Archive for the ‘Sootle Directory’ Category
Thursday, September 1st, 2005
There have been a great number of submissions in the month of September. Some odd German spam has been a lot of it, but many quality websites have been added as well.
Work continues on adding better text-based descriptions to all of the category pages, in the interest of ...
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Saturday, June 4th, 2005
We've written a webmaster tool to check your competition in Google. This is our first real use of the Google API, and it's very easy to use.
Check your competition in Google. This will run a simultaneous search for your search phrase and it will perform a backlink check. ...
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Friday, May 13th, 2005
This seems to be a big part of what I'm hearing that optimizers are doing these days. Actually, they're using RSS feeds in all sorts of...err, interesting ideas.
The tendency to abuse RSS feeds as "changing content" seems problematic, though. Google's algo has gotten better at finding duplicate content, ...
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Saturday, April 30th, 2005
Today we did a bit more work on automation of link checking, and performing various administrative tasks. Let's face it, the more you can automate any task, the less of a strain it is, and the more productive you can be. Intuitive tools are always a great joy ...
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Wednesday, April 27th, 2005
I completed the user authentication system for the Sootle platform today.
It's based on MySQL storage of course. So far it looks good. I need to bug test and add a lost password function. I think sending the password via SMTP may be the easiest and probably ...
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Wednesday, April 27th, 2005
An obviously simple tool, yet Find your ip address can come in handy on certain occasions.
I didn't get too involved with proxies and forwarding. I assume people using proxy servers have a good idea what IP they're giving off.
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