A while ago I got an email from Dan Frost, who found me through DaveN’s blog, if I wanted to participate in the beta of Crawl Score. Crawl Score is an online service to detect crawling issues with your site. It crawls your site, and generates sitemaps for for instance Google and Yahoo! while doing [...]

Sometimes you just need to know who is linking to a blog, or even better, your competitor’s blog, or who’s scraping it, and you’d actually like that data in a format you can use. I thought I’d make a list of the sources you can use to gather link-data from, outside of the “obvious” Yahoo [...]

Ever since the announcement on the Google Blog and more recently Yahoo’s announcement that they’ve enhanced their support for it, I’ve been meaning to play with the X-Robots-Tag header. This HTTP header allows you to do what you’d normally do in a robots meta tag, in an HTTP header, which has some pretty cool appliances. [...]

Sometimes I don’t want to run my growing set of tools to ping Technorati, but simply want to ping one or a few posts, without having to go to the manual ping form. So I’ve created a small

I was reading a post on Sebastian’s Pamphlets about increasing your Technorati Authority, which was based on an another blog post.

Remember that Greasemonkey script that I recently updated? Well, maybe you should just forget about that… I’d been working on a version of that script which works on Yahoo Site Explorer and MS Webmaster portal too, and now I’ve gone even one step further: I’ve bundled the three of them, and turned them into a [...]

I always use my own plugin to disable personalized search when searching Google, both in Dutch and in English. Now I was doing one of my fvorite queries: [webdesign nijmegen], and I found my site for AlthA at #1, so I showed it to a friend, and he saw another site at #1, and mine [...]

Sometimes, for instance when you’re building a domain-info tool, you want to know the number of posts on that site that have made it to the Digg frontpage. After playing a bit, I came up with this pretty easy code: [code language="php"] function FrontpageDiggs($url) { $result['source'] = "http://digg.com/rss_search?search=".$url."&area=promoted&type=url&section=all"; $output = file_get_contents($result['source']); preg_match_all("/.*().*/",$output,$matches); $result['result'] = count($matches[1]); [...]

I’ve been wanting to do this list for quite a while, but I finally put myself to doing it: a big list of all the web development and SEO tools I use on my Mac. It’s a page, I’ll keep updating it when I find new apps that are worth mentioning there. If you have [...]

Today’s deal on DealDotCom is actually a very good one: Link Assistant’s Rank Tracker for $47 instead of $87. It’s quite easy for checking rankings if you don’t have a big rank tracking system at your SEO company, and I even know some pretty big companies that use this tool all the time… For $47 [...]