Duplicate Content Round-up: Diagnosis and Correction with Free Tools
Here is the Duplicate Content Tool if that is all you are looking for… “Duplicate content” has become a standard part of the SEO lexicon over the last year or so (2005-2006), and over that time, a handful of common causes have been identified – the most common of which is poor URL handling. There is one cause, legitimately having duplicate pages or very similar pages throughout your site, which is not caused by poor URL handling, and I would recommend SEOJunkie’s tool for determining that type of issue. To note, there is some skepticism (really, skepticism in the SEO world?) as to the actual effect of duplicate content on a sites ranking. I believe that the largest impact occurs through PR dispersion. This occurs when inbound and...
Alternatives to Regular Expressions
As a php programmer who has to deal daily with regular expressions, sometimes they are just overkill for a simple job. Other times, I just don’t feel like trying to figure out the regex when I am trying to extract content just once (and code optimization is just not important). Below,I have thrown together a handful of PHP functions that I regularly use to help accomplish these tasks. GetSingleMatch This code allows you to easily grab a single bit of text out of a document by describing what text or code occurs right before and right after the text you are targetting. This calls for the $start, $end, and $content. If I were trying to target the word “fox” in “the quick brown fox jumps”, i would use, getSingleMatch(“brown...
Clean IP Tool
One of the worst things that can happen to a site is that it gets caught on a server with a ton of spam and adult content. Many web hosts now allow their clients to set up numerous domains on the same shared hosting account, allowing spammers to create tens if not hundreds of sites on the same account which may very well share an IP with your current site. So, we threw together a simple tool that helps determine if other sites on your server have adult or spam content. It even checks the top 100 urls hosted on the same IP in google to make sure they are not banned, and tells you which ones are! Clean IP Tool No tags for this post.
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