http://www.comptrio.com/news Helping you meet your website goals. Wed, 16 Aug 2006 03:23:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en yup, that’s it! All of this spam and I finally snapped! I’ve been getting prodigious amounts of spam attempts coming through a few select forms that I have on the web, but the spammers never knew that I was silently killing off their spam attempts and emailing myself the attempted messages ... http://www.comptrio.com/news/2006/08/15/what-a-403/ PC Mike approached me because he was having problems with AudioBlog Media not posting directly to his WordPress 2.0 blog. I was able to find a few people who got this to work, but none of the how-to’s I found adressed the hurdles that came my way. I post this ... http://www.comptrio.com/news/2006/02/21/audioblog-and-wordpress-20-work-together/ If you are looking for a hosting company that supports Ruby, look no further. Comptrio now offers support for Ruby. This language has really started to take off and the lack of support amongst other web hosts really suprised me. In an effort to stay ahead of the curve, Comptrio ... http://www.comptrio.com/news/2006/02/04/ruby-hosting-from-comptrio/ Sorry for the lack of updates lately. This time of years forces people to re-evaluate their priorities and change their focus. A lot of new work has kept me busy lately and the release and promotion of AutoMapIt has kept me busy around the clock. In the time between the ... http://www.comptrio.com/news/2005/12/09/busy-time/ AutoMapIt is a unique service that automatically spiders your site and creates 4 sitemap formats before FTP’ing them to your server. It’s been a week or so since the last time I blogged, but that was because I was hard at work getting this service ready for release. The official ... http://www.comptrio.com/news/2005/11/13/automapit-sitemap-creation-service-is-release/ With all of the hullabaloo over Googles latest update, one thing has become apparent to many webmasters… Don’t put all of your chickens in one egg. Or something like that.. People have spent a lot of time and effort strictly to please Google. Although they do account for roughly 80% of ... http://www.comptrio.com/news/2005/11/03/sitemaps-are-good-for-you/ There are a few standard tricks I like to perform using the htaccess file on Apache servers. Rewriting URLs is a bit trickier to do than most things with htaccess, but if you can find every ugly URL in your script and change it to a ‘dynamically clean’ format, ... http://www.comptrio.com/news/2005/10/29/rewriting-urls-using-htaccess-the-basics/ Christmas time is just around the next corner and there is no better time to start promoting your products than before the christmas rush sets in and it begins to seem like everyone else was in line before you. Froogle offers an excellent way to provide ‘instant SEO’ and instant ... http://www.comptrio.com/news/2005/10/26/froogle-feed-time/ Google has released their Jagger2 update and it is slow to come out. It is being updated on possibly only one of their datacenters at 66.102.9.104 for now, but is starting to create a buzz about returning to their old results. Google is planning a third update this period which ... http://www.comptrio.com/news/2005/10/26/googles-jagger2-update/ Googles latest algo update has craked down hard on copyright material and spammy use of AdSense. In particular they seem to have an appetite for spam sites using copyrighted materials. In Matt Cutts blog, he urges we the betrayed to stop those who are stealing our content by contacting Google ... http://www.comptrio.com/news/2005/10/24/the-jagger-update-news/