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SecurityMetrics Fail
Written by Tony   
Friday, 12 March 2010

Well, I was recommending Security Metrics to one of my clients today so that they could pass their PCI Compliance scan but when I went to the SecurityMetrics.com website, I saw this:


Um, oops.

Yeah, they don't have their domain set up correctly to forward to just the "www" version of their domain and have set up their SSL certificate just for the "www" version of their domain name. So Firefox users would see this terrible looking message if they just typed in securitymetrics.com. It's an easy fix.

-Tony

 
The Award for the Clunkiest Website Goes To...
Written by Tony   
Monday, 23 November 2009

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?

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

 

 
Website SEO is About People
Written by Tony   
Monday, 26 October 2009

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

 
Anti-SEO? What??
Written by Tony   
Friday, 28 August 2009

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

 
A Perl Programmer Looking at PHP
Written by Tony   
Friday, 17 July 2009
  1. Open the file that seems to be taking care of a function.
  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.
  6. Not a lot of code. It requires another file, go to that one.
  7. Not a lot of code. It requires another file, go to that one.
  8. Not a lot of code. It requires another file, go to that one.
  9. Not a lot of code. It requires another file, go to that one.
  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

 
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Guitar Center... Boo!

I went to Guitar Center the other day to pick up some drum stuff. I needed a kick pedal, sticks and a throne. I enter the drum area and there's a dude there at the counter. He's staring at a computer and doesn't say hello or acknowledge me at all. Ok, maybe he's busy. I better not bother him. He looks pretty engaged in whatever he's doing there.

I search around and find the items I want, which takes probably 5 minutes as I try different thrones and pedals. The pedals are right by the counter. Still... nothing from him.

Even though their prices were good, I left. They lost probably $180 from me. To their credit, I was greeted when I walked in but the dude surfing the Net or whatever dropped the ball. He must not be on commission or else just didn't care. I ended up paying more over at Ward Brodt but Riley over there took great care of me and helped me tons. He was a drummer and had experience with the pedal I was looking at. To me, paying more and knowing I was getting the right things was totally worth it.

-T