Dave’s Ramblings

Recent Search Engine keywords leading to me…..
daves ramblings - Hey you know the name I gave me blog, and found me!
fukitol pill - No surprise here, that was one of my first posts.
animal suicide - Okay that was my fault
wisconsin raffle permits - I’ll print you some off, $89.99 each.
chainmaille templates - Yup it was a great way to kill a years worth of time
bring your daughter work day - Yup I did that one this year.
song one of these things - ummmm…. Sure, whatever you want dude.
cool ideas for fish tanks - Hey I got lots of these.
xxx a long time ago - When Vin Diesel was age 8 ??
how to hack phpbb forums - Like I’d publish that info here.
i have been driving a hearse for the last 25 years - Hey good for you.
ruger sp101 speed loaders - Too much concealed carry posts I guess.
varicose veins national public radio - I give up.
google site map cron job - Look! A relevant search result.
how to clean chainmaille - That’s what squires are for.
stupid chicago bears fans pictures - as opposed to intelligent ones?
watching paint dry - Dude/Dudette, get a life, or some paint for yourself.
little boys mastrabating - You flipping pervert! Time would be better spent searching on how to actually spell words rather than looking for crap like that.
bitchy mt dew - I like mine cold and quiet.

Amazingly most are somewhat relevant to the content I’ve posted thus far… Not as humorous as some in the past… but at least some make sense.

I for one think this will be a great step forward, and should have been done a long time ago (makes filtering the trash so much easier). The only thing I see missing would be forcing all existing sites to move over, the bullshit trickery methods, ie… using typo’d domain names, names that a ‘normal’ person would key in to get somewhere whitehouse com and desktops com should NOT be porn. These donkey’s pulling this crud and then hiding behind the first admendment, either they have no children (we can only hope) or they have no morals what-so-ever. I have to ask myself about people that run these sites, do they allow their children to visit them? Too many times our boys would come running after hitting one of these sites so they’d not be hollered at later when the proxy server would email me who visited what site they shouldn’t have. Now move them all over to this .xxx so I can just turn off that first level domain.

From the AP:
NEW YORK - A red-light district tentatively cleared for construction on the Internet — the “.xxx” domain — is being billed by backers as giving the $12 billion online porn industry a great opportunity to clean up its act.
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A distinct online sector for the salacious, one with rules aimed at forbidding trickery, will reduce the chances of Internet users accidentally stumbling on porn sites, they argue. If only it were so simple:

Zoning in cyberspace has always been a daunting proposition, and participation in the porn domain will be voluntary. Critics wonder why “.xxx” got the OK at all when so many other proposals sit unaddressed, some for years.

Nearly five years after rejecting a similar proposal, the Internet’s key oversight body, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, voted 6-3 this month to proceed with “.xxx.”

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Found something interesting today, now we’ll see what it really does. In it’s most basic form it’s an RSS feed for Google to crawl, only you no longer have to wait for Google to hit a link to your blog, page, or whole site each time you make an update, instead you feed Google directly with an XML feed. I’d guess it should get your pages crawled and indexed faster. The terms of service call for not more often than once per hour to push the feed. I’ve got this blog and the CaptiveReefing forums set up to push a feed every two hours, just set up a simple cron job with a wget… we’ll see what if anything really comes if it.

No RSS feed for your site? No problem, they’ve even come up with a python script that you can add to your site to generate it for you to notify them of changes.

Here’s a link to Google Sitemaps.

Now is this really a good thing for all parties involved? A ploy to absorb as much data to warehouse as possible? We know how data hungry the big G is, their storage capabilities are tremendous with literally thousands of servers clustered together, not sure who has more processing power Google or NASA.. might actually be a close race counting teraflops. Something to research next time I get bored.

Another security patch release of phpBB was released today now up to version 2.0.15.

Get the vew version or patches directly from phpBB.com.

l.i. Changes since 2.0.14
Fixed moderator status removal in groupcp.php
Removed newlines after ?> on some files - Thoul
Added admin re-authentication (admin needs to login seperatly to access the ACP) - backported from Olympus
Fixed vulnerability in url/bbcode handling functions - PapaDos and Paul/Zhen-Xjell from CastleCops
Fixed issue in admin/admin_forums.php
Suppressed warning message for fsockopen in /includes/smtp.php - Thoul
Fixed bug in admin/admin_smilies.php (admin is able to add empty smilies) - Exy
Adjusted documents to reflect the urgent need to update the files too (not only running the database update script)
Updated the readme file
Added one new language variable
Added general error if accessing profile for a non-existent user
Changed session id generation to be more unique - Henno Joosep
Fixed bug in highlight code to escape characters correctly
Reversed the 2.0.14 fix for postgresql because it produced more problems than it solves.
Added reference to article written by R45 about case-sensitivity in postgreSQL to the readme file
Fixed bypassing of validate_username on registration - Yen
Empty url/img bbcodes no longer get parsed

To answer a question, A brief overview;

Ever wonder why your blog appears near the top of search engine rankings when you search on the name, or want to know why it doesn’t and how to fix it? Here’s a little insight for you, for the moment I’ll stick to my understanding of Google and MSN searches.

Keywords…. how often is a particular string of words used on your blog (or web page), there is also some figuring of the context that it is used that is taken into effect, much more complicated than most would care to know, so don’t go crazy and insert your keywords over and over again without any other surrounding text. The same thing applies to page title’s, heading strings, and the URL.

“AnchorText” here is the real key to getting to the top of a particular search (again Google and MSN specifically, Yahoo doesn’t seem to follow this rule as much). It’s really not complicated at all… all you do is target your keyword as the actual link to the page/site you want. For example if your link looks like this

a href="http://blog.captivereefing.com" Dave's Ramblings /a
I removed the <> ’s so you could see the link.
Search engines take the anchortext ‘Dave’s Ramblings’ and give it a specific amount of weight for each instance it encounters out there in the rest of the www. Most instances of this that are found combined with the preceding paragraph the higher your ranking will be. Think about this when swapping links, while the link itself is a good thing, a link with good anchortext is even better!

With enough backlinks targeting specific keywords you can fly towards the top of any search for those words.

There is a lot more to it than this, but armed with this basic knowledge you are on your way to the top.

Good Luck!