Saturday, May 10th, 2008

Public Blog, Private Me

I think something needs to be cleared up. This is a filtered blog. I don’t share every thought or feeling I have on this public forum. That isn’t my style. MAS o Menos is my hand-edited highlight reel. And guess what? I just pick the best scenes.
I’ll tell you [...]

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008

Please Update Your Links to MAS

I’d like to thank all of you that have linked to CriticalMAS or INeedCoffee over the years. Now that I’ve moved some pages around, can I request that you update your links?
CriticalMAS - Any blog post with “/mas/” in the URL has been moved. The Blogger days are over. The home page [...]

Thursday, April 24th, 2008

Top 10 CriticalMAS Search Terms

I was digging around the Google Webmaster Tools and I located the top 10 phrases entered into Google last week that pointed back to this site.

critical mas
mas o menos
presidential motorcade
criticalmas
salto uruguay
the castle ybor
chinese zodiac compatibility
most dangerous places in the world
felirat
grecian ideal

Number 9 was a misspelling on a page that no longer exists.  Got to love [...]

Monday, April 14th, 2008

Quick Note About CriticalMAS

The CriticalMAS is site about Michael Allen Smith (aka MAS). It is written by and for MAS. Over time my interests will change and as a result so will the content of this blog. Those topics may or may not be of interest to you. I don’t care. At this [...]

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

Web Goals and Predictions

While moving my blog posts over from Blogger to WordPress, I came face to face with a few old posts where I declared grand plans for my web sites. What became immediately obvious was how far off my predictions were. Everything was off. Although I exceeded my goals with DeepFitness, I [...]

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008

Saying Goodbye to 11% of My PageViews

Way back in 2003 I went to a Chinese restaurant which used paper place mats. On my place mat was the Chinese Zodiac Compatibility chart. It showed all the animals and what years represented which animals. And it also showed which animals were compatible and which were not compatible. Before spilling [...]

Tuesday, March 4th, 2008

The Comments Have Spoken

On the post The End of CriticalMAS, I asked for feedback on my idea that I should rename my domain. It wasn’t well received, so CriticalMAS will stay CriticalMAS.
The downside is this site will be a mess for the next 60 days. For the next two months, be sure to wear a pixel hard hat [...]

Saturday, March 1st, 2008

The End of CriticalMAS?

Decision time. This is the month that I begin the move off Blogger and over to WordPress. This means eight years of links and images will need to corrected or redirected. This is no minor project.
Why go through the hassle? Two reasons.
Reason one is I’m researching the possibility of transitioning INeedCoffee to an open [...]

Friday, July 6th, 2007

Google Giveth, Google Taketh Away

Just a few days ago I was doing cartwheels over how much traffic had increased to my web sites as a result of adding sitemaps.
From The Importance of Search Engine Sitemaps:
Google referrals - DeepFitness
6/14/07: 71
6/21/07: 152
6/28/07: 755
Google referrals - INeedCoffee
6/14/07: 1,658
6/21/07: 1,509
6/28/07: 3,056
Google referrals - Digital Colony
6/14/07: 172
6/21/07: 168
6/28/07: 296
Looks like the page referrals were [...]

Friday, December 9th, 2005

MAS o Menos

I’m back! After a one-year hiatus from the blogging world, I’ve returned. Mas O Menos aims to be a shorter and kinder version of Chicken Soup For the Rectum.