Comment spam sucks, its as simple as here at Venture Skills blog we get hundreds of spam a day most are caught by Akismet but not all are. If your hosting your own blog or site then no doubt you have tried many combinations. One simple method of reducing spam is a CAPTCHA “Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart” These provide puzzles which are easy for a human to solve but are much more difficult for a machine. Read the rest of this entry »
Page not found again! 404 in depth
July 24, 2007 — Tim NashI was chatting to a friend the other day about his newly created site (it looked really sweet) and I was looking at the CSS (very neat) but misstyped the URL my whole world came down no literally not only was he using IIS to host the site 
he had no custom error pages.
A few days later I noticed he was starting to pay attention to this problem, interesting articles started to appear in his del.icio.us account, and I started to think about the humble 404 and other error messages.
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User agents and referrers – who are you any way?
July 16, 2007 — Tim NashWe rely on knowing who is coming to our site and how they got their our conversion goals are set by this and sometimes our authentication systems rely on them but what are these concepts and how can we abuse use them.
User Agents
A user agent is the client application used with a particular network protocol; the phrase is most commonly used in reference to those which access the World Wide Web. Web user agents range from web browsers to search engine crawlers (”spiders”), as well as mobile phones, screen readers and braille browsers used by people with disabilities. When Internet users visit a web site, a text string is generally sent to identify the user agent to the server. This forms part of the HTTP request, prefixed with User-agent: or User-Agent: and typically includes information such as the application name, version, host operating system, and language. Bots, such as web crawlers, often also include a URL and/or e-mail address so that the webmaster can contact the operator of the bot.
Mini Sites or Large Sites?
July 10, 2007 — Tim NashWe got a question from a concerned reader…
I have a question for you is it better to develop 1 large site or several smaller ones?
I’m preparing to develop a new ecommerce site with nearly 500 products should I create several sites?
Cloaking is ok says Google
July 6, 2007 — Tim NashA recent Google Webmaster blog post finally put the last nail into the coffin with regards to content substitution or to give it the demonic blackhat term Cloaking…
A technique like sIFR still lets non-Flash readers read a page, since the content/navigation is actually in the HTML — it’s just displayed by an embedded Flash object.
Source:http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2007/07/best-uses-of-flash.html
So its ok for us to write text and then substitute that text with a flash or image file, now to be fair most SEO I think have been doing this with CSS image substitution for some time, but this is the first time that I have seen Google come out and say that its ok to use these techniques.
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