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Pick the Perfect Name for Your Startup

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A name can be a prison,” says Michael Martine, the blogging and SEO expert behind Remarkablogger. Plus, since spammers rely heavily on popular keywords, names generated solely with SEO in mind can seem spammy. Just don’t forsake that natural ability because you’re so focused on domain names, SEO and empty vessels. Is It Sticky?

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How to redirect all your pages from www to root domain using ruby.

Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

This is bad for SEO for example (plus I had some login issues). Anyway, this is the piece of code you can add in a before_filter method in your ApplicationController in a Ruby on Rails application: host = request.host.gsub(/www./,&# ) if /^www/.match(request.host) By the way, why are people still using www? I find this unnecessary.)

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How to redirect all your pages from www to root domain using ruby.

Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

This is bad for SEO for example (plus I had some login issues). Anyway, this is the piece of code you can add in a before_filter method in your ApplicationController in a Ruby on Rails application: host = request.host.gsub(/www./,&# ) if /^www/.match(request.host) By the way, why are people still using www? I find this unnecessary.)

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How to redirect all your pages from www to root domain using ruby.

Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

This is bad for SEO for example (plus I had some login issues). Anyway, this is the piece of code you can add in a before_filter method in your ApplicationController in a Ruby on Rails application: host = request.host.gsub(/www./,&# ) if /^www/.match(request.host) By the way, why are people still using www? I find this unnecessary.)

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How to build your own widget in Ruby on Rails in 10 minutes

Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

I will show in this article how I did it in 30 minutes using Ruby on Rails (hopefully you will be able to do it in less than 10 minutes thanks to this article). First I created the Widget controller: def ilove @content = render_to_string(:partial => widget/ilove_widget) render :layout => falseend 2.

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Submission to 100 directories, is it worth it?

Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

Skip to content Follow: RSS Email Twitter Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli On building profitable web applications Home Contact me Creations Blog Books Entrepreneurship & Startups General Online experiments Programming tips and tricks Startup tips and tricks Tags directory submission , seo Submission to 100 directories, is it worth it?

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Tips to kick-start the traffic of your new user-generated content.

Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

Make a list of the 5 most popular blogs in your niche and subscribe to their RSS feeds. (I I recommend Google Reader to read and subscribe to the RSS feeds). Start SEOing Start a blog. SEO is probably the best long term traffic driver for your business. It is for me a conscious effort to remember to leave a comment.

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