One interesting point of news for the day for those with an interest in Search Engine Optimization, as any web master should have. We have noticed in the last few days, that our google page rank has risen on a lot of pages from a miserly 4 to a rather more adequate 5. We will be closely checking the search engine referrals to see what difference this makes. These rankings are non linear, with an increase of one in the page rank representing an increase of 5 or 7 times in the pages importance.
Our Alexa ranking is standing at an all time high of 358,000 or so, a 115% increase over the last 3 months |
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We all hate popups, and you certainly will never see popups on the MarsJupiter web site.
But unfortunately they are a fact of life. Some Web Masters think, and I guess they must be right or it would not happen, that they can make money out of displaying popups, and their customers will tolerate it.
The subject of popups is a factor in both our Callisto - Newsreader/Bulletin Board Browser and in our Foboz - Meta Search Engine.
Callisto will allow you to view the latest posts on Bulletin Boards without seeing popups, and with Foboz we examine the sites that are included as search engines, for use of excessive and dangerous popups.
However if you are web browsing with Internet Explorer, you are still going to be plagued with popups. You can use third party software to try and stop popups, but why not make the break and try out some of the alternative web browsers now available?
Currently we are using Mozilla Firebird it offers popup blocking and a "tabbed" interface and despite a few little issues with the current release, is generally a better browsing experience.
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When will search engine spammers and spyware distributors ever learn? We keep getting emails from these companies, from people who have cleary looked at our site, and still they think we will go into partnership to dump spyware and "pay per click" search results on our users. Give up guys, it's not going to happen.
In other news we have released new versions of Callisto and WhereWasI. The Callisto changes are small, but quite important if you are using a news server with the problens concerned. Conversely you will probably notice very little practical difference on a fast PC with the new version of WhereWasi. The changes are in fact large, making WhereWasI much faster and more efficient, but who really notices the difference between 1/10th and 1/20th of a second! |
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Once again quite a break in posting news, in this case it has been because of work on a new C++ bitset class, which we may make open source of some description. We think this class could be used in many applications.
This class will find its way into some of our products when testing is completed and will make them faster and more memory efficient.
In other news, the web site, despite the recent lack of attention continues to pick up in the Alexa ranking, being ranked 393,240 today. Not a remarkable rank as such, but a 95% increase on the preceding 3 months. |
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Seems a while since we last posted any news, this is not due to lack of activiy, in fact there has been quite a flurry of activity in our web site resources section where we try and give back a little to the shareware community with useful articles and lists, such as our shareware site list and now as a new addition some program optimisation resources including some some interesting benchmarks comparing the C++ standard template library with MFC, as well as with some of our own C++ efforts. We found some of the results a real eye opening and if you program in C++ you may well find the results as interesting and useful as we did. |
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Web design and ecommerce solutions for web sites has never been a major interest of ours, shareware programming has always been our aim.
However recently we came across a small shopkeeper who had in our opinion been badly conned with his web site design.
He had been charged £1,500 which is not at all bad, but what he got was a web site on poor hosting, which he could not hope to maintain and his online shop was totally broken.
The same company offered to create a proper ecommerce solution for £16,000!
One hell of a lot of money cosidering what is actually involved, which may come down to a few days of effort by a competant programmer.
We did a little good samaritan act and at least got his site working for him, for rather less than would get a plumber out of bed!
The situation got us thinking though, there may well be other people in the same boat in our local area, Swindon, Bristol, Wilshire etc in England. If you are in the same sort of situation and need help, contact us at support@marsjupiter.com and you can deal with people who try and see you right. We won't promise to do the job for practically nothing as we did out of outrage the first time round, but we can promise a fair price from people with some business ethics. If you are further afield then still feel free to contact us if you need advice, but as onsite help and support is important, we would need to consider whether we could do well for you. |
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