Exploiting CMS Tagging for Search

As Content Management Systems like WordPress and Drupal become more common, along with their url rewrite schemas, it occurred to me that perhaps I’m not really exploiting the tags and categories people are assigning to their posts for search.

Let me explain: this blog is based on WordPress.  As a result, the URL for this post has the post’s title in the URL.  However, the post also belongs to a category and a small set of tags: WordPress being one.

These tags also have their own separate pages: /tag/WordPress.  So, wouldn’t it be quite cool if I could search for URLs with the words “tag” and “WordPress”?  And… you can, using Google’s allinurl: keyword.

So, in your search box type: allinurl: tag WordPress and you’ll get those blogs and other websites that have specifically marked up their posts with the WordPress tag.  Sweet.

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AVG & Thunderbird

I love Thunderbird, it’s a great email client.  But I recently got a bit concerned when it seemed to be eating all my CPU.  At first I thought it was down to the new email indexer in Thunderbird 3.0.  It turns out, however, that the problem has nothing to do with the indexer but with AVG scanning my emails for viruses.  I switched off email scanning in AVG and suddenly my processor is behaving as it should.

Looking around the internet, it seems this is not a new problem (I only recently installed AVG), so the question is: why haven’t AVG and Thunderbird knocked their heads together to fix this?

grumble grumble.

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Become a Car Dealer

I’ve recently been doing some work for a car dealer who has created an ebook and website. I edited the book and have put together the website. The ebook really is very well presented.

Along the way I’ve also learned a bit about how to go about buying and selling cars. It’s actually good useful stuff.

Daren has also created a couple of videos showing off his handy work.

You can find his website here: Become a Car Dealer

And you can see his videos on his YouTube Channel.

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