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WordPress is for Business Websites Too!

admin — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 06:22:38 +0000

WordPress may be synonymous to blogging, but WordPress software can also be used as a content management system (CMS) for business websites and even e-commerce websites. Clearly, WordPress has evolved beyond blogging.

Aside from this website, here are 10 business websites that use WordPress.

Feedback Audio
fraai
Future Snowboarding Magazine
Ginger Restaurant
Inbound Pass
International Screening Solutions
Kineda
Little White Lies
Miami Dating Coach
ten24media

How to Analyze Keyword Difficulty Using Only Google

admin — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 12:47:57 +0000

Perform a naked search of the keyword e.g. “Organic Wine”.
Perform an allinanchor search to distinguish the authority domains from the niche domains (allinanchor:”Organic Wine”)
To get how many back links a site has using the keyword, perform a search using Yahoo! Site Explorer
SEMRush competition meter. The higher the number, the more difficult it is.

Reference: http://www.seomoz.org/ugc/how-to-analyze-keyword-difficulty-tooless

Factors That Affect Search Engine Ranking Positioning

admin — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 06:20:08 +0000

There are hundreds of factors that influence a website’s ranking in search engines. And the importance of each of these factors will fluctuate depending on the competitiveness of each keyword in a particular search engine.

Google Enterprise general manager – Dave Girouard – says PageRank relies on more than 100 variables, and these factors are carefully guarded secrets to prevent abuse from spammers.

Factors for a website ranking for a given keyword phrase may depend on:

Domain Strength
The age of domain, age of registration, page loading time, duration of current registration, unique IP address, number of pages in index, etc.

Keyword Usage
The keywords used in title tags, header tags, meta description, keywords used in site’s anchor text, keywords in domain URL, keywords and synonyms used in content, keyword proximity on page, etc.

Link Data
The age of incoming links, quality of incoming links, topical relevancy of incoming links, anchor text of incoming links, surrounding copy around anchor text, outbound links to authority websites, etc.

User Data & Content Quality
The number of clicks on your SERP link, time on site, search requests for domain name, number of bookmarks in social media sites, viral content, grade level of content, readability, etc.

Now that you know which factors affect your position in the SERPs (Search Engine Result Pages), let’s move on to our On Page SEO Checklist and Off Page SEO Checklist.

How To Install the PHP GD Library on Mac OSX 10.5 Leopard

admin — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 13:57:34 +0000

# Adapted from Sheldons instuctions
# http://macoshelp.blogspot.com/2008/02/adding-gd-library-for-mac-os-x-leopard.html

# Comment out "LoadModule php5_module libexec/apache2/libphp5.so"
# in httpd.conf tp prevent the default PHP installation from loading
cd /private/etc/apache2
bbedit httpd.conf

# Download and install a compiled version of PHP + GD
cd /usr/local
sudo curl -O http://www2.entropy.ch/download/php5-5.2.5-6-beta.tar.gz
sudo tar -xzf php5-*-beta.tar.gz
sudo ln -sf /usr/local/php5/entropy-php.conf /etc/apache2/other/+entropy-php.conf

#Edit /usr/local/php5/lib/php.ini to set mysql settings
sudo vi /usr/local/php5/lib/php.ini
find and write "mysql.default_socket = /var/mysql/mysql.sock"

# optionally remove compressed file
rm php5-5.2.5-6-beta.tar.gz

# restart Apache
sudo apachectl restart

Sources:

http://snipplr.com/view.php?codeview&id=13763

http://www.entropy.ch/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=2945&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=leopard&start=0

http://macoshelp.blogspot.com/2008/02/adding-gd-library-for-mac-os-x-leopard.html

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1578979

Quick SVN Crash Course Commands

admin — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 10:08:28 +0000

Some essential SVN Commands:

Commit Modifications
svn commit -m “message”

Update Production Server
svn update

Azure Web Design Blog Now on Twitterfeed!

admin — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 06:24:01 +0000

We are now tweeting, tweetering, or twitting via Twitterfeed!

Plain List of All Countries

admin — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 10:02:27 +0000

The following is a simple, plain, straightforward list of countries separated by a “new line”. You may find it useful for coding or whatever purposes.

Afghanistan
Albania
Algeria
Andorra
Angola
Antigua & Deps
Argentina
Armenia
Australia
Austria
Azerbaijan
Bahamas
Bahrain
Bangladesh
Barbados
Belarus
Belgium
Belize
Benin
Bhutan
Bolivia
Bosnia Herzegovina
Botswana
Brazil
Brunei
Bulgaria
Burkina
Burundi
Cambodia
Cameroon
Canada
Cape Verde
Central African Rep
Chad
Chile
China
Colombia
Comoros
Congo
Congo {Democratic Rep}
Costa Rica
Croatia
Cuba
Cyprus
Czech Republic
Denmark
Djibouti
Dominica
Dominican Republic
East Timor
Ecuador
Egypt
El Salvador
Equatorial Guinea
Eritrea
Estonia
Ethiopia
Fiji
Finland
France
Gabon
Gambia
Georgia
Germany
Ghana
Greece
Grenada
Guatemala
Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
Guyana
Haiti
Honduras
Hungary
Iceland
India
Indonesia
Iran
Iraq
Ireland {Republic}
Israel
Italy
Ivory Coast
Jamaica
Japan
Jordan
Kazakhstan
Kenya
Kiribati
Korea North
Korea South
Kosovo
Kuwait
Kyrgyzstan
Laos
Latvia
Lebanon
Lesotho
Liberia
Libya
Liechtenstein
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Macedonia
Madagascar
Malawi
Malaysia
Maldives
Mali
Malta
Marshall Islands
Mauritania
Mauritius
Mexico
Micronesia
Moldova
Monaco
Mongolia
Montenegro
Morocco
Mozambique
Myanmar, {Burma}
Namibia
Nauru
Nepal
Netherlands
New Zealand
Nicaragua
Niger
Nigeria
Norway
Oman
Pakistan
Palau
Panama
Papua New Guinea
Paraguay
Peru
Philippines
Poland
Portugal
Qatar
Romania
Russian Federation
Rwanda
St Kitts & Nevis
St Lucia
Saint Vincent & the Grenadines
Samoa
San Marino
Sao Tome & Principe
Saudi Arabia
Senegal
Serbia
Seychelles
Sierra Leone
Singapore
Slovakia
Slovenia
Solomon Islands
Somalia
South Africa
Spain
Sri Lanka
Sudan
Suriname
Swaziland
Sweden
Switzerland
Syria
Taiwan
Tajikistan
Tanzania
Thailand
Togo
Tonga
Trinidad & Tobago
Tunisia
Turkey
Turkmenistan
Tuvalu
Uganda
Ukraine
United Arab Emirates
United Kingdom
United States
Uruguay
Uzbekistan
Vanuatu
Vatican City
Venezuela
Vietnam
Yemen
Zambia
Zimbabwe

PHPMyAdmin Socket Error Cannot Connect to MySQL

admin — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 01:03:29 +0000

Upon installing PHPMyAdmin and MySQL 5 on my fresh Macbook I kept getting a socket error from PHPMyAdmin.

I found the solution googling around. Luckily others before me had the same problem.

The solution was to go into your PHP.INI file and edit these lines:

mysql.default_socket = /tmp/mysql.sock

mysqli.default_socket = /tmp/mysql.sock

It seems the default PHP installation doesn’t know where to find the thing on the Macbook.