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Fixed PR, Cookbook, and a whole bunch of scraping functionality – Helloworld SeoTools 2.3

By On 2011/10/08 · 2 Comments · In SEO, SeoTools

Time for a new release of SeoTools 2.3!

New functions:

BuildHttpDownloaderConfig JsonPathOnUrl DownloadString DirectoryList

For this release I’ve spent a lot of time on the scraping functionality, introducing HttpDownloader configs that allows you to control most aspects of the HTTP request in functions like

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Office 64bit version, W3CValidate and DomainAge in new SeoTools 2.2

By On 2011/09/19 · 1 Comment · In SEO

It’s time for a new SeoTools release!

I happy to announce that I’ve finally managed to produce a version that works with Office 2010 64bit! Make sure you download the correct version marked with “64″.

New functions

- W3CValidate

- UrlProperty

- WhoIsDomainCreated

- WhoIsDomainUpdated

- WhoIsDomainExpires

- [...]

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SeoTools v2.1 with backlink checker and text-to-code ratio metrics

By On 2011/08/30 · Leave a Comment · In SEO

I’ve uploaded a new release of SeoTools with some interesting features.

Some of these features have been added thanks to suggestions from SeoTools users. If you’re missing anything please let me know. Remember donators get their feature suggestions prioritized.

Following new features and improvements has been added in 2.1:

CheckBacklink(string pageUrl, string expectedLinkHref, [...]

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New release of SeoTools!

By On 2011/08/20 · 6 Comments · In SEO

Added a new Ribbons interface. Checkout the “Donate” button

Added optional parameter “attribute” To XPathOnUrl method for selecting attributes on nodes.
Example:
=XPathOnUrl(“http://www.google.com/search?q=example”;”(//a)[1]“;”href”)

Added new function SqlFirst(string SqlQuery)Returns the first column of the first row in the result of a SQL query. Requires that you setup a ConnectionString in SeoTools.config.xml. [...]

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Retreive Google+ count using C#

By On 2011/08/13 · 1 Comment · In Programming, SEO

In my work with SeoTools I’m adding a Excel function for retreiving a page’s Google+ count (on request by @richardbaxterseo) and I found an excellent implementation in PHP.

In the spirit of sharing, here’s a port in C#:

private static Regex REGEX_GETURLCOUNT = new Regex(@”<div[^>]+id=”"aggregateCount”"[^>]+>(\d*)</div>”); public static int GetUrlCount(string url) { string [...]

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Programatically get total visits from Analytics for multiple sites

By On 2011/02/06 · Leave a Comment · In Programming, SEO

Recently I setup group of niche sites (for example  badrumsrenoveringstockholm.nu) as a small SEO test and as I used different Analytics accounts for each site I wanted a way to monitor visitor counts programatically.

Google offers a .NET library for the Google Data API called google-gdata that makes [...]

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Using Excel for finding available domain names

By On 2011/01/08 · Leave a Comment · In SEO

Using a good domain name for a project can be key for a successful web project. I terms of SEO it is for example (at the moment at least) good to have the most important search phrase that you’re targeting in your domain name (read more on this).

Finding available domain names is hard. [...]

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Excel plugin for finding duplicate content in cells

By On 2010/11/22 · 6 Comments · In SEO

When working with onpage SEO you need to write unique content to keep googlebot happy. Especially if you operate a web page that has a lot of verticals and regions and each combination have it’s own landingpage. Writing really unique content in scale is very difficult and with really unique content I mean never using [...]

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