test please delete

[Jog On]

Meaningful URLs are very important these days - do everything in your power to avoid things like http://example.com/article.php?id=456789, going instead for useful stuff like http://example.com/services/sheep_shearing

Most punters don't know how to hack URLs (mainly because they've had so many?id= things pushed at them over the years) but search engines like them.

By meaningful do you mean the keywords in the domain name and file names?

On looking around some competition I’ve found some aweful stuff. Designers giving out marketing advice on things like ‘That’s too much content a page shouldn’t have so much that there’s a need to scroll down’ and SEO experts saying that 1 in every 200 visitors (0.5%) is a good conversion rate.

SEO people writing people’s content for the benefit of the search engines with no thought for converting the visitors

Virtually none of them think split testing or tracking is important…

Ho hum..

[BrilloPad]

Wow it moves quick here!

I'm fine thank you, other than being really really bored

Only 6 and a bit weeks left though (not that I'm counting or anything)

Times in tpd are very very quiet - currently about 100 posts per day. It was over 1000 at one point!

I do hope you find a way of relieving the tedium here - we pride ourselves on giving a warm welcome to everyone(unlike general where most get a good shoeing!).

6 weeks sounds a long time! Any chance of renewal? Can you afford to take time off? What is the market like in your sector?

Later I will dig out the official tpd welcome questions...

[BrilloPad]

Nearly

Zeity is not your best mate?

[BrilloPad]

Meaningful URLs are very important these days - do everything in your power to avoid things like http://example.com/article.php?id=456789, going instead for useful stuff like http://example.com/services/sheep_shearing

Most punters don't know how to hack URLs (mainly because they've had so many?id= things pushed at them over the years) but search engines like them.

more techie posts please!

[zeitghost]

Zeity is not your best mate?

<sob>

[BrilloPad]

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[BrilloPad]

http://www.thefaqqer.com/TPDQ.txt

http://www.thefaqqer.com/TPDQ2.txt

[cailin maith]

Zeity is not your best mate?

Of course he is - he is my bestest giant alien lizard mate, in the whole world.... whole universe in fact

[Jog On]

Of course he is - he is my bestest giant alien lizard mate, in the whole world.... whole universe in fact

Well that was a conversation stopper wasn’t it!

[BrilloPad]

Of course he is - he is my bestest giant alien lizard mate, in the whole world.... whole universe in fact

Exactly how many giant alien lizards do you know?