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Whenever you enter a query in a search engine and hit 'enter' you get a list of web results that contain that query term. Users normally tend to visit websites that are at the top of this list as they perceive those to be more relevant to the query. If you have ever wondered why some of these websites rank better than the others then you must know that it is because of a powerful web marketing technique called Search Engine Optimization (SEO). SEO is a technique which helps search engines find and rank your site higher than the millions of other sites in response to a search query. SEO thus helps you get traffic from search engines. This SEO tutorial covers all the necessary information you need to know about Search Engine Optimization - what is it, how does it work and differences in the ranking criteria of major search engines. 1. How Search Engines Work The first basic truth you need to know to learn SEO is that search engines are not humans. While this might be obvious for everybody, the differences between how humans and search engines view web pages aren't. Unlike humans, search engines are text-driven. Although technology advances rapidly, search engines are far from intelligent creatures that can feel the beauty of a cool design or enjoy the sounds and movement in movies. Instead, search engines crawl the Web, looking at particular site items (mainly text) to get an idea what a site is about. This brief explanation is not the most precise because as we will see next, search engines perform several activities in order to deliver search results – crawling, indexing, processing, calculating relevancy, and retrieving. First, search engines crawl the Web to see what is there. This task is performed by a piece of software, called a crawler or a spider (or Googlebot, as is the case with Google). Spiders follow links from one page to another and index everything they find on their way. Having in mind the number of pages on the Web (over 20 billion), it is impossible for a spider to visit a site daily just to see if a new page has appeared or if an existing page has been modified, sometimes crawlers may not end up visiting your site for a month or What you can do is to check what a crawler sees from your site. As already mentioned, crawlers are not humans and they do not see images, Flash movies, Javascript, frames, password-protected pages and directories, so if you have tons of these on your site, you'd better run the Spider Simulator below to see if these goodies are viewable by the spider. If they are not viewable, they will not be spidered, not indexed, not processed, etc. - in a word they will be non-existent for search engines. After a page is crawled, the next step is to index its content. The indexed page is stored in a giant database, from where it can later be retrieved. Essentially, the process of indexing is identifying the words and expressions that best describe the page and assigning the page to particular keywords. For a human it will not be possible to process such amounts of information but generally search engines deal just fine with this task. Sometimes they might not get the meaning of a page right but if you help them by optimizing it, it will be easier for them to classify your pages correctly and for you – to get higher rankings. When a search request comes, the search engine processes it – i.e. it compares the search string in the search request with the indexed pages in the database. Since it is likely that more than one page (practically it is millions of pages) contains the search string, the search engine starts calculating the relevancy of each of the pages in its index with the search string. There are various algorithms to calculate relevancy. Each of these algorithms has different relative weights for common factors like keyword density, links, or metatags. That is why different search engines give different search results pages for the same search string. What is more, it is a known fact that all major search engines, like Yahoo!, Google, Bing, etc. periodically change their algorithms and if you want to keep at the top, you also need to adapt your pages to the latest changes. This is one reason (the other is your competitors) to devote permanent efforts to SEO, if you'd like to be at the top. The last step in search engines' activity is retrieving the results. Basically, it is nothing more than simply displaying them in the browser – i.e. the endless pages of search results that are sorted from the most relevant to the least relevant sites. 2. Differences Between the Major Search Engines Although the basic principle of operation of all search engines is the same, the minor differences between them lead to major changes in results relevancy. For different search engines different factors are important. There were times, when SEO experts joked that the algorithms of Bing are intentionally made just the opposite of those of Google. While this might have a grain of truth, it is a matter a fact that the major search engines like different stuff and if you plan to conquer more than one of them, you need to optimize carefully. There are many examples of the differences between search engines. For instance, for Yahoo! and Bing, on-page keyword factors are of primary importance, while for Google links are very, very important. Also, for Google sites are like wine – the older, the better, while Yahoo! generally has no expressed preference towards sites and domains with tradition (i.e. older ones). Thus you might need more time till your site gets mature to be admitted to the top in Google, than in Yahoo!. Credits to whoever owns this . Just a good explanation I found.

below is the code to add statistics to your side bar in the boardIndex file Find this code <foreach loop="side_blocks:$side_blocks as $block"> {$block} </foreach> Add this code below <if test="showTotals:|:$this->settings['show_totals']"> <div class='ipsSideBlock clearfix'> <h3><span class='icon icon-span-text icon-block'></span>Forum Statistics</h3> <div class='_sbcollapsable'> <dl> <dt class='fc-sb-stats'>{$this->lang->words['total_posts']}</dt> <dd class='fc-sb-stats'>{$stats['info']['total_posts']}</dd> <dt class='fc-sb-stats'>{$this->lang->words['total_members']}</dt> <dd class='fc-sb-stats'>{$stats['info']['mem_count']}</dd> <dt class='fc-sb-stats'>{$this->lang->words['newest_member']}</dt> <dd class='fc-sb-stats'>{IPSMember::makeProfileLink( $stats['info']['last_mem_name'], $stats['info']['last_mem_id'], $stats['info']['last_mem_seo'], 'value' )}</dd> <dt class='fc-sb-stats'>{$this->lang->words['online_at_once']}</dt> <dd class='fc-sb-stats'><span data-tooltip='{$stats['info']['most_time']}'>{$stats['info']['most_online']}</span></dd> </dl> </div> </div> </if>

Go to ACP >> Look & Feel >> Choose Your Skin >> Go to Forum view and Select Forumindextemplate And Search for <tr class='header hide'> by pressing ctrl F you will see all this: <tr class='header hide'> <th scope='col' class='col_f_icon'>&nbsp;</th> <th scope='col' class='col_f_topic'>{$this->lang->words['forum_topic']}</th> <th scope='col' class='col_f_starter short'>{$this->lang->words['forum_started_by']}</th> <th scope='col' class='col_f_views stats'>{$this->lang->words['forum_stats']}</th> <if test="canSeeLastInfoHeader:|:$this->memberData['gbw_view_last_info']"><th scope='col' class='col_f_post'>{$this->lang->words['forum_last_post_info']}</th></if> <if test="topicsismod:|:$this->memberData['is_mod'] == 1"> <th scope='col' class='col_f_mod short'><input type='checkbox' id='tmod_all' class='input_check' title='{$this->lang->words['topic_select_all']}' value='1' /></th> </if> </tr> <!-- BEGIN TOPICS --> <if test="hastopics:|:is_array( $topic_data ) AND count( $topic_data )"> <foreach loop="topics:$topic_data as $tid => $data"> {parse template="topic" group="forum" params="$data, $forum_data, $other_data, $inforum"} </foreach>[/html] and replace with this: [html] <tr class='subhead altbar'> <th scope='col' colspan='<if test="endannouncements:|:$this->memberData['is_mod'] == 1">6<else />5</if>'> <if test="$this->hasPinned=0">Forum Topics</if><if test="$this->hasPinned=1">Pinned Topics</if> </th> </tr> </if> <!-- BEGIN TOPICS --> <if test="hastopics:|:is_array( $topic_data ) AND count( $topic_data )"> {parse striping="forumTable" classes="row1,row2"} <foreach loop="topics:$topic_data as $tid => $data"> <if test="$data['pinned']"> <if test="$this->hasPinned=1"> </if><else /> <if test="$this->hasPinned"> <if test="$this->hasPinned=0"> </if> <tr class='subhead altbar'> <th scope='col' colspan='<if test="endannouncements:|:$this->memberData['is_mod'] == 1">6<else />5</if>'> Forum Topics </th> </tr> </if> </if> {parse template="topic" group="forum" params="$data, $forum_data, $other_data, $inforum"} </foreach> preview:

Honestly, I don't care for this "limit." I don't know if there is a way to gain more downloads per day or not. If there is, I would like to know this. When I try to download mods and skins for my forum and I want many of them, I can't do that. It's irritating, and I have to wait a whole day at the exact same time of the next day. Is this implemented because it may slow down your servers? I just don't get why this restriction is added.

Exterminator found the rest of his body. lol.

Eh, my brother far surpasses me in graphic arts. For instance, he made this:

To give a clue to all single girls here that they can get hold of a pure guy

It is because the mysql variable max_allowed_packet is set too low. Find the my.cnf file in the etc folder on your server and change the value to 32M or add this line after the [mysld] or [mysqldump] in that file. max_allowed_packet = 32M

What skin are you trying to upload? Did you get the skin from here?

In your ACP try this. Go to Look and Feel > Template Tools First rebuild HTML, CSS and Replacements for everything. Afterward, recache all skins. I had the database error when I installed a skin a few months back. This actually solved the issue.

Since I make it look legitimate.

Well, I won't take that risk.

Happy birthday Sir! Enjoy it. Hope you'll get some nice presents.

I added a image

Here is the bbcode replacement <pre class='prettyprint' style="max-height: 240px; overflow: auto">{content}</pre>

GoDaddy's prices haven't raised in over five years.. so I don't get where the idea that they're "becoming more expensive" is coming from. Fun facts: [*]GoDaddy assists beginners in easily setting up their site (Website Builder) and they offer additional site creation tools for advanced developers. All of GoDaddy’s solutions support several programming languages, including CGI (Python and Ruby), PHP, Perl, ASP, MySQL, ColdFusion and FrontPage extensions (off the top of my head).[*]Their file manager, domain manager and database manager are all fantastic, easy-to-use features. In fact, their File Manager completely negates the need for any FTP programs.[*]Domains come packed with free freatures (DNS Manager, email, SSL certificates, and SEO).[*]Phone support is available 24/7, and each of their hosting packages comes with a guaranteed 99.99% uptime. Bottom line -- people have longed believed in the common misconceptions about GoDaddy. It's true that in their humble beginnings they weren't the best option, but over the years they have consistently proven time and again that they outmatch all competition. It's as I said in all other threads in regards to domain registrars and web hosting: if you spend cheap, expect cheap. No other company offers the same level of support or quality service for reasonable prices.

Completely and utterly false. Private Domain Registration is completely optional, and all auto-renewals are able to be toggled off in your Account settings. Even when GoDaddy offers extra services with a domain purchase, more often than not you receive special discounts. Furthermore, GoDaddy is always emailing its customers a variety of discount codes, and I have yet to come across a renewal that I didn't have a coupon readily available that saved me a chunk of money. It sounds like your grief with GoDaddy is a result of not paying attention to the "fine print", or reading over their DRA (Domain Registration Agreement) that is emailed to you immediately upon making the purchase. NameCheap's "WhoIsGuard" cannot be used in conjunction with a large number of top-tier domains. That being the case, their "private registration" is in fact, crap. GoDaddy's free extras alone trump anything NameCheap has to offer, and that's not even factoring in the quality service/support/hardware offered by GoDaddy that is simply unmatched by any other registrar. The best part? GoDaddy offers money back guarantees (pro-rated). If you purchase three months of hosting and only use one, you're eligible for a two month refund. Here's a quick-list of domain freebies: http://www.godaddy.com/domains/search.aspx?ci=8990 I apologize for the wall of text, but presumptuous posts full of misinformation truly annoy me.

Nice tutorial. But this code makes it look a little messy. I use this one: <if test="showTotals:|:$this->settings['show_totals']"> <div class="ipsSideBlock clearfix __xXtwist352statistics"> <h3 id="anonymous_element_352">Forum Statistics</h3> <div class="_sbcollapsable"> <ul class='ipsList_data sb_statistics clearfix'> <li class='clearfix'> <span class='sl'>{$this->lang->words['total_posts']}</span> <span class='sr'>{$stats['info']['total_posts']}</span> </li> <li class='clearfix'> <span class='sl'>{$this->lang->words['total_members']}</span> <span class='sr'>{$stats['info']['mem_count']}</span> </li> <li class='clearfix'> <span class='sl'>{$this->lang->words['newest_member']}</span> <span class='sr'>{IPSMember::makeProfileLink( $stats['info']['last_mem_name'], $stats['info']['last_mem_id'], $stats['info']['last_mem_seo'], 'value' )}</span> </li> <li class='clearfix' data-tooltip='{$stats['info']['most_time']}'> <span class='sl'>{$this->lang->words['online_at_once']}</span> <span class='sr'>{$stats['info']['most_online']}</span> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </if>

Alright. I guess I could see if I can find something around the web.

Oh okay. I honestly don't know how to get nulled or retail forum software so I can't contribute like that. I also cannot donate because my dad monitors my checking account like a guard dog. I wish I could contribute more. Maybe someone can teach me how to get the forum software. But I do always make meaningful posts. I don't just post something just to post it. I also try to make friends and have fun of forums.

Leecher? I have no patience as a person. I don't feel like waiting three days to get all the mods I want for a forum. I am not a leecher and I don't even know what that is.

In your skin's ipb_styles.css, find : table.ipb_table .subforums { margin: 2px 0 3px 5px; padding-left: 20px; background: url({style_images_url}/subforum_stem.png ) no-repeat left 4px;} table.ipb_table .subforums li.unread { font-weight: bold; } and replace with this: table.ipb_table .subforums { margin: 2px 0 3px 0px; padding-left: 0px; overflow: hidden;}table.ipb_table .subforums li{ background: url({style_images_url}/subforum_nonew.png) no-repeat left 3px; width: 38%; padding: 1px 17px 4px; margin: 0; float: left;}table.ipb_table .subforums li.unread { font-weight: bold; background-image: url({style_images_url}/subforum_new.png);} Save. Then upload the attached images to your skin's style_images folder and you're done.

Part One: Preparation 1) First of all, you should turn your board offline to prevent users from adding content during the transfer. 2) You should ensure that your new server meets the requirements for IP.Board.The requirements, along with a script which can check those requirements can be found here. http://www.invisionpower.com/support/faqs3) You should check what the MySQL version is for your current server, and what it is for your new server - your host will be able to provide this information for you if you are unsure what versions you have. If the version for the new server is newer than the old server, then you should be okay. If it is older, you will need to perform a compatibility backup when you get to step 4. Part Two: Downloading Data 4) Backup your database using your preferred method. IPS recommends using phpMyAdmin which is a popular database management tool available on many hosts. If you have a particularly small forum, there is a backup tool in your Admin CP under the "Support" tab - but this may not work with larger databases. If you are in any doubt talk to your host. 5) Using FTP, download all of the files from your current server, preserving the directory structure. Part Three: Uploading Data 6) Create a blank database on your new server, note the username, password and database name. 7) Upload and import your MySQL using your preferred method. You can use a tool such as bigdump to import the database. 8) Upload all of the files you downloaded in step 5 to your new server, preserving the directory structure. Part Four: Final Steps 9) If you are keeping the same URL, transfer your domain to the new server. Your new host and domain name provider will be able to provide assistance with this. Note that it will likely take up to 24 hours for the domain name to fully propagate. 10) On the new server, open the conf_global.php and fill in your new database details as created in step 6. The particular variables you need to edit are: $INFO['sql_database']$INFO['sql_user']$INFO['sql_pass']$INFO['sql_host']$INFO['board_url'] 11) In your Admin CP, go to the "Support" tab and select "Permissions Checker" - fix any problems it reports. 12) In your Admin CP, go to the "System" tab and select "System Settings" - go to the "General Configuration" group and change the "Upload path" and "Upload URL" as required. If you use IP.Blog, IP.Gallery, IP.Downloads, IP.Content or IP.Nexus - you should also go into their respective settings and change any relevant paths. 13) In your Admin CP, go to the "System" tab and select "Cache Management" - press the "Recache All" button. 14) In your Admin CP, go to the "Look & Feel" tab and select "Template Tools" - press the "Recache Skin Sets" button. 15) Check you can access your board, and if so, turn it back online.