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 | Are your videos related to your website content? Do they add value to your website? Are you giving visitors who watch the YouTube videos a good reason why they should instantly follow up with a visit to your site? That last question is the doosey. |
 | [i]I found this in a few different places around the 'net - hopefully it's helpful:[/i] [font=Arial][size=5][color=#0000ff]Correcting System Hang at Startup [/color][/size][size=2]If your system hangs about 2 or 3 minutes at startup, where you can't access the Start button or the Taskbar, it may be due to one specific service (Background … |
| | I send out an e-bulletin every couple of months. It's a plain text e-mail newsletter to forum members, although I'm considering moving over to HTML. I'm thinking about selling an ad per newsletter. What do you think? Should it be a text ad? If I move over to an HTML … |
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| | Hey guys, Well, our new design is launched, our DaniWeb event is behind us, and I'm starting to settle back into a routine. That means I have some time on my hands (not really, but I can dream). In any case, I thought it was a good time to ask …  |
| | I think that Google is constantly in flux and constantly changing its algorithm non-stop. Every so often (more and more rarely) they do have a major rollout but things are constantly changing. |
 | When you flag a bad post, a thread is created in a hidden queue of submitted reports, where moderators act on each submission as a ticketing system of sorts. All you're really doing is calling a moderator's attention to the post. :) If you want, flag the post again with … |
| | Hi, I just want to let everyone know that, unfortunately, our user table became corrupt today and we do not have a recent backup. Unfortuantely, we lost about 40 users. Some of these users currently do not exist in the database at all and the other 25 or so do … |
| | It is against our rules, and the rules of many forums, to plug your site or affiliate links within posts. |
 | I don't know anything about GoDaddy's built-in ecommerce solutions, but if you're just selling one product quick 'n' simple you may want to consider PayPal? |
| | I think that how prominent a keyword is within your content is how many times it is repeated/mentioned throughout the copy. |
 | Because everyone knows Google is awesome. :)  |
 | Hi, Thanks for the bug report. :) Will investigate ... although it seems to be a bug report that's existed for a very long time already. |
| | Yup. Will check it out tomorrow. |
 | Re: Forum Database A new table for each thread is like a separate hard drive for each Word document you save! I think what you mean is you want to create one database. One table in the database contains all of the threads. And then columns for replier_name, date, text and category_name. |
| | vBulletin designs run from anywhere between $100 and $800, depending upon the quality, the experience level, etc. It really varies greatly - just like any web design. Unfortunately there isn't a way [b]that I know of[/b] to add a direct download to PayPal. What you can do is set up … |
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| | Re: Best Tool There are a handful of really good free SEO tools ... just Google for them. Also, as joelchrist suggests, use google webmaster tools.  |
| | Do you think that it might finally be time to go install the ol' antivirus software on a trusty OS X system? |
 | Re: Dinner with Dani David Doria was there, as was one of our former news story staff writers Eddie Correia. My friend Dan (incissor / samaru) was also there, DaniWeb's very first member ([url]http://www.daniweb.com/forums/member12.html[/url]). How have I changed, hehe? :)  |
| | No clue but if I had to take a stab in the dark, I'd say that it's all about optimizing the page for the end user and not for the search engine bots. The sites that rank the best in the search engines are the ones that don't seem like …  |
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 | I think I'm a lil confused. It seems to me that big_k doesn't want to pay a webhost to serve his website. Rather, he wants to open his own web hosting company. And lets say he has clients that he advertises 100mb to, for example. He wants to know how … |
| | Google Analytics is the best free option available IMO. Is there a reason you want to look beyond it? |
| | Not at all. Never heard of any of those, sorry. Perhaps what you found was that the SEO company is paying bloggers to link to their clients' websites within blog entries in order to gain backlinks. (Backlinks are links from other content-rich sites that link to your site, increasing your … |
| | Is AdSense smart about which ad types to use for each ad unit? For example, I have an ad unit that performs really well with Images but not Flash, and vice versa with another one. I know that Google says that they will always try to put the highest performing … |
| | Hi there, Don't be discouraged. It *IS* possible to be successful in the search engines without any money at all. Read up about doing on page and off page optimization (on page = h1 tags, keyword density, etc and off page = links from other sites).  |
| | I'm not sure why this would be. The new version loads a LOT faster, has fewer images, calls far fewer external JavaScript files, has far less advertising and contacts far less third party servers. |
| | Don't worry. Already had a chat with the designer about this one early this morning. Working on a solution.  |
 | I also agree that divs load faster. People can steal your images either way ;) Table people can use table background="/temp/img.jpg" - In any case, I still say divs. The DaniWeb header, footer, and nearly all of the homepage are all div tags. Anyone find it not cross-browser compatible? Personally … |
| | I'm not sure what PTC means either. |
 | I think he's referring to the Softwire program for VS.NET [url="http://www.softwiretechnology.com/"]http://www.softwiretechnology.com/[/url] |
 | Re: C++ Academic Goodness gracious ... must you really? After I spent all that time making a new section just for links? ;) In any case I already live at cplusplus.com as it is :P Catcha latah  |
 | The reason not to have so many links is because it comes off as unnatural to the search engines ... If a link is supposed to be a "vote" for that page, and you vote for half the Internet, there's just way too much dilution to make any of your …  |
| | Abused my knowledge of computers? No, never, nope, not me ... What exactly do you mean by *abused* ?? Nothing illegal ... I don't play around in the IRCs although I used to run an FTP site and distribute bootleg movies. |
| | Have you tried checking your mail by going to [url="http://www.hotmail.com"]www.hotmail.com[/url] ? The Hotmail website was having some problems awhile back and I'm not sure if MSN Mail is just really Hotmail with a new skin or not. Also, did you know that you can check @msn.com and @hotmail.com mail through …  |
 | Firstly, have you made over $100 so far? Google only sends out payments that are over $100. Secondly, Google pays NET 30, which means that they first send out the check or e-check at the end of the following month after it's earned. (This means that you will receive a … |
| | There are a handful of keyword tools out there. Unfortunately, I don't know of any offhand, but a quick Google search should do the trick. The right keywords are not only relevant but also receive a good amount of search traffic and also are "achievable" goals. For example, it might … |
| | > Google usually composes its own page description based on the text of the first paragraph of the indexed page Actually, the abstract you see in the Google search results is usually the paragraph containing the keywords searched for.  |
| | I've never heard of them either. However, you're on the right track if you want to use social networking to grow traffic to your site. Start by using tools such as AddThis.com to encourage your users to bookmark and share and syndicate your content on their Twitter, Facebook, etc. |
| | There really are too many individual things to name. A well-SEO'ed site has a lot of good, useful, unique content, a really good navigational structure, very clean HTML markup, makes proper use of all HTML tags (<h1> tags for topic headers, <blockquote> tags if you're quoting something, etc etc etc), … |
| | I guess it has to do with SEO because no one at all is really going to ever click on a pixel you buy off of some million dollar homepage clone site, so the only reason someone would do it is because they would do something such as spend $100 … |
| | Hi, I am trying to do a three level suckerfish dropdown menu (live top navigation menu). However, I want to make it semi-transparent. It works fine in FF, Chrome, etc. However, there is an IE bug where if an element is transparent, then any children of that element cannot render … |
| | Hi there ... Is this possible to partner with someone to manage your SEO? Yes, it is! There are a lot of people who work in the Internet marketing industry as consultants for a retainer. Because you are a nonprofit, some SEOs may be willing to work for you pro … |
 | Re: What is daniweb? DaniWeb is based off of the vBulletin forum system. The rest of our cms is custom coded around the vB framework. vB itself is also heavily hacked. |
 | Yes, I know. :) It's a known bug but it's low on my priority list. |
| | That's because Hardware is a category. You need to drill down into one of the Hardware forums such as CPUs or Video Cards. Click on the Hardware category title to see the list of available forums. |
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