How to Really Build Backlinks and Dominate Google Without a doubt, the most frequent post request I’ve had on this site is a post about link building. I rarely take requests, simply because people rarely know what they really want until you give it to them, but this time things are a little different. First of all, I have been studying SEO day and night since I was 16 (almost 5 years ago) and I’ve ranked on the first page of Google for some of the most competitive keyphrases in the world. Therefore, I like to think I know quite a bit about the topic and can provide some insights in this space. For those of you who don’t know why links are important, let me just say that if you want to get traffic from the major search engines, they’re crucial. A large percentage of my income to affiliate sites is from traffic via Google, and the difference between ranking 2nd and ranking 1st can literally be thousands of dollars extra on my bottom line. SEO is generally divided into two parts: on-site optimisation and off-site optimisation. Be Useful
Hacking with Google Search Google is considered to be a powerful search engine that helps millions of users to find fast & easy useful webpages. Nevertheless Google Search can also be a handy tool in the hands of malicious users, spammers & hackers. In this article we will describe few tricks that can be used in Google Search in order to easily find and access pages that normally should be protected. At the end of the article we will discuss how webmasters can protect their sites from such attacks. Important Notice: The purpose of this article is to inform webmasters about the risks they face and help them secure their websites. If you use this article’s content for anything other than educational purposes, the author of this site is not responsible for your actions or anything as a result of your actions. How to Access Member Only Areas Lots of forums allow access in some or all of their threads only to their members. If the cache operator is not available try searching for the URL address. inurl:/view.shtml
Demo | jQuery.popeye 2.1 | an inline lightbox alternative with slideshow x Note: To see the full potential of CSS3 styling (shadows, gradients, rounded corners, alpha transparency), please view this page in a modern webkit or mozilla browser (Firefox 3.5+, Safari 4, Opera 10.50, Chrome 4). Other browsers will degrade gracefully. Except for IE6, though, which I didn't bother to include. Feel free to come up with your own solution ;-) Example 1 The first popeye-box uses the standard options: it floats to the left and opens to the right, its navigation and caption show on mouseover. By placing the navigation inside the stage area (where the image is displayed), we can get it to hover above the image. No need to read this, just dummy text ;-) Vivamus ut nisi id libero interdum pretium. View HTML code used in this example Example 2 The navigation stays fixed to the right of the image. There is no enlarge button, but a click on the image enlaregs and shrinks it nevertheless. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. View HTML code used in this example
37 Tested PHP, Perl, and JavaScript Regular Expressions inShare22 A regular expression, also called regex or regexp for short, is simply a piece of code that matches a pattern. Mastering regular expressions can be a difficult chore, and if you don't need them all of the time, the syntax is tricky enough to make the task frustrating or slow as you will constantly need to use a reference sheet. In order to save you time, I've compiled a list of PHP, Perl, and JavaScript regular expressions for common use cases that have been tested and are ready to go. This isn't a regular expression tutorial or even a reference; you can think of it more as a cheatsheet for when you just need the regex but don't want to put a lot of time into relearning regular expressions. If you're looking for regex tutorials or regex resources, you can find them at the end of the page as well as some additional regex resources. Perl and PHP Regular Expressions All Major Credit Cards Alpha-Numeric Characters Test for alpha-numeric characters with this regexp. Alphabetic Characters
Ultimate List Of Web Design Checklists: Get Work Done! When building a website, there are so many things and aspects to keep in mind. It often happens that in that mess we forget about some basic things like favicon or maybe about dummy content removal from test site. It’s much easier to go trough all those things when you have all of them written down. In this article you are going to find bunch of different checklists, questionnaires and tips covering almost everything for an upcoming website. Client Checklists 1. This article will help you create a prospect qualification questionnaire that can be used via telephone or Internet or in face-to-face meetings. 2. Reading some of these questions and following some guidelines will also save you and your client plenty of headaches throughout the process and pave the way to a lasting and trusting relationship. 3. 22 Questions to Ask Before Developing a Website Detailed questionnaire that you can stick to to ease your work. 4. 72 Questions to Ask New Web Design Clients with PDF Chart 5. 6. 8. 9. 10. 3.
The Future of Paid Search - Google, Bing & Beyond Paid search has cemented itself as a highly viable, cost effective marketing channel. In 2011, paid search spending is expected to reach $34 billion. Worldwide, paid search is a $34 billion industry. In this graphic, we’ll briefly explore paid search—it’s current state, where it’s going, and how the largest paid search venders (Google & Bing) have divvied up the market. Data courtesy of efrontier.com and magnaglobal.com. Click on the image below to view an larger version of this infographic: View an enlarged version of this Infographic » Click here to download a .pdf version of this infographic. Want to display this infographic on your site? Simply copy and paste the code below into the html of your website to display the infographic presented above: Facts and Stats to Tweet:
Geeks and Delegation: A Match Made in Hell Last week, I was invited to join 3,000 delegates to what turned out to be the largest entrepreneurship conference in the world. The Global Entrepreneurship Congress 2012 took place in Liverpool, UK (a few words about Liverpool in a moment) and its speakers and panels were selected in order to inspire us into entrepreneurial action. Upon arriving in Liverpool on the GEC Express Virgin train, chartered for the specific occasion (welcoming speech and random encounter with Sir Richard Branson), I didn’t know what to expect. One of the first things that I found out, to my surprise, was how geeky Liverpool is! It has more scientists than Cambridge and a booming game industry (it’s supposedly second in the UK). If you are a geek looking for an alternative city to London, then this might be it. Sir Richard Branson was the main ”attraction” for the day and who could blame the the crowd? Q&A with Sir Richard Branson If we want to become leaders, founders and CEOs we need to learn to delegate.
The End of Pagination What do you do when you have a lot of things to display to the user, far more than can possibly fit on the screen? Paginate, naturally. There are plenty of other real world examples in this 2007 article, but I wouldn't bother. If you've seen one pagination scheme, you've seen them all. The state of art in pagination hasn't exactly changed much – or at all, really – in the last 5 years. I can understand paginating when you have 10, 50, 100, maybe even a few hundred items. Once you have thousands of items, you don't have a pagination problem. But perhaps you don't know exactly what you're looking for: maybe you want a variety of viewpoints and resources, or to compare a number of similar items. Once we've chosen a suitable order and a subset of relevant items … do we really need pagination at all? It isn't just oddball disemvowelled companies, either. Pagination is also friction. I'm not necessarily proposing that all traditional pagination be replaced with endless pagination.
SQL date performance problems Most obfuscations involve DATE types. The Oracle database is particularly vulnerable in this respect because it has only one DATE type that always includes a time component as well. It has become common practice to use the TRUNC function to remove the time component. In truth, it does not remove the time but instead sets it to midnight because the Oracle database has no pure DATE type. To disregard the time component for a search you can use the TRUNC function on both sides of the comparison—e.g., to search for yesterday’s sales: SELECT ... It is a perfectly valid and correct statement but it cannot properly make use of an index on SALE_DATE. “This book is definitively worth having in the company library.” — Joe Celko There is a rather simple solution for this problem: a function-based index. CREATE INDEX index_name ON table_name (TRUNC(sale_date)) But then you must always use TRUNC(date_column) in the where clause. SELECT ... The alternative is to use an explicit range condition. MySQL Tip
100 Best JavaScript Resources JavaScript is an extremely useful scripting language for enhancing user experience and usability. It is becoming more and more popular, as more developers begin to make cool techniques accessible. Here are 100 excellent JavaScript (and a few AJAX) techniques, plugins, and resources based on the major libraries of jQuery, Prototype, Scriptaculous, MooTools, and Dojo. JavaScript Techniques and Tutorials Coda Pop-Up Tutorial Build An Incredible Login Form with jQuery Create a Slick Tabbed Content Area using CSS & jQuery Create a Simple, Intelligent Accordion Effect Using Prototype and Scriptaculus Create a Simple, Powerful Product Highlighter with MooTools Creating a Dynamic Poll with jQuery and PHP Creating a “Filterable†Portfolio with jQuery Leopard Desktop with jQuery using jqDock Adding to Our Leopard Desktop with jQuery Use the jQuery UI to Control the Size of Your Text Animated Drop Down Menu with jQuery Animated Menus Using jQuery Fancy Box Easiest Tooltip and Image Preview Using jQuery
Tools To Make Your Web Development More Efficient John K. Taylor Are you a developer who is sick and tired of having to do everything manually? Does sifting through your code to hunt down tiny mistakes make you want to scream? Then perhaps some of these web development tools will come in handy for making your work more efficient. CSS Grid Builder This is a framework that was developed by Yahoo! Clean AJAX This tool has been designed to speed up AJAX development, which is just not possible when done manually. CSS Sprite Generator This tool has been designed to reduce the number of HTTP requests are needed for rendering images in web browsers. Firebug This is an extension created by Mozilla Firefox that gives a developer a wide range of web development tools and features that they otherwise may not have had access to. CSSTidy This tool is an open source application that aims to reduce file size through analyzing text, fixing and optimizing the CSS code. This useful article is shared by John K.
The Joel Test: 12 Steps to Better Code by Joel Spolsky Wednesday, August 09, 2000 Have you ever heard of SEMA? It's a fairly esoteric system for measuring how good a software team is. The neat thing about The Joel Test is that it's easy to get a quick yes or no to each question. A score of 12 is perfect, 11 is tolerable, but 10 or lower and you've got serious problems. Of course, these are not the only factors that determine success or failure: in particular, if you have a great software team working on a product that nobody wants, well, people aren't going to want it. 1. 2. If the process takes any more than one step, it is prone to errors. For this very reason, the last company I worked at switched from WISE to InstallShield: we required that the installation process be able to run, from a script, automatically, overnight, using the NT scheduler, and WISE couldn't run from the scheduler overnight, so we threw it out. 3. Read more about daily builds in my article Daily Builds are Your Friend. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12.
Build PDF files dynamically with PHP Sometimes you need control over exactly how pages are rendered for printing. At times like those, HTML is not the best choice. PDF files give you complete control over how pages are rendered and how text, graphics, and images are rendered on the page. Sadly, APIs for building PDF files are not standard parts of the PHP toolkit. Now is the time to bring in a little help. When you search the web for PDF support for PHP, the first thing you are likely to find is the commercial PDFLib library and its open source version, PDFLib-Lite. Another choice is the Free PDF library (FPDF), which is native PHP. To demonstrate building PDF files dynamically, you'll use scores from women's roller derby tournaments. Listing 1. <events><event name='Beast of the East 2011'><game score1='88' team1='Toronto Gore-Gore Rollergirls' team2='Montreal La Racaille' score2='11'/><game score1='58' team1='Toronto Death Track Dolls' team2='Montreal Les Contrabanditas' score2='49'/> ... Listing 2. getresults.php <? <? <? <?
How to Prevent Image Bandwidth Theft With .htaccess Protect your images from being linked by other websites while you pay the bandwidth! by Christopher Heng, thesitewizard.com If your website displays beautiful pictures, you may encounter the ugly situation where your photos and other images are used without your permission on other sites. System Requirements The solution outlined in this article requires your site to be hosted on a machine using the Apache web server. If this is not the case for your website, you cannot use the suggestions given here. (To find out if your web server fulfills the requirements stated here, try checking up the documentation on your web host's website — the information is usually available on their list of web hosting packages, price lists or on their order form. Steps to Take Protecting your images using a .htaccess file is trivial. Put all the images you wish to protect from being stolen (bandwidth-wise) in a separate directory. That's all there is to it. Potential Problems Do you find this article useful?