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Removing widgets to speed up site load

Earlier this evening I discovered that my sites were hanging. I could see that it was the blogcatalog widget that was hanging. I guess they had a problem with their site late in the evening.

That’s the trouble with widgets and badges and banners that have to pull data from another site. If the site is overloaded with visitors or is having a problem it can affect how your own site loads.

I’ve noticed many times that the mybloglog and the blogcatalog widgets have slowed my sites and others that I’ve visited, but it was the worst I’ve ever seen it tonight. So I took both widgets off of all my and my husbands blogs.

The sites seem to load much faster to me now. Well unless something else causes it to slow down. I’ve noticed that in the early morning hours Adbrite, Technorati, and the Truth Laid Bare codes can cause a bit of slow down in loading.

Have you removed your widgets or any other links to speed up the loading of your site? If so, which ones did you remove?

Get Peopleized and promote your site

by Tricia

I’ve just been Peopleized!

I’ll be you’re wondering what that means?

Well, to put it simply I’ve just signed up with a site called Peopleized-people interview people. I’m hoping that I’ll meet other website owners on the site and participate in some interviews which will help me promote my sites and get links on other peoples blogs and websites as a result of those interviews.

Most of the bloggers that I know are quite active on the web and often work on promoting their sites at least once a week if not daily in one way or another. Peopleized simply allows you to meet others who are also interested in exchanging links and helping one another promote their websites.

I signed up, quickly created my profile and added nine or ten of my websites in as little as 15 minutes. Now I can sit back and wait for someone to come along and request an interview or I can start looking through the website categories, browse People (site members) or do a search for a keyword to find members or websites who perhaps have similar interests to my own.

Once I find a person that I’d like to interview I’d simply need to click the interview button in their profile and begin creating an interview. While I’m looking at a persons profile I can also look at the interviews that they’ve completed and the ones that they’ve asked others to do.

Another great thing about Peopleized is that you can use the interviews that you’ve done as well as any interview on Peopleized to create new content on your website. In this way you’ll be promoting the person who was interviewed and hopefully giving your readers something interesting to read as well as a new site to visit.

What are you waiting for? Get Peopleized! If you join the site come say hello. My user name is dragonden.

Cyberbullying increasing

by Tricia

The following news story states that there’s been a noted increase in cyberbullying for those that spend a lot of time online.

One in three teenagers have reported that they are victims of cyberbullying. This isn’t unexpected. There’s always been bullying in school and cyberbullying has been going on for a while now, but it appears to be increasing. I suppose it’s another way to continue carrying out attacks on kids that would unfortunately normally end up getting picked on in school.

The terrible thing about this is that the teenager has no refuge from the bullying. It goes on at school and it goes on at home if they are on the computer.

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