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Free Online Dating BlogFree Online Dating BlogThis is an online dating blog written by the site's author and details the technical and SEO difficulties with designing a relationship dating site Articles
Online Dating Sites
2008-02-18 21:35:00 How do you choose which dating sites are the most suitable for your needs? This is a very general question and will of course depend on how specific your ?needs? are Assuming you are an average dating site user, then you will either be looking for a date or for marriage. Ignoring the latter for ... More About: Dating , Online Dating , Sites , Online
Relationship Balance
2008-02-18 21:34:00 The average age of getting marriage is increasing in so-called developed countries. In addition, the rate of divorce has also seen a steady rise in recent decades. What are the causes of these trends? It seems people are not so eager to get married and when they do tie the knot it appears more and ... More About: Relationship , Balance
SEO for a Dating Site
2008-02-18 21:34:00 What can be done for a dating site in terms of SEO? How does one go about competing in a near-saturated field with a minimal budget? There are ways. How much longer these ?ways? will exist is anyone?s guess, but I suspect as the blue chips wade into the SEO foray, their big budgets may ... More About: Dating , Site
Dating Across Cultures
2008-02-18 21:32:00 Anna (see relationship blog) is currently working on a thesis concerning the unique issues experienced by people in intercultural relationships. This work will focus on relationship problems which exist purely as a result of partners misunderstanding each other?s culture and the way a person?s culture can lead to these misunderstandings. It will form a useful ... More About: Dating , Cultures
Link-Bait
2008-02-18 21:31:00 On the topic of SEO, what actually really works? is there a killer technique to blow away the competition and steal the traffic? Not usually. However, under certain circumstances, it is possible to take advantage of your existing content and use this to give you an edge. In particular I am thinking about link-bait and ... More About: Link
Page Content - an SEO Perspective
2008-02-18 21:31:00 Having recently looked at some SEO parameters in more detail, I decided to perform an experiment to determine the effect that content subject has on PR. Without going into the details of the experiment, which involved two pages on a site with slightly different content, I am able to conclude that the number of different ... More About: Page , Content , Perspective
New Blog
2008-02-18 21:31:00 Well, not quite a new blog, just an old one restarted. I have been very busy recently working on some contract work and the Click in Love dating site is very much delayed. Nevertheless, a little work is still ongoing and we hope to have something functional soon enough. In addition, I hope to keep ... More About: Blog
AJAX Code
2008-02-18 21:30:00 What is AJAX and how can it contribute to my site? AJAX stands for Asynchronous Javascript And Xml. Practically what this means, is the use of pre-exisiting technologies to create a technique which allows a client-side script to interact with the server, which otherwise is not normally achievable. In layman?s terms, it means a browser ... More About: Code , Ajax
Firefox Browser Extension
2008-02-18 21:30:00 The Firefox browser extension I was working on has been put on hold for a while whilst I try to finish some other work. However that does not mean the extension is not worthwhile. On the contrary, it is extremely valuable as it will ease the workload in performing SEO link-building. As anyone who has ... More About: Browser , Extension
Dangers of Wordpress Plugins
2008-02-18 21:28:00 I recently lost the entire contents of my Blog due to a combination of failing to make a satisfactory backup and some bug with a plugin. I was writing my Blog last night when my hand slipped and hit the keyboard, somewhere on the number pad section. All of a sudden, 4 Wordpress plugins (which ... More About: Wordpress Plugins , Plugins
Webmaster Tools Continues Improving
2008-02-18 21:27:00 Today I noticed that Google Webmaster tools got another upgrade. In the statistics section you are now able to track previous months statistics, which is useful for trend analysis. I am not sure how accurate these stats are, but even if they are only a rough indication, it is better than nothing. Will More About: Tools , Webmaster Tools
PHP vs Javascript
2008-02-16 15:22:00 When it comes to web design, you often have a choice of which scripting language to use for a particular effect/task. For client-side scripting you are basically limited to the prevalent Javascript language (Java Applets, Java and the like are also alternatives). However, for server-side scripting, you have PHP, ASP, VB scripting etc. ...
Dating Sites and Social Networking Sites
2008-02-15 11:02:00 One of the more successful website phenomena of recent years is the rise of social networking sites. For the traditional dating site, there is a potential threat in this rise. For example, a large subset of the online dating community also subscribe to these networking sites and the possibility to make new friends has increased ... More About: Social , Social Networking , Dating , Networking , Sites
Issues With SEO
2008-02-14 11:29:00 Google is reaching a stage where its algorithm is catching up with the spammers, black-hat tricksters and those who wish to manipulate the SERP’s. No longer is it easy to trick the search engine with dubious coding and clever text-placement techniques. Whilst it is good for the end user to have more relevant search results, ... More About: Issues
Starkbierfest in Munich
2008-02-12 12:06:00 The Starkbierfest has started again in Munich . This is a beer festival which runs during the lent period. The name means ’strong beer’ and is a reference to the heavy ingredients monks used to add to their beer during the fasting season leading up to Easter. Monks were not allowed to eat much during this ...
Blog Updates
2007-12-13 15:34:00 Having a blog is a useful tool in the SEO campaign, but using it to generate content is not enough for a site’s needs. It is critically important, in order to reach the full effect of your blog, to regularly update it. I use the term ‘regularly’ with a lot of emphasis here. It is ... More About: Blog , Updates
PHP Website Programming
2007-12-12 12:14:00 What does PHP stand for and what does it do? PHP is a recursive definition, much like GNU (GNU Not Unix), and is an acronym for “PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor”. This is engineering humour and mirrors the recursive nature of some of the standard programming constructs that any programmer will be familiar with. It follows ... More About: Programming , Website
Munich Speed Dating
2007-12-11 15:34:00 When it first gained popularity, Speed dating sounded like a shallow fad which would soon disappear. However, that was definitely not the case. Many years later and it is still going strong across the world with many varied spin-offs doing the rounds as well. Why the popularity? One reason is that it gives participants the chance ... More About: Dating , Munich , Speed Dating , Dati
SEO Consulting
2007-12-04 16:14:00 One of the most awkward things to deal with as an SEO practitioner is the expectations of customers. It is often hard to convince them that SEO takes a long time to fully work and campaign results will not be obvious for many months. Sometimes it can take over a year for really competitive terms ... More About: Consulting
SEO Consulting
2007-12-04 16:14:00 One of the most awkward things to deal with as an SEO practitioner is the expectations of customers. It is often hard to convince them that SEO takes a long time to fully work and campaign results will not be obvious for many months. Sometimes it can take over a year for really competitive terms ... More About: Consulting
Proliferation of Dating Sites
2007-12-03 11:41:00 Have you noticed how many different dating sites exist online today? How can so many survive when they are in fact in direct competition with each other. Well there are four main factors to explain this apparently contradictory situation: Not all are in direct competition with each other and happily manage to exist in niche markets Many ... More About: Dating , Sites , Proliferation , Dati
Proliferation of Dating Sites
2007-12-03 11:41:00 Have you noticed how many different dating sites exist online today? How can so many survive when they are in fact in direct competition with each other. Well there are four main factors to explain this apparently contradictory situation: Not all are in direct competition with each other and happily manage to exist in niche markets Many ... More About: Dating , Sites , Proliferation , Dati
Dating Dangers
2007-11-30 14:58:00 One of the risks of online dating is that you never really know who you are contacting. Normally this is not really an issue as long as you follow sensible guidelines and keep safety foremost in your mind. Many people are too trusting and in their haste to find love leave themselves vulnerable to various ... More About: Dating , Dati
Dating Dangers
2007-11-30 14:58:00 One of the risks of online dating is that you never really know who you are contacting. Normally this is not really an issue as long as you follow sensible guidelines and keep safety foremost in your mind. Many people are too trusting and in their haste to find love leave themselves vulnerable to various ... More About: Dating , Dati
Social Bookmarking
2007-11-30 10:36:00 ?Web 2? is due to make an appearance and ‘take the net by storm’, apparently. One of the many facets of Web 2 is what is called Social Bookmarking . These are sites centred around user-generated content that includes individuals placing their favourite links online for all to see. It is a good way to get ... More About: Social Bookmarking
Social Bookmarking
2007-11-30 10:36:00 ?Web 2? is due to make an appearance and ‘take the net by storm’, apparently. One of the many facets of Web 2 is what is called Social Bookmarking . These are sites centred around user-generated content that includes individuals placing their favourite links online for all to see. It is a good way to get ... More About: Social Bookmarking
Dating Site Link Bait
2007-11-29 12:20:00 A tricky subject and one which deserves a lot of attention is link bait. What sort of link bait would work on a dating site (or any site for that matter)? Ideally we would want something which would appeal both to the users of the site and webmasters looking for something hot to link to. ... More About: Dating , Site , Link , Dati
Ajax Feed
2007-11-29 11:38:00 AJAX is a useful cornerstone of ?Web 2?. As part of my effort to streamline administration of the dating site, I have placed a utilities management page online (password protected of course). With this I use AJAX scripting to populate forms with content extracted from purpose-specific databases. This in turn allows me to generate ‘feeds ... More About: Ajax , Feed
Website Security
2007-11-29 11:27:00 The issue of website security is an important one and worth learning a bit about. Hacking is an often misinterpreted phrase which many people use to describe illegally accessing and/or modifying restricted network content. This in fact is called Cracking. Cracking is something every webmaster needs to be aware of, especially if you have a database ... More About: Security , Website
SEO Sitemap
More articles from this author:2007-11-28 10:58:00 I have started to create what I call an SEO Sitemap . It is a cross between a roadmap and a sitemap for the site?s SEO campaign. This document will be a clickable sitemap with links to information on every page on the site. This information will take the form of page keywords/phrases, keyword density, total ... 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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