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 | You can do directory submissions for different websites even if they are on the same IP. This is perfectly fine. The problem is that if one of the sites with the IP does black hat SEO (buying text links, having links in bad neighborhoods, etc) then the other sites on …  |
 | To echo Ancient Dragon, why is Davey not on the list? I might favor blud for all the work he does behind the scenes as our systems administrator, not necessarily for his mod duties. |
| | Or use the links at the bottom of the web browser for new posts in forums you're interested in.  |
 | You need a combination of great content on the site and incoming links from external sources to get page rank. A lot of factors all work together to increase ranking in the search engines.  |
| | SEO = search engine optimization = optimizing the navigation structure, html code, etc for a website as well as building relevant backlinks and a good linking strategy PPC = pay per click = purchasing "clicks" to your website through something like Google AdWords SEM = search engine marketing = broader …  |
| | Create great content. |
| | On page SEO is basically everything that you have direct control over on your site ... A good URL structure, clean HTML code, proper use of H1/H2 tags, proper use of meta tags, a good navigation hierarchy, no keyword stuffing, well-written articles and lots of unique content written for humans … |
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 | We have been using canonical pages since before Panda rolled out, and still got dinged. We have since made improvements to our URL structure and what we use for our canonical URLs. I can't see how using it can HARM duplicate content? If anything, it would either remain the same … |
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| | It's great to diversify -- why not do a little of everything? |
 | Re: Google +1 button We're using it, but mostly because I'm afraid that if we don't we'll get left behind, as from what I understand Google will start including it as a factor in search ranking. |
| | Yes, it's a browser related thing. Maybe some type of plugin you have installed?  |
 | Ah, yes, we don't have that page anymore. I will try to recreate it.  |
| | I think that I also need to point out that a lot of non-native English speakers have learned English online by reading forums and participating in chat rooms. Therefore, not only might they be writing in broken English, but they might use 1337 speak but not even realize that it …  |
 | The vast majority of people searching Google are non-DaniWeb members who do so looking for answers to their questions. Community members are still encouraged to search the site before they post, and all threads show up in DaniWeb's on-site search. Nearly all legitimate questions ultimately go answered, as Tonyjv pointed … |
| | I use thousands upon thousands of keywords, split across about 250 ad groups. Each of DaniWeb's 100 forums has about 2-3 ad groups. For example: Forum being targeted: Networking Ad Group: Networking - Routers Keywords: router, routers, routing, using routers, about routers, with routers, configuring router, linksys router, cisco router, … |
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| | It is with great sadness that I make the announcement that Davey (aka happygeek) is stepping down as community administrator of DaniWeb. You may have noticed that Davey has not been active on the site for a couple of days. Effective immediately, he is stepping down from both of his …  |
 | I think I forgot to recreate the page. Added to my list of things to do.  |
 | They are all absolutely important. In fact, the only way to successfully achieve a good off-page SEO campaign is to use as many different techniques as possible. |
| | Back links are when other sites link to you. Create great, compelling content and other sites will naturally want to link to you. The more sites link to you, the more Google considers you an authority. |
| | Davey used our default response because we VERY often get email requests to "remove my information from your database". That being said, we don't remove user profiles because they are associated with posts, private messages, etc., and therefore doing so would result in confusion and frustration for other community members. … |
| | Well that's because Windows-based C/C++ programming isn't really a separate language. It's more of a subset, and with hundreds of forums already, I prefer not to have additional deeper levels because they tend to be ignored/unseen. |
| | We run vBulletin 3.8. However, all custom features were created in-house. We don't use any existing hacks or plugins available on vBulletin.org or elsewhere. |
| | I have heard many good things about Wordpress. |
| | Short URLs have their purpose -- they can be easy-to-remember and easy to link to on Twitter or from a mobile device. But they use 301 redirects to redirect the user to the correct full URL, and while 301 redirects DO pass pagerank, they don't pass complete pagerank (a little … |
| | Apparently the rumors are true ... Microsoft has just acquired Skype, to replace/be integrated into Microsoft Live Messenger. [URL="http://kara.allthingsd.com/?p=43738"]http://kara.allthingsd.com/?p=43738[/URL]  |
| | I have no clue what you are asking for? Can you please explain better. |
| | No, they don't factor that into search engine rankings. |
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| | Hey guys, We have a new fulltime DaniWeb employee here in the office. His name is Adam, and he is actually a good friend of longtime DaniWeb member Tekmaven (one of the first DaniWeb members). He's going to be taking over the advertising and marketing departments here eventually, but for … |
| | This is only possible if the images are in .psd format. |
| | 500 uniques per day? Per month? That amount of traffic per day might be able to earn you about $100 / month with Google AdSense, provided that 500 uniques translates into about 2000 pageviews per day. That was similar to the amount of traffic DaniWeb had when I first added … |
| | The idea behind blogging is that you become well known as an authority on a particular topic. People feel proud to establish business relationships and buy products/services from people who are considered an authority in the industry. |
| | They want to advertise with you. Your "inventory" is the amount of pageviews that you have that are available to advertise on. |
| | Hey everyone, As many of you know, we've been having serious database issues here on DaniWeb lately, causing the site to go down just about every single day for a few minutes. We finally got the situation resolved thanks to our database sysadmins over at Percona. While James and Cameron … |
| | Re: Sony been hacked From what I understand, the Sony Playstation network was taken down for like a week after the attack, meaning that no Playstation games could be played over the Internet. It turns Sony into a laughingstock IMO. (Think of it as Microsoft taking xbox live down indefinitely). |
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| | > We do keep that original email in the database along with the current email in your profile. > To the best of my knowledge, that original email address is used for informational and historical purposes only. Yes ... Essentially we do it for SPAM regulations, b/c we often have … |
| | Re: Compile PHP PHP code doesn't really get compiled as you would compile a C++ program, for example. Rather the code is executed by your web server client when someone accesses the php page. I don't know the technical term for what it's called ... but you need a web server such as … |
 | I'm not sure what you're talking about? You want to publish articles and promote them?? |
| | If there are no pages within the /site/ folder that Googlebot has any reason to visit at all, then it's fine to leave it disallowed via robots.txt (in my opinion). When you ask if googlebot will still be able to "look around and sort the rest" are you worried that … |
 | The first array should be a float because it isn't the number of courses taken, it's the number of credit hours taken. In other words, you don't want to ask the user to input the number of courses taken. According to the requirements, you want them to input the number …  |
 | Hi, Check out PayPal's API. It should have instructions on how to do this, depending on the language you are using (PHP, etc). |
 | I tried to use my Kinect yesterday, and found out that it was too sunny to work right. (No window shades yet.) I had to drape a bedsheet over the window to get the darn thing to semi-work for 5 minutes. |
 | I've moved you into the registered users usergroup. Please go into your control panel and double check that the email you have on file with us is still accurate. |
| | Re: Help AdWords lets you do affiliate marketing, although I think they limit it to one affiliate URL per keyword. So, effectively, there's a bit of extra competition. |
| | You can add the location of your sitemap as the first line of your robots.txt file, and any search engine capable of understanding it, will. |
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