http://www.broobles.com/blog Fri, 22 Jun 2007 07:13:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en One of the primary goals of every webmaster is to rank well in major search engines for specific keywords in order to get as much organic search traffic as possible. But, how do you keep track of search positions? Doing it manually would take a lot of your valuable time, ... http://www.broobles.com/blog/posts/62 During the last year my support forum saw a huge increase in registrations and posts made by spammers. A few common prevention techniques I applied did not work and I was forced to close the forum for new registrations for a while, until I had time to find better methods ... http://www.broobles.com/blog/posts/61 Borland Turbo C/C++ and Turbo Pascal ruled the MS-DOS programming world during the 80s and early 90s. These were the compilers/IDEs that made it a joy to develop software and they occupy a special place in the hearts of many “older” programmers. It was therefore with great joy that I ... http://www.broobles.com/blog/posts/60 We all have different computer usage patterns and therefore different backup demands. This post will explain the backup plan I have in place, I’m sure there’ll be people out there who will find this useful, and I’d appreciate any feedback that could improve the process. A little bit of background. ... http://www.broobles.com/blog/posts/59 This turned out to be a temporary glitch with GMail, but still an interesting one. I accidentally noticed it since all my email from my GMail account is routed to a “google@” address on a domain I use exclusively for email. For a few hours today, all emails sent from ... http://www.broobles.com/blog/posts/58 Following up on my previous post about finding interesting expired domains, I’ve been looking at Domain Research Tool (DRT) for some time now and decided to give it a go and buy it. It is a pricey tool, but offers powerful features and there is a real potential for a ... http://www.broobles.com/blog/posts/56 Every day thousands of domains expire and are available for anyone to register them. A good portion of these domains were once in use, which means that they have links pointing at them, they might have a Google Pagerank assigned and some might even be included in DMOZ or the ... http://www.broobles.com/blog/posts/55 After two years of hosting with Doorhost.net I was forced to change hosts since the company was sold and the new owners (IHSystem.com) ruined the service overnight by providing no support and leaving the servers to run mostly on their own with harsh consequences. There were several cases of servers ... http://www.broobles.com/blog/posts/54 There are many junk websites being offered for sale nowadays. It is therefore important to have a tool which would be able to give you a very quick overview of a site, something like it’s age, alexa ranking, number of backlinks and it’s homepage pagerank. iWebTool has exactly that, they ... http://www.broobles.com/blog/posts/53 Just a quick note for those among you who enjoy wine, I’ve started a wine diary a couple of weeks ago. It’s a mix of wine tasting notes and wine software and web sites. I like it Also started a small experiment, called “A Wine Blog“, it will be ... http://www.broobles.com/blog/posts/52