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Re: I'm not sure what you mean by what language? SEO isn't a programming language. However, as with anything on the web, it's a good idea to have XHTML/CSS under your belt. | |
Re: PPC is pay-per-click advertising. It's when you buy advertising by paying for each individual click. Often times, PPC is associated with search engine advertising, such as Google AdWords. | |
Re: I am thinking (because you are not a bank yourself) you will need to first do a credit/debit card/check payment from one person, and then a wire/ACH transfer to the other person. | |
Re: The keyword is quality backlinks: give people a reason to want to link to you. Don't spam or plug your website in other forums ... it seems that's what you're doing, and all that will do is give you a bad reputation in your industry. | |
Re: On DaniWeb, all members can have forum signatures, but they only show up to other registered members of the community. | |
Re: Forums are a great way to supplement your traffic by making a name for yourself (and your brand) within your niche, by posting to forums within your industry and proving yourself as someone who knows their stuff. However, I'd be hard-pressed to find someone who can rely entirely on them. | |
Re: Each time an article on your site ranks highly for a particular keyword, regularly create new content about similar keyword phrases. | |
Re: Mackone is right as far as getting search engine optimization to work for you. Word of mouth is the best form of marketing that exists on the web ... It gets buzz going about your business while building backlinks (links to your website from other sites on the 'net) all … | |
Re: That kinda would be cool. But it might also just end up coming off as a Twitter-copycat gimmick. :-/ But yeah, cool interesting things to add to the social networking component of DaniWeb would definitely be great. Just need the great ideas ... ;) | |
Us Long Islanders are bracing ourselves as we prepare for Hurricane Irene ... Some people on the south shore have already been evicted. How bad do you think it's going to be? I don't know what it is with natural disasters lately. So far this year we've been hit with … | |
Re: Hi Dave, I'm not sure what version of vBulletin you are running, but with the 3.x line, you can do this with template conditionals. Add the following to the <head> section of the SHOWTHREAD template: [code]<if condition="!$threadinfo['replycount']"><meta name="robots" content="noindex" /></if>[/code] | |
Re: White hat SEO is anything that is in Google's official list of how to optimize your website. Read google's official blog :) | |
Re: Google AdWords? Post in related forums with a link to your site in your signature (don't spam though!)? | |
Re: It says 7 out of 10? | |
Re: Create great, useful, unique content that people will naturally want to link to. | |
Re: An error-free site is always great from an end-user usability perspective. I think that it might play a small role in site ranking but I am not sure of this. Back links are the primary way to increase site ranking in today's world. | |
Re: 28 / 7 = 4 Anyone know how to use the [tex] bbcode? I don't know latex :( | |
Re: Winzip does it I believe. But I prefer StuffIt :) | |
Re: Last summer, we came up with tshirts with the slogans that a lot of you came up with in the discussion thread that Nick Evan referenced. We've been handing them out at conferences and industry events that we've been sponsoring ever since. We have more recently expanded to more DaniWeb … | |
Re: Links pointing to your site (known as backlinks) are used by Google and other search engines as an important factor in how high you rank. Known as your PageRank, the concept is that the more relevant pages across the web that link to you, and the authority of those pages, … | |
Re: I have an iPad and the only issue is the purple toolbar for logged in members not scrolling due to the darn iOS devices not adhering to CSS standards. | |
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Re: How would this be so unique from a Facebook group or groups specifically for your University? | |
Re: I'm experiencing the same problem right now. Some of the avatars in this thread are broken. Reaching out to blud ... | |
Re: Not sure what you mean by link optimization? Backlinks? You always want a steady number of new links pointing to your site from relevant deep pages on other sites, linking to relevant deep pages on your own site. | |
Re: It's when site A links to site B and site B links to site C and site C links to site D and site D links back to site A. The concept is that there are so many links in the wheel that Google doesn't catch on that it's reciprocal … | |
I'd like to welcome the newest member of the DaniWeb team, "PR Dude" aka Kerry. Kerry has been one of my closest friends since long before DaniWeb existed. With Eyal leaving a few weeks ago, he has stepped up to the plate to help us out here in the office … | |
Re: You shouldn't have to manually submit your site to any of the search engines anymore. Engines like Google find your site by crawling the web, following links from other sites pointing to your site. The more sites that link to you, and the more "authority" those sites have (based on … | |
Re: Trackback URLs are used mostly for blogs and sometimes forums. Other blogs that link to a particular article ping the article's trackback URL, and "inform" the blog that their article has been mentioned or quoted. | |
Re: Yeah, I didn't change anything having to do with that. Glad you got it sorted out. | |
Re: I think it's interesting that ten years ago, email was looked at as the most modern way of conversing with friends, replacing snail mail. However, today, even email is looked at as archaic, with Facebook and Tweeting on the go being the most contemporary way of keeping in touch with … | |
Re: There really aren't a short list of do's and don'ts. Read Google's official webmaster blog for starters. Read SEObook.com for ideas (good ebook for getting your feet wet). Not sure what else to suggest ... Content is king. Great unique content. Clean HTML code. Don't spam other sites. Keep it … | |
Re: Please be careful when dusting off the interior of your computer. I mistakingly dusted out the inside of my machine with a mini electronic vacuum. The kind that is typically used to clean the dust under the keys of a keyboard or other electronics. Unfortunately, I ended up killing one … | |
Re: As far as I know, you'd need the proprietary ATi software. Check ati's website is all I can offer. A friend of mine has an ATi All-in-Wonder video card/built-in tv tuner and the ATi TV Wonder software is the only thing that will work. | |
Re: Sorry, I don't know much about the real estate niche at all. In fact, how would affiliate marketing even work? Would it be a cost-per-lead for a potential sale to a broker? | |
Re: Umm ... That's not good news. How can we help? | |
Re: I've thought about this many times, but have decided to hold off until the next reincarnation of the DaniWeb design. In the meantime, exploring all of the many vast features of the site is half the experience. | |
Re: Check out the tools at SEObook.com. Also check out seomoz.org tools. Oh, and also check code.google.com (Google's code repository). Info there about their official APIs. | |
Re: OS X is built on top of BSD. As far as I know, the file system (journaled HFS+) coupled with OS X does not need to be defragmented - it is a process that happens automatically in the background. Perhaps others can clarify? | |
Re: First you need an IRC client such as mIRC or Chatzilla (Firefox extension). Then, you can connect to the server irc.daniweb.com. Then, you can join the #DaniWeb channel on the server. | |
Re: Create a Facebook group and post to it ... everything you think that your website visitors would want to see. Post behind-the-scenes information about how you run your website. Photos. Videos. Engage with your audience!! Ask for website feedback and suggestions. Heavily promote your Facebook group on your website as … | |
Re: Google fully recognizes all backlinks that you have. However, when you do a link: query in Google, it is meant to only be a general overview of the sites that link to you. Often only a couple pages per domain name are listed, and they are generally the better of … | |
Re: I'm confused by your question. | |
Re: I hope that there's another big algo change in the works. I'm just waiting for the day when one of them will knock us back up to where we used to be. It really can't get much worse, so anything can only be an improvement for us. |
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