Anthony Shapley

Google Sitemap to W3C Validator Updated

I’ve spent this evening updating the code for the Google Site map to W3C Website Validator, its now probably 10 times faster. All websites should atleast be transitional, accessibility is very important so its a really handy tool. Feedback welcome, enjoy the updated tool. Bookmark

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Meta Tags Guide

I’ve started writing a meta tags guide for those DIY SEO’s. All the important ones are already included, I will slowly continue and complete the document though. Cheers, Bookmark

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First Wordpress Plugin: RSS Aggregator

This last week I’ve been coding my first Wordpress plugin, hence the lack of posts. I’ve really enjoyed writing for wordpress so expect to see some more. I’d highly recommend learning some of it, I would also recommend You can download the Wordpress RSS Aggregator here. Please feedback if you like/dislike my plugin so I can make further [...]

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How to add Twitter to your Blog

Joost has written an awesome little guide on how to display your last Tweet using the Twitter API. I’ve added it to my sidebar, check it out. Its ideal for personal blogs since writing a post isn’t always practical or neccersary. Incase your wondering what Twitter is, its a social networking site that allows its users to send [...]

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Smiley Central cuts payouts for UK Publishers…

Grr wtf.. I’ve been running the Smiley Central campaign on Yahoo Search Network with some success now a few days ago they cut the payouts for leads in the UK?! Now I’m looking for a replacement… Do you know a good replacement? Bookmark

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8 Ways to get your website right..

Here are some easy but basic tips to improve conversions and just get any site functioning nicely.. Ensure that its fast loading. We all have fast paced lives, none of us are willing to wait long or you’ll lose our attention. Target your Market, this needs to be reflected in your advertising, your copy, your imagery, layout, [...]

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Google Chrome

Just downloaded Google’s new Browser which is currently in beta. It seems pretty polished for a Beta, its easy on memory, faster than FireFox. Plug-ins are also great, you can install them without even having to reload the browser, that is the kind of thing that usually gets right on my nerves. It doesn’t have countless toolbars, [...]

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HTTP Referral Spoofing with PHP and cURL

Well I’m feeling much better, so the other day I was reading a thread on Digital Point, this guy was charging a sh*t load to basically send a shit load of spoofed visitors with a fake Referral header. Therefore I’ve written a very basic one which you could in theory leave running all night. Unlike [...]

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123-Reg .info domains for £0.99

That’s right - 123-reg.co.uk is doing .info domain names for under £1.00. Which is pretty awesome if you only want the domain names for a year. My advice is to be very careful though because I got caught out with something similar last year buying them on GoDaddy. I bought a lot of domains they then [...]

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Reading an XML Sitemap using PHP

In this short tutorial I will cover reading a Google/XML Sitemap and grabbing hold of each URL to use as you wish. This is amazingly easy to do: Firstly we need to pass in the Sitemap URL. In the example we’re going to use GET since this is the most useful in my opinion. <?php $sitemap = $_GET['sitemap']; // [...]

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