Title's pretty important if only because Google basically ignores different pages with the same title (even if they have different content). I recently realised this and have made significant gains on our SERP placements by setting unique title tags on every single page of my site.
My current link building tactics mostly centre around social bookmarking and forum posts - that combined with good old fashioned 'I'll link to you if you link to me' e-mails.
No, I just spent ages doing some funky things to make my captcha interesting rather than just another annoyance - this is a thread about annoying captchas, I'm quite proud of mine and was looking for some feedback to reassure me that spending time to make a good captcha was in some way...
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I am one of the founders and director of a web hosting provider called Digital Crocus - we offer secure and highly stable web hosting in the UK based on the rock-solid FreeBSD operating system. We've been running since 2001 and in that time have developed a wealth of experience in what...
One technique which probably isn't recommended but has worked fine for me - simply copy the actual data files (normally in /var/db) from one server to another. As long as you're running the same version of MySQL on the same architecture it works fine. As a web host, when you're transferring...
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I'm a photographer with a portfolio online - I'm looking for a printing service which I can integrate directly with my website and brand with my own design - to allow visitors to my website to order prints of any of my photographs without any intervention from me. (Ideally earning...
PHP is indeed a powerful too, and very easy to use too. In fact that's probably its biggest weakness - it's too easy. The PHP developers have historically made some pretty big mistakes in the name of ease-of-use which have later come back to bite them as security holes. (I'm thinking...
This is an interesting concept and would seem to go against conventional SEO wisdom - my own technique tends to be to build links on a broad spectrum of websites so I must admit I can't know for sure which links are most valuable to me. Remember that it's not just the content in the page that's...
I'm the same - I often develop my code with CSS inline (this is particularly helpful when you're working on AJAX). Then move them out to a separate CSS file afterwards. The only time I leave inline styles in place is when they're required for the scripting I'm doing - when working with a...
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I've been working on an interesting project recently - I'm building my personal portfolio (slinq.com) and decided I wanted to use a font that isn't included in the standard set of "Web fonts". While IE supports a hacky way of sending a font file to the browser, this doesn't work in other...
1. How do I create accounts for people so that they only see what they have access to see? I am reading Beginning Joomla by Dan Rahmel.
This is easily done via the admin control panel in the User management section. You can grant users all sorts of privileges including full admin access...
Hi everybody,
I'm an experienced web developer with skills in PHP, MySQL, CSS, HTML, Javascript and AJAX. I've worked on some really cool "Web 2.0" style projects and am currently working freelance in the UK.
I also run a web hosting business called Digital Crocus - offering affordable VPS web...
I think most people use blogs more as a form of marketing rather than to actually sell the product. Use a separate shopping cart system for your actual online shop, then use the blog to write about stuff that's relevant to your products. For example say you sell hamster cages; write entries on...
You may not even need a specialist affiliate program for this - just have each affiliate direct traffic to a specific landing page on your site and then use the conversion tracking features in Google Analytics. No point using a sledgehammer to put in a nail.
I've noticed Google is particularly dancy at the moment - I keep track of quite a few different websites and keywords and they all seem to be jumping around more than usual in the last few months - perhaps some deep changes going on with Google's algorithms?
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