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Going Down On Search Bots (Don’t Blow It) 3 Apr 2013 | 09:45 pm
Is it time for routine site maintenance, a quick-but-not-instantaneous CMS upgrade, or yet another ridiculous, intricate, time-consuming corporate rebranding sent down from the company’s bedrobed and ...
Webmastering on Caffeine – PubCon South 2010 24 Jul 2010 | 12:55 am
This year’s PubCon South in Dallas certainly proved to be worth the trip. Surprisingly, I was the only one I knew who bothered to rent a car. Note to would-be conference attendees: if you can get a ...
See yall in Dallas 30 Mar 2010 | 09:15 pm
I’m confirmed for the HTML, CSS and Hosting panel at WebmasterWorld PubCon South in Dallas on April 13-15, where I’ll be in excellent company discussing a variety of technical issues relevant to profe...
How to Parse the Google Results Page using Regular Expressions Even if You’re a Total PHP n00b 16 Oct 2009 | 10:51 am
There comes a time in the course of every SEO’s life where they find themselves wishing to scrape their own search rankings data rather than use one of the fine commercial tools available for the ta...
Everyday Apache .htaccess Configuration Magic 16 Jun 2009 | 07:32 am
Here’s a PDF of my presentation for TechMaine’s Web Designers User Group on common Apache .htaccess tricks ranging from password-protecting directories and WordPress permalinks to how to do 301 redire...
Semantic Markup: How to feed Google Rich Snippets & Yahoo SearchMonkey with RDFa and Microformats 14 May 2009 | 07:12 am
The game sure is changing. Though it often feels like a captor-hostage situation, and for some accompanied by a kind of Stockholm Syndrome, Google and its nearly pathetic (if precedent) runners-up in...
Tracking multiple pages with the same URL in Google Analytics 14 Oct 2008 | 09:00 pm
What do you do when you’re trying to put Google Analytics on a dumb-ass checkout process which uses the same identical URL like /stupidcommerce.cgi for every step? Naturally any web analytics package ...
“No manual intervention” says a Google Fellow of Quality 9 Jul 2008 | 09:00 pm
Amit Singhal, a Google Fellow in charge of their Search Quality Group, just posted a killer entry on the official Google Blog describing their IR philosophy. The first thing that jumps out at the casu...
Sitemap URL Redirecting 18 Jan 2008 | 10:00 pm
I recently encountered an issue where a client with a web server cluster was having difficulty keeping every node’s copy of their sitemap up-to-date, and wanted to know if all the search engines’ site...
Automated Keyword Research – 2007 Vegas PubCon 6 Dec 2007 | 10:00 pm
Here are the links from my presentation on Automated Keyword Research in the Organic Keyword Research panel at 2007 WebmasterWorld conference in Las Vegas. Search Ranking Acquisition: Yahoo Search API...
