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MySQL query cache to the rescue

Saturday, 11 November 2006  

Dynamic database driven websites are great. You just add your content and the website software grabs that content from the database, applies all the necessary formatting and displays it nicely and consistently to the user.

Until you wind up with thousands of “articles” and a very popular website, as one user complained in a recent forum topic. Googling for “+php +memory_limit” produces over 400,000 results, which shows just how widespread this problem really is.

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100 million websites

Sunday, 5 November 2006  

The latest survey from Netcraft shows that there are now more than 100 million websites on the internet, noting that:

“blogs and small business websites have driven the explosive growth this year”

This is obviously quite an achievement, when you purely consider the numbers. While pragmatists among us would argue that the “rubbish” to “useful” ratio is still very high, we shouldn’t overlook what is probably the most important thing about the web:

The autonomy for individuals to publish their own content.


Google loves blogs

Monday, 23 October 2006  

If you want any proof that Google loves blogs, have a look at some specifics for our own website below:

Rank Keyword
1 blog thieves
1 strip all whitespace php
1 who are bitacle
2 computing at hollywood
2 google invisible text
3 who are readnotify
5 readnotify
6 selling things on the net

We’ve taken some random articles, on topics we’ve covered over the months. We then looked at what appear to be actual keywords that humans used in Google to get to our website, rather than our article titles, for instance.

Although our website gets a relatively low volume of traffic (between 200-300 page views per day), it’s interesting that the keywords “who are bitacle” and “blog thieves” both currently enjoy top ranking with Google.

It just proves that content is king, no matter how humble the aesthetics are. And blogs are the perfect platform.


Why every business needs a CMS

Friday, 7 July 2006  

According to Melbourne IT, while more than 90% of internet users get to websites via search engines, more than 50% of all Australian businesses who have a website cannot easily be found in a major search engine like Google.

What does this tell us?

Perhaps it tells us that most business website owners don’t really have a clue about how people actually use the web. The fact is that the days of brochureware websites are long gone. As users become more savvy, they’re come to realise that a website without interactivity is basically useless. It’s no longer sufficient to try and dazzle your potential clients with your “web presence”, you actually need to offer something of value. Having a page which says “please call this number” just isn’t enough.

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A year of blogging

Tuesday, 6 June 2006  

It’s been exactly one year since we obliterated our traditional website and joined the blogosphere.

What started out as observations, commentary, opinions, tips and the occasional rant on the marriage between business and technology has largely remained true to it’s intent.

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