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White hat SEO is anything that is in Google's official list of how to optimize your website. Read google's official blog :)

Google AdWords? Post in related forums with a link to your site in your signature (don't spam though!)?

It says 7 out of 10?

Create great, useful, unique content that people will naturally want to link to.

An error-free site is always great from an end-user usability perspective. I think that it might play a small role in site ranking but I am not sure of this. Back links are the primary way to increase site ranking in today's world.

28 / 7 = 4 Anyone know how to use the [tex] bbcode? I don't know latex :(

Winzip does it I believe. But I prefer StuffIt :)

Last summer, we came up with tshirts with the slogans that a lot of you came up with in the discussion thread that Nick Evan referenced. We've been handing them out at conferences and industry events that we've been sponsoring ever since. We have more recently expanded to more DaniWeb …

Links pointing to your site (known as backlinks) are used by Google and other search engines as an important factor in how high you rank. Known as your PageRank, the concept is that the more relevant pages across the web that link to you, and the authority of those pages, …

I have an iPad and the only issue is the purple toolbar for logged in members not scrolling due to the darn iOS devices not adhering to CSS standards.

We don't allow images within forum signatures. Sorry.

How would this be so unique from a Facebook group or groups specifically for your University?

I'm experiencing the same problem right now. Some of the avatars in this thread are broken. Reaching out to blud ...

What is YWT? Yahoo! Webmaster Tools??

Not sure what you mean by link optimization? Backlinks? You always want a steady number of new links pointing to your site from relevant deep pages on other sites, linking to relevant deep pages on your own site.

It's when site A links to site B and site B links to site C and site C links to site D and site D links back to site A. The concept is that there are so many links in the wheel that Google doesn't catch on that it's reciprocal …

I'd like to welcome the newest member of the DaniWeb team, "PR Dude" aka Kerry. Kerry has been one of my closest friends since long before DaniWeb existed. With Eyal leaving a few weeks ago, he has stepped up to the plate to help us out here in the office …

You shouldn't have to manually submit your site to any of the search engines anymore. Engines like Google find your site by crawling the web, following links from other sites pointing to your site. The more sites that link to you, and the more "authority" those sites have (based on …

Trackback URLs are used mostly for blogs and sometimes forums. Other blogs that link to a particular article ping the article's trackback URL, and "inform" the blog that their article has been mentioned or quoted.

Yeah, I didn't change anything having to do with that. Glad you got it sorted out.

I think it's interesting that ten years ago, email was looked at as the most modern way of conversing with friends, replacing snail mail. However, today, even email is looked at as archaic, with Facebook and Tweeting on the go being the most contemporary way of keeping in touch with …

There really aren't a short list of do's and don'ts. Read Google's official webmaster blog for starters. Read SEObook.com for ideas (good ebook for getting your feet wet). Not sure what else to suggest ... Content is king. Great unique content. Clean HTML code. Don't spam other sites. Keep it …

Please be careful when dusting off the interior of your computer. I mistakingly dusted out the inside of my machine with a mini electronic vacuum. The kind that is typically used to clean the dust under the keys of a keyboard or other electronics. Unfortunately, I ended up killing one …

As far as I know, you'd need the proprietary ATi software. Check ati's website is all I can offer. A friend of mine has an ATi All-in-Wonder video card/built-in tv tuner and the ATi TV Wonder software is the only thing that will work.

Sorry, I don't know much about the real estate niche at all. In fact, how would affiliate marketing even work? Would it be a cost-per-lead for a potential sale to a broker?

Umm ... That's not good news. How can we help?

I've thought about this many times, but have decided to hold off until the next reincarnation of the DaniWeb design. In the meantime, exploring all of the many vast features of the site is half the experience.

Check out the tools at SEObook.com. Also check out seomoz.org tools. Oh, and also check code.google.com (Google's code repository). Info there about their official APIs.

OS X is built on top of BSD. As far as I know, the file system (journaled HFS+) coupled with OS X does not need to be defragmented - it is a process that happens automatically in the background. Perhaps others can clarify?

First you need an IRC client such as mIRC or Chatzilla (Firefox extension). Then, you can connect to the server irc.daniweb.com. Then, you can join the #DaniWeb channel on the server.

Create a Facebook group and post to it ... everything you think that your website visitors would want to see. Post behind-the-scenes information about how you run your website. Photos. Videos. Engage with your audience!! Ask for website feedback and suggestions. Heavily promote your Facebook group on your website as …

Google fully recognizes all backlinks that you have. However, when you do a link: query in Google, it is meant to only be a general overview of the sites that link to you. Often only a couple pages per domain name are listed, and they are generally the better of …

I'm confused by your question.

I hope that there's another big algo change in the works. I'm just waiting for the day when one of them will knock us back up to where we used to be. It really can't get much worse, so anything can only be an improvement for us.

It's horrendous practice to keep all three URLs active. First choose one URL you want to use from now on. Preferably it would be with the www, but bink.nu has a high PR without it, so I would go with that. Use an .htaccess file to 301 Redirect [url="http://www.bink.nu"]www.bink.nu[/url] and …

I have page1.html that is being 302 redirected (temporary redirect) to page2.html page2.html is disallowed in my robots.txt file Under normal circumstances, when googlebot encounters a 301 redirect from page1.html to page2.html, it will index page2.html, and when googlebot encounters a 302 redirect from page1.html to page2.html, it will index …

Organic SEO works very well with forums because they constantly build natural content and many interlinking pages.

http. https means over a secure connection.

I removed it when cleaning up the site design because I felt like it was very infrequently used and was confusing to people not aware of its function (it didn't appear to do anything when clicked, unless you understood its function). I would prefer not to re-add it unless there …

Try Amazon's Mechanical Turk.

I have a somewhat complicated select query which returns, in part, the following resultset (as an example): [code=text] threadid views -------- ----- 1 5 1 5 2 10 3 15 4 10 [/code] If I were to do the following select: [code]COUNT (DISTINCT threadid), SUM (DISTINCT views)[/code] then it would …

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While I agree with you, the flip side is that it's really difficult to organize categories and subcategories in a forum where there is overlap just about everywhere. Every technology can be used with every other technology. That's why we use tags so that you can cross-reference topics. A lot …

I think that we're definitely being affected by the Google Panda algorithm from both ends. On one side, our traffic has been directly affected, and as a result there are less new people finding us, less new content being posted, etc. On the other end, a lot of sites out …

Sanjay, don't you mean that you don't think you CAN convince them to redo the site just b/c of validator errors? I know many sites don't pay attention to validator errors. Google, for example, purposefully doesn't validate just to save themselves as many bytes as possible for the quickest download …

[QUOTE=Lerner]This is dependent on the platform you are writing your program for, Windows/Linux/Mac. There are forums for this indiviual platforms if you go to the forum index and scroll down a ways. You may get an answer here, but you are much more likely to get a response in the …

Can someone please explain to me the difference between ++i and i++ when written as part of an expression (i.e. within loops and if statements) ? Thanks :)

I don't drink. Never have. Never will.

This was originally posted in the tutorials section of the site. It got moved to C++. I think Computer Science is more appropriate for it so it's being moved once again ;)

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