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WAHI Weekend Wrap-up XIII

Joe Hauckes — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 11:11:17 +0000

Another Weekend another Video Wrap-up…

Something besides the e-Book
Although that is what I have mostly been working on recently.

Page Rank
Went from a Page Rank 4 to a 3 with this last Googleizim. When they decide what your blog is worth. Used to be a PR5 before the previous Googleizim.
Ok, Maybe I haven’t been working on the blog as much as I should, but It is NOT the money maker in my business. It’s the consulting, you know, MCBS Consulting–My Computer Back in Service.

Free Work? or just not worth the effort?
Speaking of which, I actually had someone contact me to redo a page on his World of Warcraft site (I think it’s a franchise). What he wants is to make a Dynamic Page out of a WordPress Static Page.
I told him I would be able to do it, but it would take a major re-write of some code and would take quite a bit of time. He actually said, “$10.00 is all he could afford to pay”…
NOT!
This is hours of work and he wants to pay $10.00, I may as well write something for nothing and just say “Tell your friends”.

This is one job that wasn’t even worth the effort of responding to an IM.

Screen Saver on Vista
Here’s something else to think about. Since I have had the Lappy (with Vista installed) the Screen Saver hasn’t worked for at least the past NINE Months and all of a sudden today, the Screen Saver is working fine. (I guess I shouldn’t say anything or else I will Jinx it and it will go all haywire again).
Never figured out what the problem was and gave up on trying since I am always doing something on the computer anyway. Maybe it was the last Windows Update, or that I totally unplugged Everything (including the power supply) from the lappy.
Don’t know, don’t care. The Screen Saver works now!

Thoughts?

RSS & e-mail can click here to view the video.

Is Google Doing It Again?

Joe Hauckes — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 19:01:13 +0000

I had intended to do a Video post on Saturdays as an update and recap of things that transpired throughout the week. I still do.

I have used Revver as my Video service on what few Vids I have done on the MCBS Consulting Blog and had few problems. Usually within 24 hrs of uploading my content, I could post an embed for viewing wherever I wished. However, after uploading the latest one on Friday night, I have yet to even get a review by the service, let alone any embed code. It’s been three days and counting with not even an acknowledgement other than the upload was successful.

Does this mean yet another Video service is going under since Google bought YouTube?

Do you think the Big “G” is going too far in an endeavour to drive potential competitors to their acquisitions out of business?

Why Google? Why, Why, Why?

Joe Hauckes — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 17:25:49 +0000

An Open Post for Google

Why, every time you take over a fully functional and vibrant service, do you break it?

Yes, I’m talking about FeedBurner again.

Within ONE DAY I lost HALF of my RSS Subscribers. I did the Nine Things that should have saved subscribers the need to re-subscribe to my feed. I tried to follow every step prescribed on the FeedBurner Blog for the transition. I even updated the Feeds I Subscribe to, just to avoid any problems.

But, I still lost 1/2 of the subscribers I had.

HOW? What did I do wrong to piss Google off? Is it because I didn’t subscribe to Google Analytics? Because I haven’t signed up for AdSense for Feeds?

Please, tell me…

Looking on the replacement Blog, the Google Adsense Blog, I found No Answers, so what do I have to do?

This is almost enough for me to just throw in the towel and give up trying to supply my readers with current information using RSS and hope they find me through YOUR search engine.

Sincerely,

Joe

Have you had a drastic drop in your subscriber numbers? Have you found the answer?

9 Must Update Google/FeedBurner Links

Joe Hauckes — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 18:56:00 +0000

Ok, I’ve calmed down a little from the Google/FeedBurner fiasco. Not totally, but enough not to rant and to give you some pointers on what HAS to be Changed, either now or in the near future if you have a FeedBurner account.

This is a list of what I had to change on Three different blogs:

Links for RSS & e-mail subscriptions in the Header, Sidebar
RSS & e-mail for What Would Seth Godin Do plugin (offers subscriptions to new visitors)
Simple Pie plugin for sidebar updates of current posts (2 blogs)
FB Subscription count buttons
Feedflare code for links in posts and feeds
Headline animator (1 blog)
FeedBurner Feed Replacement plugin to make sure all subscriptions count in stats (it has since moved & redirects to Google Search)
RSS ads through FeedBurner for WAH business network
Waiting for response from Text Link Ads to see if an update is needed (my RSS ads on feeds)

Did I miss anything?

At present Google/FeedBurner does have a redirect on all the old feed links, but they do advise to update to the new codes as soon as possible. I don’t know how long they plan on having redirects in effect, but why take a chance that you will forget to change them later when the new links become permanent?

So, my advice to you is find and change all your FeedBurner links and plugins and fancy doodle do hickeys NOW.

(See why I was so miffed the other day.)

UPDATE: Feed Flair from Google/FeedBurner DOES NOT WORK NOW. Codes have been updated etc, but it doesn’t work on the Site OR Feed. Not sure if it is actually FB or possibly the latest Upgrade to WP 2.6.5 because that was just done after the Feed change-over & I just noticed the problem today, but Other sites I have in my Feedreader that used to have FF don’t have it now either. Coincidence?

UPDATE 2: Per the Google FeedBurner known problems page…

29-DEC 2008: FeedFlare links are not currently showing for feeds hosted on feedburner.google.com. This is an issue the team is working on and hopes to have resolved as soon as possible.

At least I know it’s not a WP problem.

Do You Like the Google Chrome Browser?

Joe Hauckes — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 18:59:36 +0000

Well, have you tried the newest addition to the Google arsenal? Google Chrome?

I have and I’ll stick with Internet Explorer, thank you very much. It seems faster than either IE7 or FireFox. It has screen shots of recent pageviews too. It is a nice clean presentation and has some cute little features. You can even import bookmarks from other browsers. But you can’t import existing RSS feeds. You are stuck using Google Reader or something else that you have to have an account for.

Frankly, I like my feeds delivered (with autodiscovery) in my Favorites folder in IE. It’s nice and easy, I don’t have to access a separate account to add a new feed, just click the icon and the new feed is added. If I decided I don’t want to be subscribed, right click the feed, delete, done.

So, what about you?

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Personally, I am sticking with Internet Explorer, I’ll just keep Chrome around like I do FireFox, just to see how my pages render in different browsers.

What do you think about Google Chrome?