Hosting Tips for SEO
Probably 40% of the clients we see require a change of hosting company (or hosting plan). Search engine optimization is not about title tags and keyword frequency anymore. In fact, those 2 mean less than ever in a successful SEO campaign. So what are the requirements of good SEO Hosting? Here are a handful of features we look for in recommending a host to our clients… 1. USE Linux Apache MySQL PHP For a large number of reasons (availability of free software, usage of htaccess and mod-rewrite, ease of community support, etc), don’t get Windows hosting. You can argue about this with me later, but you will be wrong. And people will laugh at you. 2. GET Unique IP(s) While there is limited evidence regarding the matter, it is generally a good idea to go...
Digg: 9 New Stories, 8 Duplicates.
The success of an online community is, in many ways, based on the willingness of its members to abide by some level of accepted rules. In the world of social media, this normally means no duplicate submissions. This, apparently, is not happening over at Digg. Just a recent snapshot of the top 9 stories in the Political News section, 8 of which are story duplicates. The highlighting points out which of the stories are duplicates and to what extent. (Lighter = less duplicate, darker = more duplicate). To be more precise… 8 of 9 are about the same story. 6 of 9 say the same thing about that story. 3 of 9 are identical to at least 1 of the other stories. This is definitely improvable: Solving the Duplicate Submission...
Rails Programmer Throws Down the Gauntlet: PWND by PHP!
If you did not know already, I have a particular distaste for Ruby on Rails. Honestly, I really just have a distaste for the grotesque amount of buzz it has received relative to its ability to impact the web. Nevertheless, I did find a recent exchange on the web 2.0 site Dzone very humorous. An Rails nut writes Here’s something that really shows how Rails can shine. Don’t want to start a war, but show me that in Java or PHP! about a 1-line world time server clock using Ruby on Rails. He fails to mention that… It really takes 3 lines It requires installing an additional library In beautiful irony, another user posts this response. The same thing, in PHP, that really only takes 1 line of code, and requires no additional libraries. Sweet Sweet PHP...
Asked and Answered: A Digg Widget for Blogs
** Thanks for the Bugg Fixes Everyone! WordPress Mangled the Code, But Everything Works Now! Just Copy-and-Paste ** A recent story on Digg requested that a digg widget be created for bloggers to add to their sites. Digg already provides a javascript list of stories dugg, but it does not offer things such as how many diggs it has received, nor does it offer links to the actual stories themselves (just to the page on digg). So, without further adieu, a Digg Widget for everyone else. <script> // YOUR USERNAME var username = "your user name"; // NUMBER OF STORIES TO SHOW, MAX 11 var stories_to_show = 5; // DATA TYPE: dugg, submitted, or commented var data_type = "dugg"; document.write('<scri','pt...
Congratulations, Rand…
So, if you were like my wife and I, you anxiously awaited the “Superbowl Proposal Commercial” which an unnamed individual was raising money for over the last few weeks. Well, the cat is out of the bag and it is one of our own! Rand Fishkin of SEOMoz, one of the most talented, vocal, and well respected SEO’s in the industry, has proposed to “Mystery Guest”. (She said yes) A big congratulations from the Virante team, Rand.
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