Rich’s WebWorld

I was receiving a good income from my diet site, Easy Diabetic Diets. It was actually outperforming another of my sites that was getting ten times the traffic. And it was coming from MSN because I have yet to get the high rankings I’m seeking on Google and Yahoo.
On October 2, that all changed. Most […]

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I’m in the process of moving some of my websites to a new hosting company. This can be a scary process for critical sites. Will there be a smooth transition? Will your code work on the new server? Stuff like that.
I’ve already made a discovery. Some hosting companies will not let you move a site […]

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I’m taking a dramatic change in the way that I build web sites. I’m learning Ruby on Rails.
This is a much different method than is typical for building web sites. First, only a few hosting companies offer Ruby. You can’t just throw up a new site just anyway. But, the number of hosting companies […]

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Michael Abberton, a scientist at the Institute of Grassland and Environmental Research believes changing the diet of dairy cattle can help reduce greenhouse gases that cause global warming. The problem is that cows belch 100 to 200 liters of methane a day. Methane is over 20 times more effective in trapping heat in the atmosphere […]

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Biologist Steven Whitfield of Florida International University and his colleagues found a 75% drop in the total amount of amphibians over the past 35 years. It was thought that a vicious fungal infection — chytridiomycosis — had wiped out entire populations.
Many had taken this as a sure sign of global warming and a sign of […]

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I have a “friend” ?? accuse me of being red-necked like the guy he was watching on the Red Green show on TV last night.
I think he may have been referring to my experiment to see if my car would run on LP gas. The plan is to use my BBQ grill’s hose and tank […]

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Google’s Checkout ecommerce solution has not been the success they had hoped for. Even with sweeteners like free credit card processing, it is still struggling against PayPal in market share. But there are signs they are beginning to make progress.
The first of these was when eBay banned the use of Google Checkout. Sure, they own […]

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Google sitemaps are a good way to make sure Google indexes all your pages. It also lets them know when you have made changes to your site.
In the past, creating sitemaps and uploading them has been cumbersome. You usually searched for a website that made them based on your domain. But then it was often […]

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I added a couple of pages to my site, Easy Diabetic Diets, a few days ago. When I checked Yahoo to see if the pages were listed, I discovered listings without any titles.
Page titles are extremely important for SEO purposes. Keywords placed there help search engines know the subject of the page and how to […]

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Spyware can be a real problem for internet users, especially for the uneducated. You can become so innodated with popup ads, for example, that using your computer becomes a completely frustrating experience.
A friend has published a new site to help overcome this problem. It is called Remove Spyware. If you are interested in taking control […]

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