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Black Hat SEO

The search engine optimization industry has exploded into a multi-billion dollar market, creating one of the most cut-throat sectors to come from the dot com boom.

Because of the fierce competition in the industry, some search engine optimization firms began using tactics that the search engines have labeled as “black-hat”, or “illegal”, in the search engine world. The “Big 3″ (Google, Yahoo, and MSN) have all issued rules and guidelines listing several of these black-hat tactics. Failure to comply with these guidelines will most likely get you de-indexed, or worse, banned from the search engines. Read the rest of this entry »

Black Hat SEO Techniques

People often use the terms ‘white hat’ and ‘black hat’ in the online work community. What do these terms actually mean though? It’s simple really, white hat refers to a practice used in your business practices involving SEO in which you are following the rules and doing nothing sneaky to try to get ahead of your competition. Black hat is, well…the exact opposite. People use black hat techniques to trick customers, search engines, and their competitors. These techniques often get them in some sort of trouble and they are definitely not recommended.

The following is a list of some of the basic white hat and black hat techniques/practices that you want to use or avoid in online work: Read the rest of this entry »

What is Black Hat SEO

Search engine marketing is becoming more popular every day as more and more professionals report consistently making as a much as six figures in a month from highly optimized web sites. If you are subscribed to lots of Internet Marketing lists like me, I’m sure you’ve seen the dramatic rise Adsense and search engine marketing tools.

The problem with search engine marketing is that some of the techniques that used to work six months ago do not work as well (or not all all) in the present. You could easily spend hundreds of dollars on a marketing tool that currently works, but will not work in the future. So how do you know if you are wasting your money? Read the rest of this entry »

Open Source Software

The higher education sector is quite unlike other industries. It has its own processes and a different set of demands. Most commercial proprietary application vendors develop their applications focused on a wider domain spread across industries. This, academics complain, creates a distinct disconnect between software vendors and the end-users in academia.

To overcome these shortcomings, the education industry started looking to “open source” as an alternate model. Around a decade back, institutions started debating total cost of ownership in adopting an open source based community approach vis-à-vis proprietary applications, viability of open source based business models, sustainability and security issues. Read the rest of this entry »

Open Source Software

A learning management software system also known as LMS is an application that is used for companies who are in need of elearning solutions. The software is able to function as a tool for the documentation, tracking, reporting, and over all administration of any corporate training course. Some of these computer applications are developed by companies all in-house for commercial profit. Then they sell each developed or modified software with its own license in order to limit other people’s access to the application’s source code. However there are also those that are open source. These open source LMS are free systems that are used by a lot of companies to successful results. Read the rest of this entry »

Ecommerce Zen Cart

Zen Cart is viewed by many as the must have management system for anyone who operates an online store. This software is available for free through the GNU General Public License and enables the user to take control of their online sales. Many similar systems are expensive but Zen Cart is free. However, this is not the only advantage of this software. The major advantage is functionality.

This superior functionality stems from the fact that Zen Cart was developed through the collaboration of online store owners, programmers, designers and consultants. They got together with a common goal of changing how online sales worked and they succeeded. The creators of this program set about developing this software according to five key points which create the philosophy of Zen Cart. A summary of these philosophies includes: Read the rest of this entry »

ASP.Net Tips

Having a problem with your software is frustrating. After installing Internet Information Service (IIS) on my Windows XP SP2 without the CD, I faced another problem: on my local Internet Information Service server, ASPX files did not work at all, even though ASP files worked. Those same ASPX files work fine on my remote website. Both local ASP.NET 1.1 and 2.0 showed error message. I thought it was the Internet Information Service that caused the problem. Read the rest of this entry »

ASP.NET Shopping Cart

An ASP.NET shopping cart is a software device that allows the users to browse the inventory of an online store and select the items for purchase. Upon implementation the shopping, the shopping cart directs the user to a billing page where the dealings are carried out in a secure way. ASP.NET shopping cart also has the provision to modify the cart, i.e., to add or delete the items shopped before the billing process is over. It also allows the business to save the database of the customers for future reference. Read the rest of this entry »

ASP.NET Web Development

Storing the settings of your ASP.NET application in the Global.asax file is the easiest way. This solution is based on using the Application_Start method and global property Application.
The Application property of HttpContext class returns HttpApplicationState object for the current HTTP request. HttpApplicationState object allows sharing of global parameters between multiple sessions and requests with you ASP.NET application.

A single instance of an HttpApplicationState class is created the first time a client requests any URL resource from within a particular ASP.NET application virtual directory. A separate single instance is created for each ASP.NET application on a Web server. A reference to each instance is then exposed via the intrinsic HttpContext.Application object. Read the rest of this entry »