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A freelance technology journalist for 30 years, I have been a Contributing Editor at PC Pro (one of the best selling computer magazines in the UK) for most of them. As well as currently contributing to Forbes.com, The Times and Sunday Times via Raconteur…
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 | I have removed the links from your post as they are not required in order to answer the question, and they could put some off of answering as they appear spammy. Personally, I would have to agree with rproffitt in that if you can get better with practice then practice. …  |
 | "May your ear-holes turn into a-holes and crap all over your face" My first wifes' mother (toned down for a DaniWeb audience) :)  |
 | One of the biggest names in keyword research, [URL="http://www.wordtracker.com"]Wordtracker[/URL], has announced the availability of separate UK keywords, rather than forcing British search marketers to depend on worldwide data including keywords from every English speaking region for their SEO campaigns. The ability to fine tune campaigns to the local market should … |
| | What do I hate about TV shows? Pretty much **EVERYTHING** would be my answer for 99% of the dross that passes as suitable for broadcast, to be honest. |
| | Want to buy a Dell machine loaded with Linux? Shame, as it appears that Dell Europe would really rather you bought a Windows-powered one, despite having a website devoted entirely to selling Dell Ubuntu laptops. And, oh boy, does it use some strange arguments to dissuade you from becoming a … |
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 | movie is perhaps the wrong word, I would say borefest.  |
 | A big mug of fresh brewed Brazillian blend coffee and a couple of McVitie Digestive biscuits. My little midnight snack as I bash a few more words out and get ever closer to finishing writing this book... |
 | Re: SSL certificate Simply put, HTTP (HyperText Transfer Protocol) plus SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) or TLS (Transport Layer Security) = HTTPS. The 'S' in HTTPS just stands for secure. |
| | [URL="http://www.ibm.com"]IBM[/URL] researchers have [URL="http://www.zurich.ibm.com/news/07/asme.html"]unveiled[/URL] prototype 3D visualisation software that will enable doctors to interact with their medical data in pretty much the same way they interact with their patients. The technology, known as the Anatomic and Symbolic Mapper Engine (ASME), uses an avatar representation of the human body which the … |
 | Here's the thing. You answer questions on SEO and marketing like you are an expert. Then you ask questions like this. You either know what you are talking about or you don't, so which is it?  |
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 | You set up a home-based business and a website to accompany. Being an SEO expert, your website will rank highly when people search for SEO expert and you will get clients. Or am I missing something? |
| | I am something of a self-confessed Anker hardware fan. I've been using their cables, power supplies and portable chargers for years now. However, I never really thought of Anker in the audio space, until now. Soundcore is an Anker brand with just audio products out there, as the name suggests. … |
 | AVG (as a company) has a very blotted copybook courtesy of the damned secure search toolbar that it loves to install all over the place, and which borders on being malware (foistware is a good word for the thing) itself IMHO. |
 | Erm, it's pretty self-explanatory: your site was down when Google tried to review it I would imagine (or there's something preventing the Google spider from seeing where it needs to crawl. The good thing about such error messages from Google is that they tend to be pretty descriptive and clear … |
| | A VPN, or Virtual Private Network to be formal, is a method of creating an encrypted data tunnel across the Internet from your device to a destination server. Although savvy home users and enterprises will operate their own VPNs (business-grade routers provide this functionality) for most folk, a VPN comes … |
| | In which case, that explains why so much of the web is pure, 100%, absolute click-candy crap then.  |
 | Re: About SEO Moz.com has a good definition: "Search engine optimization (SEO) is the practice of increasing the quantity and quality of traffic to your website through organic search engine results." I will leave it to the SEO experts to answer your second question. |
| | Hands up if you remember Opera Software, you know the Norway-based developer of alternative web browser clients. In the days before Firefox, Opera was the client most likely to shake up Microsoft and for a while seemed to be doing pretty well in that regard. Then Firefox came along and … |
| | So you've lost access to your data through hardware failure or accidental erasure. What do you do? Like most cyber-warriors you naturally turn to the Internet, be that via a Google search or YouTube video, for help. That's a big mistake says [Kroll Ontrack](https://www.krollontrack.co.uk/blog/), a data recovery specialist, as self-inflicted …  |
| | I was **in** Dredd (the orginal Stallone pile of pants) albeit fleetingly as an extra in the crowd scenes - I was one of the punky looking no-goods along the main street. |
 | Test what? The Link Collider thing you've mentioned in three out of your six posts? |
 | Plus, it rather depends if you were the person doing the asking origianlly in another place. All too often, cut and pasters and just lazy spammers looking to promote a link...  |
 | http://goo.gl/CUAUD2 But, to be honest, it looks like you have already done a Google search and just pasted the names from it. If you already know about the three principle players with a claim to the title, why ask here? |
| | Please note, as per the forum description: "it is against our rules to actually solicit products and services in this forum" Also, admins can see IP addresses so when two members using the same IPs start asking and asnwering questions in a thread where services are being promoted and linked … |
| | A survey of attendees at Infosecurity Europe earlier this month showed 70 percent in favour of the dictionary definition (in this case the Cambridge Dictionary) of a hacker being amended. The amendment in question being to remove 'illegality' from the definition. The current definition of a hacker is "a person …  |
| | Honestly, I couldn't really understand what it was he was getting at... Does he wear glasses/shades for fashion? To correct poor vision? Who knows? Who cares? ;-) |
 | Plesk, just to throw another into the mix. Why? A combination of legacy and lethargy with a bit of if it ain't broke for good measure I guess... |
| | That makes no sense kavi_3. If you agree article sharing is useless then why ask for ways to share articles? Unless I'm missing something here... |
| | > they will tend to kill people in the real society. Because, they will consider that killing is legal. And can you provide **any** evidence at all to back up that wild statement? Violent video games have been around for decades now, yet as far as I can see there … |
 | "WebXeros is a top rated digital marketing company" apparently, yet you need to ask about relatively basic SEO concepts that have been discussed all over the web for the last ten years? |
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| | > Building Links is Like Shaving - If You Don't do it Every Day You Look Like a Bum I haven't shaved for years. I don't look like a bum. I look like a man with a beard. Just saying... |
 | Sorry, but that question makes no sense at all. Can you please try again, having thought about exactly what it is you want us to help you with? |
| | Erm, if you are selling digital marketing training then shouldn't you be the one telling us these things? |
 | Re: Free VPN Yep, for your specific purposes I'd just download the latest Opera browser and it's already built in, already working, nothing left to do... |
| | Maybe hosted/outsourced support forums are something that DaniWeb could look at? Either as a revenue stream (by charging for the service) or as a potential 'rank raiser' option. [edit] Should have read to the end of the thread before posting. Doh. Schoolboy error of the day number one :) [/edit] …  |
| | If the schools that my kids attend are anything to go by, it seems that high on Santa's list this Xmas just gone was an iTouch, iPhone or iPad depending how well off the parents were. That's understandable, they are just as attractive as gadgets for kids as they are … |
 | I often refer to 'crackers' as 'the bad guys' or 'cybercriminals' when writing news stories about them. After all, that's what they are. Black hats are also, to be fair, often in the same category as they use those skills to find vulnerabilities and create exploits that are then implemented … |
| | According to research from data recovery specialists Kroll Ontrack, some three quarters of those workers that had lost data on a broken device didn't attempt to ensure that information was irretrievable before disposing of the hardware.  It doesn't matter whether the hardware itself is a PC or laptop, … |
| | A forum poster cuts and pastes his homework assignment, and expects others to provide the answer for him without so much as a please or thank you. Which of the following is the correct response? A: No B: Please refer to the [forum posting rules](https://www.daniweb.com/welcome/rules) which state "provide evidence of … |
| | Re: Random Facts When a dentist says 'your tooth may be a little sore tomorrow' after root canal work what they really mean is 'your face will feel like it is falling off, muhahahaha'. Just saying... :( |
 | @Stephen_21 - are you asking about forums in general, this 'forum' (DaniWeb) or another forum in particular? |
 | There are **no** 'trustable' sites selling followers and likes. How can you trust a service selling you something on the basis it will increase the producticivity/value of your account when the practise is against the terms and conditions of all social media sites and when (rather than if) you get … |
 | > Why isn't your site in your profile so others can comment about it? Because, it turns out, the site is a digital marketing one. So the question was just a precursor to the inevitable spam which I've just deleted... |
| | You say "I know that SEO is continuous" which kind of answers the question you later pose of "do I need to continue doing SEO" doesn't it? |
| | Surely if you do this stuff for a living you would already know this? Do your paying clients know that you don't know this? |
| | That's a rather broad brush question. What do you specifically want to know about MS Server 2016 support? Have you tried asking Microsoft? |
| | Google's seemingly always changing indexing algorithm continues to hit site rankings as the search giant continues to drive a new generation of SEO relying upon original and relevant content generation and sharing above all else. Now a panel of SEO experts in the UK has warned that companies need to … |
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