http://www.barrywise.com NJ SEO, Web Design, Programming and Online Marketing Consultant Mon, 20 Apr 2009 13:37:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I just launched a new website, the next iteration of CheckUserNames.com.  KnowEm.com not only checks for the availability of your username on 120 sites, for a small fee we'll stake your claim on every one of them by automatically signing you up. KnowEm.com (http://knowem.com) launched a new web service today which ... http://www.barrywise.com/2009/04/new-website-protects-usernames-from-social-media-identity-theft/ Over the course of yesterday and today Google updated it's Toolbar PageRanks for websites.  I would like to say that's awesome, because BarryWise.com is now a PageRank 5, but the truth is I really don't care.  When I first started working on this blog in May of last year the ... http://www.barrywise.com/2009/04/the-april-google-pagerank-update-and-why-i-dont-care-but-you-do/ This one is (a little) more useful than TweetWasters.  My new site, CheckUserNames.com, allows you to check the availability of your potential new username across dozens of popular social networking sites (MySpace, Delicious, LinkedIn, etc.).  Due to the increasing demand for staking your claim on your brand name across the ... http://www.barrywise.com/2009/02/completed-another-social-networking-tool-checkusernamescom/ Today ITCN announced the release of their new modification to Roy Tanck's Youtuber, which we've decided to name Youtuber2. It is heavily based on his code, and works very similar. In order to embed a Youtube video in your Wordress posts, it uses the same syntax: [youtube]video_id[/youtube] Where video_id is the (usually) ... http://www.barrywise.com/2009/02/itcn-releases-youtuber2-plugin-for-wordpress/ In case you ever need to find and replace a text string in every post or page of your Wordpress site, this SQL code will help you out. I recently had to move a client's website from staging into production, and just when I was getting ready to publish the ... http://www.barrywise.com/2009/02/global-find-and-replace-in-wordpress-using-mysql/ I've been getting a lot more requests from small businesses for Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Search Engine Marketing (SEM), and I seem to be repeating most of the same advice to every new client.  Put simply, it is more difficult for small businesses to compete on a global level ... http://www.barrywise.com/2009/01/my-top-10-seo-techniques-for-small-business-website-seosem-success/ Since I've put up a blog post every other time Google updated it's toolbar PageRank, I might as well not make tonight's any different.  The final quarterly PageRank update for 2008 is here, and (for me, at least) it's been extremely friendly.  I no longer have a client or a ... http://www.barrywise.com/2008/12/google-pagerank-update-for-the-2009-new-year/ Whew, it's been a hectic morning! Sugarrae, Streko, Reese and I have been working together to launch Tweetwasters.com, and we just shipped it out the door a few hours ago. It's a pretty simple application - it just polls the Twitter API to count how many status updates (ugh, do ... http://www.barrywise.com/2008/12/for-all-you-twitterers-we-launched-tweetwasterscom-today/ About a week ago or so I received an email from Michael Wall asking me about an issue I have also noticed but had not mentioned in my earlier blog post about Canonical URL rewriting in IIS.  He asked, "How can I redirect /default.aspx to / on IIS shared hosting without ... http://www.barrywise.com/2008/12/using-iis-url-rewrite-extensions-to-redirect-defaultaspx/ This morning I put the finishing touches (is it ever really finished?) on the new Wordpress theme for this blog.  This isn't exactly earth-shattering news, but I haven't had a chance to write another decent blog post with everything that's going on. ITCN is starting some projects for a couple new ... http://www.barrywise.com/2008/12/new-theme-for-barrywisecom/