Category Archives: Blogging

WordPress 3.0 Upgrade

WordPress, the popular open source blogging software that powers this site and literally millions of others around the internet, has been updated to version 3.0. Version 3.0 has been some six months in the making, has seen contributions from 218 … Continue reading

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DoFollow No Longer

In 2005 Google decided they were going to attempt to unsettle the online spam ecosystem by recommending that web sites add an additional attribute to a link from site A to site B if they were not verified to be … Continue reading

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WordPress Upgrade

The WordPress development team released the next major update for the popular blogging platform, version 2.9 on the 19th December 2009 – code named Carmen. With it came over 500 bug fixes and enhacements from version 2.8.6 which was the … Continue reading

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2009 Traffic Statistics

Following on from my 2008 web statistics, below is a summary of what traffic the site took in 2009. In 2006 the site took about 95,000 visitors, increasing to 145,000 and declining to 135,000 respectively in 2007 and 2008. In … Continue reading

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Blogging Statistics

At the end of last year, I posted the 2008 blogging statistics for my site including the previous years. In keeping with that trend, below is the amended table which now includes 2009 as well. POSTS AVG. POST LENGTH TOTAL … Continue reading

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