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How To Move a Website without Losing Your Search Rankings

ben.herman — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 22:47:29 +0000

For any number of reasons it can sometimes become necessary to move a website to a new domain. When done correctly, moving to a new domain can be simple and flawless. Unfortunately, there is only one way to do it right, and a million paths for getting it wrong.

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Advanced SEO URLs in Apache and IIS

ben.herman — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 21:21:42 +0000

When making a website SEO friendly, one of the first orders of business is analyzing the URL structure. If the website utilizes the proper keywords in the URL filenames, then the next step is to make sure that search engines (and users) are only able to view one version of each page.

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Do Search Engines Understand Your Site?

ben.herman — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 23:00:30 +0000

Every quality SEO campaign setup should start with a thorough analysis of the website’s code. The reason for the code analysis is two fold: 1.) make sure a search engine crawler can make it through the page and find the pertinent content, and 2.) make sure that a search engine crawler best understands the pertinent keywords of each page.

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HP zd8000 Laptop Overheats; Shuts down

ben.herman — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 01:06:32 +0000

Lately I’ve been having a problem with my HP ZD8000 17” laptop overheating. If it was just getting hot, I wouldn’t mind. But when it overheats, it can unexpectedly shut down.

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ProFtpd Error Message: IPv6 getaddrinfo ‘home.ben-herman.com’ error: Name or service not known

ben.herman — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 18:43:37 +0000

If your an avid linux user, then you probably know what Proftp is. Proftp is a service which allows users (including yourself) to ftp into your server.

After a recent server upgrade, the daemon which runs proftp (proftpd) gave me some errors on restart. When I restarted proftp, I received the following error printed to the screen:
IPv6 getaddrinfo 'home.ben-herman.com' error: Name or service not known

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Where we at with Cpanel 11?

ben.herman — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 00:36:19 +0000

Anyone know what cPanel is? cPanel is a hosting platform. Once a domain name points to a server, cPanel is the software that is used to administrate all of the functions used behind the scenes. Everything from managing stats software, to adding email addresses, cPanel can do it all.

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Optimizing C++ Code; PCC

ben.herman — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 23:49:30 +0000

Here’s some cool stuff I learned in school while finishing up my computer science degree. I took a class called CS-201, at Portland Community College.

The only bad part was that the class was only offered at the “Rock Creek Campus” which is far from where I lived. Even better was that the class was only offered at only one time on one day (6pm on Mondays). 6pm in Portland (and just about any other populated metropolitan area) happens to be rush hour. And did I mention that last term my car stereo was stolen? Having only my thoughts and the high pitched squeal from the broken drivers side window, I had plenty of time to think of this blog entry and the examples I wanted to show, so check it out.

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More About .htaccess mod_rewrite

ben.herman — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 22:35:23 +0000

After receiving a positive response from my last post regarding the .htaccess mod_rewrite, I wanted to follow up with a post that contained a little more information on why the rewrite would be good to use, and a few descriptions about it’s syntax.

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The infamous htaccess rewrite

ben.herman — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 19:22:08 +0000

I decided put together a few example of rewrites that I use and like. BEWARE!!! Editing the htaccess file is not for the faint of heart. Making one small edit that incorrectly rewrites, or redirects, or changes any URL could kill your search engine rankings, and make your webmastering life miserable. Make sure you understand what you are doing, and test throughly. Be sure that no matter what no two URLs can access the same page, and make sure that any old URLs redirect to the new ones.

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Combating Referer Spam using the .htaccess file (Apache)

ben.herman — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 01:23:29 +0000

Beware that editing the .htaccess file is not for the faint of heart, and we recommend not editing the file unless you know what your doing.

Today I solved a “referal spam” problem that one of my clients was having. The problem had been occuring for the past few weeks.

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