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Well I was doing my daily read of all the different sites, When I came across Gizmodo’s article about how one in five android applications access your phones private data! Reading more of the article it also goes onto say that out of the 50 applications that were looked at, 29 have the same permissions that spyware have! Not a good sign.

The report, from security firm SMobile Systems, also found that dozens of apps in the Android Market act basically as spyware:

29 applications were found to request the exact same permissions as applications that are known to be spyware and have been categorized and detected as such by SMobile’s solution. A full eight applications explicitly request a specific permission that would allow the device to brick itself, or render it absolutely unusable. 383 applications were found to have the ability to read or use the authentication credentials from another service or application. Finally, 3% of all of the Market submissions that have been analyzed could allow an application to send unknown premium SMS messages without the user’s interaction or authorization.

Source: Gizmodo

Makes you think what else could be accessing all of your private data!

A few interesting points to watch out for, want about those users on shared hosting plans, who are not able to have mod_gzip or mod_deflate [due to addition server load]. This clearly shows that those who can afford VP/Dedicated servers might have a slight advantage over those who don’t.

So here is an extract;

You may have heard that here at Google we’re obsessed with speed, in our products and on the web. As part of that effort, today we’re including a new signal in our search ranking algorithms: site speed. Site speed reflects how quickly a website responds to web requests.

Speeding up websites is important — not just to site owners, but to all Internet users. Faster sites create happy users and we’ve seen in our internal studies that when a site responds slowly, visitors spend less time there. But faster sites don’t just improve user experience; recent data shows that improving site speed also reduces operating costs. Like us, our users place a lot of value in speed — that’s why we’ve decided to take site speed into account in our search rankings. We use a variety of sources to determine the speed of a site relative to other sites.

If you are a site owner, webmaster or a web author, here are some free tools that you can use to evaluate the speed of your site:

• Page Speed, an open source Firefox/Firebug add-on that evaluates the performance of web pages and gives suggestions for improvement.
• YSlow, a free tool from Yahoo! that suggests ways to improve website speed.
• WebPagetest shows a waterfall view of your pages’ load performance plus an optimization checklist.
• In Webmaster Tools, Labs > Site Performance shows the speed of your website as experienced by users around the world as in the chart below. We’ve also blogged about site performance.

More over at Google Webmaster Blog

Well as you may have noticed, I have finally got round to updating the site, after many initial design ideas – I found one that I could settle with. I know its not the best design, nor is it the most technical. But, I like it, it meets my needs, and it was simple enough to create {and a challenge with jquery].

My plans are to work on my web development, and photography – both of which will be done at an amateurish level, a large learning curve. So, I hope you will follow my blog and comment whenever you can.

Leightley.Com Design

I went through about 5 revisions for this site, Then finally settled on the current design, simple CSS/XHTML design that is fully XHTML valid, with a little bit of JQUERY to boot!

I wanted to try and capture one of my best photograph to some extent on the site, so putting it in the header worked well with my design. The main page has a JQUERY slider that provides the latest design/site news [provide by Dynamic Drive].

Leightley.Com Photography Section

The photography section uses PixelPost, which is an amazing photo management and display script that is open source! A simple skin over the base code allowed me to duplicate the design. Unfortunately its not yet XHTML valid, but in the long run I hope to make it so.

Leightley.Com Blog

I wanted the blog to be different to the main site, I was planning to skin my own design, but after looking at what’s available I went with what you see now. I hope to try and update the blog more often, with web news, photography news and just general random content.

The Future

I have no idea, Just wait and see!

Thanks for reading,

Dan

After a few months of having the standard design at www.oacie.com I decided that it was time for a redesign, only to find half way through that their would be a major release of the script that powers the site – Which would make most of my planned modifications defunct. As a consequence most of the features that would have been featured on the site have been held back, which has affected the design.

Check out the design, and give me some feedback!

Thanks

Dan

Hey guys,

Well this is a post I did a while back over at TAZ, so I wanted to post it here on my blog. Just to add some content for SE

What Is Link Building?
This article is building upon my first article on link building which was done a few years ago now, my original ideas and perspectives have changed and I will try to explain why here.

Link Building is the process of creating inbound links to one’s own website or network. This can be done by reciprocal links, direct linking, signature links and social networking link backs. These different methodologies of link building alone are not enough to promote any site, they are required together, and unified link building of the different linking types is the way forward.

The value of links within directories still cannot be devalued but an air of caution has to be shown now towards link building in this way, [submitting sites to directories in the masses].

Link building is one of the best ways to drive certain types of traffic to your site, but only when you link to quality, directly related sites with your own. I am still amazed today that we still see pointless linking between sites that have not relation in terms of content. You will rank better within search engines when you ensure that you have relevant content to the sites that you exchange links with.

There are few types of linking as mentioned above, below is an explanation:-

Reciprocal Links

Reciprocal links or link exchanges are the process where two webmasters agree to show the other’s link on their website. After link building when the number of sites which link to a particular site is known as link popularity which helps in the search engine ranking of a website. This is the most common method that we see today, but three way linking has become the norm, due to the Top 3 search engines devaluing reciprocal links between two sites, thus why 3 way linking is a solution.

Direct Linking

This is where you have a site directly link to your site. This is generally a costly move to make depending on how you execute the linking. Methods such as having direct linking from web directories do provide a direct link but do little towards rankings within search engines or traffic. Having direct links from high traffic sites will yield a better result.

Signature Links

One of the new best ways to build up relevant, trafficable links. When using a forum you are able to use your signature post put most anything within it [depending on those forums rules] to being able to use this space to link to your site. This builds up link backs to your site but also allows for keywords population of your link.

Social Networking

The new phenomenon that has grown over the past few years is social networking, highly trafficked but not used by webmaster to their potential. The use of social networking to building links to your site can work in two ways, both in terms of gaining real traffic to your site but also getting picked up by search engines. The use of using real profile linking, groups, applications and blogging within social networking sites can be used to promote your site and create quality links.

Other quality links can be gained from having link backs from .gov, .edu and news organisational sites.

Advantages of link building.

1. Link building can help in getting quality traffic from relevant sites when it done correctly
2 High quality incoming links the site will also be seen as a valuable resource such as edu, gov and news organisation sites.
3. Link building helps in creating awareness, visibility and credibility of your site.
4. The site also obtains wider search engine exposure but this can also lead to being “banned” is done too aggressively.
5. Can create genuine user traffic

Today links have become important for all websites and they are worth the money. In fact, there are several companies dedicated to selling links (as opposed to companies that you can pay to do link building for you). This is a market, in my view, that has seen its day and has become saturated with pointless low-trafficed little PageRanked links. When looking to sell links on your site ensure you do it in a pure manner, meaning direct linking to a site and using quality keywords.

How Do Directories Help?

Within my last articles I had this area dedicated to directories and I still believe we should value web directories, but to an extent. Anyone who is anyone now sees it as a must to have a web directory which has saturated the market which has inevitably led to search engines devaluing these direction links. Its important to point out that directories are not seen as a source of traffic, but more in search engines optimisation of building links to a site.

Web directories are collections of web pages with similar subjects and similar content. These directories help in many ways as they are extremely popular with Internet users as they are considered a source of valuable information, but it has to be pointed out that this trend is changing users are most looking to niche directories to provide them with relevant informative resources.
Listings in directories improve your chances of Google PageRanking as well. If your site is listed in a directory, the search engines are more likely to find it and add it in their listings for free. Also submitting a site on directories helps in getting one way links [direct linking].

There are three kinds of traffic that you can get from the directories where you are listed. The first is click-through traffic, meaning that anyone who ends up on the directory page will be able to see your web site and information, and there is a good chance that they will visit.

The second is indexing your site. Search engines will crawl the web directory, leading them to your site and as a consequence indexing your site. The last way that the directories will increase your traffic, is increasing your ranking on the search engines themselves as they find the volume of links and references to your web site within search engines.

Overall link building is one of the most important steps in building a site; Getting quality links improves your PageRank and espouser to search engines but, more and more towards the end-user [your target audience] . Also the possibility of gaining traffic to your site.
I have seen many do link building to death, over doing it can work in the short term but in the long run it can affect your site. Link building has to be a slow process over time to establish your site and entrench your search engine rankings.

Well I’ve been so busy of late I’ve just not had the chance to update this blog, nor the web site with any photography work. I hope that will soon all change, I’m currently state side, which means more photo’s to come!

Also I did plan to do a full redesign, but not having the time I’ll be sticking with what we have now, But I’ll try to pen a new design when I can.

Cheers,

Dan

Workload permitting I plan on not only going through the backlog of photograph’s that I have, but also, Taking some new photography. Watch out for photography to come.

Thanks,

Dan