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Black Monday - Site down again My apologies to those of you not reading by RSS. APLawrence.com
was down and out for several hours on Monday, February 9th, 2009. Amusingly
(yes, I'm easily amused) we were down last year on February 11th - so this
is now an annual event. Note that Feb 9,2009 and Feb 11, 2008 are both the second Monday of the month; going forward the second Monday of February will be known as Black Monday.
The importance of good grammar I'm definitely a broken record when it comes to my giving advice about improving website traffic. What I keep saying over and over is "Write, write, write". That's because if you aren't writing regularly, both Google and your readers will forget about you.
Why are you following me? Twitter remains a puzzle to me.

As I said at Tweet-tweet, playing the Twitter game, I just started using Twitter as another way to put some variety into the sidebar. I didn't expect many "followers".

Title	Date	Comments
Why aren't you doing that?	2009 07	2009/07/03 14:29 BrettLegree

The Helios Project	2009 07	2009/07/01 19:10 BruceGarlock

17,000 Net Illiterates Can't be Wrong!	2009 06	2009/07/03 16:07 TonyLawrence

FTC and Affiliate Links	2009 06

Voila	2009 06	2009/06/24 14:41 TonyLawrence

Disqus Comments	2009 06

Google Wave will change the world	2009 06	2009/06/08 19:05 TonyLawrence

FairShare content usage	2009 05	2009/05/24 23:25 JonathanBailey

Google endorses microformats	2009 05

Google Ad Planner	2009 05	2009/05/29 06:34 Zarada

Canonical tag for duplicate content	2009 04	2009/04/07 17:02 TonyLawrence

Learning PERL the Hard Way	2009 04




Six Million Minutes, give or take	2009 04	2009/04/06 12:13 TonyLawrence

Don't trust Web Designers	2009 03	2009/04/07 15:51 TonyLawrence

The importance of good grammar	2009 03	2009/03/29 17:15 BrettLegree

Building Google Traffic	2009 03

Dying newspapers - so bleeping what?	2009 03

Disabled FTP	2009 03

Wolfram Alpha - Incredible!	2009 03	2009/05/25 21:04 TonyLawrence

Checking RSS Feeds	2009 03	2009/04/13 15:30 TonyLawrence

Blocking Unwanted Visitors	2009 03

Smashwords	2009 02

WordPress Plugin Development	2009 02	2009/03/23 09:11 Vladimir

Beauty Treatments	2009 02

Down and Out	2009 02	2009/02/20 21:43 BrettLegree

Full feed vs. Partial screwup	2009 02	2009/02/16 12:45 TonyLawrence

Everybody wants to be rich	2009 02	2009/02/15 15:01 BrettLegree

What a difference a (static) page makes	2009 02	2009/02/14 01:27 TonyLawrence

Too much traffic	2009 02	2009/02/13 17:10 TonyLawrence

Analyzing Adsense performance with	2009 02	2009/02/10 16:27 TonyLawrence

Black Monday - Site down again	2009 02	2009/02/11 09:39 TonyLawrence

E-Book Updates	2009 02

Seven RSS myths	2009 01

Fetching RSS info with the Awareness API	2009 01	2009/01/24 15:20 TonyLawrence

Why you don't make money blogging	2009 01

Destroying Twitter Friendships with	2009 01	2009/02/02 12:04 TonyLawrence

Twitter Deaf	2009 01	2009/03/03 22:37 MarkGuadalupe

New Banner Logo at APLawrence.com	2009 01	2009/01/21 11:25 TonyLawrence

Understanding automatic blank pages in	2009 01	2009/06/09 17:20 Maximilian

Stanza and epub formats for e-books	2009 01	2009/01/12 19:29 TonyLawrence

Adding Gravatars with Perl	2009 01	2009/01/12 15:49 TonyLawrence

My First Look at WordPress Plugins	2009 01	2009/03/19 10:59 TonyLawrence

WordPress on Mac OS X Leopard	2009 01	2009/01/11 17:38 ScottCarpenter

YUI Grid Builder for custom sites	2009 01	2009/02/19 12:56 TonyLawrence

Browser Waffling	2009 01	2009/01/09 13:00 NickBarron

Hitting the Google Sweet Spot	2009 01	2009/01/05 01:08 TonyLawrence

Silly Spammer Cooks His Own Goose	2009 01	2009/01/02 00:50 TonyLawrence

That was the year that was	2008 12

The Internet isn't done with us yet	2008 12	2008/12/30 00:17 NickBarron

Fear of Programming	2008 12	2008/12/29 14:57 TonyLawrence






Blog Promotion Techniques	2008 12	2009/06/25 08:16 anonymous

Why are you following me?	2008 12	2009/01/02 02:06 NickBarron

The Hard Truth about Easy Money on the	2008 12	2009/01/10 12:53 anonymous

Starting your first commerce web site	2008 12	2008/12/17 09:51 MikeHostetler

A Big Xmas Present from Google Adsense	2008 12	2008/12/14 15:25 TonyLawrence

Getting to know you	2008 12

Google Friend Connect	2008 12	2008/12/28 18:57 TonyLawrence

Updates to Psst book	2008 11

Freebies	2008 11	2008/11/25 01:32 ScottCarpenter

Hunting the Wiley 404	2008 11

Maybe I don't want to be rich	2008 11

Quantcast website statistics	2008 11	2008/11/04 20:18 TonyLawrence

Google Adds Source Links	2008 10

Website Optimization	2008 08

Chitika Premium	2008 06

Is your website a lefty or a righty?	2008 06	2008/06/16 21:14 TonyLawrence

Review of Tribal Fusion for Publishers	2008 06	2009/01/09 03:19 TonyLawrence

Hey Technorati - I give up!	2008 06

Page Views Per Visitor - more isn't	2008 06

Everything you need to know about seo in	2008 05	2008/05/27 15:13 TonyLawrence

Road Trip	2008 05	2008/05/20 14:24 BigDumbDinosaur

Twitter Types	2008 05

If you can't say anything nice..	2008 05	2008/12/31 21:07 TonyLawrence

A web page is more than a pretty	2008 04

Do you really want a popular blog?	2008 04	2009/01/20 22:48 TonyLawrence



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Google adds benchmark comparisons	2008 04

A thousand meanings never meant	2008 04	2008/04/21 13:20 TonyLawrence

SEO Marketing could stand some	2008 04	2008/04/22 14:42 Rani

Like watching grass grow	2008 04	2009/02/02 19:24 TonyLawrence

Reading Skills	2008 03	2009/06/04 14:15 BigDumbDInosaur

Web Analytics - An Hour a Day	2008 03

Web site surveys	2008 03

E-Mail Harvesting Protection	2008 03	2008/03/04 16:13 BigDumbDinosaur

Images or words?	2008 02	2008/02/26 11:40 TonyLawrence

Measure	2008 02

mod_perl on Debian	2008 02	2008/02/24 11:54 TonyLawrence

Last Words	2008 02	2009/05/05 10:53 TonyLawrence

Hello to Moldova	2008 02	2008/02/20 18:05 TonyLawrence

13.2 Reasons I don't like Social Media	2008 02	2008/10/09 23:27 WaveyDavey

Tracking clicks	2008 02

Increase visitor stickiness by site	2008 02

Programmer Games	2008 02	2008/03/01 05:40 anonymous

Self Hosting in the FIOS Era	2008 02	2008/02/15 13:55 TonyLawrence

Increase RSS subscriptions- why?	2008 02	2008/02/06 19:27 TonyLawrence

Yes, I have a blog. No, you	2008 02	2008/02/15 10:38 Anish

What to do about IE6?	2008 02	2008/04/12 16:16 RobO

Tweet-tweet, playing the Twitter game	2008 02	2009/04/19 22:11 TonyLawrence

Portals, Excerpts, Magazines.. what?	2008 01

Oh, those kids	2008 01	2008/01/24 14:56 BigDumbDinosaur

Who sees the elephant?	2008 01






Analyzing web logs with grep	2008 01	2008/01/18 23:44 BigDumbDinosaur

There's something about a Muntz TV	2008 01

Why doesn't Technoratibot use RSS?	2008 01

The importance of good design	2008 01	2008/01/13 12:15 TonyLawrence

Dissecting Google Page Rank	2008 01	2008/01/10 10:14 TonyLawrence

Google reconsideration..	2008 01

Perl script to get Numly	2008 01

Numly tags help protect your digital	2008 01	2009/01/11 20:30 TonyLawrence

Jack of All Trades	2008 01

We're Ad Free (sometimes)	2008 01

On your own	2008 01	2008/01/05 02:12 Skellie

Focus, Focus, Focus	2008 01

Help me out with an Alexa Experiment?	2008 01	2008/04/21 22:02 TonyLawrence

Ten stupid blog tricks	2008 01	2008/01/04 15:29 TonyLawrence

Using Multiple Submits with Perl CGI	2008 01

Goals for 2008	2008 01	2008/01/04 20:08 TonyLawrence

More thoughts on the Google Slap, no	2007 12	2008/01/08 23:07 TonyLawrence

Technorati Revisited	2007 12

Master of All	2007 12

How I cheat my way to success	2007 12	2008/02/09 00:58 TonyLawrence

Speed up your site	2007 12	2007/12/21 03:39 TonyLawrence

Writing a Twitter getter Widget	2007 12

Power failure changes my habits	2007 12

Adsdaq Ad Network	2007 12	2007/12/31 19:42 TonyLawrence

Surveys with Google Graphs	2007 12



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Targeting or Embracing your Readers?	2007 12	2008/02/18 14:54 TonyLawrence

How little it takes to influence Alexa	2007 12

Equal height CSS columns with filler	2007 12	2007/12/06 21:58 TonyLawrence

Google Ad Placement Targeting	2007 11

Full or Partial RSS feeds	2007 11	2009/03/30 12:45 TonyLawrence

Blogging for Dollars	2006 08	2006/08/18 23:27 BigDumbDinosaur

Advertising income	2006 05

Domain values	2006 05	2007/03/11 12:51 TonyLawrence

Getting your pages indexed	2006 02

Do I care about Technorati? Do you?	2006 01

Canonical names and Google	2006 01

Zabasearch	2005 12

Yahoo Publishing Network	2005 12

Yahoo vs. Google	2005 12

Yahoo My Web 2.0	2005 12

www.yourdomain.com vs. yourdomain.com	2005 12

What is Tabbed Browsing ?	2005 12

Eleven Billion pages on the Internet	2005 12

Web site promotion and popularity	2005 12

Is Web 2.0 really anything new?	2005 12

Validating your html	2005 12

Urltrends	2005 12

You aren't important	2005 12

Just Two Posts A Day	2005 12

Popular Blog Sites	2005 12	2009/03/15 03:16 solracsmis



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Technorati Tags	2005 12

Get out the tape measure	2005 12

How spammers use link farms	2005 12

SME Server	2005 12

Less is more	2005 12

A search engine list protocol	2005 12

Blogging style needs a change?	2005 12

Copyright and plagiarism	2005 12

Picking your subject for best Adsense	2005 12

Can you afford to be a peacock?	2005 12

Page counters	2005 12

One not so great apple	2005 12

Google adds Advertise Here ability	2005 12

Nothing to say today?	2005 12

Nielsen//NetRatings	2005 12

Natural language search	2005 12

You really can post too much	2005 12

Tech.MemeOrandum	2005 12

foo-web.com Marketing Links	2005 12

The missing links	2005 12

Lists of links vs. inline links	2005 12

Review: LinkMetro.com	2005 12	2007/10/24 01:51 anonymous

Late to the party?	2005 12

Is Google Watching You?	2005 12

Internet TV	2005 12



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Influencing Google for Web Site	2005 12

using .htaccess files to redirect pages	2005 12

Using .htaccess files to restrict	2005 12

Gvisit	2005 12

Google and Sun and Microsoft resume	2005 12

Google Pricing Rumors	2005 12

Where's the Google sandbox when you need	2005 12

Google Goofs	2005 12

Google promises, but doesn't deliver.	2005 12

Is the solution for privacy openness?	2005 12	2009/05/21 06:17 anonymous

The Google Operating System	2005 12	2009/03/17 14:17 TonyLawrence

An inside peek at Google	2005 12

Google underestimates Analytics popularity	2005 12

Google's Data Mine	2005 12	2009/01/08 12:54 TonyLawrence

Google Blog Search	2005 12

Google Off Base?	2005 12

Google Analytics	2005 12

Millions of voices	2005 12

More frightened journalists	2005 12

Due to the fluid nature of the Web..	2005 12

FasterFox puts extra demand on servers	2005 12	2008/01/06 18:02 TonyLawrence

The Blog according to John	2005 12

Dumb comment spam	2005 12

Advertising is a shameful thing	2005 12

Understanding del.icio.us tagging	2005 12



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dashes vs. underscores in filenames	2005 12

Creating simple web pages	2005 12	2008/01/19 13:32 TonyLawrence

Copyright abuse	2005 12

Flip this Blog!	2005 12

Content Management Systems - not for me	2005 12

Taking out the trash	2005 12

Chitka Mini Mall Ads	2005 12

Website Infrastructure - Building your	2005 12

Traffic vs. Readers	2005 12

Blogrolls	2005 12

Dead blogs	2005 12

Should you join a Blog Network?	2005 12	2009/02/13 13:26 TonyLawrence

How to find inspiration for your blog	2005 12

Independent Bloggers	2005 12

Nobody cares about money	2005 12

Advice for the new blogger	2005 12

Advertising Strategy for Bloggers	2005 12

What's your blog worth?	2005 12

Regular posting is hard, isn't it?	2005 12

Blogging Personality	2005 12	2006/06/10 14:58 anonymous

It's only skin deep	2005 12

blogging security	2005 12

Amazon's Alexa API	2005 12

Automatic Ping Sites	2005 12	2009/05/03 11:56 TonyLawrence

Review: Asrep (Third party reporter	2005 12



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Lessons learned from Asrep	2005 12

Quality for whom?	2005 12

The Gorilla, the Cowboy, and the Banana	2005 12

Competition in advertising	2005 12

Tracking Ad Performance with Channels	2005 12

A few bad apples	2005 12

Ad blindness	2005 12

Linking suggestions	2005 12

A search engine list protocol	2005 11

Plagiarism and copyright	2005 08

Google Sitemaps	2005 06	2006/06/21 18:47 TonyLawrence

Creating simple web pages	2005 01	2005/10/05 13:21 anonymous

pagerank: Tech Words the Day	2004 12

Advertising Strategy for Bloggers	2004 12	2008/10/03 07:36 anonymous

blosxom Blogging tool : Tech Words	2004 11

You're So Lucky	2003 07

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