http://ben.milleare.com Web Apps, Technology and SEO Mon, 28 Dec 2009 21:42:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This is for anyone Googling it... If you get the above error when trying to start a daemon, chances are you forgot to add a shebang to the top of your script: #!/bin/sh // your code goes here http://ben.milleare.com/ubuntu-start-stop-daemon-exec-format-error/ If you follow the goings on with CakePHP in any way, and you haven't had your head buried in the sand the past week, then you probably already know that Nate Abele (@nateabele) has followed Garret Woodworth (gwoo) out of the door and left the CakePHP project. Nobody has stated ... http://ben.milleare.com/li3-lithium-cake3/ Note: I meant to post this a few days but forgot, so it's been sitting as a draft ever since. Better late than never though I guess! Every now and then the SEO industry as a whole comes under attack from certain individuals, often times due to sheer ignorance, but also ... http://ben.milleare.com/6-things-derek-powazek-taught-us-about-linkbait/ In a post on the Webmaster Central Blog, Google have announced the immediate availability of a test sandbox for what they are calling "Caffeine". Described as "the first step in a process that will let us push the envelope on size, indexing speed, accuracy, comprehensiveness and other dimensions", Caffeine is ... http://ben.milleare.com/broken-google-uk-serps-and-caffeine/ Microsoft and Yahoo! have made a landmark deal today, which will effect the SEO industry in a few key ways. I won't go into massive amounts of detail as I'm sure you've already consumed the facts elsewhere, but there's a few things that need to be discussed. So where does this ... http://ben.milleare.com/bing-and-yahoo-sitting-in-a-tree/ You hear about people making obscene amounts of money online all day long on the web these days, the Shoemoney's and the John Chow's of this world seem to effortlessly rake in the cash selling other peoples wares. But is it really that easy to become a super affiliate? I aim ... http://ben.milleare.com/the-affiliate-experiment/ Late last night I tweeted out the following, and I wondered if anyone knows the rules by which Google pulls this info from a page: Seeing some really weird use of dates in google snippets lately. Anyone have insight into the parsing algo being used? Now, it's no secret that the GOOG ... http://ben.milleare.com/google-pulling-random-dates-into-serps/ So you built and launched your app, but so far you only have a handful of signups. The big problem though is that one of those is your mother and the others are your close friends and colleagues - and not one of them is paying a dime. So where ... http://ben.milleare.com/10-reasons-nobody-uses-your-web-app/ I'm not sure if this is new or not, but Google have apparently started adding links directly into the Google Suggest drop-down box (right). You won't see this on a Google UK search, but switch over to google.com and you should get something similar. As you'd expect, the link is what ... http://ben.milleare.com/google-adding-links-into-suggest/ I'll summarize... A guy called Gary logs onto Google Webmaster Help to ask for assistance with a website that he's "been presented with to find a solution". The site has suddenly, after 7 years, dropped out of a top search position for the term "diy". He's spotted some issues but wants ... http://ben.milleare.com/just-search-just-wrong/