I am running uTorrent 1.6.1 and I noticed that my torrents up and down speeds went into a crawl when ever I was downloading and/or seeding more than a few torrents. The box used for teoorent is fast enough and has 4GB of RAM, and I got a 10Mbit/10Mbit connection so what could the problem be?

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As of now a search for untitled document returns an estimated 17.800.00 results in the Google web search. It is sort of sad that so many of various reasons doesn’t change the default title, since the title element is the most a very important on page factor when search engines score documents. Read the rest »

Read the whole thing here. It is very interesting because it sort of confirms what I have always thought. Getting paid per click for banner ads is terrible for the publisher. Not displaying banners was the first lesson I learned about making money as an affiliate webmaster. Unless you are getting paid by CPM then banner ads are terrible. They don’t attract clicks and the clicks don’t convert. However seen from the other site of the table banners are great. Having your affiliates display banners is smart for branding, and it even dosn’t cost much.

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is the improvement of documents and collection of documents to make them score better in an algorithmic search. In other words a SEO specialist both need to understand algorithms and document creation. SEO is best known when it comes to optimization of web-pages (HTML documents) to make them rank better in global search engines like Google or Yahoo!, however SEO could be applied to practically any document or document collection that are being search using any algorithm. This does not only apply to Internet searches, but to any search and no matter if the searches is a human or a computer agent. Read the rest »

The French presidential election is possibly the single most important event of 2007. I don’t know much about the president elect Nicolas Sarkozy nor anything much about this program. I don’t read French so I have not been reading much about the candidates and the campaigns. What I do know is that the election will affect my life and your life, and the life of every man, woman and child on this planet. France is one of the most influential and powerful nations in the world. Not only is the country a security council veto power, it also has some 250 war heads, it is one of the founders of the European Union, has more than 64 million inhabitants, is the home of many of the largest business in the world and the list goes on. Read the rest »

Ok, the wheels are moving and the Microsoft Yahoo merger will take place or the two companies will find other ways to co-operate. It is one or the other something is happening.

After I picked one random DMOZ category, and blogged about three sites that shouldn’t be listed, it appears like some editor in charge has removed 10 of the original 26 sites listed.

These sites are gone:

• Baby Zone: Preconception
• Bankhead Fertility House
• Beloved Pages
• Fertility Rhythms
• Getting Pregnant
• Getting Pregnant
  
• Pregnant Aid
  
• Rubella and Pregnancy
  
• Trying to Conceive
  
• Wish 2 Conceive

It was not me who removed the sites, I am not a DMOZ editor. However I do think that the quality of the category has improved. I would encourage more editors to take a new and critical look at the sites they have listed in their categories. If 10 of of 26 sites shouldn’t be listed in this random category then the situation should be similar in other parts of the directory.

Here is the link

Jason Calacanis writes in his blog that SEO is bullshit and he is right? When you look at the whole SEO market then I would agree that at least 90% are snake oil salesmen. It is often people that are more skilled when it comes to sending out invoices and asking for referrals than to actually provide decent SEO consulting.

So what is SEO? I find it easier to identify SEO by the goal, to bring in converting non-paid traffic from the search engines. And it is about more than just solid, by the book, web development.  Solid web-development does not take you very far in certain industries, the competition is just to hard, and maybe you won’t grow enough organic links no matter how good your content is. That’s when you need to turn to a SEO to create a strategy that is within the risk you are willing to take. And there are no text book answers, managing and developing a poker affiliate site is very different than managing the corporate site of fortune 500 company.  And that is not something you should expect your web development firm to know.

I do not cincider white hat seo firms that does nothing but good solid web design to be SEO’s they are quacks.

Ok, this was my 2 cents about Jason Calacanis statements.