Content published in April, 2008

This is a short rant about a sales letter page I bumped into while searching for some affiliate programs. Pay attention to the BS this guy has on his page.

My question to you is: Do people fall for such crap?

I wish a Happy Easter! to all those who celebrate Easter now and, of course, to those who don't! May you have a great time together with your families and loved ones and recharge your batteris for work to come … as I do!

Update: This is an older post that has a lot to do with the previous about cloaking. I've written it when I had less then 50 readers:) Now it's a good time to resurrect it. Read it and apply it if you're into the nasty stuff.

The meta description is very important for a website in both white hat and black hat use. But its importance is only understood when one employs cloaking and it's the last (only) line of defense against curious looks.

Everybody talks cloaking! It's time for me to somehow cover this subject. It's a chaotic, long post but you might get a few points on search engine cloaking from it.

UPDATE: Take a few minutes and read this paper. It somehow reinforces what I said here about interlinking and such practices. It's a good read:)

First steps to a footprint free existence.

Not much to write here except to point you to the original post about the text zones extraction, a post that was quite popular back in the days.

It's time to back it up with code … 5ubliminal style:)

Update: Nogenius warned me about a bug which I just crushed. GETs didn't work after POSTs. The fix is commented in the code. Search nogenius. Thanks!

I expanded the previous sample of Basic cUrl and PHP Usage and converted it to a class for easy further updates. I also added the headers processing which can be useful to handle cookies. It is now easier to use but basic PHP knowledge is required.

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Let's say I have a string where I know a certain substring repeats 5 times. I want to replace occurance (0,2,3) with another string but leave occurence 1,4 alone. Or just replace the first 3 occurences and let the rest live. Of course this needs to be case sensitive/insensitive.

While I'm at it I want to replace from the end and replace occurence -1 too which is last. Can you feel my pain?

The script provided has been written and tested on PHP5 and works. It should be PHP4 friendly. If you got problems… holler.

Update: When I pasted this script I had some problems with the slashes that got lost on the way. I did not notice it and most who use it fixed them but I changed the script now to a functional version.

This function should not be abused but it does have some legitimate uses. Google.com would not consider them legitimate but there are …

So use this to get the Google search engine results (SERPs) in your PHP script easily but at your own risk. And use common sense and do not hammer servers!

This is how I picture Yahoo! and Microsoft right now.

Bug Fix: Fixed a small bug that did not remove shuffles properly. Now it works and they're gone.

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