Still looking for ways to add a link to your website? Of course you are! Here is an interesting idea. Write reviews. When selecting a new book from Amazon I frequently check the reviews to see what other people thought of it before I buy. It dawned on me that this might be another way to build some name recognition for my site and perhaps get a high PR link out of it. Read on …

Today we’ll be looking at the dangers of having a website grow too fast and the solutions to those problems if they do arise. Just like a tree a website starts out as a seed, an idea. It doesn’t matter what the site is about, it probably started out as a one page website and slowly began to grow.

Some webmasters never intend to have their site become large, because it’s a personal site or something along those lines. However, there are many webmasters who begin sites with ideas that become very popular (e.g. digg.com). Sometimes they are unaware of how popular these sites can be or begin doing things that weaken the website by branching into too many areas.
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It was bound to happen, a large website, unhappy with the way they were penalized by Google has taken the matter to court. Parental advice site KinderStart has sued Google charging “it unfairly deprived the company of customers by downgrading its search-result ranking without reason or warning”.
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I found this funny image on Digg.com…

I just thought the image was hilarious, but it got me thinking about what Google would really be like in 10 or 20 years. One thing I believe that is inevitable in Google’s future is diversification, which is already evident in some of their ventures, like the VW navigation system, but I think Google will always stay with their main product, information.

Ah, the life of a Website designer.

As I sit here in my cottage overlooking the beach (owned by my client), I can’t help but think, “This isn’t such a bad job after all”. You see, one of my clients is the owner of Hale Makai Cottages in Kauai, Hawaii (halemakaicottages.com). When it came time to redo their website they gave me a call and reasonably how can you write about something you’ve never seen, Right?
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With the attachment of our new forums, I was thinking about how to integrate the forum with the blog in the best way possible. What I came up with was to add a RSS display of the latest threads in the sidebar to involve the readers in the latest discussions. I thought I would only be appropriate to share this easy but useful plug in.

To get the plug-in go here and follow the easy installation instructions, then let your imagination do the rest. There are many options you can control to get the feeds to display the way you want.

Last week I was a little busy starting a new site for myself. This new site stemmed from an idea that was conceived about 2 weeks back. As I was building this site and the fact that I could not contain my excitement, I told a buddy of mine who is a fellow webmaster too.

Little did I know, my buddy blogged about my new site and 2 days ago, Googlebot and MSNBot decided to pay a visit at my new site. Today, I found my new site indexed in Google and MSN. That’s the good news. The bad news is, the description for my site was crap. Absolute crap.

Moral of the story: You don’t know when spiders are going to visit your site; and they come without an appointment. Therefore, it is absolutely important for your site to always look the best it can be.

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