Michael Phipps

I go over a simple change I've made to michaelphipps.com to reduce the bounce rate.

Sitemaps help keep search engines informed about the contents of your website. The sitemaps we are talking about shouldn't be confused with the sitemap pages many websites use, that are like an index to content. A sitemap file is an xml file which search engines regularly review.

It is important to note that a sitemap does NOT guarantee getting a page listed in search engines.

If you visit my site regularly, You may have noticed that it has changed.

I've needed to move my domain away from Tumblr, and so I needed to duplicate the content I had over at tumblr, along with URLs nice and quickly (something I've achieved with a simple Drupal module if anyone is interested)

I've been contemplating the move for a while but a recent server change forced my hand requiring me to just make something happen.

In the near future, I want to achieve the following:

• Get feeds from Twitter, Delicious, and Last.FM

A dumb idea I've got for a comedy movie called "Meet Kevin Smith".

I've built a module to import tumblr posts to drupal.

A few good resources for adding social bookmarking to your wordpress theme.

Over the weekend I built an application that lets my wife easily manage here personal library of books.  Armed with a barcode scanner, she can quickly zap her collection and automatically add full book details into her personal website.  It’s still a work in progress, so isn’t really available for public consumption.

Of course, this is already available in existing websites, as I later found out from @sleepydumpling who suggested LibraryThing, Shelfari, and GoodReads.

Recently the push has been to get your business into social media, and get yourself out there.  It’s free, so everyone is doing it, figuring it is free publicity.

This has the unpleasant side effect of companies now loosing their search engine position, to their facebook profile.  WHAT?

Somewhere along the way, people lost the plot with social media.  With everyone pushing “Follow me on ….” from the front page of their website, It’s no wonder that their social media profile is quickly surpassing their actual website in the search results.

In my opinion these modules are "must have" if you are working with sub menus in your drupal site.

It seems to me there are really great busy people with lots of important information but no time to spread it.

Key to getting things spread is just lots of leg work.  Doesn’t require much in the way of skill or knowledge.  Therefore, you can create a job for someone who just looks to spread your information across the internet.

This probably sounds a bit cryptic.  I think I’m going to write some new media position descriptions and see what I come up with.  These are jobs that don’t exist today, but will in the very near future.