Comments on: Search Engine Land’s New Look

By: Danny Sullivan

Danny Sullivan — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 19:41:03 +0000

Ian, that’s coming, hopefully next week. All in the works.

By: Ian Macfarlane

Ian Macfarlane — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 11:46:51 +0000

Great news!

Quick comment with regards to the “new user account” process – when registering you get taken to the page http://searchengineland.com/figz/wp-admin/ – this has a message at the top stating that you need to upgrade your version of WordPress.

The site could also do with a properly customised login page without all of the WordPress branding/contents/links.

Best wishes

Ian

By: Danny Sullivan

Danny Sullivan — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 17:06:24 +0000

The “Lands” still exist. They remain a part of our story archives: the categories of Google, Yahoo and Microsoft, along with many other categories. But to access them, you have to be a paid member of the site. That’s one of the benefits you get by supporting the site that way (and the considerable time it takes to compile the archives). Hope you’ll consider it.

By: lloydcohagen

lloydcohagen — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 00:59:34 +0000

Why is it that when I become accustomed to sites and find ones that I truly enjoy the layout they have to go and change what seems to work best.
Sorry Danny but I really liked the “Lands” quick drop downs across the top. Where is this info now? I have to search for it and get used to the new site, I’m sure by that time you will change it again like everyone else. My day is so wasted with sites that take such ease and functionality out and try to make it better but destroy the basic concept of information. Guess I should design my own with the features that used to be there.
Horribly displeased.,,,,

By: Danny Sullivan

Danny Sullivan — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 00:14:46 +0000

We’ll check on it, Adam — why that’s not showing for you. Should be.

By: seoauditors

seoauditors — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 18:28:19 +0000

The new design looks great! It’s clean and much more user friendly than the old design.

By: audette

audette — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 17:52:21 +0000

On the members page here http://searchengineland.com/members-library, the link to update your profile/add an avatar appears to be broken: http://searchengineland.com/wp-admin/profile.php

Unless that should be http://searchengineland.com/figz/wp-admin/profile.php? But then I don’t see a spot to upload an avatar?

Looks like Tom figured it out! :)

By: Tom Schmitz

Tom Schmitz — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 05:20:14 +0000

Congratulations on the new look and the success of Search Engine Land and all your Third Door Media ventures. Has it really been two years? Wow, time flies.

By: Matt Joswick

Matt Joswick — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 00:58:20 +0000

Nice work, the new design is great.

By: Danny Sullivan

Danny Sullivan — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 23:12:09 +0000

Sadd, we won’t be adding a “Reply to this comment” threaded style display. Sorry, I find they get very confusing and hard to read when you have lots of discussion. We’ll consider the forums and tools suggestions.

The Sphinn button is gone, but future stories will have a Sphinn link in the Share & Bookmark section under the author’s bio. You can also use the More: Share This button to get a Sphinn link.

Afraid CAPTCHA won’t go regardless approved comments in the immediate future, but you can become a premium member.

While you can’t subscribe to comments via email, you can take the columns feed:
http://feeds.searchengineland.com/selcomments

Pascal, thanks — SearchCap feed should be fixed now.

Yellow SEO, we expect bounce rate will improve and will be measuring going forward. We just want to get through the day and bug fixes first :)

And thanks, everyone!