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For sure, we use Schema.org very heavily here at DaniWeb. I don't necessarily consider those meta tags, although I suppose they could be perceived as such.

As far H1, H2, etc. tags, those are semantic HTML elements, and definitely not meta tags.

Any external link that points to your website is technically a backlink by definition.

Do you mean they aren’t showing as links in Google Search Console? GSC only shows a subset of backlinks that it knows about. Additionally, quality and relevance of the links matter more than anything else.

Locking this topic because it seems to be just swarmed with AI-generated content.

I am of the opinion that meta tags are next to useless for SEO nowadays.

Google officially stopped using meta keywords back in 2009 according to https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2009/09/google-does-not-use-keywords-meta-tag and I’m pretty sure they give very little weight to meta descriptions for at least the past decade.

A long time ago I had a tool that imported a person's top business matches per the DaniWeb API into Salesforce as potential leads.

It's been really hard to keep up with promoting the website and SEO ever since I got sick.

Long time Salesforce user here, although I haven’t used it recently. Have you built any cool apps in Salesforce?

Hi Wendy! Welcome to DaniWeb!! Thank you so much for joining.

What is your tech stack of choice? (Just trying to make small talk here.)

It’s been 17 years since the OP posted. I think that by this point, either they got it or they didn’t. ;)

Hi and welcome, Robert! :)

What are your interests? Software development? Web development? SEO?

Unfortunately I don't have any experience with either Tailwind nor nextjs. However, I do have experience with .scss, as I personally use it with Twitter Bootstrap for DaniWeb.

I did some quick Googling and I'm confused what you mean by helping you to figure out how to use it. My understanding is that you simply need to add @apply md:text-xl to your SCSS in order to insert the CSS Tailwind uses for XL font size for only medium screen resolutions or higher for a particular CSS selector.

Do you have experience working with SCSS files?

This is just a shot in the dark, but I assume you'd do something like:

.selector { @apply md:text-xl }

within your SCSS.

Which date do you want? The one from order_date or target_date?

I can help you if you explain what you're trying to achieve, and what each of the 3 tables represents.

What date do you want in the final column to represent? Where is the staff name? Is that orders.client_contact?

What is the item name? What is the target? target_value.target_product?

What does achievement mean?

I think astrology is a huge part of Indian culture.

Here at DaniWeb we use Cloudflare, and it does a whole lot more than just be a WAF. We primarily use it for its caching abilities as a CDN.

How easy is it to set up and configure your WAF? Some people with shared hosting for their blog or that type of thing might not have the technical expertise to configure Cloudflare by changing the DNS their domain points to. If yours is simpler than that, perhaps that's a strategy you can use to convince people?

Otherwise, Cloudflare offers a free version (as you know) and has a LOT of other features and benefits besides just being a WAF.

Can you think of any specific reasons why your WAF might be better than Cloudflare's?

As a consumer, I've become more and more frustrated with the recent increase in AI-driven customer chat support that seemingly has taken over. They tend to just regurgitate the information that is already contained within the product's FAQs, manuals, and marketing materials, etc., and I tend to end up going in circles chatting with a bot until I am so frustrated that I am ready to throw the product out the window.

I also just want to add that my response is strictly a response to you stating you have "just okay" skills. I am not basing my response on whether I think you actually are or aren't a stand-out developer.

Hello,

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but I am of the opinion that you can't really make a decent amount of money as a web developer just with "average" skills. As you point out, "average" freelancers are a dime a dozen on sites such as Upwork and Fiverr, and there's not really a meaningful way to stand out unless you have a specific niche and you dominate that niche from a marketing standpoint. e.g. You can be the go-to web developer for mom-and-pop shoe stores, and, with excellent marketing skills, carve out a reputation for yourself such that anyone in the shoe industry knows you're that guy.

The thing is that everyone and their mother has a Wordpress blog these days, and it's so easy to create websites with free platforms such as Wix. My personal opinion, and, again, this is just an opinion, is that you're just a commodity. And the only way to sell a commodity is with a creative and unique marketing spin.

I can’t tell if every response in this topic is low quality AI generated or not. :(

Also, I’ve modified the tags you’ve chosen to use for your post. In the future, please note our tagging guidelines.

I think your question is better asked at WebHostingTalk.com

We used what is now IBM Cloud for the past 20 years. We now do colocation.

What I do here at DaniWeb is include all pages in the paginated series in our sitemap file. Here is Google's official documentation on how to handle pagination.

You can use HTML meta tags for first page in a series and next page in a series, which is what we do. Google claims they no longer look at this, however, and can figure out the relationship between paginated pages through clues such as page navigation elements on the page.

Good luck!

Hello and welcome!

Here at DaniWeb, we use Cloudflare. It's a reverse proxy that sits in between the end-user and your web server(s) and does a whole assortment of things including performance optimizations and caching. There is a free version. Another popular alternative is Fastly, but I'm not sure if it has a free version as well.

Does Newegg still exist? It’s been decades since I’ve bought a computer or computer parts from anyone other than Apple or Dell.

We host some page resources, such as fonts, on a different subdomain (e.g. webpages are at www.daniweb.com and resources are at cdn.daniweb.com)

An HTTP header of access-control-allow-origin: * is being sent from all cdn.daniweb.com requests.

When inspecting indexed pages from Google Search Console, from the URL Inspection tool I click on "View Crawled Page" and then the "More Info" tab. It shows me that the majority of page resources (including fonts from cdn.daniweb.com) couldn't be loaded because of "Other error". However, if I click the "Test Live URL" button, all of the resources were able to be loaded.

Is this a CORS issue?

We do have hotlink protection enabled in some places (e.g. post inline image attachments), that at first I thought was causing the issue. However, we don't have any hotlink protection on any files at cdn.daniweb.com.

How have you been using it for a few months now if it doesn’t exist anymore?

Oh. I thought you meant in the context of receiving a citation. E.g. “He was cited by the police for parking illegally.”

Digital marketing encompasses SEO, SEM, online advertising (including PPC), and digital PR. That's a whole lotta acronyms!

Perhaps we should begin with exactly what you're trying to accomplish. Do you have an online business?

That's an incredibly broad question. A web app needs to be hosted on a web server that has some amount of security. If your website has a login system, that needs to be secure. If your web app connects to a database, the queries need to be written in a secure way. I'm not quite sure that I understand the scope of your question.

Perhaps if you give some more context as to what type of security you are concerned with?

I miss Clippy and friends! There was a brown dog too, wasn't there? I don't think most people today remember the old Microsoft Office Clippy though. He's one of those, "Back in my day ..." things.

You deserve to be cited.

Cited for what?

Here's a simple tutorial on Sitepoint: https://www.sitepoint.com/create-a-php-login-system/

At the same level as i see a rise in the amount of generic bs content, i kind of equally see a transformation in the people's minds.

Real, authentic content is getting valued more and more. People seem to start building a more sensitive conciousness for sensing computer-generated content, which makes organic, human conntent way more attractive.

While it’s great that seeing crappy AI content makes people value human content even more, that isn’t really a silver lining for someone whose livelihood is an online forum that keeps getting a lot of that crappy AI content being posted to it. I’m spending nearly all my days deleting posts. :(

No, just in Web Development, but you can use the seo tag.

Over in the noted SEO discussion it looks grim.

Yeah, Google doesn’t like to promote affiliate sites, which is what that Reddit thread is about. However, the OP doesn’t have an affiliate site. They want to link out to one, making the Reddit thread irrelevant.

No, rproffitt. The link that you found is irrelevant and talking about something else entirely. It is discussing people with affiliate sites advertising with PPC (paid), which is different than SEO (organic).

To answer your question, to err on the side of caution, I would use the rel link attribute when linking to the affiliates, as so:

<a href="https://www..." rel="nofollow sponsored">Affiliate Link</a>

That sends a request to Google that the link should not be followed because it is, essentially, a sponsorship. It used to be a directive, but Google downgraded the attribute, and so now it's just a request, but Google does tend to honor it. It also gives Google some context into why those links are there.

Good luck!

What we do here at DaniWeb is write to Redis. Redis is a distributed, in-memory key-value pair storage engine and supports different data structures including lists, sets, hashes, streams, etc. It can be configured to be strictly in-memory or to be persistent.

Oh, snap! HARO has been discontinued.

Luckily there are alternatives/competitors, although I’m not sure if any of them have the same quality of publications as HARO did. On the other hand, a smaller mailing list means a lot less competition!! That means that, theoretically, it should be far easier with the others.

Many find it ineffective but hey, folk love to market, promote it. Get a free trial

No need for a free trial. HARO is completely free for link builders. It just takes a lot of manual work. It’s so popular because it’s one of the best ways to get such high quality links. Yes, you could acquire links for a lot less effort elsewhere. But the quality of HARO links is hard to find elsewhere.

To me, if someone has a genuine question, NO MATTER WHAT that question is, as long as it was asked without any malicious intent, and you know the answer and yet instead choose to give them an unhelpful, snarky response, doing that is the epitome of arrogance.

I would never, ever, ever call someone out for being uninformed. This is a support forum where people come to in order to learn and spread their wings. IMHO there are no stupid questions. Calling someone out for being uninformed is the epitome of rude in my head, because they weren’t trying to be malicious with their question, but you are trying to be malicious/purposefully unhelpful/purposefully insulting with your response.

Thank you for sharing your story, Brian. Indeed, Google has been killing off forums for the past decade. They're now seeing the benefit of forums, and ironically need to pay Reddit for access because it's the only forum left standing. Maybe if they hadn't killed us all off, they wouldn't need to rely so heavily on Reddit? ;) Just random food for thought on this Friday afternoon.

Anyways, I am glad that you had a huge surge over the past couple of years. DaniWeb, unfortunately, hasn't been as lucky, but as you may have read here, I've been very sick the past few years and so really haven't been able to focus much on it.

Yes, it's a non-negotiable that you mass insert records into the database. In my situation, when I mentioned it was more performant to update records in PHP than MySQL, I was specifically trying to transform strings with regex and some very simple logic. Although there were many, many rows, it was more performant to update them one at a time in PHP than MySQL because MySQL's IF() and REGEXP() functions aren't anywhere as performant as PHP's. So, in my case, using the right tool for the job meant recognizing that MySQL was best as a datastore and PHP was best for handling all the business logic.

I wish I could help but I do MySQL and PHP. I definitely agree with you that it makes sense to get data into the database and then process it and query it as much as you can from in there. However, it’s been my experience that, just because you can do it from within MySQL, doesn’t mean you should. MySQL is not always the best tool for the job, the same way Python or PHP are not always the best tools for the job. Sometimes it’s more efficient to do things, especially manipulating records, from outside the database.

I’m locking this topic because it seems to just attract a ton of ChatGPT-generated posts that are against our policies (and therefore have since been deleted).

I’m sure there are hundreds of articles about link building on Semrush’s blog, since the product they sell is targeted towards link builders, and their blog is used to attract new customers. Can you give us the cliff notes from the article you read about Haro?

Huh??? Semrush isn't a replacement for HARO??

HARO works but it takes a LOT of manual work. Nowadays, it doesn't work as well as it used to because there's so much competition, so your pitches have to really stand out. It's good if you have the time but not the money.

Why are you both saying that he has just duplicated a previous post? I cannot find a previous post that mentions LongPath tool?

(Moderator's note: There actually was a post recommending it 13 years ago, but happygeek deleted it back then for being spammy. He probably shouldn't have done so, since someone else is now recommending that same very tool all these years later.)

Hello and welcome to DaniWeb!!

To answer your question ... Hmm, let me think about this a moment. I would say that the biggest challenge I've ever faced in digital marketing, hands down, has been with digital PR. It's just not something I have a lot of experience with, and, early on, it's the reason we lost out to Stack Overflow. As far as how I overcame it: Well, quite simply, I didn't. However, what I can do is give you the story of how Stack Overflow did it right.

https://www.daniweb.com/digital-media/digital-marketing/search-engine-strategies/news/459242/stackoverflow-stole-all-our-search-traffic

Read all these replies, a lot of the story is pretty interesting!

I would absolutely love, of course, if you could write a tutorial, or series of tutorials, on how to use LLM without a ChatGPT API. I did not even realize that there were open source LLMs available these days!! (Perhaps I'm just behind the times?)

Yes, just create a tutorial draft and then you can manage it from the Editorial Workshop until it's ready to be published.