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Firefox Add-ons for Web Developers

askapache favorite addonsAdvanced Web Development by AskApache is a Firefox Collection I created since I’m always trying new Addons out and using multiple computers and I wanted a quick and easy way to install my favorite’s and keep a running list. Firebug, YSlow, LastPass, and Web Developer are the only ones I always use regularly.

I like the idea of the last.fm but it’s not as powerful as the site, which is awesome. Lately listening to Kings of Leon Radio

· Web  ·  RSS | 8:14 PM


Htaccess SEO Trends by Google

htaccess vs. httpd.conf


RSS | 2:10 AM


The Ultimate Htaccess

Skip this – still under edit

I discovered these tips and tricks mostly while working as a network security penetration specialist hired to find security holes in web hosting environments. Shared hosting is the most common and cheapest form of web-hosting where multiple customers are placed on a single machine and “share” the resources (CPU/RAM/SPACE). The machines are configured to basically ONLY do HTTP and FTP. No shells or any interactive logins, no ssh, just FTP access. That is when I started examining htaccess files in great detail and learned about the incredible untapped power of htaccess. For 99% of the worlds best Apache admins, they don’t use .htaccess much, if AT ALL. It’s much easier, safer, and faster to configure Apache using the httpd.conf file instead. However, this file is almost never readable on shared-hosts, and I’ve never seen it writable. So the only avenue left for those on shared-hosting was and is the .htaccess file, and holy freaking fiber-optics.. it’s almost as powerful as httpd.conf itself!

Most all .htaccess code works in the httpd.conf file, but not all httpd.conf code works in .htaccess files, around 50%. So all the best Apache admins and programmers never used .htaccess files. There was no incentive for those with access to httpd.conf to use htaccess, and the gap grew. It’s common to see “computer gurus” on forums and mailing lists rail against all uses and users of .htaccess files, smugly announcing the well known problems with .htaccess files compared with httpd.conf – I wonder if these “gurus” know the history of the htaccess file, like it’s use in the earliest versions of the HTTP Server- NCSA’s HTTPd, which BTW, became known as Apache HTTP. So you could easily say that htaccess files predates Apache itself.

Once I discovered what .htaccess files could do towards helping me enumerate and exploit security vulnerabilities even on big shared-hosts I focused all my research into .htaccess files, meaning I was reading the venerable Apache HTTP Source code 24/7! I compiled every released version of the Apache Web Server, ever, even NCSA’s, and focused on enumerating the most powerful htaccess directives. Good times! Because my focus was on protocol/file/network vulnerabilites instead of web dev I built up a nice toolbox of htaccess tricks to do unusual things. When I switched over to webdev in 2005 I started using htaccess for websites, not research. I documented most of my favorites and rewrote the htaccess guide for webdevelopers. After some great encouragement on various forums and nets I decided to start a blog to share my work with everyone, AskApache.com was registered, I published my guide, and it was quickly plagiarized and scraped all over the net. Information is freedom, and freedom is information, so this blog has the least restrictive copyright for you. Feel free to modify, copy, republish, sell, or use anything on this site ;)

· htaccesss  ·  RSS | 9:05 AM


SEO Secrets of AskApache Part 2

This is part II of the Advanced SEO used on AskApache.com Series and describes how to control which urls are indexed by Search Engines and how to move them higher up in Search Results.

· advanced  ·  RSS | 5:44 PM


Top 3 Speed Tips for Sites using Google Analytics

Top 3 ways to speed up websites that use Google Analytics. Host Script Locally, Fix Google-Analytics Cookie Domain, and Failsafe Loading for optimum tracking statistics.

· Google  ·  RSS | 2:31 AM


SEO Boost from Google 404 Plugin

1 minute Install!
Turns every 404 Not Found error into a SEO traffic generating event! Now you have many unique users with unique IP addresses and cookies searching your blog on all of the Google Indexes… Sweet!

«Take My 404 for a Test-Drive

RSS | 11:11 AM


SEO Secrets of AskApache.com

Learn how in a year, with no previous blogging experience this blog was able to rank so high in search engines and achieve 15,000 unique visitors every day. Uses combination of tricks and tips from throughout AskApache.com for Search Engine Optimization.

RSS | 9:45 PM


Auto-Login to Google Analytics to impress Clients

Auto Login to Google Analytics to impress ClientsGoogle Analytics for your clients sites is a no-brainer, it ROCKS! I have 100+ client sites running Analytics and all of them have trouble-free (no password or username to remember) access to their site reports. Thanks to the method in this post, my clients couldn’t be happier..

· Auto  ·  RSS | 3:42 PM


Updated robots.txt for WordPress

WordPress robots.txt SEOImplementing an effective SEO robots.txt file for WordPress will help your blog to rank higher in Search Engines, receive higher paying relevant Ads, and increase your blog traffic. Get a search robots point of view… Sweet!

· googlebot  ·  RSS | 10:35 PM


Instruct Search Engines to come back to site after you finish working on it

HTTP Errors, HTTP Timeouts can be prevented with a 503 Service Temporarily UnavailableNifty SEO tip to get Search Engine Bots to check your site every hour until you finish working on it and tell them you are finished.

RSS | 12:35 AM


Speed Up Google Analytics, use local ga.js

Google Analytics ga.js SpeedHost Google Analytics ga.js file locally for increased speed! Makes web pages load faster.

RSS | 8:35 AM


Search Engine Verify Plugin Updated

Wordpress SEO Plugin Search Engine VerificationThis plugin has been updated for WordPress 2.5 and includes more options to get your site indexed by Google and Yahoo.

· meta  ·  RSS | 3:51 AM


Firefox Adsense WordPress Plugin

ScreenShot of WordPress Plugin AskApache Firefox AdsenseIf your WordPress blog uses AdSense, and you love Firefox you will love this plugin. When a user downloads and installs Firefox through your referral, we’ll credit your account with up to $1.00 (more details).

· adsense  ·  RSS | 8:33 PM


Fetch Feed Subscribers from Google Reader with CURL

PHP CURL is a binding that uses libcurlPHP curl example utilizing cookies, POST, and SSL options to login to Google Reader and fetch the number of subscribers for a particular feed url.

· google  ·  RSS | 6:40 PM


Boost SEO, Drive Traffic with the 404 Error Page Plugin

The best (so far) AskApache Plugin is now even bestester! Turns every 404 Not Found error on your blog into a search engine optimized, traffic driving event!
AskApache Google 404 Powered By Google Ajax API

· plugin  ·  RSS | 2:06 AM


Robots.txt Secrets From Matt Cutts

Watch out googlebots got a weapon!The secrets in this post were really more of enlightening bits of seo wisdom. The secret is how to combine robots.txt with meta robots tags to control pagerank, juice, whatever.

· robotstxt  ·  RSS | 10:59 PM


Renaming Sponsored Links in AdSense

Google Sponsored LinksGoogle AdSense calles their AdSense Ads, “Sponsored Links”, while Text-Link-Ads.com recommends “Sponsored By”. Of course it is against the Google Adsense TOS to rename your ads, but in general, for non-adsense, what do you like to call your sponsored links?

· uri  ·  RSS | 4:30 PM


100 Alternative Search Engines

ReadWriteWebCheck out ReadWriteWeb’s fantastic list of uniquely useful search engines, its a lot of fun!

· engine  ·  RSS | 12:28 AM


Updated: AskApache Search Engine Verify

ScreenShot of Google and Yahoo Site Verification PluginI just updated the AskApache Search Engine Verify Plugin for WordPress. Short and Sweet, it won’t slow down your blog at all, except for the additional crawling of your site by Slurp and Googlebot.

· search  ·  RSS | 5:44 PM


SEO with Robots.txt

Very nice tutorial dealing with the robots.txt file. Shows examples for google and other search engines. Wordpress robots.txt and phpBB robots.txt sample files.

RSS | 12:59 PM



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