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SEO Building Blocks Part 2: Back Links & Off-Site SEO

Written by Estevan Montoya

Category: Blog

When you have a website, you want it to be read, or at least I do. I don't want to put time, money, and effort into something that ends up on the back side of the search engines. I want my websites to be found. This is SEO (Search Engine Optimization) comes into play. In our recent SEO article, we spoke about on site SEO, which teaches how to optimize your website for better results when search engines scan your site. The next foundation building block to successful SEO is off site SEO, link building and quality backlinks.

How Do I Build Backlinks & My External SEO?

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The Important Differences Between Notices, Warnings, Exceptions, and Errors

Written by Matthew Millet

Category: Blog

Some of the earliest pitfalls beginning PHP developers have to overcome have to do with misunderstanding the differences between notices, warning, exceptions, and errors. They often seem like the same thing, but they're handling and resolution is drastically different. Even the best of us sometimes trip over error handling, but remembering and understanding the differences between these four features, and I would call PHP's error notifications features, can be more crucial to making good code than style or comments. Don't worry, it's easy.

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SEO Building Blocks: Going Higher & Higher

Written by Estevan Montoya

Category: Blog

Do you remember one of the greatest toys ever to be brought to children all across the world? What is it? LEGOS...And I loved them growing up. I remember getting them for Christmas and trying to build the set without using the instructions, and I normally failed, like most people. After I finally completed the set according to the instructions, I would let them sit for a while in perfect display, as if it came right off the cover of the box. Well, that got boring fast, so I would trash it, and make my own masterpiece as a 10 year old boy. I remember taking all my pieces and trying to build my own cites. One that never failed was the high my buildings became, the stronger my foundation had to be.

Looking back, as a kid, I didn't know building terms and things like foundation, but I was pretty quick to realize that every building would fall if the bottom block were not in proper place. The foundation of anything will determine how high it can go or how long something will last. The same is true for websites. If you want your page to go higher in the search engines, then you need to lay the proper foundation. There are many new trends and buzzwords in the web world. They are all great, and should be taken advantage of, but there are some fundamental aspects that we need to heed to in our SEO efforts.

What Are The Building Blocks To Successful SEO? 

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Inheritance in OOPHP - Some of What You Can Do and When To Do It

Written by Matthew Millet

Category: Blog

One of the key techniques of the object oriented programming paradigm is the ability to have your classes inherit functionality from other classes. This is one of the most powerful advantages of object oriented programming. It will allow for a whole new dimension of reusable code in your programs, as well as an increased universality in the method calls from your classes. Inheritance is critical to large, and flexible projects like a CMS or Lexy sites. Object oriented PHP (OOPHP) has great functionality for inheritance, but a good deal of it can be a bit intimidating to developers who aren't sure of what it can do and when to do it.

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