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Old 21-11-2007, 05:13 PM
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What's with the new icons on the bottom left of our posts????

...and what's a furl????
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Old 21-11-2007, 05:35 PM
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Someone of the correct generation be along soon to let us both know, I'm sure, Nicos!

Bet HW knows....

and wot's 'trackback'?
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Old 21-11-2007, 05:43 PM
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Ben's been playing
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Old 21-11-2007, 05:46 PM
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He sure has. And anyone who has worked with computers will get that heart-sinking feeling when someone says they are 'upgrading the system'. We only ever had problems after an upgrade!
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Old 21-11-2007, 05:47 PM
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Oh well! something else we'll all have to learn I expect?.
Is it exciting?
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Old 21-11-2007, 05:53 PM
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Eh up! What's a permalink? I daren't click any of them in case I inadvertently report someone to the moderators for gross moral turpitude or summat!
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Old 21-11-2007, 05:57 PM
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come out from behind that flat food Oh Web Master and explain to the old uns - oh, that'd be me then
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Old 21-11-2007, 06:10 PM
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ha ha!

Well since you asked so nicely! Well the reason the forums have been upgraded is to help the forum with search engine rankings in Google, Yahoo, MSN etc. I don't want to get too technical, but if you look at this post in the address bar you will see it's labelled as the title of this thread and what category it's in.

growfruitandveg.co.uk/grapevine/general-chitchat/dig-post-etc_10923.html

Where as before it would be something like:

growfruitandveg.co.uk/grapevine/index.php?t=10923

You will notice there's no relevant keywords in this address.

Changing this with cause search engines to rank this website in google better as it links relevant keywords in url's higher so when someone searches for garden related (and strange topics in general chat) terms in search engines chances are we will be among the top results.

The Digg, Furl etc are social bookmarking links. You can submit interesting topics to these websites for other people to discover, doing so will certainly help raise awareness of the forum so I do encourage you to submit a thread or 2 if you ever get the time!

Phewww. Any questions let me know.
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Old 21-11-2007, 06:13 PM
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A question Mr WM
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Can you help me with SEO that I'm trying to get my head around for a client?

And thanks for the explaination, makes perfect sense
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Old 21-11-2007, 07:08 PM
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ha ha!

Well since you asked so nicely! Well the reason the forums have been upgraded is to help the forum with search engine rankings in Google, Yahoo, MSN etc. I don't want to get too technical, but if you look at this post in the address bar you will see it's labelled as the title of this thread and what category it's in.

growfruitandveg.co.uk/grapevine/general-chitchat/dig-post-etc_10923.html

Where as before it would be something like:

growfruitandveg.co.uk/grapevine/index.php?t=10923

You will notice there's no relevant keywords in this address.

Changing this with cause search engines to rank this website in google better as it links relevant keywords in url's higher so when someone searches for garden related (and strange topics in general chat) terms in search engines chances are we will be among the top results.

The Digg, Furl etc are social bookmarking links. You can submit interesting topics to these websites for other people to discover, doing so will certainly help raise awareness of the forum so I do encourage you to submit a thread or 2 if you ever get the time!

Phewww. Any questions let me know.
Clear as mud!!! No problem though, I'll just start mouse cicking on my wind up puter keyboard and I'm sure I'll get the gist of it eventually!
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Old 21-11-2007, 07:16 PM
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Old 21-11-2007, 08:42 PM
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Lol, glad someone else asked, I wondered what they were too! But my brain hurts now
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Old 21-11-2007, 10:27 PM
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Clear as mud!!! No problem though, I'll just start mouse cicking on my wind up puter keyboard and I'm sure I'll get the gist of it eventually!
Don't you just love it when you're made to feel an even bigger troglodyte!!

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Old 21-11-2007, 11:00 PM
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All I can say is they are very colourful!

Thanks Ben - I THINK I understand the principle .......... but then perhaps not ........
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Old 22-11-2007, 01:40 AM
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Yes, I have a question:

Ben, Could you send someone marginally less gorgeous-looking than yourself to explain the colourful squiggly bits? If I could just concentrate less on your Avatar and more on the matter in hand, I might be somewhat the wiser, and Trousers might be less cross (!)
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Old 22-11-2007, 01:51 AM
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Yes, I have a question:

Ben, Could you send someone marginally less gorgeous-looking than yourself to explain the colourful squiggly bits? If I could just concentrate less on your Avatar and more on the matter in hand, I mighit be somewhat the wiser, and Trousers might be less cross (!)
Darling, I'm loathe to mention that not only is the beautiful Ben is nearly half your age, (tho' no-one would think of even THINKING that), that I've been curious enough to check out his webbyspaceyfaceythingy, and I didn't understand one wordy of it all at all, so think you have a better chance of communicating with your cat's friendys??

I think that if you DO click as you like on any bits you don't know, you can be safe in the knowlege that you can 'surf over' the tricksy bits and that it must already be grape-proofed before it gets as far as Wellie-destruction-testing..?

An' if it's not Wellie-proofed, there'll be a big cloud of smoke and we'll all meet up all soot-streaked at Malvern in the Spring???????
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Old 22-11-2007, 11:27 AM
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Yes, I have a question:

Ben, Could you send someone marginally less gorgeous-looking than yourself to explain the colourful squiggly bits? If I could just concentrate less on your Avatar and more on the matter in hand, I might be somewhat the wiser, and Trousers might be less cross (!)
I'm having the same trouble wellie, still don't get it, but it's always nice to look at Ben!
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Old 22-11-2007, 12:15 PM
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Aha - I suddenly see where Furl Teechythingy has come from to evilly kidnap me!!! I go away
for half a day and it takes me another half to catch up again.....utter troglodyte here

Edited to add though - if Furl techythingy actually looks anything like Ben, I don't mind being kidnapped and hidden under his cloak for a few minutes......just don't tell OH i said that
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Old 22-11-2007, 01:26 PM
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Damn! I shouldn't have tried to organise a rescue! Deepest apologies!!
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OMG Wellie and Hazel, you two are hillarious!!
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Old 22-11-2007, 01:58 PM
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Aha - I suddenly see where Furl Teechythingy has come from to evilly kidnap me!!!
In trying to spell the words I accidentally clicked on one. OMG I thought, I'll probably crash the whole Vine. Slowly opened my eyes ..... but it was just a page of boxes to fill in ........ so yes probably Grape proofed
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Old 22-11-2007, 02:43 PM
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Lovely explanation Ben but being a technophobe I'm still not clicking on anything new yet!
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