Findings
Other sites I have found on my way around the net.
Stephan Miller
Building Websites, Traffic, and Income
Monday Links?
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Strange, but I figured might as well. The links I find follow no rhyme or reason anyway. They are just the byproducts of the work I do and the blogs I read and every now and then a random coincidence, which is why I still like StumbleUpon. And I will not be held down to the tyranny of a specific link day because some weeks I just collect more than others. Plus I have a new list of sites I am posting to my affiliate marketing blog, which will be my first link:
Friday Links – 2/19/2010
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Helping Your Niche Site Swim in the Mainstream
Just because you have a niche site does not mean it has to remain in obscurity. There are plenty of ways to make even the most boring site appeal to a wider range of people.
How to engineer a successful viral campaign. They don’t just happen. A very in depth post with specific steps.
Friday Links – 2/12/2010
On Potential Privacy Problems With Gmail Buzz Exposing Email Contacts
Before I logged into Google Buzz, I thought, Google cloning Facebook. But I was actually surprised that it was something more useful. And then I ran into this article about the privacy issues and it has me wondering.
Keyword grouping tool for PPC : A free keyphrase grouper by CampaignSniper
I was looking for a desktop keyword grouping tool and was amazed at how hard they were to find. Here is an online one with the source code. I am currently integrating the source into http://www.dir23.com
Friday Links
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Magento block caching | Inchoo
If you have a Magento site and slow loading configurable products pages, download and use the extension listed here. The same concept of caching applies to any html block in Magento. Setting this up reloads a copy of the block the second time and does not call the database. Blocks can be cached until edited.
This change actually sped up the configurable products page almost 1000%. Our configurable products were based off of over 1000 underlying skus so needless to say, the page loaded slow before this and now loads at a decent speed. But Magento is never really “fast”. It’s just such a change, that comparing it to the one minute load times it was having, it seems fast, below 3 seconds.
But I do plan on going on with it, finding the bottlenecks in the code and applying block caching. The next target is the category products lists. The worst I think is the layered navigation but a default installation of Magento already has caching built in for the layered navigation.
My BookMarks for the Week
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43 ways to use WordPress | JustCoded
I have been messing around with WordPress a lot more lately, building blogs, stores, review sites and feed aggregators. This post gave me even more ideas.
Compare one Google Suggest result to another. Interesting concept.
snippi | MAGENTO CODE SNIPPETS
Magento is hard to work with. This site is very helpful if you ever run into the beast.
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