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I'm a super-geeky programmer with a passion for Internet marketing. :)
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 | Linux has come a long way, but it's still primarily a server OS, correct? How many of you linux fanboys and girls use it as your primary operating system for daily tasks? How does it compare to Windows or macOS in terms of productivity and overall user experience?  |
| | I just thought it would help us get to know each other a lot better if we each just gave 1-2 sentences about what we do for work. I'll start :) For the past 24 years, I have owned and written the code for DaniWeb. For the majority of that … |
 | This post is late to the party, but I need to recommend DaniWeb’s own backlink checker tool. https://www.daniweb.com/tools/backlinks |
| | What simple seo fixes did you start using? How quickly did you see results? |
| | I realize this is a super old topic, but I would like to recommend [DaniWeb’s free backlink checker](https://www.daniweb.com/tools/backlinks) which IMHO is more powerful than Ahrefs, etc. because it lets you check your backlinks on demand, and also has more robust checking for the backlink’s indexability. |
| | Here's a quick bit of code to upload a file in PHP. |
| | Here is the function that I use here at DaniWeb to manage flood control. It keeps track of how often a specific user or IP address is making a request, and increments a counter. If there have been no requests after 5 minutes, the counter resets to 0. It returns … |
| | I have moved your post into the web development forum instead of the advertising/marketing forum where it was and tagged it appropriately. Can you please provide the Javascript code as well as PHP code that is buggy so that we can help diagnose this for you. For example, if the …  |
| | Perhaps I'm having a bit of a brain fog moment, but I can't wrap my mind around the difference between Added and New, Removed and Missing when comparing current vs prevous Screaming Frog crawls. Anyone use that software who can explain it to me better than ChatGPT was unsuccessfully able … |
| | What about using something like [IFTTT](https://ifttt.com/)?  |
| | It has to do with the type of website that is trying to gain traffic. However, for the most part, content sites are pretty frustrated that AI bots are scraping all of their content and then using it to directly answer a searcher's question, without the searcher ever having to …  |
| | I happily just discovered the Cache-Control rules *stale-if-error* and *stale-while-revalidate*. I came across [an article](https://developers.cloudflare.com/cache/concepts/cache-control/) on Cloudflare's site that says that those two directives are ignored if CF's Always Online feature is enabled, so I've gone ahead and disabled that. However, I'm confused by the following quote: > The stale-if-error … |
 | When you browse the file system, does that file exist and is it accessible by the logged-in user? (Sorry, no VS experience.) |
| | Backlinks still work even though I'm **** at getting them these days. Regardless of backlinks, you always need to focus on your on-page SEO such as internal linking. It's not an either-or situation. What are content clusters and entity-based SEO? |
| | I know that this is probably a hopeless question, but are there any automated scripts that would *reliably* and *automagically* convert my thousands upon thousands of lines of jQuery code into native Javascript? |
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| | I would focus on Google Local, Yelp, Houzz, Angies, Handy, etc. There are also local referral organizations where you can pay for membership. They typically include services like one handyman service, one house painter, one landscaper/gardener, one cleaning service, etc. Members of the group meet once a month or so … |
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| | In my increasingly futile attempt to remain using the now-defunct CodeIgniter 3 framework, I came across something that I figure might be worth sharing in case anyone else is maintaining older PHP codebases and suddenly things start breaking after a PHP upgrade. With PHP 8.2, there’s a new warning that’s … |
 | Re: Page Speed Issue I think you might be confusing Java with Javascript. Is your website built with Javascript technologies such as Node.js? |
| | In Google Search Console, I see a giant spike in "Other agent type" in crawl stats a few days ago. We don't use Google Ads (haven't for many years), and didn't add any large amount of content recently that I could imagine would constitute Google AdSense crawl. What could this … |
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| | * Microsoft Office (for macOS) And then to manage DaniWeb: * PhpStorm * Remote Desktop Manager * Viscosity * Screaming Frog SEO Spider |
 | Hi and welcome to DaniWeb!! What brings you around to these parts? |
| | This is something that I've really struggled with ever since DaniWeb stopped being able to afford Google Ads. Social media tends to not work as well for us because most of the questions people ask on here are so niche that they really are only relevant when people do a … |
| | The only one I know about is Bitbucket. What is your use case? Are you looking to host public or private Git repositories? |
 | As a copywriter, I wonder how AI has changed your role? Are you incorporating it into your workflow, or do you see it more as the enemy to genuine writing? |
| | > Which digital marketing tactics gave you the most ROI early on? Purchasing backlinks, by far. But it was 2003 and Google didn't have a policy against doing it at the time. We live in a completely different world today. I wouldn't recommend it. > Are there any tools or … |
 | Thanks for posting your tips. I think that some of the things you mention, such as giving website visitors instant gratification, unfortunately often get overlooked. That being said, I get that you say how important it is to sound like a human, but are your tips AI generated? (According to … |
| | Organizing code into functions is always important for readability and also to be able to reuse parts of your code as your app gets bigger. Thank you for posting your updated code to share with others :) |
| | Hello and welcome to DaniWeb. Is that your own site or do you do SEO for them? |
| | SEO is the practice of optimizing your website to rank highly in search engines, namely Google. What is your specific question about SEO? |
 | I assume that if you have a paid post that is not performing as well as you expected it to, giving it a little extra oomph, even if it costs you a few bucks, gives the brand a bit wider reach, and ultimately perhaps a higher ROI, and might make … |
| | I don't. All of the content on DaniWeb is user-generated, so I have very little control over the words that appear on each page. Years and years and years ago, back when backlinks weren't banned by Google, I used to be a little intentional when it came to keywords in … |
| | Digital Publishers: Do you block AI bots either via robots.txt, with HTTP 403s, or both? Why or why not? Currently on the fence about it and looking to get opinions from other publishers as to their reasoning and how it's influenced their SEO, etc. |
 | I woke up today to find that my husband asked ChatGPT to generate an image of my dog. The coloring is correct with the exception of Sadie doesn't have white at the tip of her tail. |
| | First of all, let me be blunt. I believe that Enzo only resurrected a 12 year old thread with the intent of spamming. You and I know that because, as moderators, we see in his profile his spamming attempts and his infractions. However, no one else coming across this thread … |
 | Never trust ChatGPT to write fully flushed out code for ya :) Pinterest uses OAuth to authorize your app on behalf of your app's end-user, if that makes sense. For example, your goal is for your end-user to load up your app, and have access to *their* Pinterest account. What …  |
| | That website copied DaniWeb's old design! Also, Web3 and blockchain are *not* synonymous. Web3 is just all about giving users control instead of corporations and social networks retaining all the control. In some ways, blockchain achieves that. In other ways, a social network adopting a policy of its users owning … |
| | My experience is that AT&T fiber for residential use does allow servers and does not block ports. I used to have Verizon FiOS which, also, did not block ports, but that was a business account and so under different rules. Spectrum and Optimum Online business accounts also didn’t block, but … |
| | What are some best practices for optimizing memory management when working with large datasets? I am tagging this topic both with php (because that is my language of choice, and the one I work with big data with) as well as c++ (because I know DaniWeb has a large low … |
 | Don't forget that if you are not going with an out-of-the-box solution, such as Mailchimp, Sendgrid, etc., that you will need to clean the list on your own! That means purging bounced addresses, purging addresses that don't interact with your emails, etc. |
| | > Presumably bumping every "coinflip" post to spam their URL Nothing wrong with that!! I'll take a trillion helpful posts if all someone wants in exchange is a free signature link back to their website (that only shows up for logged in members, so no SEO incentive).  |
| | You shouldn't really need anything more than a Quickbooks account. |
| | I use Github for DaniWeb's code base. I was just wondering though. How secure is it? Would you ever store passwords or other sensitive information in Github (Don't worry. We use .gitignore.)? What about code that could be considered a trade secret, or that type of thing? |
 | Because Google doesn’t think your website has enough to offer, has a strong enough brand name, is not spammy, etc. Create high quality, non-AI generated content, and build backlinks pointing to your site. Also, if you have not already done so, create a Google Search Console account. |
| | While that's all true, I can't help but wonder if this is AI-generated content? Whether or not it is, you pretty much nailed it, so I'm not quite sure if you have a question or not that you're asking, or just trying to get a discussion started. |
| | I tried the paid version of Ahrefs for a time, and, at least for my use case, it wasn't worth the money and I downgraded back to the free version. I've never used Semrush. |
| | Sorry to hear. Has Microsoft since released a patch to whatever update was causing the BSOD? |
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