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		<title>How to Ban an IP Address With .htaccess</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 19:35:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gabriel Harper</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once in a while you might run into a suspicious IP address accessing your website. Maybe it&#8217;s doing something funny like probing for vulnerabilities, or just spamming the heck out of your server. Being a responsible webmaster, you decide to ban the IP address from your server completely &#8211; but how? Using Apache Web server [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Test DNS Transfer with Windows Hosts File</title>
		<link>http://www.gabrielharper.com/2010/01/test-dns-transfer-with-windows-hosts-file/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jan 2010 05:58:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gabriel Harper</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a simple trick you can use to test DNS changes on a Windows PC. You can fake or override DNS lookups by manually entering an IP address for any domain name you want. Use it to see if yoursite.com looks OK on the new server or IP address before DNS makes it around to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>List of Popular Webmaster Forums</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 06:16:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gabriel Harper</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a comprehensive, recently updated list of good Webmaster forums to check out. Currently 46 active Webmaster related forums for discussing Web design, coding, online business, development, online marketing, and other stuff that Webmasters like to discuss.

ABestWeb Affiliate Marketing Forum
Admin Zone Forums
The Admin Zone &#8211; the foremost resource for forum owners and administrators. 
Biz MP
Buying [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Only Five Web Development Tools You Need</title>
		<link>http://www.gabrielharper.com/2009/05/the-only-five-web-development-tools-you-need/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 02:28:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gabriel Harper</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[free software]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mysql]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.gabrielharper.com/?p=453</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I use a lot of different software in my job, but there are five software tools in particular that I can do nearly all of my Web development with. The best part is they are allcompletely free applications. You can download and install everything you need to be up and coding in under 30 minutes.

We [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Creating Successful New Products</title>
		<link>http://www.gabrielharper.com/2009/05/creating-successful-new-products/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 03:37:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gabriel Harper</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[advertising]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[money]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.gabrielharper.com/?p=436</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Creating great products is easy if you identify a problem. Like many others I&#8217;m willing to pay for a good solution if the need is great enough. Identifying the deepest problem for your customers and developing a great solution is the recipe for a successful product.

Great ideas often stem from a great need. Fulfilling a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Redirecting www to non-www Using .htaccess</title>
		<link>http://www.gabrielharper.com/2009/04/redirecting-www-to-non-www-using-htaccess/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 09:12:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gabriel Harper</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[SEO]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.gabrielharper.com/?p=406</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Apache Web server supports URL rewriting with the mod_rewrite engine. Placing custom rules in an .htaccess file lets you do all sorts of useful things to keep your URLs tidy. One really handy thing you can do for search engines and visitors is redirecting traffic from www to non-www version of your domain (and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PageRank Means Nothing (See For Yourself&#8230;)</title>
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		<comments>http://www.gabrielharper.com/2009/04/pagerank-means-nothing-see-for-yourself/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2009 22:06:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gabriel Harper</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Search Engines]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just compared Google referrals to PageRank on 37 different Websites, and here are the results. The numbers are pretty amazing. If PageRank does mean anything, it certainly doesn&#8217;t mean good search performance&#8230;

Since I&#8217;ve been working like crazy on new code for my SEO scripts and upcoming phpLinkBid release, it wasn&#8217;t that tough to get [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is a Webmaster?</title>
		<link>http://www.gabrielharper.com/2009/03/what-is-a-webmaster/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2009 08:46:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gabriel Harper</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.gabrielharper.com/?p=126</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Exactly what is a Webmaster? This term has become quite popular for anyone slinging Websites or online ads, but does that make somebody a Webmaster? I think the term has been liberated over the years, but is still adapting and in some cases struggles to be taken seriously.
When a word has over 300 million results [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Naming a Web Site, Business or Product</title>
		<link>http://www.gabrielharper.com/2006/11/naming-a-web-site-business-or-product/</link>
		<comments>http://www.gabrielharper.com/2006/11/naming-a-web-site-business-or-product/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Nov 2006 13:43:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gabriel Harper</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.gabrielharper.com/blog/?p=66</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Anyone who has ever registered a domain, named a product or business, or otherwise had to come up with a suitable, catchy name for something, knows how hard it can be to find a unique and catchy name.

Some names have almost nothing to do with the actual product or service they represent, and are just [...]]]></description>
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