Tired of Cydia giving you repo errors on loads? Heres how to fix....

I was so tired of Cydia and its repo loading errors.

Heres how I fixed.

Its a 4 part process, but well worth it. Taken from various places around the web. As always, YMMV.

You can do these procedures either via SSH on a machine or right on the iPhone (iFile for one). However, Step 4 requires SSH on a machine.

Step 1:
Navigate to /private/etc/apt/sources.list.d and delete all files that contain the offending repo in the filename.
Open cydia.list for editing.
You will see lines that look like deb http://somerepo.url/ ./ Remove the line that has the offending repo url.
Save the file.

Step 2:

Navigate to /private/var/lib/apt/list and delete all files that contain the offending repo in the filename.

 

Step 3:

Navigate to /private/var/lib/apt/list/partial and delete all files that contain the offending repo in the filename.

 

Step 4:

Navigate to /private/var/lib/cydia and open the metadata.plist for editing. SAVE TO DESKTOP USE TEXTWRANGLER to edit. Save and upload back

Ctrl+F (or similar) for your offending repo url and delete all instances of it (it may appear more than once in the file).

Save the file.

Sit back and enjoy life with no more Cydia repo loading errors...

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Any article that mentions SEO and Van Halen is good enough for me

Everything I Know About SEO I Learned in the 80's - Search Engine Guide

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Chops and Sauce. The Movie.

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Here's the trailer...

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A little Radney Foster from one of our gigs

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Radney wrote this song for Keith Urban. Raining On Sunday.

He's playing before we go on tonight.

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Chops and Sauce tour bus

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On top of the chops and sauce tour bus..

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iPhone stop motion video

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Driving in rv. Somewhere in TN.

9fps. Looped 2x. 99 pictures.

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Going on tour with the band

Alright people. You're on your own for a while.

Chops and Sauce ( www.chopsandsauce.com ) is packing up the tour bus
and headed south to Nashville area for a few gigs starting tomorrow
(wed).

We will be streaming much of the trip and the gigs live on our website
so be sure to stop by and take a peek.

Follow me on twitter (twitter.com/Kevin_Reifel ) to be notified
whenever we turn the cameras on...

Please know that the video feed may not be safe for work. Consider
that your only warning.

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Properly Add Toyota Care Info / Images to Your Website

Follow these easy steps to add this info to your site AND keep visitors within your website.

We dont want to link out. Lets provide consumers with all the information they want directly on your website...

Steps:

1. Upload the PDF file to your site

2. Create custom page with the pdf in it. If you want to get really good (EXCELLENT FOR SEO), then make the custom page text of the PDF document.

3. Add banner / links to the above mentioned custom page...

 

Ive attached the Toyota Care PDF document and the Images you can use to add to your website.

Lets promote this!!!!

If using the Logo with reference to Maintenance Plan you MUST use the following disclaimer with this logo:

Covers normal factory scheduled service for 2 years or 25,000 miles, whichever occurs first. See participating dealer for coverage details.

 

Get Busy!!!

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A little SEO Humor for a Friday

Pretty much my life....

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How blogging can help your SEO

I am sure you have heard a lot of talk about blogs and I am not just referring to the Gossip Blogs, I am referring to business blogging. A role a lot of businesses have taken on because of it's multiple benefits. A blog plays a significant role in boosting your SEO, but it also helps to build relationships, establish yourself as an expert and keep people tuned in to your website that can lead to increase conversions and sales if executed effectively. Today I want to share the top five ways a blog helps to boost your SEO efforts

1. Automatic SEO – A blog can be configured to automatically optimize any content that you add. It is extremely search engine friend and it creates unique page urls.
2. Link Building – You create links several ways with a blog. If your blog posts are great, people will link to it, they will bookmark it, share it with a friend or with their social network. Secondly, when you create a blog, you link to other pages on your website that directly relates to the blog post.
3. Keyword Tags – When you create a blog post, you can add as many keyword tags to that blog as possible. Keep it related though for it to be effective.
4. Content – Search Engines love fresh content. This is probably one of the most important roles a blog plays; it allows you to easily add fresh content to your website. Even if it’s a couple paragraphs. Most importantly, blogs have plug-ins that automatically ping the search engines to let them know that your website has been updated, so that they can come back to crawl your website each time a post has been added.
5. Blog Comments – If visitors are commenting on your blog, most likely they will use keywords or keyword phrases that are related to the blog topic in the post that you may have or may not have used, which will increase your keyword density on the page, which in turn increases your chances of being found for that keyword
6. Get Found Online – Getting found online is a bonus from having a blog, so many people that I speak to, who don’t have seo, but has a business blog, is able to show up on search engines results, by using effective blogging tactics, such as included keywords that their target market will use to find them in the blog title and throughout the posting.

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Want To Help Your Website Rank? Submit Articles

Article submission has always been a popular SEO technique for getting backlinks to the site. Many people are using article submission to promote their website, product and services because it is free of charge. Most of the major article directories don’t charge a fee for the author to publish their articles on the site. When submitting to the article directories, it is important that you read the submission guidelines so that your article will have lesser chance of getting rejected by the editor.

The article must be optimized with keywords. If you optimize the articles with keyword, you will be able to rank well for them on the search engine. The keyword should have low competition. If the competition of the keyword is high, you won’t be able to rank for them. The highly competitive keywords are dominated by the websites that have high authoritative points. The article should contain at least 3% of keywords. Some article directories are very strict. If one of the keywords exceed more than 3%, it will give you a warning and prevent you from submitting it until you make the changes.

There are many keyword density checker software or online tool which you can use the check the keyword density of the article. If you want the article to rank for several keywords, you can aim for several keywords. You can use a keyword research tool to find the keywords which you will be aiming in your article. The keywords should receive sufficient traffic. If the statistic shows that the keyword has little traffic, it is best that you don’t use it because there people probably won’t be searching for it.
The ideal length of the article is 400 – 500 words. The article should not exceed more than 700 words. If it is too long, people will not read it. Most visitors are willing to read articles that don’t have a lot of words so that they can easily skimp through the content. By skimming through the content, they can save a lot of time and move on to another article quickly.

The article should only deal on the main points. It should not contain too many details. If it is rich with details, the visitors will no longer be interested in learning more about your website. By providing limited information in the article, the visitors will be eager to visit your website to learn more information.

Many article directories forbid you to use duplicate article for submission. PLR articles cannot be used to submit to the article directories. If you don’t know how to write original article, you can hire a writer to help you. Many SEO companies provide article writing and submission service. Every SEO company has a different pricing so you should do research on each of them. The price should not be the primary deciding factor. The quality of the article is more important. The cost of the article writing should not exceed your budget. If you order in bulk, the SEO company may give you a discount.

Mascar Rooney is the author of this article on directory submission. Mascar Rooney is the author of this article on Manual directory Submission Service.

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Top Ten - What to put on your Google Places Page

With Googles recent changes to integrate local listings into the SERP results, its even more important to ensure your Google Places Page is setup.

Think of this as a good checklist...

Now go get started....

1.  Don’t mess around with the name.  Google wants the real name of your company.  Add one or two keywords if your company name has no keywords in it.  (eg.  Gabby’s is the real name and you are a yogurt store.  Use Gabby’s Yogurt.

2.  Google Places wants your real address and they will check to make sure it is the same everywhere it appears on the web.  Put the address on the front page of your website and on every page is best.

3.  Google Places prefers a local phone number, not and 800 number, and  it needs to be the same number that appears on the front page of your website and elsewhere on the web…just like the name and address.

4.  The first category for your company should be one that Google suggests for the top category.  The other four may be chosen from Google suggestions or you can make up your own.

5.  Use pictures.  The first one should be a picture that will look good as a thumbnail picture. It will appear on your listing as part of  the inside MAPS.

6.  Add one or more videos.  Google Places wants completeness.  The video does not have to be a video you produced.

7.  Come up with lots of additional information for the boxes at the bottom of the listing form.  The cool thing is that you  can use links in these boxes to your blog, menu’s, reservation forms, etc.

8.  Create a Coupon.  Can’t hurt.  Might actually get some sales from them

9.  Set up a New Google Account for your business.  Don’t use your personal Google Account, or another business Google Account, or even a 3rd party vendor’s Google Account.

10.  Get your customers to give you reviews

 

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