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Build Page Rank The Right Way! t never close them. Database connections that are not properly closed, can hold on to system resources, i.e. memory, that can eventually lead to the entire server performing slowly or crashing.I want to begin by explaining that link building is just as important as writing clean html pages, finding key words & having clean key word driven content in your site pages. This link building process can very time consuming and very difficult because there are lots of sites that will do anything to block there outgoing lin 7. Don’t optimize database queries by testing them first or by using stored procedures. Ensure each database query is only returning the columns and rows needed and that the query itself has sub-second respon You Have Huge Amounts Of Data - So Why Are You Starved Of Knowledge? Website performance is a reflection of the efficiency and credibility of your company or organization. From the most technical power users to people just learning how the Internet works, a slow website is a slow website.Despite spending hours in the 'phone or online your customers are just not connecting with you, resulting in angry customers hanging up and going elsewhere.We are becoming more and more divided by technology. Your customers' dread interactive voice-response, the on-hold music that doubles the annoyance of queuing, the codes a Sometimes the best way to avoid poor website performance is to create a checklist of things NOT to do. First, here are the quickest and easiest website performance killers. Any one of these five tips can significantly slow down your website: 1. Don’t optimize any images. Many website images or graphics are un-optimized – reduced in colors or density to ultimately reduce file size. Even with today’s blazing fast connections to the Internet, slowly loading images are noticeable. Images over 50KB in size should be optimized. 2. Create long pages of seemingly endless text and images. Often seen as helpful to SEO, long web pages can take longer to load and incur more traffic between the web server and a web browser. 3. Avoid cascading style sheets which can reduce page size and load time. Cascading style sheets also make it easier to create a consistent look-and-feel for your website. 4. Use nested tables – tables within tables – to give the appearance of nothing happening when a web page is loading. 5. Use frames. Frames are pages within pages that need to load as individual pages. Each frame requires a round-trip back to the web server which causes each URL to load slowly in the browser and creates more work for the web server. Next, here are some of the more subtle yet lethal ways to slow your website down: 6. Open database connections but never close them. Database connections that are not properly closed, can hold on to system resources, i.e. memory, that can eventually lead to the entire server performing slowly or crashing. 7. Don’t optimize database queries by testing them first or by using stored procedures. Ensure each database query is only returning the columns and rows needed and that the query itself has sub-second respons Can't Get Enough Squid y one of these five tips can significantly slow down your website:I am a squidoo fanatic! I must have about 10 different squidoo pages. I will probably end up with a squidoo page for each of the major categories on my website. They are so much fun to make and they are easy enough that anyone can do it.So, what is squidoo? Well, it’s kind of like a myspace page (only without the pretty layouts 1. Don’t optimize any images. Many website images or graphics are un-optimized – reduced in colors or density to ultimately reduce file size. Even with today’s blazing fast connections to the Internet, slowly loading images are noticeable. Images over 50KB in size should be optimized. 2. Create long pages of seemingly endless text and images. Often seen as helpful to SEO, long web pages can take longer to load and incur more traffic between the web server and a web browser. 3. Avoid cascading style sheets which can reduce page size and load time. Cascading style sheets also make it easier to create a consistent look-and-feel for your website. 4. Use nested tables – tables within tables – to give the appearance of nothing happening when a web page is loading. 5. Use frames. Frames are pages within pages that need to load as individual pages. Each frame requires a round-trip back to the web server which causes each URL to load slowly in the browser and creates more work for the web server. Next, here are some of the more subtle yet lethal ways to slow your website down: 6. Open database connections but never close them. Database connections that are not properly closed, can hold on to system resources, i.e. memory, that can eventually lead to the entire server performing slowly or crashing. 7. Don’t optimize database queries by testing them first or by using stored procedures. Ensure each database query is only returning the columns and rows needed and that the query itself has sub-second respon The Key To Business Success ext and images. Often seen as helpful to SEO, long web pages can take longer to load and incur more traffic between the web server and a web browser.The key to business success is really quite simple. It is your ability to offer a product or service that people will pay for at a price sufficiently above your costs to produce. Ideally you need to price your product or service at three to five times your cost, thereby giving you a profit that enables you to buy and offer more produc 3. Avoid cascading style sheets which can reduce page size and load time. Cascading style sheets also make it easier to create a consistent look-and-feel for your website. 4. Use nested tables – tables within tables – to give the appearance of nothing happening when a web page is loading. 5. Use frames. Frames are pages within pages that need to load as individual pages. Each frame requires a round-trip back to the web server which causes each URL to load slowly in the browser and creates more work for the web server. Next, here are some of the more subtle yet lethal ways to slow your website down: 6. Open database connections but never close them. Database connections that are not properly closed, can hold on to system resources, i.e. memory, that can eventually lead to the entire server performing slowly or crashing. 7. Don’t optimize database queries by testing them first or by using stored procedures. 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Database connections that are not properly closed, can hold on to system resources, i.e. memory, that can eventually lead to the entire server performing slowly or crashing. 7. Don’t optimize database queries by testing them first or by using stored procedures. Ensure each database query is only returning the columns and rows needed and that the query itself has sub-second respon Tips for Hiring and Firing t never close them. Database connections that are not properly closed, can hold on to system resources, i.e. memory, that can eventually lead to the entire server performing slowly or crashing.The success or failure of any business depends on the people who work for you. Hiring a new employee is a very difficult job. Finding the candidate with the right attitude, skills, and behavior can be exasperating. Even the best human resources manager can fail to find the right candidate. Firing an employee is an equally painful proc 7. Don’t optimize database queries by testing them first or by using stored procedures. Ensure each database query is only returning the columns and rows needed and that the query itself has sub-second response time. 8. Use lengthy comments in the HTML code which no one will ever see but will be loaded by the browser. 9. Use java applets for unnecessary animation. While java applets can be useful, using them for showing a simple animation can be time consuming as the java compiler needs to load. 10. Don’t monitor your website for performance trends of web page response times. Software to monitor website performance is widely available and can pinpoint the best and worst time periods that your website is responding. It can also alert you when your website is not responding at all. Copyright 2006 ExclamationSoft
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