Friday, October 11, 2002

Visitor Traffic Tip Blogster Net claims to be a visitor exchange service, in which you register your site and link to them.  For every one person that goes to their site from you, 2-5 will come in the opposite direction.  This presupposes that they have a service that will lead to people visiting them.  What I am seeing so far is a list of sites that have had perhaps 1,000 visitors, on down, connected to a somewhat traditional looking search engine directory.  I am not so much interested in random visitors, but lots of links to our sites do help raise our stakes in the search engines. I suspect that in the long run what is important is the quality of our content, not spikes in other people occasional interests, or linking systems like this. I guess value of things are in the eyes of the beholder.  Since I recently exploring directories of weblog services, number two on their list is number one on my next place to go visiting, an alleged complete guide to weblog tools, hosting, directories etc.  I say alleged because I have found some extremely comprehensive lists, but yet this is a moving target, with new stuff appearing all the time, and services shutting down.  However, the link is to the Weblog Compendium, which is one of the most comprehensive I have found so far. 4:10:49 PM

Radio Wishes Preference settings to help with our PC performance tweaking, and crash avoidance. If our PC resources drop below some threshholds that we would set in the new preferences, Eadio is to censor the start of, or conclude the current running of, some scheduled actions, and perhaps within our editing window show us an icon alert that we have dropped to the specified danger threshholds.  Events log state threshhold reached as stated in prefs and what action(s) impacted (not run on schedule, or taken to a conclusion before completion). Link to PC Doctor site that is sensitive to Radio preference settings and what they mean. Just like I can link to some inspection supplied by the anti-virus and other places, that checks out my PC security and tells me I have the latest anti-virus definitions but not the most advanced anti-virus software available for my PC, that I am protected against this or that, but I missed a spot in my defenses, and here is how to patch it. I am dreaming of a future web site that I would link my PC to, and it would check my Radio preferences, and other general PC health, internet connection speed and so forth, then give me a PC Radio Medical Report, reccommending changes in my preferences to improve performance, stability, and other criteria.  It would also note that I have Categories and RSS active but not Outlining and various other things.  There would be links provided to documentation on the various things I not yet using, just in case I am ready to advance there.   2:03:04 PM

Weblog Info Navigation Tip Weblog Compendium lists some 35 directories of Weblogs. Sebastien Paquet has directories of weblogs by profession. Also see connections in Al's Search Engine Tips. 1:21:19 PM

I have been adding to my stories since my last update here. Blog Books directory of approx nine now. Blog Software directory now over one hundred different names there. Printed out, it comes to about 7 1/2 pages.  Now until recently, my goals in building this thing were: List actual names of the software outfits, so that people can use search engines to locate them. Give links for ease of checking out their latest offerings. Give some info about what this outfit has to offer. Add any links to relevant documentation I may have seen any place else. I now have a 5th goal - I think I will split off the introductory material (first 2 1/2 pages) into a separate story, like I did with Radio Doc Sources, so that regular visitors can focus in on the actual one hundred or whatever listed. Blog Software MT and RU Radio Doc Sources About 55 listed, in which I periodically adding a few more links.  Printed out, this comes to 8 pages with approx 175 links to documentation and other aids to understanding Radio. Radio url number system Search Engine Tips Understand series Understand News Aggregation Understand Radio Referers In the Understand series I try to lift the fog on topics that have been a puzzlement to many users transitioning from beginner to experienced in Radio. 1:16:16 AM

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