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April 16th
2Why I blog
Yet another blog meme has been going on all over the web, and I was guessing it was going to be my turn sometimes in the near future. Steven Bradley (aka vangogh) tagged me this time. You might remember the previous "5 things you don't know about me" blog meme, this is sort of the [...]
Posted in: SEO
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April 15th
9NoIndex for RSS feeds!
As regular readers might recall, I wrote a guestpost on SEOEgghead asking for an equivalent of "noindex, follow" for RSS feeds. Now it seems the search engines have been listening a bit, or at least have been thinking in the same direction...
In a post about preventing duplicate content with your feeds (which I encountered through [...]Continue reading: NoIndex for RSS feeds!
Posted in: WordPress
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April 12th
23How to use Google Webmaster Tools
I'm a huge fan of Google Webmaster Tools, and I've written a tool for it which seems quite popular, (and might get an update soon). I've been noticing that people find my site by searching for the search term "how to use Google Webmaster Tools", so I thought I'd post a guide of how I [...]
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Posted in: SEO
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April 11th
1Selling links? Don't advertise it openly!
As you might have noticed, I'm a huge fan of 103bees, as I truly think it's one of the nicest tools out there for bloggers and other people interested in what people were searching for when they reached your site. Today, however, I logged in to my account, and I saw that 103bees is selling [...]
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Posted in: SEO
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April 11th
7Domain-info works again
I got some e-mails and even a phone call that my domain-info tool wasn't working properly. The reason was that the link: command in the Live search API seems to have been disabled, and my code threw out the complete SOAP error... I've removed that. For now MSN inlinks will return no results, I'll probably [...]
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Posted in: SEO
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April 11th
1How to prevent Google from indexing script output
If you have some scripts on your site like, for instance, my domain-info script, you often use GET parameters so people can link to them or bookmark them. This has a lot of benefits, but it creates a problem as well. Search engines will index this output, causing your server to use cycles [...]
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Posted in: SEO
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April 10th
27Help me brand this blog!
This blog always goes by the name "Joost de Valk - SEO & webdesign blog", which kinda sucks of course... Why does it suck? Well: it's not brandable at all, and part of building a blog is building a brand. The "brand" in it right now is my name, which I don't mind of course, [...]
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Posted in: Offtopic
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April 8th
35How to remove www from your URL with mod_rewrite
I got a hit today for the following search query: how do you get rid of the www in url. As you can see that hits on my article about removing PHPSESSID's, which isn't quite what the person was looking for I guess. Here's the code to 301 redirect the www version of your site [...]
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Posted in: SEO, Serverside
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April 8th
15PHP-APC: Speed up your web applications!
As regular readers of this blog might know I have written quite some tools using the different API's of search engines, and always found them quite useful. When I was implementing my sitewide search function, one of the things that bothered me that it was a bit slow. I knew that I had seen some [...]
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Posted in: Serverside
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April 6th
1Implementing a sitewide search function
Those of you coming to this site more often might have noticed a small change in the search box. It's now implemented sitewide, and I've built a sitewide search functions using the Yahoo! API. It was quite nescessary because I found that people were searching for "sortable.zip" on the blog, and they wouldn't find anything [...]
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Posted in: Webdesign & development
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