Archive for June, 2006

Search Engine News: Yahoo MyWeb gets more features

Just in time for all that talk about Tag and Ping (I’ll write a short blurb about that later.)

Yahoo officially announces changes to MyWeb. In a post to their MyWeb blog yesterday, they shared with us some of the updates they’ve been making.

Top Tags and Interesting Today
We haven’t figured out how the save the world yet, but we *can* show you what the world is saving. Specifically, our “top tags” section and “interesting today” tab show what’s hot in the system, and are a great way to start if you’re new.

Finding Friends
We’ve also turned up the “social” in social bookmarking by helping you connect to the people who share your interests — here’s how:

Those two are my favorites, but I also liked the new export feature, which makes it a lot more useful as a bookmarks management tool, not just for social bookmarking.

Free Traffic Tips: Status (a big one)

If you’ve had problems accessing the site, you’re not the only one. :) Here’s the story.

Last week, I found out the owner of the wonderful folks who host most of my websites at AlphaTechOne was sick. Some of you know Wolf from back in the forum days. Ever since I moved the blog over from Free Traffic Directory and closed that site two years ago, I have never been happier with a web host, ever.

So when I got an alert saying that my traffic had tripled in the past few days I thought, the best get-better gift I ever got was knowing that I’d keep getting new business while I was sick. So I upgraded to semi-dedicated account.

But, busy bee that I am, I didn’t read the email that told me that I needed to set up new nameservers. Duh! So That made me think that there would only be momentary blink-out of the sites, as they were being moved, when actually, since they zipped up the site and moved it for me on the server, there shouldn’t have been any down time at all.

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