In their ever continuing efforts to fight spam, Google coined the phrase thin affiliate to describe a site offering only affiliate links and no value to a user. Being labeled a thin affiliate site will mean very little to no traffic from Google, but what criteria does Google use to filter out these sites, how do they do it and how can you prevent this happening to you?
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A quick announcement about our new section at Pickledshark – we will be reviewing training materials, books and other resources. Read on to find out more and what we will be taking a look at first.
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To get the most from your website you need to test, tweak and optimize. Traditionally a common way of finding out about changes to your website was to split test – basically serve two different versions of your page and compare the results from each. In this article we take a look at a more in depth method; multivariate testing. Read on to find out how you can implement and use this method of website optmization to improve conversions on your website.
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In every area of our life we have opportunity. Every day a new tool is launched that could change our leaves, a new technology that can make us happier or a new skill that can increase our earnings. In this article we look at why people are overwhelmed by opportunity, hide behind it and most importantly how we can deal with this.
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Backing up your files can never be spoken about enough. There is nothing worse than losing everything, or even something, important. Find out why DVDs and CDs are no good for backing up and read an introduction to other more reliable methods.
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Online banking has some catching up to do. While certainly one of the oft quoted reasons for using the internet, banking online has so much more potential. The field has taken a blow recently, at least in the UK, with the introduction of “card readers” passing security problems onto the user and creating a barrier. Read on to find out more about why the card reader is a mistake, good examples of online banking and how improvements could be made.
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Exporting and importing large MySQL databases can sometimes be a problem due to timeouts from web interfaces, hosting restrictions and inconsistent internet connections. Here we look at a script that will help to reliably export and import MySQL databases.
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We take a look at the widespread use of CAPTCHA, how it might affect conversions and possible alternatives. CAPTCHA no doubt prevents spam but at what cost?
Read the Full ArticleMany websites simply time out if you try to access them without the www prefix on the URL. Read on and make sure you don’t lose visitors by making this mistake.
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Some people are unsure exactly what Google Gears is, what it does and how you can use it. Read on for a quick and dirty guide that will give you an understanding of this technology by Google so you can benefit from it and even use it in your websites/applications.
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