Posts by Dani

Hello there!!!!!

Hello there and welcome to DaniWeb. However, this is not the appropriate forum to ask for computer advice. Please post your question somewhere in our Technical Support forum, so that people can more easily find your question and help you out.

Good luck! And most importantly, welcome to our community.

Hehe hello there. And sorry for taking so long to reply. I didn't realize the Community Intros forum was lacking in greeters.

Eek - replace the motherboard in a laptop? Can you even do that? Good luck!

Hello there and welcome to DaniWeb. However, this isn't the appropriate place to ask questions. Please direct your question to our Visual Basic forum. Thanks!

Hey there and welcome to DaniWeb. Why don't you begin by checking out our Job Offers forum, where you can post a request. :)

Hey there. Welcome :) Enjoy - and don't worry, you'll get the hang of forums soon enough.

Hello there folks. Welcome to DaniWeb!

so a page rank of 1 means i'm number one out of all the websites on google?

i'm the man!

PR ranges from 0 to 10, with 10 being the best. Generally a 0 means that it is a new site or you are banned from Google for black hat SEO tactics of some sort, such as cloaking or doorway pages, perhaps. A PR of 1 to 4 is pretty easily achievable with some good promotion. A PR of 5 means that you've done some SEO work and promotion, and it shows. A PR of 6 is pretty darn good. A PR of 7 means that you're an SEO expert and have lots of good incoming links to your site. A PR of 8 means that you're an authority site in your industry. And PRs of 9 and 10 are really only achievable for big corporate powerhouses that are authorities on the Internet.

btw most spammers don't have a reputation .. they're just going for the quick sale ...

Yeap :) Tis true.

Hey there! How's it going? Welcome back :) Yup, we've been changing, and growing, :)

Firstly, there is a ten post minimum before you can have a forum signature. From then on, everytime you post there is a checkbox to show your signature (enabled by default). For each post you have set to show your signature, it will show whatever your current signature is in your preferences.

Duplicate.

http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/threadedpost128091.html#post128091

It's true. Although we've known for about a week now, Apple finally announced today they are ditching the IBM processor in favor of *gasp* Intel. Maybe they'll be just another Microsoft now? Who knows. Supposedly the full transition is going to take a couple of years.

Hello there! Welcome to DaniWeb :)

Good contributing members get voted in (nominated) by other moderators on the team. They're then discussed behind the scenes, where the member's pros and cons are weighed, and then they're either accepted or not.

Please keep all requests for link exchanges in our link exchange forum. You can find it here, within our Webmaster Marketplace: http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/forum158.html

Thanks for understanding that we try really hard to keep these Internet Marketing forums a spam-free informative place by refraining from site-specific talk.

I don't know. I think I'm just going to stay out of this one. Just another reason why I left the freelance world.

If you have a quick question about rank then maybe I might have a quick answer for ya.

Junior Poster >= 0 posts
Posting Whiz >= 100 posts
Senior Poster >= 250 posts
Guru Poster >= 500 posts

The little stars under usernames are also post-related. You get a new star for every 1,000 posts.

Wouldn't we all! Wouldn't we all!

Servertweak, are you referring to that visual confirmation thing or the email confirmation? We, too, had email confirmation disabled for our first 500 or so member phase, when I was more concerned with building the memberbase and spam was easy to control. I then entered into the phase described in the first post of this thread (over a year ago) but now we do require email confirmation.

I'd say a rough estimate is 250 watts for an barebones PIII and as much as 550 watts for the latest and greatest gaming machine. Of course if it's only going to be powering each one for 2-3 minutes while they shutdown or whatever it is they have to do, I'd say figure 300 watts per machine? Whatcha guys think?

Not to mention that this forum does not allow any site-specific talk or URLs to be posted, to keep this an informative, spam-free place. :)

I've changed your username. Please be sure to use your new username next time you want to log into the site. The reason why we don't allow username changes generally is because the entire community is based on the fact that we know each other based on our usernames - if everyone changed their usernames willy nilly the foundation of the community, itself, would never succeed.

Hello there Rosette. Welcome :)

Hello there! I'd like to welcome to DaniWeb. Unfortunately I had to snip your URLs out of your post because, per our forum-specific announcements, we don't allow any mentioning of websites or site URLs in this forum.

The idea here is for new members to introduce themselves to the community - and not be a quick way for new members to promote their website to our audience right off the bat. There will be plenty of time later for that ;) We just ask that you contribute ten posts to our community first. Then you can post in our Site Reviews forum, webmaster marketplace, etc. Thanks for understanding!

I really think it's time to open a forum. You'll be happier in the long run if you do. Blogs aren't so great as a back and forth channel of communication, and it seems you'll end up wanting to convert blog comments to a forum down the line anyways. Remember, you can always start with just one or two forums and then expand as the site grows. Forum software will also allow you to put together a nice growing memberlist right off the bat.

The only thing that I would be careful of right now is liability. You want to make sure that no slanderous comments are being posted about hosting companies. You also want to make sure that one host isn't going to post negative feedback about a competitor.

While I do think it's time to open a forum - especially if your visitors are already expressing that they want to share with other visitors - I think you should take a little bit of time to plan out exactly how you want to set up the forum to ensure it remains a pleasant, spam-free, slander-free place.

There's no time like the present! Good luck.

I, too, hate those visual confirmation things. Besides, what is the biggest harm done if a bot registers on your site? What would be the advantage for a bot to do so, anyways?

What you are suggesting is a well known technique - to post to other forums with your forum URL and anchor text in your signature. If you post to lots of different forums, it's a great way to get free backlinks on a wide variety of domains. It works even better when the forums use mod_rewrite to have the appearance of static URLs (such as DaniWeb does) so the pages with your link get indexed well. It's one of the best ways of link building with the primary downside just being the time it takes to find lots of various forums and to register and post to each one of them.

As far as links on a link page, as Promediacorp has suggested, those are actually one of the worst types of links to get because it's very easy for Google to tell what is a links page (even if there are just a set few links on it). Google is even known to give less weight to links that are on pages that contain the word "links" in the URL such as a links.html page!

Links built into page content, however, such as forum signatures do, are the best way :) Anytime you can get a link built into page content, go for it!

No problem - good luck :)

Providing advertising space does not increase visitor traffic. However, it does drastically affect your online presence. Firstly, of course it allows you to make money from your visitors. A good beginning program to do is www.google.com/adsense/ Banner advertising can sometimes be annoying to many visitors, however. Opening up your site to advertising also allows you the opportunity to engage in partnerships with various similar sites and perhaps do a banner exchange (inquire by contacting sites similar to your own) - in that respect, your site can be promoted through advertising.

From what GoogleGuy reportedly said, it was due to infrastructure changes (to hardware, I believe).

PR has returned. Some pages are still grey for me - but then I'll hit refresh and suddenly my green bar. No PR change, which is very disappointing.

67/10? You mean a PR of 6.7? Huh?

Update: nevermind, I found the thread - http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/showthread.php?t=267321

Glad you got it figured out :)

DaniWeb's been fluctuating between 6K and 11K for me for the last week or so. It might be due to changes in the algorithm or simply that you're hitting a different server each time.

What do you mean 67/10?

Yes, well all that the SEO tools (such as those found on SEOChat) do is query the toolbar server. :)

However, I think I've ruled out the idea that this is just a glitch. If on the off chance that pagerank was accidently taken down sitewide, G has enough resources that they could have gotten it back up by now if they really wanted to.

They have something up their sleeves :)

Really? Didn't know that. Unless the shared hosts are just VPS accounts from somewhere else?

Sorry to stray off course. You're going to need to find yourself a shared hosting provider with php and MySQL capabilities. Then, check out www.phpbb.com :)

Fantastico is actually VPS software, to the best of my knowledge. I think what would make more sense is maybe cPanel or Plesk coming with one-click install forum software?

I do recommend that you change the IP block for each domain. In addition to that, use cross-linking very sparingly. When a group of sites are cross-linked to eachother via a sitewide navigation or such, Google assumes they are part of the same network - therefore, the value for an incoming link from another domain in the "network" in this case is no more than the value for an incoming link from another page of the same site. It's looked at as a single site that just so happens to span across multiple domains.

I think that certain datacenters are known for propagating before others. I, personally, don't know which is which though. Perhaps someone else can clarify?

Hmm, hours later and still no PageRank? It doesn't seem like a glitch in their servers but maybe a planned outage? Google's way of phasing out PR maybe? Querying their server via their API doesn't seem to be doing the trick either.

It wasn't me! It wasn't me! I promise ;)

Don't get scared if your site suddenly has no PR anymore. It appears that the PR value in the Google toolbar isn't working for a whole bunch of folks. Wonder if we're getting an update soon or if this is just some server downtime.

- Dani out

Google is constantly updating their search algorithms, and most likely you are accessing different datacenters between the two locations. They may not always be entirely in sync.

This current version does, indeed, link to the actual threads. All of the thread titles are not H1 tags because that would mean so many H1 tags on the page, that they wouldn't even be given any more weight than normal. It would be like literally enclosing the entire page content in H1 tags. H1 tags (from an SEO perspective) are used when you want to emphasize / specify one or two of your keywords (or a single phrase) on the page.

Has anyone noticed those "Change ads to ones about" links in text-based AdSense? Check out the screenshot that's attached.

X-Chat or mIRC for Windows? :)

We have been experiencing problems lately with our cron script which makes automatic backups of our database. These backups bring our load up too high for about a minute, making the site accessible for about 30-60 seconds. We're currently working very hard with our hosting provider to resolve this as soon as possible.