It is always very difficult to agree that the variant you have just approved for yourself will be a "prize-winner" in search engine positioning race. But look at the URLs of Google-toppers and maybe that will make you think another way. Creativity and some luck (you must be lucky to find the domain name you would like to get free) are major players here!!

I wouldn't like to list all those "globalwarming-awareness2007" coms, nets, orgs, and other. I am aiming at the most witty variants I can find on the net.

Here are some of them: www.globalwarming-awareness2k7.info/, www.e-globalwarming-awareness2007.com/, earth-globalwarming-awareness2007.com/, globalwarmingawareness2007theblog.com/, www.globalwarmingawareness2007contest.com/, www.eglobalwarmingawareness2007.com/, globalwarming.awareness2007.com/, www.see-globalwarming-awareness2007.com/... The list can be too long to cover all the variants possible, but even here one can see how adding a word or only one letter - let it be even smth not topic related one - can help you preserve the keyword (key phrase) in your URL.

Hyphens are mostly common in such variants, but we can find even subdomains consisted of the divided key phrase. Some lucky people (I am) can find even this: globalwarming-awareness2007.seocontestssuck.com/

If you've found something of interest - post it here! Let other people know the variants!

My impression, in these days, is that it's not necessary a big number of links, but few good links per month.
I think that Google is implementing something like a "sandbox" for sites getting too many links in a short term.

I think that is largely dependent on the level of authority your site commands, but even more dependent on the quality of those links.

If you have an established authoritative domain I don't believe there are negative implications with getting too many links too soon. There are many examples we can point to where a site can naturally gain thousands of links within a few days such as an exclusive news story breaking on a site that gets picked up by the media and blogs, or a new widget getting picked up thousands of customers.

With a newer site I might take a more conservative approach when building links...but the same concept applies.

How many links do you think some site acquired within the first few days it launched? Hundreds? Thousands? And it wasn't penalized.....

Oops Links Links and Links......

We need to be #1, how can we get links? Almost every other client has this question.

My answer:

1. Content: If you don't have content on your website, you don't deserve links. So work on the content, make it worthy of a read.
2. Services: Do you really exist? What do you do? Do you offer something unique? If you are doing something useful probably there are a bunch who want to talk about your site.
3. Don't live in an era of Link exchange. Those days are almost over, rely on creating talkable content. There are tons of articles on it.
4. Focus on few links, get the relationship moving. If a public speaker is impressed with your website, he will spread to many who will link back. So make sure you take your site to people who are talkers for your subject.
5. Press releases are tricky, don't publish one article across many sites, max 5 and if possible, let all of these articles contain a link to one article so that you can cash in more juice.
6. News websites: There are tons of services that offer paid exposure and getting you to news sites.
7. Gadgets: Make gadgets and get links from there. It will also prompt many people to talk about your services.
8. Target technical neighborhood, they like to talk about things, so keep doing something that they can talk about.

There is a ton that one can write about links. I wish I had enough time. You can get some good links for $s too (most of them do it but very smartly).

But remember this formula
Year 2003: - Page based optimization, get links to targeted pages only.
Year 2008: Site based optimization, get links to site, make your site credible, pages of a credible websites are credible, get some topical links to the pages and you rock the SERPS.

Easy said than done . Do your dirty work yourself or pay the experts.

We need passing username to the first field ("Recipient:") and value="10" to field "Amount:" (or 5, or 20 or any value you consider better).

Find function cp_module_donate() in the script /wp-content/plugins/cubepoints/modules/donate/donate.js
and function cubepoints_bp_profile() in the file /wp-content/plugins/cubepoints-buddypress-integration/includes/bp-cubepoint-functions.php

We will just add "username" variable to cp_module_donate()
I've added value="'+username+'" to the first input, and value="10" to second input.
function cp_module_donate(){ changed to function cp_module_donate(username){

Here is my result for mentioned function (donate.js file):

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function cp_module_donate(username){
  confirmation = cp_donate.confirmation;
  thebox = new Boxy('<form name="cp_donate" id="cp_donate" method="post" onsubmit="Boxy.confirm(confirmation,function(){cp_module_donate_do();});return false;"><label for="cp_recipient">'+cp_donate.recipient+':</label><br /><input type="text" id="cp_recipient" name="cp_recipient" style="width:300px;" value="'+username+'" /><br /><br /><label for="cp_points">'+cp_donate.amount+':</label><br /><input type="text" id="cp_points" name="cp_points" style="width:300px;" value="10" /><br /><br /><label for="cp_message">'+cp_donate.message+':</label><br /><textarea id="cp_message" name="cp_message" style="width:300px;height:50px;"></textarea><br /><br /><input type="submit" value="'+cp_donate.donate_points+'" style="width:300px;" /></form>', {title: cp_donate.donate, modal: true});
}

Now we need set variable "username" when cp_module_donate(username) function was called.
It should look somehow like this:

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onclick="Javascript:cp_module_donate('<?php echo bp_core_get_username($bp->displayed_user->id); ?>');"

In addition I've changed title for link: title=""
And removed "Rank - " from user-rank. I think word "Newbie" is enough and looks better than "Rank - Newbie".

Ok, here is result of customized function cubepoints_bp_profile() (file /wp-content/plugins/cubepoints-buddypress-integration/includes/bp-cubepoint-functions.php)

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function cubepoints_bp_profile() {
 
	global $bp;
 
	if(function_exists('cp_displayPoints')){ ?>
		<span class="cubepoints_buddypress"><?php echo cp_displayPoints($bp->displayed_user->id); ?></span>
	<?php }
 
	if(cp_module_activated('donate')){
		if (is_user_logged_in()) { ?>
			<span class="cupepoints_buddypress_donate"><a href="#" title="<?php _e('Share Points(say Thanks!)', 'cp_buddypress'); ?>" onclick="Javascript:cp_module_donate('<?php echo bp_core_get_username($bp->displayed_user->id); ?>');" class="thickbox cp_donateLink"><?php _e('Add Points', 'cp_buddypress'); ?></a></span>
	<?php } }
 
	if(cp_module_activated('ranks')){ ?>
		<span class="cupepoints_buddypress_rank"><?php /*_e('Rank', 'cp_buddypress');*/ ?><?php echo cp_module_ranks_getRank($bp->displayed_user->id); ?></span>
	<?php }
 
}
 
?>

Additionally you can change output for donation popup window.
Check file /wp-content/plugins/cubepoints/modules/donate/donate.php
Here is example of customized values:

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wp_localize_script( 'cp_donate_script', 'cp_donate', array(
  ajax_url=>get_bloginfo('url').'/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php',
  confirmation=>__('Are you sure you want to share your points?', 'cp'),
  recipient=>__('Recipient', 'cp'),
  message=>__('Message', 'cp'),
  amount=>__('Amount (10 points should be Ok)', 'cp'),
  donate_points=>__('Submit!', 'cp'),
  donate=>__('Add Points from your Score', 'cp')
) );

Any questions or suggestions?

I think your theme contains comments.php and this file calls wp_list_comments function to show replies. Something like that:

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Don't modify wp-includes/comment-template.php! It is not correct and will be removed after your next WP update.
We can set for wp_list_comments callback function, the function that will be called instead of main part of start_el.

Ok, here is my example of making CubePoints and Ranks displayed in comments for WordPress 3.3.1
For wp_list_comments I've set callback-function comment_template_cp (comments.php file of my wp theme):

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include_once( ABSPATH . 'wp-admin/includes/plugin.php' );
if (is_plugin_active('cubepoints/cubepoints.php')) {
  wp_list_comments(array('avatar_size' => 70, 'callback' => 'comment_template_cp'));
}else{wp_list_comments(array('avatar_size' => 70));}
?>

In functions.php file of my theme I've inserted comment_template_cp function (modified start_el):

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function comment_template_cp($comment, $args, $depth) {
 
    $GLOBALS['comment'] = $comment;
    extract($args, EXTR_SKIP);
 
    if ( 'div' == $args['style'] ) { $tag = 'div'; $add_below = 'comment';
      } else { $tag = 'li'; $add_below = 'div-comment'; }
?>
    <<?php echo $tag ?> <?php comment_class(empty( $args['has_children'] ) ? '' : 'parent') ?> id="comment-<?php comment_ID() ?>">
    <?php if ( 'div' != $args['style'] ) : ?>
    <div id="div-comment-<?php comment_ID() ?>" class="comment-body">
    <?php endif; ?>
    <div class="comment-author vcard">
    <?php if ($args['avatar_size'] != 0) echo get_avatar( $comment, $args['avatar_size'] ); ?>
    <?php printf(__('<cite class="fn">%s</cite>'), get_comment_author_link()) ?> 
<?php
$user = get_userdata($comment->user_id);
if(function_exists('cp_displayPoints') && $user->ID){
  echo '<span class="cubepoints_buddypress">'; cp_displayPoints($user->ID); echo '</span>';
  if(function_exists('cp_module_ranks_getRank')) echo ' <span class="cupepoints_buddypress_rank">'.cp_module_ranks_getRank($user->ID).'</span>';
}
?>
<span class="says"></span>
    </div>
  <?php if ($comment->comment_approved == '0') : ?>
    <em class="comment-awaiting-moderation"><?php _e('Your comment is awaiting moderation.') ?></em>
    <br />
  <?php endif; ?>
 
    <div class="comment-meta commentmetadata"><a href="<?php echo htmlspecialchars( get_comment_link( $comment->comment_ID ) ) ?>">
      <?php
        /* translators: 1: date, 2: time */
        printf( __('%1$s at %2$s'), get_comment_date(),  get_comment_time()) ?></a><?php edit_comment_link(__('(Edit)'),'&nbsp;&nbsp;','' );
      ?>
    </div>
 
    <?php comment_text() ?>
 
    <div class="reply">
    <?php comment_reply_link(array_merge( $args, array('add_below' => $add_below, 'depth' => $depth, 'max_depth' => $args['max_depth']))) ?>
    </div>
    <?php if ( 'div' != $args['style'] ) : ?>
    </div>
    <?php endif; ?>
<?php
}

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<?php
$user = get_userdata($comment->user_id);
if(function_exists('cp_displayPoints') && $user->ID){
  echo '<span class="cubepoints_buddypress">'; cp_displayPoints($user->ID); echo '</span>';
  if(function_exists('cp_module_ranks_getRank')) echo ' <span class="cupepoints_buddypress_rank">'.cp_module_ranks_getRank($user->ID).'</span>';
}
?>

Ok, next my step is implementation CubePoints to bbPress replies.

Here is some really useful plugins for bbPress 2.0 that I'd like to share with you.

Tested:

• bbPress Quotes
  Gives the ability to quote bbPress forum topics and replies. A quote button appears to the end of replies so users can easily quote another user.
• bbPress Moderation
  Add the ability to moderate and approve new topics and replies in the bbPress V2.0 plugin
• bbPress Post Toolbar
  Enables uploading/embedding images in a bbPress post. User can embed video from YouTube, Metacafe, Vimeo (and others) with shortcodes.
• bbPress2 BBCode
  This plugin adds support for popular bbcode forum code to posts, comments, pages, bbpress 2.0 forum posts and buddypress activity and group forum post.
  It was tested and it works. But it doesn't offer any script+buttons for marking the text. You can setup simple BBCode Editor in JS for that (here is instruction). But there is no big sense while bbPress Post Toolbar works pretty good.
  But BBCode Editor is a really simple solution, customizable, can be implemented everywhere and works like a charm. TinyMCE, CKEditor are brutal in comparison to this.

Not tested yet:

• bbPpress Topic Views
  Counts the number of times a bbPress topic has been viewed, and allows the administrator to display the count in various places.
• bbPress Latest Discussion
  This plugin will generates Latest Discussion list from your bbpress forum into your wordpress. It has the ability to generate latest discussion on sidebar also.
• bbPress Topics for Posts
  Replace the comments on your WordPress blog posts with topics from an integrated bbPress install
  I didn't test it because just don't wish make comments as replies in a forum.

I'll update this post if find something else.
Please post in comments if you've found something interesting.

Now I'm looking for mini-stats for bbPress 2.0
Something like this but for bbpress2

Instruction there is very poor, but vertical floating bar with social buttons is very popular among bloggers! And they really offer webmasters set position of sharing bar relative to the left top corner of visitors' browsers .
Most of sites I visit has centered body, I think you too. And what if I want place this bar to the right of content???
According to the logic We must post notice on our sites like this: "Please change resolution of your monitor to 1280x1024 for better view."
Crap!

Ok, I've found solution.
All you need is add one more div over AddThis code.

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<div style="top: 60px; left: 50%; position: fixed; width: 0pt; height: 0pt;">
<div class="addthis_bar addthis_bar_vertical addthis_bar_large" style="left: -560px; position: relative; height:275px; width:65px; background-color:#EEEEEE;">
<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style">
<span><a class="addthis_button_facebook_like" fb:like:layout="box_count"></a></span>
<span><a class="addthis_button_tweet" tw:count="vertical"></a></span>
<span><a class="addthis_button_google_plusone" g:plusone:size="tall"></a></span>
<span><a class="addthis_counter"></a></span>
</div>
</div>
</div>
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In the first div you can see top:60px. Right, it's top space between bar and top border of browser window.
As for horizontal positioning you need set "left" style property.
If you need it to appear to the left, you need set it to number below zero (like here left: -560px;).
How to find this number?
-( (your site body width)/2 + (bar width) + (bar paddings) + (your padding) )
On this site I use: -560 = -( 950/2 + 65 + 5*2 + 10 )
For the right position use positive numbers. Formula is very simple:
(your site body width)/2 + (your padding)
For this site it would be: 485 = 950/2 + 10

Got 2 problems:
1) height for background rounded bar wouldn't work, it will be collapsed if not set. I just set it to 275px manually.
2) orange share button glitches
When you scroll page (even a little) if you move mouse over this button you'll see that menu goes down.

Please share with us your idea on how to make this code better...

So, for complete my login form I needed the value of current URL.
WP has function get_permalink(), but I needed something like this for script that is not under WP control.
And get_permalink() will cut GET request. For example if the user is on the page http://host.com/jobs/?query=nurse&location=CA after login he will be redirected to http://host.com/jobs/

There are lots of variants of code I found. For example specific functions like this or this.
That's too huge code for me and mostly for those who uses specific ports maybe.
But all I need is just the value of the URL in user address bar!

I found pretty good code here.
It checks the URL only if it HTTP or HTTPS, and that's enough!
After little minimization I've got this:

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$url .= $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'].$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];

And rapidly found this button that could perfectly fit in my layout. It's a vector image, but it's possible to make something like that with Photoshop.
I was googling for any tutorial for about an hour, but got nothing similar.
I decided to make it myself using all my little experience with Photoshop.
Here is what I've made in the end:

So, here are steps for Photoshop.

1) create an image, set background similar to your site's header

2) create desired shape (rounded rectangle)

3) add your text (Join Now / Register / SignUp and etc.).
I've set it to "Subscribe!".

4) rotate both (shape and text) to about -10..-20 degrees
Go to Edit->Transform->Rotate.

rotate both to about -10..-20 degrees

Fix text position using arrows on your keyboard.
We could merge both layers, but we'll loose ability to change text later.
Text we could add later, but in this case we wouldn't see what dimensions of button we need.

5) Rasterize shape and cut right side

Cutting right side

6) create ellipse shape, move it to the right bottom of main shape, rasterize this ellipse and remove unnecessary left part from it

Moving to direct position is like a jewelry work
I've used zoom for that for sure. (You can use CTRL++/CTRL+- hotkeys)

7) copy our cutted ellipse

move ellipse to the right top corner of main shape

fill it with Gradient tool (white->gray)

In the properties for gradient you will find 4 bars. 2 top bars for Opacity, 2 bottom bars for colors. You can add your own bars, or move existent.

8 ) create rectangle to knock into one shape both ellipses
Edit rectangle for best fit and Merge it with red ellipse.

9) add shadow to the right using gradient tool
Create new layer for that, click with CTRL on our shape and fill it with gradient (set color Black, opacity 50% for first point and 0% for second)

10) add shadow for our main shape
Right click on Shape 1 Layer and choose Blending options. Check drop shadow, choose preferences.

We need to separate shadow from main layer. Now make right click on Effects, and choose "Create Layer..."
(This trick I found here - Better Drop Shadows)

If the notice appear, just click Ok.

Now you have your shadow on external layer!

So choose this shadow and use warp on it.

Drag right-bottom joints to down, press Enter when done.

Now your sign is much more realistic!

Cut your shadow to the right (otherwise it will appear on your side-background).

11) Select main shape Layer(Shape 1), choose Blending options and check Stroke.
Set options like on scrinshot.

12) Add Stroke to our top cuttered ellipse (see step 11)
Set options like on scrinshot.
Move stroke to external layer (see step 10)

remove 1px line to the left of figure.

13) Last step - make it glossy
Create new layer, select it and click on our main Shape 1 with CTRL.
Choose Rectangular Marque Tool. Unselect right half of the shape with pressed ALT.

Now use Gradient tool on our selection with colors white->transparent

Set Opacity to 25-30 for this layer.

Done!

All you need is add this button into your HTML template. Ask me here if you need HowTo for that.

PS:
for Professional Designers: I'm sure that you know better ways for some steps. Will be glad to see your proposals!
for Newbies: I know, tutorial isn't perfect. I'm ready to answer your questions if something not clear for you.

It works. Example here:
http://bp.nokeywordinurl.com/ - Buddypress
http://bp.nokeywordinurl.com/test/ - WordPress
- both installations share 1 users table.

For testing use this test user:
login: test
pass: test
...or you can register here your own and visit test blog.

Installation is the same like here.
But WordPress user registration differs from Buddypress and has less options. In this case registration on secondary blog disabled.