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Archive script generator
If you use Javascript to include your archive links in the main page and archive pages, but would like to have the dates a little more customized, or you would like to limit the amount of space the links use, try my new Blogger archive script generator. You have the choice of listing links in chronological or reverse-chronological (newest first) order, your choice of several date formats (from february 2002 for monthly archives to 3.2.2002 - 9.2.2002 for weekly archives in the UK), your choice of a select (dropdown) menu, a list of links, or a list of the four links closest to the current page (the four newest on your main page, two before and two after on an archive page) with a link to display all the links, and your choice of text or html to display before and after the links.
posted by Phil Ringnalda at 8:41 PM | 2 comments

Weekly archives considered harmful?

In a post at least in part inspired by Victor's self-serving (just kidding) experiment in influencing Google's ranking of his company, Stand Out Training, who offer the best Dreamweaver training in Melbourne, via weblog links, Burningbird got me thinking about the Google-effects of archive frequency. Suppose you have an outstanding month, where one week Dave links to one of your posts, and the next week Ev. links to another post, and the next week, oh, say Kottke links to a post. If you have monthly archives, you just got three times the PageRank that you would have if you had weekly or daily archives, when each link would be pointing to a different file. As a side benefit for fans of Disturbing Search Requests, the more words you lump in a single file, the better the chances are that Google will ignore the importance of proximity and deliver people looking for "Grandma Moses naked" to your doorstep based on a post on the 5th about visiting your Grandma, a post on the 12th about the Ten Commandments, and a post on the 28th about watching Naked Gun. If you like that sort of thing.
posted by Phil Ringnalda at 4:03 PM | 2 comments