I have added an auto rengenerate function to SproutSearch that will keep the topic pages up to date. Hopefully search engine spiders will notice that the pages are updated more frequently.
I also enhanced the layouts of SproutWorks and SproutSearch. The advertisements are in a different format, which I think will work better than the old format. I added a picture of a house I drew to SproutSearch. I think it makes an interesting icon to click on. SproutSearch now has a favicon, the tiny icon that shows up in the title bar or tab header in your browser.
When I first set up the topic pages in SproutSearch, it would find all the blogs with any word in the topic. I was looking through a list of popular search terms, and I happened across coy fish. I put it in the program that makes pages related to search terms. This early version of the program found everything with either coy or fish in it, so the results turned about to be about fish in general, and not coy.
As it turns out, my site is now number 4 in a Google search for "coy fish", from a few seconds worth of work. I have deleted my coy fish page though, since it had nothing to do with coy fish. I tried finding some information on coy fish, and most of the search results aren't very helpful, so I can see why I got a good ranking. If you have arrived here looking for coy fish, I'm sorry my website has not helped you find them. It contains millions of other things though, so please come again.
Ever since I added topic pages to SproutSearch late last month, my search engine traffic has quadrupled. I have about 1,600 topic pages which link to blogs. The most popular topic here so far is
RuneScape, which is a massive multiplayer game. I've never played it before, but I am considering trying it so that I can improve my runescape page.
http://www.sproutsearch.com/topics/runescape
I also found this game called MapleStory that is popular on this site.
http://www.sproutsearch.com/topics/maplestory
I have posted layout version 5 on June 10. This layout is much simpler than version 4. I hope you like it.
I moved my Adsense ads around a bit. I hope they get more clicks now. I have been studying Adsense a bit, and I found some good resources on SproutSearch.
http://www.sproutsearch.com/topics/adsense
I am a little peeved because I just typed a huge message, and there was an error in my code. I lost the message I was writing. However, I just fixed the error, which was in a script that I really should clean up.
I am working on sproutworks.com layout version 5. This layout is simpler, with less things to click on in the main layout. Advanced options will be hidden unless the viewer opts to display them. The rounded boxes will be phased out, in favor of a layout inspired by css/edge.
I will be cleaning up a lot of the older scripts, and moving things around a bit.
http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/css/edge/The trees in the background of the page are generated with TreeSprouter, a new PHP program in development at SproutWorks. TreeSprouter "grows" trees by simulating growing branches.
The project is now at the "twig" level, further enhancements will produce a "leaves" build.
I have written a new PHP script that counts the lines of code in a project. Currently, it does not recognize commented blocks, so all lines in a file are counted.
The code base for Sproutworks CMS is 21,692 lines. I don't know how this compares to other PHP CMSs, I'll have to research this.
http://sproutworks.com/codecounter.phpThe gallery has received an overhaul it has needed for a long time. The codebase is now from the sproutpics.com site, which makes thumbnails and auto-scans multiple directory.
I also added a drawings section. I have many drawings to scan and upload.
anonymous
I´d like to know wht can´t I add links like these:
http://www.penis-enlargement-now.cjb.net and
http://www.penis-enlargement-today.cjb.net
The link adding program has to be able to download and parse your page for it to add your page.
In the future I will rewrite the whole link program so it operates like
http://dmoz.org/ (Open Directory Project)
They have some developer resouces so I can display all or part of their directory on my site.
The other day I read an article that said that a lot of search engines will ignore parameters in URLs after the question mark. Google has indexed my message board just fine, and also the first page of most of my blogger index. I don't think it has indexed any of the other numbered pages in each letter, which constitute the vast majority of the blogs.
A while ago I used Apache URL rewriting to make the URL for the first page of each letter into a more search engine friendly format.
In a fit of brilliance, I went ahead and made every page use this nicer format. My hope is that the other pages will start to get included in search results. If they do, I should get a boost in traffic.
So let us all pray to the search engine gods, for them to spider more of the blogger index. Amen.
