Archive for February, 2008
Quick SEO Checklist
SEO isn’t the mysterious and magical art some people make it out to be. It is rather straight forward and mostly involves just using some common sense.
Some of the following points are more important than others and It will be addressing each of them in separate posts.
The title of a post should always go before [...]
Web Fundamentals Bloggers Should Know About
I’ve had the chance to talk to quite a few fellow bloggers recently, some new to it, others more seasoned, and I’ve been really surprised to find that so many of them don’t know as much as they should about some important web fundamentals.
A lot of you may know these inside out, others may have [...]
How To Prevent Your Blog From Leaking PageRank
In simple terms, PageRank leakage/dilution is when outbound links siphon off PageRank which would normally be distributed to internal pages, therefore reducing your sites overall PageRank.
How much of an effect it has on your site will depend on the strength of your internal linking and how many outbound links you have.
There are two ways to [...]
Forcing www (or no-www) in domain name
One of the first things I do when I begin implementing a site is to force the www (or no-www) in the domain name. Why would I want to do this? For search engine optimization of course. For example, naseerahmad.com redirects to www.naseerahmad.com. What this means for Google is that it gets crawled as one [...]
Unicode Data with PHP 5 and MySQL 4.1
Unicode background
In the ever expanding world of e-commerce and information technology, one thing above all is coming to the forefront of internet design - globalization. For many large companies, web documents are translated into many different languages. However, the computer technologies we use for storing data weren’t originally designed to deal with information in multiple [...]
How to - Using PHP To Backup MySQL Database
There are at least three ways to backup your MySQL Database :
Execute a database backup query from PHP file.
Run mysqldump using system() function.
Use phpMyAdmin to do the backup.
Execute a database backup query from PHP file
Below is an example of using SELECT INTO OUTFILE query for creating table [...]
