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Monthly Archives: July 2008

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Changing Jobs is Always Awkward

Posted on July 28, 2008 by John Conde

For the first time in almost exactly six years I will be starting a new job. On August 11th I will be begin my employment with Nicolas Creative in Shrewsbury, NJ. My position will be unchanged as a PHP developer. … Continue reading →

Posted in Personal Stuff | Tagged job, PHP | 5 Replies
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Site Traffic Is Not A Ranking Factor For Search Engines

Posted on July 28, 2008 by John Conde

One of the many myths concerning how pages are ranked is that the volume of traffic a website receives affects the rankings of the pages within that website. On the surface this seems logical as a website that gets a … Continue reading →

Posted in SEO | Tagged Alexa, Google, SEO | Leave a reply
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Use PHP to Force the www on URLs

Posted on July 24, 2008 by John Conde

There are many good reasons to be consistent when using the ‘www’ in URLs. This includes good usability (it may confuse some people when they see it there some of the time but not others) and SEO (some search engines … Continue reading →

Posted in Programming | Tagged Apache, htaccess, PHP, SEO | 3 Replies
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Meta Tags Are Dead. Get Over It.

Posted on July 21, 2008 by John Conde

For the purpose of this blog post, when I say “Meta tags” I am referring to the Meta description and keyword tags only. When Alta Vista was king of search and Yahoo was primarily a web directory, meta tags were … Continue reading →

Posted in SEO | Tagged Google, Meta tags, SEO, Yahoo | 3 Replies
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How Do You Twitter?

Posted on July 17, 2008 by John Conde

Although I am not a huge participant of the social media scene, I find myself actually sustaining use of Twitter. For those of you who don’t know what Twitter is, according to Wikipedia: Twitter is a free social networking and … Continue reading →

Posted in Internet Stuff | Tagged Snitter, Twirl, Twitter, Twitterfox | 4 Replies
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