| LED Digest 1754: Unrelated and Unsavory Links |
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February 24, 2004 Issue #1754 ................................................ .....IN THIS DIGEST..... ====== NEW ====================== --== Unrelated, Unsavory & Unwanted Links ==-- ~ William Ernest Waites "I found that three links listed as being directed to our site were from sexually explicit sites." ==== CONTINUING ================= --== Mozilla vs Internet Explorer ==-- ~ Viggie Bala "I would like to emphasize Mozilla is not Netscape." ~ Graham Brown "I have been led to believe that Mozilla is more compliant with CSS than IE..." --== AOL Bouncing Email ==-- ~ Peter Warnock "...residential accounts shouldn't be used for commercial use..." ==== BILLBOARD =================== --== Mac Users & Mac Browsers ==-- ~ Frank Haggard --== Change in PayPal Policies ==-- ~ Simon McArdle ======= NEW ====================================== From: William Ernest Waites Subject: Guilt by Association - Unsavory and Unwanted Linking My Web site is an e-commerce site that sells fetish carvings by Zuni Pueblo Indians. No these are not adult entertainment type fetishes. They are carvings from various materials of animals and other subjects. This carving tradition has been around for generations. The site is www.zunilink.com. In the Google Florida exercise, we were fortunate to rise while others fell. In the most recent shake up we fell while others rose. I have no problem with this as I consider it primarily an attempt by Google to mix up the results so that the same "best results" don't come up every time. Out of curiosity, however, I ran a link check to see what might have influenced the position in the results. I found that three links listed as being directed to our site were from sexually explicit sites. Apparently, they think all fetishes relate to their mindset. These links are unauthorized and I would prefer to have them shut down as they reflect poorly on us. They may even have influenced Google's perception of what we offer. But I don't want to contact them directly for reasons of not wanting that garbage on my computer and I don't know how else to get the links removed. Three and one-half questions. Is it possible that links from unsavory sites influence Google's algorithm? Is it possible to get Google not to include or consider them as legit links when spidering and evaluating my site? How? How else can I get these links removed without having to go to the offending sites? Any help will be appreciated. William Ernest Waites Aboriginals: Art of the First Person http://www.zunilink.com ===== CONTINUING ================================= From: Viggie Bala Subject: Mozilla I would like to emphasize Mozilla is not Netscape. Mozilla is slim, stable and faster than Netscape. And if you don't need, you don't have to download the entire package. Just the browser (Firefox) alone can be downloaded. Even though Mozilla foundation was established with startup support from Netscape, Mozilla is independent. Jerry Fetch, wrote in LED 1752, > ... every page I visit works in IE... Even if I absolutely > preferred one of the other browser flavors, I would > have to keep IE at the ready... Well, it used to be like that. Not any more. If you are a web designer, you may be already familiar with www.csszengarden.com. In fact, it's a designer's 'must see'. Many simple features and design tweaks do not work in IE. I am not a Netscape fan, in fact quite the opposite due to Ver.4.7. In those days, I'll handcode a site as compact as possible and it'll work fine in IE, but had to add workarounds / extra codes to make it compatible for Netscape. Now I am re-designing my own site without tables. This time the compact code works fine in Mozilla, (and also Opera 7), but for IE, I had to add extra codes, fool it by adding hack commands in CSS. It took more than 2 hours to make it workable in IE. Seems like the turn of IE to behave like Netscape 4.7 Here's another thing in favour of Mozilla. Many corporate companies, countries were taking to Linux seriously. In Thailand, both Government and home market were taking to Linux in a large scale. http://www.macobserver.com/article/2003/11/14.8.shtml In India, all PC makers (including IBM, HP and Compaq) offer Linux PCs in home market. And the latest Linux versions in Home PCs were so cute, with unbelievable sound quality, animated help, stable 3D games and Open Office suite, it is hard not to fall for it. More and more Corporate houses, Banks and Universities opting for Linux. Mozilla is the default browser in almost all Linux flavors. And it is available for Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, BSD, Solaris ... IE is still the leading browser in the web, no doubt. But it is stagnating; in future if you need upgrade you have to go for newer Windows OS. I am asking about the future trends. Whether it's time for a change. And if so, how soon. Thanks & Regards, Viggie Bala Helping websites to work http://www.viggie.com ------- new post - same topic ------- From: Graham Brown Subject: Mozilla / IE / CSS I have been led to believe that Mozilla is more compliant with CSS than IE, but I really lack the skills in this area to know why the image referred to renders as it does (or fails to render). An excellent site that shows the power of CSS, and what can be achieved with it is at : http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/css/edge/ The site also discusses some of the rendering differences between Mozilla and IE. If you are not up on CSS, it is really worth a look. Regards, Graham Brown ------- new post - new topic ------- From: Peter Warnock Subject: AOL bounces > [Comcast] said they automatically bounce all email > batches from residential accounts in excess of 100... > I solved the problem, laboriously, by dividing by my > list into deciles... - William Ernest Waite, LED 1752 Sending a list shouldn't be time consuming. If you have the proper list software it will create the ntiles for you. In addition, residential accounts shouldn't be used for commercial use; the abuse of bandwidth makes it more expensive for every subscriber since the providers have to build more elaborate networks to maintain the speed. Your web and mail servers should be running in a data center. There are plenty of affordable third-party providers; the LED Digest promotes one daily. Peter Warnock Webstruction, LLC ==== BILLBOARD ==================================== From: Frank Haggard Subject: Mac Users As an amateur website designer I have a limited knowledge of HTML and have been somewhat successful using programs like Frontpage and Coolpage. Recently, I was informed by a Mac user that the links on a Coolpage designed site did not work for them. Upon contacting Coolpage, I was informed that "Mac users need to adjust their browsers" and that Mac users only represent about 1% of those using the Internet. Needless to say, I was not very satisfied by that answer nor were my clients. Because this does effect my costumer service issues I began to look for a solution on my own and found some references to "fixes" that can be imbedded in the HTML of the pages, but after reading all the variations I became a little overwhelmed. Does anyone have a simpler solution for this issue? Thanks for your replies. Frank Haggard HHFe Technology - Energy Enhancement Systems admin [at] frankhaggard [dot] com ------- new post - new topic ------- From: Simon McArdle Subject: PayPal > It would be nice to know, seeing as you are talking globally > about services, when you intend opening up PayPal shops > again for non US businesses. - Simon McArdle, LED 1752 > I think they already accept foreign shops, I just found a Dutch > site (although in English) via the Paypal shops section. - Carolien Ruiter, LED 1753 Yes... they do have foreign shops in there. They closed the door though and do not allow foreign businesses to add themselves to the shops anymore. I am in the shops myself but I can no longer edit my settings because of this lockout that Paypal has done with it's foreign clients. That is why I asked the question when would it be opened up to foreign businesses. Regards, Simon McArdle ------------------------------------------------------- The LED Digest is sponsored by pair Networks: pair.com for Hosting | pairNIC.com for Domains Copyright 1995-2004 Adam Audette. All Rights Reserved. ----------------------------------------------------------------- "The best proof of love is trust." - Joyce Brothers |
