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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

 
 
Versatile Site Map Generator $49.00
A1 Sitemap Generator
 
 
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 

 
 
Auto FTP Manager
 
 
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 

 
 
 
 
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

 
 
 
 
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 

 
 
 
 
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 

 
 
 
 
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 

 
 
 
 
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 

Web Master
1999 10 

Web Site Usability
1999 04 

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