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Many web pages include a site search these days, that makes it possible for users to search content exactly on the page they are and not on the whole web, but what should one do, if no results were found?
Normally search engines would also index these pages, because they can’t see, that there is no result and we set the status to 200 which means “Okay, page found”. To prevent that, some webmasters use a “404 – File not found” header, so that the search engines would not index the …

Some of you may know the newsletter module simplenews for drupal. If you’ve ever tried it, I am sure you soon realized, it’s a mess. The template functionality is too complicated and poor, emails are send via cron, you have no statistics and only poor ones with other extending modules…
Because of that, I think many people will change the newsletter system and maybe outsource it, so that you have to export your existing simplenews subcribers with username and some more data, than just the email address. Unfortunately there is no …

Day two of getting more into Ruby programming and I must say: Ruby can be fun! Okay, a few people seem to be really mad about it and see the language as an answer to everything, but I think there are some advantages to other languages, especially when it comes to string manipulation, iteration or string masking, but every language has its pros and cons.

I had to get into some ruby programming for my job and so I decided to refresh my memories a bit more. It became more or less a tradition of mine to write some network or internet code to get into a language and so here’s a first result.
It’s just a simple function for making a HTTP request on a given target. On success it returns an HTTP object, on error nil. It’s nothing fancy, but it should be reliable and maybe helps someone for his/her project…

Since April 2009 Google offers some nice feature in web search called Suggest, which is the  list of search queries you see,when you type in some search query into Google. I think everyone knows and uses it…
In addition to this nice helper on the website itself, Google also provides the same results as a feed or javascript code, which made me think of some way to utilize it and it seems to be a perfect helper for keyword research issues. The magical URL  is: http://www.google.com/complete/search with its parameters.
Parameters are:

hl: string value which determines …

You need to do a 301 or 302 redirect, but have no access to the server configuration files or the .htaccess file? Unfortunately not all hosters allow you to edit the .htaccess file, where you could easily set a redirect via the line:
Redirect /oldpage.html http://www.example.com/newpage.html [R=301,L]
I recently had exactly that problem, but PHP has some nice function, that helped me out: header(). The function allows you to send a raw HTTP header to the client browser. A 301 or 302 redirect is stored in the header section and so we can …

The ranking on the search result pages (SERPs) was important since usage of search engines became more and more the usual way to surf the web for many people. Webmasters know about the value of being at the Top of the result pages, but do you know how much more traffic you could get, if you are at the top one postion? And did you know that the difference between result rank 11 and rank 10 is about 143%?
Chitika now posted an interesting article about the value of Google ranking. …

Today, I discovered another neat little Google suggestion tool, I did not know: Google Sets.
The tool offers you the possibility to enter five terms of your choice and it’ll give you a set of suggestions based on the words you entered. You can choose, if you want to get a large set of items or just a small one. For now it’s nothing special, fancy or complex, but it’s a nice heper for finding synonyms or for a keyword reasearch and in conjunction with other tools it could be very …

If you run a website it’s essential for you to know about the actual trends on the web, not only to optimize your keywords, but to know what to write about at all. The equation is easy: What people search for is what brings you visitors and visitors are money!
But how to know what’s trendy on the web, if you are not Google yourself?
Fortunately, Google developed Google Trends and a feed with hourly updated hot trends, where you can easily access the actual trends on the web, but who wants to …

For my new job I had to get into Drupal, it’s structure, features, so maybe there could be more Drupal stuff here, in the future…
For my first approach I created some tiny drupal twitter module that displays the timeline in a block element, called iTweet. You can choose whether to show the timeline of a specific user or (if none is given) to show the public timeline.
The module is nothing special and lacks of some features like caching. You should not implement the module into sites with heavy traffic, because every …