really tired and slept straight through until the morning).
Earn at least $50 from ReviewMe and Text-Link-Ads.
In terms of sales, I only sold o Read more:Month
AdesClrPicker - Replacing Photoshop for all your Color Picking Needs 2007-06-02 00:00:07 Here’s a situation I’m sure many of you web developers out there have come across. You’re designing a new Google Adsense ad and you want it to blend with your background but you’ve forgotten what the HEX value of your background color is! So you take a screenshot of your page, fire up Photoshop
, create a new document, paste the screenshot, whip out the color picker, and use the eye dropper tool on the screenshot to find the hex value of your background. There has got to be a better way!
Ades from AdesBlog.com has a nice site called AdesDesign with a whole bunch of resources, tutorials and tools for web developers. Some of these resources are free and some aren’t. One of these tools is AdesClrPicker (Ades’ Color
Picker). It essentially streamlines the problem described above and does much more as well.
Overview
AdesClrPicker v2.0 is a small application (about 2 megs installed) that sits in your system tray and has a relatively small memory foot Read more:Picking
, Needs
Firefox Tip: Lightning Fast Highlighting. 2007-05-31 22:28:13 Firefox
offers some nice features when it comes to highlighting text. These tips aren’t exclusive to Firefox only and I’m not sure if it works on all platforms (I recall being frustrated that something wasn’t as it should in Firefox on Ubuntu) but give some of these tips a try:
Single click on URL or Search Box
This will highlight the entire field (but I’m sure you know this already).
Double clicking a word
Double clicking a word will highlight that word. It also highlights the space immediately after the word which you may or may not find annoying. Personally, I don’t like this because I often like to highlight words to link and having the link extend an extra space past the word just doesn’t look nice. Fortunately, you can turn off this feature by editing a variable in your Firefox configuration. Simply type about:config in your address bar and change the following variable from true to false:
layout.word_select.eat_space_to_next_word
Firefox
An Evil Way to Increase RSS Stats 2007-05-30 21:53:21 Earlier this week I wrote a post discussing why a huge spike in traffic will cause an abnormal spike in RSS readership. All the theories I suggested are just that, theories. So I set out to do a little experiment to see if I could prove any of my theories and I happened to come up with an evil way to increase your RSS stats.
RSS Hits vs RSS Subscribers
First of all, there is a difference between RSS hits and RSS subscribers. A person that clicks on your feed is considered an RSS hit, not a subscriber! A subscriber is someone who has “subscribed” to your feed with a feed reader (Google Reader, Live Bookmarks etc.)
Before I get to what the evil way is, let’s look at a couple graphs.
The first blue spike is from my Starcraft post that got dugg. Notice there is no appreciable increase in hits to my RSS feed. With the current scale, it is hard to see the increase in RSS subscribers so I’ve included a second graph showing just the RSS subscribers.
Here you ca Read more:Stats
Ruby on Rails in a Nutshell 2007-05-29 21:11:03 Ruby on Rails is the latest craze (actually it’s been a craze for a while now, I’ve just been slow to adapt). If you haven’t tried it, then I would suggest you do so immediately! It makes the job of any serious web developer a hundred times easier and makes you much more powerful too. Using Ruby on Rails in web development is like bringing a gun to a fist fight.
Ruby on what?
Ruby on Rails (or simply Rails for short) is a web application framework that greatly streamlines the process of web development. Its main advantage is that it favors “convention over configuration” meaning many of its defaults are what you typically need. This allows you to focus on the design of your web application instead of the implementation.
What on Rails?
Ruby on Rails is called that because the framework is built with the Ruby programming language. Ruby was developed in 1995 by Yukihiro Matsumoto. His goal was to create a language that was “fun” to program
Why Digg Falsely Increases your RSS Feed Subscriber Count 2007-05-28 22:38:06 Last week, my post with the latest Starcraft 2 gameplay videos made it to the front page of the digg video section and received over 450 diggs. As a result, over 10,000 visitors poured in and the next day, my Feedburner count was at 266 (more than double the previous day’s count of 130). A couple days later, the count dropped back to a normal level of ~140.
Here are several theories to explain why this happened:
Theory 1: Real subscribers
People clicked the digg article, liked what they read and subscribed to my feed. The following days, I made a post about ReviewMe and the launch of my ShowoffRankings site and these people that had newly subscribed found out my blog isn’t really about Starcraft and unsubscribed as a result.
I’m sure a few people may have done this but it doesn’t explain the temporary spike. Proof? 3 months ago, I had a post that made it to the first position of the digg top 10 with almost 4,500 diggs and received close to 100,000 hits. Read more:Digg
, Subscriber
Clever and Creative Outdoor Ads 2007-05-27 16:33:12 Speaking of marketing and selling ads, here are some really clever outdoor ads from various companies. You may have seen some of them before but I bet some are new to you! This kind of creativity is bordering viral marketing, a tactic that is effective yet very inexpensive and it appears more and more companies are trying to find ways of doing it.
Without further ado, here they are in all its full-sized glory! Note that these are all real ads, not Photoshopped!
advertising, funny, images, marketing
Read more:Clever
Surf Handsfree - Lazy Web Surfing 2007-06-08 23:03:28
Last month I launched my site, ShowoffRankings. This month, I’m announcing the launch of another site that has been in testing for some time now. It’s called Surf Handsfree which allows you to do just that… surf the web without your hands. Why would you want to do this? Imagine a situation where you’re:
Eating in front of your computer
Surfing
on your WebTV
Giving your hands a break (carpal tunnel!)
Lying in bed
Lack of mobility of your hands (disability, arthritis etc.)
Hands busy doing something else
How to Use
The site couldn’t be easier to use, you enter in a bunch of sites you wish to cycle through, set a timer and click Begin! You will automatically cycle through the sites one by one with the option of rewinding, stopping and fast forwarding. TiVo for the Internet!
Advanced Features
You can choose to surf pages belonging to a particular domain. For example, if you put in http://www.jonlee.ca and select “Surf 30 random pages”, you
mediatemple’s GPU Overhaul - It’s Great! 2007-06-07 22:36:55 It’s been a while since I’ve talked about my web host, mediatemple or (mt) for short. For the most part, they have been very good and their grid server has been able to handle all diggs, stumbles, slashdots and other traffic spikes with no problem whatsoever.
These spikes eat up bandwidth but luckily, many shared web hosting companies out there will offer ridiculous amounts of storage and bandwidth knowing that you will probably use a very small percentage of it. One resource that they do limit you on is CPU usage. If you read the terms of service of pretty much any web hosts, I’m sure you’ll find limits imposed that will greatly limit your service potential.
mediatemple is no exception to this rule except that they are very upfront and open about it. They have a system in place to keep track of how much CPU resource you are taking up. I explain it in more detail in this post but basically, (mt) allocates 1,000 GPU units per month, which averages out to u Read more:Overhaul
, Great
My New Favorite IDE - Eclipse 2007-06-06 22:21:23 I’ve mentioned Aptana before as a very nice (free) alternative to Dreamweaver if you are primarily a coder like myself. I have been switching back and forth between the two for a while now, undecided on which one is better. On one hand, Dreamweaver has great FTP and site organization with an interface I’m very used to. On the other hand, Aptana is free, cross-platform and is designed more for the web coder than designer. This past week sealed the deal.
I’ve recently started playing with and using Ruby on Rails (it’s great by the way) and I am using Radrails as my editor. Now Radrails isn’t a standalone editor, it is actually a plug-in for Aptana. So with the great extensive Rails support, I can now comfortably leave Dreamweaver behind. But wait, it gets better.
Aside from web development coding, I also do a lot of Java development as well. Wouldn’t it be great to have a single development environment for all 3 languages? Enter Eclipse.
Eclip Read more:Favorite
, New Favorite
Boost your Blog Traffic - Update your Ping List 2007-06-12 20:26:05 Everyone likes extra traffic, so here’s a way to increase traffic to your blog. By default, Wordpress (and other blogging tools) will let different RPC services know that you’ve updated your blog by “pinging” them. (RPC stands for Remote Procedure Call but that isn’t important right now.) A ping is kind of like a nudge - just a friendly reminder to check out your blog for the latest news.
By default, Wordpress pings only Ping-o-matic which then in turn pings over 20 other services. By updating this list, you can manually ping many other RPC services not included with Ping-o-matic.
Advantages
The sole purpose of some of these services is to gather all of the latest news on blogs around the world and to promote them. This of course, will drive some traffic back to your blog — not tremendous amounts though, since a lot of these services aren’t too popular. Also, this will also help your latest post get crawled and indexed faster by search en Read more:Boost
, Update
, Blog Traffic
Safari on Windows - Hallelujah! 2007-06-11 16:20:25
At the WWDC (World Wide Developer’s Conference) today, Apple’s CEO Steve Jobs announced a few new things (iPhone stuff, new Mac OS blah blah). The most interesting (and most surprising) announcement was a port of Safari
(Apple’s default web browser) into Windows
XP and Vista.
What this means for Web Developers
This means us Windows developers can now test all our sites on Safari natively without having to run to the closest Best Buy or Apple Store to do testing. Nor do we have to use services like BrowsrCamp — which are good, but only give you an image of a screen rendering. Now we can finally properly design without discriminating!
A Primary Browser?
Steve Jobs wants you to use Safari as your primary browser regardless of what operating system you use (even Linux with Windows virtualization). But in my opinion, Firefox with its countless add-ons beats out Safari regardless of operating system. Still, it’s bound to please those Mac fanatics that can&r Read more:Hallelujah
ViralTags Backlink Meme 2007-06-09 23:00:11 In another scheme to accumulate backlinks, I found this on JakelDaily. This one is unique from previous schemes because you can use an anchor text to promote your site. The imporant thing with this one is to keep on updating your current list with new additions, that way there is no disadvantage of not being amongst the first on the list!
=======Copy and Paste below this line========
Instructions:
1. ) Copy and paste the matrix of “ViralTags” below courtesy of Founders Cafe.
2.) Substitute the Host Tag and one of the “Viral Tags” in the matrix with your anchor text of choice with your blog’s URL. Please keep anchor text to a max of 3 words to keep the matrix size manageable.
3.) When you get a ping back from someone that has your link in one of their “Viral Tags”, practice good karma by copying his/her Host Tag’s anchor text (automatically the associated link will also be copied) and paste it over one of your “Viral Tags” below.
4.) Encourage and invite your reade Read more:Backlink
How-to: Run Eclipse or Aptana from USB Drive 2007-06-15 21:37:20 Last week I mentioned that Eclipse is now my favorite IDE for web development in PHP, HTML, Ruby on Rails and Java. I also mentioned that you can run Eclipse off an USB drive and said I’d write a how-to… well as promised, here it is!
Running Eclipse or Aptana from your USB drive is fairly straight forward. Both programs are available in a standalone zip file that does not require any installation. So to install to USB, simply extract the downloaded zip file anywhere on your USB drive.
However, since both are Java applications, this requires that the host computer you are running on to have the required Java run time files installed. Luckily, there is a way of including these Java runtime files on your USB drive as well. These instructions are for Eclipse but should work with Aptana as well.
Download and unzip Eclipse SDK to your USB drive (version 3.2.2 at the time of writing).
In the folder where you installed Eclipse, create a folder called “JavaFiles” Read more:USB Drive
The 5 Most Useful Firefox Shortcuts 2007-06-14 20:29:44 Although Safari has broken onto the Windows platform, it is still no match for Firefox
in terms of features and security. In order to further increase productivity and efficiency in Firefox, here are (in my opinion) the five most useful Firefox keyboard shortcuts.
New Tab (Ctrl-T)
Self explanatory. Should be noted that the location bar smartly takes focus.
Close Tab (Ctrl-W or Ctrl-F4)
Instead of positioning your mouse over that little red X on the tab, Ctrl-W does the trick. Ctrl-F4 works too but it isn’t as easy to press.
Undo Close Tab (Ctrl-Shift-T)
Accidentally closed that very important tab you had opened? Quickly bring it back with this little known but very handy shortcut. Right-clicking on the tab bar->Undo Close Tab will do the same thing.
Select Location Bar (Alt-D or Ctrl-L)
Quickly type in a new address. Upon selection, the entire location bar field is highlighted.
Select Search Bar (Ctrl-K)
Much like selecting the location bar, the entire field is highlighte Read more:Useful
, Shortcuts
mediatemple Coupon and Referral Program 2007-06-13 23:12:42 Last month, my web hosting company mediatemple quietly rolled out a customer referral program offering hosting discounts for referring others!
To use me as a referrer, click here to order a package or manually enter “cookielabs.com” into the referral box on the order form! Also, don’t forget to enter coupon codes kirupa05, surfstation or octeth - all give you 15% off which is the maximum discount currently available. This can bring the Grid Server hosting package down to just $14.17 per month! Which is very comparable to other cheaper web hosts!
So in order to make this not sound like a shameless promotion, here are the posts I have written about mediatemple in the past:
mediatemple’s GPU Overhaul - It’s great!
mediatemple’s GRID System Upgrade
jonlee.ca and mediatemple
Digg vs mediatemple - Round 2 - Starring GPUs and wp-cache
mediatemple Stands Up to a Digg
mediatemple woes
I’ll be honest, like all hosting companies they have had their u Read more:Coupon
, Referral
, Program
Weekend Upgrades Complete! 2007-06-18 22:30:36 I apologize for not making any posts this weekend but I’ve had quite the busy weekend! Here’s everything I accomplished (in addition to routine backups and such):
Formatted my Computer
This took the longest of all my tasks, and I couldn’t really do anything until this was done. I like the feeling of a clean brand new installation so I figured it was a good a time as any to do some in-house cleaning. I contemplated installing Ubuntu since my need for Dreamweaver is no longer an issue but decided against it because I don’t have enough time these days to twiddle with hacks and workarounds to get everything to work. Perhaps next reformat.
Upgraded Wordpress from 2.1.2 to 2.2
I held off on this upgrade for a while due to security concerns but it seems like those have been addressed. The new version plugs a few security holes and comes with a few new features like built-in widget support and plug-in protection (meaning it won’t let you activate plug-ins tha Read more:Weekend
Weekend Maintenance 2007-06-16 23:15:55 Hey everyone, been doing some janitorial work on all my computers and servers. Reformatting, cleaning, upgrading etc.
So no posts this weekend (aside from this one). To keep you entertained, here’s a random video of those crazy Japanese at it again!
Your regularly scheduled posts will resume again on Monday!
funny, videos
Read more:Weekend
, Maintenance
jonlee.ca Banned from digg! 2007-06-22 21:34:36 Yup it’s true! I’ve officially been banned from digg.com. I don’t know how it happened but yesterday when I tried to login to digg an article, I get a nice little “Account Disabled” message. Since I’m sure most of you haven’t seen it, this is what it looks like when you’re blacklisted from digg.
So that’s not too bad, just create another account right? Yes but then I’ve lost my history of diggs, all my #1s and my entire friends list.
After creating another account, I attempt to submit the article I wrote yesterday since I know a lot of digg users like Tower Defense games. Lo and behold, I get this lovely message:
The full message states:
This URL has been widely reported by users as being regularly used to spam Digg’s submission process and cannot be submitted at this time.
Say what?? My site is used to spam the submission process? I hardly ever submit my posts to d Read more:Banned
Game Break: Best Tower Defense Games 2007-06-21 23:06:08 Back in high school, I used to play a lot of Starcraft, which is why I’m fairly excited for the upcoming Starcraft 2 game. In Starcraft, there was a popular type of game called “Turret Defense
” which involved building turrets (or other structures) in order to stop a horde of enemies from invading your base.
This type of game was so popular it made its way to Warcraft 3 and became known as “Tower
Defense”. It gained immense popularity and is now emulated by a lot of Flash games.
Tower Defense involves a lot of strategy, thinking, experience and a bit of patience. But what’s more fun than watching a whole bunch of stuff blow up? Tower Defense games in Flash have been around for a while but they’ve recently picked up a lot of steam with very well made ones like Desktop Tower Defense (who is earning the maker almost $10,000 a month in advertising income!)
Here is my list of what I consider to be the best Tower Defense games right now (I try to Read more:Break
, Games
Design and Development - What’s it Worth? 2007-06-20 23:00:29 I saw a couple articles lately discussing the London 2012 Olympics and how poorly managed it is. They spent the equivalent of about $800,000 on designing just the logo. Upon the unveiling, it was met with much disappointment. I mean for a million dollars, I’d expect a logo to completely sweep me off my feet. Instead… Londoners were presented with this jagged purple and yellow logo (that some people say look suspiciously like an unmentionable activity).
Is it worth $800,000?
Now I’m sure not all of that money went towards the logo design. I’m sure some of it went towards market research because this new logo is supposed to “appeal to young people”. But honestly, that could be 10 or 20 people’s annual salary. At this rate it’s no wonder they’re estimating to be over budget… by almost 14 billion dollars!
Can it be done for cheaper?
Yes! A lot of BBC readers sent in their own logos. Some of them were jokes, some were qui Read more:Development
, Worth
Biggest Productivity Booster: Dual Monitors 2007-06-19 14:50:08
Research shows that the biggest boost to office productivity is a second monitor. The extra screen estate lets you have 3 or more monitors open side by side. So why not enter to win a free 24″ widescreen LCD?
John Chow in partnership with Bluefur who is hosting Canada, is offering a contest to win a 24″ LG widescreen LCD monitor. John Chow is of course everyone’s favorite evil dot com mogul who teaches how to make money online. I’m sure shipping will be paid for (John isn’t that evil)!
Bluefur is also hosting their own contest for a 22″ LCD monitor. Either one is fine by me! To enter their contest, you have to vote for them on Blogger’s Choice Award which is kind of unethical since they’re kind of buying votes but hey, a free monitor is a free monitor is a free monitor! Here they explicitly state that shipping is free to anywhere in the world!
Here’s hoping I win one (or both) of the monitors! I urge everyone not to enter to Read more:Productivity
, Booster
, Monitors
Backup Data Online the Smart Way 2007-06-25 23:42:23 In web development, there is nothing worse than having created a website and losing it to a hard drive crash. Luckily, I’ve yet to have a hard drive crash on me but I’ve heard horror stories from countless people. The need to back up your data is very real and but can be a hassle at times.
Offline Backups?
Backing your files onto CD/DVD or another hard drive is nice but in the case of an accident (house fire, flooding) you have the potential of losing all your data and your backups all at once. Backing up data on to a flash drive could potentially work if you keep that flash drive with you at all times but in my opinion, the only way to safely backup your data is to store it on a remote server somewhere outside of your house. Possible locations include your work, your web server or an online storage system elsewhere.
Doing your Own Backups
If you have a lot of extra disk storage space on your web host, you can easily use that to backup your files. For the lazy, simply Read more:Smart
What is Quantcast? No Toolbar Required! 2007-06-24 22:54:17 Quantcast is self-described as an “Open Internet Rating Service”. Essentially, it is another way to measure the popularity of your site. Much like Alexa, it can be used to give your site a “ranking” compared to all the other sites on the Internet. Unlike Alexa however, it does not rely on a toolbar to get its data.
How it works
It uses a similar system to Compete, gathering usage data from secondary sources such as ISPs, advertising networks and publishers. Since it doesn’t use a toolbar, one might imagine this data to be less skewed/biased compared to Alexa or Compete but it definitely isn’t the case. Quantcast data is very biased towards publishers. Publishers are web site owners that “publish” a little Quantcast tracking script on their page. It looks something like this:
<!– Start Quantcast tag –>
<script type=”text/javascript” src=”http://edge.quantserve.com/quant.js”></scrip Read more:Toolbar
Bloglines - Makes for an Easier Experience 2007-06-23 23:49:20 Darin Carter contacted me about this list he started and I think it’s a great idea. Like the technorati favorites train, this is a very good way to earn some linkbacks, discover new blogs, as well as increasing your RSS count. I copied this list from Gary Lee who has added a few extra blogs.
Apparently, Bloglines
is being used by several services as a way of ranking your site and with the recent release of an API, you can expect many other services to begin adopting it. I’m looking into implementing it into my Showoff Rankings widget somehow.
Adding someone to your Bloglines list is easy, just a few clicks of the mouse. Also, Bloglines is a very nice RSS reader. I still prefer Google Reader for its simplicity but I can see why it is one of the most popular readers out there.
***Start Copying Here:***
Here are the rules:
1) If you don’t have a bloglines account signup for one, if you do have a bloglines account sign in to your account!
2) Write a short introduction p
PHP Tidbit: Efficient Loops 2007-06-29 21:51:40 Loops
can save a lot of redundancy in your code by performing a particular task over and over again. However, to keep the loop as efficient as possible, here are some tips to follow. Note that these tips applies to many programming languages, not just PHP but examples are given in PHP code.
1) Avoid nested loops if possible.
Nesting loops is sometimes necessary but if possible, it’s best to avoid them. Each nested loop exponentially increases the number of iterations required.
2) Avoid functions in loop heads
Here is a very common inefficiency I see is something like this:
for ($i=0; $i<count($myarray); $i++) {
//do something
}
using the count() function in the header of your loop requires the array to be counted every interaction. Instead, do the count once, store it in a variable and use that instead!
$numelements = count($myarray);
for ($i=0; $i<$numelements; $i++) {
//do something
}
3) Don’t go through the same loop twice
If you’re pulling data from a
Regarding Google’s Supplemental Index 2007-06-29 00:12:04 Google
’s Supplemental Index
is a topic of constant debate amongst SEO (search engine optimization) fanatics. A month ago, I had over 500 pages in the supplemental index. Since performing a couple of little fixes, I am proud to say I’m now down to 5 pages in the index!
If you’ve never heard of Google’s Supplemental Index, here’s a short little intro. If you have, I’d like to hear your views on it.
What is Google’s Supplemental Index?
A lot of people view Google’s supplemental as the place your pages goes to when Google believes it is duplicate content, untrusted or just plain useless.
Why is the Supplemental Index Important?
Whether or not your page is in the supplemental index can mean the difference being on the first page of Google or the 30th page for a particular search term.
How do I check how many of my pages are in the Supplemental Index?
You can preform a simple Google search as follows, replacing my domain with yours of course:
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