In preparation for the new year, this is a simple but useful PHP snippet for keeping your copyright notice up to date on your blog or Web site.
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Proxy hijacking is a problem that has been in the SEO news lately. Dan Thies has a good post about it on SEO Fast Start.

Basically, proxy hijacking occurs when search engines index your Web pages through someone else’s proxy. Here is an example from a proxy site that has indexed a duplicate of wunderground.com’s about page:
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Some of the SEO recipes that I will be posting on this site require a Unix-based operating system such as Linux. Mac OS/X should also work for those examples, but I’m not as familiar with Mac so you may have to adapt the scripts somewhat.

This post shows a way to install Linux on an external hard drive so that you don’t have to modify your internal hard drive for a dual-boot Linux/Windows setup.

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If you already have lists of hundreds or thousands of potential backlinks contained in multiple files and want to extract the EDU links from them you can run a quick shell script on them.
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If you use GNU/Linux or Mac OS/X (or even Cygwin on Windows) you can use a little one-line script to quickly build lists of thousands of possible backlinks. It can be used to build lists on any kind of Google query, but this one specifically finds pages on EDU sites.
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