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DMOZ / Open Directory Project

May 5, 2011 On the Web

DMOZ or the Open Directory Project is a web directory with almost 5 million websites listed in different categories. It is a human edited directory run by volunteers, but owned by AOL. Webmasters are always keen to get there sites listed in DMOZ as it is a widely held belief that having a website listed [...]

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Forum Spam

December 8, 2010 Computers

My daily routine starts of with a breakfast drink, a quick check of my email and key websites, then off to the gym. When back from the gym, its then banning all the spammers on the forums I manage. It’s a mind numbing task and I can’t believe that so many lower themselves to this [...]

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WordPress Security and Hackers

October 16, 2010 On the Web

WordPress is the most popular blogging or content management systems for websites (I use it here). This also makes it a massive target for the hackers who go to great links to damage sites (I can never understand the mentality). To protect my site and others that run on wordpress you need to: 1. Make [...]

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The Frustration of Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

September 25, 2010 On the Web

Search engine optimization is the technique that is used to try and get sites to rank higher in the search engines. There are plenty of strategies available for this and include things like the use of the keywords being targeted on the page and the use of strategies to build more backlinks to a site. [...]

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The Individual Nature of Google’s Search Results

August 28, 2010 On the Web

Google do a number of things to the search results to individualise them. They use geotargeting to make the search results more relevant to your geographic region, showing local search results. They also individualize the search results in which they customise your search results based on your previous search history. This means that search results [...]

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Authority Website Links

August 12, 2010 On the Web

Anyone interested in getting a website ranked well in the search engines knows that the number of links to the website are an important factor in the rankings. I have a few sites I admin at, especially the Podiatry Arena forum. It does well in the search engines, because it gets a lot of links [...]

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Alexa Website Rankings

April 28, 2010 On the Web

Alexa is a web company that collects data on websites and publishes the ranking of websites from number 1 (Google) to number 2 (Facebook) to number 1 692 102 (this site) to over 5 million based on the traffic they get. Where do they get there data from? They have several million users that use [...]

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Nulled vBulletin

January 18, 2010 On the Web

I admin and moderate on a number of forums using the popular vBulletin software. It is the most popular forum software. I recently came across the term nulled vBulletin. I first thought that this was a different version of the vBulletin software. I looked into in and was surprsied at a number of things. Firstly, [...]

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Google and China

January 14, 2010 On the Web

Google had an agreement with the Chinese government to filter or censor the search results that Google provide in China. If they did not do that, they would have no business in China. Just why Chinese officials are so paranoid about the rest of the world and what they actually think they are protecting their [...]

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Google Flu?

January 9, 2010 On the Web

Say what? What will Google come up with next? Over at Google.org they have developed a tool called Google Flu Trends. They use search data and look at the frequency and volume of what people are searching for to spot a trend. In this case, they look for trends in the search for things like [...]

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Forums

December 21, 2009 On the Web

Forums are fun places to hang out at; learn things at; ask questions at;  and meet up with people either who argree or disagree with each other on topics. I have been known to frequent a number of different forums on a regular basis. I also manage some (eg Podiatry Arena). I have had many [...]

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