-- I paid (for three years), I get kicked in the ass too.
Klubbkidd, I've been following your blog every now and then. I also know the volume of visitors you attract, I believe it's in the thousands per day category making it one of the most popular blogs on Blogdrive.
However, seeing that you are doing a serious business you should have left Blogdrive a long time ago. There are better service out there not to mention they are free too.
When BD announced that they are moving data centers, I crossed my fingers and hoped that this'll be the last time we'll be having any problems or discomfort. Till now, one month later it's just as it is before. Pointless.
I guess the only thing you'll lose when you switch, which would also be the most crucial part of it all, is your current blog address. That alone bring many other big disadvantages: Your permalinks and status that you've gathered up until today will all be lost, losing out in search engine rankings. And the complication with what your visitors are familiar with.
My advice to you is this: give BD one more chance, say two weeks. If this big moving of data center doesn't get better in two weeks, by all means, MOVE. Get outta Blogdrive, don't let your potential be hold back by some Californian startup. Flap your wings and fly.
<div id="70917_kdub1">Logical, autonomous and able to cope with computer crashes</div> - Vibration of Perceptions
Wednesday, October 11, 2006
Logical, autonomous and able to cope with computer crashes
Job title: Archivist Description of position: Using MACs, duties will include: scanning and studying pictures; providing picture sellers with the images they require; meeting press and magazine requirements; and updating the website bank of pictures. The postholder will be working independently and will be working on a two-week probation period for a fixed fee before January 2007.
The position is due to commence in February 2007.
Employer: Homes of Football About the company: Photographer specialising in images of football.
Location: Ambleside, Cumbria. Skills they're looking for: Logical, autonomous and able to cope with computer crashes.
Salary: £17,000 How to apply: Send CV and CL to Stuart Clarke, The Homes of Football, 100 Lake Road, Ambleside, Cumbria LA22 0DB Tel: 01539 434440 E-mail: info@homesoffootball.co.uk
<div id="88866_kdub1">How to make Blogdrive pages rank higher in search engines?</div> - Vibration of Perceptions
Saturday, October 07, 2006
How to make Blogdrive pages rank higher in search engines?
Blogdrive is a great *cough* blogging software, however it isn't the most search engine friendly blog platform around.
New entries or blogs tend to get higher ranking than old post because of Blogdrive's way of handling 404 pages. These new content, either entries or blogs receive a large amount of incoming links from Blogdrive main page and 404 pages. (The number of incoming links is porportional to your page rank.)
As a result, if you regularly updates your blog, your blog will naturally have higher page rank due to these incoming links. (Tip 1)
Other methods, will largely depend on the design and internal HTML coding of your blog.
Tip 2: Insert permalink of important post you made to your sidebar. Since your sidebar appears in every single page of your entire blog, it naturally gives a high number of incoming links. It helps a lot.
Associating keywords to your individual post have a tremendous help of relating to relevant searches. This, however is difficult because Blogdrive system doesn't help in this aspect, at all.
A little hack here and there in the HTML makes a difference.
Such as this blog, each permalink pages have it's Blog Title in the title bar. This is done by forcing individual blog post title into the <title> tag. (Tip 3) This method makes your permalink page rank goes up a significant one PR (PageRank)
Another method, is to link to your individual post with the relevant keyword. Either in your blog, or your friend. Let's consider this as Tip 4.
Tip 5: A newly discovered method by myself, is to insert your blog title into your permalink. Currently, all permalink has the format http://seigey.blogdrive.com/archive/360.html with no specific keyword in the URL. If we make it look like this: http://seigey.blogdrive.com/archive/360.html?Search+Engine+Friendly+BlogDrive
I consider this as another genius idea of mine and I gladly share it with all. Have fun.
How to make Blogdrive pages rank higher in search engines?
<div id="25902_kdub1">Blogdrive maintenance notice</div> - Vibration of Perceptions
Thursday, October 05, 2006
Blogdrive maintenance notice
Surprice surprice! Blogdrive announced that they will be doing server maintenance from 3/10 till 5/10 (or was it just the 4th and 5th?).
Can you believe it? they actually took the courtesy to let us know! I'm so happy for them. Yay!
This can be found on the left bottom corner the moment you login. http://www.blogdrive.com/manage/ Update to the update: 10/04/06:
We will be performing some more maintenance tomorrow, 10/05/06 between the hours of 11:00 AM to 8:00 PM PST.
Update 10/03/06:
We will be performing some routine maintenance on 10/04/06 between the hours of 11:00 AM to 8:00 PM PST.
Sections of the site may not accessible during this time.
A dumbass doing something useless yet still refuse to give up doing it.
