Comments on: Sitemeter disables IE browsing, hopes no one notices. http://agilewebmasters.com/nick/sitemeter-disables-ie-browsing-hopes-no-one-notices/ Take the lead out... Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:26:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Site Review 1: How not to setup your company blog (weblog.sitemeter.com) | Agile Webmasters http://agilewebmasters.com/nick/sitemeter-disables-ie-browsing-hopes-no-one-notices/#comment-28 Site Review 1: How not to setup your company blog (weblog.sitemeter.com) | Agile Webmasters Fri, 08 Aug 2008 08:05:52 +0000 http://agilewebmasters.com/?p=114#comment-28 [...] Nick just ripped on SiteMeter for their IE bug that caused thousands of websites to crash it may seem a bit meanspirited to post the following critique of their blog. I don’t mean to [...] [...] Nick just ripped on SiteMeter for their IE bug that caused thousands of websites to crash it may seem a bit meanspirited to post the following critique of their blog. I don’t mean to [...]

]]> By: robert http://agilewebmasters.com/nick/sitemeter-disables-ie-browsing-hopes-no-one-notices/#comment-11 robert Sun, 03 Aug 2008 07:29:41 +0000 http://agilewebmasters.com/?p=114#comment-11 And apparently it was an IE bug. More on bug: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927917 And apparently it was an IE bug. More on bug: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927917

]]> By: robert http://agilewebmasters.com/nick/sitemeter-disables-ie-browsing-hopes-no-one-notices/#comment-10 robert Sun, 03 Aug 2008 07:27:42 +0000 http://agilewebmasters.com/?p=114#comment-10 They've now responded on their blog: http://weblog.sitemeter.com/2008/08/02/sitemeter-ie-issues-resolved/ They’ve now responded on their blog:

http://weblog.sitemeter.com/2008/08/02/sitemeter-ie-issues-resolved/

]]> By: robert http://agilewebmasters.com/nick/sitemeter-disables-ie-browsing-hopes-no-one-notices/#comment-9 robert Sun, 03 Aug 2008 05:40:41 +0000 http://agilewebmasters.com/?p=114#comment-9 Yeah, well a crazy SEO lunatic (not a reasonable guy like me) would see this and see a great marketing angle: 1) Embarrass yourself on the web (to get attention) 2) Piss on IE and/or Microsoft (the web generation's favorite punching bags) 3) Get a bunch of blog links for screwing up (once a few bloggers talk about something they all do) 4) ?????? 5) Profit! And no, I don't think that's what actually happened, just remarking on the fact that "even bad press is good press" is especially true in search engine optimization because links are invariably seen as endorsement by search algorithms. One day I'll blog about that and microformats in possible future link graphs with endorsement/criticism implemented on the markup level. Yeah, well a crazy SEO lunatic (not a reasonable guy like me) would see this and see a great marketing angle:

1) Embarrass yourself on the web (to get attention)
2) Piss on IE and/or Microsoft (the web generation’s favorite punching bags)
3) Get a bunch of blog links for screwing up (once a few bloggers talk about something they all do)
4) ??????
5) Profit!

And no, I don’t think that’s what actually happened, just remarking on the fact that “even bad press is good press” is especially true in search engine optimization because links are invariably seen as endorsement by search algorithms. One day I’ll blog about that and microformats in possible future link graphs with endorsement/criticism implemented on the markup level.

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