http://pimteam.net Bobby Handzhiev on Web, Technology And Small Business Tue, 22 Jul 2008 12:32:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Just a quick update on the widgetbait case study. Today the target investment calculator page is ranking on page 5 in Google and on page 12 in Live. Yahoo is still not showing it within the first 20 pages. Fifth page in Google may not be a huge thing but is ... http://pimteam.net/2008/07/22/widgetbait-case-study-update-2/ If you have no idea what is all about, please check the first post. There is no PR update yet, but 10 days after releasing the investment calculator plugin the first results can be seen. Searches for "investment calculator plugin", "investment calculator wordpress", "investment calculator wordpress plugin" and "investment calculator wp" ... http://pimteam.net/2008/06/30/widgetbait-case-study-continued/ Do you remember how websites looked 3-4 years ago? There was no Ajax at all, maybe only some fancy useless HTML. Is it now better? In general, I think yes. But Ajax is often being a bit abused, and what's worst people want Ajax in their web applications no matter ... http://pimteam.net/2008/06/26/six-ajax-problems-that-make-your-application-look-dumb/ A couple months ago I made a small test with FirstTimer Worpdress Plugin. When published it and with almost no effort the page got PR 6 and still has it. Considering that the homepage of this site has only PR 3, this sounded quite interesting. The Investment Calculator Case Study When I ... http://pimteam.net/2008/06/20/widgetbait-case-study-a-wordpress-plugin/ We are a company specialized in... We are a team of professionals that... Welcome to our website! We made it to... Zzzzzzzzzz.... Next time when you make your company or personal website spend less time thinking about that rounded blue corner that no one will notice and put some effort to make the entire ... http://pimteam.net/2008/05/05/your-website-is-boring/ I just wrote a simple plugin for Wordpress which lets you display some text, HTML code and/or images to your first time visitors. It works with a cookie, so you know, some may see it more than once. Enjoy the plugin here. http://pimteam.net/2008/03/12/wordpress-plugin-for-first-time-visitors-on-your-blog/ Some time ago I wrote about how to stop spammers without Captcha. The technique described there works pretty sweet on several sites already, but there is a way to go even further. The Problem Well to be frank, the spam protection described in the previous post works at 100% already in ... http://pimteam.net/2008/02/21/use-ajax-to-stop-spammers/ Do you know why PHP was initially created? I am sure you do, but many programmers have forgotten. The first purpose of PHP was to create simple dynamic web pages. Who knows why (seriously, do you know WHY?) groups of PHP developers keep working on PHP template engines which are supposed ... http://pimteam.net/2008/01/06/stop-using-php-template-engines-once-and-for-all-why-smarty-is-evil/ How do you sell yourself, your services or your products? There are many approaches, but surprisingly most people go with one - blatant self promotion. I guess I won't surprise you if I told you self promotion and hype no longer work. There are several well known online marketing "gurus" who own ... http://pimteam.net/2007/12/12/honesty-sells/ Back in 1875 one person invented a tool that changed the world in the way that Internet is changing it today. This smart guy arranged an agreement with two other men to invest in his invention. The three men formed a company to explore the new opportunities. By 1914 the new ... http://pimteam.net/2007/11/01/why-e-commuting-is-the-best-way-to-expand-your-business/