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Pick one of the two URLs (ideally the one that has the stronger backlink profile), merge the content on that page, and 301 redirect the other URL to the one that has all of the content. If you are unable to do a 301 redirect for whatever reason, you can …
How are publishers able to earn money in this new world of AI? I've been thinking a lot about whether to block AI training bots recently, and I've finally pulled the trigger. I'm sure it's too late, as most training has already happened in 2023-2024, but better late than never, …
Hello and welcome to DaniWeb! Although curt, @Salem brings up a good point. It’s pretty impossible for us to give you actionable advice with such a broad question. What is your use case? What have you done so far? Can we see your code so we can make security recommendations?
This isn’t Warrior Forum (we can only strive to be that great of a webmaster community some day), but I appreciate the sentiment nonetheless. Welcome to DaniWeb.
Aside from all the tinkering and learning I did as a self-taught elementary school student in the 1980s, the first real fully-functioning app I've ever programmed from soup to nuts was a Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing clone in Visual Basic 6. I was in middle school at the time and …
I'm confused by your use case. I picked a font I liked, clicked the copy button, and went to go paste it into here and ... I get the unicode heart icons along with my name all in the Menlo font-face (the font we use for monospace fonts around here). …
I'm not very much into politics. To me, the midterm elections simply meant death to my stock portfolio (NVDA, AMD, MU, TSM, PLTR, RDDT, NET, GOOGL, etc.).
When I go to https://www.daniweb.com/rss I see the following message at the top of the page: > This site uses XSLT; that functionality is being removed from this browser very soon. When that happens, this page will likely no longer display correctly. You might be able to install a browser …
Certainly not a bumper sticker, but the other day I was wearing an old T-shirt that says if you’re not a part of the solution, you’re part of the precipitate. It used to be one of my favorites.
Is the problem that splash.png is partially transparent?
I would create the three tables of products, suppliers, and stock levels. The products and suppliers tables would each have a id column that serves as the primary key for the record. The stock levels table might then have columns such as product_id, supplier_id, price, quantity_purchased, quantity_available. This way you …
I swear by Cloudflare. They make it easy to cache most pages at the edge, and they block the vast majority of our evil bot traffic.
The Recommended Topics you see in the sidebar of content here at DaniWeb get automatically regenerated once a year to take newer content into consideration. This is handled by a cron job. Of course, it's not going to carry the same weight from an SEO perspective as adding internal links …
Hello and welcome to DaniWeb!! Thanks for joining.
Content first.
Why is that site [copying my color scheme](https://www.daniweb.com/stats/activity_stream) and timeline design?
You posted in the game development forum. Can I assume you are looking for how gamification influences website stickyness?
What computer science breakthrough has had the greatest practical impact on everyday life? What do you think are some of the most important innovations that have influenced how we work, communicate, learn, etc. I'll get the ball rolling with email, the world wide web, LLMs, and self-driving cars.
> Do you usually prioritize technical SEO first, or on-page SEO? Technical SEO *is* on-page SEO.
A friend in the SEO industry (Jim Boykin) used to have a Delorean he bought off of EBay with the license plate TIMECAR. He’s since sold it, unfortunately.
For sure, AI overviews, ChatGPT, etc. have all eaten away at DaniWeb's organic clicks. People want instant gratification, which is easily achieved by "stealing" content from a Q&A site. That being said, I think there is still a place in the world for UGC discussion, which is why I hold …
Not a whole ton of freelance consulting experience here, but enough to quote, “Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen.” -- Edward V. Berard
Why not just focus entirely on your food business and partner with Instacart to make your products easily accessible via online shopping?
Don't forget that if you are not going with an out-of-the-box solution, such as Mailchimp, Sendgrid, etc., that you will need to clean the list on your own! That means purging bounced addresses, purging addresses that don't interact with your emails, etc.
For me, it's python and node.js (backend javascript). I feel like those are two languages that are *everywhere* these days. I'd also love to get into websockets or server-sent events to replace the long polling PHP chat we currently have going on (eek). A couple of years ago, I tried …
I've only seen TNG, Voyager, and Picard. I'm very much not understanding your references.
> I've asked that be removed. ChatGPT writes like that so you are the one that was ripped off. I've removed the downvote.
Hello, I'm so sorry that I didn't see this lingering in the moderation queue until just now. My health has been very spotty, at best, so it's been difficult to spend a lot of time near the computer these days. I meant to ask you a few weeks ago but …
It has to be Screaming Frog for me. What tools can't *you* live without?
What type of company were you hired as an SEO executive for? To promote the Indian-based web design company, itself, or the websites that the web design company creates?
It's strongly discouraged to use `document.write()` these days. It only works if you use it when the webpage initially loads. Otherwise, if it's used at any other time, it will replace the entire HTML document. Instead, do something like this: document.getElementById('myFooter').innerHTML = '<div class="box">Hello World</div>'; You cannot do `<script defer>` …
So a huge pet peeve of mine right now is that Adobe has discontinued purchasing any of their software (Adobe Acrobat Pro, Adobe Photoshop, etc.) outright, and now it's subscription only. I know that Microsoft Office 365 is also subscription based, but correct me if I'm wrong, but they have …
Linux has come a long way, but it's still primarily a server OS, correct? How many of you linux fanboys and girls use it as your primary operating system for daily tasks? How does it compare to Windows or macOS in terms of productivity and overall user experience?
Structure, security, performance, etc. are all important. Laravel, like other PHP frameworks, are essentially just tools that help to make it easier to accomplish those things, while also helping you to not have to reinvent the wheel for things such as URI routing, database connectivity, and a whole assortment of …
As a consumer, I've become more and more frustrated with the recent increase in AI-driven customer chat support that seemingly has taken over. They tend to just regurgitate the information that is already contained within the product's FAQs, manuals, and marketing materials, etc., and I tend to end up going …
I have a two part question: How do you balance accessibility and design aesthetics when building a visually complex website? Are there any unconventional approaches that have worked for you? Secondly, do you give priority to ADA compliance in UX design? Specifically, [the WCAG](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Content_Accessibility_Guidelines)? Personally, I have tried and not …
> Is there an easier way to capture markers and preserve them for future use? I'm confused by your question. What do you mean by an easier way? As opposed to prompting the user and then creating a new marker with the Google Maps API?
In the vein of a bunch of TV shows I've been watching recently (Humans, Pantheon, etc.), would you upload your brain to the cloud if it meant immortality but no physical body?
How much technical knowledge does a manager need in order to take responsibility for a team of software developers? hardware engineers? I would assume this varies significantly depending on the size of the overall organization? Are preexisting managerial skills more important versus promoting engineers from within the company (which, from …
Ooh, Manteca, CA! We got our dog from a breeder out in Manteca. But I digress ... To @Salem's point, SEO only works these days if it's to promote a website that has real, useful value for a lot of people. It's no longer the case that you can attract …
I would read absolutely *everything* I can get my hands on at https://www.seroundtable.com/, https://searchengineland.com/, and https://www.searchenginejournal.com/ and then go from there.
The backlinks that help the most with SEO are also the ones that help the most with direct traffic. In other words, links that are built for PR and to actually send real visitors and don't come across as existing solely to cheat Google are the ones that Google values …
Hi and welcome to DaniWeb. > What computer language do you like the most? I'm going to assume that as a tech writer specializing in IT certs, she is not a developer with any significant programming experience. At least, not as far as her career goes.
DaniWeb is written in PHP, and PHP scripts can be executed via nginx, apache, etc. for the web, or via command line. So we use regular cron jobs to execute background scripts via CLI.
I would stick to Cloudflare. They compress and cache images, and a pro plan lets you cache HTML pages (bypass cache on cookie) to handle any traffic spikes. When I got married I used WithJoy and was quite happy with it.
DaniWeb isn't really the right place to discuss small agencies like this, since we have an anti-promotion policy. Have you tried looking into SEO consultants on sites such as Upwork? What types of AI answers are you hoping to achieve with a small ecommerce store? Do you have a lot …
I would start by following some of the top publications in the space such as https://searchenginewatch.com/
We ran a hackathon a very long time ago where the best implementation of the DaniWeb API won a prize. I'd be open to doing something like that again.
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