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FTP Tutorial : Overview

FTP is a commonly known and used acronym for the words ‘File Transfer Protocol’. FTP has become an imperative part of the World Wide Web (for both surfers downloading files and webmasters building websites) due to the reality of it being the fastest way to send and receive files from one computer to another over the internet. If you plan on building and maintaining a website of your own, it is important that you have the necessary skills and information to perform basic commands through an FTP client software
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PHP/MySQL Tutorial

By Graeme Merral : Open source has brought a lot more than Linux to the computing world. It has also given us PHP and MySQL. According to Graeme, PHP and MySQL are the world’s best combination for creating data-driven sites. In the first installment of this three-lesson tutorial, our Kiwi guide covers everything you need to know to begin developing database hubs. He gives instructions for installation on both Unix and Windows, and then goes on to show some simple scripts that will insert information into a database and display that data on a Web page.
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What is Link Popularity?

The theory goes something like this: The search engine Powers That Be have decided that if other sites are linking to your site, it must be a winner; therefore, it deserves a boost in rankings (when all else is equal). If you think about it, this makes a lot of sense. People link to good sites, not bad ones.
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Keyword Density: How Much Is Too Much

Copywriting for search engines is one of the more important aspects of the SEO industry. Ensuring your content is relevant and keyword rich is an effective method to “impress” the search engines. By impress, I mean that the majority of search engines value optimized content with keyword-laden text. However, if you have too much keyword density, Google and others can consider this spam, and may penalize your site.
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What is the difference between shared & dedicated hosting?

Dedicated web hosting is different from shared web hosting in that your website is the only one on the server, and thus no resources are “shared”.

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