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Blogdrive is a great *cough* blogging software, however it isn't the most search engine friendly blog platform around.
New entries or blogs tend to get higher ranking than old post because of Blogdrive's way of handling 404 pages. These new content, either entries or blogs receive a large amount of incoming links from Blogdrive main page and 404 pages. (The number of incoming links is porportional to your page rank.)
As a result, if you regularly updates your blog, your blog will naturally have higher page rank due to these incoming links. (Tip 1)
Other methods, will largely depend on the design and internal HTML coding of your blog.
Tip 2: Insert permalink of important post you made to your sidebar. Since your sidebar appears in every single page of your entire blog, it naturally gives a high number of incoming links. It helps a lot.
Associating keywords to your individual post have a tremendous help of relating to relevant searches. This, however is difficult because Blogdrive system doesn't help in this aspect, at all.
A little hack here and there in the HTML makes a difference.
Such as this blog, each permalink pages have it's Blog Title in the title bar. This is done by forcing individual blog post title into the <title> tag. (Tip 3) This method makes your permalink page rank goes up a significant one PR (PageRank)
Another method, is to link to your individual post with the relevant keyword. Either in your blog, or your friend. Let's consider this as Tip 4.
Tip 5: A newly discovered method by myself, is to insert your blog title into your permalink. Currently, all permalink has the format http://seigey.blogdrive.com/archive/360.html with no specific keyword in the URL. If we make it look like this:
http://seigey.blogdrive.com/archive/360.html?Search+Engine+Friendly+BlogDrive
I consider this as another genius idea of mine and I gladly share it with all. Have fun.
This is really cool, Google added tabbing to their personalised homepage project, we can add as many tabs as possible, too. This will help with loading time significantly and it's a good thing, very good and way better than the other module hacks.
Oh by the way, the modules that I wrote are now listed in Google Directorys. Yahoo!
Check them out!
http://www.google.com/ig/directory?q=blogdrive
Have fun
While we are constantly complaining about how much Blogdrive can improve, let's take a moment to be reminded of all the good stuff we have here on Blogdrive that you shouldn't have known.
If you are reading this article right now you should turn off the lights and make sure there's nobody behind you. If you are discovered to have obtain these information, an assassin will be sent to murder you.
1) Built-in search feature - Search your own blog with the blogdrive's built-in search feature, it's originally only available for subscription blogs but if you use a GET method on your url, you'll get a free (temporary) feature. However, it only search your blog titles.
2) exceed your bandwidth - for free accounts, an allocated amount of 50mb monthly bandwidth can be exceeded even without any upgrades. If you have a subscription blog, your allocated monthly bandwidth will be higher but again your files will not fail to load in the event that you exceeded it. So, what are you complaining about? (please note: you can't store more than what you should)
3) store HTML / CSS / JS documents in your filemanager with .jpg extensions. Okay, this is supposed to be a techy hack but it works.
4) the amazing Seige - this isn't just a goodie thingy but the coolest lad I've ever known on Blogdrive. He's smart, brilliant and above all massively fantastic. Oh, did I mention that he's got a great sense of humour?
Do you have other ideas or suggestions?
Tags: blogdrive secrets goodies
Firefox appears to be one of the "better" browser with additional features and allows installation of Plugins. I love using it and it's my prefered browser for many reason, mainly due to it's tabs ability. Allowing me to open several window at the same time.
I don't use Opera much despite it's amazing ability in memory management. It lacks many basic feature a web-browser should have.
MSIE, the most commonly used browser, is still the BEST browser around. It's more stable and have better support for most website on the internet. I don't use it only because it doesn't support tabs.
So, that leaves Firefox. Although it's my most prefered web browser, I HATE It.
There's so many thing wrong with it, it can't find or search within textareas. It takes a long time to start up. It always have problem with memory management (crash easily). And it CRASH anytime it feels like it.
Worst of all, it always crash when I'm trying to load Blogdrive's WYSIWYG Entry Editor. WTF?
it's nothing wrong with Blogdrive's Editor, rather it's firefox not being able to support the complexity of Blogdrive' s editor.
Damn you FIREFOX! Would you for once, not crash at all?
Tags: Firefox, Blogdrive, WYSIWYG, browser,
There might be something really major going on in the background of Blogdrive because several features aren't working at the moment. This includes the just recently discovered problem with the search feature.
There are two types of search feature within Blogdrive:
1) Search Entries - which is available to all Blogdrive users including free accounts. It can be accessed from within the blog admin area.
2) Visitor Site Search - which is only available to Blue Steel (plan 3) subscriber and it can be accessed from the main page of your blog.
Just very recently, some interesting changes have been observed by Gloria and myself. We both uses free blogdrive accounts (this blog is on a free account)
1) Both of the search feature no longer search for keywords within entry bodies.
2) Both of the search feature only search for keywords within entry titles.
3) Visitor Site Search works on Free accounts too. Try this: Blogdrive.
Weird? Weird indeed.
Well, I hope something nice is coming up soon. And I suspect we'll be suffering one more "Upgrading Server" situation to implement these new upgrades.
Tags: Blogdrive, Search, Features,
One of the thing I dislike most about Firefox is the inability to use the find function within textareas. This is very annoying when it comes to editing php/js codes or templates which have very lengthy and complicated structures.
The Find (Ctrl+F) is especially useful to skim through a large number of words to get to the specific terms easily. I use it all the time either surfing, reading, or coding.
So, a little search on google I found this:
http://www.geektronica.com/2005-11-10-firefox-find-doesnt-work-in-textareas
http://www.liewcf.com/blog/archives/2004/10/firefox-pr10-cannot-search-in-textarea/
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=252371 (official bug report)
So (again) why isn't it implemented? Are they disabled on purposed for some sort of security reasons? Or is it just like what the other guy said that they just haven't fixed it?
It's really annoying when I can't get things done due to limitations. And it have a very serious performance hit. The only way I can get this done is to "View Source" and find through the source code. It doesn't work all the time especially when it comes to situations with escape HTML tags such as <(<) >(>) "(")
Does anybody know if there's a fix / greasemonkey-hack / firefox-extension
that I can download?
Tags: Firefox, Find, Textarea, Search, View Source,
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