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Re: Well, that's one SEO hack... (view-source)

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Post by tokenadult »

shellerik wrote: post #44
oakaz wrote: post #33

I don't see anything interesting.

You may need to maximize your browser to see the effect while viewing the page source.

Thank you. I have a two-screen configuration, and usually use the smaller screen for Web browsing, and the larger screen for writing. When I dragged the view source tab over to my larger screen, I saw immediately what the big deal was. Cool.

Re: Well, that's one SEO hack... (view-source)

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Post by leeoniya »

scott_karana wrote: post #48
leeoniya wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

i dont believe gzip typically applies to html, only to loaded text-based resources, js/css. i could be wrong. either way that page's html does not come in compressed.

Gzip applies to whatever it's configured to apply to, and text\html is likely the most common mimetype gzipped. tutorspree does indeed load with gzip: HTTP/1.1 200 OK Server: nginx/1.1.19 Date: Fri, 10 May 2013 21:19:05 GMT Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Transfer-Encoding: chunked Connection: keep-alive Vary: Cookie Content-Encoding: gzip

i'm not sure where you're getting those headers from, this is what i'm seeing:

  Connection	Keep-Alive
  Content-Length	59127
  Content-Type	text/html; charset=utf-8
  Date	Fri, 10 May 2013 21:24:38 GMT
  Server	nginx/1.1.19
  Set-Cookie	....
  Vary	Cookie
EDIT: i ran it through IE and got these headers too. Then ran it through some other online header-check sites and got your headers in one instance.

the majority of my tests resulted in these: http://www.seochat.com/seo-tools/check-server-headers/?go=1&...

Re: Well, that's one SEO hack... (view-source)

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Post by jiggy2011 »

skcin7 wrote: post #37
andygcook wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Even the President is in on it: view-source: http://www.barackobama.com/

On a related note, I know the candidates have nothing to do with this, but I'm extremely impressed with Barack Obama's web presence. I was also very impressed with Mitt Romney's web presence during the election.

Well it's not like they were short of money to spend.

Re: Well, that's one SEO hack... (view-source)

#55

Post by timdorr »

mmaia wrote: post #50
sharkweek wrote: post #5

Brilliant -- I love source code easter eggs One of my favorites is on Vimeo - if you crack open the JS console, it pitches you on applying for front in dev work with them.

Some companies do that with http headers (e.g. Zappos, SEOmoz, GigaOM)

Reddit:

    $ curl -v www.reddit.com
    > GET / HTTP/1.1
    > User-Agent: curl/7.30.0
    > Host: www.reddit.com
    > Accept: */*
    >

Re: Well, that's one SEO hack... (view-source)

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Post by jonmarkgo »

buf wrote: post #49
fs111 wrote: post #39

http://www.last.fm/robots.txt Disallow: /harming/humans Disallow: /ignoring/human/orders Disallow: /harm/to/self

Virtues last reward is a great game. I hope that the robots of our future will follow this protocol

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Laws_of_Robotics

Re: Well, that's one SEO hack... (view-source)

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Post by revelation »

kn0thing wrote: post #14
sharkweek wrote: post #5

Brilliant -- I love source code easter eggs One of my favorites is on Vimeo - if you crack open the JS console, it pitches you on applying for front in dev work with them.

Hah! That's pretty brilliant. Nicely done, Vimeo. OK, who else has awesome source-code easter eggs?

Not exactly a source-code easter egg, but MySpace sends a random X-PoweredBy header with each request. A selection:

X-PoweredBy: Nerd Rage X-PoweredBy: The fire of 1,000 SUNS! X-PoweredBy: Interns

Of course it also runs on IIS, and this is MySpace we are talking about, so the geek cred is questionable here.

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