Long gone the days when websites were built using html, cgi and basic php, now there are tons of web frameworks, cms and web languages using which you can built your websites. Now as someone who is looking to build a site based on another site, you may be interested to know what CMS/Framework and language the other site is using, not only that, may be what plugin/modules and javascript libraries they are using.

Also if you are developer, it becomes almost must to know the basic reverse engineering skills of websites.

Continue Reading “Find what CMS, Framework, Language any site is using” »

If you have lot of categories in your wordpress blog and looking to merge the categorize, there is unfortunately no straight forward plugin for it which is indeed very surprising. Still there is one wordpress plugin which works well to merge wordpress categories which is merge tags

It is intended to be used for tags merging but works really well with categories too, just download and install the plugin, activate it and go to this url (insert your blog url in front of it)

Continue Reading “Merge Wordpress Categories” »

It is been said that Google uses over 200 parameters to rank you content, most of them on page and few offpage (backlinks being the most important off page element). So here is the list of 56 on page elements in terms of important using which google decide the quality and relevance of content. This doesn’t mean that you start filling your content with these tags, this just for reference and to understand how google ranking works.

List of On page html tags and elements for Google Ranking

Continue Reading “Parameters which Google uses to Rank Content” »

If you have english content but if you feels it also be helpful for people who are not native english speakers, you can translate your content in other foreign languages. There are many such free and paid scripts available on the web which are using google translate (not the javascript version) to build more pages in your site, which will increase the number of pages on your site many folds and may show the content in search engines too.

so here is a review of all such translation scripts -

Continue Reading “Translate your site into different languages using Google Translate Script” »

In my last post, I had talked about how you can block Indian ip range using .htaccess file, now in this post, I am going to talk about a very easy method (specially for those who are addicted to using cpanel because of its easy itnerface), you can also block any IP using cPanel also.

here is a step by step guide to block any IP from cPanel which is spamming your site.

Continue Reading “Block IP Country Range through cPanel” »

If you want to block India (Indian users) to access your site may be because of excessive spamming, spam submissions or because of less revenue from your site due to excessive resource usage, here is a simple way to do it. Just put this code below in your .htaccess file (which should be in root directory, if it is not there, create it).

Just copy the code and put it at the bottom of your .htaccess file

Continue Reading “Block India IP Range to access your site” »

If you have upgraded your thunderbird to the latest version TB3, you must have noticed lot of things have changed as it always happen, when something which you uses daily gets changes, you feel uncomfortable which happened with me and many others.

Here is one Major problem with thunderbird for people who uses google apps is that by default, thunderbird assumes every new account will be IMAP. So if you try to create a pop account, you won’t be able to find any settings but here is one trick to do it.

Continue Reading “Thunderbird 3 POP Settings Problem” »

I am using drupal captcha module on mwolk to prevent automated spam and here is a bad news, it doesn’t work to prevent bot spamming. I have over 200 spam comments in a day which now I am manually removing.

Continue Reading “Drupal Captcha do not work” »

Ok, I don’t want to sound like “me too” here but google has updated their visible page rank on 3rd-4th May 2010. By visible, I mean the PR which can be seen in toolbar as the internal rankings and PR keeps on changing regularly but the toolbar ranking only changes like in 3 months.

Though as years are passing by, these PR updates have started to become meaningless with increased focus in personalization and google cracking on all kind of link selling, now webmasters have nothing much to celebrate if their PR goes up.

In case you don’t know, Google gives more value to links which are higher on the page content as compared to links which are on the lower part and it seems google completely discard below the fold link (the area which you see only while pulling the scroll bar down). The reason being, most of the footer links are either sold links or having the link of the theme and site designers and they are not quality, relevant and organic links, in short, Footer links have no value for google and google do not pass any link juice (or very very little) to make them worth it.

I think these changes are part of crack down on link sellers which were selling tons of links in footer, unfortunately people who buys links don’t understand that they are getting a bad deal as such links have no value.