If one aspect of your link building is submitting your site to link directories, then you should try this to save tons of time. I take advantage of the bookmarking feature in Firefox 3. It takes your long list of potential directories and makes smaller, more manageable batches. Time is also saved because you can open the contents of those smaller batches with a single mouse click.
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Going back and updating old code sucks. Especially, if you need to update code because it was statically coded. I have been migrating a an older registration form for my current project, and noticed a the credit card year date field still had 2006 in the select list. I created a solution that was reusable for any of my projects and I would not have to worry about updating the years ever again.
It’s been hectic for the last month with the fresh development of one of our major sites and myriad of other things on the home front. I can safely say, I am ready for some fun. Saturday, the web team and myself leave Chicago for Adobe MAX which is held in San Francisco this year.
The Eclipse Open Source IDE coupled with the CFML plugin, CFEclipse, has been embraced by the ColdFusion community for years. All of my sites were built with HomeSite and Dreamweaver. I was waiting for a good excuse to start a site from scratch in Eclipse. Three weeks later, I am loving the functionality, power and ease. The Kool-Aid is quite delicious.
Looking to do some link building for you own site or your clients? Then you need to bookmark the LinkBuildingWiki.com. It is an all inclusive list of everything you need to learn about the art of link building and find some new methods.
Getting quality inbound links is an important part for getting targeted traffic and to encourage search engine spiders. The Link Building Wiki covers almost every conceivable aspect of link building. You can educate yourself with link building references on popular webmaster and SEO forums such as SE Roundtable, Cr8asite, Webmaster World, and Abacus to name a few.
The Link Building/SEO Blogs and Posts section has required reading from the leaders in the industry. The XML is on the page and is ready to be added into your feed aggregator for each blog. There are even blogs that dabble in the “grey hat†and “black hat†realms of link building which often involve shady or unorthodox methods. Those blogs are interesting to read because the authors are very intelligent and know their stuff when it comes to getting links.
If you are link building yourself then you need an arsenal of tools to help you analysis your competitors and look for linking opportunities. Listed are an extensive list of tools which include entire software packages, online tools, and Firefox add-ons. I use a good handful of the tools listed when I am in the link building phase of a project.
Another option is to look into link building services if would like a quality, professional team to do the work for you. A good team knows where to find the great links that your site needs to get it in front of the right people and high in the SERPs.
During the few weeks my work sites were getting hit with a nasty SQL injection that would update all the text fields in our SQL tables. I came up with some code to curb the URL injections as well as form-based attacks. It has been effective, but I wonder if anyone has a better solution.
The crew over at Clicky Web Analytics have been working hard in making changes to their product to deliver what their customers want. Recently, that have made improvements for application developers and users.
Recently, I have been working on an internal tool for our sales and marketing departments. They wanted the ability to provide the URL of a company and return various information. One of the elements they wanted was the number of pages index in Google. (more…)
I was looking through Digg today and came across a new file sharing and storage service that just just launched today called, 
Today, one of the most popular social bookmarking sites, 
