I was inspecting the traffic to one of my customer’s website in the past few days and observed that it was only making 3-5 visits a day and I found this quite strange. So I make a decision to check Google analytics installed on that website to see how much traffic that website was receiving.

Not surprisingly, I check it and the website was only getting 3-5 visitors a day as opposed to 100+ organic search traffic.  Initially I thought the website might has for some reason gotten nuked by Google and Yahoo, but then realized that the website is still in top 3 results for the targeted keywords, in search rankings.  My next move was to click on the website link, and there it is - the moment every webmaster worries a lot. (more…)

Microsoft released a security patch on Monday for software that won’t be available publicly until Tuesday at the company’s Professional Developer Conference.

Microsoft will be providing attendees of

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Let’s get down and discuss some stats about blogging. Statistics published by Technorati were interesting and encouraging for bloggers. Good news, blogsphere has maximum readership. Look at the figures.

comScore MediaMetrix (Aug. 2008)

• Blogs: 77.7 million unique visitors in the US
• Facebook: 41.0 million
• MySpace 75.1 million
• Total internet audience 188.9 million

So the ultimate truth is that blogs are ruling the internet at present, what say.

Now let’s try to drill down the entire blogsphere further from the eyes of (more…)

Marshall Simmonds is a long-time colleague who, as vice president of enterprise search, oversees the SEO work to make the New York Times more search engine friendly. The NYT acquired Marshall as part of the Times’ About.com purchase last year.

Prior to Marshall’s arrival at the Times, the company’s web sites, which also include the Boston Globe and the International Herald Tribune, had good traffic, but this was largely due to the strength of the brands. Little effort was expended on making search-friendly content, or making sure that search engines could easily crawl and index the sites.

“When I joined the company, Google was not crawling the Times,” said Marshall (more…)

Want to take advantage of all of that unused storage that Google gives you when you start a Gmail account? Well, now you can.

Third-party developers have created “Gspace,” an interesting tool that is designed to be a snap to install and use - and take advantage of all of your unused storage in your Google Gmail account (or accounts.)

Gspace is an add-on for the Mozilla Firefox web browser - - free for download. Once installed, it allows the user to combine multiple Gmail accounts into one console and then - - in what resembles FTP - - upload and download files into unused Gmail storage. (The company says the tool can be used on systems running Windows, Linux or Mac OS X.)

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The word ‘ruse’ is defined by the Merriam Wester dictionary as “a wily subterfuge,” and it’s an apt description for a stunt Microsoft recently pulled as part of its efforts to battle the persistent market negativity around Windows Vista.

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Engineers at web search giant Google say their company’s computers recently hit an eye-popping milestone: the measurement of 1 trillion pages that Google measured on the web.

“We’ve known it for a long time: the web is big. The first Google index in 1998 already had 26 million pages, and by 2000 the Google index reached the one billion mark,” wrote Jesse Alpert and Nissan Hajaj, software engineers for Google’s Web Search Infrastructure Team.

“Over the last eight years,

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The 30 skills every IT person should have

An IT manager’s guide on how to be better at what you do, no matter how experienced you are

On MSN a few days ago, I noticed an article called “75 Skills every man should master.” It included some skills I have and some I don’t. For Example, I can tie a knot and hammer a nail, its often hard for me to recite a poem from memory - and bow ties still confuses me.

It was an interesting read and made me realize I could be more well-rounded than I am. To be honest, we all could be.

So in the spirit of personal growth, I developed a list of skills every IT person should have.

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