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The exam was what I expected and I think I did fine.

For now, let’s have some fun.

I know that search engines loves when pages are well optimized and looking at my blog @ http://www.excitris.com, I saw how unoptimized it was even though it looked fine.

I went to the page source and looked at the page size: almost 40.0 KB of text. I started writing a “cloaker” script which would make smaller page for search engine and only from removing the header + the and below code I was at 21.5 KB of text. What a great bandwidth saving and a page optimisation at the same time. I’m now working on the part where it removes the comments. My test shows that by removing the comments, I can go to a pagesize of 18.2 KB. Removing the ads: 16.7 KB.

The page sure looks ugly, but search engines spiders don’t care. They want the actually content, not the html format (except maybe the title, h1, h2 and such). From 40.0 KB I went to 16.7 KB, a saving of 58.3% in bandwidth. This will also assure me to get better ranking in search engines as the stuff their spider is looking for is way more near the top.

I’ll make the script available as soon as there aren’t anymore bugs when the page convert. So stay tuned.