So, keyword density.. a slightly dated metric but an interesting challenge none the less. Here is my response to Drews first challenge, for this challenge we had to take a random URL and parse it’s text content to check for keyword density. (more…)
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Throwing Down the Gauntlet
Tuesday, September 6th, 2011So we’ve been having a bit of banter around the Web Development table about some of the features of the latest programming frameworks and which ones have the best libraries for SEO/HTML tools.
We’ve decided to put our money where our mouth is and go head to head on a number of quick and easy parsing tools which automate a lot of the reporting and repetitive tasks of your everyday SEO analyst. We’re comparing C# on Microsoft’s .NET framework and its extensive range of web libraries with the more popular *nix based languages such as Python, PHP and Ruby. (more…)
HTML Parsing with Ruby and Nokogiri
Tuesday, August 30th, 2011Link Building, SEO, Tools, Web Development
I’ve been working on a few health check/utility scripts and since I’ve been swaying towards Ruby as my language of choice recently (I’ve put Python on the shelf briefly), I decided to check out Nokogiri. Stupid name I know, but Nokogiri is a pretty powerful XML/HTML parsing library for Ruby. It was written in the C programming language (which means its quick) and supports XPath and jQuery CSS style selectors meaning no more complicated regular expressions! As with all the high level interpreted languages out there nowadays, Ruby/Nokogiri doesn’t fail to deliver excellent results within a few short lines of code. (more…)
Programmatic Web Browsing and Healthchecking with Mechanize
Tuesday, November 9th, 2010A quick little golden nugget for all you automated site scrapers out there, check out Mechanize!
Mechanize is a completely programmable browser implemented (in this instance) purely in Python. This tool is priceless for automated site health checks for everything from link presence, robots.txt rules, automated form submissions, cookie handling, you name it. (more…)
The Rise and Fall of the MP3?
Tuesday, August 10th, 2010
I’ve always been what could be considered a bit of an Apple ‘fanboi’. I’ve not really had much of a taste for their consumer gadgets (iPods, iPhones, iPads etc) but I’ll admit I really like their laptops, mice and monitors etc. Even more than their hardware, I love their software – it’s intuitive, easy to use, robust and very often bleeding edge. (more…)
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