EE Vs ERT

[coral1]

Looking forward to reading your stuff.

I feel it is only fair to warn you though. Writing articles on ERT is like smoking cigarettes.
The first one is kind of rough to get through, but it quickly becomes addictive.  ; )

[InFlames]

O good good....in the middle of kicking the smokes at the moment so itll be one addiction to the next....joy!

[coral1]

>> in the middle of kicking the smokes...

Good Luck. Really.

I've been "in the middle" for about 30 years now.  : /

[InFlames]

ha! yeah its a biatch of a thing thats for sure

[Srirangan]

My belated take on "EE v/s ERT"..

I wasn't anybody significant on EE, unlike Cd& and others, however I was active from time to time, contributed as much as I could. Still would, if it wasn't for the f'ing SPAM!

Now, I'm not against ads and monetizing websites. But just see the amount of SPAM on EE! It is a shame that such a good website like EE has been ruined.

For business, for profit? No. EE would be better served long term if it didn't spam 80% of its visitors away!

Now that I think about it, there is nothing great about EE itself. The members on EE are gold, but EE is nothing without its members. It is, after all, a web community and for a community that is not a way to treat your members.

I stumbled across and reached ERT myself (and of course EEE which had a early start) not before making my own 'bettered' version of EE ;) Won't spam the link here of course, let me know if you want to see it. :)

[COBOLdinosaur]

Post the link. Tthere are no EE police here to spank you for it.

[Srirangan]

I'm guessing you already know this one Cd& .. ;)

[coral1]

Looks interesting.
I will check it out better when I get a few minutes.

: )

[Srirangan]

I'm surprised you've not seen it before. :-\

[seandelaney]

Sri,

Wouldn't it better to have your URL's like:

http://programmerassist.com/topic/11-web-development/
http://programmerassist.com/topic/33-programming/
...

instead of:

http://programmerassist.com/topic/11/
http://programmerassist.com/topic/33/

What do you think?  I'm not an expert in SEO but over the last 2 weeks i've learned alot and having keywords in URL don't do no harm. I'm impressed on how much its come along since i last visited...  Good work mate!

[Srirangan]

Yes that would look better, and thankfully, it wouldn't be too hard to implement. :)

[Srirangan]

>> I'm impressed on how much its come along since i last visited...
>> Good work mate!

Hardly ever worked on it. Development or otherwise! ;)

[Srirangan]

Just realized I can't change too many URL's. The programmerassist.com domain root has a Google PageRank of 5 and the topic area sub directory's have a PR of 4.

:o

[COBOLdinosaur]

Use 301 re-directs and the page ranks will migrate, as the spider work out the new structur. If you are not using a Google sitemap, you should do that as well.  The sitemap results in site changes getting picked up quickly.  If you have a Google webmasters account you get you can analyze the crawl stats and fix any errors that are causing mistakes by the spiders.

[Srirangan]

I don't think 301's should be really required. I just need to make some changes to the .htaccess and .../topic/11-programming can also work while ...../topic/11 continues to work.