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I found a really cool tool called MoreGoogle!. Let me know what you think!
TechTutor2004-07-23T15:05:51-07:002004-07-23T22:14:51Z2004-07-23T22:14:51Ztag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7653926.post-109062089182609715Page 23<blockquote><a href="http://www.talkingtree.com/blog/index.cfm?data=20040416#F590FA82-45A6-2844-707041A50E4B205A"></a><a href="http://www.talkingtree.com/blog/index.cfm?data=20040416#F590FA82-45A6-2844-707041A50E4B205A"></blockquote>Steven</a> told me to:
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<br />1) Grab the nearest book.
<br />2) Open the book to page 23.
<br />3) Find the fifth sentence.
<br />4) Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
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<br /><a href="http://www.bodyrecomposition.com/">The Ketogenic Diet</a>, A Complete Guide for the Dieter and Practitioner by <a href="http://www.bodyrecomposition.com/">Lyle McDonald</a>:
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<br /><blockquote><div>This is an attempt to maintain body glycogen stores at a certain level (19).
<br /></blockquote></div>TechTutor2004-07-19T15:31:10-07:002004-07-19T23:41:10Z2004-07-19T23:29:11Ztag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7653926.post-109027975192039122Implement a program and a Robots.txt file to exclude badly behaved robots automaticallyBad robots can overwhelm your website. Well behaved robots like Google's, will visit your site at a moderate pace, so as not to overwhelm your server and eventually use the data they received from your site to send you visitors. Bad robots usually ignore generally accepted <a href="http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/exclusion-admin.html">protocols of conduct</a> and are unlikely to send you visitors. Someone came up with a <a href="http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum88/4242.htm">scheme</a> to automatically rid your site of bad robots.
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<br />The first step is to create a robots.txt file, placed in your root directory (in my case, <a href="http://www.mysqltalk.com/robots.txt">http://www.mysqltalk.com/robots.txt</a>)
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<br />As per the instructions, it will have the following contents:
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<br />User-agent: *
<br />Disallow: /getout.php
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<br />Then it asks you to create a directory called "trap", which I've done (<a href="http://www.mysqltalk.com/trap/">http://www.mysqltalk.com/trap/</a>).
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<br />I must note at this point that as mentioned on the site linked to, I have to wait a few days for the good robots to read the new data in robots.txt so that they won't get thrown out along with the bad bots...
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<br />Essentially, the next step is to "Chmod your .htaccess file to 644 and chmod getout.php to 755. You should put getout.php in the root folder....SNIP....
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<br />Add these lines to your .htaccess file at the very top.
<br />SetEnvIf Request_URI "^(/403.*\.htm¦/robots\.txt)$" allowsome
<br /><files>
<br />order deny,allow
<br />deny from env=getout
<br />allow from env=allowsome
<br /></files>"
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<br />Then you add <a href="http://www.mysqltalk.com/getout.php">some</a> <a href="http://www.mysqltalk.com/getout.php">links</a> to getout.php and use the code as posted <a href="http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum88/4242.htm">here</a> and you're all set. I'll wait the few days and try it out. Then I'll let you know how it works...
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<br />TechTutor2004-07-16T13:17:20-07:002004-07-16T20:24:20Z2004-07-16T20:19:17Ztag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7653926.post-109000915745439369Create Alexa Traffic RankingsHere's another one. <a href="http://www.alexa.com/site/site_stats/signup?mode=graph">Create Graphs of your site with Alexa</a>.
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<br />Since this is a new domain, the traffic is not too impressive, but hopefully that will change soon. Here's what it looks like:
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<br /><script language="'JavaScript'" src="'http://xsltcache.alexa.com/traffic_graph/js/g/c/3m?amzn_id=" type="'text/javascript'" u="http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mysqltalk.com'"></script>
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<br />Oh well, Blogger isn't letting me post the javascript onto here so let's link to the resulting image and see if that works:
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<br /><img src="http://traffic.alexa.com/graph?a=1&w=468&h=240&r=3m&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mysqltalk.com&" />
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<br />TechTutor2004-07-16T10:34:40-07:002004-07-16T17:35:40Z2004-07-16T17:35:40Ztag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7653926.post-108999934099003779Hello World!
This is my first test post on Google's Blogger.com