301 Redirection in Apache using htaccess file
January 28th, 2008 admin Location: Raleigh, North CarolinaProtected Content
The trend is A/B testing
January 22nd, 2008 admin Location: Raleigh, North CarolinaSo the trend this days in internet marketing is to do some A/B testing and find how to optimize your content to better serve your audience and therefore gain conversion power. Here is a video from Tom Leung from the Conversion University at Google. I guess the most important part is to understand that only by implementing changes you will improve. Don’t just test and learn. Once you know what can be optimized, go ahead and do the work and move on.
Since I love SEO, optimizing based on data is one of my favorite things in life. Perhaps for you it isn’t. It takes a lot of time, a lot of attention and a great amount of hours in front of your LCD. The good part about it is that at the end, you will feel like you have accomplished something.
Remember too that A/B testing, if not done properly, can have a negative effect in your search engine visibility. More on that topic in the posts to come.
Take a look at the video and start testing in this 2008! Happy testing!
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZlGy2auvFo[/youtube]
Finally, take a look at this excellent post about the implementation of Google Analytics through a home-made API. This post makes me really happy.
Iphone, How to activate (not unlock) 1.1.2 with Bootloader 4.6
January 11th, 2008 admin Location: Raleigh, North Carolina This is more a post for myself than for anybody else. But I though, oh well, perhaps somebody else would benefit from this fast tutorial as well. First I want to say that there is a lot (HUGE AMOUNT) of noise on the web. There is people saying that you can unlock the iPhone, others saying that you can’t activate the OTB(out of the box) version and others saying that you could render your iPhone inoperable. This post is just a fast look into the way I did it after researching for more than 2 weeks. Good Luck.
NOTE: Activate, Open and Unlock. Once you buy a new iPhone, the first thing that you will see is that you can’t use it unless you activate it. This process of making the new Iphone work is called activation. Once the activation is completed, you can prepare it so that you can install and run native applications on it. This process we are going to call opening. Finally, if you need to make your phone work with any other carrier than AT&T, then this is called unlocking.
In this small tutorial I am just going to cover the first two: Activation and Opening for the OTB 1.1.2 and Bootloader 4.6 iPhone. I believe that without an external SIM card modifier, this kind of phone is not yet( Jan 08) unlocked.
Process.
1. Download the iPhone 1.1.1 firmware from a reputable source (there are many out there that have it).
2. Connect your iPhone to your Mac, hit cancel in the main activation window in iTunes and run iNdependence to send your phone to version 1.1.1.
3. Once you see the main dialing window in your iPhone do the following:
3.1. Dial *#307# then press Call.
3.2. The iPhone will ring, press the X button at the top to delete all the characters you just entered (while the iPhone is still ringing). Now enter: 0 then press Call again. Press Answer.
3.3. Press Hold once. Press Decline once
3.4. Press the Contacts button at the bottom of your iPhone screen.
3.5. Add a new contact with any name that contains two URLs as part of its contact information. The first URL is going to be “prefs://” the second URL is going to be “http:// jailbreakme.com” (both without the quotes). Save
3.6. Visit the contact information and click on the prefs URL. Set your WIFI connection.
3.7. Set your Auto-Lock property to NEVER.
3.8. Visit jailbreakme.com and follow the last link to “install apps”.
4. If you need to go back to your preferences window: once back into the dialpad window, press 0 then dial, press answer, press hold, press decline.
5. Now your iPhone should be activated and jailbroken with 1.1.1 firmware.
6. To upgrade it to 1.1.2. Go to Installer.
7. Navigate to Tweaks 1.1.1
8. Install OktoPrep.
9. Launch iTunes and update your iPhone to 1.1.2 by clicking the update button (NOT THE RESTORE).
10. Close iTunes after the process is finished.
11. Download the 1.1.2 jailbreak program. (available at many places). It should be a .jar file. Run the program.
12. Restart the iPhone by pressing the Home Key and the Off key simultaneously for 4 seconds.
13. You are now jailbroken and activated on 1.1.2 and 4.6 Bootloader and you are using AT&T as your carrier.
*This post contains only my personal opinion and it is for educational purposes only.
First SEO Video. SEO Basics Series. Canonicalization
January 9th, 2008 admin Location: Raleigh, North Carolinaseo-first.swf
Canonicalization (Man it is hard to say that), is the practice of choosing one version of several duplicate pages and redirecting the other pages to the chosen one. In this video, Alex Centeno explains the process. This video is the first video of my SEO Basics collection, therefore it is horrible in terms of language and theme (I hope they get better with time). Anyhow for anybody looking for the .htaccess code for the www versus non-www canonicalization it is here:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^yoursite.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.yoursite.com/$1 [L,R=301]
