PageRank’s back!

Amazing! PageRank is finally back!

Geekie.org - PR2

PersonalLog - PR2

StudyNucleus (.org and .info) - PR1

RHHS-RASA.ca - PR2

Amazingly, a very new blog on PersonalLog, Smash.Weblog, also now has PR2. How did they get there without any attempts at SEO? Well, I’ll answer it for you: PersonalLog is always being optimized for Google!

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New Logo Images

In coordination with the effort to modernize the logos of our member assets, as well as the FreddyWare Solutions Enterprise Network, we are adopting a few newer logos.

Firstly, Geekie.org Apps, with the older logo of:

has now gotten the new design:

which reflects the capabilities of Geekie.org Apps, including 5+ GB webmail, calendar, documents, spreadsheets, and presentations, as well as text/audio chat using Google Talk.

A note about the new logo (above): we have no non-transparent version of the logo, so it will not display properly in Internet Explorer due to the alpha transparency issue in PNG. Additionally, it IS transparent, so what you are seeing on a browser like Firefox is the black-background view of the logo (and it doesn’t look that much worse); simply click on the image to see it on a white background.

(If you haven’t signed up for Geekie.org Apps yet, now is a good time to contact us and get an account.)

We will also use a new favicon for Geekie.org, based on a set of graphic designs called Crystal.

Clearly, our new designs will be more modern and suitable for our organization as we proceed forward in time.

One more thing: if you haven’t done so yet, you can check out our new FreddyWare Toolbar, which has built-in search of our network sites, integrated search capability with Geekie.org’s search, menus with links to our sites, integrated feed reader, and one-click access to Geekie.org Apps. (Available for Firefox and Internet Explorer.)

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Cheap Domains

This is essentially an “awareness” post, letting you know of FreddyWare Web Services, another section of our organization in development. Its services include free cPanel hosting, cheap domain registrations/renewals/transfers, and free blogs (that one’s currently suspended).

I’d like to introduce you to the cheap and extremely affordable domain registrations. FreddyWare Web Services, as a reseller under an ICANN-accredited registrar, is able to provide .com, .net, .org, .biz, .name, and .us for only $6.50 USD. Other extensions, like .info and all .in domains, are on sale, as well.

Did you know that you can pay using PayPal, credit card (processed through PayPal), and other options like Moneybookers and E-gold (through our PayEngine integration system)? It’s true. Though PayPal is our preferred method, we will allow customers to pay using just about anything that we’ve integrated. (Please let us know if something goes awry.)

Furthermore, our domains actually come with FULL WHOIS control, and free Privacy Protection as well - you can easily click to hide your real name, address, and contact information to prevent identity theft or unwanted mailings. It’s up to you where you want to host your site, though by default, the nameservers of your domain are set to FreddyWare Web Services’ free hosting. You can choose Managed DNS, allowing for you to have control over every aspect of the DNS experience, from normal A, CNAME, MX, PTR records, to other things you probably wouldn’t understand. We also offer Domain Forwarding and Mail Forwarding, for those of you who don’t have the ability to use a TLD domain with your hosting (but you can switch to us!). Mail Forwarding will let you use your existing e-mail address as opposed to setting up an e-mail service at your domain. (We have cheaper - free - solutions, for that as well.)

Check out our awesome prices, at http://domains.freddyware.org .

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Shortened URL’s

I’ve started an experiment with a script, on Geekie.org Shortened URL’s. After creating a template for the Shortened URL’s service based on Geekie.org’s design (you can check the source), I decided to make it totally public.

The visit.geekie.org base URL might not be particularly enticing, compared to something like TinyURL.com, but there are some benefits I can think of:

• Pop-up-free
• Clearly-marked and separate advertising
• 5-character lowercase/numerical identifier (like visit.geekie.org/123456 - that’s not a real link, though)
• Non-deceptive redirect; in addition to a META tag redirect, an actual HTTP “Refresh:” header is sent
• Also non-deceptive since there are no frames used
• The URL of the destination is clearly shown
• A simple and uncluttered interface
• Search boxes integrated with Geekie.org

Try this service. I’m currently analyzing traffic and visitor levels using Google Analytics, so if I can make this site successful and maybe profitable (from the leaderboards), I’ll register a short and easy-to-remember domain. That might even become our organization’s first .com domain! (So far, FreddyWare only has .net, .org, .info, .ca domains.)

Any ideas what to call a potentially catchy domain name?

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Google PageRank update!

The Googlebot remains one of my favourite search engine bots yet. Simply take a look at your Google Toolbar (if you have it installed) for the PageRank of this site. It’s PageRank 2 now, while it was PageRank 1 yesterday.

Similar changes are occurring all over the web, as Google makes another one of its PageRank updates. This site talks about MAJOR sites, like Forbes, dropping in PageRank.

Why is that? Well, many are theorizing that it’s due to Google’s recent announcement about how paid links would be penalized. The site linked in the previous paragraph has a list of major sites with PageRank 7 or so, dropping to PR 5 or lower. All of them had paid links.

Due to this, Geekie.org and FreddyWare Administration will need to make some serious SEO choices for our sites, including the elimination and prohibition of paid links. We are in that discussion right now.

It’s good for FreddyWare overall, however. Many pages across our network have increased in PageRank to 1 from 0, and our StudyNucleus branch has been awarded PageRank 1, after only a few months on the Internet. Good job!

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More sites, less time

Now that FreddyWare Articles has become a project here at FreddyWare, I’ve become more busy. With less time, it means that some things will be coming less often, like changes to the FreddyWare home site. Additionally, due to Apache upgrades in process on the PersonalLog server, all blogs are currently suspended (non-functional), and development of the PersonalLog project is postponed until such upgrades are completed.

With less time, it also means that I won’t have the opportunity to write that Pathfinder novel I’ve been trying to write for the past year and a half.

Anyways, if you have experience with writing articles for an article site, join us at FreddyWare Articles. I will grant people certain privileges depending on their English skills — grammar, spelling, punctuation, sentence/paragraph structure, capitalization, etc. It’s not our purpose at the moment to monetize FreddyWare Articles, but that may occur in the near future. In sharing the work and credit for FreddyWare Articles, I’m bringing more people into the FreddyWare organization, and hence improving the chances of its expansion.

Please, please… submit an application with your name, e-mail, a link to your article or the text of an unpublished article, and your current web site or blog (if you have one) using the FreddyWare contact form.

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