A Peculiar Blog

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I’ve seen this question enough that it’s worth a few minutes to post an answer here. It usually goes something like this:
I’ve got links coming to my site from xyz porn site and / or this-n-that spamming scammer site [...]

Like just about everybody else out there, I’ve been looking forward to Google’s next PageRank update and like everybody that’s looking for it… I’m still waiting.
I did some looking around and found a Page Rank Export List History which shows the history of Google’s various updates going back to July of 2000. Of course, [...]

… or the page background for that matter.
I know I’ve talked about this before and I’ll probably keep talking about it until I stop seeing web pages and blogs that have color combinations that make them hard to read.
For example just tonight I ran across a blog that’s using a white background and a combination [...]

One of the things that affect not only your PageRank but also your potential for incoming traffic is the number of incoming links to your site.
There’s a few tools you can use to find out where your links are coming from. One of them is http://www.iwebtool.com/backlink_checker
You enter your url on the form and it [...]

Perhaps you’ve seen the “ThoofRank” badges that have started popping up on blogs all over the place (including this one). The thoof rank badges indicate the level of interest there is in the page (or blog entry) that you submit to Thoof. When Thoof readers click on the link to read your page, [...]

Here’s something that looks like a good idea. It’s called Fechr.com (pronounced “feature”). The idea is simple. Every day at 12:00 Midnight EST they feature a new site on the home page of fechr.com where it stays for 24 hours. During that time the site gets a significant boost in [...]

The next item on Blog Bloke’s list of reasons for not liking a blog is
7. Your blog is on MySpace
The idea here is that a lot of serious bloggers don’t consider a lot of free platformst like MySpace to worth reading. Exactly why this is so I haven’t seen anyone saying. I’ve also [...]

Item number eight on Blog Bloke’s list of reasons for not liking a blog is
“You don’t post consistently.”
This one’s really a no brainer. Do you keep going back to blogs that go weeks or even months without new postings? Of course not. Oh, you might look in once in a while to [...]

Here’s another in the growing list of social bookmarking type sites. This one’s called “Thoof”
It’s intended to be an objective measure of how interesting readers think something is. I’ve even heard of at least one of the creators of Thoof. Ian Clarke is also the founder and creator of the Freenet Project.
On [...]

In his entry “10 Reasons Why I Don’t Like Your Blog”, Blog Bloke advises against discussing controversial topics like politics or religion.
From what I’ve read, I would go so far as to say that if you’re going to discuss politics or religion, then it’s a good idea to stay within what you know. For [...]