“Your First Amendment rights are probably the last thing you think about when you click the Like button on Facebook.”
Find original article here: http://mashable.com/2012/05/07/facebook-like-fired/
Facebook Like Can Get You Fired, Says Judge
Web development school free, for beginnings to experts
Are you attempting to learn any web scripting language from HTML to JavaScript or need to brush up on some rusty techniques or syntax? Look no further then W3Schools. An online school for free that has in depth tutorials on the very basic of scripting to the most advanced functionality. I’ve used this website everything I want to start learning something new or need to brush up on something old that I’ve forgotten. It’s intuitive and will have everything you need at no cost to you. Check it out and learn something new!
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Creating and implementing site maps for your website
When it comes to search engine visibility the sitemap.xml file as well as a page that includes your site map are really important. These files allow search engine crawlers to have a finely indexed map of your website, the easier you make it for the crawlers, the more they’ll like your website. Also a few tools such as Google Webmaster Tools allows you to upload a sitemap.xml file for better visibility.
Creating a SiteMap.xml
There are a few ways to create a sitemap.xml file. You could learn XML which would be the most time consuming, but if you were planning on learning XML anyway, why not take this as another reason? You could examine another websites sitemap.xml file, learn from it, and copy and paste your website pages in just as they do. All sitemap.xml files are located in the root directory and are called sitemap.xml. This is where yours need to be located too, just like the robot.txt file and the favicon.ico file it needs to be located where all crawlers know where to look for it. Then there’s the easiest way which is use a tool that’s already been created to crawl your website creating a sitemap.xml, this is especially useful for websites with a large index of pages.
WordPress and other Content Management System Site Map Plug-ins
Most content management systems such as Joomla, WordPress, and Drupal will have plug-ins and components that other people have already created to create a sitemap.xml on the fly. I’ve tried a few of these plug-ins and they don’t seem to actually create a raw sitemap.xml in your root directory which could be problematic. I might not have set them up correctly, although I didn’t dedicate much time into them because the manual method has already worked and been easy enough for me.
Websites to automatically generate a sitemap.xml file
The one I use is http://www.xml-sitemaps.com, and I’m sure there are others, but this is your first Google result and has never failed to create a perfect sitemap.xml file for me. Simply type in your domain name, fill out the other few fields below, and submit! It will take time to crawl your website and depending on how many pages you have on your website it might take as less as a few seconds up to, well a long time.
Once it’s finished crawling your website it will push out a few ways that you can access the sitemap.xml file, either you can copy the text directly from a text box, download the file directly, have the file e-mailed too you. Downloading the sitemap.xml file directly is the easiest option for getting the file where it needs to be. Once you have the sitemap.xml file on your local drive you simply just need to upload it to your root directory of your website.
Using your sitemap.xml more efficiently
Like I had said above, there’s website tools that will take your sitemap.xml and use it for better search engine visibility. One of these tools is Google Webmaster Tools, and by far the most important. If you don’t have a Google Webmaster Tools account you can read about adding Google Webmaster Tools to your kit.
Once you’ve signed up, or logged in. You can see on the bottom right of your overview page there’s a widget related to your sitemap.xml file. Go ahead and click on the Submit a Sitemap link. On the new page go to the top right of the page and click Add/Test Sitemap. Enter sitemap.xml after your domain name, that’s the location the file needs to be, then click Submit Sitemap. It will scan the sitemap for a few minutes to make sure the XML code is correct and everything is as it should be. Give it a few minutes, refresh, and check the status. If you used an automatic tool such as http://www.xml-sitemaps.com to generate your sitemap.xml file there should be absolutely no problems. 
I have a question for you…
Are there any other automatic sitemap.xml websites you use that work really well, what other tools will help website visibility such as Google Webmaster Tools? Any advice, suggestions?
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Add Google Webmaster Tools to your kit
Google Webmaster Tools is an incredibly important tool when getting your website out there and public within the public domain and search engines.
First you’ll need a create a Google account if you don’t already have one. These are easy to sign up and free. Once you’ve signed up for Google click here to sign in to Google Webmaster Tools.
When you’ve logged in you’ll be redirected to the home page where you can manage all of your websites linked into Google Webmaster Tools. On the top right of the page you can follow the 
button to add your first site. When you click on that button you’ll receive a small popup window requesting the domain name of your website.
Google has recently added a new way of verifying your website with Webmaster Tools. Google recommends this method but it takes a bit longer then the other alternative methods, and the ones I’m used too. If you’d like to use this DNS verification method they give you a variety of hosting companies that you can verify with this method but I believe that Google will auto-detect which hosting company you are using because they GoDaddy is my default choice. If you’d like to see other methods that Google allows you to use verify click on the Alternative Methods tab.
The method I prefer to use is the first option under alternative methods Upload an HTML file to your server. This one is easy and FTP access is usually something a user will have. If you have some sort of content management system access and can make changes to the index.php, header.php, or whichever file holds the <html> <head> <body> tags you can use the second option which allows you to Add a meta tag to your site’s home page. If you already have Google Analytics setup you can use the third option.
Once you’ve selected your option go ahead and 
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Posted in Google Tools, How To, SEO, Webmaster Tools, Website Analytics & Statistics
Tagged analytics, google, how to, search engine optimization, seo, sitemap, tools, webmaster tools
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Why does organic SEO take so long?
Think of it as starting a new job. You are hired based on the fact that qualifications match what the employer needs. Your resume looks good. Everyone expects you to do well, but no one knows if you actually will. A few months go by. You do your job well, you show up on time, you are friendly with your subordinates and before you know it they start trusting you. You are the person they expect to show up on time and get your work done quickly and efficiently. You worked hard for your reputation and it starts paying off. A few more months go by. You are late one day and… it’s no big deal! Your reputation is strong enough to back you up.
When the site is first found (indexed) by Google, it’s a just a new employee. All Google knows is that the content of the site matches certain search criteria. But without that long-term earned trust, why should Google push it to the top? It sometimes will – when there’s no competition.
There’s an intricate process of determining whether a site can be trusted or not. It involves checking site’s domain age, how long before the domain expires, how many quality back links it has, etc. All these different measures put together are known as a site PR, or Site Rank. No wonder Google prefers Barns & Noble to Joe’s Book Store – Barns & Noble has been around for a while and gained a solid reputation which translates into PR 8. We all know Joe’s Book Store needs promotion and high ranking in search results way more than Barns & Noble, but the reality is – it needs to gain that trust first.
So that’ s all there’s to it. New sites need solid content (or product), regular updates and above all – patience. We at eWebsite Services encourage our customers to work with us on improving their organic SEO for at least 6 months. It takes at least that long to see some solid results in local searches and beginning of some positive development in regional or global SERPs.
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WordPress 500 Error in IE with WP Comments Post?
I just realized that a few websites of mine have been encountering this error, something I should have definitely caught early, but I’m not much of an Internet Explorer user past the adjusting of CSS and a quick run through of every website I develop to make sure everything is working. I would receive this error only in Internet Explorer and when I didn’t fill out all of the required fields to post a comment on any post.
I had no clue where to start so I went for the file wp-comments-post.php since that’s where the error seemed to be coming from and realized that’s a really long file, then also realized there’s so many files in WordPress for me to start having to debug this could literally take days of debugging. I searched this error in Google and found many other people were having the same exact error. I tried multiple solutions with every practical fix I could find on the first page of Google results but only found one that fix the problem, it’s a quick fix, and we unfortunately have to change a line in WordPress that’s part of the core functionality but it was much better then receiving an error. The downside to this fix is that everytime WordPress is updated you’ll have to remember to go in and change it again. Annoying, yes, better then an ugly 500 Error until WordPress updates this? Definitely.
What you need to do is locate the /wp-includes/functions.php file and scroll on down to about line 2792 where the line states:
$defaults = array( 'response' => 500 );
And change the 500 too 200. This will give another type of error, allowing WordPress to give a proper error telling the user that the right fields haven’t been filled out.
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Importing large files into mysql with phpmyadmin
I was attempting to try and upload a large sql file onto my new server but didn’t realize how big it was until it failed. I had to find and find a solution as to why I can get around this and found this excellent article.
“When trying to import large SQL files into mysql using phpmyadmin, the phpmyadmin documentation offers a few solutions, but I find the easiest method to overcome this is…
Find the config.inc.php file located in the phpmyadmin directory. In my case it is located here: C:\wamp\apps\phpmyadmin3.2.0.1\config.inc.php.
Find the line with $cfg['UploadDir'] on it and update it to: $cfg['UploadDir'] = ‘upload’;
Create a directory called ‘upload’ within the phpmyadmin directory: C:\wamp\apps\phpmyadmin3.2.0.1\upload\
Then place the large sql file that you are trying to import into the new upload directory. Now when you go onto the db import page within phpmyadmin console you will notice a drop down present that wasn’t there before – it contains all of the sql files in the upload directory that you have just created. You can now select this and begin the import.
If you’re not using WAMP on Windows, then I’m sure you’ll be able to adapt this to your environment without too much trouble.”
You can read this article here: http://daipratt.co.uk/importing-large-files-into-mysql-with-phpmyadmin/
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Tagged databases, export, import, importing large files, importing large sql files, mysql, php, phpmyadmin, scripting, sql files, too big sql file, upload mysql, uploading sql files
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WordPress Tag Cloud font sizes
Interested in adding the tags used in your blog but also display them in different font sizes ranging from least used to most used? Below is a PHP script you can use to display all the tags and a few different values you can change.
<?php wp_tag_cloud('smallest=8&largest=12&number=25&orderby=name&format=flat'); ?>
Using a tag cloud is great for the visitor to search your blog based on tags also great for search engines to bring up your website when one of your tags is relevant to the search engines query.
WordPress comments not displaying on single post?
This error took me a long time to fix by myself because I had no idea what the problem could be and plug-ins happen to play a big part in a lot of what goes wrong in WordPress. I wish had thought about that before fixing the core code of WordPress. I searched Google and found a few solutions and none of them worked. If the reason as to why your comments aren’t display isn’t the same as mine here are a few of the solutions I stumbled upon.
Not Enabled
Your comments aren’t enabled in Settings -> Reading
Permalinks are the culprit
Try changing your permalink structures back to default.
You don’t have the proper line of code in single.php
<?php comments_template(); ?> at the bottom of your single.php page, right before <?php endwhile; else: ?>
I tried all of these as well as things I just would rather not discuss because of how time consuming and probably ridiculous they were, but at the time anything that might have made those comments appear again was worth the time. What the problem was for me was I had the Social plug-in, the one that allows you to broadcast to Facebook and Twitter on every Publish of a Post. I hadn’t realized that this plug-in overwrites WordPress’ capability to load it’s own default comments.php template that is located in your template directory. Something had gone wonky with that plug-in, or the comments.php file that was associated with it. I tried to find a way to allow WordPress the ability to load the template I wanted but I simply couldn’t find it so I deleted this plug-in and everything worked as it should. Now it’s time to find a new social broadcasting plug-in, which I’ll more then happily post up once I’ve got one.