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by al_james 16y ago
Agreed. It shows that you can achieve SEO goals whilst providing informative and valuable content. I hope that as google cracks down on 'poor quality content' sites, content rich, but SEO-aware, articles like this will be rewarded.
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by al_james 16y ago
Impressive they run that site off 6 front-end servers.
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by al_james 16y ago
Very interesting. Not sure that the browser is the right place for dealing with large amounts of statistical data, but still it may have some uses.
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by al_james 16y ago
Wow. Very nice example. Works well in Chrome 10 on Mac (about 30fps).
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by al_james 16y ago
Ok, I think we will have to agree to disagree! All nice in theory... the real world is very different.
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by al_james 16y ago
Good for them, however would be better if it was clickable to more information... But I guess that would be different per country.
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by al_james 16y ago
Good call. No, you have to start again. Oh well, not a big deal. Note you can only block 500 sites, I should think thats enough though.
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by al_james 16y ago
Excellent. Thanks Google, you have just saved my sanity. So can I disable the chrome plugin now? Will it remember the sites I have already blocked?
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by al_james 16y ago
>Banners hosted locally and not by a third party service probably won't be affected at all. So you have to install and manage your own local ad server to earn ad revenue from your site? Many publishers large and small use ad servers e.g
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by al_james 16y ago
> and I can't see any site I've visited today that appears to be funded only by the kind of targeted ads we're discussing. I think thats a key point. ALL banner advertising would be affected by this change. All ad servers use cross doma
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by al_james 16y ago
> Just because you fund your content through ads Me and 99% of the sites I have read today... > The most lucrative advertising deals I know about are between sites catering to particular interest groups and advertisers In my experie
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by al_james 16y ago
In an ideal world, yes. However, in the real world, most high paying advertising campaigns are retargeting based, thus requiring cross domain tracking. Excluding such tracking limits you to lower paying campaigns and remnant backfill. Most
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by al_james 16y ago
Yes, this is a far better solution. It also gives flexibility back to site owners. If you business model depends on tracking (so much that a visitor who opts out of tracking costs you money) they are free to redirect the user away or th
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by al_james 16y ago
Be that as it may, most of the sites I (at least) enjoy every day use the free content for advertising model. Very few of the sites would be able to make the transition to another business model that did not rely on advertising.
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by al_james 16y ago
You don't like websites earning money for providing you with free content?
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by al_james 16y ago
They will use a combination of user-agent, IP address and other browser profile information. This is surprising good at uniquely identifying most computers. It only really falls down when there are a large number of totally identical machin
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by al_james 16y ago
As a web-publisher, I find the general distaste of (advertising) tracking cookies a little hard to swallow. At the end of the day, tracking cookies exist because they allow the sites you visit (and probably don't pay for directly) to earn m
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by al_james 16y ago
Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2300123
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by al_james 16y ago
I don't see many commends negative to PHP itself. Instead the negative comments about this idea point out that it does not really bring that much to the table, and that the resources given to this could be better spent elsewhere. Also, just
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by al_james 16y ago
Normally you just install apache and php and they just work. Macs come with both pre-installed as do most linux distros. Don't see whats so hard!
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by al_james 16y ago
I don't really see how this would help. Thats what FastCGI is for. You would have to be dumb to expose a php internal HTTP server to the world, and configuring a FastCGI backend is no harder than setting up a HTTP backend in apache/nigix/wh
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by al_james 16y ago
Running your own mailserver is like your own mini-Vietnam war. Looks straight-forward, but you will soon be bogged down and stuck. Trust me, use a 3rd party service. Does not need to be mail chimp though. I am using these guys: http://www.
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by al_james 16y ago
Yes, it would be cool to link through to the location even if the image is not there...
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by al_james 16y ago
Yes. That would be awesome indeed.
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by al_james 16y ago
I think many of them are no longer on google maps, particularly in areas where they retake the photos quite often.
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by al_james 16y ago
Why does it have to be someone of the opposite gender?
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by al_james 16y ago
How long before someone starts a start-up that adds open / click tracking to SES for a small fee on top? Given that SES is an order of magnitude cheaper, there is quite a bit of room to play with.
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by al_james 16y ago
Arh! I see. So, when if I install this extension, I can hack those files (in the extension's directory I assume) reload the browser and the javascript engine will do whatever I have changed?
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by al_james 16y ago
Sorry, can someone please give an overview of what this is and how it works (I did not find any detailed examples on the site). My understanding is that its an alternative javascript engine that can be modified (using javascript itself I as
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by al_james 16y ago
You can argue all you want! I have just expressed my honest belief that all successful sites use "PR and faffery" in some way or the other, even if its not obvious.

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