Theme HQ - SEO, The Internet & Computers

Firstly this is not a tutorial on Adwords - I am only starting to dabble with it again now after losing a whole load of money back a couple of years ago.

Adwords is the other end of the spectrum of Adsense - this is where you advertise your service on a sponsored listing on the Google searches and on partner sites. You pay only when someone clicks on your advert. If you do a search on google generally you will  have two or three sponsored listings before the results and several down the right hand side of the page.

Web site owners can also choose to put Google adverts on their sites as well and earn money - this is the Adsense -

As an advertiser Google Adwords is a great tool - you can expose you advert to people searching on your specified keyword - and be live on the Internet within a few minutes.

Google Adwords works on keywords and key phrases to advertise. This allows you to target specific searches relevant to your product. An example - say you were selling computers and computer components - you need to think about what words would people possibly type in Google to buy these parts? (more…)

Just keeping on the theme of adsense I have noticed something quite interesting recently with my adsense revenue. Perhaps someone can shed some light on what is going on.

Throughout recent times of visitng forums etc I have heard of smart pricing - this is where all of a sudden your value per click seems to go down - It didn’t really worry me as I was getting some decent values for clicks - sometimes $2 for a single click (more…)

I have to post this as it is something that is driving me mad at the moment. The total lack of care and bother about the huge issue of online credit card fraud going on at the moment.

Firstly I run a couple of online businesses. These are sites that people can buy goods from us using a credit or debit card online via the site.

We all hear how credit card fraud is growing in the UK and US - This is where people either steal your card or clone your card to buy goods and services fraudulently. (more…)

The majority of people that own a blog or intend to start one do so to hopefully make some money from writing about a subject they love to talk about or have a lot of knowledge to share.

The most popular method of making money from your blog is to input adsense into the page. When people click on an advert you get the money - this is pretty cool but the issue is, the clicks can be worth such a minimal amount - sometimes only $0.01 - When you consider that most blogs will need on average 50 vistiors per click. (more…)

I have several websites. Some are geared just to a uk audience and some are intended for a worldwide audience.

Last year I enjoyed a decent amount of revenue from Adsense adverts - around Christmas time I was getting up to $50 a day in some instances which I thought was pretty cool - ok this didn’t last and I felt that the few dollars I was getting a day just wasn’t worth having the ads for. (more…)

I have started using a really cool plugin for firefox called web developer.

As I work a lot on websites, seeing the html that is lying behind a website can be hard - especially if the table is layed out with tables rather than CSS.

This plugin will allow you to easily see the outlines of the tables, table cells on the actual site making htese things much easier to see.

Also there are many other useful functions such as seeing CSS, validating code and resizing the display to check for differencs in resolutions.

If you manage webpages in any way then I think this toolbar really could assist you in your web development - check it out by going to tools then addons within firefox and then search on the Web developer toolbar and you should find it. It comes with good reviews.

I checked my blog today and realised tht some of your comments were showing as nofollow still. I checked the rulings and found that only registered users were becoming nofollow.

I have since remove this option and now anyone will be nofollow although the following rules applies:

Registered users will be do follow immediately

non registered users will become dofollow after 2 days from posting

I really want to learn programming. I envy anyone that can do it and I would really like to learn.

The trouble seems to be that unless you know some basics of programming then it is very difficult to get the help you need as most online tutorials, or books assume that you have a basic understanding of it.

2 years ago I started a couple of websites with no knowledge of programming.  It was PHP based and I used a package that was free to get going. All you had to do was install the script and you then had a fully functional site with no knowledge.

This script is great to modify but with no PHP knowledge it was impossible.

There seems to be thousands of people that understand PHP in the world. What do thy have that I do not - I do not consider myself to be that unintelligent - why can they learn and not me.

I believe that the hardest part of learning anything like this on your own is getting started. Sure the tutorials online do help but really only to learn how to write “Hello World” on a page - nothing useful.

Two years on and I hope that I have got over the initial hurdle. I can now write the most basic of queries within PHP and get my sites to display what I want - There is so much I do not understand and I cannot see how I will ever understand without having someone there that I can constantly ask questions.

If any readers here can help or advise how I should go about learning PHP or any other programming language that may be better then I would be most interested to hear.

When I first started building mys computer components website I was totally new to programming - I knew a little HTML but that was it.

Thankfully on the Internet there are a few helpful people who are willing to share their skill of PHP and MySQL.

You can use this code in phpmyadmin or any other database manager

UPDATE table name SET Table Field = replace(table field,"string to find","string to replace")

On of the things that I found really helpful was how to search for a specific string within a database and replace that string. There are hundreds of reasons that you may wish to do this but an example is this:

Say within your site you are optimising you product pages and you want to ensure you internal linking structure points your users to the correct pages. You could search for every instance of ” computer components ” and make it link to the relevant page. This is great fro SEO purposes.

Of course there are other reasons why you may use it, perhaps you want to add a style or class to every table. This is made easy with search and replace.

I offer a compute repair service in my local area. Most faults are simple to diagnose - others are a real pain. Yesterday I came up with a situation that I nearly didn’t solve.

The computer itself worked fine - no issues other than a bit slow (most people that I tend to visit do have slow computers). The issue came about as soon as the router was turned on to get internet access. within a couple of seconds of turning the router on the computer restarted.

When I first received the call I assumed that most likely it was a power (more…)