Posts by Dani

Ahh, gotcha! Thanks for the explanation brayanaustin. How hard are they to put together though? you have to get all of these publishers to agree to link to two different sites, with one of the two being a site that every publisher in the link wheel is linking to.... Seems hard to coordinate, no?

I would love to have an even balance between Google, social media, etc. I hate having all my eggs in one basket, so to speak. Really been working hard lately trying to get social media to play a bigger role with us than it currently is.

Well, there are link building companies that strategically place your link on select high-valued sites. But, you could just as easily contact the site's webmaster yourself I guess.

Yes, keyword density is important, but a different way today than it was in the past. Previously, the more repetitively a keyword was mentioned, the better it would rank. Toooo excessive though, and it could begin to work against you. Today, search engines are getting smarter and smarter at being able to understand things the way they are meant to be written. Today, the perfect balance is what reads the best to a human. Write for a human with good, well-written content that people will enjoy reading and naturally want to link to and the search results will naturally follow.

Actually, I was waiting on Davey to come up with the modified rule suggestions.

DaniWeb's forums are based on the vBulletin forum system. It's not free but it's reasonably priced for what it is capable of at just under $200 for a license. However, not only are the forums highly customized, but all of the other features the site offers are coded in house from the ground up.

All that being said, vBulletin is a very robust forum system and I highly recommend it out of all forum systems currently on the market.

Not sure what you mean? It is currently considered unethical SEO / black hat SEO to purchase links solely to increase search engine rankings. Sometimes it works. Sometimes it doesn't.

Are you asking whether people should do it themselves or hire a company?

I have never heard the term link wheeling and I have no clue what it is.

haha we posted at the same time

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 an updated note to the moderator, and the updated note will get added to the same ticket.

The idea is that your content should be good enough that you will constantly grow links naturally. A link building campaign is a good start to grow traffic to a page, but the content should be good enough that once the page has a decent amount of traffic, people will start to link to it all on their own. You can then move your link building efforts to a different page while the first one continues to get new links organically.

If the only links you get are those that are from paid link building efforts, then as soon as you stop paying, nearly all the traffic will dwindle rather quickly.

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?

A Google official has announced this morning that the search giant is back in action in China. Google, the second most popular search engine in China, behind Baidu, announced in January of this year that it would no longer censor its search results on the Chinese version of its website, against the wishes of the Chinese government. As a result, Google's stock price plummeted while Baidu's stock price saw all time highs, surpassing Google on the stock market.

A couple months later, Google began redirecting users accessing the google.cn version of Google to the uncensored Hong Kong version. Unfortunately, Chinese officials didn't find that acceptable and threatened to not renew Google's Internet Content Provider (ICP) license, which grants the search giant permission to operate a commercial website in China. Google was therefore slated to go dark in China when their existing ICP license (which must be renewed annually) expired.

Google recently started providing a link to the Hong Kong site on the Google.cn landing page instead of an automatic redirect. As of this morning, Google has announced that the Chinese government has found this latest revision acceptable and has just renewed Google's ICP license. That means Google is in the clear with China ... for now. Either way, Google's pre-market stock price has soared 14 points so far. The official word has been posted on the official Google Blog by David Drummond, SVP, Corporate Development and Chief Legal Officer of Google.

Sign up for affiliate programs with ecommerce sites where you get paid a commission for each sale you make. Then, register for an account on Google AdWords and promote the product you're selling. Do it well enough and the amount you invest with Google AdWords will be less than the commissions you'll earn.

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.

We get just about all of our SE traffic from Google. All the other search engines amount to just barely a fraction of a percent!

Guerilla marketing employs all of the tactics that make SEO a success ... getting your links out there naturally and organically and virally.

Yup. Will check it out tomorrow.

Solved threads will be fixed soon. :)

Yes. I am not so sure you'd be penalized as much as the search engines will just discount the meta tags entirely.

Each of the 200+ affected members received the notice about what's wrong by email. They've been each replying to the email one by one with their username and password and I've been repairing each account individually.

We started out with 211 corrupted logins and are now down to 189.

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.

How so?

Post count should be accurate now as well.

Is your reputation accurate now? Reputation for all users has been recalculated. Post count is still being brought up to date.

Post count and reputation count is completely being recalculated. Sooooo sorry!!

The following email was sent to just over 200 members:

Hi,

Please read this email :) Action is required!! Thanks.

I want to begin by thanking you so much for recently joining the DaniWeb community. Unfortunately, technical issues encountered today resulted in severe database corruption. We had to restore a portion of our database from a backup and unfortunately lost the login information for a little over 200 members who recently registered with us.

Your account was one of those that was recently lost. We were able to recover your email address, which is how we are able to email you, but unfortunately we no longer know the username and password you used to create your account. You therefore cannot log into DaniWeb.

If you have posted, your posts have remained intact and been associated with a temporary username. We only lost your username and password.

Can you please email either: cscgal@daniwebmail.com or happygeek@daniwebmail.com with your username and a simple password you would like to use. We will be correcting this problem on an individual basis for each member who emails us. You will then be able to login and change your password yourself.

I sincerely apologize for the inconvenience this has caused. I assure you that this is not a regular occurrence here at DaniWeb. Thank you so much for understanding!!

Cheers,

Dani

Members are responsive! I fixed about six so far and I just …

Hey there,

STATUS UPDATE = It turns out we lost a little over 200 members. :(

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 have posts, but we lost all information about the user including their username, password, and email address. Therefore, they will be unable to login and we do not have their email to inform them of such.

We are still working on this problem. Please stay tuned.

If you cannot log in, please email me at cscgal@daniwebmail.com ... Thanks!!!!!

We're having issues. :) They're being worked on.

It is against our rules, and the rules of many forums, to plug your site or affiliate links within posts.

Will investigate

Your avatar appears next to all your posts, but it's rather small. Your member profile is a larger picture that appears when you click on your avatar in your member profile.

By paid advertising, do you mean promoting affiliate programs with PPC?

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.

People use short URLs for twitter because there is a low character limit and in most cases full URLs are too long to fit. If you care about SEO, make sure that you use a URL shortener that does a 301 Permanent Redirect to the full URL so that "seo juice" gets passed appropriately. I like the bit.ly service because it has nice performance tracking tools.

It looks as if you have a profile picture uploaded but not an avatar.

Well, both red and green :)

But the fact that ANY bbcode at all works within code tags means that we can't just tell vBulletin to not run the bbcode parser within code tags.

Welcome back Wolfy!! :) We missed you.

I just want to add:

The ideal situation is to simply disable bbcode within bbcode. However, we allow the bbcode to be used within code tags that are not syntax highlighted to point out specific items.

Also, it's not when people have REALLY long code snippets. It's when people have really long code snippets nested within a ridiculous number of code snippet tags:

Something like ...

[code]

[code]

[code]

[code]

[code]

[code] Really Long Code Snippet [/code] [/code] [/code] [/code] [/code] [/code]

Because bbcode is processed from the inside out, first the innermost tag is syntax highlighted. Then, one level up it tries to syntax highlight already syntax highlighted code. When already syntax highlighted code is passed through the syntax highlighter, it results in something super long and ridiculous. Then, two levels up it tries to syntax highlight whatever THAT outputs. Five times. The final product ends up being something ridiculous that exceeds PHP memory limits.

I had thought I *had* fixed this :(

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 they're trying too hard to please the bots but instead are optimized for the end user visitor. Design a site with excellent unique content that puts the visitor's usability as top priority and your search engine rankings will just fall into place.

There are a handful of really good free SEO tools ... just Google for them. Also, as joelchrist suggests, use google webmaster tools.

There are a handful of keyword research tools although I can't think of any offhand. A google search should do the trick.

Hmm, I think you're right. I found this webpage: http://www.mikes-marketing-tools.com/marketing-tips/keyword-densities.html

Google Analytics is the best free option available IMO. Is there a reason you want to look beyond it?

Yes, keyword density. That's what I meant. The ratio of the keyword to the rest of the words/phrases in the content. How often the keyword is repeated within the content.

My biggest challenge has been getting people to understand what the entire site encompasses beyond what they find on the single landing page they ended up on as a result of a Google search.

I think I forgot to recreate the page. Added to my list of things to do.