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Free search engine optimization tool – SpiderTest

admin — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 22:24:23 +0000

I was searching for a free SEO web tool recently and stumbled across this site. I put this domain name in the search form and it quickly pointed out a few necessary tweaks that I over looked in putting together my blog. You can never be a 100% sure that your site is SEO certified. This tool crawls your site like the Google bot and displays your meta data. From there, it will make suggestion on things you should fix or tips on how to enhance your site's SEO performance. http://www.spidertest.com/index.php

Flash and SEO. Why not?

admin — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 16:43:12 +0000

Google learns to crawl Flash Google has been developing a new algorithm for indexing textual content in Flash files... Source: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/06/google-learns-to-crawl-flash.html How to SEO Flash • Search Engines and Flash • Requirements for Successful Use of Flash • SEO Flash Programming • Example: Making Flash Home Page Spiderable • Scalable Inman Flash Replacement Source: http://www.hochmanconsultants.com/articles/seo-friendly-flash.shtml Here are a few comments on this topic from SearchEngineGuide.com: “Stoney, You hit the nail on the head and pounded it down with one stroke. I completely agree, I have turned down clients in my own business due to flash sites. Now that I am with an agency I find Flash more common, as many of the businesses are big enough and niched enough where they feel that they don't need SEO for their website. Oddly enough they are often right. Unfortunately SEO can have a big effect on PPC marketing, and most of these accounts suffer from bad keyword quality scores and thus higher click costs in AdWords.” “Susan: I disagree slightly. Mostly because it all comes down to the intent. Building a flash only website for Ozzy Osbourne is fine, but e-commerce is not. I think you know what I mean” “ Working on seo for hotel sites, I've come across some stunning creative sites designed with Flash. If the designers had thoughtfully used the Flash applications to "wow" site visitors, ie embedding in otherwise SE-friendly pages, it could be a win-win situation. Perhaps all of you have seen the June info about making Flash SE-friendly. ( http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/06/google-learns-to-crawl-flash.html )” Source: http://www.searchengineguide.com/stoney-degeyter/why-i-still-wont-seo-flash-websites.php And from SearchEngineJournal.com: “Disney does it. And so does Oprah. Even my favorite pizza place does it... Granted these are extreme cases of sites which use flash extensively, but there are other cases where even a little flash can be improperly used. There are also cases where flash is not only appropriate, it is recommended. The question then becomes how to best use flash without affecting search engine rankings” “Yeah this article doesn’t help a bit. I thought after reading I would be able to find a solution for my all flash website for seo purposes. Thefwa.com is an all flash website, they rank no.1, they didn’t follow your mumbo jumbo about not using too much flash” (Note from Alex: TheFWA.com does not rank no.1. They rank 31,905. Still not bad for an all flash site.) Source: http://www.searchenginejournal.com/flash-and-seo-using-flash-on-websites/2247/ Cool online tool that will probe a flash file: http://www.flashprobe.com/

US State Pulldown Menu List

admin — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 03:55:22 +0000

I am always looking for a list of the US states to populate a pulldown menu so I'm posting it here. This one however has some PHP code to help select the current state if predefined.

Copyright and Trademark in html code

admin — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:22:11 +0000

Here's how to create the Copyright and Trademark symbols in html. Copyright and Trademark in html code is known as ASCII codes. They can be used to create several types of symbols. This is how to use ASCII code in html code to create Copyright and Trademark symbols. You can identify ASCII codes in html with the preceding "&#" They should be placed into the html just as plain text. The browser should render the ASCII code as the correct symbol. The copyrights symbol © can be created using this: &#0169; The registered mark ® can be created using this: &#0174; The trademark symbol ™ can be created using this: &#0153;

Remove Underline-Links

admin — Wed, 27 Apr 2005 00:22:11 +0000

Here is a quick and easy way to remove underline-links in your html links. There are times when hyperlink-underlines can get in the way. One example is when there is an underscore "_" in your link address (usually an e-mail address), the underline can block the view of this underscore. This will lead some viewers to believe your address contains a space and not an underscore. Here is the code to fix this problem. For One Link: The code may look something like this: newflashmedia Typing in the blue code " style="text-decoration:none" ", will remove the hyperlink underline: style="text-decoration:none">newsourcemedia In order to affect other links repeat the process shown above. For All Links To affect all links in an html document, you can add CSS to the header as follows: That's it. Have fun. If you have any questions, please search or post a question to the forum.You also may want to check out the book below on web development using Macromedia Here are a few Dreamweaver Book and Tutorials I highly recommend to help in developing html web pages: Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 Hands-On Training (Paperback) $36.26 Dreamweaver CS3 Essential Training (DVD-ROM) $149.95

Advanced Email Link

admin — Wed, 24 Dec 2003 00:22:11 +0000

This extension will help you create an email link with Subject, Carbon Copy, Blind Carbon Copy and Body text in an email link. This extension will help you create an email link with Subject, Carbon Copy, Blind Carbon Copy and Body text in an email link. View the download page here: http://www.dreamweaver-extensions.com/email.htm Here is an example of the code:

<A HREF="mailto:name@domainname.com?Subject=This is a test&CC=support@macromedia.com&BCC=myself@mydomain.com&body=Hi fried, I was just testing this">
Click Here

and I never intended to 'send' it">Click here to check this outA>

Prevent Crawling and Site Indexing

admin — Tue, 28 Oct 2003 00:22:11 +0000

Here are three different way to prevent crawled/indexing of your site's content Here are three different way to prevent crawling/indexing of your site's content < META NAME="robots" CONTENT="none"> Post your comments and questions below.