Ask Me: BlaineSch

[Brandon W]

Haha is that the longest one you have ever seen?

[BlaineSch]

Probably not, I know Google deals a lot with how it categories pages, and one is by title, so unique titles with good keywords is a must. Lots of sites flood their titles.. I think there is a limit your browser will show tho... Google probable has some spam features for it as well. What do you think about long titles?

[Brandon W]

I think long titles are not needed. As long as you get what the MAIN point of the page across to the user, it should be correct. If you do use the main point, it will also increase your SEO. If you look at this thread's title, it's not full of keywords like the one above but it does show what content is on the screen. Another thing is the URL, it is very good for SEO.

Do you know much about SEO?

[BlaineSch]

I have read a few books on it. I would not call myself that good at it. I think I can do well with just decorating a page and making it Search Engine Friendly but ive never really had a successful site so I cant say I am good at it. Maybe if I had a lot of unique content it would work a bit better huh?

I am pretty sure my images all have alts, my links all have titles, I use the h1-6 tags, favicons, metatags, titles, everything is one domain (www only), robots.txt, sitemap.xml, google also sees the index.php and the / as 2 different pages and might consider your site spam if a lot of content is duplicate so its bad to link to both of them (imo), all my links contain the full path and not relative path

I do not think validation is much of a part of it tho, google.com is not even validated.

[Jordan]

Have you ever made a word censoring class or function?

[BlaineSch]

Nope cant say I have. If it just had a list of words tho it wouldnt be hard... just get an array of words you dont like, then do a str_replace which accepts arrays..

<?PHP
$body = "wow your ugly!";
$bad = array("bad", "nasty", "ugly");
echo str_replace($bad, "****", $body);
?>

That should echo "wow your ****!" but its untested... but it looks fine lol

[Jordan]

What is up with all the "Google owned by the mafia" spam?

[BlaineSch]

Microsoft owns a spam team to bring down google the evil way?

[Jordan]

Is google owned by the Mafia?

[BlaineSch]

Anybody can buy a stock of it, so I suppose, in a way, yes it is. But not operated by the mafia IMO.