Richard Cummings

SEO: The Seven Deadly Sins

SEO seems relatively easy at first, but danger lurks around every corner. One false step--one SEO mistake--and all of your SEO work vanishes into a de-indexing or the dreaded Google sandbox. Early Christians defined the Seven Deadly Sins that one should not commit lest they burn in the fiery pits of hell. In this article, we’ll explore the Seven Deadly Sins of Search Engine Optimization.

SEO and Golf: They Both Look Easy…Until You Try Them

10. September 2009

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SEO and Golf: They Both Look Easy…Until You Try Them

SEO is a lot like golf. It appears easy at first, until you start to play the game.

WordPress Category Pages: The Most Overlooked SEO Gem

18. June 2009

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WordPress Category Pages: The Most Overlooked SEO Gem

Do you know what most bloggers and web designers do with their WordPress Category pages? If you answered nothing, you are correct. And by doing nothing, they are missing out on lots of potential traffic.

11. October 2011

Google Panda Update and Article Marketing

With every iteration of the Google Panda update, we see big changes in the SERPs and one of the groups of sites that has been particularly affected is article marketing sites. In this article, we’ll investigate whether article marketing sites have been adversely affected by the Google Panda update and, if so, we investigate the question: Does article marketing still work to promote your website?

7. October 2011

Google PageRank Disappeared

If you use a PageRank tool to check the Google PageRank of your pages and the PageRank of other pages, you may be anxiously typing into Google right now, “Google PageRank Disappeared“.

3. October 2011

PHP/MySQL: Query Date in DateTime Field

In this quick technical solution post, I will tell you how to query a date from a datetime field in PHP.

3. October 2011

PHP: Get Date 7 Days Ago-One Week Ago

In this quick tech solution post, I will tell you how to get the PHP date 7 days ago, one week ago, or whenever you want.

5. August 2011

PHP Mail: Send Text and HTML Mail Through PHP Script

In this article, I will show you how to use PHP mail to send a text/html message through a PHP script.

4. August 2011

How To Password Protect a Subdirectory When WordPress Is Installed

In this article, I will tell you how to password protect a subdirectory when you have WordPress installed in your root directory.

1. June 2011

How To Find HTML Color Codes

In this post, I will tell you how to quickly find the HTML color code of an image or any part of your web page.

3. March 2011

PHP String Split

In this post, I am going to tell you how to do a PHP string split. While there use to be a PHP command called “PHP split“, it is no longer being supported so we will teach you how to do a PHP string split using the PHP explode command.

3. March 2011

PHP Delete First Character In String

In this post, I will show you how to delete the first character in a string in PHP.

7. January 2011

Show Code In WordPress: The Syntax Highlighter Plugin

If you want to show code in WordPress, it is now very easy with a plugin called SyntaxHighlighter.

7. January 2011

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Apostrophe, Input Form, PHP, MySQL: The Easy Solution!

In this article, I will tell you how to deal with the apostrophe not working in form data that writes to MySql using PHP. I do a lot of work involving input forms on PHP pages that write the input data to MySQL. Every time I do this, I have to account for the user [...]

18. November 2010

PHP: Convert Variable To Date

In this article, I will review how to convert a variable that represents a date to an actual MySQL date column using PHP. Dealing with dates and times in MySQL and PHP is at once fascinating and frustrating. Everybody seems to store their date information with slight variances. Thus, everyone’s solution is slightly different. So, [...]

18. November 2010

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Import CSV File Into MySQL

In this article, I will show you how to configure a CSV properly and then import the CSV file into MySql. A client of mine recently asked me if I could upload his .CSV file into a MySQL database. He runs a sports site and wanted to have the entire NBA schedule available in MySQL. [...]

12. November 2010

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SEO, Squidoo, and HubPages: Are Community Pages Worth Your SEO Time?

Many people use Squidoo and HubPages in their SEO efforts. In this article, I will present many articles discussing Squidoo and HubPages, their differences, and whether they are worth your SEO time.

12. November 2010

Windows 7 Screen Maximizes When Dragged Partially Off Screen | Get Rid of It!

This is just a quick tech note on Windows 7 Screen behavior and the new feature in which the screen maximizes when you drag it partially off the screen.

6. October 2010

Link Redirecting Vs Link Cloaking

If you promote affiliate programs, it is important to understand the difference between link redirects and link cloaking. Some affiliate programs permit both forms of link usage, some permit just one, and others may prohibit both. In this article, I will tell you why this is important, how to find out what is an acceptable practice, and what is exactly the difference between redirecting a link and cloaking a link.

29. August 2010

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Convert MyISAM to INNODB using phpMyAdmin

This is a technical post on how to convert from MyISAM to InnoDB using phpMyAdmin. Yesterday, I was using phpMyAdmin to set up database tables in MySQL. The solution that I was implementing called for me to use foreign keys to relate the tables to one another. Well, foreign keys require the use of the [...]

29. August 2010

The Used Table Type Doesn’t Support FULLTEXT Indexes

This is a technical post for those who are receiving the message “The Used Table Type Doesn’t Support FULLTEXT Indexes” in phpMyAdmin.” I received this message as I was trying to convert a MySQL table from MyISAM to InnoDB in phpMyAdmin. I was converting this MySQL table from MyISAM to InnoDB so that I could [...]

20. August 2010