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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.

“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.