Search Engine Optimisation posts.

Sitemap Generator for Ruby on Rails Applications

Follow these steps if you wish to add a sitemap.xml generator to a rails application. The idea is to generate a sitemap.xml for selected records from the database, in this case they are Articles and Categories. This sitemap is pinged to popular search engines like google, yahoo, bing and ask. ***Updated version of this available [...]

Using YSlow, Apache and Passenger to make your site Faster – Stage 1 Expiries

Stage 1. Adding an Expires header to Static Pages with Apache and Phusion Passenger Yslow is a great tool to check how your site compares on several factors relating to speed. I ran a check on Dynamic50.com and I got 76%. I want 100%, so lets get started! Firstly YSlow recommends I add an expires [...]