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Wednesday, May 31, 2006

Feed Aggregator

Drupal also has a cool feed aggregator module that I just discovered. You can now see real estate info on my drupal site. Now I just need to figure out how to get cron configured. Any suggestions?

How to reset the drupal admin password

Drupal and SEO

So it's pretty incredible that two sites I registered just a month ago are now listed in Google. I installed drupal on both these sites and miraculously they are now being indexed. Not in MSN or Yahoo yet, but that's pretty cool. From what I've read, the Google "sandbox" (if there is one) can often keep a site out of the search engine for months. I'm now starting to write more articles to add more interesting content.

Why Do People Let Domain Names Expire?

Anyone who has ever owned a domain name has faced the question: should I spend the $7 to renew a domain or not. You bought it a year ago, you planned to build a web site on it, and now a year has come and gone and not much has changed. You could buy a couple of lattes, or you could renew that domain name, hoping that in the next year you will find the time to do what you didn't in the last year.

My question is: when do you renew, and when do you let it go?

If you let it go, that means you have no chance of participating in the value capture of the domain name. If you renew, then for a relatively small amount of money, you buy an option to do something with the domain. It might increase in value and you could sell it for a profit; or, you might find the time to do something with the domain.

(Conversely, one could argue that letting it go is the smarter decision because the money you spent so far, as they tell us in b-school, is a sunk cost -- there's nothing you can do about it.)