Archive for March, 2008

My Skyrocketing Alexa Rankings

Posted by The Mayor of Bloggintown on March 24th, 2008

I basically started my 3 main sites around the first of January. I was new to Wordpress, blogging, SEO and everything else involved with building sites – including Alexa and Technorati rankings.

I noticed a couple weeks ago that my Alexa rankings were skyrocketing. This happened in less than 2 months.

Take a look:

Catpuppy
 (2/17) 12,946,832
(3/24) 946,131

Ultimate Redskins
 (2/17) 12,969,408
(3/24) 887, 251

Bloggintown
(2/17) 12,956,347
(3/24) 619,887

Is this normal? I’d love to hear your experiences with your Alexa rankings.

Quicktime Ruined My Day

Posted by The Mayor of Bloggintown on March 20th, 2008

Since my laptop is new, I havent put all my programs on it yet. I usually get around to doing that on a “when I need to use it” basis. This morning, I was messing around and saw a new movie trailer I hadnt watched yet and needed Quicktime (I wont say what trailer cause it’s a total chick movie).

I downloaded Quicktime and watched the Mama Mia trailer… uh, I mean, watched the trailer for the Angelina Jolie movie Wanted.

A little while later, I noticed that whenever I clicked onto a web page, it took a while to load. I was going nuts cause there was no reason for it.  I searched Google, disabled my firewall, plugged my connection directly into the router, and did a hundred other fixes. Nothing I did worked.

Since I have the worst memory ever, I finally remembered: I installed Quicktime.

I love Quicktime and in all the years I’ve used it, I have never ever had any sort of problem with it. But regardless, I was getting more and more frustrated and went to System Restore.

It deleted Quicktime and what do you know? I was back up and running like nothing was ever wrong.

Has anyone ever had that problem with Quicktime?

My New Dell Laptop

Posted by The Mayor of Bloggintown on March 19th, 2008

So, like I wrote earlier (here and here), the hinges on my laptop broke and the screen wouldn’t stand up by itself. I called Dell, told them what happened and they said send it in. Since I was sending it in anyway, I told them it was running hot as well. Apparently thats the hot button with them because the guy on the phone said they would send me a new one immediately.

Well, this past weekend it arrived.

My old laptop was a Dell Latitude D820. The new one is a Latitude D830 and from what I can tell, all the hardware are the newer versions of what I had previously had.  The screen is tons brighter and I am loving it.

Thanks Dell!

I love StumbleUpon

Posted by The Mayor of Bloggintown on March 17th, 2008

Are you on StumbleUpon?

I originally signed up because I thought it might be a good promotional tool for my sites but after messing around with it, I’m starting to love this site. I’ve found the coolest sites. Sites I’d never find if I hadn’t been stumbling around.

This is an example of what was found last night while stumbling:

I have to say… I’m convinced.

So, everyone…start stumbling!

My Acting Website

Posted by The Mayor of Bloggintown on March 11th, 2008

I had finished my acting website. It was up and ready to go. I even started to write a couple posts…. then I looked at it and it just didn’t feel right.

Why? I don’t know. All of a sudden it just didn’t look good to me. The theme felt wrong.

So, I went to looking for themes again. I found a couple that looked pretty good and thought I could modify it to look like I wanted. I took my favorite theme of the bunch and spent a day modifying the CSS. Since, I’m still somewhat mediocre in that department it just never looked right. Buttons were out of place and when I would fix it on Firefox it looked screwed up on Internet Explorer. No matter what I tried, it just wouldn’t bend to what I wanted it to look like. Stupid CSS!

I gave up and went to my second choice.

It’s good learning this stuff on my own. I’m getting better and faster at it. My second choice only took me a couple of hours and I’m really liking how it looks.

Now after all this, I’m thinking about adding a forums section to the site. I’ve heard this can be time consuming – not the adding it part but monitoring of all the posts.

Anyone have experience with this? Either adding forums or monitoring this on your site? I’d love to hear your side of it.

If it's free, it's for me

Posted by The Mayor of Bloggintown on March 6th, 2008

Why do I love free stuff?

My old neighbor gave me a portable car vacuum a while back. Didn’t need it. Didn’t want it. But as soon as he said I could have it, my mouth started to salivate and I had never wanted anything more in my life.

To this day, I’ve never used it. It’s been in my trunk from the minute I got it. Every time I turn a corner, I can hear it rattle around in there.

I only thought of this because today I was at one of the zillion Starbucks near me doing some work (yes, I’m one of those people) when I saw a bunch of people dressed in bright red and yellow shirts. Apparently, they were on some team building exercise for their work. It was like something you’d see on The Office.
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