In his excellent book, Search Engine Optimization for Dummies, Peter Kent explains that many search engines actually get their search results from one (or more) of the larger search engines, such as Google or The Open Directory Project. Therefore, the author concludes that it may not be necessary to spend endless hours registering with thousands of the smaller search sites. Rather, the author provides a brief list of absolutely essential search sites with which it is highly [...] • Read more »
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SEO 101: Establishing and Evolving an Effective Link Strategy
Optimizing your website for the search engines involves many important aspects including keyword development, search engine registration, and SEO logging. This Press post scopes yet another critical weapon in the SEO wars: establishing and evolving an effective link campaign. Within your SEO log, you should devote an entire section to the logging of all link-related activity associated with optimizing your site for the internet. For example, you may wish to subcategorize your link campaign according to whether [...] • Read more »
Conditionally Load WordPress Pages
Need to load a WordPress page conditionally? For example, perhaps you need a “special” page to appear for search results? Yes? This simple PHP/JavaScript solution may be just what the doctor ordered! Simply replace “condition” with the required condition (or delete the if (condition) {} qualifier entirely), and then change the path and file names to suit your specific needs: <?php if (condition) { echo (” <script type=\”text/javascript\”> <!–//–><![CDATA[//><!-- parent.location=\"http://www.domain.com/path/to/file.html\" //--><!]]> </script> “); } else { echo [...] • Read more »
WordPress Search Function Notes
Code to call an external WordPress search form: <?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . “/searchform.php”); ?> Code for a standard, inline WordPress search form: <form id=”searchform” method=”get” action=”<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>”> <p><input name=”s” type=”text” id=”s” size=”33″ maxlength=”99″ /> <input type=”submit” class=”submit” value=”Search »” /></p> </form> Code to search through multiple categories when using customized, individual category pages: <form id=”searchform” method=”get” action=”<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>”> <p><input name=”s” type=”text” id=”s” size=”33″ maxlength=”99″ /> <input type=”hidden” name=”cat” value=”1,2,3,4,5,6″ /> <input type=”submit” class=”submit” [...] • Read more »
Gizoogle Gonna Break it Down
Gangsta lean. Gangsta tuff. Da Gizoogle Search Engine & Translator delivahz da roofless bidniss fo' da previous post. Update 2012 March 1: looks like the Gizoogle site is down. May come back, so I’ll leave the links.. and the translated post ;) Osseus Website Yo Multimedia artist extraordizzle Kenneth Paul Schrag — betta known as Osseus ta his fellow DLa posse — is currently in tha process of updat'n his personal design portfolio website (Flash required) aww [...] • Read more »
Secret Search Codes
Secret Search Codes: x@777 notes — notes posts (via search) notes — notes posts (via tag) service — web services (via tag) links — online resources (via tag) private — offline resources (via link) summon — key posts (via tag) update — update material (via tag) upgrade — wp upgrade material (via tag) theme — wp themes (via tag) plugins — wp plugins (via tag) rrr — error posts (via tag) • Read more »
Summon Notes Plus
Summon some notes via Summon Notes Plus: x@777 Fun with Downlevel Conditional Comments XHTML Document Header Resource Online Service Essentials Online Color Resources Stupid htaccess Tricks WordPress Notes Plus JavaScript Notes Plus Robots Notes Plus HTTP Error Codes PHP Notes Plus Lightbox Notes • Read more »