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I just added an RSS feed widget to my site (see the lower right corner - the DZone links). I frequent dZone a decent amount, and I find a lot of the articles interesting.

However, after some thought I became concerned that ten sitewide external links might be a bit of a drain on my pagerank. If only I could add “rel=nofollow” to all those links. But there’s no option in the RSS Widget to do that.
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Ahh, the never ending quest for backlinks.

There are plenty of places to look for free backlinks - some of better quality than others. One trick you can use to build up a decent collection of backlinks is to regularly post on forums in your niche.
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While I was browsing through dzone today, I stumbled on this 3d button css tutorial by Dave Woods.

Using some simple css and a little color know-how, he shows you how to turn a square button into a pseudo 3-dimensional button. I’ll take it a step further and add a gradient background image to enhance the lighting effect. Like this…
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You may have stumbled upon the section on writing for Associated Content - for money.

But even if you’re not interested in being published on someone else’s site, AC can be a great tool for you as a webmaster. You can use it to get optimized backlinks and targeted traffic.
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In standard HTML, tooltips seem to be reserved for anchor tags - i.e. links. They get the all-powerful “title” attribute which is turned into a tooltip.

There are plenty of other times that you’d want to use a tooltip, though. If you’re wondering how, check out this previous post on how to create a custom tooltip with css.

Otherwise, read on for some thoughts on when to use these tooltips.
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This site is fairly new. Ok, it’s really new. So, naturally, I’ve been looking for ways to increase backlinks, search engine visibility, and traffic.

I’ve tried out a few methods, with varying success. What has worked really well, so far, is submitting an article to a niche site: Good Tutorials.
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I was browsing around the PHP forum on Daniweb and came across this problem in a post.

Here’s the situation.

The guy wanted to send out a newsletter, so he grabbed a pre-fabbed newsletter script. The PHP script seemed to work fine - it read an HTML template and then fired off the e-mail in HTML form.

There was just one problem: none of the images were appearing in the HTML e-mail when he tried to view it.
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