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A bit ago alexa has been used in several topics, so I digged up one of the articles I stored to post here. Alexa, which is owned by Amazon.com, gives away a free toolbar that you can download and install in your browser. Alexa is then able to keep track of the sites you visit and compute the traffic ranking of those websites, with a rank of "1" being the assigned to the most visited site. If you want a more technical definition, Alexa explains it like this: "The traffic rank is based on three months of aggregated historical traffic data from millions of Alexa Toolbar users and data obtained from other, diverse traffic data sources, and is a combined measure of page views and users (reach). As a first step, Alexa computes the reach and number of page views for all sites on the Web on a daily basis. The main Alexa traffic rank is based on a value derived from these two quantities averaged over time (so that the rank of a site reflects both the number of users who visit that site as well as the number of pages on the site viewed by those users)." http://www.alexa.com/site/help/traffic_learn_more In April 2008 Alexa revised its methodology so as to "aggregate data from multiple sources to give you a better indication of website popularity among the entire population of Internet users". http://awis.blogspot.com/2008_04_01_archive.html How accurately this method reflects the actual surfing patterns of all Internet users is open to question. However, if you bear in mind that by the end of 2005 the toolbar had been downloaded well over 10 million times you will realize why many people still think that Alexa offers one of the best approximations that we have of website ranking, especially for the top 100,000 or so websites. That is why Alexa remains an important measure of a website's status and is used as a quick way to assess the popularity of a website by advertisers looking for the maximum exposure for the their money. Websites with a higher Alexa ranking also tend to be trusted more than those with a low ranking, so it is in the interest of website owners to get their sites ranked as highly as possible with Alexa. Here are some quick and easy tips to help you do that without spending a single dollar! 1. Install the Alexa toolbar and set your website as your homepage. 2. Copy and paste an Alexa rank widget onto your website. You can get the widget code at http://www.alexa.com/site/site_stats/signup. As well as informing your visitors about your Alexa rank, it will also keep Alexa updated about the number of unique visitors surfing your site. 3. Create a customized version of the Alexa tool bar, Then place a link on your site to the download page and invite your visitors to download it. You will also earn Amazon commissions every time a user shops on Amazon via the toolbar link. 4. If you have a Wordpress blog there is a plug-in for Alexa Ranking (wp-Alexa-redirect-0.3plug-in) that you can use. 5. Submit your site to web directories. Although a lot of directories charge a registration fee, you can still find many that are willing to l?st your site free of charge or in exchange for a reciprocal link. A lot of the webmasters who browse web directories have the Alexa bar installed, so if they cl?ck your link it will help your Alexa traffic rank. 6. Become an active participant on Internet marketing and SEO forums. Again, a lot of those forum participants are already webmasters and a high percentage will use the Alexa toolbar when they surf. Place a link to your site in your signature and your rank will improve when any of those people cl?ck through. 7. A lot of Asian and Australian websites feature in the Alexa top 100,000 and you can bet that a lot of website owners will have the Alexa toolbar installed, so it makes sense to join social networking sites that are popular in those regions, such as: http://www.orkut.com - Orkut is owned by Google and is the second most visited site in India. http://hi5.com - Hi5 has an Alexa ranking of 17. 8. Become an Alexa expert and post articles that discuss Alexa ranking and SEO tips. This will attract people to your site who may be interested in downloading your toolbar, or people who have already done so. Either way, it will be good for your Alexa ranking. You could even build a whole category of articles on your website devoted to this theme. 9. Set up a freebie page on your website and post a l?st of useful tools to attract other website owners to your site. Include another link to your Alexa toolbar download page. 10. Get into the habit of using Stumbleupon and other bookmarking sites to spread the word whenever you post a new article on your website or blog. Set up a group of fellow website owners so that you can have run reciprocal stumbling campaigns for better results. If you apply these ten quick and easy methods you will definitely see an improvement in your Alexa rank and you should also start to attract more traff?c to your site! Author: Darrell Howell

Re: Torque engine Well price range is around 35k USD which is relative cheap knowing time and work that it involves to develop a game.

Re: Torque engine atm busy talking with some torque engine devs and yea gfx wise will take the biggest chunk of a budget, yet there is a lot available where you can obtain a license for...content paradise allthough poser mainly holds also the models for maya etc ... (the object files) and that's relative cheap yet will most likely not be unique.

Re: Torque engine http://www.garagegames.com/ a recent game made with Torque Advanced Beta http://www.dreamlords.com

Just wondering if anyone 'played' yet with the Torque engine example of a game made with this engine is DreamLords License is relative cheap for this engine.

Re: Chat Log - HostGator - Be carefull Follow up mail from HostGator: Hello, I am Thomas Spear from HostGator. We recently received some of your customers in our live chat to inquire about the email that was sent out regarding an apparent change in the ToS with respects to arcade scripts. I want to first apologize on behalf of everyone here at HostGator that the information provided to you by Douglas Gr was incorrect. We at HostGator believe that many of our customers like to run a wide variety of sites, from blogs, to businesses, and even sites for fun. In that belief, our founder, Brent Oxley decided that as long as a php script does not require any sort of streaming to or from the server, in order to run, then that script is ok to be used on our servers. In checking with our security team, who handle abuse complaints as well as server load issues due to buggy scripts, myself as well as my supervisor, William Bl. have verified that your script does not necessarily require streaming. The exact words used to describe what is allowed is as follows: "Single player flash games which completely download to the client computer before being rendered by Flash are ok". I want to assure you personally that this confusion will be investigated fully by a member of the supervisors team and we will take any necessary action to prevent this sort of thing from happening again. Once again, I sincerely apologize for the confusion that this has caused to both yourself and to your customers, and can only ask that you please provide the full chat transcript from your recent chat with Doug to [email protected] along with a copy of the chat transcript from tigoon which has been recently posted on your forums, so that our supervisors can see exactly what transpired. If you have any questions or further concerns, please feel free to reply back to me directly and I will be sure to answer you as soon as I can. If I am unable to answer you myself, I will pass your email along to the supervisor on shift for further information. Thank you very much for your time. Thomas Spear HostGator.com Level 2 Chat Support HostGator.com Level 1 Linux Admin HostGator.com Transfers

From Rick (phparcade) I have been informed by hostgator.com that they will take down any site on there shared hosting that is a games site , including arcades. I highly recommend not getting their hosting. This came as a surprise to me, when I went to ask them about a problem I was seeing with their hosting. This is a chatlog that rick had with HostGator earlier today (1:12:44 PM) Douglass Gr: All I can say is that we don't even allow game sites on shared servers. (1:12:56 PM) Douglass Gr: I can't assist here. (1:12:56 PM) rick: arcade sites? (1:13:01 PM) rick: its not a gaming site (1:13:14 PM) Douglass Gr: What kind of games? (1:13:20 PM) rick: arcade games (1:13:24 PM) rick: phparcadesite.com (1:13:27 PM) rick: is my demo (1:13:49 PM) Douglass Gr: That's what I mean. We don't allow them. When they're found they typically get suspended.

Re: My first Login your using photobucket, just activate the thumbnail img tags at photobucket

Re: Filtering out PHP code   Not sure if it's relavant to this topic but here it is ... here is a example function with file_get_contents() template related function template($title,$meta_description,$meta_keywords,$meta_robots,$main_content){   function template($title,$meta_description,$meta_keywords,$meta_robots,$main_content){ if (!$title){ $title = 'CE TopWebGames'; } if (!$meta_description){ $meta_description = 'description'; } if (!$meta_keywords){ $meta_keywords = $site_name.', blah, blah2, blah3, ...blah30'; } if (!$meta_robots){ $meta_robots = 'index, follow'; } $main_content .= ''; echo str_replace(array("[+]title[+]", "[+]meta_description[+]", "[+]meta_keywords[+]", "[+]meta_robots[+]", "[+]main_content[+]"), array($title, $meta_description, $meta_keywords, $meta_robots, $main_content), file_get_contents('headerandfooter.txt')); }   so main_content. = is basicly your echo for the main content of your template title, meta stuff becomes dynamic as you asign for each page a new value, yet you use the same template file in my case simply headerandfooter.txt so at my txt file ... (main content example)   ... <div id="maincontent"> [+]main_content[+] </div> ...   [ + ]main_content[ + ] gets nicely replaced by all that has to be echo'd

Re: Auto Fed Url links in mail interesting I would like to see how you will filter/block some examples http://www.criminalexistence.com (ok easy to filter by looking for http:// ) www.criminalexistence.com (again easy to filter by looking for www ) criminalexistence.com (starts to become difficult what if it's a sentence ... .come to ...) w w w . criminalexistence . c o m (also fun)

Re: [mccode] login/register addon and the list is horizontal not vertical, off course if you forget the css it shows vertical

Re: Hacker so look at a way how to solve that with a dynamic IP example login > check previous logged in IP if not the same > mail validation validate, updates your new IP and you can login

Re: [mccode] login/register addon err don't put it between <td> tags revamp your main page template as it should be and the example I gave is taken from listomatic just lil alterd to show the same .... there are other ways to have the same effect eg a #nav.p {style} <p id=nav>..<a href=... anyway just try to get rid of tabled layouts and stop using <center> as it's a deprecated element

Re: [showcase] Assassins-Empire.com   guess you never heard of notepad+, crimsoneditor, etc if you are always on cpanel editing/adding/improving things ....

Re: [V2 (maybe V1)] login/register addon How it should be ! The above snippet works but is a bad example of html... sorry Solid Snake Why is it bad ? * Tabled layouts , a table shouldn't be used for a layout but only for tabular data. * The center element was deprecated in HTML 4.01. * The center element is not supported in XHTML 1.0 Strict DTD. Your HTML   <div id="navcontainer"> <ul id="navlist"> <li id="active">[url="login.php"]Login[/url] [*][url="register.php"]Register[/url] [*][url="tos.php"]T&C[/url] [*][url="privacy.php"]Privacy[/url] [*][url="screenshots.php"]Screenshots[/url] [*][url="contact.php"]Contact Us[/url] [/list] </div>   What should arive in your css file or at least between style tags   #navcontainer ul { padding-left: 0; margin-left: 0; background-color: #036; color: White; float: left; width: 100%; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; } #navcontainer ul li { display: inline; } #navcontainer ul li a { padding: 0.2em 1em; background-color: #036; color: White; text-decoration: none; float: left; border-right: 1px solid #fff; } #navcontainer ul li a:hover { background-color: #369; color: #fff; }   Taken from listomatic

Re: Chavster! This Account Has Been Suspended. Please contact the billing/support department as soon as possible.

Re: [mccode v2] Staff Applications   It's called RFC "*** THE *** Internet Standards" but after reading a few pages you prob gonna say screw it.

Re: Code Optimizing... didn't check but what does it do ? removing all whitespace and line breaks ... that's not optimizing code at all ...   start looking at your mysql syntax and optimize that

Re: PBBG Contest Yea zeggy contacted me about it as about his game engine

Re: [mccode v2] Staff Applications <font color = deprecated element has to be css

Re: [mccode v2] inventory.php My reply was directed to floydians reply sp1d3r you didn't even say in your posts previously that you are a programmer.

Re: [mccode v2] inventory.php silly question floydian most people are copy/paste/alter {insert sarcasm programmers} without understanding the syntax

Re: New Host needed Urgently A bit late to post in this thread but discovered something interesting yesterday. Hostgator is actually a theplanet.com reseller. Their P4 dedi at $174 month can directly be obtained from the planet for a fraction of what hostgator asks. Now those that want to fight this finding just check the IP of your hostgator server or do a traceroute.

Re: PHP Memory Limit hmmm if you are on a VPS you should have minimum 512Mb available now corrupted tables can also give issues maybe try a repair/optimize on your mysql db

Re: PHP Memory Limit normally you can create a php.ini file and put it your web root and it should use your settings compared to the webhosts standard settings. possible ways create a php.ini and ad following line adjust 12M if needed to higher memory_limit = 12M or through htaccess add php_value memory_limit 12M again adjust/increase memory value as needed if these don't work contact your webhost as proposed by floydian