| LED Digest 2398: To Change One Thing... |
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================================================== The LED Digest Moderated Discussion List "Effective Online Advertising, Since 1997" Data > Information > Knowledge > Wisdom www.GetWebContent.com/LED : the LED's Key Sponsor The Web's Most Experienced SEO Content Providers. ================================================== List Moderator: Published by: Adam Audette LED Digest adam, led-digest.com http://www.led-digest.com .............................................. April 27, 2007 Issue no. 2398 .............................................. .....IN THIS DIGEST..... ====== NEW ===================== <Moderator Comment> ~ If You Could Change One Thing ~ Essential Biz Software ==== CONTINUING ================= --== 301 Redirects ==-- ~ Rich Dudley "For IE6 and earlier, ISAPI Rewrite is really the best solution..." --== Transferring Domain Names ==-- ~ Robert Andrews "I just sold [a domain] to a company...The process was very easy..." --== Blogs, RSS & Sitemaps ==-- ~ Nathan Holley "Regarding the RSS talk...at this point it's an essential protocol to be using." =========== NEW ================================== <Moderator Comment> Greetings LEDer, Today is one of the slowest days on the LED in ages. It's a great time to take a breather here after so much activity for the past several months. It's Friday so many of us won't be working for a few days (unless you're like me and work on weekends). With that in mind, I want to leave you with a couple new discussion ideas. 1) CHANGE ONE THING If you had the power to immediately change ONE THING (no matter how big or small) about your job, what would it be? You don't have to be the owner of a business to answer this question. Comment? Here's my answer: I'd get an office outside the home. While the virtual thing is cool and all, it comes with struggles and tradeoffs. For one, I miss the social aspect -- chatting at work, taking a break for games, whatever. It's also really hard with a 19 month old girl to create separation... but that's another story :-) Read this recent article for tips on overcoming telecommuting problems: http://www.alistapart.com/articles/longhallway What about you? What do you need to change to improve your job, your business, your position? Comment? 2) ESSENTIAL BIZ SOFTWARE Now the fun one... What are the essential programs you use every day for work? Comment? I'll start this off. I'm still on Windows, even though my heart yearns for OSX and my wallet for Ubuntu. Actually what's keeping me from changing my laptop is simply the thought of spending several days getting all my stuff set up and working properly. Not as much of an issue on a Mac, although they'll definitely be some transition time. On Windows, here's what I use daily: UltraEdit 32: http://www.ultraedit.com/ - A fantastic text editor for markup or coding. Powerful. ACT: http://www.act.com/ - I still use ACT 2000 because I've heard the recent versions are bloated. It's old, but it works. Plus it syncs perfectly with my handheld, which is crucial when on the road. IRFranview: http://www.irfanview.com/ - A really cool image manipulation app, highly recommended. I also really like ACDSee for a viewer ( http://www.acdsee.com/products/acdsee/ ), and some ACDSee guys are LEDers, too. Putty: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/ - SSH terminal for Windows, couldn't live without it. WinSCP ( http://winscp.net/eng/index.php ) is also killer. What about you - what software is crucial to your business? Comment? Have a great weekend, Adam ======== CONTINUING =============================== From: Richard Dudley Subject: Windows redirects > When I do a 301 redirect to the new site, which will be > independently hosted, do I use the 63.135.117.252/BVIM/INDEX.htm > in my .htaccess file? Seems the only way, but... I have > access to the domain name controls. - Nancy Cardinali, LED Digest 2397 - http://www.led-digest.com/content/view/1800/55/ There are several ways to handle redirects. For IE6 and earlier, ISAPI Rewrite is really the best solution ( http://www.isapirewrite.com/ ). IE7 has been completely rewritten, and brings a much more flexible architecture, so you'll be able to do redirects more like Apache, by specifying them in a config file. Rich Dudley www.bloomery.com Comment? -------- new post - new topic -------- From: Robert Andrews Subject: Domain Name Transfer > Are there any other avenues that we could > explore to obtain this domain? - Niall Kennedy, LED Digest 2396 - http://www.led-digest.com/content/view/1799/55/ I just sold WordProblems.com to a company who approached me out of the blue. The process was very easy... 1. They asked how much 2. I gave them my price 3. In this case they accepted, but they could have counter-offered, much the way you might do a car or a house. 4. Once the price was agreed upon we used Escrow.com to handle the transaction. 5. The customer gave Escrow.com the purchase amount, which was held in trust. 6. I provided access to the domain to the purchaser 7. Once the buyer let Escrow.com know the access was in place, Escrow.com released the funds. 8. I received the check just last week. Escrow.com charges a "handling fee" that in this case was paid by the buyer. I now have three domains ariz.com, net, org for which I am asking a much higher figure, but the ease and comfort that Escrow.com offered worked very well for me. Robert Andrews Comment? ============ Sponsor Message =========== At GetWebContent.com, the price of quality is always right. Not always the same, but always reasonable without ups or extras. Just ask for a free, no-obligation proposal and we'll quote an exact price for precisely what you want. Don't be fooled by bogus fixed-price offers for drag-and- dump generic copy. Visit www.GetWebContent.com/LED where our copy, and our prices, are custom-tailored for you. ============ Sponsor Message =========== -------- new post - new topic -------- From: Nathan Holley Subject: Sitemaps > The default priority for each [sitemap] listing is set > to .5 and you should generally leave it there except > for your home page and HTML sitemap page. - Michael Martinez, LED Digest 2397 - http://www.led-digest.com/content/view/1800/55/ The tool provided by Google that Adam referenced in issue 2395 [ http://www.led-digest.com/content/view/1798/55/ ] automatically does what you advise, Michael -- viz setting the index (home) page and sitemaps to 1, and leaving everything else .5. The priority listing option is only a nod to the search engines what you feel are your highest priority pages and may have zero effect on how they're crawled. I agree that changing any priority listings is unnecessary. Don't bother, it doesn't matter. Regarding the RSS talk previously, at this point it's an essential protocol to be using. If you're not already doing it, start soon. Nathan Holley Comment? ------------------------------------------------------- The LED Digest is sponsored by GetWebContent.com The Web's Most Experienced SEO Content Providers. Free no-obligation proposal: http://GetWebContent.com/LED The Archives: http://www.led-digest.com/content/view/126/120/ Subscribe: http://www.led-digest.com/content/view/52/77/ Unsubscribe, Change Email, or Hold / Resume Delivery: http://www.led-digest.com/content/category/4/17/86/ (c) Copyright 1995-2007 Orange Wheel, LLC. All Rights Reserved. ----------------------------------------------------------------- "My pupil, as my pupil you have learned the worth of scorn, You have laughed with me at pity, we have joyed to be forlorn, What for us are all distractions of men's fellowship and smiles; What for us the Goddess Pleasure with her meretricious smiles." - Sarah Williams |
