April 2011

The future of MFA (Made for Adsense) sites after the Google panda update

The big content directories such as ezinearticles, hubpages, articlesbase etc. All took a big hit with the Google panda update. It seems Google targeted low quality article databases with heavy blocks of adverts. These article directories have been abused by black and white hat link builders for the past decade. They allow people to post…

27/04/2011
Facebook Share button more effective than Likes?

A recent post at SEOMoz suggested that their research has found a better correlation between facebook shares than Facebook likes. The full post is here and makes for an interesting read. One of the things that really caught my attention was in the comments and I quote: “After chatting with our Google rep it seems…

19/04/2011
Custom WordPress 404 Page For SEO

I have recently been purchasing used domain names from Godaddy Auctions and Dropcatch. When I get the domains the first thing we do is look at what traffic they were pulling for what topics via google cached web search. If there is some good content on there and things we want to keep we will…

19/04/2011
Setting up twitter feed to post to Twitter and Facebook accounts

If you don’t already have a facebook and twitter account for your company they are really easy to setup. On facebook remember to click the “Create a Page for a celebrity, band or business” link on the homepage. Once you have those accounts setup head over to twitterfeed.com and sign up for an account. Enter…

14/04/2011
Setting up custom facebook and twitter buttons using php

The canonical tag has been a god send for us helping to get pages indexed and clean up site structures. In many sites we use the same php variable for our share buttons. This is a great way to setup custom twitter and facebook share buttons for your pages. We always use an external template…

08/04/2011
Perfect Site Structure

It is widely accepted that Google places the most weight on the first 100 links it finds on a web page. With that in mind we can design a website that is optimised so that every single page is as close to the root domain as possible. Even with a 1,000,000+ page website you can…

05/04/2011
Looking for an angle

My most successful campaigns are normally also my most creative and abstract. If you can take an offer and think of a way to promote it which is “outside of the box” then you are on to a winner. Coming up with the idea is the difficult bit and I’ve laid out an example of…

01/04/2011
Mixing php with javascrip – Heredoc

My main issue with javascript is the fact it is full of ‘ and ” which can be a real pain when coding. I’ve started using a method called heredoc to set a start and end point, example below. // Heredoc string // $sstring = <<<TEST Hello World TEST; The word TEST could be anything…

01/04/2011
Poor mans GeoIP – Quick and Easy Geolocation

//poor mans geoip $country=trim(file_get_contents(“http://api.hostip.info/country.php?ip=”.$_SERVER[‘REMOTE_ADDR’])); //You can then redirect customers to different offers depending on country. I wouldn’t recommend this for critical or high volume use. if ($country == ‘MyCountry’) { yadda yadda yadda; }

01/04/2011
Two php functions for scraping content and extracting links

////// Grab webpage ////// function webFetcher($url) { $crawl = curl_init(); curl_setopt ($crawl, CURLOPT_URL, $url); curl_setopt($crawl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); $resulting = $resulting.curl_exec($crawl); curl_close($crawl); return $result = $resulting; } //////////////////////////////// //// extract links //// function extract_links($text) { preg_match_all(‘/<\s*a[^<>]*?href=[\’”]?([^\s<>\’”]*)[\’”]?[^<>]*>(.*?)<\/a>/si’, $text, $match_array, PREG_SET_ORDER); $return = array() ; foreach ($match_array as $serp) { $full_anchor = $serp[0]; $href = $serp[1]; $anchortext =…

01/04/2011
Three ways to debug php

Method 1 – error.log For this to work you need to be coding in a linux environment with php, apache etc setup. This is the best way I have found and what I currently use to debug my applications/web pages. open up a new terminal and type: tail -f /var/log/apache2/error.log This will give you a…

01/04/2011
CPA Tips

Maxbounty tracking with subid in prosper202: /tracking202/static/gpb.php?amount=&subid=#S1# The standard conversion rate I use (probably out of date): //$ > £ = x 0.64 Note that what you buy and sell dollars for is very different, 2-4% Consider setting up US bank account. Not possible without visiting the states to the best of my knowledge. Phi…

01/04/2011
list to php array list2phparray

Code below for a script to take a list and turn it into an array. Comes in pretty useful. <?php if ($_POST[‘list’]) { $splist = explode(“\n”, $_POST[‘list’]); $out = ‘$x = array(‘; foreach ($splist as $line) { $out = $out.”‘$line’, “; } $out = substr($out,0,-1); $out = substr($out,0,-1); $out = $out.’);’; echo $out; } else…

01/04/2011
Prosper202 Hacks and Modifications

JiM’s Prosper202 mods 1) increase session life (stops it locking you out every few minutes) add the following line just before session_start(); in 202-config/connect.php ini_set(‘session.gc_maxlifetime’,99999); 2) Cchange the first page you see. edit 202-login.php line 80: header(‘location: /202-account’); to header(‘location: /tracking202’); or /tracking202/spy/ If you are doing email submits or any volume loging into spy…

01/04/2011
Dynamically modifying the landing page with TrafficVance using php

I ran into a silly issue today when dynamically modifying a landing page using TrafficVance. The script I was using was a pretty straight forward: <?php if ($_GET[‘t202kw’]) { $kw = strip_tags($_GET[‘t202kw’]); } if(strpos($kw,’jetinternetmarketing.co.uk’) !== false) { $page = ‘<h1>Dont target JiM on traffic Vance</h1>’; } ?> The problem was that the url I was…

01/04/2011
Welcome to the blog

Thanks for visiting this is the first post at JiM’s Blog. To tell you a little about why we are starting a blog could take a while but in short we are trying to improve our communications throughout the industry and this is one method we are using. If you are interested in getting in…

01/04/2011