Website Optimization

When you are optimizing your website, you should have at least:

* Keyword included in title
* Keyword in meta keywords líst
* No stop words in your title tag
* Website name not included in title
* Keyword placed as close to the beginning of the meta keywords líst as possible
* Keyword is in the first 50 words and last 50 words of the page
* Page content is between 100 and 1400 words
* Keyword appears in bold at least once in the content
* Keyword has a 2% weíght
* Keyword is in the first heading tag and is at the top of the page content
* Keyword is in one of the first three alt image attributes and is in three of them in total


Ricardo Guimaraes
http://www.avatarinteractive.com

Web 2.0 - How to optimize your website for the New Internet

If you would like to have a competitive business in the near future, you need to get it onto the Web 2.0 right now:

- Optimize your website (page titles, content with keywords, page names, pictures names);

- Display Add to bookmarks buttons on all pages;

- Provide a send to friend feature for all products and services you offer;

- Create how-to videos and post them on YouTube and video.google;

- Allow users to review and rate your products;

- Provide a forum at your site;

- Register your forum at BoardTracker;

- Setup an del.icio.us account, and place a button in your website;

- Create a MySpace page, and develop your online social network in MySpace, and link your website;

- Create a Blog, post articles and link them to your website;

- Provide an button for direct posting of blog articles to Digg;

- Register and write content at Wikipedia, with links to your website;

- Provide RSS feeds for your new products, blogs, forum postings, etc;

- Register you feesd at Feedburner;

- Use social photo sharing sites like Flickr;

- Learn and use AJAX;


Do not wait to get started!!!


Ricardo Guimaraes
http://www.avatarinteractive.com

Live Help in PHP with MySQL database - great code

I wanted to install on one of my customers website a Live Help, where customers would be able to contact an operator and chat online.

I knew about LivePerson and other payed solutions, but I was looking for something for free, with no obligations, no contract, and that would run on php and MySQL.




I found out then about the Crafty Syntax Live Help http://www.craftysyntax.com/ - this aplication runs on GNU/GPL License, is completely free to use, and runs great.

And the best, it took me only one minute to install, all you have to do is to upload the files on your server, and setup the login and password for the database, generate the HTML code to put on your website, and it is done.

If you would like to see the application running, go to http://www.mabru.com, or to http://www.naturaloption.us.

Recommended.

Ricardo Guimaraes
http://www.avatarinteractive.com

I was trying to find a way to block phpBB forum spam bots / spammers, and it took me a while to find out a way that would work with phpBB forum.

After some days and many tries, I found this code on the Internet, and this is working great me, now no more robots, spam, spammers, and all crap from my forum.


Open
/includes/usercp_register.php
and search:
Code:
$username = ( !empty($HTTP_POST_VARS['username']) ) ? phpbb_clean_username($HTTP_POST_VARS['username']) : '';

replace with
Code:
$username = ( !empty($HTTP_POST_VARS['SOMETHING']) ) ? phpbb_clean_username($HTTP_POST_VARS['SOMETHING']) : '';

open
/templates/.../profile_add_body.tpl
search:
Code:
name="username"

replace with
Code:
name="SOMETHING"


Open
/includes/usercp_register.php
search:
Code:
$trim_var_list = array('cur_password' => 'cur_password', 'new_password' => 'new_password', 'password_confirm' =>

add before
Code:
if ($HTTP_POST_VARS['username']) { sleep (20); }



Ricardo Guimaraes
http://www.avatarinteractive.com