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How to Parse the Google Results Page using Regular Expressions Even if You’re a Total PHP n00b

Ryan Smith — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 22:51:09 +0000

There comes a time in the course of every SEO’s life where they find themselves wishing to scrape their own search rankings data rather than use one of the fine commercial tools available for the task. Fortunately for me, not every SEO is also a hacker, so I do a lot of work with professional [...]

How to Parse the Google Results Page using Regular Expressions Even if You’re a Total PHP n00b courtesy of Technical SEO Ryan Smith.

Semantic Markup: How to feed Google Rich Snippets & Yahoo SearchMonkey with RDFa and Microformats

Ryan Smith — Wed, 13 May 2009 19:12:54 +0000

The game sure is changing. Though it often feels like a captor-hostage situation, and for some accompanied by a kind of Stockholm Syndrome, Google and its nearly pathetic (if precedent) runners-up in the search market have opened up new ways of tweaking your site’s presentation in their search results. It used to be that all [...]

Semantic Markup: How to feed Google Rich Snippets & Yahoo SearchMonkey with RDFa and Microformats courtesy of Technical SEO Ryan Smith.

Tracking multiple pages with the same URL in Google Analytics

Ryan Smith — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 09:00:07 +0000

What do you do when you’re trying to put Google Analytics on a dumb-ass checkout process which uses the same identical URL like /stupidcommerce.cgi for every step? Naturally any web analytics package is going to see every step every user performs as views of the same page and count them all together as the same [...]

Tracking multiple pages with the same URL in Google Analytics courtesy of Technical SEO Ryan Smith.

Sitemap URL Redirecting

Ryan Smith — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 09:00:29 +0000

I recently encountered an issue where a client with a web server cluster was having difficulty keeping every node’s copy of their sitemap up-to-date, and wanted to know if all the search engines’ sitemap bots would follow a 301 redirect on the sitemap itself to a master server with a different domain than the site [...]

Sitemap URL Redirecting courtesy of Technical SEO Ryan Smith.

How to properly 301 Redirect URL’s with Apache, IIS, PHP, ASP and ColdFusion

Ryan Smith — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 19:39:41 +0000

Properly translating your search-unfriendly URL’s into search-lovable ones, or just scrambling up your information architecture (or “IA”, which is essentially a site’s navigational structure, with respect to the way content is organized) into something more delicious to bots and humans alike should be a straightforward process. Many of us had to learn this process [...]

How to properly 301 Redirect URL’s with Apache, IIS, PHP, ASP and ColdFusion courtesy of Technical SEO Ryan Smith.