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Title High Performance Web Sites
Author Steve Sounders
ISBN-10 0-596-52930-9 (ISBN-13 978-0-596-52930-7
Pages 146 (including index)

High Performance Web Sites by Steve Saunders is an attempt at teaching people how to best go about optimizing their web sites. No I do not mean optimizing for search engines, I mean optimizing for the best user experience (and believe me it is a relief to have a book aimed at giving the user a better experience rather than the search engines). (more…)

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Finally a couple of days ago Wikia was released. We have been hearing publicity for this search engine for some time.

Wikia is of course only in beta mode at the moment but I already have a couple of problems with it. (more…)

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Some time ago I used to run a forum host which allowed people to have their forum hosted on a subdomain.

This of course caused problems with regards to sitemaps as the sitemap had to be placed within the domain/subdomain that it was being used under. And Google treated subdomains as if they were different domain names.

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Recently I was playing around in Google Webmaster Tools and found that I was ranking first for a particular term. I decided to see how popular this term is so signed into my Google Adwords account and found something a little surprising. (more…)

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Matt Cutts has recently posted an article about Fuzz Testing.

For those of you that are unaware fuzz testing is the art of testing a piece of software by giving it random input. The reason this can be effective is that it can trigger unforeseen bugs within an application. In fact Matt gives an example of tests carried out on UNIX software which found that a substantial percentage of softwares were vulnerable and the fuzz testing caused the application to crash. (more…)

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It has been reported that the latest version of Wordpress is still vulnerable to abuse.

Jaimie Sirovich over at SEO Egg Head today reported that on returning from holiday he found that his blog had been hit by what he calls a HTML tainting attack. (more…)

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Many people seek advice on forums. It can be easy to find the answers that you require by doing this But there is 1 problem, how can you rely on advice from strangers? Especially when you have no idea of their credentials.

I am a regular on a domain forum called Namepros and 1 thing I notice is that everyone is willing to give their $0.02. (more…)

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Just been reading an article that Copy Blogger regarding marketing.

The article is talking about such things as the recent Radiohead announcement that they will be releasing their album via the internet and allowing fans to decide how much they wish to pay for it. (more…)

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Back in July or so I decided to take the plunge and spend $147 on the 2nd edition of Sitepoint’s Search Engine Marketing Kit 2nd Edition.

After a couple of months wait (the 2nd edition was not scheduled for release until q3 but they did provide a PDF of the 1st edition while we were waiting for the actual 2nd edition) and a couple of delays I finally received the kit. (more…)

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This is going to be somewhat of a short post.

Recently I added a domain as an addon domain to another related domain in cPanel and came across a slight SEO problem which many will probably already be aware of. (more…)

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