Search Engine Optimization Web Log Entries
Creating A "Down For Maintenance" Page Using Application.cfc
Posted: January 9, 2008 at 9:07 AM by Ben Nadel
As some of you may or may not noticed, my site was down earlier for maintenance (more on that later). None of the ColdFusion pages on my site were available, no matter what URLs you used. Creating a page like this is insanely easy when you are using ColdFusion's Application.cfc component. If you have ever examined the application event methods ava... read more »
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ColdFusion 404 Handling Makes Sub Domain Redirects Hard
Posted: September 19, 2007 at 1:07 PM by Ben Nadel
My site runs on the handling of 404 Page Not Found IIS errors within ColdFusion . It is through this mechanism that I am able to translate things like: www.bennadel.com/foo/bar.htm ... into: www.bennadel.com/index.cfm?dax=foo.bar This has been really cool for search engine optimization, but has certainly added some complexity to the page load... read more »
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Exploring Path Info And How It Interacts With ColdFusion And The Browser
Posted: July 18, 2007 at 4:11 PM by Ben Nadel
Earlier today, I blogged about using addition URL path information to solve the Save-As problem that crops up when streaming files using ColdFusion and CFContent. IIS puts this extra URL path information into the CGI variable, path_info. Before today, I had never used this, so I thought it would be good to do a little exploration to see how diff... read more »
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Why Do I Even Get Any Huge Ass Traffic?
Posted: June 26, 2007 at 8:42 AM by Ben Nadel
There was a post yesterday on Full As A Goog (sorry I cannot remember the URL - the Full As A Goog "Search" functionality seems to search the visible page only) with a video that had information about internet porn. It stated that there were literally hundred of millions of porn sites current on the internet. That's a lot of porn. Recently, I ... read more »
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Ask Ben: Truncating The Event Titles In A Calendar Display
Posted: May 7, 2007 at 3:29 PM by Ben Nadel
Say you need to display items on the calendar by text description. You need to show the "title" of the event(s) in an abbreviated form. For example: Long Event Title Goes Here Ben Nadel Might need to be abbreviated as Long Event Title. . . How would you repeatedly determine where to truncate an event title for a calendar? For something like th... read more »
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Skin Spider : Page Data Component
Posted: November 5, 2006 at 11:38 AM by Ben Nadel
To learn all about Skin Spider, click here . To view the most updated application, click here . To view the current code base, click here . Until now, the only thing we set programmatically about the page was a variable called REQUEST.Page. We used this value to determine which primary navigational element was turned on. This was nice and si... read more »
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Ooops, Links Not Working
Posted: June 21, 2006 at 6:31 PM by Ben Nadel
I just realized that one line of code I put into my 404 page-not-found handler (for search engine optimization SEO) was breaking my links. Yikes! I guess that should teach me to more thoroughly test my code once it goes life. ... read more »
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Search Engine Optimization... Another Go Round
Posted: June 19, 2006 at 8:51 AM by Ben Nadel
After talking to Michael Dinowitz at last week's NYCFUG meeting, I have moved my site over to use more search engine optimized links. Instead of going to directories, such as "blog/", all my site links go to "actual" pages, such as "blog/blog-entries.htm". All the pages go to ".htm" files so that the ColdFusion error handler doesn't get called... read more »
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What Search Engine Spiders See
Posted: June 15, 2006 at 9:57 AM by Ben Nadel
I was just posting a Search Engine Optimization question on the House of Fusion CF-Talk list when Nick Tong posted a link to " What Search Engine Spiders See ". This page blows my mind. It allows you to enter in a url and get a report back regarding the page content based on how the search engine web spiders/crawlers see your content. It is fant... read more »
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Search Engine Optimization... Continued
Posted: June 14, 2006 at 9:37 AM by Ben Nadel
In attempt to try an optimize my search engine indexability, I have added a "Complete Web Log Entry List" link as the first item on my homepage content. This way, there will be a page that will have every web log entry's detail page listed for indexing. One of the problems that I have found with search engines is that they will index my "recent"... read more »
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Short-Circuit Evaluation Is Fast
Posted: June 2, 2006 at 8:23 AM by Ben Nadel
As I wrote some time ago, taking Michael Dinowitz's advice, I turn off session management for Spiders and Bots in an effort to cut down on memory usage on the server. See, spiders do not accept client cookies and therefore (on my sites) cannot hold sessions. Consequently, they start a new session for each page request they make. Since sessions tak... read more »
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Search Engine Optimization (SEO): Revisiting
Posted: April 25, 2006 at 2:37 PM by Ben Nadel
I have been playing around with the Urls that I use internally to the site. Some links have been using search engine optimized links (like ./snippets/) and some use the DAX (Divide and Conquer, like "?dax=blog.search"). At first it seemed that Google was not indexing the dynamic DAX pages (while Jeeves, Yahoo, and other search engines where); howe... read more »
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Google Finally Indexed the Site
Posted: April 20, 2006 at 9:21 AM by Ben Nadel
Google finally indexed my site. It was really interesting in terms of the effect on search engine optimization. I finally have confirmation that the Google bot will index my 404-catching type pages (ex. ../porfolio/client-lsit/), which is great because I was afraid my manual setting of 200 status wasn't taking hold. What I did notice is that of a... read more »
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Search Engine Optimization and Error Catching
Posted: April 19, 2006 at 8:43 AM by Ben Nadel
I have been trying to build this site with good search engine optimization (SEO). The top item on the SEO list is the link hrefs. My site is built on a DAX string (Divide and Qonquer mentality - "daq's") in the form of: "index.cfm?dax=blog:4.view However, in order to make the site more SEO, I have retooled the links to be in the form of: ./blog... read more »
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