Archive for the ‘Sootle Directory’ Category

Comment Spam Achieving Epic Proportions

Friday, December 15th, 2006

For the first time I actually suffered from server load problems under the weight of the relentless army of comment spam bots. I now realize there's one flaw in the Wordpress system that comes into play, and that is the spam comments are inserted into the MySQL database and ...

Sootle Search Engine Marketing Audio Podcasting Series

Tuesday, May 23rd, 2006

Here's our first effort at a podcasting. The basic idea is to cover some ideas that haven't been covered before, and give some tips that might be helpful. We'd also love to hear from any readers with feedback. If you have a question you'd like to contribute, feel free ...

Instant PDA friendly version of a website

Friday, May 12th, 2006

Please check out the Sootle Mobilizer. The main goal of this new tool is to take a web page as an argument, and return the page in a PDA friendly format you can use on your mobile device. This could come in handy if you travel and you run into ...

Free webmaster tool to check server headers

Thursday, March 9th, 2006

You can use this free tool to check your Server headers. Give it a try and see how well it works. I'll debug it more as it goes on, but it's pretty straight forward.

My first test of Wifi in Las Vegas

Monday, February 27th, 2006

Vegas Baby! Two words that will excite the heart of anyone, especially one like me who's sitting here in snowy Cleveland in sub-20 degree temperature. But the good news is, I get to check out how well my new Palm-TX works, as I put it through the paces. ...

Work Begins on Link Trade Manager

Wednesday, January 4th, 2006

Work has begun on the Sootle Link Trade Manager We look forward to hearing any feedback if you try the tool. We'll drop in functionality in the next weeks and days as we hear from you. Make sure to let us know what features you'd like to see.

The Holiday season online

Thursday, December 15th, 2005

The holiday season online is different than the offline one, and that comes as no real surprise. The main thing about being online is that the online world is so easy to navigate. For this reason, you can run out and purchase some items without getting caught ...

2006 Internet Marketing Techniques

Thursday, December 1st, 2005

2005 is almost gone. Time to pull out the crystal ball so we can see what trends will be happening in 2006 in the internet marketing arena. The last few years have seen many methods come and go. Right now the current craze seems to be on ...

Improved back end

Wednesday, November 16th, 2005

Spent a few hours today greatly improving the backend tools. People talk every day about scalability and I know why it's so important: without true scalability your organization can never get past a certain point. As a directory gets more popular, submissions go up exponentially, so the time had come ...

Site Design Changes

Thursday, September 22nd, 2005

We put up a fun design. Hopefully visitors will enjoy our new design for the directory. I think we've managed to keep the structure clean and the pages quick-loading.