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PHP5 and NUSOAP

So last weekend I installed PHP5 on my server, to finally be able to do some new stuff, and this, it seemed, created some trouble with my SEO scripts that used NUSOAP. What is the problem? Well it’s easy: PHP5 has a soapclient built in, and this causes trouble :).

Why you should check Google suggest

In the new Firefox 2, Google suggest is incorporated into the search block in the top right of your browser. This new box CAN have quite an important effect on the way you should optimize your site. I’ll show you why with an example.

Launching a new blog? Get it right in one turn

My friends over at Aviva Directory have written another excellent piece of content: a list of 21 tips to launch your blog. Now I’m not saying I’m doing it all right, but I should be, and so should you. The list they made consists of 6 parts: The First Impression RSS & Subscriptions Social Bookmarking…

Note to Mint users

If you’re a Mint user, you might want to add the new search.live.com as a search engine to your Mint config, since otherwise Mint won’t recognize these referrers as a Search Engine.The process is quite easy:add the following lines to the end of your engines.php: $SI_SearchEngines[] = array( ‘name’ => ‘Live.com’, ‘url’ => ‘http://search.live.com/results.aspx’, ‘domain’…

Why PageRank says nothing about rankings

Sometimes you’ll get clients who say “my PageRank is x, yet I don’t get any visitors from Google�. Understandable, I think. If you were graded 6 out of 10, by the biggest search engine out there, it’s only fair to expect some traffic, or isn’t it?

Wikipedia and Link-Spam: the story continues

As I told you before, some people on the WikiProject Spam page were talking about ways of sharing the links they remove with search engines, and especially Google. This dicussion has been going on, and now Jimbo Wales, founder of Wikipedia, commented on it.

Does Internet Explorer 7 like your website?

The IE blog recently announced that Internet Explorer 7 will be available for users in a few weeks time, delivering it to user via automatic update a few weeks later. This gives you a few weeks to make sure your sites are rendered correctly in the browser that a major part of your users will…

The risks of link-spamming Wikipedia

Whether you think it’s spamming or not, adding your own site to Wikipedia is considered spamming. I found out “the hard way” in a discussion I was having with Wikipedia editors on their WikiProject Spam page, regarding my previous post. Up till now, the only risk of placing your link in Wikipedia yourself, was that…