Whilst working on my semi-automated SEO scan I wanted to get the number of listings for a given domain on some social bookmarking websites. Of course Digg.com is a very well-known and widely-used bookmarking website but sadly they don’t offer a nice XML or JSON API to check the number of listings. That’s why I wrote the following code to retrieve this number. Continue reading “Use PHP to get the number of items for a domain on Digg.com”
How to retrieve the Alexa Traffic Rank of any domain
After my post on using PHP to retrieve the Google Pagerank of any domain I decided to share my method of retrieving the Alexa Traffic Rank for any domain with you. Continue reading “How to retrieve the Alexa Traffic Rank of any domain”
Clean URLs and the use of suffixes
When building a website or application using a CMS or framework you often get the chance to set a suffix ( like .html ) for your clean URLs. Most people tend not to change the default setting but this might get you into trouble when it comes to the scalability of your website or application. Continue reading “Clean URLs and the use of suffixes”
Using PHP to retrieve the Google Pagerank of any domain
Whilst working on a semi-automated directory submitter I wanted to automatically retrieve the Google Pagerank for those directories. After some searching and trying out different scripts I found one that was fast, efficient and didn’t drain the server’s resources. Continue reading “Using PHP to retrieve the Google Pagerank of any domain”