Found this quote from a data researcher at Microsoft interesting:
I don’t make decisions from my gut. I make decisions based on as much information as possible, and then I make them with the least emotion I can
Yearly Archives: 2013
WordPress Plugins on Google AppEngine Install
Here is a list of WordPress plugins I’ve found useful:
- Adsense Explosion
- Akismet
- Contact Form 7
- Creative Commons Configurator
- Exclude Pages from Navigation
- Google Analytics for WordPress
- Google App Engine for WordPress
- Jetpack by WordPress.com
- Memcached (and no this doesn’t activate!)
- Meta Tag Manager
- Pushover Notifications
- Redirection (nice, not problem free but allowed me to 301 my old URLs)
- WP-reCAPTCHA
Google SERP Ignoring Ad to Content Ratio “Guidelines”
While doing some SEO research this morning I ran the Google search pictured below…
Having spent considerable time building sites/businesses that rely on Adsense as part of their revenue stream I can think of a number of Google algorithmic penalties this ad/content ratio seems to violate.
Can you?
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Wanderful Media Innovate’s North State Tech Company of the Year
At a banquet this evening our VP of Engineering Bob Clark picked up Wanderful’s
Innovate North State Tech Company of the Year Award!
Review of Find&Save the product we’re building at Wanderful
Ok, so it’s a really nice review so just had to share. Also, testing out the Link Post Format on WordPress (need to Google what that does).
Find & Save’s Multi-Platform Approach Finally Realizes the Promise of ShopLocal.
Cost of WordPress blog running on Google AppEngine
Having recently migrated all of my blog/site content to Google AppEngine away from my prior $10/month hosting I was curious about what the monthly cost of running the site would be. My blog went live on AppEngine on Nov 13th and with the default instance settings was running ~$2.00/day at roughly 50-55 instance hours the vast majority of which is servicing requests from crawlers.
Tuning Google AppEngine, For Cost
Idle Instances
As mentioned above I started with the default settings and the first significant change was to set Idle Instance Max to 1 as running multiple instances chews through the free 28 hours at an xN multiplier rate. This change alone had a significant impact on reducing overall instance hours though clearly impacts the performance of my blog. I’ve tested the performance and for a blog I feel it’s suitable so I’m comfortable leaving things at this level for awhile.
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Shopping on the iPad with Find&Save’s latest update
Wanderful has just released an updated version (v1.0.3) of our iPad Discovery Shopping App Find&Save for iPad on the App Store on iTunes.
Now for the bits interesting to the iOS dev crowd regarding the approval process.
Submitted Nov. 20, 2013
Reached review status 6 hours later on Nov. 11, 2013
Reached Process Status on Nov. 24, 2013 9:37pm
Available for download on Nov. 24, 2013 10:48pm
Means we got a 5 day turnaround time which is not bad headed into the Holiday week.
Wanderful’s Find&Save iOS Applications
My team at Wanderful Media has built two iOS applications for our Find&Save Discovery Shopping experience. Our iPad app is being featured in the AppStore and our iPhone just became available for dowload:
If you don’t want to mess with an app install or are on an Android phone check out our latest Find&Save geo-local Mobile Web implementation.
Now that I have my blog moved I’m looking to post more about how we’re building a discovery shopping experience for over 400 of the nations newspapers which looks a little something like this:
WordPress on Google AppEngine and Migrating from BlogEngine.NET
In 2004 I started blogging on my own domain using discountasp.net as they offered a competitive hosting package based on Microsoft technology. Fast forward nearly a decade and I haven’t used Microsoft technology for nearly 5 years and maintaining my Blogengine.NET blog had become an increasing challenge. Upgrades were very difficult and I found myself stuck on a tweaked version that couldn’t have easily be upgraded. Recently, Google added support for PHP on Google Appengine and posted steps to get WordPress running so I applied for and got early access and I’ve been slowing migrating all of my content.
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Find&Save Mobile Web Test
Go here on your smart phone: http://www.findnsave.com/
for mobile geo specific sale content. Leave a comment about what you think.