Spidering a web application using website crawler software in kali linux There are lots of tools to spider a web application (an companies which are based on this tech, eg google) short list of tools to help you spider a site (eg for creating a sitemap for SEO, or recon Read more…
Keyword research for organic SEO used to be easy. You didn’t need any keyword research tools. Put up some content, let google index the content and watch in analytics as the search terms people used piled in. Then make sure you optimised for the keywords that provided the most results. Read more…
Not sure how I missed this one, but there is now a google ‘Author Stats’ section in google webmastertools: goto google webmastertools > labs > author stats you will now see all the pages that google knows you have authored, across all of the sites you author, with click through Read more…
First: why should you link audit competitors? Second: who are your competitors and how to find them. Third: doing the link audit. Fourth: use the link audit to build links to your own site. why should you link audit competitors There are a few good reasons to do a link Read more…
If you have a website, then you most probably want google to index your sites content. the easiest way to do this is to submit a sitemap to google, using webmastertools. 1) Make sure you have a sitemap If you run wordpress then there are plenty of plugins that will Read more…
Seomoz has lots of great information. I subscribe to their blog posts to make sure that I keep up to date on the latest findings and developments across the seo world. but SEO takes a lot of time, and its easy to forget things. I try to spend a couple Read more…
Google have released an ‘author’ tag. the author tag is what enables sites to have a ‘byline’ in the google search results. this post will show you how to setup and test the new author tag so that google can (at their discretion) show a picture of you next to Read more…
Since yahoo site explorer is now dead I have been looking for alternative ways to profile backlinks. to check your own backlinks and the backlinks of your competitors http://blekko.com search for “yoursite.com /seo” note the space between yoursite.com and /seo http://blekko.com search for “yoursite.com /domainlinks” note the space between yoursite.com Read more…
Some cool SEO tools for you to try out – I’m always looking for SEO tools, the more tools I try out, the more I understand what the general consensus is amongst the SEO community as to what makes your site perform better. That said, there are always things to Read more…
This will show you how to link your google webmastertools and your google analytics accounts. when the two accounts are linked it lets you get some better stats in your webmastertools. goto google.com/webmastertools click on manage it will have an entry for ‘google analytics profile’ in the dropdown when you Read more…
Just incase you use google basefeed (google merchant, or google shopping) their new specifications go live tomorrow, sept 22nd 2010. basically you need to have a brand, a UPC / EAN and a manufacturer part number for everything, and if you sell clothes then you need a google product type Read more…
This will show you how to enable the new wordpress.com stats in your self hosted wordpress blog :) they let you see pageviews per day, week, month. they also let you see search terms, etc go to your self hosted wordpress admin goto plugins > add new search for ‘jetpack’ Read more…
Basecamp is an excellent tool to help manage projects. any type of project. they have an account that lets you have one project for free – this post explains adding basecamp todos and milestones from email :) one problem with basecamp is the time it takes to setup todo lists and Read more…
This will show you how to specify the image you want facebook to use when content from your site gets shared. you will need to add in the following meta tag <meta property=”og:image” content=”http://yoursite.com/image.png”/> facebook will then use the appropriate image. there are plenty of open graph meta tags to Read more…
This one will speed up your wordpress a little by turning off inter-blog communication it will turn off notifications about pingbacks and trackbacks. basically, it wont generate a comment when someone links to your article, and it wont tell anyone when you link to theirs, but by doing that it Read more…
This post will show you a range of ways to detect and remove unused css from your site. removing unused css will help your stylesheets load faster which, in turn will help your site load faster. there are several ways to do this. one way is to use a firefox Read more…
This will show you how to fix google analytics ‘bounce rate’ if you have a blog. bounce rate is a tricky one – if you have an ecommerce site, then bounce is when people dont go to your checkout, or if they do go to your checkout then dont complete Read more…
There are lots of firefox addons for web development; here are the best firefox addons for web development I use on a daily basis. firebug Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of development tools at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, Read more…
WordPress ultimate seo guide – This post is about making your wordpress perform better in search engine result pages. WordPress is pretty good, but its not perfect. this will tell you how to make it stronger. 1) what is seo? Making sure that your pages have the best chance of Read more…
Automatic facebook and twitter status updates from wordpress blog posts using your rss feed This will teach you how to setup your wordpress blog to send automatic status updates to facebook and twitter every time you make a post. what you need: a wordpress blog social network accounts the first Read more…
Defining and implementing a solid technical social media strategy. this post is all about how to get your content to as many ‘social media’ sites as possible with minimal effort and tracking it all so that you know whats happening 1 ) different types of sites, microblogging, news aggregation, etc Read more…
since I changed the premalink structure of my posts the site has been getting a bit more traffic (I also put in some htaccess rules to stop certain bots getting to the site, which reduced overall traffic, but now I know that most prople coming to the site are actual Read more…
Why canonical urls are not as good as unique content and 301 redirects. I am incharge of a few websites (about 250), they are a mix of corporate sites and e-commerce sites. In october 2009 one of the programmers at work implemented googles canonical url recommendation to our e-commerce platform so Read more…
Ive just changed the permalink structure for my entire site, with automatic 301 url rewriting from the old url to the new url. I used a plugin called ylsy_permalink_redirect I used it to change the old permalink structure /%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/to the new one – /%postname% if you try to access the Read more…
google is now using the speed of your site to determine your search rankings your site needs to be as fast as it can. Along with optimising your site for search results and w3c and wcag validation you now need to optimise for speed using google pagespeed. there are a Read more…
Some tips for your wordpress blog before you can optimise for search: header tags make sure you have the proper header tags in your pages dont make the title of your blog be an h1 tag only have one h1 tag per page make sure the h1 tag is on Read more…
Update: ping.fm is pretty much dead. use the twitterfeed method here instead automatic facebook twitter myspace linkedin and other status updates from wordpress blog posts using your rss feed This will teach you how to setup your wordpress blog to send automatic status updates to all your social networks every Read more…
ok, so here are a few ways to collect stats for your wordpress blog. pretty basic stuff, but very valuable google analytics – provides an excellent way to track all the users of your site, what pages they go to, where they go, how long they stay on your site, Read more…
SEO seminar with Rand Fishkin – I work as a web developer. its a great job, and its great fun (especially since I’m a geek). One of the companies we do a lot of work with have a lot of good contacts. one of them is @randfish – founder of Read more…
I have been making sitemap generators. a little script that generates an xml file with every product, category, brand and combination thereof; along with every news article and static page. one site has 8000 odd urls! the sitemaps also include a timestamp of when the data was last modified. there Read more…