6/05/2008
I have been against using twitter since its inception. The only basis for this was information overload. Do I really need another site to see what my friends are doing? Between MySpace, Facebook, personal blogs and countless IM services, I already know every move my friends make.
Last Friday one of the programmers at a startup I work at wanted to join twitter, and asked if I would join as well. I decided to do it and break my personal twitter ban. The first thing I noticed was many more people that I knew were using twitter than I thought. While only half of them were actually active, I was still stunned.
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3/01/2008
Are you tracking how Google indexes your site? If you rely on Google as much as most web companies, it is important to see how you are being indexed. You always hear about the dreaded “Supplemental Index” (whether it exist or not) which is a fear for any startup. The supplemental index (SI) is a segment of Google’s index where the pages are in a search engine purgatory. The problem is, there is no way to tell if you have web pages in the SI and worse yet, there is not 100% proof that it exist.
There is hope however. With the proper tracking you can get a good idea of when Google views your site as a positive additional to its index. If you submitted an XML site map in Google’s Webmaster Tools (how-to), you will have an idea of how many URL’s have been submitted to Google. This is not needed for the tracking but will give you an idea of the percentage of URL’s Google is giving you credit for.
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