Webmaster Blog

I’m running several phpBB 2 forums, I was never able to make Google Analytics work on them. Analytics didn’t report any errors, just couldn’t get any stats, it’s so weird.

I finally did some search today and found a solution:

I purchased a diet forum from flippa, it has a solid history and huge amount of posts, but it’s been quiet in the past two years, without dramatic changes, I think it will be fading away. I’m also running a health forum, solid ranking, beautiful design, better software, active. From all the information I gathered, a merge seems to be a great move.

A destructive virus, fileerror_22001, propagating via web pages emerged since one week ago, it damages Office documents on the infected computers, very few viruses are as evil as this one, as far as I know. Fortunately, Anti-virus software can detect this and give a warning, Anti-virus software becomes more important than ever.

My AdSense CPM dropped 30% this week, I started to feel the recession impact on my websites – more traffic but much lower income. It’s kinda scary to imagine how bad it will be in the future.

I moved my websites to a different server, my poor planning caused a few hours unexpected down time. Most rankings on Google dropped several spots, which is really surprising! When transferring websites, my first concern before was to avoid data inconsistency, especially for forums. But I have to change my mind, avoiding any down time should be the most important thing.

Shoemoney’s webmaster blog is one of the most popular blogs for webmasters, he is not only very successful but also very willing to share all his secrets. The way he is telling his story often gives me new ideas on how to do my own research, this is very important for webmasters, IMO.

I wish everyone out there happy new year and a great success in 2007.

Since Taiwan earthquake broke the cables under the sea three days ago, I can hardly visit any websites in the US. The complete recovery should take two weeks or so. I hate it.

Google’s ranking fluctuation has never been so frequent and violent as this month. There are many Google data-refresh report threads on webmasterworld. Almost every data-refresh affected my websites’ overall traffic significantly. Google becomes so unpredictable and unreliable, IMHO.

I wish everyone a happy and safe holiday!

Google’s PR update should be on its way, I expect it starts before the new year. Last update removed all green from many sites of mine, I’m looking forward to the recovery!