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Webmastering on Caffeine – PubCon South 2010

Ryan Smith — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 12:55:59 +0000

This year’s PubCon South in Dallas certainly proved to be worth the trip. Surprisingly, I was the only one I knew who bothered to rent a car. Note to would-be conference attendees: if you can get a good rate, rent a car. You’ll make stupendous industry contacts in addition to some fine conference buddies. Since [...]

Webmastering on Caffeine – PubCon South 2010 courtesy of Technical SEO Ryan Smith.

See yall in Dallas

Ryan Smith — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 09:15:14 +0000

I’m confirmed for the HTML, CSS and Hosting panel at WebmasterWorld PubCon South in Dallas on April 13-15, where I’ll be in excellent company discussing a variety of technical issues relevant to professional webmasters. I’m looking forward especially to the Q&A to follow our presentations, as this level of technical discussion is under-served at PubCon [...]

See yall in Dallas courtesy of Technical SEO Ryan Smith.

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 [...]

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

Everyday Apache .htaccess Configuration Magic

Ryan Smith — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 19:32:06 +0000

Here’s a PDF of my presentation for TechMaine’s Web Designers User Group on common Apache .htaccess tricks ranging from password-protecting directories and WordPress permalinks to how to do 301 redirects for a variety of situations and useful PHP runtime configuration directives you can do from .htaccess. Everyday Apache .htaccess Configuration Magic courtesy of Technical SEO [...]

Everyday Apache .htaccess Configuration Magic 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.

“No manual intervention” says a Google Fellow of Quality

Ryan Smith — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 09:00:18 +0000

Amit Singhal, a Google Fellow in charge of their Search Quality Group, just posted a killer entry on the official Google Blog describing their IR philosophy. The first thing that jumps out at the casual SEO reading this is emphasized in bold below: We work very hard to keep our system simple without compromising on [...]

“No manual intervention” says a Google Fellow of Quality 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.

Automated Keyword Research – 2007 Vegas PubCon

Ryan Smith — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 09:00:46 +0000

Here are the links from my presentation on Automated Keyword Research in the Organic Keyword Research panel at 2007 WebmasterWorld conference in Las Vegas. Search Ranking Acquisition: Yahoo Search API Windows Live Search API Google SOAP Search API tombstone and function reference for legacy API key holders Keyword Search Volume Estimations: KeywordDiscovery API WordTracker API [...]

Automated Keyword Research – 2007 Vegas PubCon courtesy of Technical SEO Ryan Smith.