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Jason Bartholme's SEO BlogJason Bartholme's SEO BlogSynapses firing in all directions. News, resources, and opinions about the world of search engine optimization, social media, and web development. Articles
Laptop Donation Fund
2008-01-15 23:37:00 As the new year comes around I felt it was a good time to get a laptop. However, due to other expenses such as bills, diapers, baby food, etc., a laptop isn’t on the priority list. So, I am appealing to my wonderful readers and asking for your donations so I can purchase ... More About: Laptop , Donation , Fund
21 Time-Saving Snippets for Any ColdFusion Developer
2008-01-08 23:03:00 Web developers often do repetitive tasks, some of these tasks can be saved as snippets in IDE’s such as Dreamweaver, Eclipse and Homesite to name a few. Here are 21 snippets for Cold Fusion developers that will save you time. Import all of these ColdFusion snippets into your IDE and save some keystrokes and ... More About: Developer , Time , Coldfusion
My 10 SEO-related New Year?s Resolutions
2007-12-29 07:06:00 I think New Year ’s resolutions are stupid. Usually, they are to lose weight, quit smoking, or do some other major lifestyle change. I’m not one for sticking to those. What about learning? I can resolve to learn more this next year. That’s something I can stick to. The more we learn ... More About: Related , Resolutions , Resolution
Use TNX.net to Increase Your Backlinks and Targeted Traffic
2007-12-23 06:49:00 Looking for another way get targeted users to your site and increase your backlinks? Then, TNX.net should be part of your marketing strategy. TNX.net combines the benefits of text link brokers, contextual advertising, and relevant exchange of permanent non-reciprocal text links. They are dedicated in attracting targeted visitors and clients from search ... More About: Traffic , Backlinks
Update Your Google Analytics Tracking Code
2007-12-13 21:11:00 Today, Google announced that they will be adding new features and reporting to their Google Analytics product. The major addition is the comparative reporting. Users can now choose two metrics and compare them on a graph. For example, visits can be compared against bounce rates. There are 25 metrics that may ... More About: Code , Update
WidgetBucks Trial Nets Disappointing Earnings
2007-12-13 05:08:00 Since the end of October I decided to take a portion of one of my site’s real estate and give the new ad serving network WidgetBucks a chance. After a month and a half of running their ads, I will be removing the widget due to lack of considerable earnings. Widgetbucks was an enticing program when ... More About: Trial , Earnings , Earning
How to Use ColdFusion to Ping the Ask, Google, MSN, and Yahoo Sitemap Servi
2007-11-25 05:55:00 Sitemaps help web crawlers to do a better job of crawling your site. If your content is continously updated, then you should let the search engines know that your XML file of all your site links has been updated. To date, Ask, Google , MSN, and Yahoo support the Sitemap 0.90 protocol. Visit ... More About: Cold , Fusion , Coldfusion
7 Free Windows, Mac, and Linux Fonts for Programmers
2007-11-16 05:47:00 Programmers need a crisp, clear font so they can distinguish between similar characters. What makes for a good coding font? The first criteria is the font needs to be a monospaced typeface. This means the characters have equal widths or a fixed pitch. Next, the similar characters need to be easily ... More About: Windows , Linux , Web Development , Free , Fonts
Has Your Dreamweaver CS3 Been Crashing Lately?
2007-11-09 18:57:00 Since we changed our clocks for daylight savings time, my Dreamweaver CS3 would crash when I would open a page and click on the code area or design area. There is an alternative to reinstalling your copy of the software. According to a thread on Adobe ’s Dreamweaver Support Forums, the problem has to do ... More About: Weave
Using ColdFusion?s APPLICATION Scope to Stop Beating on Your Database
2007-11-06 00:22:00 ColdFusion allows you to set an APPLICATION scope that can be leveraged to decrease database calls and increase your site performance. This is a beginner level explanation of how you save a result set in ColdFusion memory that will process quicker than querying a table. I run a ColdFusion based article site and as the ... More About: Cold , Database , Coldfusion , Stop
Google Takes Green from Prominent Web Sites
2007-10-25 05:54:00 Some site owners woke up today to the watch their hard earned Google Page Rank decrease. There is wide speculation that the search engine has penalized sites for selling text links. My blog was also affected. It went from a PR5 to PR3. A lot of people believe Google is slapping sites ... More About: Green , Web Sites , Sites
Sproose Combines Search with Social Interaction for User Influenced Results
2007-10-23 20:08:00 You and your users can have direct influence over the search results in the new search engine Sproose. Sproose allows the user to vote and comment on links they like, combining social bookmarking and search. Key Features Spoose takes the machine-calculated search data from the Yahoo!, MSN, and Ask search APIs and combines them to display ... More About: Social , Results , Search , User , Comb
70+ JavaScript Resources for Every Web Developer
2007-10-12 17:10:00 JavaScript is a client-side scripting language which is commonly used in web development. Here are more than 70 JavaScript resources of tutorials, collections, libraries, and tools for seasoned developers or newbies to enhance your web pages. Tutorials A (Re)-Introduction to JavaScript - incutio.com JavaScript - quirksmode.org JavaScript Cake Tutorials and Scripts - jennifermadden.com JavaScript Boot Camp Tutorial -slash7.com JavaScript Closures ... More About: Web Development , Resources , Developer , Javascript , Web developer
2007 Adobe MAX Recap ? Day 2
2007-10-03 15:48:00 It?s been a long day, but it was packed with good stuff. First off, ColdFusion 9 is in the works and its apparent Adobe is standing behind the product for the foreseeable future. Today was the Sneaks session as well as the big event party. Let?s start with the event party since I just ... More About: Recap
2007 Adobe MAX Recap ? Day 1
2007-10-02 15:37:00 The masses arrived in droves today totaling out at about 4,500 attendees. I tip my hat to the Adobe folks. They are great at crowd management and getting everyone where they need to be. Today was part one of the keynote address. They said there was so much to cover, so ... More About: Recap
2007 Adobe MAX Recap ? Pre-event Hands-on Training
2007-10-01 15:49:00 We started early today. We left town at about 6:00 a.m. to get to the McCormick Place at 8:00 a.m. Today was for hands-on classes that were for an extra fee. We saw some classes of interest and the company paid for us to go in early. Mental note: The Convention Center at ... More About: Event , Adobe , Training , Hands , Recap
21 Quality WordPress Plugins That Work on Version 2.3
2007-09-29 06:07:00 WordPress 2.3, the most recent, version of the popular blogging software had schema changes which rendered many user-created plugins worthless. Many bloggers are reluctant to upgrade because that means they will loose some of their blog’s functionality. Here is a list of plugins whose author’s took the time to make sure they were compatible with ... More About: Wordpress , Wordpress Plugins , Blogging , Work , Plugins
Adobe MAX in Chicago, See You There
2007-09-29 05:32:00 Adobe MAX will be held in Chica go from Sunday to Wednesday. MAX is the former Macromedia company’s big conference/exposition of the year. Adobe has embraced the event and continued to make it as remarkable as ever. From the Adobe site: Unique opportunities to connect with thousands of peers Sneak peeks at emerging technologies Over ... More About: Adobe
A Visual and Techinical Look at CardroomSupply
2007-09-19 04:53:00 I consider myself quite a poker fan. I have my own chip set, two packs of KEM playing cards, and also a old banquet table that has been felted and bumpered. CardroomSupply asked me to review their site and I focused on the products, appearance, and the code of their site. In full ... More About: Visual
Clicky Web Analytics Lets You Spy on Your Site Visitors in Real Time
2007-09-12 06:15:00 How would you like to see where people are coming from and what they are doing on your site as it happens? I have been using a rather new web analytics service, Clicky, for the last two weeks and I’m hooked. For the last two weeks I have abandoned Google Analytics . I don’t have ... More About: Time , Site , Real , Visitors
45 Working Sites to Quickly Submit Your RSS Feeds
2007-09-07 19:13:00 There are a lot of lists out there of links to submit your RSS/XML feeds. However, many of those lists are outdated and include sites that require registration to submit your feed. I have personally gone through each of these sites to insure the site is live and the user does not have to ... More About: Sites , Submit , Working , Workin
Post-Mortem of My First Visit to the I Am Bored Front Page
2007-08-31 05:29:00 It has been an exciting couple of days. One of my posts, “7 Office Games You Can Play with Your Co-workers“, was promoted to the front page of a nice little site called I Am Bored . 15,000 visitors later, I am happy to report my site stayed up for the entire time and I ... More About: Post , Page , Front , Visit
7 Office Games You Can Play with Your Co-workers
2007-08-27 15:39:00 Bored at work? Need something fun to get your through the day. These seven office games can help make the time go by. If your boss walks by, tell them it’s a team building exercise. 1. Air Can Soccer players: 2 materials: 2 cans canned air, 1 balled up piece of paper, 1 conference table gameplay: ... More About: Office , Games , Workers , Play , Worker
Finally, an Easy Way to Embed a Google Map in Your Web Page
2007-08-22 20:03:00 Have you ever wanted to use an interactive Google map on a web page, and got frustrated because it seemed so complex and convoluted? Now, Google gives you a snippet to cut and paste to your web page, blog, IM or email. This is a much easier method to get the maps on your ... More About: Page , Finally , Easy , Easy Way
How to Not Mangle Your WordPress Blog Code with Plugins
2007-08-19 07:18:00 Less than a year ago, I installed WordPress for the first time and was fascinated by the functionality you could add to your blog by installing plugins. Once I found the plugin directory, I was like a kid in a candy store, installing everything I could. What I didn’t realize is that once ... More About: Wordpress , Blogging , Plugins , Blog , Code
10 Web Sites I Visit on a Regular Basis
2007-08-17 18:24:00 I spend much of my waking day online. Aside from developing in ColdFusion, I like to keep on top of what’s going on in web design, web development, CSS, search marketing, and SEO. Here are ten sites that I visit that keep me informed. PopUrls This site is such a time-saver when I want ... More About: Blogging , Web Sites , Sites , Regular , Visit
8 Random Things About Me
2007-08-16 21:43:00 Who doesn’t like a good meme every now and again? This meme was originated by Paul Ruppert and I was tagged by David Dalka of Chicago. Here’s a few little nuggets of knowledge about me. 1. I drive a Yellow Pontiac Aztek. Yeah, I’ve hear it all, “those are ugly”, “looks like a short bus”, ... More About: Personal , Random , Things
Creating Linked Lists for Traffic and Incoming Links
2007-08-05 06:58:00 ProBlogger, Darron Rowse has begun a project called 31 Days to Building a Better Blog. The project involves month-long tips from Darron as well as submissions from fellow bloggers. I feel two of the most important aspects of a blog are traffic and incoming links, and linked list post are a great ... More About: Traffic , Blogging , Links , Creating , Lists
Benefits of Being Saved on Del.icio.us
2007-08-05 05:14:00 One of the most popular social bookmarking sites is del.icio.us. It has a minimalist appearance that understates that it is a power tool in generating traffic, visibility, and incoming links to your sites. On July 31st my post, 101 Resources to Help You Build a Better Web Form, received about 1,000 referrals from ... More About: Social Bookmarking , Benefits
101 Resources to Help You Build a Better Web Form
More articles from this author:2007-07-30 15:30:00 Searching for the perfect web form design? Need help standardizing your form building for usability and accessibility? Here are 101 resources to help you build a better web form. Web Form Basics Basic Forms - basic input - yourhtmlsource.com Basic Forms Tutorial - theukwebdesigncompany.com HTML Forms and Input - w3schools.com HTML forms tutorial - web-source.net HTML Form Tutorial - ... More About: Web Development , Resources , Build 1, 2, 3 |
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