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It's horrendous practice to keep all three URLs active. First choose one URL you want to use from now on. Preferably it would be with the www, but bink.nu has a high PR without it, so I would go with that. Use an .htaccess file to 301 Redirect [url="http://www.bink.nu"]www.bink.nu[/url] and …

I have page1.html that is being 302 redirected (temporary redirect) to page2.html page2.html is disallowed in my robots.txt file Under normal circumstances, when googlebot encounters a 301 redirect from page1.html to page2.html, it will index page2.html, and when googlebot encounters a 302 redirect from page1.html to page2.html, it will index …

Organic SEO works very well with forums because they constantly build natural content and many interlinking pages.

http. https means over a secure connection.

I removed it when cleaning up the site design because I felt like it was very infrequently used and was confusing to people not aware of its function (it didn't appear to do anything when clicked, unless you understood its function). I would prefer not to re-add it unless there …

Try Amazon's Mechanical Turk.

I have a somewhat complicated select query which returns, in part, the following resultset (as an example): [code=text] threadid views -------- ----- 1 5 1 5 2 10 3 15 4 10 [/code] If I were to do the following select: [code]COUNT (DISTINCT threadid), SUM (DISTINCT views)[/code] then it would …

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While I agree with you, the flip side is that it's really difficult to organize categories and subcategories in a forum where there is overlap just about everywhere. Every technology can be used with every other technology. That's why we use tags so that you can cross-reference topics. A lot …

I think that we're definitely being affected by the Google Panda algorithm from both ends. On one side, our traffic has been directly affected, and as a result there are less new people finding us, less new content being posted, etc. On the other end, a lot of sites out …

Sanjay, don't you mean that you don't think you CAN convince them to redo the site just b/c of validator errors? I know many sites don't pay attention to validator errors. Google, for example, purposefully doesn't validate just to save themselves as many bytes as possible for the quickest download …

[QUOTE=Lerner]This is dependent on the platform you are writing your program for, Windows/Linux/Mac. There are forums for this indiviual platforms if you go to the forum index and scroll down a ways. You may get an answer here, but you are much more likely to get a response in the …

Can someone please explain to me the difference between ++i and i++ when written as part of an expression (i.e. within loops and if statements) ? Thanks :)

I don't drink. Never have. Never will.

This was originally posted in the tutorials section of the site. It got moved to C++. I think Computer Science is more appropriate for it so it's being moved once again ;)

You can use your badge that is in your member profile. There are a couple of options available.

Google AdWords typically offers anywhere from a $20 to $100 voucher for new members starting up (whatever the deal of the moment happens to be, I forget). In any case, it goes a little way towards playing around with getting your campaign set up. The other cool thing about AdWords …

Podcasting is having an Internet radio station.

Your article eloquently describes what's known in the advertising industry as beyond-the-banner advertising ... Looking beyond leaderboards and medium rectangle banner ads to create a well-rounded advertising campaign (yes, I use marketing buzzwords) that includes social media, word of mouth marketing, and actually engaging with the audience. That's exactly what …

Google Plus has been closed to new users from the day after it opened. It opened up again last night but appears to be closed yet again.

You can now earn activity points for hitting the +1 button on various DaniWeb pages. Right now it's just on the homepage and articles/news, but coming to most forum threads soon.

You can do what we do, which is have Tweet buttons and Facebook Like buttons on every page. There are also sites such as AddThis.com which make it easy to add one snippet of JavaScript code to your page and have buttons for like 20 different social media sites.

This is possible. When accessing the page, the user will be presented with a Facebook dialog box from Facebook asking them if it is okay to share their public profile Facebook information with the current website. Sometimes you see a similar dialog box when loading Facebook games such as Farmville.

Have good, quality content and encourage people to link to your site. You're not allowed to post your site URL in this forum, but check out our Website Reviews forum in the Business Exchange category, for some more one-on-one feedback.

Attractive articles in what sense? Just good, interesting articles? Huh??

You don't apply to social media. It is simply the act of gaining traffic through Twitter and Facebook, because people will tweet about your content or facebook 'like' it to their friends.

Eyal left to pursue a job offer in the city. He was running our monthly meetups, acting as our event coordinator, director of PR, and editor. His duties have been dispersed among myself, Adam and Kerry.

The look of the Google search results totally just changed for me. It now has a grey bar across the top and the left navbar has a background hover.

You can go into a member's profile, and in the left sidebar, it shows a count of how many threads they started vs how many replies/comments they made, how many code snippets they've contributed, etc.

I have never heard of identi.ca. Is it popular?

Make it funny and interesting. :)

I love TNG :) Actually, I love Voyager more. But I digress.

We were working last night adding caching for CSS and JS files. Looks like the wrong effect occurred!! Getting James on this right now ...

Do you have a link to the article?

From the AdWords side, you can choose to target by remarketing or by interest-only (not keyword based). But you can't choose this from the AdSense side. As mentioned, perhaps another ad network or affiliate programs might be a better fit for you if you feel that the same ads are …

You can do directory submissions for different websites even if they are on the same IP. This is perfectly fine. The problem is that if one of the sites with the IP does black hat SEO (buying text links, having links in bad neighborhoods, etc) then the other sites on …

To echo Ancient Dragon, why is Davey not on the list? I might favor blud for all the work he does behind the scenes as our systems administrator, not necessarily for his mod duties.

Or use the links at the bottom of the web browser for new posts in forums you're interested in.

You need a combination of great content on the site and incoming links from external sources to get page rank. A lot of factors all work together to increase ranking in the search engines.

SEO = search engine optimization = optimizing the navigation structure, html code, etc for a website as well as building relevant backlinks and a good linking strategy PPC = pay per click = purchasing "clicks" to your website through something like Google AdWords SEM = search engine marketing = broader …

Create great content.

On page SEO is basically everything that you have direct control over on your site ... A good URL structure, clean HTML code, proper use of H1/H2 tags, proper use of meta tags, a good navigation hierarchy, no keyword stuffing, well-written articles and lots of unique content written for humans …

And your point being ...?

We have been using canonical pages since before Panda rolled out, and still got dinged. We have since made improvements to our URL structure and what we use for our canonical URLs. I can't see how using it can HARM duplicate content? If anything, it would either remain the same …

Edit the phpBB template file.

It's great to diversify -- why not do a little of everything?

We're using it, but mostly because I'm afraid that if we don't we'll get left behind, as from what I understand Google will start including it as a factor in search ranking.

Yes, it's a browser related thing. Maybe some type of plugin you have installed?

Ah, yes, we don't have that page anymore. I will try to recreate it.

I think that I also need to point out that a lot of non-native English speakers have learned English online by reading forums and participating in chat rooms. Therefore, not only might they be writing in broken English, but they might use 1337 speak but not even realize that it …