SEO Egghead Consulting Group

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Excerpt: Since Google has decided that cloaking, in fact, is not against the rules (not really, make sure you click that link), I have decided to post my simple cloaking toolkit written in PHP.  I cannot support this thing, so please don't bombard me with emails.  If you're very proficient in PHP, but never bothered to learn about cloaking, then this is for you.  If you want to report a bug, email me at jsirovic AT gmail dot com.  It's quite likely there are bugs.  I implore you to email Google and let them know how much you appreciate that they have revised their draconian polcies…

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Excerpt: This neat little class can return the HTTP status code of a URL.  It uses cURL to do so.  Simply take the result of "parseResponseCode"  and see if it's a 200.  Depending on your requirements, 302 or 301 may also be a satisfactory answer, or you may want to update the record (at least in the case of a 301), or recurse.  If the answer is a 404, you know you've found trouble.  It's important to check for dead links, as too many of them can be detrimental to your site's ranking, not to mention it's annoying for the user….