My Lords… My Ladies… Today you find yourselves equals – for you are all equally blessed; For I have the pride, the privilege, nay, the pleasure, of introducing you to the BOTW API! What I’m about to tell you is subject to change, since it’s still early in the game. There is nothing to see [...]

I’m not sure whether I’ve ever posted the following analogy, but I’ll say it again anyway: I often feel like I’m a soldier and the internet is my battlefield. Some days, I’m just trying to survive without getting my head blown off. “What are we fighting for Sarge???” Other days, like today, I crawl out [...]

Most bibliophiles know that books can transport a person to places they could not go otherwise. When one truly realizes the value of a great book, it is because of the potentially life changing experience some books offer the reader. One of those books, which has been on the business bestsellers list and sold 10 [...]

The good news is that a couple of months ago our blog search was added to GrabPERF, a blog performance monitoring site. We are included amongst some industry titans, including Mozilla, WordPress, Google, CNN, Digg, Technorati, and more. The bad news is that according to their speed metrics, we currently rank as the third slowest [...]

In the past, the average Internet user searched topically. However, local searches are becoming more and more popular. When a person wants to find quality links to local entities, it only makes sense to utilize a directory edited with quality control in mind. There is nothing like the simplicity of going to one’s home-state or [...]

While everyone else is boozing it up..err.. I mean getting ready to network and do some business at the SES conference, it is with great pride that I steal a bit of their thunder and give you a brief intro to some new features on the BOTW Blog Directory. And why shouldn’t I steal some [...]

Building a human edited directory has advantages and disadvantages. The main disadvantage is that it takes time to hand pick sites and add them one by one. Since this also leads to better quality and less junk for our users to sort through, the advantages far outweigh the disadvantages. The Regional branch of the directory [...]

Many webmasters and internet marketing professionals scoff at the Alexa ranking system. “Too easy to manipulate”, they say. “Not truly representative of traffic”, others note. And while I agree with them, I take a different stance when it comes to Alexa’s usefulness. I find Alexa to be a pretty good resource, especially when it comes [...]

Providing our end users with a first-rate experience is one of our top priorities. When people come to BOTW and enjoy using the directory, they will be sure to return. We work hard to provide meaningful navigation throughout the directory. In the end, this creates a gratifying experience for our users, more traffic for our [...]

Well, the new Blog Directory Search really is ready to rock and roll, however the team, in its infinite wisdom has decided we should hold off a little to pretty ‘er up. I think it already is pretty, but I brought my design skills to bear on the problem and I do believe I have [...]