Serial Bus Page

So I've added 41 pages up to serialphy.
As of today there have been 291 page impressions.
The site is using Google Analytics to track visitors. I up-loaded a site map to Google, but it's not reporting any data yet. I also used the Add a Site link for Google.

And, I added a link from interfacebus.com to the site, and added the site to Yahoo's index.
I tried to add it to MSN but the page would not let me, must be broke. So I'll have to wait until the MSNBot reads this blog.....

Domain Registration

So the guy from China got back to me. They registered those domain names, "it was his duty". The company that wanted to purchase them was not mentioned in the e-mail. It appears the Server company got them, and than parked them ~ he sent in the Whois data.

It's a scam and I don't expect to hear from him again. A company wants my domain name, via a registrar, but instead the registrar purchases the names and parks the page; Hmm.

It's only a few hundred dollars to start an ICANN protest, some day when I have time I'll close these bozos down.

On the up-side ~ people see the domain generating a great many visits!

Topic update [9/23/09] As I figured I never got another email from these guys. I'm not about to check out any site with out a dot.com on the end of it, so I never went out and checked if they are using the site or just parked it. Ya know, I never touch a site that does not have a dot com or dot net. Of course I'll check out a dot org, edu or gov website...... I assume people living in those countries don't have an issue going to their own web extension, but I sure do.

Photo credit; US Military government, a B1 bomber.

Domain Name

I received an e-mail early this morning from a registrar in china. They indicated that a company [who they named] wanted to purchase interfacebus.com, .net, and .org all with the .cn suffix [interfacebus.com.cn]

Of course I wrote back and indicated that interfacebus was my trademark and business name and should not be used. They followed with an email that said I misunderstood, they were giving me a chance to purchase those domain names prior to the other company registering them.... Translated, you buy it now [at what price] or we will use it.

In May of 2006 I received a similar email regarding interfacebus.eu, except that they had already registered it, placed ads on the page and wanted me to purchase the domain name after the fact. "we're making money running ads, so you may want to purchase your tradmark in the .eu domain.....

I've been out to the ICANN site a number of times [Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy]. The two most common reasons for someone losing a domain address;

1. Infringing on another's Trademark [which both of these companies do].
2. Purchasing a domain name in bad faith; trying to resale a domain name once it's purchased to harm another company [which both of these companies are doing].

So if you purchase a domain name thinking, I'll sell it to company 'x' because it looks like this other companies name. Well, you just purchased that name in bad faith and will lose that name with no profit.

The e-mails go like this;
Incoming: we want to or will use the term interfacebus
Outgoing: That's my trademark and business names
Incoming: Want to purchase your name in the dot-what ever domain
Outgoing: Don't register my trademark as your domain
Than the emails stop coming in...........

ESD Details

I added a few pages to cover ESD terms. Definitions for many Electrostatic Discharge terms, much more than what is ESD, or what does ESD mean. The following links are the main new ESD pages;

ESD Terms, A to C
ESD Terms, E to El
ESD Terms, Es
ESD Terms, H to Z
ESD Military and Commercial standards that cover ESD issues
Static/ESD Label Manufacturers

Because of the additional ESD pages, a number of other pages also changed:
Listing of Dictionary and Acronyms pages
Acronyms, EME to EOW, cut the page in half
Acronyms, eP to Ex, Added link to ESD
Glossary of Terms E to Ed, cut the page in half
Glossary of Terms Ee to El, cut the page in half
Glossary of Terms Es to Eu, added link to ESD
Mechanical Supplies, added link to ESD Labels

So any way I counted the number of pages related to interfacebus.com and came up with this:
Web Pages: 1310, located on interfacebus.com
Google pages: 14, up-loaded to Google page creator
Blog posts: 268 posting to Interfacebus Blogger
MS Blog posts: 21, blog just lists new page additions
Orphan pages: 75 page addresses no longer used [never delete an address]
Bad Address: 116 pages used to capture mis-spelled page addresses
Total pages: 1,828 related to interfacebus.com
1,458 URLs submitted via the sitemap to Google
10,623 External links to interfacebus.com from the web
854 External links to interfacebus.com from the Google Groups
127 External links to interfacebus.com from Blogger

External Links per Page

Here are a few pages that only have one external link. One link from a page other than from its own web site. Normaly the one out-side link is from the sitemap. Listing the page addresses here will provide yet another external link, to support the page.
Power IC's
AMC Mezzanine Board Pinout
ASIC IC Manufacturers

ATCA Chassis Manufacturers

Obsolete Apple buses;
Apple Computer AUI Pinout
Apple IIc Joystick Pinout
Apple RS232 DB9 Pinout

Industrial Board Formats;
COM-144 Board Manufacturers
COM_Board_Manufacturers
COM-ETX Board Manufacturers
EBX Board Manufacturers
ECX Board Manufacturers
EPIC Board Manufacturers
ESB Board Manufacturers
ETX Board Manufacturers
ETXexpress Board Manufacturers
miniITX_Manufacturers
nanoITX_Manufacturers
These are pages from the first 100 out of 1201. So 16 out of the first 100 only had one link pointing to them. All the 1201 pages have 10,623 combined pages pointing to them. Of course there are a number of pages with 100's of external links coming in, but most pages just have a few dozen.

Site Up-date Rate

Web Page Update rate:

So how do web site pages get up-dated. There are a number of reasons a page may be up-dated; however if the update is to a hidden HTML error, or a new Ad format, the "Last Modified" date at the bottom of the page may not change.
The "Last Modified" text is only changed if a visitable portion of the content is updated.


E-mail comments may cause a page to be up-dated immediately, or if I happen to read it but take no action, stay in the cue for months.

Documentation errors will definitely result in a page being up-dated.

Low page visits may also cause the page to be updated. The server counter provides this data.

Under construction pages: I keep a list of about 20 pages at a time. I add this page type to get the page address indexed by search engines because it takes 3 months to get a page rank. Of course there is a disclaimer at the top of the page indicating a "blank" page. I don't see an issue of adding a holding page as long as it's kept to 20 of 1,200 pages.

Old Pages: Pages that have not been up-dated in a while. Just sort the html files by 'Data Modified'. A few years ago I noticed that as a page dropped in the rankings, one way to increase it's ranking would be to increment the saved-as date.

So some days I may work on new content, while other days work on pages under one or more of the above topics.

The cycle time is more than a year to work through all the web pages.........

Quantcast data

The data from Quantcast is coming in now. Some of the numbers look low, so I'll add the code to the top few pages ~ that receive the most hits:
AWG Sizes, 9797 hits in Sep.
CAN Bus, 7345 hits in Sep.
USB Bus. 6873 hits

Along with the 10,263 hits from the index page Quantcast should start to see better results. I don't really care, but any one else can check that data so I would like it to at least be in the ball-park.

Oh, last month had 136, 218 hits for the month, with 3,210,056 page views.