PHP is a very versatile web language and you can easily make various different useful applications.
This is a very simple random number generator that will not duplicate any of the previous numbers, which is perfect as a UK lottery number generator.
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This was a very quick piece of code to write and is completely random.
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There have been some major changes to Google over the last few months.
Firstly, there was the so-called Mayday update (funnily enough at the beginning of May!) which has totally changed long tail search – and not for the better. Secondly, at the beginning of June, the Caffeine rollout was finally completed.
Now, if we take Matt Cutts at his word then the caffeine update was a change in the infrastructure so shouldn’t have any impact on SERPS.
However, a personal site of mine was getting a lot of traffic through long tail search, and the Mayday update didn’t affect the site in the slightest. In fact, I saw a steady increase in traffic. On June 4th my traffic took a massive hit.
I use the website php.net to refresh my knowledge of various php functions from time to time, and I have noticed that when searching for a phrase such as “php strstr function”, the php.net site is not showing up within the first 50 results of the SERPS. There is a subdomain of pear.php.net showing up in the 2nd and 3rd spots but the standard site is not.
The www.php.net version of the site still has over 80,000 pages indexed so it’s not a case that someone’s accidentally blocked Googlebot from visiting the site.
This leads me to believe that whether this has been caused by Mayday or Caffeine, Google has an error in their algorithm. For a site as well respected as php.net to be nowhere in the SERPs is clearly wrong.
I will therefore be holding off making any changes to my own site in the hope that Google fix this very quickly.
It seems like Bing isn’t ready to do battle with Google just yet.
Bing seem to be going down the route of providing information to the user without taking them to external websites.
For example, if you were to search for “audi a3 spec”, Bing would actually show you the Audi A3 spec and just provide a link to the website it got the information from.
Obviously, this works well for the user for something that is black and white, but not when you are searching for opinions.
This is a great feature for users, but not for website owners. A lot of websites generate income from placing adverts on their site. Bing potentially removes the need for the user to visit an external website if the information is shown within Bing. Less visitors to a website means less money for website owners, and less money for website owners may mean less websites. Less websites may mean we are just left with the dross – made for adsense sites and such like.
Does this mean that Microsoft will be concentrating on getting people to pay for advertising rather than concetrating on organic search?
I applaude Microsoft for trying to find a different angle for search (although the concept is not that different from the Wolfram Alpha search engine) but I don’t think that alienating the very people that are providing the content (for free) is going to work well as a business model.
It is a well known fact that the search engine optimisation industry has a somewhat poor reputation – sometimes this is justified, but mostly it is not. I along with many other SEO professionals offer a service which is based on doing a lot of research and reading to ensure we have as many facts about improving website positions as possible.
It can get a little irksome therefore when someone takes on an SEO job without knowing what they should be doing. Yes, this will harm the SEO industry.
Many people who dabble in websites think they know what is needed to boost a website to the dizzy heights of position 1 in Google…then fail because they just do not have the required knowledge. Even worse, they can harm their website profile.
Many people will know that backlinks are an important factor for ranking in Google so they may well go out and buy links without understanding the profile of the website they have just got a link from.
Many people will have heard of keyword density and will overuse the keywords they want to rank for.
Many people will still cloak content because they don’t understand the implications of what they are doing.
Ten years ago it was easy. Choose your keywords and use them in your title and meta tags. Job done. There were far less websites on the internet as well.
Over the last few years, the number of websites being created has got to epic proportions – just look at the number of results when you perform a search! Google have had to refine the way they rank websites to try to ensure they can pick the most relevent out of the 8 million results that have beem returned. That means that there are many factors at play for ranking a website, and things are constantly evolving.
Someone who performs SEO day in and day out will obviously have a much better understanding of what works for ranking well and what doesn’t, than Joe Bloggs who does his SEO when he has a spare five minutes.
If you are serious about getting good rankings for the right keywords for your website and you don’t have the time to learn in more than just basic SEO, you really should consider an SEO professional or agency to help you. Don’t expect them to tell you their secrets because there is no manual – every website is different.
Remember, just because you bought a book on SEO last week, it was written at least a year ago – one year is a long time in SEO!
To really understand SEO takes a lot time and patience – anyone can do it if they are willing to put in the time.