http://www.visualfuture.com/davetech If technology was easy and always worked right the first time, you wouldn't be reading this. Thu, 11 Sep 2008 07:06:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en For more on the entire Tynt issue, see Eric Lander's blog post on Tynt. If you're on an Apache server with mod rewrite & want to prevent Tynt from displaying your site here are some rules that may help: RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} ^204\.244\.109\.(2(4[0-7]))$ [OR] RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} ^204\.244\.120\.(1(7[6-9]|8[0-3]))$ RewriteRule ^(.*)$ ... http://www.visualfuture.com/davetech/2008/09/10/un-tynt-your-website-for-apache/ If you're running an AdWords campaign that serves multiple countries, you may want to see how each country is performing individually. I came across this again recently when discussing AdWords performance with one of my e-commerce clients. In his campaign, he is running ads in both the US ... http://www.visualfuture.com/davetech/2008/08/28/country-adwords-statistics-using-analytics/ I started reading up on how to develop a FireFox Extension and one of the first recommendations is to create a separate FireFox profile. The second profile is recommended so you don't have to clutter up your "regular" FireFox profile with a bunch of debuggers and development tools. ... http://www.visualfuture.com/davetech/2007/12/13/creating-a-second-firefox-profile-for-seo/ For all of you asking for notes from the SEO Tools presentation, here are the links to (most) of the tools mentioned: Derek Vaugn, Techpad Agency http://webceo.com/ Keyword rank checking; like WebPosition. Downloadable Windows software that runs in the background. Long lists (~200+ Keywords) can take several hours to run. IndexTools: Last 100 ... http://www.visualfuture.com/davetech/2007/12/08/pubcon-2007-tools-of-the-trade-session/ If you manage websites of any decent size, you're probably familiar with Xenu Link Sleuth for PC. It's an incredibly powerful tool that allows you to check links on your site for errors. Well, bummer for me, it's Windows only and I'm on a Mac. I've pretty ... http://www.visualfuture.com/davetech/2007/07/09/integrity-link-checker-for-mac-can-i-do-without-xenu/ So, of course, the SES that Sally and & I won't be attending has an *OFFICIAL* SES NYC 2007 Party & Events Schedule. Put together by Joe Morin, no less. Sounds like a lot of fun, and it looks like there's quite a line up of events. Have fun everybody, ... http://www.visualfuture.com/davetech/2007/04/03/new-york-ses-party-list/ He's such a romantic. My honey writes me code for V-day. http://www.visualfuture.com/sally/ It's a landing page URL search tool for Yahoo Store. Give it a list of keywords, there's a quotes option for exact match (thanks, Rob), tell it the store name, then hit the majik button. A ... http://www.visualfuture.com/davetech/2007/02/11/my-valentines-day-gift-from-david/ If it wasn't so irritating, it would be funny. I just received an email forwarded by a client from an SEO firm trying to contact me. The SEO firm sent an email to the client's "info@" address to try and reach me to solict SEO services. I admit: I'm baffled. I've received ... http://www.visualfuture.com/davetech/2007/01/08/how-to-identify-bad-seo-companies/ And it might be yours too! It's worth taking a look at your analytics "Screen Resolutions" report from time to time. The last time I heard someone quote a statistic on how many people used 800x600 resolution the number given was 40%. I did some checking, and while some ... http://www.visualfuture.com/davetech/2007/01/05/my-new-years-resolution-1024x768/ Ok, now that everyone has had a chance to develop a "content rich" super-converting 404-error page, it's time to put it to good use. And what better use for an error page, than to have it give us some indication of what link may have *caused* the error to occur in ... http://www.visualfuture.com/davetech/2006/09/27/more-on-yahoo-store-404-error-pages-and-google-analytics-this-time/