Archive for June, 2007

PHP accelerators : Give your sites a performance boost

By fiLi • Jun 30th, 2007 • Category: Web Development

Site slow? account CPU overloaded? Make sure you’re running PHP accelerators on your server.
Recently, a colleague has been having trouble with his site, as his medium-size Drupal website has been running extremely slow and overloading the server hosting account. This could have been due to a number of things, but sometimes even a Googlebot visit [...]



Israeli Blogosphere Awards: My favorite Israeli blogs

By fiLi • Jun 30th, 2007 • Category: Thoughts

Blogerim.net is hosting the "Best (self-hosted) Israeli blog awards". I’ve been quietly following the Israeli self-hosted blogosphere for the past few months and have come to appreciate the growing number of quality bloggers in the small Israeli blogosphere.
The awards are split into a few categories and you can cast one vote for as many blogs [...]



Israeli Problogging and the Israeli blogosphere - Dakar as a beginning

By fiLi • Jun 28th, 2007 • Category: Thoughts

There are no probloggers in Israel. Not yet, anyway, and so the question of the Israeli blogosphere remains whether an Israeli problogger is even possible with a small market of about 3-4m Internet users, most of whom think blogs are for kids and that they mostly use the main portals for online browsing (Walla, Ynet, MSN).
Running [...]



The dark side of Google - The SERP drop effect of a domain penalty

By fiLi • Jun 13th, 2007 • Category: SEO

Google’s penalties are the dark side of running a website. Google’s penalties cause such a drop in SERP that traffic goes down to almost nothing. There are several kinds of penalties that are speculated to be cause by various reasons. There’s the -30 penalty, -950 penalty and others, and I was “fortunate” to experience one of [...]