Nov 12, 2008 Marketing, Search Engine Marketing, site marketing
Not too many people know this part of Google even exists. If you’re an SEO expert or a webmaster, it’s easy; if you’re just trying to run a site, not so much.
http://www.google.com/webmasters/
Many people think “Google’s so big, they don’t actually care about their search listings, they just display them. I submit that nothing could be further from the truth. Google and Yahoo! got to where they are by making sure people find the right website for whatever it is that they’re searching for. They’re not about to screw up the reputation they have now by not caring about the quality of their search listings.
The long and short of this is that your site gets inserted into Google’s search listings the correct way. Doesn’t increase your ranking in the slightest, but when people see your listing on Google, what do they see? Make sure it’s exactly what you think they should see.*
Also on the site is help for creating Google XML Sitemaps, which is a cool little feature that lets Google link directly to your sub-pages.
If you have an hour or two, check it out; it’s a neat service.
* What they should see regardless of what you think is a topic for another day 
Nov 11, 2008 fileSender PHP Class, toolkit
Following up the dbConnection class with…. another class!
This one does file uploading. I’m keeping it simple to get started.
First Release is very simple. The package contains 3 files:
- fileSender.config.inc - Configuration file
- fileSender.class.inc - Main PHP class file
- index.php - Sample implementation file
Capabilities are minimal. Basic uploading; that’s it.
Items to add at a later date:
- PHP Progress Bar - I see plenty of CGI solutions for making a progress bar, but I don’t know CGI and I don’t want to. A solution should be implemented for PHP, and I’ll find a way, damnit. It will be created using PHP, Javascript, HTML and CSS only.
- Security - Making sure people can’t exploit your site.
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