Why host in a foreign country?
You’ve had great success with your site in English, and have developed foreign language versions – how do you go about getting more traffic to these sites? Local inbound links with anchor text in the right language, using the correct country’s top-level domain and verifying the locale within Google webmaster [...]
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March 29th, 2009INSERT IGNORE For Kohana
March 24th, 2009I’ve been using the Kohana framework for my PHP projects for a while now. One thing that’s annoying is lack of support for INSERT IGNORE and REPLACE INTO. Now, I understand that these are MySQL-specific, and not supported in other RDBMS, but there are equivalents in Oracle. INSERT IGNORE is commonly used on tables where [...]
Service Review: DNS Made Easy
March 12th, 2009When clients ask me to recommend a DNS provider, I used to suggest UltraDNS. UltraDNS uses
Dedicated Proxies for SEO and Developers
March 10th, 2009Most people, SEOs especially will have heard of and understand what proxies are. For those of you who don’t know, proxies allow you to “tunnel” your browser’s traffic through another computer, making it seem like you are surfing the web from that location. There are specific services out there that make your traffic more anonymous [...]
RedHat init Script For trac
January 15th, 2009I found a few init scripts for trac, but they were all Debian-based, using ’start-stop-daemon’ which does not exist in RedHat-based distros. Here’s an init script that will work with RedHat.
#!/bin/bash
#
# tracd Start/Stop tracd.
#
# chkconfig: – 62 38
# description: tracd
#
# processname: tracd
#
# Author: Elliot (info@coastalweb.ca)
# Source function library
. /etc/init.d/functions
# Get network config
. /etc/sysconfig/network
RETVAL=0
TRACD_PORT=8000
TRACD_USER=tracd
DAEMON=/usr/bin/tracd
PIDFILE=/var/lock/subsys/tracd
TRACD_DIR=/subversion/trac
start() {
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Affiliate Links With No IDs
December 6th, 2008I sent my previous article on avoiding link juice loss with affiliates to a friend and he sent me in the direction of linkconnector.com which has something they call “Naked Links” which are basically just links from the affiliate site back to the merchant site directly, with no subdomains or GET parameters. So I started [...]
Avoiding Link Juice Loss With Affiliates
December 4th, 2008Although geared more toward those building or working with larger systems that use affiliate links, I’m astounded how often I see large sites throw away link juice that their affiliates are giving them. In all honesty, building a simple affiliate system isn’t all that hard, and basically amounts to dropping a cookie based on the [...]
Madlibs Site Generator Code
November 10th, 2008Writing content sucks. So what if there were a way to generate locale-specific content (and ads!) using a template and a few small tricks? The idea is to write a small amount of content as a template, then populate that template using a database. The source code I’m providing here uses a “database” (really just [...]
DMOZ Expired Domain Finder
November 10th, 2008Back in the days of yore, right after wikipedia started added nofollow to all their outbound links, I built a bunch of small scripts that could be piped together to find domains in dmoz (Google’s directory) that were expired. The idea was to download a copy of the directory, scrape all the domains out of [...]
Content Generation With N-Grams
November 7th, 2008Although this is an outdated method, I thought I would post some content generation code I wrote a while ago. Google possesses the n-gram data (more on those later) and algorithms to detect content generated in this fashion. It’s a cool method for text generation but I haven’t found too much in the way of [...]