Internet Marketing, Web Development and Programming Stuff

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Major Google Voice Privacy Flaw

You know that email you get when you receive a new voicemail from your google voice number? It looks like this: You’d think that the page that the, “Play message” link takes you to would be a password-protected page. You know – one that required you be logged into your Google account to access it…and …

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Scrollbar Divs

A while back I realized how easy it is to include massive amounts of crawlable content in a page and in a relatively small section (e.g. a sidebar) without having to use fancy DHTML or anything like that. It’s simple HTML: <div style=”overflow : auto; width : 210px; height : 220px; “> Place content here. …

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Simulate Neural Networks with PHP

Modern usage of the term, “neural networks” refers to artificial neural networks, which, in short are, interconnected artificial neurons or programming constructs that simulate the properties of biological neurons. Neural Mesh has developed a PHP-based neural network framework for simulating and administrating artificial neural networks. Still there? In other words, they have created a system …

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uri_part: A PHP Function for Working with the Current URI

A PHP function that makes it extremely easy to display dynamic content within your existing Content Management System (CMS), web application framework or standard “PHP-enabled” website. function uri_part($n) { $path = explode(“/”, $_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"]); for ($i = 0; $i <= count($path); $i++) { if(is_null($path[$i]) || $path[$i] == “”) { unset($path[$i]); } } $path = array_values($path); switch($n) …

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Remove WordPress Post Revisions for Database Optimization

Ever since WordPress introduced autosaving and revision control features, larger blogs have seen a significant increase in the size of their databases. If your WordPress installation has slowed dramatically or you are simply looking to optimize your database by removing countless records you’ll never end up actually needing, run the following query on your WordPress …

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Google Profiles in Regular Search Results

A little less than a year ago, Google started including Google Profile pages in vertical results but it seems they have taken it one step further by now including them in regular search results (as depicted in the image above). Seems “fair” enough considering Google profiles are now jam-packed with all sorts of buzz and …

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List of 138 Ping URLs (RPC / RPC2 Services)

If you’re on WordPress or another blog that lets you specify the services you want to ping whenever you post to or update your blog (e.g. Ping-o-Matic), here’s a list that expands on the list of 56 RPC and RPC2 Services to Ping graciously provided by Elliott Back back in 2004.

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HTML noindex Tag

Someone on Twitter asked Google if they index content contained within the HTML tag, “noindex” (not to be confused with the robots meta tag directive) and, as far as I could tell, never received a response. I took to the Google Webmaster Help forum for an answer and a member stated his opinion that, “virtually …

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List of Affiliate & CPA Programs

Here’s a list of CPA programs. It’s an old list so there may be some that are no longer in business. There may also be some newer ones missing. What can I say, you’re welcome.

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Find Out if an SEO is Lying in Five Steps

I’ve had my fair share of run-ins with unethical car repair shops but a recent experience made me realize that there’s an analogy to be drawn between shady SEO salesmen and shady auto mechanics. To test this I simply copied an article from eHow titled, “How to Tell if a Mechanic is Lying” and made …