October 10th, 2009
All great blogs have a theme which they can call their own, so i bit the bullet and created my own theme for this blog which i plan on sharing with you! Cleanspace is a very simple, easy to read, xhtml/css valid theme which will make any Wordpress blog scream “I’m not trying to impress anyone”. Best of all, you don’t have to pay a dime to use it. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Cleanspace, Free, Theme, Wordpress
Posted in SEO, Themes, Web Development | 1 Comment »
August 11th, 2009
I first purchased my MacBook about three years ago for school, and had little idea at the time how great of a development platform OS X really is. Here i’ve compiled a list of 5 utilities and apps that i use on a daily basis for web development on my Mac, and a few details about each one of them that make them appealing to me (and hopefully you). Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: cyberduck, kuler, mac, mamp, photoshop, textmate, Web Development
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June 18th, 2009
A small project i have recently put a few hours towards is spinning articles for the web. Any real SEO expert will tell you that all duplicate content on the internet cancels itself out. What does this mean? Say you write an article and publish it to multiple sources, as soon as Google indexes both instances of the same article neither will gain authority or any keyword traffic since it will be considered as duplicate content. This is a fairly big problem in the blogging world and has even picked up a name, splogging. You have to give it to the spammers though, they found a way around the problem. Article Spinning is a technique used by SEO experts, spammers and plagiarizers. But what does it do? How can i use this to my advantage? Well it is fairly simple, if you take the content and replace ‘filler’ words but keep the keywords the same, you end up with unique content. You can then create multiple instances of the same article (spun versions) and repost them without being hurt by the big search engines. Basically the script i have been working on takes an article, and changes every couple words that aren’t keywords with a synonym. This enables you to have unique content every time you spin the article without losing out on the keywords within.
Now to explain some of the details. Keywords (the ones you don’t want to be changed) should start with a capital letter. This way the script recognizes it as either a pronoun or a keyword and will not change it. The script iterates through each word and the current formula takes every third word, checks for keywords, then picks a random synonym from a thesaurus api and replaces the old word. Sounds good, but there are a few issues.
One of the biggest problems is conjugation. There is currently no code to check for current conjugation and adjust the synonym accordingly. There is currently no ability to determine whether the original word is a verb, adjective or noun. So sometimes the randomly picked word is not the best choice and will throw off the flow of spun article a bit. But when can you expect, this is a work in progress.
Click here for a demo and spin an article or two. Feel free to comment with some insight.
This is provided as-is with no gaurantee, since i am currently working on this expect frequent changes.
Tags: article spinning, spin, spun, sui generis, unique content
Posted in PHP, SEO | 3 Comments »
June 18th, 2009
I wrote this simple php script way back in the day, but basically it serves to fetch Google’s pagerank for a specific page. The script is relatively simple and was written using a few resources i can no longer remember, so unfortunately i cannot credit everyone as i should but it should still prove to be useful for those looking to integrate some sort of pagerank services into their site. There are two versions of this php file, pagerank.php (this version does have ad integration) and pagerank_no_ads.php (just a basic version with no ads). Why did i make two versions? Well it just helps give people an idea of what the page could look like with ads and without, obviously you can put ads wherever you desire or you can leave them out all together. This script makes it pretty easy to take the code and integrate it into your site in your own way, so feel free to use it to your discretion and post a link in the comments if you end up doing anything cool with it. I offer no guarantee with this script, it comes as-is, Google is capable of changing the pagerank system and this could stop working. Though i haven’t made changes to this in over a year and it has been going solid since.
Click here for a demo without ads
Click here for a demo with ads
Download Free PHP Google Pagerank Checker (.zip ~8kb)
Tags: download, free pagerank checker, free php script, google, pagerank
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June 18th, 2009
This site is intended to be a resource for myself and anyone who might be interested in web development with SEO/SEM in mind. Expect to see design/code examples, scripts and insight on a regular bases. Drop me a line at me@sergiozlobin.com if the need be.
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