DreamHost Site of the Month SEO Challenge

Every month a contest called DHSOTM is held for the highest rated website on DreamHost. By winning the contest your site gets SEO and traffic benefits, which I hope to measure soon.



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DreamHost Site of the Month SEO Challenge

Every month a contest called DHSOTM is held for the highest rated website on DreamHost. By winning the contest your site gets SEO and traffic benefits, which I hope to measure soon.



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htaccess file sample

Only the very best tried-and-true htaccess examples.



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Speed Up Google Analytics and your Site

Ever notice that sometimes your sites take a while to load all the way because loading Google’s urchin.js file is taking forever? You may recognize this problem when you see something similar to this in your browsers status bar “Transferring data from google-analytics.com…”Time for Fix? 4 minutes



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Apache .htaccess New CheatSheet

Apache Web Server .htaccess and httpd.conf code snippets and examples updated regularly with the newest and best htaccess!



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WordPress robots.txt optimized for SEO

Shows a method using meta tags combined with a robots.txt file to optimize wordpress for seo.. very nice read.



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Apache HTTP Status Codes Discovered

All 57 HTTP Status Codes and ErrorDocuments. Includes headers and data sent by apache for each one!



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Secrets to make Faster, Speedier sites

Describes the very best and easiest methods to speed up your website. Sources include yahoo, google, oreilly, and the list includes methods of using caching, compression, gzip, css, js, etc.



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List of all 27 Request Methods for HTTP

List of the 27 Request Methods available for Apache and rewritecond and htaccess



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Sniffing On Ethernet Undetected

All you need is a MAC and a device and you can sniff without sending any packets, making yourself invisible. I have been in some tight spots where I had to sniff a password or two off the wire, or sniff some packets off the wire undetected.. So I tried a few things and this is what worked..



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301 Redirects with mod_rewrite or RedirectMatch

301 Redirects using Apache mod_rewrite or RedirectMatch in .htaccess or httpd.conf



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Rearranging Flash Elements with zIndex and wmode

I wanted a particular flash movie to show up when a user clicked on one of six buttons. I got the flash element to disappear or appear behind or in front by using the zIndex css attribute with javascript, and the wmode attribute.



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Updated Files and Caching mod_rewrite hack

Web Developers sometimes use file.ext?v=004 as a version control system to force visitors to use updated files. This is terrible. Instead link to apache-003.css and set it to be cached forever. When you change the file you just change the links to apache-004.css. That eliminates millions of bandwidth and resource robbing If-Modified-Since request



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Security with Apache htaccess

htaccess tricks and tips to increase the security of your site



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Updated Files and Caching mod_rewrite hack

Web Developers sometimes use file.ext?v=004 as a version control system to force visitors to use updated files. This is terrible. Instead link to apache-003.css and set it to be cached forever. When you change the file you just change the links to apache-004.css. That eliminates millions of bandwidth and resource robbing If-Modified-Since request



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Speed up Google Analytics with this simple technique

Uses cron to download fresh version of googles urchin.js file every 12 hours to be served locally, really made a difference on my sites.yoursite.com/urchin.js instead of google-analytics.com/urchin.js



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Using HTTP Headers with htaccess

How would you like to be able to send P3P privacy headers, Content-Type: UTF-8, Content-Language: en-US, etc.. using just htaccess? Now you CAN!



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Best Apache htaccess Code snippets

Apache Web Server .htaccess and httpd.conf code snippets and examples that I use all the time.



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Speed Up Sites with htaccess Caching

"Increase your page load times and save bandwidth with easy and really effective methods using apache htaccess directives. mod_headers to set expires, and max-age, and cache-control headers on certain filetypes. The second method employs mod_expires to do the same thing -- together with FileETag, makes for some very fast page loads!"



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Coolest Apache trick I've ever seen! 57 ErrorDocuments & Headers

When an Error is encountered, Apache serves the Status Code header and the ErrorDocument for the error. For instance, requesting a non-existing file causes a 404 Not Found error.List of all 57 HTTP Status Codes recognized by Apache, and view all returned source-code and headers for all 57 Apache Response Codes, like 506, 503, 408, etc.



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Best Apache htaccess Code snippets

Apache Web Server .htaccess and httpd.conf code snippets and examples that I use all the time.



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Speedy WebSites using CSS and Image Sprites

Example use of an image sprite with css to speed up your websites drastically. An image sprite is 1 image composed of multiple images, using CSS you can display just one part of the image using background-position.



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mod_rewrite Tips and Tricks

mod_rewrite tips and tricks to be used in Apache htaccess



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Using HTTP Headers with htaccess

How would you like to be able to send P3P privacy headers, Content-Type: UTF-8, Content-Language: en-US, etc.. using just htaccess? Now you CAN!



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Are you better off with women now than you were before?

Thus I’d ask people who have spent time going through the learning steps of the community:Is your quality of life better? This is vague and still may be hard to define so a better question is:Are you generally happier and more content today than you were 2-3 years ago?



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mod_rewrite Tips and Tricks

mod_rewrite tips and tricks to be used in Apache htaccess



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Immerse Yourself in the World

I’ve realized that life becomes more fun the more you immerse yourself in it. So I’m becoming saturated in the world around me, purposefully being extroverted and friendly to the world around me.



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Thoughts on Being a Cool Person

Being cool is a mindset and a way of life rather than a frame to select and use.



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Apache Authentication with htaccess

Examples and Descriptions of different access authentication methods in Apache using htaccess files



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Multiply your DreamHost Referrals

Simple and effective method to start making good money from DreamHost Referrals



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Speedy WebSites using CSS and Image Sprites

Example use of an image sprite with css to speed up your websites drastically. An image sprite is 1 image composed of multiple images, using CSS you can display just one part of the image using background-position.



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