If you are
wondering about the new background to [SiteHoundSniffs],
it is rows of [Nick
V’s Hedge]. The rest of this mess is
an attempt to connect the dots.
I have been fairly
open about Grayson not being all that impressed with the appearance of our site
directory. Quite obviously, my best
efforts have not been making his tail wag.
So, it especially stung when I received a reply to an email I had sent
to a particularly-proper English lady about displaying her linked site
badge/button. She started off with
saying that I really did not need to ask for permission, and then she went on
about the fact that she would not normally want a link to her site on such a
woefully outdated and homely site as SiteHoundSniffs.com. To be perfectly honest about it, I was a
little miffed and removed all traces of her site from our site directory.
As I was trying to
go asleep a little later, the thought about using a high-definition image of
mowed grass (in honor of Reenie, Arlynda’s long-gone love of her life, who
needed a patch of grass to go on) crept in.
The first thing I went to do after getting out of bed six hours later
was find such an image. I quickly found
a suitable one and made it the new background.
When Grayson saw it, he gave me one of his looks and pranced out of the
room to leave me a present in a strategic place (he has never required a patch
of grass to go on).
Plan B had to formulated,
but my best efforts were getting in the way again. Miraculously (I am really not joking about
that) the solution was already in hand.
For after I read the emailed reply from the particularly-proper English
lady and took action, I sent an email to Nick V about displaying the linked badge/button to his
[Floral Friday Fotos] site and asking permission to display the linked headers for his [Melbourne Fresh Daily], [NixPages] and [NixPixMix] sites. In his reply, he suggested that I might want to also include his [My
Desktop Daily]. While going through this site to determine which categories it should be listed, I
came upon his high-definition photograph of a hedge, and Grayson did his [Whirling
Dervish] dance (he is always lurking about) to signify his delight. For Yorkies feel right at home around
hedgerows.
Linked site
badges/buttons? It was brought to my
attention that I had been ignoring the fact that site owners with a linked badge/button
wanted backlinks to bolster their search engine rankings, and displaying them avoided
having to always obtain permission first before displaying a linked site
header. This made me literally grunt, “Duh,”
to myself. For I had already been clued
in on the absolute truth of the matter truly being that most could not care less
about whether or not their linked headers were displayed on SiteHoundSniffs,
which included not caring enough to actually give permission. So, site owners with a linked badge/button
are sent an email informing them of what I have done and given the option to
have their site removed.
If you are
wondering about backlinks bolstering search engine rankings, there are several
things that go into getting to the top of the results list when you search for
something with Google, Bing, Yahoo and the other search engines. One of them is the amount of quality backlinks
a site has, and according to the research I have done, SiteHoundSniffs is a
quality backlink site. What determines a
quality backlink is whether your link seems to belong on a site, such as links
to other pet sites on a pet site, and since SiteHoundSniffs is a site
directory, links to all legitimate sites most definitely belong.
Another thing that
was recently brought to my attention is that I have been lax at making as sure
as possible that a site is safe. For a little
notification thingy shows up on our Google Chrome address bar when an
unauthorized script or Adobe Flash Player tries to download something onto our computer. Our BitDefender anti-virus program also gives
a notification when something funky is going on, and the image below is a
screenshot of this.
In all fairness,
one has to be looking for these notifications, and I have been focusing on
other things. Therefore, I am now going
back through all of the sites listed to see how many I may have missed for the
benefit of visitors with lesser anti-virus protection. I am sure that there are not many, but it only
takes one nasty bug getting through to make for a really bad day. Yeah, most of the nasty bugs out there these days
only seek to steal your information—not shut down your computer, but those are
the kind that can stay on a computer for a long time before being detected and
removed. When you have one, you can
change your passwords to sensitive sites all you want and the bad guys will still know what your passwords are. Sigh.
P.S.: Nick V's hedge proved to be a little too dark to make for reading ease of the text to the [Home] and [Littermates] pages. So, a high-definition image of a New Zealand cloud formation from [WallpaperCave] now serves as the site's background image. I hope you like it.
P.S.: Nick V's hedge proved to be a little too dark to make for reading ease of the text to the [Home] and [Littermates] pages. So, a high-definition image of a New Zealand cloud formation from [WallpaperCave] now serves as the site's background image. I hope you like it.
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