30 September 05 - 04:35A good 93 point SEO breakdown
SEOMOZ have just released
93 ranking factors in the authors opinion of importance.
Of course this not an exact science, and many would dispute parts of
the article, however it is a great base to start with - flavour with
your own opinions.
The foragreatercause.org call apparently went ahead, and I had phone
problems... So now I'm hanging out for the mp3. Damn!
frakkle.com
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27 September 05 - 22:37Call on 30 minutes and an ammendment
ForAGreaterCause.org call is on in half an hour. The target of a cool mil has ben reached!
Also I have an ammendment to the "blog and ping" list. (Blogbot.dk is only for Danish blogs...)
Frakkle.com
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26 September 05 - 00:199 secret ideas for a almost nothing - Genuine Katrina help
Okay - lots of (often dubious) charity things setup online for Katrina victims, right?
This is not one of those "buy our stuff and we will donate 5%" things that are all over!
I got an email from Yanik Silver a few day ago (shame on me for not
broadcasting it here then) about a 2Hr charity teleseminar. The
entry fee is a donation to your choice of Katrina charity. ALL
funds go direct to said charity.
After the call you will get an mp3 of it.
So 9 ideas from "the gurus" in two hours - that should be pretty much
fluff free! Any donation will get you on the call, however I
should mentioned that Yanik mentioned in an email (not on the site)
this morning that people donating $50+ will get a bunch of stuff free
from him on top of it. What all this means is if you are a
"heartless bastard" then you are getting
brilliant value for money. Of course I know that you are not one fo those
As of the email I got this morning from Yanik to say that pledges had
reached $USD 577,109.00 and that he was hopeful of reaching 1m.
You will notice that some GIT has set the amount to $100m so we can't
really tell what the real figure is at right now.
There are nine guests:
- John Reese - tba
- Frank Kern - How
to turn
one keyword into 160,000 ultra-targeted
keywords by clicking a button.
- Armand Morin - tba
- Stephen Pierce - How
to create
and profit from list vending
machines to
capture premium targeted optins
who may otherwise never see
your site.
- Jim Edwards - The secret
to building a huge, profitable
list without
spending a dime on traffic.
- Jeff Johnson - The
rule of “5000” and
how you can use it to multiply
your internet profits… starting
today.
- Jeff Walker - tba
- Jason Potash - How
to create a product (at
almost no cost),
without hiring ghostwriters,
programmers or investing
weeks of time. Note: This "overlooked" strategy does
not involve using
public domain, joint ventures,
licensing, or buying resell
rights to create products.
- Yanik Silver - "4
overlooked ways to profit from
your website without
adding a single visitor."
The call is (US) tuesday night - I'm pretty sure that makes it 9am
Wednesday for me - and anyone else in AEST (Eastern Australia).
Click the picture link above and donate now before you forget.
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21 September 05 - 11:56Torcon - another con I'd love to attend
Hackaday have great coverage of this event, and I really had a hard time picking my favourite topics.
You could check out this
article on infrared hacks
- the most interesting being the continueing lack of security in stupid
places - like hotels... It also got featured on
wired. Go checkout hackaday and read the full set.
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20 September 05 - 16:27So are there tools to grab site age for SEO?
If you read Jim's blog post from a day or so ago, you will have been thinking (if you are like me):
- that's kind of obvious - and why didn't I think of that?
- is there a tool to do this easily/automatically?
And the good news is there is!
top 10 for a searched phrase with Yahoo’s linkdomains site age
AND
as above but enter in a list of URLs
(I lifted the above links pretty much direct off Jim's blog) Happy digging!
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19 September 05 - 11:04New Se7ens site
Okay I just launched a site over the weekend. Its a direct
consequence of wanting to build my own Lotus 7 style clubman. For
those who do not know these are pretty much the closest thing you can
get to an open wheel racer for the road.
The
new Clubman Library - please check it out?
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14 September 05 - 11:15Check out jim boykin
Just had a good laugh at reading
this post at Jim's blog.
Proves that no matter what you have you can still stuff it. (500 000 links and having to
PAY FOR TRAFFIC!)
Actually it reminds me of the unfortunately less know fact that most
highly paid people end up with nothing, and people on medium or low
incomes can end up wealthy.
Read the blog anyway and have a laugh!
Jim - you have a new subscriber...
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10 September 05 - 13:38Blog and Ping
Okay, so for somet this is a no brainer...
However for those people who only know of a couple of places (that
matter) to ping your blogs to, this is a list of what I have been known
to use:
Of course whenever I do ping a stack of them are down/whatever but the
ones that respond do alternate. I know I get a reasonable
coverage with this list - which is the point of course.
api.my.yahoo.com/RPC2
api.feedster.com/ping
api.moreover.com/RPC2
api.my.yahoo.com/RPC2
api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping
bblog.com/ping.php
bitacoras.net/ping/
blog.goo.ne.jp/XMLRPC
blogdb.jp/xmlrpc
blogmatcher.com/u.php
bulkfeeds.net/rpc
coreblog.org/ping/
mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatt
ping.blo.gs/
ping.bloggers.jp/rpc/
ping.cocolog-nifty.com/xmlrpc
ping.feedburner.com
ping.rootblog.com/rpc.php
ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php
ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php
ping.weblogs.se/
rcs.datashed.net/RPC2
rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger/
rpc.icerocket.com:10080/
rpc.pingomatic.com/
rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2
thingamablog.sourceforge.net/ping.php
topicexchange.com/RPC2
www.a2b.cc/setloc/bp.a2b
www.bitacoles.net/ping.php
www.blogdigger.com/RPC2
www.blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates
www.blogroots.com/tb_populi.blog?id=1
www.blogshares.com/rpc.php
www.blogsnow.com/ping
www.blogstreet.com/xrbin/xmlrpc.cgi
www.mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatter/ping.php
www.newsisfree.com/xmlrpctest.php
www.popdex.com/addsite.php
www.snipsnap.org/RPC2
www.weblogues.com/RPC/
xmlrpc.blogg.de/
xping.pubsub.com/ping/
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08 September 05 - 13:20Pivot is now beta
Okay - been running the alpha for ages (rare for me) with not a problem. However! Now I've upgraded to the newly released beta version Firefox cannot publish a blog entry: I get an error about WYSIWYG not being supported, but all formatting works fine, however the post is empty when complete.
Pivot Release details
I'm sure it will be fixed soon. This is still one of the best blogging tools around
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07 September 05 - 06:18working with mbox from PHP
For the site that I am working on (with vBulletin) I want to be able to import a stack of emails that I have in the mbox format.
The workable but not efficient way to do this would be to use the POP3
import facility for the module I am using, however that's fine if you
are not using Qmail (which for the record I am a fan of) and cannot get
one of the conversion scripts to work.
So its back to doing things properly. Enter mbox.php that
can be found on PAIR (pair.php.net). Very nice PHP library that
allows working with the mbox file a lot like working with a POP3 server.
Using this I am porting the code to take input from this class
instead. Very simple, very nice. (and more complete than I
need - I do not need to edit emails as stored in the mbox for example)
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05 September 05 - 22:13A better Google Sandbox report
Just did something smart (hey - happens somtimes) and did a search for SEO and blog in google...
Found a great blog and general resource which you may already be very aware of, however if you aren't
The article on the Google Sandbox is very worth reading,
it really is the most comprehensive I have seen. Also check out
the Free SEO Tools (okay - the directory maybe too...) including a
sandbox detector (though from the article I now know how I can work
this out with two Google searches)
Interesting blog entry recently is this one on Librarian Web Directories.
To quote: "There's a great deal of value to SEO/Ms on the web that has
yet to be discovered and I hope to keep finding great resources like
these"
And lastly you might want to take the SEO Exam.
randfish: you have a fan!
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04 September 05 - 12:59New site coming
Had a rather frustrating weekend. Am very close to releasing a
new site about clubmans (/se7ens) - its what I was doing when I posted
that PHP code yesterday in fact. It also explains my interest in
directory software many months ago...
I have found a very nice BB system called vBulletin. It really is
an amazing piece of software and well worth the price (bit of a shock
to me - however my other choice would have been PHPBB and that really
seems too dangerous security-wise)
Anyway you will be able to see it soon in the next few
days. Kind of ironic that I came up with the site due to my
own frustrations with another service and now I'm feeling frustrated
finishing it
Oh - and for something a bit left field: was a bit shocked today
to see my blog has an alexa rank - so somebody (running IE) must be
reading it! Has a weekly av rank of 432,422 and a 3 month
av rank of 1,795,325. Alexa thinks the blog started in January though...
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03 September 05 - 08:47Port PATH_INFO to mod_rewrite style SEF URLS
I've never got round to actually writing about code much on this blog - till now. I've been updating a PHP directory system (because I will be launching one soon) that was written some time ago for PHP4. That system supports SEF (Search Engine Friendly URLs) in this style:
www.example.com/index.php/get/varables/like/this
This was done using this PHP feature:
$_SERVER['PATH_INFO']Now I want a better keyword saturation (hey - index.php there is NOT helping!) by using Apache's mod_rewrite feature (there is something similar for IIS by the way but its a third party module) so I get a URL that looks like this instead:
www.example.com/get/varables/like/this
Its pretty easy to do but this is the code change I made:
//$path = isset($_SERVER['PATH_INFO']) ? $_SERVER['PATH_INFO'] : '';
$path = substr( $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], strrpos( $_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'],'/' ));
The old code is the commented line above.
Now to support this the last thing that is needed is (hats off to
Mambo who use this widely) is the require directives in the apache config files or the .htaccess file:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*) index.php
This code does nothing for a real file/directory but for everything elses passes the request to index.php
Cheers
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03 September 05 - 03:48Siggraph Best-Of 2005
So this years Siggraph has been and gone, and of course one of my favourite blogs has covered it:
Even if you are not a total geek you will find something cool on the rather extensive coverage.
To quote my own comment on hackaday: "I was going to say more about
this on my blog but then I realised you pretty much said it all!"
So check it out:
hackaday.com - Siggraph 2005
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