META Generator!
Posted by Ian Gutjahr in Computers and Internet on 07 31st, 2007
First a little background on why META tags are important and why you should use them.
Meta elements provide information about a given webpage, most often to help search engines categorize them correctly. They are inserted into the HTML document, but are often not directly visible to a user visiting the site.
They have been the focus of a field of marketing research known as search engine optimization (SEO), where different methods are explored to provide a user’s site with a higher ranking on search engines. In the mid to late 1990s, search engines were reliant on meta data to correctly classify a web page and webmasters quickly learned the commercial significance of having the right meta element, as it frequently led to a high ranking in the search engines — and thus, high traffic to the web site.
As search engine traffic achieved greater significance in online marketing plans, consultants were brought in who were well versed in how search engines perceive a web site. These consultants used a variety of techniques (legitimate and otherwise) to improve ranking for their clients.
Meta elements have significantly less effect on search engine results pages today than they did in the 1990’s and their utility has decreased dramatically as search engine robots have become more sophisticated. This is due in part to the nearly infinite re-occurrence (keyword stuffing) of meta elements and/or to attempts by unscrupulous website placement consultants to manipulate (spamdexing) or otherwise circumvent search engine ranking algorithms. While search engine optimization can improve search engine ranking, consumers of such services should be careful to employ only reputable providers.
Major search engine robots are more likely to quantify such factors as the volume of incoming links from related websites, quantity and quality of content, technical precision of source code, spelling, functional v. broken hyperlinks, volume and consistency of searches and/or viewer traffic, time within website, page views, revisits, click-throughs, technical user-features, uniqueness, redundancy, relevance, advertising revenue yield, freshness, geography, language and other intrinsic characteristics.
What I foundÂ
I was searching online for different meta tags I could add to Destructive Chaos. I searched Pixel2life and found a cool little script on internet.com. How it works is, you fill in the blanks and it creates the HTML and you just add it to your <head> tag. It’s really quite a simple script. Maybe I’ll make one in PHP? Why?, because I can. And did.
You can use my script at http://destructivechaos.com/metaGen
read comments (4)WLH broken, not my fault?
Posted by Ian Gutjahr in Betas!, Computers and Internet, Microsoft on 05 2nd, 2007A few minutes ago I found a neat little code to get a live.ca/.com/.be/.nl email account. I think Microsoft might have caught on to my mischief and killed my fun. After creating a few random accounts on really weird domains (@google, @microsoft) all the sudden the fun was stopped. Now when I go to create a new account it gives me an error.
Sorry everyone, I think I recked the fun.
I used a javascript explote to get the live.com domain to work in the hotmail signup.
<REMOVED - It wasn’t working with the layout> Â
 I won’t go into detail on how to use it, because I don’t want the FBI busting down my door haha.
It was a fun night.
UPDATE:
To fix the problems that I think I may have caused. They have changed their signup form so that it does not use the drop down box on the domain. Only if Microsoft would just let all of us use the @live domains, eh? To bad.
Also another thing, I went to login to my connect.microsoft account and now I get a “Page cannot be displayed” error. Could they have blocked me from that site?
Joost up your Internet!
Posted by Ian Gutjahr in Betas!, Computers and Internet, Entertainment on 05 1st, 2007
What is Joost?
“Joost is a new way of watching TV on the internet. With Joost, you get all the things you love about TV, including a high-quality full-screen picture, hundreds of full-length shows and easy channel-flipping.” - Joost website.
Basically Joost is free television. The only down side is that it only has a limited amount of channels you can watch at the moment, and uses alot of bandwidth, which is acceptable for such an inivative program.
Watch this video advertisment, it explains all. You’ll be addicted in no time!
What’s the catch?
There is no catch - so far. Joost does use P2PÂ (Peer 2 Peer)Â to send the information to more people with less strain on their servers. You can’t turn this off - it wouldn’t be fair if you could. But make sure you close the program after using it - or else you bandwidth will spike and your ISP will be emailing you with complaints (Telus!).
OK, you sold me, how do I get in!
Well Joost is still in it’s early BETA stages. I know, it’s a let down. But don’t worry - that doesn’t concern us. Since you take the time to read my blog (always right?!) just email me and I’ll send you an invite to try out this awesome program! But be quick cause I only have 999 of them! First come first serve I guess. If I don’t have any left by the time you read this, you can always check the Joost BETA page and see if they’ll accept you.
I have 999 invites! So keep the comments/hits coming - as a bonus you could even register…. that’d be cool wouldn’t it? Your choice though ;).
Please remember that even though I have 999 to give out - they are still limited. And you only need one login to use Joost - you can even use it on more than 1 computer. DO NOT POST TWICE! I will not give you an invite if you do.
Generate the new!
Posted by Ian Gutjahr in Computers and Internet, Destructive Chaos on 04 25th, 2007In my daily random web browsing tonight I found a neat little tool that generates custom WordPress themes on the fly straight from the site - that you can download and FTP right into your WordPress powered web space. This piece of website generation is really quite a cool concept. I played with it for a brief few seconds and found that it works really well!
It’s 100% free to use!
http://www.yvoschaap.com/wpthemegen/
Destructive Chaos Scores 91% SEO!
Posted by Ian Gutjahr in Computers and Internet, Destructive Chaos on 04 8th, 2007I just checked Destructive Chaos’s Search Engine Optimization score! My site scored 91%! The only help they give me to make this any higher is that I should put alt tags on all my large images. What large images? All of them have alt tags!
My META tag relivance kind of sucks though. I’m not sure how to fix this. WordPress adds everything into the META tags to get my site out there more. There is nothing I can do about this. Do you have any ideas on how I can fix this low score (25%).
Destructive Chaos is my most updated web site I have. I take the most care of it. It’s taken a long time to get it where I enjoy going to it and figuring out what software I want to stick with. I think I found my match with WordPress. There is not much that can beat this blogging/CMS software for free. All open source and no encoded parts! It’s just what the doctor ordered. I haven’t had to code much to add onto the site. It’s basicly all been done, so all I have to do is upload the plugins and the site updates it’s self.
WordPress’s built in bloglog ping function is great! Everytime I post new content on the site Google,Bloglog,Yahoo,Ask and all the other major search engines that you may have come across come directly to my site within seconds bring you up2date content by the paragraph. You can also subscribe to my RSS feed and get my comments right to you Vista sidebar, Live.com account. For those of you that used to read my blog just by Windows Live Messenger, you can set my RSS feed to a Live Alert and you’ll get a nice little popup when I post something new. (Who knows maybe that’s how you got here in the first place!)
Also WordPress is very bandwidth friendly - not like I get enough hits to really care - it uses AJAX for many of the admin area, thus making it very interactive and enjoyable. Load times are also better than ever seeing as how much mysql driven stuff actually has to be loaded to get the product.
I’ve kinda taken myself on a rant here again, but you know, it’s my site and I’ll do what I want. Another great thing about lots of text is that it makes your site look really import and well writen - even if it’s full of junk.
 I hope you enjoyed reading my post. And don’t forget to add me to your favorites, or even submit my site to some awesome “topsites” or add a link on your own site, it never hurt anyone, you know. Email me and I’ll add your link to my site (no adult stuff though - I don’t want any outgoing links to that on my site).
Don’t forget to register! Make my day. :p