Litecoin

[AMCQ46]

non bike related advise is a good currency.............Ive got a website for a holiday cottage that needs fixing, and I also want it to come up higher on google searches, can you fix that for me?

[Virt]

I can directly google search it and it will come up pretty high

I'm doing front-end, back-end and server administration on a website currently, so depending on how it's broken there's a chance it can be fixed

[AMCQ46]

it works OK, but I want it to look better so it sells the place better. so a ground up redesign

http://www.wellspring-kirkcudbright.co.uk/

[VTRDark]

I can directly google search it and it will come up pretty high

It will do.

Alister the first thing you want is you own site with dedicated domain. Don't just rely on third party hosting sites for holiday lets or whatever. Though these are good for linkbacks to your site so don't count them out completely. How about inviting a holiday let magazine/site or something stay there free for a week on account that they give you a write up and link to your site. Get some reviews, then link to them from your site as well, especially if they provide a linkback to your site. What you want is links in and out so start spinning your web, making it bigger with more connections.

Search engine optimisation (SEO) is what you want to be researching.

(:-})

[Wicky]

non bike related advise is a good currency.............Ive got a website for a holiday cottage that needs fixing, and I also want it to come up higher on google searches, can you fix that for me?

This is what I send my website clients when they ask the same question you've asked

BOOSTING YOUR SEARCH ENGINE RANGINGS
The main thing is write key word rich content written for users/visitors not specifically for search engines, and pursue your linking policy (i.e twitter, facebook, reciprocal links with clients websites etc)

This one is the most important part Activity: There should be regular activity on your website and it should serve its purpose. It should be valued to its readers and visitors

At the moment, Google is leaning towards a "valuable for the user" -thing meaning that the longer and the more frequently ppl visit your site the more "valuable" it is. (That's why I suggested more info, fuller descriptions and more vehicles, in the classic cars gallery pics section to get general traffic throughput from folk searching for particular cars*) This "thing" is also "killing" a lot of sites that were/are getting their ranking "artificially" through submitted paid links instead of actually providing visitors "valuable info about something". This is a good and a bad thing as new sites will eventually have problems getting "out there" .
In other words, dont try to get your ranking only through links you make, instead try to make others link to your site because it is so "valuable" (has good content that is made to actually provide visitors with something they might be looking for).

Link Building: This is also crucial and important part of SEO as Seach Engines will check your link popularity and for that reason you have to get good amount of back links to your website from neighborhood sites (hence why I linked to you from my Real Oddies Cricket Club link and got you and Steve to place recripocal links to each other) (Try to get Back links from the websites which are having at least 1 Page Rank) avoid 0 PR Directories. There are different ways to get the backlinks like:

Social Bookmarking
Blog Posting
Forum Posting
Directory Submission
Article Submission

but avoid spamming at all costs as this will have a negative effect!

For your site you could expand the things of interest with keyword richer text (& get them to link back to you), activities and history in the area around your holiday home, also the gallery. The hotel market is hard to get up the ranking higher esp if you want your site to appear just by them searching for holiday homes scotland.

PS The map on the location page isn't working

http://www.wellspring-kirkcudbright.co.uk/location.htm

Also your email address on the contact page is ripe for spambots to harvest. Do you get a lot of spam on it? Best to obfuscate it with javascript* or use a contact form with protection to forward enquiries on so the email address isn't readily apparent.

* http://www.albionresearch.com/misc/obfuscator.php
http://www.jottings.com/obfuscator.htm

I see you've got it on google's business listing as it comes up when searching holiday home Kirkcudbright - but you've no photos :-( or reviews.

[Shauned71]

Touching on what Carl said.. unless web hosting etc has changed much it used to be very cheap to set up a page with your own domain and if wanted your own webspace. I used to run a few sites from gaming sites to forums and I used to buy webspace with 250mb of traffic allowance from £1/month which is more than ample for a static site. Registering domain names if I recall correctly was from £2.99/year... after a quick check, the site I had my domains registered with now charge from £3.49/year for a .co.uk. If you know anyone handy on the web design side of things it doesn't cost much at all to have a nice little site put up with your own domain etc. Plus you can buy multiple domains and simply direct them to where your site is hosted.

As for your site.. I'd say break it up a bit with a tad more colour, have the main page central rather than too the left, larger photos or better yet a gallery which when you click onto a thumb nail opens a larger photo. If you have a nice scenic photo local to where your property is maybe use that as a banner across the top of your home page.

[AMCQ46]

thanks for the suggestions lads.............making my head hurt

Not too much Spam on that e-mail, but that just shows even the smapmbots cant be bothered to go find the web page either!

I got the website when I bought the cottage and I am now paying the yearly change for the domain. But best I have managed to do is work out how to edit it at the most basic level, and it takes about 2 hrs to make any changes to the tarifs and add a photo!!!!!

Hence I was thinking that it might be best to start from the ground up with a layout that looks better rather than just keep adding thing to that one...........can offer engineering favours for Web Skills

[Wicky]

I can do you a Joomla 2.5 or 3 CMS website http://jhepburn.co.uk with yearly hosting at about £30 a year. Easily editable by the user from the front end in a webbrowser.

thanks for the suggestions lads.............making my head hurt

Not too much Spam on that e-mail, but that just shows even the smapmbots cant be bothered to go find the web page either!

I got the website when I bought the cottage and I am now paying the yearly change for the domain. But best I have managed to do is work out how to edit it at the most basic level, and it takes about 2 hrs to make any changes to the tarifs and add a photo!!!!!

Hence I was thinking that it might be best to start from the ground up with a layout that looks better rather than just keep adding thing to that one...........can offer engineering favours for Web Skills

[Miztaziggy]

FAO Shauned

My 2 cards are R9 280x's which are basically 7970 cards rebranded.

They can quite easily get 700 KH.

Litecoin mining is memory bandwidth dependent and not clock speed.

Run your CGMINER with the following command line options:

--thread-concurrency 8192 -I 13 -g 2 -w 256 --gpu-powertune -5 --gpu-engine 1000 --gpu-memclock 1600

Basically you want your clock speed divided by memory clock at about 0.62. In this case 1000 / 1600.

You also will want the power as low as possible to stop overheating. I run mine at --gpu-powertune -30 which is -30% power and it runs fine. It won't on all cards.

Start by trying it like this above. If it works fine and runs for an hour, try -10, then -20, then -30.

If that all goes OK, try --gpu-engine 1050 --gpu-memclock 1700

It should speed it up a bit. If it crashes, just revert to previous and leave it.

You cannot harm your graphics card by overclocking it too much, only if you start messing with the voltages which none of the above will do.

With those settings above at 1000/1600 you should be getting 690/700 KH which will be about 0.5 LTC a day.

[Shauned71]

FAO Shauned

My 2 cards are R9 280x's which are basically 7970 cards rebranded.

They can quite easily get 700 KH.

Litecoin mining is memory bandwidth dependent and not clock speed.

Run your CGMINER with the following command line options:

--thread-concurrency 8192 -I 13 -g 2 -w 256 --gpu-powertune -5 --gpu-engine 1000 --gpu-memclock 1600

Basically you want your clock speed divided by memory clock at about 0.62. In this case 1000 / 1600.

You also will want the power as low as possible to stop overheating. I run mine at --gpu-powertune -30 which is -30% power and it runs fine. It won't on all cards.

Start by trying it like this above. If it works fine and runs for an hour, try -10, then -20, then -30.

If that all goes OK, try --gpu-engine 1050 --gpu-memclock 1700

It should speed it up a bit. If it crashes, just revert to previous and leave it.

You cannot harm your graphics card by overclocking it too much, only if you start messing with the voltages which none of the above will do.

With those settings above at 1000/1600 you should be getting 690/700 KH which will be about 0.5 LTC a day.

Well i'm just back to have another play around with this. Wallet installed, account/worker set up. So far only tried using Guiminer, set up and press start..... No servers could be used! Must of gone wrong somewhere but not sure where Only used Guiminer because it suggested it was easier for noobs like me.. just back tracking at mo, see where iv'e gone wrong.

[Miztaziggy]

FAO Shauned

My 2 cards are R9 280x's which are basically 7970 cards rebranded.

They can quite easily get 700 KH.

Litecoin mining is memory bandwidth dependent and not clock speed.

Run your CGMINER with the following command line options:

--thread-concurrency 8192 -I 13 -g 2 -w 256 --gpu-powertune -5 --gpu-engine 1000 --gpu-memclock 1600

Basically you want your clock speed divided by memory clock at about 0.62. In this case 1000 / 1600.

You also will want the power as low as possible to stop overheating. I run mine at --gpu-powertune -30 which is -30% power and it runs fine. It won't on all cards.

Start by trying it like this above. If it works fine and runs for an hour, try -10, then -20, then -30.

If that all goes OK, try --gpu-engine 1050 --gpu-memclock 1700

It should speed it up a bit. If it crashes, just revert to previous and leave it.

You cannot harm your graphics card by overclocking it too much, only if you start messing with the voltages which none of the above will do.

With those settings above at 1000/1600 you should be getting 690/700 KH which will be about 0.5 LTC a day.

Well i'm just back to have another play around with this. Wallet installed, account/worker set up. So far only tried using Guiminer, set up and press start..... No servers could be used! Must of gone wrong somewhere but not sure where Only used Guiminer because it suggested it was easier for noobs like me.. just back tracking at mo, see where iv'e gone wrong.

You need to point it at a server.

Don't use GUI miner though, it's slower than CG miner, you're just wasting power mining less coin.

Get CGminer. Register at wemineltc here: http://wemineltc.com/

Download cgminer here:
http://ck.kolivas.org/apps/cgminer/3.7/

Click the line saying:
cgminer-3.7.2-windows.zip

Unpack and move the files to a folder such as c:\cgminer\

Use the following on a command line
In windows, go to start, click run and type cmd - then in the black box go to the folder you have downloaded CGMiner to

type each line, and press enter at the end of each:
cd\
cd cgminer
(the "cgminer" in the line above should be replaced with whatever folder you moved it to. If you put it in users, shaun, my documents then use this:)
cd users\shaun\cgminer

cgminer --scrypt -o stratum+tcp://global.wemineltc.com:3334 -u workername.1 -p workerpw -I 13 --thread-concurrency 8192 -w 256 --gpu-powertune -5 --gpu-engine 1000 --gpu-memclock 1600
Replace workername.1 and workerpw with your own worker names and passwords on wemineltc.

Once you have created an account at wemineltc you can click at the top on 'MY ACCOUNT' and then 'MY WORKERS' within that.

It will show a list of workers probably only 1 for now.

Mine says miztaziggy.1 and worker password x

The password doesn't need to be secure so don't worry about that.

My cgminer line would read:
cgminer --scrypt -o stratum+tcp://global.wemineltc.com:3334 -u miztaziggy.1 -p x -I 13 --thread-concurrency 8192 -w 256 --gpu-powertune -5 --gpu-engine 1000 --gpu-memclock 1600

[_Deano]

Hi guys,

I'm new to this site, but i saw the title and have to ask about kit to buy.

I've been looking at 3 x R9 290x cards. From what i've read on the GPU comparison site, they will draw about 300W each, but could obtain a KH/s of about 990.

I'm guessing a 1250W PSU is in order, but i'm not sure which motherboard and CPU i could get away with. Any ideas?
I will be looking at buying the PCIE Riser cables to allow the cards to breath and building a small rig to attach the cards too, in addition to replcing the stock cooler, to the Artic cooler.

1TB hard drives and RAM are cheap these days, but would it be worth buying the faster speed DDR3 RAM over stand stock speeds?

Thanks

[Miztaziggy]

Hi guys,

I'm new to this site, but i saw the title and have to ask about kit to buy.

I've been looking at 3 x R9 290x cards. From what i've read on the GPU comparison site, they will draw about 300W each, but could obtain a KH/s of about 990.

I'm guessing a 1250W PSU is in order, but i'm not sure which motherboard and CPU i could get away with. Any ideas?
I will be looking at buying the PCIE Riser cables to allow the cards to breath and building a small rig to attach the cards too, in addition to replcing the stock cooler, to the Artic cooler.

1TB hard drives and RAM are cheap these days, but would it be worth buying the faster speed DDR3 RAM over stand stock speeds?

Thanks

Bit of a waste to be honest mate. You need a tri-fire board which will be expensive. Also the PSU to run it will be expensive. For the same money as you will spend on all that lot, not least the expensive R9 290x cards, you could likely get 6 x 6950 cards second hand from e-bay and 3 cross fire motherboards and 3 600-700W PSUs.

6 x 6950s will hash at about 3 MH compared to the 2 x R9s which will be 2 MH at most.

[_Deano]

Hi guys,

I'm new to this site, but i saw the title and have to ask about kit to buy.

I've been looking at 3 x R9 290x cards. From what i've read on the GPU comparison site, they will draw about 300W each, but could obtain a KH/s of about 990.

I'm guessing a 1250W PSU is in order, but i'm not sure which motherboard and CPU i could get away with. Any ideas?
I will be looking at buying the PCIE Riser cables to allow the cards to breath and building a small rig to attach the cards too, in addition to replcing the stock cooler, to the Artic cooler.

1TB hard drives and RAM are cheap these days, but would it be worth buying the faster speed DDR3 RAM over stand stock speeds?

Thanks

Bit of a waste to be honest mate. You need a tri-fire board which will be expensive. Also the PSU to run it will be expensive. For the same money as you will spend on all that lot, not least the expensive R9 290x cards, you could likely get 6 x 6950 cards second hand from e-bay and 3 cross fire motherboards and 3 600-700W PSUs.

6 x 6950s will hash at about 3 MH compared to the 2 x R9s which will be 2 MH at most.

Thanks Miztaziggy. But i would be looking at buying 3 Sapphire R9 290x, that would surely give me circa 3MH? So roughly the same as the 6x6950? I'm just going from the Litecoin hardware comparison page, but then i wouldn't need 2 PSU, 2 motherboards, 2 HD etc.

Plus, just think of how awesome of a game machine it would be if i decided to pack in the mining!

[Miztaziggy]

Ahh yes you did say 3. Well, 3 of them will cost you approx £900.

For £900 you could buy at least 9 x 6950 cards which will run at 4.5 MH.

You would need 4 motherboards and 4 PSUs to run that though. Crossfire motherboards sell on ebay for about £40. Processor for about £30 (CPU speed not important) and PSU for about £40.

If you went for one tri-fire motherboard and 1200W PSU you would probably be looking at about similar money. Plus, I am not sure how common tri-fire motherboards are to take 3 x double slot cards. You might be able to get them onto a 3 slot board with last 2 in single width slots but you're gonna need water cooling for that no doubt.