News-feeds, RSS, and XML something had to be done.

There is this great thing out there. It is called RSS. RSS is a data feed (In XML) of published information. The main information is news articles, but forum postings easily fit into the mix. Yahoo is a really good example of having one. Look at the links Yahoo has at...
news.yahoo.com/rss/.

Each of these RSS files is comprised of brief articles. Each article is comprised of a blurb, publication date and link to the full article. ThinkBling believes that Google's news searcher uses these RSS feeds.

Great things can be done with this info. "What" all depends on your needs or desires. For now ThinkBling has published a script that allows one to link together and search only the ones that you desire. Here's the links that relate to this.

An Example: www.ThinkBling.com/rss
Download: www.ThinkBling.com/scripts.php
Support: forums.thinkbling.com
ThinkBling's RSS feed: forums.thinkbling.com/rss.php

Bling!

An RSS feed of our forums is now available at...
http://forums.ThinkBling.com/rss.php

For those unfamiliar with an RSS feed. An RSS feed is a list (in XML) of articles or postings. These are provided so that others may parse your information and provide USEFUL links back to your site.

One can modify the number of posting by adding ?c=.
For example http://forums.thinkbling.com/rss.php?c=100 will bring back 100 postings.
The default is 50 articles.

Google Search PHP API Available
A PHP interface is now available at ThinkBling.com that allows one to do a Google search of their website OR of the entire web. It is slightly customizable and will become more so in following release.

It is viewable in action at...
www.ThinkBling.com/search
and can be downloaded at...
www.ThinkBling.com/scripts.php

Google Friendly Searches
It is intersting that most reference to "Search Engine Optimization" is the exact same information as "Google Friendly Searches". Google has become a synonym for searching.

All Google or search engine optimization deals with one fact. The more static content that a site has, the better the results. There are other factors to getting a site to have a higher "search" ranking, such as having other websites link to you, but these are factors outside actual website. What is being talked about here is that which can be done to one's website, not how to promote links from others websites.

With that being said, a site should have as much static content as possible.

If you have a site that is dynamic that is database driven, such as a forum or online store, you have a lot of content. This is not static content however. Much of this dynamic content is skipped by a web crawler when it crawls a site. The reason is that a web crawler indexes much few pages if they come of the form http://www.thinkbling.com/?variable=value. More pages of the form http://www.thinkbling.com/ is better (in search engine optimization).

What is desired is a way to emulate static content, but provide dynamic content.

The most popular solution is done with an Apache web server. This solution uses an .htaccess file. With this file you can translate (fake) requests for http://www.thinkbling.com/(encoded filename) to http://www.thinkbling.com(decoded filename)?(decoded variable)=(decoded value).

Now that your interest is peaked, compare http://www.thinkbling.com versus http://static.thinkbling.com and you will see the differences in links.

More infomation to follow.