The dangerous consequences of a robots.txt file
The robots.txt file is an important way to control spiders and bots as they visit your website. But if you do it wrong, you can cause some serious problems.
Excel formula to get domain name from URL
While doing SEO professionally I am always dealing with long lists of URLs. The best way to manage this is with Excel. Sometimes I need to take a list of URLs and parse them just…
Basic .htaccess Template- Explained
Every site needs an .htaccess file. Still, with every website I build I always forget what to put. So I thought it would be a good idea to write up one, simple .htaccess file that…
Keep Website Content Fresh with RSS and XSL
The Google Inside Search blog post from April 3rd turned the SEO world upside-down. Although Google has been telling us about changes they’ve made to the algorithm for a few months now, this one was…
Looking for Charlotte, South Carolina?
Are you looking to find Charlotte, South Carolina? Keep looking because Charlotte is actually in North Carolina. I understand the confusion- many people haven’t been to this part of the country and might make this…
Does FeedTwit Support Terrorism?
I recently read a couple articles about this Twitter app that the Taliban, and presumably other organizations, are using to support their terrorist agendas. Apparently this app allows people to bypass the publicly facing Twitter…
Twitter Steals Ideas from Independent Developers
The other day Twitter killed my Twitter app. This isn’t a post written by someone who is bitter and angry. It is from someone who loves Twitter and really enjoys developing with the Twitter API.…
Twitter Overthrows Its First Government
News is coming out of Kyrgyzstan today of a revolt. This is the first successful revolt that used Twitter. Apparently the Kyrgyzstan opposition leader’s Twitter account has been reporting the news to her followers as…
How Twitter Filled-Out my Basketball Brackets
Last year I used Google to fill out my basketball brackets. It didn’t do too well. This year I decided to use Twitter to fill out my March Madness brackets. Disclosure: although I am just…