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July, 2007 Archive

Sitening’s Secret Project

Tuesday, July 31st, 2007

Not to be confused with this top secret homepage, Sitening is currently developing a new Web application to change how marketing agencies and search engine optimizers manage their SEO campaigns. We will be revealing more about this project in the coming months. Stay tuned.

Illustration by Amy Mauk

Posted in Company News | 2 Comments »

Seriously, Keep it Simple, Stupid

Monday, July 30th, 2007

Like Scott, I spent last week in Portland attending OSCON. The first session I went to was a joint talk given by Rasmus Lerdorf and Thomas Sha. Rasmus is a Yahoo! software architect and the creator of PHP. Thomas is the head of YUI development. They spoke about strategies for helping Javascript and PHP developers [...]

Posted in Commentary, Conferences, PHP, Programming | 7 Comments »

Google Blocks SERP Tracker for Bad Behavior

Monday, July 30th, 2007

First, the bad news….
If you’re a frequent user of Sitening’s SERP Tracker, you may have noticed a lack of results over the past week. It looks like the sleeping giant has finally noticed us. If you’ve ever managed to get blocked, you may recognize this message:
We’re sorry…
… but your query looks similar to [...]

Posted in Open Source | 1 Comment »

Google SEO Update: Underscores, URL Depth and More!

Friday, July 27th, 2007

Stephan Spencer, from CNET’s News Blog, posted an informative entry about changes that are taking place with Google’s search engine. Of particular interest was the news from Matt Cutts regarding underscores in URLs. Traditionally, underscores were treated differently from hyphens.
Hyphens have long been the preferred method for dividing keywords up in a link. Whereas, URLs [...]

Posted in Google, SEO | 1 Comment »

Notes from OSCON 2007

Thursday, July 26th, 2007

Today was the first official day of the conference, though lots of folks came early for the tutorials on Monday and Tuesday. Everything I’ve attended has at least been mildly interesting, and in some cases truly inspiring. Here are some important ideas that I wrote down but haven’t quite digested:
“Diagnosis has weak process.” [...]

Posted in Open Source | 2 Comments »

Under Public Pressure, Sitening to Change Name to iTard

Sunday, July 15th, 2007

Ever since we tricked Fake Steve Jobs (FSJ) into revealing his obscure, but geographically revealing IP address, some high profile Apple enthusiast sites have taken the story to new heights and fluffy realities. Thanks in part to Radio Active Code Blog and his theory that FSJ is really Bostonian Andy Ihnatko, Mac fan-boys (and fan-men) [...]

Posted in Apple, Commentary, Humor, Just for Fun | 6 Comments »

Tracking Fake Steve

Thursday, July 12th, 2007

Fake Steve Jobs has become a cult celebrity on the net over the past year. His parody of Real Steve Jobs is almost always hilarious and often times insightful. His popularity grew even more when Real Steve and Bill Gates admitted to reading the blog at All Things D last month. It’s no wonder that [...]

Posted in Apple, Just for Fun | 29 Comments »

iPhone Sudoku

Friday, July 6th, 2007

Ever since attending the iPhone development session at WWDC last month, I’ve been itching to build my first web site for Apple’s new device. Tonight I took some time off and set out to see what I could come up with. I gave myself a time limit: two hours. I wanted to build something that [...]

Posted in Apple, Just for Fun, iPhone | 2 Comments »