I'd have to say that GoDaddy.com has the clunkiest website. Since I've been their customer, I think this is about 3rd or maybe the 4th version they've had. At first, I was very reluctant to move domains to them because their site was so hard to use. I was keeping them at Dotster. The pricing at GoDaddy was better, so I reluctantly switched to them to save money. You don't mess with your domain info that much, so I thought I'd just deal with them anyway.

The next version of their site was a little better. I liked the improvements but it still seemed like what they were promoting and selling was bigger than what their website could handle.

Later, they tried to integrate things like SSL certificate registration with their site. It used to be a 2nd login at Starfield. That improved that process at one point. Right now, it's more integrated but more clunky than it used to be. You have to keep logging in to get to things where you used to get a link in your email to download the certificate. More steps.

They've done yet another "upgrade" and things are still messy. There are a ton more clicks to get to what you need to. I'm trying to put in authorization for domains and no matter what I do, I get error pages. It's such a mess.

You go to the main page, you appear to be logged in, then you try to do something with your account and you are asked to login. What? Am I logged in or not? Make up your mind. Don't tell me I'm logged in when I'm really not. How annoying.

And could you create maybe another 10 links between the login page and the page I want to get to? That would be great and make things so much easier. The existing 50 pages I have to click through are not quite enough.

You'd think that with all the advertising they do, they'd first have their website working well enough so that you can actually get things done. That would make sense to me.

-Tony

Hey everyone!

I just wanted to call some attention to a blog post I did recently on the Webstix site. It's about how SEO is really about people. Things like PageRank matter but it's not a meter for website success. Anyway, it's a good post and not too long - check it out:

Google PageRank vs. SEO (webstix.com)

-Tony

Ok, I've got a number of websites and we all know that link trading is how you get more traffic and get ranked better in Google and other search engines. I get link trade requests all the time and I actually do the trade on probably 70% or more of them (the ones that look legit). It's a great way to get your links out there from other sites. I'd personally rather get requests and do them rather than be the one sending requests because I'd probably only get 10% at most responding. For the people asking me, I know they're going to do it.

So some people don't get this or something. I got a "Cease and Decist" email from a site asking that I do not post anything from their site on one of my aggregator (or call it "scraper") websites. I guess they don't know what they're getting or something. Maybe they don't know a darn thing about SEO either since they feel they should spend their time stopping people from linking to them than actually building links. You're getting an H1 link to your site from mine and I'm not even grabbing your whole article! Hell-o? I'm posting that on Twitter. Your story is getting clicks. You're getting free traffic from me because I am just hoping that 0.01% of that traffic clicks on an ad. That's pretty darn fair for you.

I just have to think that they're ignorant or something. I'm absolutely puzzled here. Why on earth would you spend valuable time doing that? Well, if they have time to do that, then their site must be doing really well.

Duh.

-T

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2. Not a lot of code. It requires another file, go to that one.
3. Not a lot of code. It requires another file, go to that one.
4. Not a lot of code. It requires another file, go to that one.
5. Not a lot of code. It requires another file, go to that one.
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7. Not a lot of code. It requires another file, go to that one.
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10. Not a lot of code. It requires another file, go to that one.
11. Not a lot of code. It requires another file, go to that one.
12. Small snippet of code to change.
13. Done.

-T