Everybody who has done a bit of SEO for his or her website knows that backlinks are important! Especially when they are relevant to you own website. But some of the backlinks you might have aren’t relevant for your website anymore and maybe you’ll want to get rid of them. You probably don’t know which backlinks you have. With a tool like Google Analytics it’s possible to find a few of them but certainly not all of them. Well, to find even more you can use a simple and easy backlink checker. There are hundreds online, but I prefer this simple one. The only thing to do is fill in your URL and press enter.

You can find the backlink checker at: http://www.iwebtool.com/backlink_checker

The last few months I keep getting confronted with lazy people and online stupidity. Especially on discussion boards it seems to be more common every day I visit one, not to mention the help forums. More and more people are finding it hard to do a decent search first. Or maybe the net is flooding with so called n00bs these days, who knows. Anyway, it seems that the same questions are getting asked repeatedly recently.

A little example. Some Gmail setting was changed as response to the recent hacks originated in some Chinese dudes. Gmail now starts in https:// mode instead of the normal http:// protocol. Google stated it could give performance problems for some people and of course it will for some of us. I mean there are still people using IE as default browser, solely through ignorance. And we all know that IE becomes slow while using https:// sometimes, that comes with the product unfortunately.

Due to these performance problems users experienced, the forum got flooded with the same questions. After four threads there was already a solution available! But people kept asking the same questions over and over, meanwhile the solutions was easy to find using a simple search option which was: Gmail is slow. And if they looked a bit further they would have seen similar topics on the first forum page! Really frustrating to see that many people just not taking any time to search or even look! I won’t say I’m a saint on the Internet, but I do read and search before I ask something. I also feel a bit stupid when I find out that the solution is there to take.

It seems to me that this sort of situation are getting more common every week. Don’t have a solution for it, even pinned topics doesn’t solve this problem. Then again, we still don’t have a solution for stupidity, guess that’s the same in this case. Ah well, maybe the future will bring us some sunshine for this, I can’t wait for that day to come.

The past few months I kept getting the error, You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page, when trying to update my Word Press version automatically. I also couldn’t edit pages anymore. It took a while of searching different forums all over the web, most of the given solutions weren’t working for me at all. Today however I found time to search for another solution and I found it finally!

It seems that somehow during one of the upgrade processes the database got buggy. It stated I was logged in as an administrator but not all features were enabled though. After I Googled again I found this page. At first I didn’t think this had anything to do with my own problem. However I saw some people posting they couldn’t upgrade automatically anymore. Then I read the post of “lottasound”. He came with the following solution:

I had the same problem but solved like this.

Open your wp database in phpmyadmin.
Under wp-options find wp_user_roles. Replace with:

“Find the full code here”

worked for me

And yes! It worked for me to! My Word Press installation is fully functional at this time. To bad it took a while for me to find this solution. By posting it here I hope other people will find it even faster in the near future.

Recently I’ve been reading a lot of Internet and it’s influence on us. As you’ll all know, the Internet is dangerous for some carriers and businesses. For example, I don’t think newspapers won’t be around anymore in a few years? Why is that exactly you might think. Well it’s because news can reach more people through the Internet on a much faster rate then newspapers ever will reach. Blogs are still popping out everywhere throughout the net. Most of them don’t get updated frequently (like this one), but the bigger ones are here to stay. The old situation took way more time. An article had to be written and inspected by someone else before it got into the paper.

A downside towards this development is the fact, that a lot of articles are being published that don’t have the information you were looking for. Most articles are mainly developed around a writers opinion. This isn’t that bad of course, but recently I see a lot of people stating their opinions as a fact. Which is wrong! The Internet provides you a quick and easy way to let people know how you think. But try to consign people with your own opinion as a fact is just not needed. It’s rather frustrating if I may say so.

Wikipedia has the same problem in my opinion. People are editing and adding wikis every day, but lately I see a lot of bad facts countered even more by even worse facts. I was glad to hear that Wikipedia decided to screen the modified articles before putting them online. I don’t think the above stated was the reason for that, but it’s a nice development I must say. It seems we are grabbing back to the old situation, where an article was written by a journalist and inspected by someone else before it got published. Maybe that’s the right way to get some grip on this growing problem. It sure would clean up the Internet!

Today I added a newly plug-in for WordPress. Main reason for this was to get a nice and easy to use FAQ section which I could use for my Google FAQ! As you know I’m pretty into the Google Cloud and therefor I’m on the Google Help Forums a lot! Being on there asking questions and helping other users I was quickly frustrated a lot of the same questions. Sometimes the same question was asked 2 times a day. I looked around for a Q&A section on the forums, but didn’t find any. That’s when I decided to create my own little FAQ entirely devoted to Google Products.  In the future you’ll find the most common problems and solutions there! You can find the FAQ section here.

It has been a while since my last post, but I’ve been busy with a lot of things. In September I’m going back to school again and the last two weeks I had to figure out some things regarding to it. I’m also enjoying a two week vacation right know to blow of some steam.

Man, the last two weeks have been stressful! We had a lot of important deadlines and as ever we started to late with the project. Luckily everything worked out just fine the last days before my vacation! The brochure about our new product was done on time, and the new company website went online just 4 hours before I finally shutdown my computer!

As of now I’m glad to announce that my Company entered a foreign market and is exploring new things! Exciting!
The new website is located at www.quipment.be!