Steve Gray

SEO links

2008-12-05T21:49:00Z

I get asked lots of questions about SEO (search engine optimization). Here are a few good resources:

http://www.ssw.com.au/SSW/Standards/Rules/RulesToBetterGoogleRankings.aspx

http://www.marketposition.com/blog/archives/2006/04/how_urls_can_af.html

IIS 6.0 and Flash streaming (FLV)

2008-09-23T12:11:00Z

We recently acquired an app that streams flash - but it was not working on our web servers (Winows 2003, Standard). It was pretty aggravating to get up and running

The site has .swf files that stream a flash video (.flv). The SWF works just fine, but the FLV won't stream. After some poking and probing, realization set in that there wasn't a MIME type for .FLV in IIS.

1. Open IIS Manager on the server
2. Expand the Local Computer Server.
3. Examine the 'Properties' of the local server
4. Select the MIME Types tab.
5. Click the 'New' button and enter the following:
* Associated Extension box: .FLV
* MIME Type box: flv-application/octet-stream
6. Click Ok and restart IIS.

Simple DOS commands

2008-09-09T11:44:00Z

Every now and again I'll need to write a simple DOS bat file to accomplish a task... here are a few of the commands that I use. It's much easier to blog them here and have them than to search the internet for them.

Copy a file from one directory to another:
XCOPY source destination /Y /D /S

Append one file to another:
type source >> destination

Add a CR to a file:
echo. >> filename