ultimate SEO list

Posted on April 13th, 2010 by thiswayup.
Categories: dev.

I thought I'll start creating a SEO checklist for my personal and whoever likes to reference this, at the moment itd quite small but will add more and more over time.

General site structure

  • "keywords" meta tag - google ignores
  • h1 tag - descriptive term
  • description meta tag -
  • friendly url - that describes the page hint: should be close to H1 tag
  • Keep content as high as possible
  • Vary the media
  • Add alt tags to all picture
  • If using flash add spiderable content of what the flash content should have

Making google happy

  • Optimise for speed

More techie stuff

  • Robot.txt
  • Sitemap.xml - generate automatically
  • rel="Nofollow" - add to outbound links which you do not want the search engine to give weight or scrae through
  • When using ajax to update content, make sure we can degrade to non-javascript mode as I do not believe the spiders render the page to figure out what content will appear

Content guide

  • html site guide
  • Privacy policy

Tools

  • Googleweb master
  • http://www.pluginseo.com/
  • majesticseo.com - report on backlinks
  • ubervu.com - tracking how people respond to your website. Helps with building relationships and back linking further?

Other

  • Backlinks - get other sites to create a link to your site

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using xdebug on wamp under windows 7

Posted on April 13th, 2010 by thiswayup.
Categories: dev.

I recently had windows 7 installed on my machine at work after it had been running like a dog for the past 6 months, previously I had Win Xp. I tried to install WAMP and xdebug but was finding that I kept on having random connection issues and breakpoints was not working, bloody annoying! At first I thought this was because I was running php 5.3 wamp but then tried to put in php 5.2 but pin point it to recent versions of Xdebug not playing very well with WAMP.

I read a couple of posts and just changed dll used to version 2.0.0 and it suddenly worked!

Also for future reference :

zend_extension_ts="C:/wamp/bin/php/php5.2.9-1/ext/php_xdebug-2.0.4-5.2.8.dll"
xdebug.remote_enable=on
xdebug.remote_handler=dbgp
xdebug.remote_host=localhost
xdebug.remote_port=9000

Got this from the netbeans wiki

UPDATE: Really useful xdebug wizard to work out which binary and instructions for your specific setup. Awesome juice!

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