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M-commerce Event 2011 | De noodzaak van cross browser en cross device testen!

November 29th, 2011

Vandaag ontving ik de M-commerce event 2011 nieuwsbrief. Ik las deze vol interesse op mijn iPhone, maar dat ging niet helemaal goed.. Hilarisch, als je het mij vraagt. 
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Geachte heer Debie,
Heeft u uw m-commerce strategie al op orde?  
Met de opkomst van de smartphone en de tablet hebben steeds…

Betaalde links, wat wel is toegestaan, en wat niet.. Informatie over de richtlijnen en risicos m.b.t. betaalde links…

July 12th, 2011

Google is er zeer duidelijk over, maar blijkbaar is er nog veel onduidelijkheid over linkbuilding en wat hierbij is toegestaan. Zelfs internet marketeers lijken niet te (willen) snappen dat de tijd van ongestraft links kunnen kopen om hogere posities te behalen in Google al lang over is! Dit valt mij de…

Web site speed test disappointing you? Optimizing for Google page speed in 3 simple steps!

June 1st, 2011

Disappointed by your web site speed test? I’ll show you how I optimized a clients website in just 3 simple steps. This boosted Google page speed from Score 9 to 95..
While working on a SEO project for one of my clients I found that the speed of the website…

Best captcha alternative, stop PHP mail spam & respect usability

May 25th, 2011

Jump straight to the code
Spam is annoying me big time! Both the spam arriving in my inbox and spam being sent by spam bots through the web forms on my websites.
Spam bots spider the web for forms, and if they find one they inject it with additional email headers…

jQuery tags autosuggest like del.icio.us, stackoverflow, facebook, etc.

May 14th, 2011

Looking for a jQuery tags autosuggest plugin as seen on del.icio.us, stackoverflow, facebook, etc? You just found it!
For a work in progress I have been evaluating lots of (if not every) jQuery plugin for tagging. I saw this cool tagging method first on Stackoverflow when posting a question. I was…

Social media effect on SEO: potential risks & opportunities

February 20th, 2011

Lately it became very clear that social media backlinks and tweets do have a positive effect on SERPs. It’s expected to become a much more important ranking factor in the years to come, and I guess that it makes sense as social media itself is becoming more important..
In my…

Pas op voor de SEO cowboys!

February 2nd, 2011

Als u overweegt een dienstverlener in te schakelen om uw website(s) te optimaliseren dan zijn er een aantal belangrijke zaken om rekening mee te houden.
Snel geld = cowboys en (te) snelle jongens.
Ik schrijf dit artikel omdat ik me de laatste tijd meer en meer irriteer aan zogenaamde SEO…

Recently viewed products contribution for oscommerce

January 13th, 2011

Today I released a very small and simple osCommerce contribution, it’s named ‘Recently viewed products contribution’, and it does exactly what the name suggests..
Similar contributions are available but these do a lot of unnecessary database queries on each page load. My contribution just makes use of one session variable…

PHP data mining with PHP web scraping scripts

January 6th, 2011

These PHP functions and classes for data mining websites / web scraping websites I’m about to share with you, they made the difference for me while developing web scraping scripts with PHP. I had to develop PHP scraping scripts for several clients in the past, 100% ligit and mainly for…

Auto thumbnails in CRE Loaded PCI B2B v6.4.1a

November 16th, 2010

It’s amazing that CRE Loaded PCI B2B v6.4.1a doesn’t include a way to generate thumbnails on the fly. For every product one must upload 3 images. One thumbnail image, one medium size image and a pop-up image. Those images must be resized manually in image editing software. Downside is the…