Yet another question out of my referrers to answer: “how can i get google to crawl my site faster“. There are two possible reasons why Google is slow in spidering your site. The first might seem obvious: if Google doesn’t find enough (quality) links pointing to your site, it doesn’t think your site is very…
Why 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…
How 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…
Selling 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…
Domain-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…
How 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 for something…
How 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…
PHP 301 redirects for Apache and IIS
This one is just here for my own reference, because the default 302 status code just isn’t good enough! PHP 301 for Apache: PHP 301 for IIS:
Why Google doesn’t like frames in your sites
I’m currently working on a site for a client who has a site which uses frames, and he asked me why Google always linked to the “wrong” page. He did not build this site himself of course, and hasn’t got much of a clue as to how HTML works, let alone search engines. He asked…
PHPSESSID in your URL? Learn to 301 redirect them with PHP
I’m doing some work on a site which has like 4,500 pages indexed with a PHPSESSID in the URL, causing some major duplicate content problems. I got the server admin to disable the PHPSESSID’s by adding the following to the vhost config: I also wanted Google to get a clean URL when it decided to…
