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  1. swirt

    Message for Swirt

    Thanks Camberly. It does indeed seem to have a problem with the contact form. I'll be working on it to get it back again. This spam filtering is problematic to say the least. :(
  2. swirt

    What happens...

    Sorry to hear about all the mechanical failures. And most of all sorry about your dog. That is sad. Greiving is bad enough, greiving as an innkeeper is the worst.
  3. swirt

    ReservationKey and Google Analytics

    My reported visitations have dropped significantly and my bounce rate more than doubled. Well anyone landing on one page of your site and then clicking on your reservation link would be seen as a bounce if you are not tracking it through to the reservation system. The best way is to get...
  4. swirt

    9 Tips for Optimizing Your Website for Mobile Users

    I think much of our old discussions were related to whether or not a .mobi site was needed. Dead and buried, not needed. .mobi was a standard for much lesser phones. The question of is a mobile site needed is a little different. A streamlined mobile site can be helpful, however, I don't see...
  5. swirt

    THANK YOU STEVE!

    These were by bots, for Search engine bots. They don't care about the human readers of this forum.
  6. swirt

    THANK YOU STEVE!

    Sorry again. Something I enabled as a second anti-spam measure is banning a lot of legitimate posts. IF it happens to you (and you are not a spammer bot) don't sweat it, I will make it appear shortly. Hopefully I will have the sensitivity on these traps set correctly.
  7. swirt

    THANK YOU STEVE!

    Sorry everyone for the enormous inconvenience of having so much spam dumped in our place. My spam countermeasures failed misearably on this one and I am still trying to disect how and why. Sorry it has cluttered up the "recent activity" list on the home page so baddly. (Remeber, if it says...
  8. swirt

    Wish Me Luck!

    That is encouraging news BD. I hope it all works out in the way that it sounds like it will.
  9. swirt

    Blog setup

    Good question. Indications are that it applies to both search architecture and webmaster tools. The simplest example is doing a site:mydomain.com now returns all indexed subdomains of a domain. It is not absolute proof that it applies to search, but it is a pretty strong indicator.
  10. swirt

    Blogger, Wordpress and Google Analytics

    Update: In the debate over subdomain vs subdirectory for a blog, the issue from the search engine point of view no longer exists (for Google anyway). Since Google started, it has treated a subdomain as a separate website from the main domain. As of a few days back, Google now treats a...
  11. swirt

    Blog setup

    Updating this here: In the debate over subdomain vs subdirectory for a blog, the issue from the search engine point of view no longer exists (for Google anyway). Since Google started, it has treated a subdomain as a separate website from the main domain. As of a few days back, Google now...
  12. swirt

    New bed and breakfast guide for smart phones

    Thank you for the update Victor. Please take a moment to aquaint yourself with the Terms of Use for this site as it relates to self-promotion and web spam. As a vendor, you are asked to operate in plain view. Members here are not exactly tolerant of spam, they get enough of that in their email...
  13. swirt

    Flying out for week long interview/introduction - what kinds of things should we take?

    Reasons an employer might want to hire someone without experience (non-specific to innkeeping): They can't afford someone with experience (people with experience know what the job is worth and what it is not worth) They offered it to experienced peope and experienced people said "No...
  14. swirt

    hotel-style safe jammed open

    Futura may not be the actual maker.... just some slapped on name brand. Try going to google images and search for "hotel room safe" and scroll through the results. If you spot one that looks like yours, it may help you determine the actual maker and then track down some instructions.
  15. swirt

    hotel-style safe jammed open

    Try changing the batteries.
  16. swirt

    Bounce rate

    I would not sweat the bounce rate. There is no evidence that Google is limiting an entire site because some pages have high bounce rates. Most of these "signals" are applied on a page by page basis not applied to an entire site. Many pages have high bounce rates because Google does such a...
  17. swirt

    Concealed Handgun Laws

    Good question. All the duplicate posts spanned several minutes worth of time. Usually duplicate posts all end up with the same time stamp. The server should kill any process that lasts beyond 45 seconds so it makes me think that it must be happening on your computer rather than the server...
  18. swirt

    Blog traffic

    More likely they are scraping your content but not altering your links so your links are still pointing to your site instead of theirs.
  19. swirt

    Google alerts

    Try the - with no space between the minus and word and use the main phrase you want out in quotes as well "virginia bed and breakfast" -"west virginia"
  20. swirt

    Webervations - Latest on the CC data change

    This would only be a problem if you were trying to retrieve the cc number while you are at your day job. The numbers won't be sent to you automatically, only when you login to webervations and go to retrieve a specific number. Only at that instant would it send out an sms text.
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