October 6, 2011 at 9:30 pm
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PageRank is dead, long live PageRank.
As we said recently, there’s been lots of speculation as to whether PageRank is dead or not. It isn’t, just Google are moving the goals a bit. Basically, they don’t want you to focus on PageRank but it’s still massively important to them.
All this talk of dead, reminds me of the Monty Python dead parrot sketch, only in this case, it isn’t dead. An anti-dead-parrot if you will.
So what’s with all the news about PageRank being dead? Google just changed their code, that’s all…
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September 7, 2011 at 1:26 pm
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Over the years I’ve been asked how to integrate a newsletter into a website quite a few times.
These days I often find myself recommending a third party service such as MailChimp, however I soon discovered that as brilliant as it is, MailChimp its not for everyone.
For example, many of our web hosting clients want to run their own mail campaigns through their own website rather than use a third party service.
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August 17, 2011 at 10:09 am
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Recently a list of “bad words” were made available through Google’s new website which asks: “What do you love?” (wdyl.com).
So, perhaps I was a bit hasty writing off WhoisX.
The list of profanities was discovered in the Javascript on the website, however Google reacted quickly and switched this to a URL lookup instead of a Javascript one therefore keeping the list away from prying eyes.
However, what this does mean is now we have an API to play with: Read the rest of this entry »
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August 15, 2011 at 8:33 am
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WhoisX is a domain name lookup service, similar to the whois service provided by “domain tools”, but ours was primarily for UK domain names.
It began as a small project to help people check whether a domain was available or not. When a domain was available the visitor was linked to a place they could buy the domain.
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August 9, 2011 at 8:48 am
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An IP address is a unique number which identifies a machine on a network.
On the Internet IP addresses are allocated in blocks to ISPs in each country by regional registries, making it possible to identify which country an IP address originated in.
Often, if you are connected to the Internet behind a router, you share an online IP address with everyone else on your local area network (LAN).
Sometimes you need to know your external IP address and using something like ipconfig will only return your LAN IP address (something like 192.168.0.1).
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