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. If you read the post PHP get date 7 days ago, you know that my project today called for querying...
View ArticleGoogle 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“. Did Your Google...
View ArticleGoogle 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...
View ArticleGoogle Then and Now: Has Google Lost Their Way…or Found It?
In this article, we’ll take a look at the new Google versus the old Google and ask the question: Has Google lost their way or found it? Google Then and Now: A Profoundly Simple Question This past...
View ArticleW3 Total Cache WordPress Plugin Review – Beware – A 350GB Caching Directory!
The W3 Total Cache WordPress plugin is one of the most popular caching plugins for WordPress. However, you will want to be careful with this plugin because it may cause more headaches than it cures. In...
View ArticleManaging Social Media Accounts: Business vs Personal
Today, we are going to look at social media accounts on Twitter, Facebook, Google+, and LinkedIn and ask the question: Should you mix business and pleasure? This is a seemingly simple question but may...
View ArticleGoogle Panda Webspam and Exact Match Domain Searches
There are a couple of new updates to the Google algorithm that have just been released, one a Panda update and the other labeled the “Webspam” update, and these latest algorithmic changes are affecting...
View ArticlePHP: Capture Referring URL And Truncate It To Domain Name
This is a quick technical post on how to use PHP to capture a referring URL and truncate it to a domain name. In other words, we want to determine the exact domain name from which our visitors arrived....
View ArticleConvert External CSS to On-Page (Inline) CSS for Emails
If you are looking to convert your CSS to on-page (or “Inline”) CSS for use in email campaigns, I will tell you how I did it. The Problem: Effective HTML in Emails Most websites now-a-days use CSS to...
View ArticlePHP: Return First Character of a String
In this quick post, I will tell you how to return the first character of a string in PHP. I work with string manipulation in PHP quite a bit and remembering the little nuances can be a challenge. And,...
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