So my friend was looking on craigslist for free something and he says to me, 'Ya know there's a lot of freelance web stuff that people seem to need but there's a lot of names of things that I'm not familiar with'. So I take a look and I find lots of tems used like, LAMP and SEO. Now if I'm not mistaken, LAMP is just a fancy way of saying that you know how to upload php files (for example)and use Mysql on a Linux/Unix machine... And SEO just means you know how to not abuse meta-tags while properly placing keywords in your pages...right? Am I missing something here?

2/13/2007 1:46:28 PM

LAMP is Linux + Apache + MySQL + PHP

It implies a knowledge of the whole architecture and how it works together.

SEO = Search Engine Optimization. It's about 40% truth and 60% snake oil. There are some people who really can boost your rankings and views, but the overwhleming majority are just going to resell a packaged product

2/13/2007 1:49:39 PM

i'm having a hard time reading your level of sarcasm/cynisym.

all those acronymns and techno-jargon actually do have real meanings, but yes, they're often over or mis-used. If someone is a "LAMP Expert", then I would expect them to be fully proficient in linux, apache, mysql and php/python/perl. If someone just dabbles in PHP, then he shouldn't be considered a "LAMP guy".
Similarly, SEO is an industry in itself, and someone who just knows how to use the meta tag and has an AdWords account should not be able to use the term SEO.

2/13/2007 1:52:29 PM

http://www.wikipedia.org

Seriously, if you want a quick overview of anything technical, go there. If you want something in-depth / accurate to the period mark, don't go there.

2/13/2007 5:13:59 PM

Well I was just wondering because I've never referred to or used the term LAMP...and as for SEO, well, I know what it is, I just wasn't sure if it was something other than what I thought...

But speaking of SEO.... Let's say I design and host webpages for a number of clients...and let's say that on each of their sites, I add an additional page (one that wouldn't link from any of their other pages just a completely seperate random page) and on that page I had links to say 'mysite.com'. It's not bothering any body and if the whole pagerank thing works, then it would help mysite.com's placement in search engines, right? Is this something though that somehow mysite.com's site would be penalized for in the rankings?

2/13/2007 5:37:15 PM

umm, yeah. it could get your site and the site hosting the mini-link farm kicked off of google.

read this for a barebones guide to SEO
http://blog.outer-court.com/archive/2007-01-07-n13.html

2/13/2007 5:58:03 PM

i dabble in html and skripting.

i can outsmart google.

2/14/2007 3:23:03 AM

Quote :

"I add an additional page (one that wouldn't link from any of their other pages just a completely seperate random page) and on that page I had links to say 'mysite.com'. It's not bothering any body and if the whole pagerank thing works, then it would help mysite.com's placement in search engines, right? Is this something though that somehow mysite.com's site would be penalized for in the rankings?"

It wouldnt do anything.

Page Ranking works by the spider crawling through page navigation. Unless you specifically submitted those orphan pages to be indexed, they never would be. If you did submit them, google and most other search engines will flag them quickly as link farms and kill the index.

Page Rank is positively gained by your site being linked to, in context, within the natural content of another site.

2/14/2007 1:16:11 PM