Picking a Domain name
Choosing a keyword relevant domain name can be a great way to increase your ranking in the Search Engines. Especially if you’re not a multi-million dollar company that has a bunch of revenue for branding (Amazon, Google, Nike, etc) So, while the “quivering-quill.com” domain name is pretty clever for a vibrating pen, it looks pretty irrelevant to search engine spiders. Trying something like “vibrating-pen.com” or “novelty-pens.org” to make searches more relevant.
HTML Links Easy and Quick
To create a hyperlink the syntax will look as follows:
<a href="lastpage.htm"> this text </a>
To enter a world wide web address it must look like this
<a href="http://www.codebrainercommunity.com"> Codebrainer </a>
Using an image is a little bit more difficult so i will let you practice this for now and i will introduce that next. Thanks for reading. Feel free to leave comments.
Sincerely,
Brick
Tags: html, Hyperlinks, links, world wide web
Firefox for SEO
Firefox an SEO tool?
Well not exactly. However there are many available plugins and extensions that you can download that are quite useful for SEO purposes. Here are a few
* Niche Watch Tool - Checks back links, indexed pages, keyword frequency and more.
* MetaTags - Offers a side bar menu showing a web page’s meta data, links, keyword frequency and others.
* Search Status - Highlights nofollow links, back links, indexed pages, Alexa and Compete rankings.
* SEOpen - 23 different metrics from back links on Yahoo and Google to Archived pages, whois and checking robots.txt.
* SEO For Firefox -configurable tool with 13 signals from domain age and Page Rank to del.icio.us bookmarks as well as .edu inbound links.
* yExplore - easy right click access to Yahoo Site Explorer info.
* Web Developer - Adds a menu and a toolbar to the browser with the ability to disable JavaScript, images, and CSS.
* SeoQuake - analyzes search results and various parameters that may influence SEO.
* KGen -Keyword generator analyzes a page for keyword frequency and placement. Also offers transfer to clipboard for use when tagging bookmarks.
* Prefbar - Toggle JavaScript, Flash and images as well as spoof user agent.
Tags: firefox, firefox plugins, firefox seo, seo tools
Register Your Domain for 10 years?
What’s the point? Well, when trolling through many forums on this topic, it seems that many senior level SEO’s and contributers believe that it does help…. Or that it at least can not hurt.
Here’s a few reasons for a lengthy registration:
1. Shows the Search Engines that you’ll be around for a while.
2. Lowers your price per year.
3. Secures your domain for that time period.
4. Even though they might not use it, Google has a patent application that looks at this data.Those who agree that it might not hurt argue that spammy domains would rather save a few bucks here and there than risk paying for 10 years for a blacklisted domain.
Jon Glick, formerly of Yahoo’s search team backs this up by stating that when the IRS determines who to audit, each “flag” has a certain value, and if you have a high enough score, Zapp! - you’re audited. A one year registration is just one of those metaphorical flags.
Tags: domain registration, extended registration helps seo?, SEM, SEO
Can’t Afford SEO?
It takes a lot of time and patience to see relevent results in your SEO campaign. And usually it is worth every penny. This is why many firms charge what they do. However when money is an issue, and you still want an optimized site, sometimes It is best to just do things yourself.
Here are 10 things to help get you started:
1. Insert keywords within the title tag so that search engine robots will know what your page is about. However don’t go overboard. The text within the title tag is what shows up in a search result so make sure your title is never more than 63 characters so humans can read it.
2. Use the same keywords as anchor text to link to the page from different pages on your site. This is especially useful if your site contains many pages. The more keywords that link to a specific page the better.
3. Make sure that the text within the title tag is also within the body of the page. It only makes sense to do so as the spiders index all of your site and creating meaningful content throughout the page is a great way to be considered relevant .
Adding the exact same text for your h1 tag will tell the reader who clicks on your page from a search engine result that they have clicked on the correct link and have arrived at the page where they intended to visit. Robots like this too because now there is a relation between the title of your page and the headline.
Also, sprinkle your keywords throughout your article. The most important keywords can be bolded or colored in red. A good place to do this is once or twice in the body at the top of your article and in the sub-headings.
4. Do not use the exact same title tag on every page on your website. Search robots might flag your pages as duplicate content and they won’t be indexed. If you have a page about “chocolate labs” and a page about “yellow labs” then title the separate pages accordingly.
5. It’s important to have a description meta tag as it is what is seen underneath the title in the search results. Unlike the past search engines don’t put much value on this or the keywords tag. So don’t go crazy with these tags as it is usually a waste of time.
6. Many times you can be penalized for linking to unsavory internet areas such as link farms etc. Don’t waste your time with these.
7. Do not use doorway pages. Doorway pages are designed for robots only, not humans. Search engines like to index human friendly pages which contain content which is relevant to the search.
8. Title tags for Text links. Insert the title tag within the HTML of your text link to add weight to the link and the page where the link resides. This is like the alt tag for images.
9. Describe your images with the use of the alt tag. This will help search engines that index images to find your pages and will also help readers who use text only web browsers.
10. Submit to the search engines yourself. Do not use a submission service or submission software. Doing so could get your site penalized or even banned.
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What is SEO? Do I need it?
Short for Search Engine Optimization, It’s the process of increasing traffic to a web site by having that website appear higher in the search engine rankings. Many users don’t click past page 3 of search results and many more don’t even get that far. Thus, it is beneficial to be at the top of the more popular search engines.
Do I need it?
Well…That all depends. If you are marketing a product or service and have competition, it is likely that you could use SEO services as one more tool to increase your business’s bottom line. However, If you are creating an online photo album for your family to share pictures, stories, etc, you probably do not need to appear high in the search engines… Or even appear at all.
Tags: do i need to optimize my site?, SEM, SEO, what is seo?
PHP Syntax
PHP is a scripting level language that is very powerful. It is enbedded within HTML tags . PHP always starts with a block, like so.
<?php
?>
To show text you either use the ( echo ) tag or the ( print ) tag. Like so:
<html>
<body>
<?php
echo " my page"
?>
</body>
</html>
Comments will look like this.
//comment here
A comment block will look like this:
/* this
is a
blocked comment*/
That is the simple PHP syntax. Thank you for reading and there will be more to come.
Sincerely,
Brick
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Html Attributes
HTML attributes provide additional information on HTML tags. They always come in a name/value pair and they are always specified at the beginning of a tag. Always use lowercase attributes. Here are some examples.
<h1 align="center" > Hello </h1>
This will align the heading to the center and you can do it to the left or right also.
<body bgcolor="black" text="white">
This makes the background black and any text white.These are simple but they are easy to learn off of.
Ok so if you have something that has an quotes in the value you do it like so:
name='steve "blackbear" johnson'
Again if you need help I am willing to answer. Thanks for reading.
Sincerely,
Brick
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Html Easy Tags
Ok so now we are started and we have an elementary sense of HTML. We’ll be going over some of the more common tags used a lot in HTML.
First, the tags always have <> around them, they end with </>. The first tag will be the <p> tag. This describes a paragraph.
Then there is the <h> tag, it spans from <h1> to <h6> this describes how big a heading will be.
The <br> tag describes a break in text. You have to close a break tag like so: <br/>
The horizontal rule is a way to have a line across your page. You leave the<hr> tag to do so.
Finally, the comment tag. A comment in the code is not read by the browser but is a way to leave notes for yourself and other things too. You do this by:
<!– this is a comment –>
This is just a brief overview of HTML elements or tags. As always thanks for reading.
Sincerely,
Brick
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Html Introduction
Today we are going to talk about one of the simplest web development languages there is around; HTML or Hyper Text Markup Language. HTML is a set of markup tags that tells the browser what to display.
The way i learned was from windows notepad but if you have a Mac you can start simple text. Type this in your text editor.
<html>
<head>
<title> title of page </title>
</head>
<body>
My first home page
</body>
</html>
Save this page as page.htm, then open it in your browser by hitting CTRL+O and selecting the document.
Ok so the tag <html> is saying that it is and HTML document. The <head> tag is header information that is not displayed on the browser. The <title> tag is obiously the title that is displayed in the browser caption. The <body> tag dispays whatever is in between it. One tip is to always leave your tags lowercased as this is becoming the standard. As always thank you for reading.
Sincerely,
Brick
Tags: html, mac, tags, text editor, windows, windows notepad