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Based on my SEO Wordpress Sandbox Theme I’ve created a minimal gray theme.

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A simple code snippet for displaying your flash[:warning] = “Warning Message” messages in rails.

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Q. Having problems getting suexec and Apache to work together with your virtual domains ?
A. You need to re-compile suexec to work from a different document root.
Suexec and the Document Root
Basically, suexec is hard coded to work from /var/www/html/ if your virtual domain is using sub directories under another path then you’ll get this problem. [...]

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Backlink is a term for a type of URL that points from a site back to your site. You should track your most important backlinks, if they are removed by a webmaster you may lose traffic and rankings. Also, if you have purchased backlinks for your site then the backlink checking script will ensure your [...]

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Every webmaster wants to be notified if a site they run has problems, a website monitoring script is one solution to this problem. Here we discusses some of the pro’s and con’s.
Website monitoring scripts have these advantages :-

Custom Built
Scripts can test hard to reach pages, test all your back end systems, and simulate functionality unique [...]

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The following tests can be run on your site by simply clicking the link and then submitting your URL.
You could also use this list to evaluate your competitors.

BrowserShots
Generates screenshots of how websites appear at 800×600 and 1024×768 resolution in six commonly used web browsers. A great link to get an idea of how other people [...]

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