Posts by Dani

I never heard of WorldBook before.

I guess it can negatively affect the user's experience?

Well isn't it the idea that all websites be up 24/7?

In any case, a blog adds a lot of "authority" and unqiue content to your domain, from an SEO perspective. It adds overall weight and value to the domain name.

1) Yes, if everything on your site are movies. Otherwise, you might wish to add another level to your directory structure such as www.sitename.com/movies/moviename and www.sitename.com/tv/tvshowname.

2) Not sure what you mean here. Is the information about all your 3500 films in a database? What is currently in the movie.php file?

I assume you are a publisher and you are trying to put advertising on your site through the Yahoo! Publisher Network (aka YPN). Tried YPN once many years ago, but from what I understand it's not nearly as good as Google Analytics. I recall a bunch of people beta testing it at the same time as I was way back when, but I haven't really heard of anyone using it since then. To be honest, I didn't even know it still existed. I don't see it on any websites ever. Are you sure that it IS even possible to sign up for it?

I consider traffic benchmarking checking up with sites like Quantcast.com, Compete.com, to see how your traffic compares against your competition. Of course it's not really accurate, but eh :) Google Analytics also includes a benchmarking feature, as Spletnapot pointed out.

HUH??

Keyword trackers let you keep track of how many searches specific keywords get in Google, so you can estimate how much traffic you would get by focusing your efforts on those short-tail keywords, and which keywords are the most worthwhile and which have the most competition.

I don't believe they will, especially since what you're proposing is a common way of rewriting URLs nowadays. However, for the absolute best navigation hierarchy (for both seo and usability, of course), it's a really good idea to actually create default pages for the two folders as part of your site's structure.

Never heard of it until you brought it up. Turns out it's a term coined by a guy in an article for the Search Engine Journal -- http://www.searchenginejournal.com/for-keyword-targeting-in-paid-search-beware-the-galaxy-effect/27788/

Basically, he is saying that you should always have a broad reach that expands beyond those who are already loyal to you.

We have a modal "nag window" that appears to non-logged in users when they arrive at a forum thread from a Google search. The modal can be closed out of by clicking anywhere else on the page (which is grayed out when the modal is displayed.)

A couple of times over the past year or two, I tried running small tests with removing it, and each time the CTR of the banner ads on the site decreased SIGNIFICANTLY. This was consistent across both the current DaniWeb layout and the previous one. Whenever we don't have the modal window in use, our banner performance decreases. Whenever we start using it again, it's like we instantly flipped the switch.

Any ideas why the difference would be SOOO huge?! I can understand a couple of accidental clicks from people who are trying to exit out of it and click on the banner accidentally, but the differences we're noticing are astronomical.

I am pretty sure it has been proven that Google penalizes for landing pages with popup/popunder windows, because it negatively affects the user's experience. I was just wondering if they do the same for JavaScript-based modal windows? Or if they are even able to detect them??

You can never submit to enough ... Keep writing unique content, keep getting the word out any and all ways you can. (That aren't black hat, of course)

It's okay, we all have those days.

I get the whole photo thing, but I guess it's true that human nature is intrigued by people in turmoil. It's why everyone loves bad reality shows, court shows, and I love COPS and prison shows. LOL

Anyone have any insight on this?

... the weird thing is I got an email saying someone replied to this and I dont see anything.

This happened because a spammer replied to your thread, but then a moderator deleted their post.

Try the .htaccess file:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule		^([a-z0-9]+).html$		index.php?p=$1	[L]

Then, blah.html will redirect to index.php?p=blah

Hi there, welcome to DaniWeb!

What most interests me is what Watson's database is like. I think it's half the battle figuring out what question is being asked. But it's the other half of the battle coming up with a correct answer to an infinite number of questions on an infinite number of topics.

What problem are you having with it, exactly?

I think that's just the nature of online communities. People lose interest over time. Move on. Come back after awhile, etc. Things in people's lives change (career change to something they don't need DaniWeb for anymore, graduating school, lack of time, etc)

Hi CodeWord,

Thanks SOOOO MUCH for those kind words! It is very much appreciated. I assume you are the person who is irritated no longer? ;) Sorry for the bad first taste.

I think there are definitely more C++ and Java people than there used to be. Definitely.

Hmm strange. Looks ok to me. I'll keep an eye out to see if other people are experiencing the same problem with marking threads as solved.

Sorry about that. Thanks for the heads up though. We just got to the bottom of it, so things should be improving.

Hi,

It is actually not our current, official policy to close threads for this reason. We do REQUEST that members do not resurrect (bump) old threads, but it is not an official rule.

My response stands. There are two bugs that I hope to have fixed the next time I have time to do an all-day coding session (lately I've been swamped with so much on the business end). Those two things are the ability to take back a vote, and the ability to login (and not just register, like you currently can) from the 'post reply' screen when attempting to post as a guest.

A project tracker ... Baby steps, baby steps. I didn't start using SVN that long ago! The main problem is that I am the only developer, and I spend 99% of my time working on the business side of things nowadays. I've also been doing a LOT of promotion and SEO recently. If I can get one coding day every six weeks into my schedule, I'm thrilled. My goal = Working on business a little bit longer to the point of where we can afford to bring in a second developer.

Hi and welcome. Your signature does appear. I see it ... links to TeamWork Go! and Affiliates signup.

> DaniWeb is a US-based LLC, complying with US law. There is no requirement under US to delete an account, or remove the kind of membership information stored by DaniWeb, upon request.
There is certainly no requirement under the law of ANY country to delete a member's account, for that matter.

> If i had known that I couldn't later delete it, I (and many others) wouldn't have signed up in the first place (out of curiosity).
Now that you do know, why are you still sticking around and posting?

Hi,

We do not permanently remove IDs from the database for two reasons:

1 - User IDs are associated with posts, and we have a policy of not deleting posts (unless they violate our rules)
2 - We are required (based on anti-spam regulations) to always maintain a database of everyone who we have EVER sent ANY email to (anonymous, non-personal information such as join date and time, etc) to prove that we didn't just buy the email address, but that they actually signed up with us directly at some point in time.

We don't keep any personal information on record. You are able to change your email address and password at any time. Additionally, you can contact Davey (aka happygeek) if you wish to change your username.

Unless you were rather personal in your posts (in which case, you should be more careful about what you write on the Internet), it is rather easy to make sure that your member profile with DaniWeb is anonymous.

The G4 towers were PowerPCs.

Hey there. Welcome to DaniWeb!!! But why avoid web programming? It's fun! :)

Yes, you always want to use a different IP address for each site. Google associates sites on the same IP block as being affiliated, which means that if one site gets banned or devalued in the Google index for blackhat techniques, they all are hurt.

Go to the Control Panel (link is above the search box at the top of the page). In the sidebar, under the Settings & Options heading, click on Edit Signature.

Eyal's second question was not specific to game dev.

So much for my new lil text blurb on the New Thread page that says "General titles such as 'Help Me' or 'Urgent' are not only unuseful, but can be considered a turn off by other community members, and will often result in fewer replies." :-P

Guess you were right about it being hard to notice. ;)

Last night, towards the end of my work day, I added some additional information to the New Thread page to hopefully guide people in the right direction towards the best way to post on DaniWeb.

AndreRet:
> I tend to go back to a thread when I need to confirm some code etc.
He was referring to the list of people currently viewing a thread being displayed while in advanced editor mode. Currently, the advanced editor already includes a quick view of all of the posts in the thread, so you shouldn't have to go back to a thread while advanced replying.

Yes, indeed. Welcome!

I don't have the ability to. As soon as an ad behaves like this, all I can do is inform the ad network. If the ad network doesn't take immediate action (I give them about 24 hours), then, depending on my contract with them, I terminate all of the ads that I am currently running with them (which can be a substantial amount of revenue). Sometimes I'm not dealing with an ad network, but with an agency directly, and is often the case here my contract forbids me from taking the ad down under any circumstances.

It's a parameter in the Flash ad that tells it to sit in front of everything else on the page. The ONLY thing that I can do, in this case, is contact the ad network, who will hopefully contact the ad agency, who will hopefully contact the creative team that created the Flash ad, and request that they please modify it, and send it back to the ad agency, to send it back to the ad network.

I actually have some very minor but real things on my wish list:

Group one wishlist: Who's reading this thread:

• Easily see who is watching a thread while I'm in 'advanced editor' mode.
• That same information available on any page of a multi-page thread
• That information dynamically updated on the page I'm viewing when it changes on the server. (!)

Group two wishlist: Composition tools

• Put an [I[B][/B]CODE] button on the quick reply form
• A [THREAD] button that would parse the full permalink URL in another post (from my other browser window) and do the right thing to make an internal link.
• As above, but a [POST] button.
• A link easily visible near the reply box that opens a new window showing the available BB codes. And, another thought, maybe an option to open another menu bar with widgits, that like the [CODE] button, insert the tags for you.

That is surely enough of that...

Who's Reading a thread IS currently available on any page of a multi-page thread. As far as it being AJAX (dynamically changing in realtime), unfortunately this just isn't feasable from a server resources perspective. It NEEDS to be cached, and pushing it out every X seconds while people read long threads just isn't doable, I'm afraid.

Regarding who's reading a thread while in 'Advanced Editor' mode ... I will consider adding this if I could see any additional show of hands as to who might want this and find it …

> I think that it would be pretty cool if there was a section for code snippets one for each of the languages. building up a library would be pretty cool
But there is??

I don't put any faith in Alexa. My rank increases when my traffic remains constant, and my rank decreases when my traffic goes up.

Have informed them.

Naa, not your fault. It used to not work. I posted a month or two ago saying I corrected the behaviour :)

> Enable the reading of the "go to last post" in a new browser window. At the moment you can only open it in the current window, a bit frustrating when you need to only read the last post and then have to use the back button to go back to the forum you were in.
Just right click and select "Open in new window / new tab / etc".

Write for humans, not the search engines, and search engine traffic will naturally follow. The engines are getting smarter and smarter with understanding human-readable English.

If you write for the bots, it might work today, but not tomorrow. But if you write for humans, not only will your site convert better, but you can be rest assured that your influence with the engines will only improve.

Some of those are really cool ideas. Going to delve into it more tomorrow.

I can't think of a good reason not to use Bootcamp to set up Windows, just so that you can keep up with the OS and have it handy, unless you are really crunched for hdd space.

1) As far as I know, you would only need your own SSL certificate if you wish to transfer information securely yourself (Taking the customer's name and address, for example, might give peace of mind to the customer if they knew it was done securely). If you are using PayPal to handle payments in their entirety, you do not need your own SSL certificate.

2) Not sure, sorry. All I would suggest is make sure the little padlock icon (or whatever your web browser uses to indicate you are browsing a secure page) is displayed.

3) Again, not sure. Sorry :)

Iframes are very much so not recommended for SEO. yes, Google will be able to crawl to the one page that you are linking to within an iframe. But Google won't get the full picture as to how your site is structured, and you'll lose a lot of PageRank in the process.