Blocking or Redirecting Spammers by IP Address Using HTAccess
After several months of fighting with manual comment spam, I have decided to block all the traffic coming from India. All they do is just post useless comments everyday, which made me wonder if its their job to post spam. Anyway, blocking people by IP is very straight forward using htaccess. I
Submitting Sitemaps to Search Engines Google, Yahoo and MSN
Sitemaps are xml documents used by the search engines to index your website. it is not very crucial for your website but it will help the search engines do their job better. by pointing out the right way to index you will be like spoon feeding the contents to the
Optimizing your Movable Type 4 blog ready for SEO
The default movable type 4 template does not display title, meta descriptions and meta keywords at the HTML header. This can be frustrating to some SEO freaks out there, although meta tags are not too important compared to the page content but its nice to see your descriptions in included
Adding Numbers on SERP Results to Google, Yahoo and MSN Live
Automatically place numbers right beside the SERP window in Google, Yahoo and MSN Live Search.
Search Engine Stop Words
Search engines ignore these keywords because they are common in most articles, may also slow down the search process and they does not contribute to relevance. These stop words contains conjunctions, prepositions, and articles. In contrary, when we are optimizing for a keyword that contains any of the stop words(e.g.
Getting data between html tags or string phrases
Here’s a function from the php manual that returns everything inside two tags or between two string phrases. As we all know, substr requires the integer position of the string to return, so it would be hard if we are only given with start string and end string but not
Top Searched Keywords
Google lists their mosts searched keywords at the Zeitgeist website. You can also search for top keywords by country. Yahoo also has its own version but it looks like a blog rather than a list, they call it Yahoo Buzz. Lycos also has its own list here. ZDNet has an
SEO Challenge
Here’s a website with an seo challenge service. It lets you compare websites with something i do not know.? I tried www.google.com and www.yahoo.com and somehow i do not know why google lost over to yahoo not to mention the annoying captcha. i am suspecting its the number of backlinks
seeing before actually visiting
This is so nice, saw it on wordpress blogs. it lets you see a snapshot of the link before actually visiting it. to add it to your site, you need a generated code from the snap site and paste it on you blogs head tag.
Getting website title and description
Getting the a website title and description is easy. Using the PHP’s builtin file_get_contents command together with a regex pattern allows us to capture and get any website title and description without any complex methods that is if the site has a title or a description. In case a site