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Affiliate Link Cloaking in WordPress
2012-01-06 22:52:00 Cloaking links is again a hot item because of some clear statements by Google related to the Google Panda update and affiliate sites. Google's statement is about affiliate sites with "thin" content. Websites with less original and unique content are potential candidates to get filtered from the Google result pages. This article is about link cloaking and a review on the Wordpress plugin named ThirstyAffiliate s.Rating: 0.0/10 (0 votes cast) More About: Online Advertising , Link
Turn your mailbox into an online help desk
2011-12-15 11:22:00 If you get a lot of email messages from your contact form beside the emails from your customer, you have to spend some extra time to answer these messages too. This article is about how-to optimize your email inbox by using the online help desk software "Help Scout". Help Scout is service in the Cloud and very easy to use they offer beside paid accounts also a free account with some limitations.Rating: 8.7/10 (3 votes cast) More About: Online
Optimize MySQL tables for better performance
2011-11-28 08:05:00 A web applications like Wordpress will produce a lot of overhead on your database tables. Each overhead will make your database a little slower because more memory (RAM) is used. This PHP tutorial is for the beginning webmaster and also useful for the professional webmaster, which host his websites on a VPS or dedicated server. Rating: 8.5/10 (2 votes cast) More About: Performance , Tables , Mysql
Cloud Hosting Comparison
2011-11-09 22:20:00 During the last years I checked many Cloud Hosting companies and tried a view of them. This cloud hosting comparison is based on my own experience and I hope it will help you to decide which company is the right for you. Cloud Hosting There are many companies using the term “cloud hosting” for marketing, ...Rating: 9.7/10 (3 votes cast) More About: Comparison
My Favorite WordPress Plugins
2011-11-06 22:54:00 There are many reviews and articles about WordPress plugins, here is the list of plugins I’m using. I use the WordPress plugins on this page for several websites and most of them longer than a year. I will keep this list up2date and I will remove WordPress plugins I’m not using anymore. Subscribe to the ...Rating: 8.8/10 (4 votes cast) More About: Wordpress , Wordpress Plugins , Plugins
5 WordPress plugins I?m using since last week
2011-10-09 20:55:00 I’m using WordPress for more than 5 years now and it’s surprises me every time how many new (or updated) WordPress plugins I’ve missed during the past few month. Like this time, I was looking for several functions I need for a current website project. I searched the WordPress plugin directory for: A better SEO ...Rating: 8.5/10 (2 votes cast) More About: Wordpress , Wordpress Plugins , Plugins , Week
Use Google Analytics for your Google Panda optimizations
2011-09-28 10:09:00 Last week I visited the Search Marketing Thursday, a small and interesting meeting here in the Netherlands. A presentation about the Google Panda update led me to think about the PHP forum at finalwebsites.com. The Panda update is about quality content which people like, read and mention to others. I checked some older forum posts ...Rating: 9.5/10 (2 votes cast) More About: Google Analytics , Analytics
Customizing the Yet Another Related Posts Plugin
2011-08-24 13:11:00 I love WordPress. I really do. Maybe not as much as Olaf, but he?s made a convert out of me. I?m using it more and more for my sites but am getting increasingly frustrated at how many of the ?standard? plugins and widgets don?t seem to be as complete as they could be. So many ...Rating: 8.0/10 (1 vote cast) More About: Plugin , Posts
How-to Install a Linux Web Server (Ubuntu)
2011-08-05 00:14:00 Installing a web server for a production environment, with Ubuntu as operating system, is not too difficult because most of the required packages don’t need a lot of configurations. In this tutorial we create a (power) user, we install Apache, PHP and MySQL, phpMyAdmin and several other services needed to run a powerful and secure ...Rating: 8.0/10 (1 vote cast) More About: Linux , Web Server , Server
Maximizing the Benefits of RSS Feeds
2011-06-06 16:03:00 How often have you noticed one of your blog entries or articles being indexed by Google on a news aggregator site or autoblog faster than the original on your own site? Two of our most recent posts Panda Update Targets More Than Bad Content and Getting More Exposure for Blog Guest Authors were. By using a standard feature of WordPress, you can continue to receive the benefits of the free publicity but limit your exposure to duplicate content penalties and in part decide how other sites will link to you. We'll share three different options and discuss the pros and cons of each and show you how this excerpt is an example of the solution we plan to employ.Rating: 0.0/10 (0 votes cast) More About: Internet Marketing
Online backup services, SpiderOak or better Dropbox?
2010-12-23 22:28:00 A few month ago I wrote an article/review about online backup services, in this comparison I mentioned that my favorite is the online backup service SpiderOak. These days I tried to synchronize the data from my laptop with my desktop PC and I’m very disappointed about this feature provided by SpiderOak. While the online backup ... More About: Services , Backup , Online
Build your own website, 10 Tips for Success!
2010-12-07 22:43:00 If you’re a webmaster or a website owner, this article is for you: These 10 tips can help you to build better and more successful websites. We suggest to hire a web developer if you can’t write the HTML source code. Even if you’re able to create a website on your own, it’s often to ... More About: Website , Internet Marketing , Tips , Success
How-to show popular posts on your WordPress blog?
2010-11-16 15:27:00 Yesterday I replaced my list of current PHP articles on this blog with a list of popular articles. I’m sure it’s possible in WordPress to get those list if you count the number of comments, but actually I was looking for solution based on real traffic. Since I’m using WordPress.com Stats, I would like to ... More About: Wordpress , Show , Blog , Popular , Posts
10 Tips for a better eCommerce website
2010-11-07 22:14:00 During the last years the number of new web shops has raised sky high. With the free open-source shopping cart solutions, a beginning merchant is able to start an online business without spending a lot of money for the eCommerce website. After the eCommerce script installed and the website is “online”, the website owner can ... More About: Website , Ecommerce , Tips
WordPress categories, optimization tips and custom pages
2010-10-25 09:23:00 It’s not a SEO secret, inner links to / from strong category pages will help your site to rank higher in Google. Sad enough that WordPress doesn’t provide a lot of functionality for these important sections on your blog site. This is the information you can read below the field “description” if you edit a ... More About: Wordpress , Tips , Optimization , Categories
Optimize your DirectAdmin backups with rSync
2010-09-27 16:02:00 DirectAdmin offers some great backup which makes it possible to create a backup file for each user or hosting account. The control panel has backup functions for the different access levels: Admin level: Create system or whole server backups Admin level: Create backups for all users and resellers Reseller level: Create backups for all users ... More About: Reviews
5 Useful jQuery Snippets for your Website
2010-08-23 22:22:00 jQuery is a popular JavaScript library which is used by many developers and applications. While using jQuery you need to write less code, writing functions is less complex and there are a lot of plugins you can use for free in your web application. Even if you code everything by yourself, you need only a ... More About: Website
Facebook tips for more efficiency and ?fun?
2010-08-09 12:54:00 Since there are more than 500 million users at Facebook , that social network is the place to be meet most your friends. The last years the whole Internet is becoming more social and most new or existing services are providing social features which connect them to social sites like Facebook or Twitter. This article is ... More About: Tips , Google Services , Efficiency
PayPal Payment Tools: Information and Resources
2010-07-25 16:38:00 If you’re looking for a trustful online payment solution, you will always notice PayPal as a well known payment platform. PayPal is a full featured payment solution provider for the (paying) user and for the merchant. This article is about why people should use Paypal and some tools which makes it easier to use this ... More About: Information , Tools , Resources , Payment
Start a hosting business with DirectAdmin
2010-07-21 09:32:00 There are thousands of hosting companies on the Internet and maybe this article will help you to start your own. Many companies offering web services are hosting reseller of other (bigger) companies or have partnerships with hosting companies. Maybe you have ever thought to offer hosting services by yourself, with a dedicated server or a ... More About: Business , Hosting , Start
E-mail marketing software, which is the best for you?
2010-06-28 07:21:00 If you search Google for E-mail marketing software you will find a lot of services and I’m sure a lot of them have great features and are worth the money. The pricing for 1000 mail messages is often very similar and most of them offer a back-end which makes it easy to setup a mailing ... More About: Marketing , Software , Mail , Internet Marketing , E-Mail
404 Errors: Report, monetize and analyse
2010-06-14 06:57:00 After your websites getting more pages and links, the chance that a visitor will follow a dead link to your site exists. If a visitor is trying to access a page on your site, the server will report (normally) a 404 error. The response is by default some unfriendly page with some spare information about ... More About: Tutorials , Report , Google Services , Errors , Monetize
Online Backup Service ? Comparison
2010-06-05 08:26:00 For those people spending a lot of time behind a laptop or desktop PC, some safe backup storage becomes very important. Until a few few weeks ago, I created every night an incremental backup for my files and stored this data on a USB connected hard-disk. While the HD was shock-proof (FreeCom), my motherboard was ... More About: Reviews , Backup , Service , Online , Comparison
Create PDF documents Online with TCPDF
2010-05-27 19:50:00 Many web applications using PDF documents for invoices, contracts and many other doc types. There are a few PHP classes which are able to create PDF documents online, one of them is TCPDF. This tutorial is about how-to use the TCPDF class while creating a simple invoice document. If you like to take a sneak ... More About: Reviews , Online
Search for photos using PHP and the flickr API
2009-12-18 23:25:00 This PHP tutorial will show how to create a simple PHP class to search the flickr site for some photos. To get the data we use the flickr API to run a simple search and return the results in a serialized array. We will be using the php function "file_get_contents" to receive data from flickr. ... More About: Photos , Search , Flickr
Website Monitoring Services: Reviews and Facts
2009-12-13 22:42:00 There are so many possibilities why a website went off-line, all of them have one in common: Your visitors can’t access your site and maybe they will never come back! Possible problems why a website might be off-line: Web server or network is down – A very common problem, there is so much computer technology used… Some web ... More About: Services , Reviews , Website , Facts
Create custom reCAPTCHA images using their API
2009-12-07 09:12:00 If you need to spam protect your contact, comment or any other public form you should think about using a CAPTCHA image. A CAPTCHA image is an image with a random text which spam bots can’t read. The visitor need to enter that text into a form field and only if there is a match ... More About: Images
Adsense for WordPress ? 5 Plugins reviewed
2009-11-30 06:41:00 If you try to monetize your blog with Google Adsense you might have noticed that this is not an easy job. Blog reader are very focused on reading the content and writing comments. Many readers will not visit your site since they read your blogs in a RSS reader. That will say that we need ... More About: Wordpress , Advertising , Plugins
Top your sales with Google Commerce Search
2009-11-29 19:39:00 As a web shop owner you like to make your shop as popular and successful as possible. If you like to take your business to the next level, you should take a look at the Google Commerce Search . This hosted e-commerce search solution will allow your customers to have a much more pleasant and better ... More About: Sales
How-to create a Password Generator using PHP
More articles from this author:2009-11-22 16:54:00 Do you need a password generator function for your user registration application or do you have to write a script in PHP? Than is this PHP tutorial for you. The function in this guide is flexible enough to use it during the user registration process or for a password recovery function. The generated password from ... More About: Generator , Password 1, 2, 3, 4 |
