Blogger Pages Views

Here is a chart of page views for the year. This chart does not include people that only view the news feed for the blog. That last dip in hits that lasted 2 months may indicate low page rank.

When blogger came out of Beta and I switched to the live version my page rankings went away. I do have a page rank for the main page, but anything posted before 2007 does not. So it appears that any post made during 2005 and 2006 has a zero page rank. Of course any 'one' post made in the last three months also does not have a page rank, but that's expected.

Here are a few examples:
CableCard; Oct 05/2006
AMD Processor Socket; May 12/2006
VME Bus; March 31/2006
IDE Hard Drive Bus; Dec 27/2005
Removing Standards Bodies from the PC; Dec 10/2005
DDR SSTL Interface; Nov 15/2005 ... This does have a page rank

One sentence was removed by the editor......

Google Sitelinks

Out checking my Google Sitemap report [Webmaster tools]. I noticed under the Links tab .. Sitelinks, that Google has included sub pages that will show up in a Google search for my site. The pic is an example they use to show people what they are talking about. I did a few Google searches but I don't see the additional links showing up. Looks like they picked the major site pages, which happen to be located at the bottom of each page of the site.
Components - http://www.interfacebus.com/Components.html
Buses - http://www.interfacebus.com/Interface_Bus_Types.html
Reference - http://www.interfacebus.com/Reference_and_Information.html
Equipment - http://www.interfacebus.com/OEM_Equipment.html
Design - http://www.interfacebus.com/Logic_Design_Descriptions.html
Standards - http://www.interfacebus.com/Standards_and_Publications.html
Software - http://www.interfacebus.com/Software.html
Distributors - http://www.interfacebus.com/Parts_Distributors.html

Google Webmaster Tools

Google Sitemaps reports pages that have internal and externals links pointing to any one page. Looking at pages with external links, I've taken note of the pages with only one external ~ which would be coming from the site map, which happens to be located off-site. Pages need external links to get a page rank from the search engines.

Cable Ferrites Manufacturers,
Charge Pump IC Manufacturers,
Computers Laptop Rugged,
D-Sub Connector Mechanical Dimensions,
Convoluted Foam Manufacturers,
Desiccant Manufacturers,
Design Termination, Signal Reflections,
ECL Logic Manufacturers,
EMC Mezzanine Board Pinout,
Ethernet 1000KX,
Ethernet over VDSL,
Federal Aviation Regulations,
Floppy Disk Drive Manufacturers.
ICMB; Intelligent Chassis Management Bus.
This does not represent all the pages with just a single external link. I only scanned the first 400 pages in the list, of 975 total. I'll check it again in a few months when it occurs to me again. Giving time for the list to be up-dated.

Remember that external links help a particular page, but also any other internal page that it links to.

Getting the word out on the site

Commenting on a few news group posting's today, leaving the web site address behind. Also went out to a few other sites leaving posts. It may help to get more people coming into the site. 4,462,055 page views so far this year

Working on two of the pages in the to-do list of pages that really need to be updated. I keep a list of a dozen or so pages that were up-loaded but never had any content provided. Two military style D-Sub connector pages; MIL-DTL-83513, and MIL-DTL-32139.

From the connector on the FCT site, D-sub right angle adapter. I'm not sure I've seen one of these before. The main page for D-Sub connector manufacturers.

Oh, this is posting 307 to this blog.

New Google Site Map Upload

Using GsiteCrawler, I'm generating a new site map. I have also up-dated the on-site sitemap. Which is really located out on my Google pages site to save band width, plus that would give me an external site that points to my pages, helps with page rank.

The local site-map is used to help people find pages or to show the structure of page links on the site. When this map is generated it comes with a large number of duplicate page listings. Tonight I removed some [a few] duplicate listings and added links to the pages that have been generated within the last few weeks.

While the Google site map is used to inform Google of the pages that exist on the site. For Google's version, duplication does not matter ~ just that the spider sees a list of all the pages on my server.

I think it worked, I'm up-load the site map now, then clicking the button to indicate to Google it has a new site map.

Recommendations; always have an on-site site map This helps pages that are linked more than 4 levels down from the home page. With a site map off the home page, all pages are 2 levels down regardless of what they really are. A site map located off site [like mine] also makes it appear that an external page points to all your pages, that helps in page rank. Being off my server also helps with down load speed, as the site map which is still over 200k bytes is on another server.

Morse Code Requirement

The FCC has dropped the requirement to know Morse Code for all amateur radio licenses. I guess this occurred in Feb of this year, but I don't remember reading about it. I'm not sure but I think the navy may still use Morse code for ship-to-ship signal light communications. Looks like the International Telecommunication Union [ITU] dropped the Morse code requirement in 2003.

SOS: Contrary to popular notion, the letters S.O.S. do not stand for "Save Our Ship" or "Save Our Souls". They were selected to indicate a distress because, in Morse code, these letters and their combination create an unmistakable sound pattern.

This page shows the web site version of Morse Code.

Google Trends does not show any steep decline in the number of people searching for the term "Morse Code", but there is a decline.

Vista Speed Improvement Tweaks

I made a few changes to increase the speed of MS Vista booting up. I always open the same programs when starting my computer, such as a web browser or e‑mail program, you might find it convenient to have them start automatically when you start Windows. Programs or shortcuts placed in the Startup folder will run whenever Windows starts.

First I added the programs and files I use when working the web site to open on boot-up:
1. Click the Start button , click All Programs, right-click the Startup folder, and then click Open.
2. Open the location that contains the item to which you want to create a shortcut.
3. Right-click the item, and then click Create Shortcut. The new shortcut appears in the same location as the original item.
4. Drag the shortcut into the Startup folder.
The next time you start Windows, the program will run automatically.
Note; You can also make an individual file, such as a word-processing document, open automatically by dragging a shortcut of the file into the Startup folder.

I set up the Firefox browser to open up with each of the tabs normally used:
Open the tabs like you want them when you open Firefox. Then, go to Tools/Options/Main and click the "Use Current Pages" button.

I also setup MS Explorer to open with all it's tabs that are normally used:
IE7 is to have the same tabs open up next time the browser opens. To do this close the browser containing the tabs you want to open again next time. This will bring up a prompt asking you if you want to 'Open these the next time you open Internet Explorer'. Check the box!

Of course I added both Explorer & Firefox to open on startup. I also checked msconfig to see what else was loading at startup, but it did not look to bad. That's 'start' / 'search' / 'msconfig'.

Do not use "msconfig" to disable services, type "services.msc" in the Run box instead! Service settings are global, meaning changes apply to all users. All of these services are "Standard" with Windows Vista. If you discover a service that is not listed here, another application, driver or program

HDTV Spectrum

Here is the new spectrum allocation for the 700MHz band. The one you may be reading about in the news, being bid on by Google and others for an estimated 15 billion dollars. Google is interested in the 'C' band and is willing to pay 4.2 billion dollars.

The digital switch narrows the spectrum needs of broadcast TV. All the stations that now use channel 2 through channel 69 for analog signals will broadcast their digital signals in the spectrum space now used by channel 2 through channel 51. Most stations will keep their original station number. The switch over from analog to digital happen in 2009.

This blog post shows the older frequency spectrum. This web page show the new DTV Channels and their frequency bands.

Remember TV stations had to switch to digital transmissions, but are not obligated to transmit in High Definition. They can use their entire band to transmit in High Definition or just transmit in normal digital and run two or three different programs at the same time.

Relating topics;
High Definition Television Technologies, just a few terms.

Webmaster Tools Sitemaps

Google added a few new things to their sitemap tool. Under Diagnostics / Content Analysis, they indicate meta-tag issues. The tab shows pages that have duplicate meta descriptions, and then long or short metatags.

Unfortunately, under the 'short meta descriptions', it indicates that I have 208 pages with issues. Most of the pages look like 'don't cares', their just Dictionary pages. Other than to say it's a dictionary page of letter what-ever, what more can you say.

I'll check it again next month, as I try it get that number lowered.

In the Google Blog I saw that, for people that run the Google tool bar, 404 not found pages will show a suggestion from Google as to what page they may be looking for. That's good news because interfacebus gets a lot of mis-spelled incoming hits.

Physical Page sizes

I can't remember if I've blogged about this or not, but I really regret updating my pages to XML. It increased the size of all my pages, increasing the download time and really hitting my bandwidth.

The so-called 'strict' coding approach is "BS", all those spaces that were added. On many pages the down-load time is doubled if your on a modem. Who came up with this idea?

Any way, the page still indicates it complies:
DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd

But, as I edit a page, I'm deleting some of those spaces ~ 1 byte per space. Maybe save a few 100 bytes a page [not removing all spaces, just a certain type]. What 130,000 visits x 2 page views x 300 bytes = 78,000,000 [78MB/month].

No wonder the internet is slow ~ it was conceived to be so

Still playing with Windows Vista

So far the only thing I don't like about the Velocity Micro PC is the Keyboard. The keyboard doesn't use printed letters on the keys, instead it uses LED light. The LED light just doesn't seem to be bright enough. Worse still is that the keys get darker as you go off angle, so you really have to sit just above the keyboard. I also seem to be hitting the Caps Lock key a lot, which is annoying.

The USB Mouse is great.

The computer did not ship with any unneeded software or sign-up programs [AOL]. I did see 3dMark on the desk top, guess it tests the PC's gaming speed ~ it's gone.

I like the Sidebar in Vista, but not how Folders and Directories work, or layed out.

New Computer Software updates

I booted up the new Velocity computer over the last half hour, picked it up today over lunch.
The PC seems pretty fast so far.
I stated with a Microsoft OS update patch which was 20MB.
Followed by the Mozilla Firefox browser.
Than, downloaded the Google Tool Bar for Explorer, followed by the Google Tool Bar Firefox ~ both very small programs.
Next came Open Office, a free version of an Office suite by Sun Microsystems ~ 120MB.

While that was going on, I turned on the second monitor and set each to 1280 x 1024 resolution ~ while deleting and preforming a defrag on the Alienware PC. The 'C' drive was over 50% full and heavily fragmented, while the 10,000 rpm 'J' drive was 3% full ~ I worked off the 10,000 rpm drive soon to move to this PC.

Now installing Ulead PhotoImpact 10 ~ looks like an upgrade CD, and I don't feel like loading Ulead 6.0 tonight.

Maybe I need to figure out if serial ATA 2.0 x 7,000 rpm is faster than SATA 1.0 x 10,000 rpm's anyway.

Hmm, I don't really like Ulead PhotoImpact any longer, many of the graphics are on their server and always refuse to download. You get this nice lib of pic files, but you don't have access to them.

Velocity Micro Desktop Computer

Order a new computer today from Bestbuy. The Velocity Micro - ProMagix Q6600. The Q6600 contains a quad core Intel processor, an NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS graphic card and 2GB of DDR2 memory, and or course Windows Vista.

The Quad processor is clocked at 2.4GHz, but the ad does not display which DDR2 memory [Speed Grades] is used and I didn't see the system listed on the Velocity Micro web site.

The Video card comes with 1 S-Video port, and 2 DVI-ports ~ I use dual monitors so I need both DVI interfaces.

The system has 2 Firewire interfaces and 6 USB interfaces, and a built-in media reader.

Of course the Hard Disk Drive [HDD] is Serial ATA [SATA], but it does not indicate which specification version.

Spare expansion slots include 1 PCI slot, 1 PCIe x1, and 1 PCIe x16 slot. So I can still add another video card, a digital tuner card, and a 7-to-1 digital audio card.

I purchased this system from Best Buy so I could just drive over and pick it up. However my first issue is that my order did not make it off anyones desk. I came home to a call saying I have to confirm the order..... what's up with that.

I never used the HP system purchased last year from Bestbuy, I didn't see any speed improvment so it just sat around and collected dust ~ until I gave it away a few weeks ago.

Web Site Status

The server numbers are in for November, not to bad considering the holiday. There were 202,078 visits, viewing 337,154 pages. The attached chart shows unique visitors [143,950 for Nov.]. Server Bandwidth was 12.71GB.

A unique visitor is counted only once regardless of how many times they may hit the web site during the month.

The posting on Declining PC Interface Buses provides one reason why the site seems to have plateaued ~ as a large number of PC buses are no longer being used.