Drive Relevant Traffic to Your Site By Participating in Other Forums

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Our clients and prospects always ask us how they can drive more traffic to their website. There are a number of ways to do so, including pay-per-click advertising, SEO (Search Engine Optimization), and e-mail newsletters, to name a few.

Another great method that has had great success with all types of websites is participating in other website forums. Doing so helps to drive relevant and more qualified traffic to your site.

Forums have become a great source of → Continue reading “Drive Relevant Traffic to Your Site By Participating in Other Forums”

FaceBook Allows 3rd Party Advertisers to Use Your Photos Without Your Permission

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or, how to modify your setting such that your content is better protected.

kdawson posted an article on Slashdot about the fact that FaceBook is allowing third party advertisers to use your photos in their ads. The article also includes a link to an article about how to modify your settings so that your photos don’t show up.

Here is how to make the change:

Go to: Settings -> Privacy -> News Feed and Wall -> Facebook Ads → Continue reading “FaceBook Allows 3rd Party Advertisers to Use Your Photos Without Your Permission”

Quick HowTo Create a Subversion Repository

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This assumes that you are creating the repo on your local drive.

First, create the directory in which you’ll store your repo.

Then, use svnadmin to create the repository in that directory:

svnadmin create /path/to/directory/

The typical convention is to set up an initial directory structure as follows:

/trunk

/branches

/tags

To do so, do the following:

mkdir svntemp

cd svntemp

mkdir trunk branches tags

svn import -m ‘Import of initial directory structure’ file:///path/to/repo

Now cd to whatever working directory → Continue reading “Quick HowTo Create a Subversion Repository”

Launch Your New or Updated Website Early and Update it Often

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When designing and developing a new website it is tempting to try to do everything before launching it. My recommendation is to launch your new or updated site early and then make regular, incremental updates.

A good website is never finished; you are always making updates/changes/revisions to it. If you build your site on a flexible framework, one with an easy-to-use content management system, then it makes it that much easier to go back on a regular basis → Continue reading “Launch Your New or Updated Website Early and Update it Often”

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