SEO Rankings help needed

Posted: Sat Dec 11, 2004 11:18 pm

I am testing some idea's on search engine rankings utilising sub-domains but I need some advice from you guru's.
I have already had some good success using sub-domains and of course am more than willing to share my experiences of this to others.

Is there any way, using php to pull a page from another website into a none-nuke directory and also add my own text including a link to my site to that page?

What I want to do is drag a page from another site, put it in a specific folder, lets call it 'google' for the sake of giving it a name, append my own text and site link to the bottom of that page (the text and link can be hard coded, thats not an issue).

Google will then crawl the page, see the 'content' is relevant to my own site, see that page is linked to my site and in theory at least, increase my rankings.

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$otherPage = file_get_contents('http://www.otherpage.com');

Posted: Sun Dec 12, 2004 7:26 pm

file_get_contents() doesn't return the headers and has trouble on IIS SSL when you use PHP < 4.3.7

Some websites use UTF-8 encoding and others ISO-***
Some use GZIP or LZH compression

So file_get_contents() will not work on all websites and also don't forget the file content-encoding

Best is to recieve an website thru fsockopen() and then split the header from the content (empty line between them)
Then check encoding and compression and then deflate or utf8_decode() if necesary.

Also google will not rank your pages higher by doing this kind of ripping.

CPG-Nuke uses advanced systems so that the website is searchengine friendly.

Tips:
- file structure
- content in the <head>
- as less html and images as possible

If you want tips how to process gzip compressed data i can help you on that since i've developed the CPG-Nuke RSS/File reader and thatone supports compression (i can even send and recieve cookies thru php if you need)

Posted: Sun Dec 12, 2004 7:44 pm

Thanks DJM. Since he only asked how to retrieve a page, file_get_contents should fill the bill. It has been around since PHP v4.3.0. As to UTF-8 the PHP manual has words of wisdom for handling that. We've given a buffet here to choose from!

Posted: Sun Dec 12, 2004 10:56 pm

Thanks guys, that is a really useful starting point.
I'll keep you updated.