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Firefox Add-ons for Web Developers

Advanced 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…

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Protecting Files with Advanced Mod_Rewrite Anti-Hotlinking

If you have files on your site that you don’t want indexed by malicious search engines, grabbed and leeched by malicious spammers, or stolen and made available elsewhere, you can use mod_rewrite to drastically reduce or totally reduce that activity.

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Crazy Advanced Mod_Rewrite Tutorial

Note: Extremely ILL Content
Find the key to unlocking mod_rewrite and you WILL be sick.. sick with a diamond disease on your wrist!

Tagged: advanced, askapache, cheatsheet, howto, htaccess, htaccess rewrite, mod_rewrite, tutorial | 19 Comments | Continue...

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Hire AskApache

Hi there, do you want help with a project (SEO, site/server optimization, setup, wordpress plugin development, other programming, server issues, security issues, etc.) or need some expert consulting? I’m very comfortable working freelance for clients from all across the globe. I enjoy helping good causes or sites/webmasters similar to mine, and I enjoy making new friends and networking.
Personally, I love to chat on the phone or instant message with fellow webmasters and web entrepreneurs, and I like networking with like-minded individuals. Once my services are retained we will communicate any way that works best for you.. Billing is pretty flexible for all services other than SEO, which is billed aggressively: one word: skills.
Work Policy
I will never waste my time and your money by doing just enough to get paid or meet simple requirements. I deal only in results. I like to understand the root of the problem and discern what the task ultimately is meant to accomplish, and cut straight towards that. I dislike temporary fixes that will need to be re-addressed, preferring a “once-and-for-all” type of solution.
Refunds
If I can’t meet or exceed your expectations initially agreed upon then I will instantly refund 100% of any payments made other then the retainer. I’ve never had anyone request a refund.
Retainer
If you’d like to hire me, please pay this $25 retainer by clicking the paypal image or here. This is non-refundable but if I can’t help you and didn’t spend time figuring that out I’ll refund it. That also allows us to trust each other’s identity as I don’t reveal much about myself online to anonymous netizens. Once I have the retainer I will email you all my contact info so we can figure out all the details. The $25…

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An AskApache Plugin Upgrade to Rule them All

So my blog as been rather quiet for almost a year now, and very few updates if any have been released for my Password Protection PLugin, my Google 404 Plugin, and definately not for my AskApache CrazyCache plugin, which I will be releasing last… So for all of you who’ve helped me out by sending me suggestions and notifying me of errors and sticking with it… Just wanted to say sorry about that, and thanks for all the great ideas.. Well, I’ve been sticking with it as well believe it our not. I manage to get free days once in a while, and then its time to jam.

Tagged: AskApache Google 404, AskApache Password Protection, Fsockopen, WordPress Plugins, wordpress security | 1 Comment | Continue...

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Htaccess SEO Trends by Google

htaccess vs. httpd.conf

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Advanced Htaccess – SSI, ErrorDocuments, DirectoryIndexing SEO

3-Part article covering practical implementation of 3 advanced .htaccess features. Discover an easy way to boost your SEO the AskApache way (focus on visitors), a tip you might keep and use for life. Get some cool security tricks to use against spammers, crackers, and other nefarious sorts. Take your site’s error handling to the next level, enhanced ErrorDocuments that go beyond 404’s.

Tagged: Apache Htaccess, errordocument, htaccess, htaccess rewrite, mod_include, Server Side Includes, SSI, SymLinks | 1 Comment | Continue...

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Ultimate Htaccess Tutorial for .htaccess files

This is not an introduction to .htaccess… This is the evolution of .htaccess… The BEST, the ORIGINAL, the NEWEST, and the most HIGHEST, FLYEST .htaccess tricks I can find.

Originally known as the “Ultimate .htaccess Guide”, its changed over the years by adding new .htaccess tricks and .htaccess examples to it.. I also add my favorite .htaccess links, the best .htaccess articles on AskApache, the coolest .htaccess experiments, the Web’s best .htaccess hacks, and update this article on the regular.

Tagged: .htaccess examples, Apache, Cache, caching, Files, FilesMatch, Google, Hacking, howto, htaccess, htaccess guide, htaccess help, htaccess howto, htaccess rewrite, htaccess tricks, htaccess tutorial, httpd, litespeed, mod_rewrite, Mod_Security, rewritecond, rewriterule, sample .htaccess, Security, SEO, seo secrets, SetEnvIf, ssl, ultimate htaccess | 56 Comments | Continue...

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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.

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About AskApache

Purpose and Goal of AskApache
To provide free access to knowledge and data with the goal of empowering people.. or more melodramatically: “Power to the People!”
Why the name AskApache? AskApache was chosen to show and pay respect to the contributors of the Apache Web Server. Literally it means to ask Apache when facing a problem, by searching the Open-Source, contacting a board/list, or browsing the documentation.
The Author
I work for a multimedia production / brand development & marketing company here in Indianapolis, the greatest city in the world! I started this blog in Dec., ‘06 to familiarize myself with WordPress as a blogging platform among other things for my job. I help expand/create a growing companies market-share online (and offline) by managing and building the brand and developing high-quality leads and loyal customers by building online funnels fed by SEO traffic and on/offline marketing campaigns. Other than the design and development costs for our minimum 12 month contract, we operate using a gain-share formula where we receive a percentage of the increased revenue that results from our services. This translates to fanatical attention to improving the bottom-line, and focus on long-term sustainable growth and overall success.
It’s important to me to note that unlike most systems set up like this, we are absolutely interested in creating customers/leads/whatever by providing real value for them. It’s much more difficult and takes a lot longer, but it is also self-sustaining as value attracts in an exponential manner. We are likely different than any model you’ve seen before in terms of lead-sales-marketing types.
My Background
I started on DOS, then Windows 2.11 (released 1989), and learned BASIC for my first language… then IBM PC assembly followed by Java, which I used as an excuse to stop learning assembly.. …

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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

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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.

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Mod_Security .htaccess tricks

Mod_Security rivals Mod_Rewrite in the amount of features it provides. I decided to go ahead and post what I learned about it today, even though its tough to give away such awesome htaccess and apache tricks.. Learn how to control spam once and for all, conditionally log/deny/allow/redirect requests based on IP, username, etc.. Mod_Security is so fine!

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.Htaccess rewrites, Mod_Rewrite Tricks and Tips

htaccess rewrite / Mod_Rewrite Tips and Tricks is as glamorous as it sounds! htaccess rewrite mod_rewrite is just possibly one of the most useful Apache modules and features. The ability to rewrite requests internally as well as externally is extremely powerful.

Tagged: htaccess, htaccess rewrite, mod_rewrite, Redirecting URLS, rewrite, Rewrite Tricks, rewritecond, rewriterule | 57 Comments | Continue...

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Apache SSL in htaccess examples

SSLOptions +StrictRequire
SSLRequireSSL
SSLRequire %{HTTP_HOST} eq "google.com"
ErrorDocument 403 https://google.com

Some of the Ins and Outs of using SSL Connections with Apache.

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Updated robots.txt for WordPress

Implementing 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!

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

Nifty 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.

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.htaccess mod_rewrite rewrite examples

A hit-list of some of my favorite mod_rewrite code snippets for .htaccess files

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Search Engine Verify Plugin Updated

This plugin has been updated for WordPress 2.5 and includes more options to get your site indexed by Google and Yahoo.

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Advanced WordPress 404.php

For the AskApache Google 404 WordPress Plugin update I added a new 404.php that is more advanced than anything previously seen for a 404.php

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SetEnvIf and SetEnvIfNoCase Examples

SetEnv, SetEnvIf, and SetEnvIfNoCase directives conditionally set environment variables accessible by scripts and apache based on HTTP Headers, Variables, and Request information.

Tagged: Examples, htaccess, mod_rewrite, mod_setenvif, SetEnv, SetEnvIf | 4 Comments | Continue...

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HTTP Status Codes and .htaccess ErrorDocuments

There are a total of 57 HTTP Status Codes recognized by the Apache Web Server. Wouldn’t you like to see what all those headers and their output, ErrorDocuments look like?

Tagged: Apache, errordocument, htaccess, HTTP Error, HTTP Status Codes, PHP, Redirect, Status Code | 19 Comments | Continue...

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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!

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Robots.txt Secrets From Matt Cutts

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.

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301 Redirect Cheatsheet

Ultimate Redirect Cheatsheet for multiple programming languages. Redirecting Users with Javascript redirect, meta refresh redirect, and php redirect, also htaccess methods, python, coldfusion, asp, perl, etc.

Tagged: ASP, ColdFusion, htaccess, HTTP-EQUIV, Javascript, Perl, PHP, Python | 7 Comments | Continue...

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Tips on Writing WordPress Plugins

Thought I’d give you all the tips and tricks that I’ve learned and use when developing WordPress plugins.. which can be quite fun!

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100 Alternative Search Engines

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

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Updated: AskApache Search Engine Verify

I 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.

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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.

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Compete Search Analytics officially opened to the public! It rocks!

I just received an email (I’m a VIP) from the Compete Search Analytics Team announcing that they are officially open to the public! Normally this would have 0 effect on me, I’m not into SEO tools, but this online resource is incredible!

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Random Bits, the podcast that gives you an insiders view

I was over at Alex King’s blog today checking out his mobile web plugin for wordpress and I noticed some fresh podcasts from some of the industry’s finest. The feeds are .mp3 and are easy to find and browse on the search-this.com site. They have some pretty nice articles over there as well..

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Website SEO Score Tool

Check out this free online SEO site-scoring tool. The SEO generated report is simple, neat, and helpful. The main thing I like about it is how it is a stand-alone website, a residual money making machine.

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View Detailed HTTP Headers

HTTP Headers

HTTP Header Name
Header Description
Example HTTP Header

Accept
Content-Types that are acceptable
Accept: text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5

Accept-Charset
Character sets that are acceptable
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7

Accept-Encoding
Acceptable encodings
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate

Accept-Language
Acceptable languages for response
Accept-Language: en-us,en

Accept-Ranges
What partial content range types this server supports
Accept-Ranges: bytes

Age
The age the object has been in a proxy cache in seconds
Age: 7200

Allow
Valid actions for a specified resource. To be used for a 405 Method not allowed
Allow: GET,HEAD,POST,OPTIONS,TRACE

Authorization
Authentication credentials for HTTP authentication
Authorization: Basic UXNrYXBhggRfoopc5NteWFzcw==

Cache-Control
Controls how proxies may cache this object
Cache-Control: max-age=7200, public

Connection
What type of connection the user-agent would prefer
Connection: Keep-Alive

Content-Encoding
The type of encoding used on the data
Content-Encoding: gzip

Content-Language
The language the content is in
Content-Language: en-us

Content-Length
The length of the content in bytes
Content-Length: 5356

Content-Location
An alternate location for the returned data
Content-Location: /index.html

Content-MD5
An MD5 sum of the content of the response
Content-MD5: 1167b9c13ad2b6d3694493fc47976c8

Content-Range
Where in a full body message this partial message belongs
Content-Range: bytes 110-2034/2035

Content-Type
The mime type of this content
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8

Date
The date and time that the message was sent
Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2008 09:27:35 GMT

Host
The domain name of the server (for virtual hosting)
Host: www.askapache.com

If-Modified-Since
Allows a 304 Not Modified to be returned
If-Modified-Since: Sat, 05 Jan 2007 09:26:12 GMT

Last-Modified
The last modified date for the requested object
Last-Modified: Sat, 05 Jan 2008 09:26:12 GMT

Location
Used in redirection
Location: http://www.askapache.com/

Server
A name for the server
Server: Apache/2.0.61 (Unix) PHP/4.4.7 mod_ssl/2.0.61 OpenSSL/0.9.7e mod_fastcgi/2.4.2 DAV/2 SVN/1.4.2

User-Agent
The user agent string of the user agent
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.7) Gecko/20070914 Firefox/2.0.0.7

List of HTTP Response Status Codes
1xx Info / Informational
HTTP_INFO – Request received, continuing process.
Indicates a provisional response, consisting only of the Status-Line and optional headers, and is terminated by an empty line.

100 Continue – HTTP_CONTINUE
101 Switching Protocols – HTTP_SWITCHING_PROTOCOLS
102 Processing – HTTP_PROCESSING

2xx Success / OK
HTTP_SUCCESS – The action was successfully received, understood, and accepted.
Indicates that the client’s request was successfully received, understood, and accepted.

200 OK – HTTP_OK
201 Created – HTTP_CREATED
202 Accepted – HTTP_ACCEPTED
203 Non-Authoritative Information – HTTP_NON_AUTHORITATIVE
204 No Content – HTTP_NO_CONTENT
205 Reset Content – HTTP_RESET_CONTENT
206 Partial…

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Language/Country specific Google Search Engine’s

Google’s Search Engine Hosting Servers automatically provide Internet users all over the world with a “localized” version of the incredible Google Search Engine that we know and love.

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AskApache Search Engine Verify

You may not think much about verifying your website with these search engines, but I am of the opinion it is extremely good for Search Engine Optimization (SEO). In fact, I read the other day on Google that if you buy a domain with a checkered past that has been punished by the search engines and you want it to be reincluded in the index this is what they recommended. Verify your sites.

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Redirect index.php to root

WordPress blogs show the same duplicate content for http://www.askapache.com/index.php and http://www.askapache.com/. If you’ve read about using a robots.txt file for WordPress SEO, than you already understand this setup results in Duplicate Content penalties being levied against your Blog and Web Site by Search Engines.

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Rigging the DreamHost Site of the Month Contest

Since I was disqualified and accused of cheating, which is absolutely false, I decided to go ahead and do the crime I have been punished for. That’s right, I’m going to show YOU how I could have rigged the DHSOTM contest to hopefully make the statement that I absolutely did not cheat and I absolutely want to be re-instated as the winner.

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Allow AdSense Crawler Access

Google AdSense uses the robots.txt file to optimize Ads displayed on your site for the Mediapartners-Google robot

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Advanced Google Analytics 404 Error Page

Advanced 404 Not Found Error page usage with Google Analytics. This makes it very easy to diagnose and keep track of 404 Error messages from within google analytics. Enjoy!

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DreamHost Site of The Month Contest

Every month a contest called DHSOTM is held for the highest rated website on DreamHost. By winning the contest your site gets SEO and traffic benefits, which I hope to measure soon.

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