Well, I was in the mood for some PHP earlier, and was also working on adding Yahoo’s robots-nocontent tags to my pages, so I decided to waste my whole day relearning regexp stuff (my most hated aspect of php because I can never remember the expressions.. btw this regex cheat sheet is useful if you have a bad memory like me) and developing a little tool that helps you see what you’ve blocked out and what you haven’t. For those of you who have already started playing around with this tag, you probably noticed (like me) that it’s a real pain in the ass getting everything blocked out the way you want it, without accidentally screwing up your divs, spans, paragraphs, etc., or even worse, marking valuable content as robots-nocontent.

Here’s the tool.

This little tool will check your pages and highlight the parts you’ve blocked out in yellow so you can get a visual idea of what you’re telling Yahoo is content and what you’re saying isn’t content. You can also click a link at the top of your results page to toggle between a full code view and one that just shows what you haven’t blocked out.

Hopefully you get some use out of it, because I probably shouldn’t have spent my whole day coding it — (Yeah, I’m rusty with PHP, it probably shouldn’t have taken a whole day).

BTW, Some people are bound to notice little mistakes or glitches. If you happen to find something that needs fixin’, please let me know.

  

  

I just wanted to make a quick update apologizing for the lack of posts last week.  It was my birthday on April 20th and then my little brother’s yesterday, and on top of that I’ve been rolling out a ton of new (time consuming) projects, so I’ve been pretty swamped.  Next week I should be able to catch up, though, and get bloggin’ again :).

  

  

So I have to admit, SES New York has been very fun.  I was disappointed with the first few sessions but more than satisfied with the last.  Then, of course, comes the party scene!  We are at the Hilton still and now it’s 9:10 PM.  Word on the street has it that PepperJam is hosting a very cool party tonight.  Unfortunately, being the loser that I am, even knowing Kris Jones and being halfway in love with the guy, I don’t know where it is.  So we’re hanging out at the bar at the Hilton,  desperately hoping to hear ‘wherrrrr’s the party at.’  So if by some chance you happen to know, we’d love to join you and party here in the big apple.  I’ll be checking the comments regularly (out of desperation) in addition to e-mail, so send me a msg at kris @ seo loser.com or give me a call at 831-359-5555 and we’d love to join the party.  Hope to hear from ya!  Kris

  

  

For the past several weeks I was out of the country visiting my father and we had very poor or no internet access most of the time (I can’t believe I survived).  I realize now that I probably should have made a blog post beforehand letting my readers know I’d be away for a bit, but as I mentioned in a comment, I was hesitant to make a post that didn’t really contain anything useful, humorous or informative–so I held off—and now I’m doing it late, as a loser would, just to let subscribers know I’m still around and will be posting at a normal speed again :).