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Web and desktop application programmer with a passion for Python and Google's Tools.


Nov
10
comment Weird entry for robots.txt on a Naked Domain in Google Webmaster Tools
Not now (as we have addressed the issue) but last night I used Tor to see what it looked like from the US and it was showing a generic parking page.
Nov
9
comment Weird entry for robots.txt on a Naked Domain in Google Webmaster Tools
Politics. I personally wouldn't touch them with a 10 foot bargepoll.
Nov
9
asked Weird entry for robots.txt on a Naked Domain in Google Webmaster Tools
Nov
5
comment How can I prevent Google mistakenly offering to translate a page?
Google usually does use English for google.com, google.co.uk, etc however what about the crawler for google.de, etc? But regardless, selective use of the class seems the best way out of this.
Nov
5
revised How can I prevent Google mistakenly offering to translate a page?
added 9 characters in body
Nov
4
answered How can I prevent Google mistakenly offering to translate a page?
Nov
4
answered How do I get a footer to appear at bottom of window
Nov
3
comment Do you want to include your registrant information in third party Bulk Whois requests?
You can always send them an email to ask. But SSL should have nothing to do with WHOIS (although it may be on the same screen when signing up). I'd say no.
Nov
3
answered Do you want to include your registrant information in third party Bulk Whois requests?
Nov
3
answered addthis button default message
Nov
3
comment Problem downloading .exe file from Amazon S3 with a signed URL in IE
Have you tried different Content-Type meta tags/file names that are unlikely to have been downloaded already?
Oct
31
answered Where can I find online advertisers that let you place ads in rss feeds?
Oct
14
answered Will having multiple domains improve my seo?
Oct
12
comment is it google webmaster crawler's fault or a virus?
The spammy site may (and usually do not) not honour robots.txt and neither does it need to. I was referring to the spammy site HAVING that link (there have been loads of these and if you catch them soon enough you'll usually see syndicated content and lots of domains with the same weird paths on the end of their URLs) and then being subsequently crawled by a search engine (so the robots.txt is under their control). By you editing your robots.txt to be less permissive Google's crawler would never even attempt to index that page, so no 404 in Webmaster Tools.
Oct
12
answered is it google webmaster crawler's fault or a virus?
Oct
11
answered How do you handle the “Cancel” button?
Oct
11
comment Is it better to remove old URL from google via webmaster than 301 rewrite?
Agree with all, except the use of 404's. Would recommend 410's instead.
Oct
11
comment When to use and not to use ETags
That's ok. There is one example that I am not sure of: if you have multiple versions of content all on one URI (such as a mobile or Internet Explorer versions) ETags may be used to search through EVERY version for a match (hence it's called if-none-matches not if-not-match) - depending on who you ask there are different answers (such as do not have one permanent URI for several representations, etc).
Oct
10
answered input content in FF & Opera
Oct
10
answered Best books for web design & HCI