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While there is a lot of debate about blogs replacing emails in the future, I would rather look at blogs in a different perspective. The purpose of all technology is to make life easier for the use...

To increase visibility online is the core of every online business marketing strategy. Driving traffic to your website and getting noticed by search engines takes a lot of time an...

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Get Creative Instead of reinventing the wheel, why not create your own original content. There's almost no way a viewer is going to want to see the same exact thing they saw two weeks ago (espec...

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1. Permitting Title Tags to be Auto Generated (from the post title, category name, etc.):Every category page and most permalink pages (i.e. post pages) ought to be hand-crafted. Don't just let the...

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If you are interested in becoming a PHP professional, you should consider PHP Certification which requires passing a single exam containing from 50 to 70 multiple-choice questions. This exam was...

The major players that index search results are Google, Yahoo, and MSN. Determining an SEO strategy is very important if you presently have a website, or you are thinking of creating one. Keep i...

What is Search Engine Optimization (SEO)? It is the method of analyzing and constructing individual web pages, as well as entire site, so that they can be discovered by various search engines. ...

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To learn HTML you must first understand the basic structure of this markup language. This article will get you ready to dive right in and start working with HTML to build your own great Website...

In this series concerning seo (search engine optimization), I will attempt to clarify some very basic elements that you need to help you in building a successful business online. You must consid...

In the previous lesson, SEO lesson number one, I discussed keyword selection. If you have done your homework to this point, you are beginning to realize the importance of choosing a high traffic...

In the previous lessons, I talked about the importance of keyword selection and the purchasing of domain names. This is all the prelude to the next seo lesson called building an effective Google...

Search engine optimization is the art and science of obtaining top positions on Google. There are many ways to accomplish this, but the very core of seo is writing content. When you take a close...

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by David DavisSummary : PHP: Hypertext Processor is a server-side web programming language that blends seamlessly with HTML.PHP: Hypertext Processor is a server-side web programming language that ...

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CSS (which stands for "cascading style sheets") is a language you can use to create the look of your Web pages. While HTML can be used to set the language for multiple aspects of your website, CS...

CSS, or cascading style sheets, allows you to specify styles for the visual elements of your website. (See our article on What Is CSS? for a more involved explanation of CSS.) You may be ask...

A website is a collection of web pages (documents that are accessed through the Internet), such as the one you're looking at now. A web page is what you see on the screen when you type in a web ...

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There are a number of file permissions, which can be used for a variety of different purposes, however we'll limit this tutorial to the ones most commonly used. To begin with, it's important you...

A custom php.ini file can be constructed and placed in your web account. For instance, using a text editor such as Notepad, you can create a php.ini file with the following custom setting which...

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To import a MySQL dump, first upload the dump file to your web space via FTP.   Once the file is in your web space, please login to your shell account via SSH and run this command:  ...

cPanel is an online control panel that allows you to set up and maintain your web hosting account.Within the cPanel you can perform a number of tasks, such as adding extra email accounts, checki...

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PHPinfo is a PHP function that outputs information in HTML about the PHP environment on your server. Running PHPinfo is very simple and requires only a few seconds. You must create and save a fi...

By Paul Coulter   It is no accident that the highest value businesses on the Web are not necessarily the ones with the highest annual profits, but rather the ones with ...

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The main goal of search engine optimization is to increase your web site's traffic by obtaining higher rankings in search engines for keyword searches related to your web site.   You ca...

Remember: when we speak for SEO, we don't speak only for SEO. No matter how optimized your page is - if the page is not popular, you are out. Probably the most important thing, these days, is h...

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Content Management System Software, otherwise known as Web publishing systems, is a computer application used to manage the workflow related to content publishing. Content Management System (CMS...

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There's much that is misunderstood regarding search engine optimization including some myths that have been dispelled but seem to carry on anyway. Here are a few of them:1) New content always he...

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