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 | By invitation only :) If a space opens up (aka there is an apparent need for additional moderation within a particular category), then the existing moderation team votes on who to nominate. The nominees are then asked if they are interested. |
 | I think that it's like a link wheel only for articles. Where there are multiple articles in the prism and they each provide a one-way back link to another one.  |
| | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trackback Sorry morganlong, but that's not correct :( It's often beneficial to know all of the different places on the web where a particular article is being referenced. For example, suppose you read an article in the New York Times online. It might be interesting to easily find all of … |
 | DaniWeb will once again be sponsoring the Percona Live MySQL conference coming up next month. You can go to http://www.percona.com/live/nyc-2012/ to register and use promo code DANIWEB to save 15% on tickets. DaniWeb will also be hosting the official after party for the Percona conference, which you can find out … |
| | The same way that Google's Panda algorithm was designed to focus around more of the on-page stuff (thin content, quality of content, content farms, etc.), the Penguin algorithm is designed to focus around the off-page stuff (backlinks!) The first itiration of Penguin has already been rolled out a few months … |
 | Please define "messed up"? The code highlighting is off, you mean? |
| | The alt tag is meant to show alternative text in lieu of being able to show an image. While images might look great visually, they are useless to blind people or people using text-based web browsers. Therefore, the alt text is used to describe the image if is unable to … |
| | There are many keyword tools on the web (SEO Moz, Digital Point, SEO Book, etc). The goal is to find a niche keyword that describes what people would be looking for on your site, but also doesn't have a lot of competition from competitors also targeting the same keyword. The … |
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| | Your file paths should be relative to their location in the file system. Where in the file system is the PHP file doing the writing compared to where you're trying to create the file. It should be irrelevant whether it's a different subdomain or not. |
| | Peter, I think he's referring to how member profiles show MSN usernames and such, which often times are people's full email addresses. We should actually be encrypting those ...  |
 | PayPal doesn't do that? Google Checkout, perhaps? No clue, sorry :( |
| | Just to add some clarification here, there was never a problem with your database. It's simply that HTML does not preserve line breaks, so you need to use the nl2br() function to turn new line breaks into HTML line breaks. |
| | Not sure what you mean. Google releases new algorithm updates just about daily. Every so often, there are some big ones that happen, but Google doesn't release official announcements about them. The SEO community finds out because people begin to notice large shifts in their traffic overnight and so they … |
| | Basically it all has to do with whether you're doing something that is considered a good practice to make your site more user friendly, versus doing something to try to game the search engines to artificially increase your ranking by exploiting a problem with the current algorithm. This might be … |
 | Firstly, we did make a change to cookies about a week ago where everyone was logged out. I started a thread about it apologizing. :) So if you've had your browser open for over a week, then that's the reason why. Secondly, to prevent against spam, you cannot submit any … |
 | I'm Dani :) You can find my bio on our About Us page http://www.daniweb.com/home/about |
| | I'm confused by what you mean. Have awesome content. Have a good, clear navigation structure. Have clean HTML that validates according to the W3C standards. |
 | Can't you do [inlinecode]UPDATE table SET col_value = col_value + 1[/inlinecode]? |
 | Adding this feature alone has increased our "social activity" from an average of 250 likes/tweets per day to forum discussion threads up to an average of over 400 per day. Currently, the very vast majority of our traffic comes from Google results. Google has made it no secret that they …  |
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| | This is why when you post in any forum, it bubbles up to the top, so it will be noticed by people clicking on all of Software Development. |
| | Re: java Welcome to DaniWeb! We're here to help, but we're not going to just do your homework for you. Please show some effort, such as what you've tried so far and where specifically you are stuck. |
| | We still keep the information required by law locked up in our database. We have simply altered the front end so that it is no longer visible for deleted accounts. |
| | I would avoid reciprocal links. That's a very outdated strategy that really doesn't do much anymore, and, as you mention, I'm not sure how it will be affected by Penguin. We know that a major part of Penguin is to catch those types of black hat techniques, so I wouldn't … |
| | You can't :) You can type in cache:www.example.com to see Google's latest cached copy of your website. However, Google doesn't give you access to older copies of its cache. You can use the Wayback Machine @ http://wayback.archive.org to see old cached versions of your site, as provided by Alexa. However, … |
| | From an SEO perspective, IMHO it's much better to have "deep links", which are backlinks to inner pages, as opposed to links to your homepage or other landing pages. Google likes to send people doing searches directly to an end-page that has the exact content they're looking for. They don't … |
 | You would probably do good selling text links because people like to pay for a mass amount of sitewide links to help their search engine rankings. You could also perhaps offer forum hosting for $5 / month for an ad-free version or to allow the forum owner to use their … |
| | Yeah, sorry about that. It was a bug from a change I made yesterday that went unnoticed. :( |
| | As previously mentioned, just because a post has been voted down, does not necessarily mean that post is currently negative. Someone else (or multiple someone elses) must have voted the posts up. |
| | Wow, that's really awkward!! Good catch. I'll take a look into it a little bit later today. |
| | Even though it's incredibly bad practice, most advertising servers still use document.write. It's terrible because placing `<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.ad-server.com/foo.js" />` where you want the ads to appear is page blocking. I'm trying to move the script tag to the very bottom of the page (so at least everything above it … |
| | It might be that our servers are acting a bit sluggish. AJAX tends to "fake" things, like instantly slapping your reply on the bottom of a thread for some instant non-page refreshing gratification, before the new post is actually processed in the database. |
 | Hi, I'll add the Facebook Login link to the page. However, our 404 page is a static HTML file which doesn't look at cookies. |
| | I remember back in the day, each category (Software Dev, Web Dev, etc) was a different color scheme.  |
| | Audrey, huh?? All that does is pull up Google's cache of your web page. How can that increase traffic? |
| | When did it stop working? Did you ever have problems with it before? What were you doing when it stopped working?  |
| | It should work if you enter "aspnet" as the syntax language. :) |
| | Huh? Weber who? Evan Weber is a friend of mine who does affiliate marketing, but other than that I have no clue who you're referring to! I just felt like replying to shout out to my friend Evan. :-P |
| | http://www.DigitalPoint.com http://www.SERoundTable.com http://www.SitePoint.com http://www.SEOMoz.com http://www.WebProNews.com http://www.WebmasterWorld.com http://www.SEOChat.com http://www.WarriorForum.com http://www.SEOBook.com ... and sooooo many more! |
| | I'm not really familiar with them (looks to be Indian-based), but it just looks like a standard eCommerce shop to me. Is there anything special/unique/different about them that I am missing? Magento is a very popular eCommerce shop, and would probably be the best place to start. Play around with … |
| | > It was much simpler and safer to just use CODE tags. AD, as Deceptikon pointed out, BBCode vs Markdown has nothing to do with this error message. It's simply our attempt at getting people to correctly format code so moderators don't have so much work to do, which is … |
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| | DaniWeb is no longer using a complex WYSIWYG editor. However, I would super highly recommend TinyMCE. |
| | Googlebot has an insurrmountable number of IPs so you can't do that. You might be able to filter by user agent though. Googlebot always goes by the 'gootlebot' user agent, and there are other bots as well. You could do it like this in PHP (completely untested code): $robots = … |
| | This would have to be done via some server side script that created a pdf file on the fly. What operating system would the server be? (Windows NT/2000, Linux, etc?) If you were using linux, for example, you'd need the flash program to automatically execute a script which would run … |
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 | How can we help you if you don't post the URL?  |
| | Wow, I'm actually impressed that Google assists webmasters now by telling them that they may/are being penalized for unnatural backlinks. Is that something new? As far as I can remember, it was up to the webmaster to take a guess why their traffic was decreasing. Because I'm completely clueless as … |
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