Comments on: Fixing Other SEO Firms’ Mistakes Using Dreamweaver Wildcard Search and Replace

By: Tico

Tico — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 22:14:38 +0000

Greetings,

I have been searching for a way to strip out adword, adbrite, etc code from over 160 page of html. It would be so simple if the code was the same on each page, however it is not. Not only is there differences in whitespace and linebreaks but their different use of digits which either serve as the clients ID or which ad to call. The point is it is different on each page.

The one thing that is consistent is the TD tag it is in. It begins with and ends with

How can I use a wildcard or regular expression to grab all of that different content between those two tags in the whole site?

Thank you

By: Jon Suarez

Jon Suarez — Tue, 06 May 2008 02:37:11 +0000

A beautiful method I must say! The most beautiful part about this little code snippet is that you can use it to replace just about anything – including those most irritable snippets of code placed in invisible layers and the margins of a page that some unnamed SEO ‘professionals’ are still using to boost their clients rankings. Obviously it’s not exactly a catch-all, but definitely a keeper for those of us thoroughly entrenched in th Macromedia Dreamweaver way of instituting clean html. Thanks a bunch!

By: web design blog

web design blog — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 06:38:44 +0000

You could also do this using shell/terminal and a perl regular expression like this:

perl -pi -e ’s/find/replace/g’ *.txt

where FIND is the text you want to find and REPLACE is the text you want to replace with. this will fidn and replace in all files that end in txt, so you could change this to do html or whatever. you can use perl’s regular expressions much in teh same way ouy use dreamweaver