I read in one of the SEO forums the other day that, when Twitter made all outbound links nofollow, he lost something like 100,000 backlinks. Wow, had he been busy or what. Makes me glad I’m happily writing a blog article now in a place where I have total control (for now) of the links. My own blog.
Be aware I’ve certainly done my share of link sculpting and link dropping. I also am a long time system gamer. If there’s a system out there, I want to find it and game it.
I also have to keep reminding myself that, by and large, the web does not exist for web developers, seo experts and the like. Sad to say but the [...]
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As a web programmer I used to have the general idea that where web programmers go, so goes the web. But as time goes by, I realize now that is far from true. Because web programmers are hooked on automation.
I look at any manual operation and wonder how to get that same operation done, many times over, in some automated way that takes little or no effort. What can I say? That always gets me excited.
So when I came across the Twitter API, my first thought was that this sounded like fun. So I started using the API to repost just about everything I posted on my websites to Twitter. I mean, why would Twitter even offer that function if [...]
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Modern Telecommuter is a site I’ve been developing for a while. The whole idea for the site came about as I was surfing Craigslist for telecommuting jobs. I considered it a bit frustrating that I had to search each separate locale.
Telecommuting jobs, for the most part, do not require living in any particular area. Therefore, it should be an improvement to have them all in one place, sorted only by category.
So, each night, the RSS feed for telecommuting jobs is downloaded and parsed into MySQL. Sitemaps are automatically generated for each category and the new listings posted to the site’s Twitter page.
Of course, to contact the original job poster requires a trip directly to Craigslist, and each listing contains the [...]
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I think Google Apps compares pretty well to just about anything else out there and the price for the standard version, free, is obviously great. Keep in mind though, that if you want do manipulate calendar data from your own domain, you will need to subscribe to premium.
Data API Developer’s Guide: JavaScript
Compare Standard and Premium
If you can do without that kind of integration, standard should do just fine But here’s just one example where premium is required.
Say, you have a calandar application in use on your website with extra fields that don’t exist in Google Calendar. Before you can start thinking about combining the two, you will need a premium subscription.
If you ever need to include content from another domain in your web page, this code will come in handy because it offers two options. First, the script checks to see if curl is available and then falls back on file_get_contents. Between the two, you should be able to get the content.
$page = ‘http://www.domain.com’;
if (function_exists(’curl_init’)) {
$ch = curl_init($page);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
@curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_REFERER, ”);
$code=curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
} else {
$code = file_get_contents($page);
}
echo $code;
CBQuick Clickbank Affiliate Marketplace Script has been around for years. There have been several versions. Most version changes were prompted by changes at Clickbank.
The CBQuick PHP/MySQL web application does the following:
Downloads the marketplace zip file to the host.
Unzips the zip file.
Inserts the updated products into MySQL.
It handles this entire process with one click!
The user interface is browsable by Category and Subcategory and offers variable pagination.
Links to vendor sites may be optionally cloaked. All this does is hide the pitch page in a frame. Of course the vendor order forms still open on top.
The administration page shows the following data and is sortable by each.
Popularity Rank
Gravity
Has Recurring Products
Earned Per Sale
Percent Per Sale
Total Earnings Per Sale
Total Rebill Amount
Referred
Commission
Clicks are also tracked.
If you [...]
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Everyone who has a website is pretty much interested in one thing. Traffic. Those with the traffic are happy as clams and those without traffic are forlorn. Perhaps even desperate. There are several good ways to generate traffic, but for now we will stick to search engines.
Let’s say Joe is looking for tennis rackets. Joe opens his favorite web browser to his favorite search engine, Google and types in “tennis rackets”. Google then presents Joe with a collection of websites they have indexed. The index is a huge database of web addresses that is stored and cataloged, based on the title, page content and domain name.
When Joe sends the search phrase “tennis rackets” to Google, the phrase is checked against [...]
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There is no doubt that people love their iPhones. My wife loves hers. I do too, except for the virtual keyboard. But I assume there are millions of others out there, just like me, not using iPhones because there is no tactile keyboard.
So, with that, my question is, why doesn’t Apple just make other phones? After all, aren’t the apps the real claim to fame for the iPhone. I would love to be able to get a few of them on my Blackberry. I mean, Blackberry makes some great phones, if you are into tactile keyboards. But their app selection is pretty lame.
Anyway, maybe Apple is already thinking about this. I don’t know. Seems like a great idea to me. [...]
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PHProxy is a cool open source web application that’s a breeze to use and even easier to install. Just upload and use. If you want it all to yourself just password protect with .htaccess.
PHProxy is available at http://sourceforge.net/projects/poxy/.
PHProxy
If you are a recent affiliate at Clickbank and are still wondering how to market products, here’s an idea.
I just put the finishing touches on what I call Clickbank community mall. It is a Clickbank marketplace where anyone with a Clickbank ID can make sales and receive commissions. There is no need to buy, join or install anything.
www.searchenheimer.com
Of course you must be a Clickbank affiliate, but that’s easy. If you still need to sign up, here’s the link.
Clickbank Affiliate Signup (It’s Free)
Here are some link examples. The only thing you change is the affiliate link (in bold).
The simplest thing to do is link to the home page.
http://www.searchenheimer.com/u/YOURCBID
Or you may prefer linking to a specific category.
http://www.searchenheimer.com/YOURCBID/category/Fun-and-Entertainment
Or you might prefer linking to [...]
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