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 | I'm wondering that if you only do custom prices, many people might be a bit leery that you're doing some funky math on them or that prices are completely subjective and even arbitrary. They'll also feel the need to haggle and barter down with you. I think any successful company … |
 | Sooo ... some bad news. As many of you know, we made a full 120% recovery from our battle with Google Panda a couple months ago. Unfortunately, *something* has struck again. Whether another iteration of Panda or something else, we once again lost more than half of our traffic overnight. … |
 | Our latest batch of tshirts just finally arrived at the office and we're definitely going to be using these for an upcoming batch. Stay tuned!! :)  |
 | We have been having a lot of problems with our search feature for quite awhile. It often returns unrelevant results, and for most queries, returns nothing. Additionally, half the features on the Advanced Search page didn't work at all. We just switched back (for the second time) to using Google … |
| | A link circle (or link wheel) is where 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. There can be an infinite number of links in the wheel. The idea is … |
 | I've been doing a lot of work on caching things behind the scenes, and coupled with the significant decrease in traffic, pretty much had no other choice than to get rid of two of our servers. That went well. Unfortunately, the employee at the hosting company decided to accidentally pull … |
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| | It really comes down to creating and producing them. We have a way to embed youtube videos into articles if anyone cares to take a stab at it. We've dabbled with the idea in-house but just don't have the manpower or experience right now. |
| | Re: New forum Well, when Windows 8 comes out :) Depending on how different it is from Windows Vista/7, we might either combine it or give it its own forum. |
| | What on earth is Gooplex? It looks like a French real estate site?? |
| | Re: What is PR? Google PR, or PageRank, is a part of Google's ranking algorithm in which every individual page of a site is ranked (aka has its own Page Rank) based on how many other pages on the web link to it, and the authority of those pages (in other words, the quality … |
| | I've just started using [b]Folding@Home[/b], and I thought we might create a DaniWeb Folders team. For those of you who would like to be a part of our fight to cure diseases, by using your unused CPU time, please check out [url="http://folding.stanford.edu/"]http://folding.stanford.edu[/url] When setting up your client, enter [b]Team # … |
| | I am assuming it is similar to a link wheel, although I haven't heard the term before. It's most likely where a bunch of sites all link to each other in a way where Google is meant to not catch on that it's reciprocal linking, and therefore the PageRank flows …  |
| | [i]I found this in a few different places around the 'net - hopefully it's helpful:[/i] [font=Arial][size=5][color=#0000ff]How to Change Column Settings in Windows Explorer[/color][/size][/font] [font=Arial][size=2]This article describes how to change the column settings in Windows Explorer. To change which columns are displayed, or change the width or order of the windows … |
| | Just likes sales are seasonal with most businesses, traffic is of course seasonal. Depending on your audience, they may be more likely to use your website during one time of the year than another. Additionally, certain times of the day or night have different traffic levels depending on the demographics … |
| | Backlinks are other sites linking to you. To have high rankings in Google, it's important to have a variety of different webpages -- all on topic and relevant to your site -- linking back to you. It's also important that they be from high quality sites. I would stay away … |
| | Hi, How can I use preg_replace to determine if a string contains a word beginning with a pattern, and if it does, remove it? Basically I want to capture query strings from a search, but throw away search modifiers. For example, the search query string: site:daniweb.com query would just become … |
| | Unfortunately, we had some database errors the other night. After spending quite awhile trying to figure it out myself, and then finally giving in and asking a MySQL consulting firm, the conclusion drawn was that the all-time list of activity points was too resource intensive to compute, and it actually … |
 | Can you cite some examples? Where specifically has he faltered? What, specifically, would a "business person" do differently than he is doing? (Aside from not being a good public speaker) |
| | Re: Hey there! Hi there! Welcome to DaniWeb :) We have a huge software dev audience so you'll fit right at home here. |
 | > how about placing a date check script on the reply buttons Because the majority of people use Quick Reply, not the full reply button to go to the advanced editor. The message that the thread is older than N days is located directly above the Quick Reply.  |
| | I know this is mildly offtopic, but do people really get significant traffic from article directories nowadays? I would have suspected you'd get far more traffic from heavily promoting articles through Twitter and social bookmarking sites.  |
| | Highave, I'm not quite sure what you're asking?  |
 | Links in signature are always allowed unless they contain foul language, are illegal, etc. Only the actual post content qualifies for having moderator action taken upon it (including being called spam). However, as Julienne pointed out, actual post content can qualify as being spam if it is nonsensical, etc. |
| | I don't think it's necessary. Focus on having great content, and encourage other people to link to your website. The search engines will find you and index you that way. I don't really know anyone who manually submits to the search engines anymore, and paying $300 for a directory submission … |
| | Re: Traffic For more accurate traffic, check Quantcast.com Then of course there are always Alexa and Compete. |
 | Do you mean AJAX (Like Facebook & Twitter) where they just auto-update without having to manually hit the refresh button? Unfortunately, we don't have the server resources to constantly poll the database like that. We do provide the "Threads I've Posted In" and "Threads I've Started" links in the bottom … |
 | This most likely won't happen because I don't see the benefit of all the additional resources to make it easy for smiley faces to go into the reporting feature. We already have a problem with members incorrectly using the feature by posting questions/spam in it. I think that a full … |
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| | I have always advocated that the great thing about the Internet is that anyone with a great idea can put a 100 year old company out of business. Blockbuster can compete. And they already have the name. They just need an even better idea. |
| | The site is called DaniWeb because I wanted to create the site as a hobby when I was in college, and I happened to have had the domain name daniweb.com that I used to use when I was 13 years old to post photos of my dogs, and I didn't … |
| | Nothing will be permanently saved in either place. There is a variable called $_SESSION[], which is an array, and you are setting the key "name" to the value 'John'. It will have the value 'John' while the php script is executing (unless you change it further down in code). This …  |
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| | Re: Hey =) Hi there! Welcome to DaniWeb :) We'll try to get your spaghetti code under control. Don't worry. |
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| | Because they epitomize what Google's algorithm looks for in a quality site. In-depth quality unique content and lots and lots and lots of backlinks to each individual article.  |
| | I prefer subdirectories. Google recently made a change in where they are now counting links between subdomains as internal links instead of external links, so that makes it make less of a difference than it used to, I suppose. So it really depends on your application ;) Keep in mind … |
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| | I think that they are targeting Web Developers but from the IT angle as opposed to the Computer Science angle (i.e. not much theory). From what I understand, they have two programs: one targeting designers and a different one targeting developers. Then they have a third program that is actually … |
 | Hi, First of all, thank you soooo much for your support. However, I'm not so sure we have any tasks that can be outsourced. Our big ticket monthly expenses are our office rent, web hosting and marketing expenses, as opposed to employee salaries. I do all of the development work … |
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| | Welcome to DaniWeb and thank you for your contribution! I went ahead and made a small edit by removing the [code=asp] tag you had surrounding the code snippet. Within this code snippet library, that is done automatically for you. It still needs to be done in the forums though. Thanks! |
| | Re: SEO ISSUE Many years ago, search engines didn't like dynamic URLs (URLs with query strings) because you effectively had an infinite number of pages, and robots could get caught in an infinite loop. While that may no longer be the case, Google and many other search engines still highly recommend to limit … |
| | Link exchanges do very little for SEO nowadays, but it's good to get your feet wet with other sites in your industry. It gets your name out there a bit. Don't worry about Google toolbar PageRank: it's meaningless. Link to sites that have good, quality content your audience would be … |
| | You can see that DaniWeb has the social icons here. It allows you to facebook share or tweet about the current forum thread. Facebook friends and twitter followers of the person who clicked the icon then see a recommendation from the person about the page, and it helps spread good … |
| | Google knows that when the header passes a 404, whatever URL was used to get to that page no longer exists. It will deindex that URL. |
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| | Can Google index your site without making a cached version available in the SERPS? |
| | Re: Web Analytics Unfortunately I can't recommend anything other than Google Analytics. There are some more robust solutions out there, but they cost money and are mainly tailored to advanced ROI and eCommerce features. Not only is Google Analytics the best free solution out there, but it is also the industry standard right … |
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