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Removing widgets to speed up site load

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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?




Technorati has a new look

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Have you been to Technorati lately? It seems that they’ve totally changed their look in the last day or two. I went there to check on how my various sites were ranking, and here’s a look at what the page for my main site Tricia’s Musings at feverishthoughts.com looks like when you look up the domain in the directory:

I like the new look, but it seems like they cut out some of the info that was previously available, while trying to consolidate the majority of information about a site onto one page.

When I clicked on my user name – dragonden – I was taken to a page that looked similar to the one above, except all my blogs were listed in the right hand column, and each blog now has a bubble beside it that shows how many people have marked each of my sites as a favorite.

Speaking of favoriting sites. I sure would love it a few more people would favorite this site … but I’d love it even more if you’d mark Tricia’s Musings down as a favorite. I’d love to get that site into the top 100 technorati favs list but I need several more favs to get there.

Promoting your website

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Which sites should you be sure to get listed in so that you will gain more visitors? Well, everyone wants visitors and being listed in the search engines won’t guarantee more visitors if you don’t have some half decent quality on your site, but it will certainly help.

Whenever I create a new website I go around to all of these sites and submit my url:

Google: This link takes you directly to the Google add your url page. You only need to submit the index page of your site. If you’ve set up your navigation on your page, created a sitemap on your site or by using Google Sitemaps, Google’s spiders will eventually crawl your whole site.

Yahoo: This link should take you directly to Yahoo’s free submit site page. You’ll need to sign in with your Yahoo I.D. in order to submit your site. Again, you only need to submit the top level page of your site to get Yahoo to begin spidering your site. Alta Vista, and All the Web pull their results from Yahoo’s Overture listings.

Yahoo Site Explorer – I’ve also listed all of my websites and Blogs on Yahoo Site explorer. You can list your site url and your site’s RSS feed in the explorer.

MSN Live Search URL Submission – I’ve found that sites get listed fairly quickly on the MSN search engines when I submit there.

DMOZ – Open Directory Project – A number of search engines pull their search results directly from the listings on DMOZ. Netscape, and AOL are among the popular search engines that now use the Open Directory Project. You’ll need to scroll through the DMOZ directory until you find an area that suits your site, and then submit or suggest your url in that area. It can take a long long time to get listed in DMOZ, but don’t give up hope.

MSN Submit It – get your site listed on MSN as well. I’ve found that when I submit my new sites to MSN they get picked up quickly.

If you have a blog you should submit to these sites as well:

Technorati – If you want visitors this site is one of the best to get listed on if you have a blog. Sign up for an account at Technorati, and then select “Claim Blog” and follow the directions to get your site listed.

The Truth Laid Bare – Another important site to be listed on. Register for an account, and then add your blog. You’ll have to put some code on your site so that the Truth laid Bare site can track your blogs popularity and links in and out.

There are plenty more search engines and blog directories to list your sites in, but these are the ones to begin with, and in my opinion are the ones that are most important if you want to begin getting visitors.

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