Archive for June, 2007

Choose your anchor text for incoming links

Saturday, June 30th, 2007 | Link Building, SEO | No Comments

It would be pretty nice if we could just select our top chosen keyword phrase as our anchor text and then use it for all incoming links we gather for our website. Unfortunately, it isn’t year 2000, and this technique just doesn’t hold the weight it once did, not to mention the fact that you very likely have more than one keyword phrase you want to rank well for.

So this brings us to the question of not only how to choose anchor text for brand new incoming links, but to also use anchor text in a way to make your backlinks look as natural as possible (even if they aren’t!) to the Google (and other search engine) powers-that-be. Here are some tips when it comes to selecting that crucial anchor text as well as things to consider once you start gathering (or buying) backlinks.
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AdSense now offers rounded and squared ad unit corners

Saturday, June 30th, 2007 | Contextual Advertising, Google, Google Adsense & Adwords | No Comments

While creating some AdSense ad unit javascript for a client today, I noticed a new feature in the AdSense control panel, the ability to chose the style of corners in the ad unit. Publishers can now select “slightly rounded”, “very rounded” or “squared” corners on their ad units, which is done by adding a new line to the javascript.

Here is what the slightly rounded looks like:

Very rounded:
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The “Hello World” AJAX script

Wednesday, June 27th, 2007 | Scripts & Programming, Tutorials | No Comments

just made this quick ajax tutorial for people who’re starting out there and want to learn AJAX. The following tutorial will teach on how to submit a simple form through php and get the stuff printed out by using AJAX. The first sect will be plain simple to just print a input string and I’ll add getting some dynamic content after it.

So let’s get started.
For most of you you may have a local server at your PC or a remote hosting, remember there’re no special requirements for this tutorial all you need is a php installed server. If you’re right starting away you can install XAMPP which will install all defauly modules on your PC directly. I’ll be getting a good tutorial on this if I get enough requests.

For the first part we’ll do our job using two files,

1) Index.php

2) ajax.js (The AJAX framework)

3) Style.css (stylesheet)

4) form.php (To process the submitted data)
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How to Install Apache2 MySQL and PHP on Windows

Wednesday, June 27th, 2007 | Php, Scripts & Programming, Tutorials | No Comments

This tutorial is meant to show you how to install and set up the latest stable release of the Apache Web server, PHP, and MySQL to run on your local Windows machine for local testing and development. This can save you a lot of time and make learning and developing a lot easier.

These steps should work for setting up Apache 2 on most versions of Windows including Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows 2000, and Windows XP, but have only been tested on Windows XP. There may need to be some changes made for older versions of Windows so ask here if you need any help.
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Getting started with PHP (The Basics)

Wednesday, June 27th, 2007 | Php, Scripts & Programming, Tutorials | No Comments

This is a simple introduction tutorial to help you get started as well as give you some ideas on what you can do with PHP. PHP is a server side html embedded scripting language that can be used to create dynmaic web pages and many other things. Some benefits of using PHP are it’s free, it’s fast, it’s fairly easy to learn, and you can embed it into your regular html pages.

To use PHP you’ll need to have access to a web server with PHP installed on it. Most Web Hosts offer PHP support. You can also install PHP and run it on your own system which can make it easier to learn and test PHP scripts. CLICK HERE for a tutorial on setting up PHP to run on your own computer.
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Search engine optimization for forums

Wednesday, June 27th, 2007 | Forums & Boards, Link Building, SEO | 3 Comments

Introduction

I started to write this article because after 1 year of running a small forum community I realize is not a simple task to maintain a forum. In a way I had luck because I start with the right forum: SMF. I didn’t had any problem at software level (mods, security patches) because SMF Team is an very active team and the they have a great community. Anyway when we start talking about SEO then is other problem and I think this problem it is with all forums. A lot of this forums are not build with SEO in mind and if are forums build with SEO in mind they probably don’t have so much features.

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How to create stronger backlinks to your site ?

Wednesday, June 27th, 2007 | SEO, Search Industry | No Comments

How to create stronger backlinks to your site

- The origin Site (where the backlinks comes from) must have a general subject related to your site or page linking to;
- The origin Page must also have a subject related to the subject of the page in your site;
- The origin Paragraph, or text around the link, must also have a subject related to the subject of the page in your site;
- The origin Anchor Text must have a keyword/s related to your site/page.
- The link must be a real link, with http://, not just the www. Yahoo counts them, but MSN and G, no. › Continue reading

Angry eBay pulls Google ads in spat

Sunday, June 17th, 2007 | Google, Internet News | No Comments

Auction website eBay has pulled its US advertising from search engine giant and adversary Google.

The move comes after Google angered eBay with a provocative decision to hold an event on the same evening as eBay’s annual merchants’ conference.

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