Friday, November 21st, 2008

Truth 1. Getting noticed by spiders, robots, and crawlers

Spiders, robots, and crawlers are your friends. In the name of search engine optimization, you’ll not only learn to love them, but you’ll actually go out of your way to attract them to your site.

In SEO, spiders, robots, and crawlers are more or less synonymous, but don’t worry unduly—none have legs or feelers. So, let’s consolidate and just use the term “crawler,” shall we? Just bear in mind that you’ll sometimes want to attract robots, or lace your site with “spider bait.” All belong to the same principle.

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Friday, November 21st, 2008

What is the meaning of Comcast filtering my SMTP, send mail function.

With a little investigation and a call to support I found that my consumer subscription to comcast is now blocked from sending my using my own account.  Since I have my own domain name http://itpws.com, I have been using my port 25 to send email.

The reason that they give from technical support is that there is too much abuse with spam going out using comcast servers so they have to shut is down.

So what are you to do when they shut off your smtp outbound mail and you want to use the email address from your domain name such as scott@itpws.com.
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Monday, November 3rd, 2008

While investigating the easy way to allow clients post to the blog I ran accross this FireFox plugin.  This allows you to be on the article that you are researching and then write up the post and post it right to your blog site without missing a beat.

http://deepestsender.mozdev.org/

Here are the benefits of using this tool for your blog.
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