List of 186 Social Video Sharing Websites with Page Rank & Alexa Rank
List of 186 Social Video Sharing Websites with Page Rank & Alexa Rank
Ranking 50 Top Blogs in the Search Space
The search & search marketing fields have, over the last 4 years, become overrun with bloggers. It would seem that many of us have been drinking our own Kool-Aid and hopping on the blog bandwagon. Lately, more and more folks have been asking for my take on this trend - what do I read? How often do I visit? Who do I respect?
In a controversial move, rather than simply creating a blogroll, I’m trying out a structured approach to ranking the search field’s blogs, assigning labels and ratings based solely on my own feelings. Obviously, these are personal judgements, so make no assumptions other than “that’s what Rand thinks…”
- I’ve tried my best to rank both the categories and the blogs inside by relative level of importance
- Only English language search blogs were considered
- Additional, non-search industry blogs are listed at the bottom
- I’ve almost surely forgotten some important ones
- The rankings are from the perspective of a search marketer (and one who’s heavily into the organic side), rather than an ad guru, someone at a search engine or simply a search technology enthusiast
- It’s hard, even for me, to read all of these each day, but I really do try. Read the full article
10 Absolute “Nos!” for Freelancers - freelancing guide
1) Can you show me a mock-up to help us choose a designer/developer? No.
I fell for this once when I was young and naive. I made no money and wasted lots of time. Don’t do unpaid work for the chance to be paid — this wouldn’t fly in any other industry, so why web design? The best case scenario (though rare) is that you get a job with a client who knows that you’ll work for free when necessary. The worst case scenario is that they don’t pay you, and still use your stuff, knowing you don’t have the legal resources to do anything about it. Most likely though, you’ll just waste time.
2) Can you give us a discount rate? No.
There are A LOT of companies out there that do not see web design as a service worth more than $20 an hour. These should never be your clients. In my early post-college years, I used to value “getting the job” so highly, I would take on an inordinate amount of work for the pay. Let me tell you that it’s not worth it. Ever. Remember, you may be doing this company a favor, but on the flip side, you’re hurting your own future, and your family’s. Nowadays, I give my hourly rate immediately, and it weeds out many potential clients. It’s simple math really — if doubling your rate loses half your client work, then you’re still making as much in half the time. If you do excellent work, get paid for it – there will always be comparable “firms” charging double what you are.
45 Really Fantastic Desktop Wallpapers
Now give your desktop a fresh and appealing look with this huge collection of fantastic Wallpapers.
50 Best Firefox Extensions for Power Surfing
Control Firefox Tabs
- All-in-One Gestures - merges the popular following extensions for management of mouse gestures, scrolling and power navigation. (Mix of Mouse Gestures, Rocker navigation, Tab scroller, History scroller, Link tooltip and Autoscrolling extensions) Read the full article
Round-up of 30 AJAX Tutorials
AJAX Client-Server Communication Tutorials
Alternate Ajax Techniques, Part 1
By now, nearly everyone who works in web development has heard of the term Ajax, which is simply a term to describe client-server communication achieved without reloading the current page. Most articles on Ajax have focused on using XMLHttp as the means to achieving such communication, but Ajax techniques aren’t limited to just XMLHttp. There are several other methods. Read the full article
15 Blogs About Webmasters
Blog: Internet Marketing Resource
Blog description: Internet Marketing Strategy Resources
Recent Posts:
- Informational Articles: Marketing Made Simple
- FAP Turbo…Is It A Scam Or Not! Shocking Results!
- Top - Article Marketing Making the Perfect Resource Box
- Learn How To Start Niche Market. Read the full article
8 Useful WordPress SQL Hacks
Over the past 10 years, the MySQL database has become incredibly popular on the Web. Every WordPress blog is driven by a MySQL database, which contains the blog’s posts, settings, comments and much more.
While plug-ins and even coding hacks can solve some problems and achieve some tasks, sometimes you don’t have any other choice than to execute SQL commands in phpMyAdmin or directly to the database via SSH. Let’s take a look at 8 useful SQL hacks for WordPress. Each section of this post presents a problem, suggests a solution and provides an explanation to help you understand the solution. Read the full article
List of 100 CommentLuv Wordpress Blogs
If you’re not familiar with the CommentLuv Wordpress plugin by now, you’re really falling behind. This plugin allows you to easily gain a back link to your blog by commenting on a different blog. The link back is the title of your most recent blog post at that point and many of these are actually dofollow blogs as well. While they don’t give it up easily, most of these sites only require 10 comments before you gain the dofollow benefit of the link. Take a look at the list below.
25 Resources to Get You Started with PHP from Scratch
PHP is a scripting language that is perfect for developing dynamic web pages and applications. You may be a PHP ninja, or perhaps you don’t even know what PHP stands for. However, if you plan on or are involved in any kind of web development, you are bound to run into this fantastic and easy to learn web language. Today we will review 25 resources to get you started with PHP.
So what the heck is PHP?
Straight from the manual, PHP is “a general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for web development and can be embedded into HTML.” PHP is a server side scripting language, meaning all data is interpreted and sent to the browser before the web page is loaded. This is the exact opposite of Javascript, which we call a client side language. All you need to keep in mind is that PHP is a web language that operates and runs on the server side. Next we will study the advantages of PHP and basic syntax before diving into to various resources.
What are some advantages of using PHP?
Every web language comes with its advantages and disadvantages, and you will find PHP is no different. However, PHP is a popular web language for many reasons.
Easy learning curve. The less time you have to spend searching the manual and studying a web language, the more time you will have to actually create and optimize your application. One of PHP’s best features is that it is extremely easy to learn compared to other web languages. The syntax is arguably logical and many of the common functions describe exactly what they do.
Familiar syntax. PHP is a great language for developers with programming experience, especially programming in C and Perl, which is what PHP’s syntax is mostly based on. If you know how to program in C and/or Perl, you wont have any issues writing applications in PHP.
Cost. It’s free and open source. Can’t beat that.
Performance.PHP is a relatively efficient web language. Scalability in your code and applications is very important and you can rely on PHP to serve as many web pages as you need efficiently (of course, it can’t help if your coding inefficiently).
Community. The PHP community absolutely rocks. You’ll find some of the most in-depth and comprehensive documentation of the entire language at php.net. In addition, there are thousands of PHP help forums and websites to help you when you get stuck. Furthermore, since PHP is open source, it is constantly being improved. PHP 5 recently implemented very strong support for object oriented programming and the language continues to become more powerful.
Overview of the syntax
In case you have been living under a rock and have never seen a PHP script, here is a very basic example of how PHP is written.
- <?php echo “Your first php script!”; ?>
A few things to note. Notice the opening tags start with <?php and end with ?>. You may see some developers leave off the ‘php’ after the question mark. This is called using PHP short tags and is considered bad practice, always use full php tags. You will also notice that the line ends with a semi colon, if it does not PHP will throw an error. Now lets move on to some resources to get you started.
Step 1. Download PHP and learn the fundamentals.
First things first, we need to download the latest version of PHP and install it so we can work with it locally. Visit PHP.net to get the latest version and any libraries you wish.