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Programming
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04.22.09Using the Google Analytics API with Ruby, Open-Uri & HpricotYou may or may not have heard that Google has finally opened up their Analytics API to the public. You can read Googles official statement here. I thought I'd show you all a quick crash introduction on how you can access the API using Ruby. The following code uses Open-Uri to access the API and Hpricot to parse the response. In this example, we're going to authenticate with the API, and then we're going to use it to extract all the keywords (organic and paid) which have brought visitors to our site within the past year (limited to 100 keywords max) NB: sorry ...
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04.03.09So, you want to build a Web App…Are you unemployed? Were you fired from your job as an accountant at a Fortune 500 company? Looking for a good way to make money, but don't want to get back in the rat race? If you answered yes to any of those questions, you should consider building a WEB APP! Web Applications are EASY to build! Anyone can do it! First, you need an idea. This can be the hardest part. Basically, you just want to think about something people do every day that you can do better. Here are some ideas to get you started: web-based makeup mirror (requires a webcam) sea-monkeys...give them ...
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01.31.09Will Google stop SERP scrapers by going Ajax?Some of you might have noticed the buzz going around the net today about Google's SERPs going ajax. There is a great post about it here: Google Web Search Ajax I've heard more than a few people asking if this will stop automation software from crawling Googles SERPs to retrieve rankings or Adwords data. In short, the answer is no. I doubt this development would be solely intended to stop people from using automated rank checkers or content scrapers, but Google has to know that whatever they change, people will simply adapt and evolve their software to keep pace. My personal opinion is ...
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01.22.09Dynamic Alt-TagsNote: This post builds off of ideas presented in past blog posts, like String Permutation. --------- I was recently doing a little friendly consulting for a friend of mine who runs a membership based adult-site. Basically he was converting well but not getting alot of traffic, so we took some time to look over his sites layout and went over some basic SEO best-practices. One of the things that he really needed to improve on was the layouts of his images. I mean, with a site like this, images are way more prevalent than content...his design is hugely image intensive, and there are ...
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08.26.08Effective and Efficient ways to Mass Install WordpressBlah...commencement of pleasantries.....blah blah....witty charming banter....blaah....introduction to mass install wordpress..blaaah......more witty commentary....blah blah.....install this...ftp that...blah...incredibly complicated....blah..self aggrandizement....blah...... Situation: Shared Host CPanel No SSH Access Solution 1: FTP Transfer Folder to server, Mechanize/CURL Install Process: 1) Collect variables: database, username, cpanel login, cpanel password, keywords 2) If necessary, create databases and users on CPanel host (using CURL, or Mechanize) Here is a function I use to create CPanel DBs: def self.create_db(base_url, cpanel_loc, cpanel_user, cpanel_pass, db, dbuser, dbpass) agent = WWW::Mechanize.new agent.user_agent_alias = $USER_AGENTS[rand($USER_AGENTS.length)] agent.basic_auth(cpanel_user,cpanel_pass) url = "http://#{base_url}#{cpanel_loc}/frontend/x/sql/" agent.get(url) agent.get("#{url}adddb.html?db=#{db}") agent.get("#{url}adduser.html?user=#{dbuser}&pass=#{dbpass}") agent.get("#{url}addusertodb.html?user=#{cpanel_user}_#{dbuser}&db=#{cpanel_user}_#{db}&ALL=ALL") end 3) For each keyword in the keyword list, create a different blog 3a) Write local wordpress-config file with ...
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