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The module called Stars Votes and Schema.org snippets adds voting functionality and SEO elements according to the rules of Schema.org (the rules applied to all search engines).

You can publish the module to the pages of want on your website (some pages or all of them), it will show you the Schema optimized breadcrumbs. The version 1.0 of this module will list Schema rich snippets for the Joomla articles, Community Builder users and Virtuemart products, but the list will be updated for other Joomla extensions as well in the next versions.

Also, you can rate any article on a website, any CB users and any Virtuemart products with rates from 1 to 5 stars. The Schema.org rules also apply to the voting form and results.

The module works on Joomla 1.5, 1.6, 1.7 and 2.5.

Our refund policy: you have 3 days (72 hours) to test our product and to ask a refund. After the 72 hours period expires no refund is possible.

More information: here.

The module called Ping and Related Articles adds pingback functionatily to Joomla similar to the functionality you can find in Wordpress and it add similar articles with the subject of the pages from your website.

You can publish the module to the pages of want on your website (some pages or all of them). The first step is to index them as your website is accessed and to add the related articles. The second step is to create a XML sitemap that you can use to submit to Google, Yahoo or Bing - you can select the name of the XML file, but it will always be written on the Joomla website index folder (for example the link of the XML file will look something like http://joomla.webdesign-software-code-seo.com/sitemap_pingrelatesarticles.xml. The third and final step is to ping other websites to let the know about your pages. Because the considerable quantity of pages of some websites, we decided to keep the pinging in the background (it pings one article every few minutes) to avoid the load of the server and to spam the Update Servers.

A Ping is a message is used to let other people know that you have published new content on your site. The ping message is sent to different Update Servers (the list has about 90 items, but the list is always updated and improved), including blog listings like Google Blogs (for example).

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If you get this error you have to have to install the XML-RPC PHP extension, or ask your provider to install it if you are on a hosted domain. The module will no work without it.

The module works on Joomla 1.5, 1.6, 1.7 and 2.5.

Our refund policy: you have 3 days (72 hours) to test our product and to ask a refund. After the 72 hours period expires no refund is possible.

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I often noticed that a lot of web pages (especially the Romanian ones, the area we have the most activity) have a poor content or almont none content. Their search engine optimization on site and off site may be good or even excelent, but the lack of content is a step backward, especially when search engines like Google put accent on the uniqueness of the content.

It's not a new practice to improve your page with unique content, but a lot of people still don't know about that: they consider that creating a web page is enough, and with little maintenance and updating information on it they will be the first on Google, Yahoo and Bing in the results list. That's wrong, and the maintenance/updating the site and it's content must be continuous in order to be and to remain on the first page of the results list.

We are offering content writing services to improve the quality of your web site. The articles are dedicated to your activity and the products/services you are offering. Contact us to make you a good offer.

 

Do you want a web page or a web application? Excelent. Do you have a webdesigner or a web company to create your application? Good. Use them. What about the promotions of your product on the internet after delivery? Usually, the page is realease and that's all, the webdesigner's job is done and it is your bussiness to get somebody to promote your page or application and to get it well-known.

It's the year 2011 Christian era and I started creating pages (professionaly speaking) about 7 years ago. I've picked up some stuff about search engine optimization in the last several years, but only lately, since the beginning of the last year, I have started to give it the necessary attention. Several weeks ago I had to make some minor improvements in one older page and I was a little ashamed... it was very poorly optimized for the search engines.

We are offering these services, but I am not going to convince you in any way to come to us... all I want is to give you some piece of advice: the web designing and the seo always work great together. The best pages are the ones that promote theirselves, in the matter of their content, how they looks (the design) and, the most important, their structure. The content and the design will make the people talk about the web page or the web application, but it will not bring it in the first 10 results of the search engines.

There still are companies and webdesigners that offer web development services and seo services, I know at least a few of them. It's a good way to make some extra money from some clients that have no idea about what is a web page and how the search engines works: to create a web page with a minimum optimization on site and to offer that optimization as an auxiliary service. This works more often than you might think, but the client will always lose something: time, money or both.

So, when you decide to get a web site or a web application put the condition when picking up somebody to work on it: that the product must contain the basics or extended optimization for the search engines on site (integrated in the application).

 

Lately, in the past few weeks, I had to configure some wordpress blogs and to design some themes for them, they were a requirement for some clients as a easy-to-use script to complete the content of their page and to improve it's ranking on the internet.

I don't want to tell you about what powerful tool is wordpress, I believe the most of already know that... and if you don't know it then find out now: some people say that wordpress rules and the are right. If you know what you want and you don't need complicated stuff (like online stores with lots and lots of products and online payment or some good looking moving or flying things in flash) than wordpress is one of the best options for you. It's great for blogging (that's why it's so well known - everybody can create a blog and start writing now) and for pages that has to present several things and that don't something very expensive. If you know what you want when the designer starts to work on your wordpress blog you can have a good result in less than a day: the installation of the script, it's configuration and the installation of the plugins, even the theme if you use one of the several existing tools on the market.

For the moment I want to stop and dedicate this entry to a specific plugin that's a great tool for the search engine optimization part of the blog. The wordpress scripts come with some seo facilities but their beauty is that they can always be improved by using plugins, and everyone can create his/her own plugin and to install in on his/her blog (unless it's on wordpress domain - it's their domain, they make the rules, you can't just any kind of plugins).

They say here about the HeadSpace (the subject of this article) that:

HeadSpace is a powerful all-in-one plugin to manage meta-data and to handle a wide range of SEO tasks. With it you can tag your posts, create custom titles and descriptions that improve your page ranking, change the theme or run disabled plugins on specific pages, and a whole lot more.

I am not going copy to from them the informations they are offering about the plugin or to repeat the most important parts of the text, they explain everything you need to know about it and how to start using it.

Consider my recommendation about this excellent script and use it. It's a tool that you (almost) need and if you configure it in the right way it will improve the seo and the rank of your blog for sure.

Some of my seo works I did in the last months have proven every time that one's presence on the internet does not start with his/her web page, the optimization of the site and all the content inside it. It starts with the name of one's domain and it's intended purpose. This article is about some tips about the importance of registering a domain and choosing the best name for it.

Register the domain as soon as possible.

Even if you don't have the money and/or the time to get a web page you must register the domain as soon as possible. Now, if you can, or somebody else may register of himself/herself. You don't need to have some hotshots specialist in marketing or web designing along to tell you what to do... just choose the best name and register. You don't want to get the-domain-name-nobody-wants.com or some leftovers that may be what you want or not. Reserving the domain is the fastest part to create a business or a trademark over the internet.

Keep the name short

Some domain names can reach 67 characters but usually it's difficult to memorize them and not all have enough patience to write all of them into their browser. So, keep the domain name as short as possible and have in mind that the people have to make a strong connection between the domain name and what it represents (what you want to sell or to promote on it).

If the name of the domain is your own trademark (your name, the name of something you belong or the name of your business) it is usually more important then the shortest and the best description of your activity. You should keep it.

Domain-name dot what?

It's not uncommon to register more domains with similar names or domain names that complete the original name with auxiliary keywords. Some registrars even offer bonuses when you register more than one domain names and encourage the buyers to register the same name with different suffixes. For a long time the .com suffix was the first extension the most people try (access) when searches for a site and for some it will remain the most important. But, lately, a lot other suffixes (.net, .org, .tv, .eu, different countries TLDs, even the .xxx suffix for porn) became more and more wanted.

If you want company-name.com and company-name.org or company-name.net are not taken (for examples) you should register them also. They are not expensive, somewhere about 10 euros for an entire year/domain and they can be parked (redirected) on the original domain. The target is very important: you don't need a China domain name if you your products are targeted to some small islands in the Mediterranean sea. But for just a few bucks you can cover all the possibilities, all the targets you want. Some people even register the misspellings of their desired domain name just for that.

Anyway, try to find a domain name that has only one possible spelling and it's very easy to type and it must be easy to remember. Most people are hard spellers and/or just lazy... choose your domain in such way for them to find you very quickly.

Commercial appeal (more or less)

One way to register a domain name is the commercial perspective: it's just like a marketing campaign. If you want to sell/promote something then choose the best words to describe the product(s) and the shortest description. The internet is your billboard and you want to put your brand in everybody's browsers and to sell lots and lots of products. And, of course, to get lots and lots of visitors (traffic).

More, if one or more keywords does not have commercial intent it does not mean you don't want to optimize for them. The keywords in the name depend of the searches the users and if the not-so-commercial keywords gets you a lot of traffic it's more than ok to include it in the domain name.

Avoid trademarked names

First of all, we have all heard about guys that thought ahead and bought some multi-million-euros-domains-names (companies names or product names, even movies titles). In the beginning the companies that released that names spent a lot of money to buy the domains from that smart guys, but lately the tendencies are to send the layers first to protect their trademarked brand. Usually they already spent lots and lots of money just to create and to develop that brands and it's a lot easier to put to work the lawyers they already hired for various aspects of their businesses.

Type-In Traffic

Is when somebody access your site by simply typing the domain name in the URL bar in their browser and adding the suffix (usually .com, but not only that) at the end. If your domain name matches exactly with the keywords typed in the browser there is a chance to get some traffic from that.

Avoid the numeral substitution and slang

You can always add numerals into a domain name, but avoid substituting commons words with numeral (for example 4 instead for and 2 instead to) because it can create confusion and it's hard to remember. From the same reason don't use slang (for example u instead you). Also watch out for the numeral 0 because it is often mistaken for the letter O and viceversa.

Make your domain unique

The more unique domains (as design as domain name) are easier to remember. Search the all possible names for your domain and stick with the most unique one – it will stick and you can benefit from that for years (you can use for this the non-commercial keywords but important in the searches).

Hyphenates inside the domain names

The common sense and the habits say that the hyphenates should not be used inside the domain names: the people are not used with them in the URLs and the can easy misspell and can and up to nowhere or, worse, to the competitor's site. More, when you tell somebody about a site about web design, software code and seo do you tell the to put hyphens like this (http://www.webdesign-software-code-seo.com/ ) or not? The most people don't say it.

There are also some advantages to the hyphens inside the domain name: the search engines can distinguish your keywords better and thus return your site more close to the first results in search results and the non-hyphenated form may no longer be available.

Personally I prefer to put the hyphens in the name because I want to mark the keywords as clear as possibles. The humans can be educated to take them in consideration, it would be an improvement for most of them.

Plurals, “the” and “my” domain names

Very often the domain name registrar suggests alternate forms of the name you typed, especially when the domain you want is already taken. For example, if you wanted onlinestore.com the suggestions can look like this: theonlinestore.com. myonlinestore.com, onlinestores.com (and maybe some more) if they were not already taken as well.

If you really want some for of the chosen domain name than take it (or them if you want), but always remember to promote the full name of your domain (with the affix). You also must take in consideration that the plural can create confusion because a lot of people will forget to put the final s in the name.

Search for dropped domains

The dropped domains are these domains that have been changed from registered status to unregistered status. This usually happens because the registration renewal fee was not paid (the company went out of business or somebody just forget to pay). Anyway, in this case anybody can register the domain for himself/herself and to get an already know domain for the same price of a new one.

Domain auction

Believe it or not, there are auction for the internet domain names. It is a different method to get a domain for some price (it depends of the results of the auction). The problem is that you may also get the reputation of the domain, and that be bad or good.

For some time the seo specialists (and a lot of other guys that have some idea about search engine optimization) has recommended that URLs on the page should contain hyphens instead underscore because the some search engines were considering hyphens as word separators but the underscores were just letters inside words. But lately, at least since 2007 for Google, all main search engines are considering both as word separators. Some of them considered underscores as separators from the beginning. There are people that still don't know that: I've seen recent articles (written at the end of last year) that still treats underscores as letter inside words.

As a web developer I started to use underscores to separate words from the beginning because of the language: I am generating the URL from the title or the article (whatever the content – no matter if it's a blog, a news portal or an online store) and there are a lot of words that uses hyphens as the grammar requires in the Romanian language (I could give you some examples, but it would be meaningless for the most of you) and even some names contains hyphens.

As I told you in the earlier articles, the best URL is the one that's readable by both the humans and the search engines and it's the clearest and easiest to understand. From my point of view, these conditions are accomplished using underscores as word separators and the hyphens only where they are needed.

Wordpress, for example, started from the beginning with the hyphens as word deliminator and they are stick with it. That's a good thing, even sometimes I am not sure if the names in the titles are of two individuals or one name created from two other names put together.

There are a few things about the internal linking for a site after talking about the friendly URLs. The first is about canonical URLs. Canonical essentially means standard or authoritative, so a canonical URL for search engine marketing purposes is the URL you want people to see. Canonicalization is the process of picking the best URL when there are several choices and it usually refers to home pages. For example, most people would consider these the same urls: * www.webdesign-software-code-seo.com * webdesign-software-code-seo.com/ * www.webdesign-software-code-seo.com/index.html * webdesign-software-code-seo.com/home.aspThey look very similar, but technically all of these urls are different. A web server could return completely different content for all the urls above. When Google “canonicalizes” a URL it tries to pick the URL that seems like the best representative from that set. Depending on how your web site was programmed or how your tracking URLs are setup for marketing campaign, there may be more than one URL for a particular web page.The problem most search engine marketers run into deals with domains when they are not setup properly. In these cases the domain URL without the www prefix (e.g. webdesign-software-code-seo) and the domain URL with the www prefix (e.g. www.webdesign-software-code-seo.com) are considered individual web pages. Since both pages may be indexed by the search engines you could get hit for duplicate content and at the very least you would be splitting your link popularity.The easiest way to protect your site is to redirect all forms of URL your domain to one standard URL – a canonical URL. For example to force the use of www.webdesign-software-code-seo.com instead webdesign-software-code-seo.com or http://webdesign-software-code-seo.com you must have this lines in the .htaccess file (this is Apache specific, if you use IIS the lines should be the same using ISAPI filter). RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^webdesign-software-code-seo.com$ [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.webdesign-software-code-seo.com/$1 [R=301,L]This response to the problem is resolved on the server side, just before the script is accessed. One other way to consider the problem is for the web designer to define inside the page a variable that, in our case, is http://www.webdesign-software-code-seo.com and to use is to construct all the URLs inside the page.The previous part of this article says about one way to create duplicate URLs. Another way to obtain such URLs is to when they are generated dynamically and there are flaws in the script. For example, when you generate the URLs from only the title and you put the same (or very similar) titles to your articles you can get the same URLs. I am thinking the words separators (hyphens and underscores, but this is another subject and I will write about it later).There are websites (like the ones create with the wordpress blogging scripts) that can generate multiple URLs for the same article. Some examples are the following ones: * http://www.webdesign-software-code-seo.com/?p=2 * http://www.webdesign-software-code-seo.com/my-blog-post-number1 * http://www.webdesign-software-code-seo.com/my-blog-post?print=trueAlthough it makes sense to enforce unique URLs for all your web pages inside any site as Google imposes a penalty on suspected duplicate content, its not always possible to do so. Google have been introduced a way to specify the unique URL (the canonical URL) of any web page by using a meta link tag. Setting this tag is simple: you first decide which URL you wish to use, and then add this link tag to the section of your HTML page something like the next example.Google claims that this would not be treated as a directive, but a hint that would be honored strongly. Additional URL properties, like PageRank, would be transferred as well.The next important thing are the bad URLs, I mean the URLs on the sites that can not be found, clicked, visited or submitted to social media. It may be a technical problem (server is down, the internet access with problems, etc.) but it also may be a design/maintenance problem: indexed links may disappear from time to time (temporary or for ever).The technical problems can be solved (and the most of them are solved in time), but the other problem depends entirely by you. When you are designing a page make sure that the URLs in the site does not have flaws and all them are working ok before putting the site online. Its no fun for a human to have a list of articles on the page and a lot of content in that articles and when he/she tries to access them find a 404 error page because the URL was not created all right, especially when from other part of the site the article can be accessed ok. The search engines acts in the similar ways: if there are bad URLS (404 error pages) the will not index it.When an article is deleted (from some reasons, depending of the owner of the site), there are 2 ways to react to that from the designers point of view: the URL will completely disappear (and the search engines will not find an already indexed URL) or the URL will remain the same and the content will be replace with a message similar with “this article has been erased”. From the search engines neither way is perfect, but URLs appearing and disappearing periodic with no message is not something good.From the seo point of view, bad URLs are also the one that contains special characters (spaces, apostrophes and other characters like –), but that can be corrected by generating or redirecting to friendly URLs.The internal link structure of a website works in the same way that external links does: in order to build a quality internal link structure a site has to add links on its sub-pages and these links need to contain the keyword or search term that is being targeted. There is no limit on how many links from internal sub-pages can be created... there can be 10 pages or 10 billion pages. When the search bot sees these links all pointing to a specific page (no duplicate URLs and no bad URLs) it is going to read the provided anchor text in those links. It will then assume that the page being linked to is important for the anchored keywords.Deep link building is a good way to separate great websites from the mediocre ones: linking to sub-pages of a website is one of the best ways to grow long tail search traffic. It also is a great way to built up the site authority.The first step when building deep links is to define the target (or the targets) of the site and them keep them focused all the time. For example, this site is dedicated to web design, software code and seo and you will not find here anything other than that. Usually the web sites are custom to their owner needs, and they have only a few targets (a limited number of subjects for the content and keywords). The bloggers can write about they want, but even they have to customize the subject and the contents of their articles accordingly to what people is searching.The second step in the process requires the identification of sub-pages that can be used to gain more search traffic and can help boost top level keyword rankings. Top level keywords are very competitive and they usually require substantial link building campaigns to move up in the rankings. A great way to boost the authority of pages that are targeting these competitive search terms is to increase the internal authority of those pages. One way to do this is by adding a contextual link to the sub-page that links to the competitive top level page. Adding deep links that point at these pages will boost their authority. The authority of you site will increase together with the the authority of the pages inside your site.In one sentence, make the important pages on your site as visible as possible (inside the site and on other pages). For the first part the web designer is the person that can help you (a smart one, with seo knowledge, can even give you some suggestions) and for the second one you should aks the persons that do marketing (or seo marketing) to do this job.

In the very beginning of this article I must tell you that an URL comes from Uniform Resource Locator (the initials) that is a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) that specifies where an identified resource is available and the mechanism for retrieving it. URI is a string of characters used to identify a resource or a name on the internet. Such identification enables interaction with the representations of the resource over a network using specific protocols.

It is said that in popular usage and in many technical documents and verbal discussions the URL is often incorrectly used as a synonym for URI. I've also met a lot of people that are using the term and they don't know what's coming from.

The way you create the URLs inside you page is one of the most important methods to improve the search engine optimization. Friendly URLs means they should be readable by the humans, but this counts for the search engines as well.

There are two things that are important: the first one is the human point of view. How many of you will access an URL that looks like http://www.webdesign-software-code-seo.com/8548-954page.html and how many will access http://www.webdesign-software-code-seo.com/freelancers-wanted/ or http://www.webdesign-software-code-seo.com/freelancer-jobs/? The tendencies are overwhelming for the second type of URLs because they contains words that have meaning for us and that gives clues about what the page contains.

That's why it is better to use words in the URLs even for the search engines (the second point of view), especially if they are keywords (I mean the words that are the most relevant inside the content and the subject of the article, that the users may search on the internet). The best way to make a friendly URL is to create it based on the title of your article (and the date if this helps to identify faster the URL you are searching on a big site) and the underline the keywords using the heading tags. The search engines see the all this elements and it helps to index the page easier and to improve it's ranking.

The friendly URLs are always static URLs. There are a lot of sites that generate URLs like this: http://www.some-site.com/index.php?category=456&subcategory=12&article=44574 and that's called dynamic URL. When spaces, apostrophes and other special characters (like –) appears in this dynamic URLs it's even worse: when you try to put such link on the Facebook or StumbleUpon (or any social network) there are a lot of chances that the URL will appear broken.

From the search engines point of view the static URL will be indexed much easier than the dynamic form, and there is no confusion and no missing parts from what could be important inside the URL.

Also, one of the most important things is to keep it as shorter and as descriptive as you can (clean and simple). The shorter the URL is the more successful it will be, as for web rankings and for the visitors' use (this includes people copying the URL for link purposes). Also the twitter URL posting (for sharing information as well for backlinking) have became a habit in the last few years and a longer URL can not be posted there. More, if a URL string is long the weight and relevance of each word inside is diluted. If your URLs are keyword-rich, including too many other words or phrases means that the importance of the keyword is lost amidst all the other words.

For example consider the following URLs:

www.readmybooks.com/horror-science-fiction-temporal-travel-book.htm www.readmybooks.com/store/books/science-fiction/horror-temporal-travel/book6888767.htm

The first URL is succinct, has the relevant keywords and no surplus syntax to dilute the importance of these words, and is easy for somebody to read, copy, and paste. The second URL is more complicated and the relevance of the keywords are reduced.

URLs can be constructed using upper and lowercase or a mixture of both, and the servers make the difference between them. Mixing uppercase and lowercase (even when following standard grammar rules such as using a capital letter for a name) can make your site structure unnecessarily complicated. You also run the risk of losing visitors who forget to use the required capital letter through the URL and then can’t access the page. The most common way to post the URLs across the internet is to post them lowercase. If you are redeveloping your URLs and come across pages using uppercase you should create a permanent 301 redirect to a lowercase version to avoid confusion.

There are a few tools and methods used for the URL rewriting in order to have the friendly URLs, one of the most common is using the .htaccess file (this is the special file that sets up the deal for you, it can contain all sorts of directives for the Apache server. If you’re not using an Apache-based server, you’ll have to read your server’s manual on how to do it) put in the root directory of the site. It works perfectly with the Apache server and php (for example), so it works fine with all the php-based systems. I will give some examples how to work with .htaccess and the other tools later.

Finally, it is very important when developing and maintaining a site is that you must keep the same structure of the URL. Do not change the rules to generate the URLs after the site is online, especially if they are created dynamically for the entire site. Once one URL is online it must be the same as long as possible (until the site drops dead or the internet ends). The search engines do not like the sites whose URLs changes from one month to another (for example), so try to change (even correct when necessary) them as little as possible. Also try to keep the URLs the same on the entire site, not depending by it's sections, this will make future development much easier as there will be a standard convention to follow... if your URL structure is globally used the visitors will also find it much easier to understand how the information is organized and stored and they will find what they are searching faster.

The purpose of this page is simple: to share our experience (mine and whoever is interested to join me here) about the web design, the software developing and the search engine optimization. If you are pleased with this page and the solutions offered here you may contact us to create custom software for you or to improve your web page (as design or as seo advice).

You may select any of the freelancers in the team for your project, but all the orders will be through a company called Supravirtual SRL. That’s a Romanian company if you need to know that (I know that some will not like that, it will be entirely your problem), but we offer only the best quality to our customers. Just try us.

One of the most important parts of the search engine optimization is the content. From the human point of view, if you do not have relevant content nobody will stay too long on the page. From the search engines point of view the keywords and the heading tags that are organizing the text are most relevant.

Once you have your meta tags setup correctly you will want to move on to the page content; here you will have to understand the H1 to H5 title tags and the value of these tags on the page. Additionally your content will need to be rich and unique to some point where it is friendly for humans as much for the search engines, being rich and unique is the reason all of them will remember your web site. What’s the point of lots of people accessing your site if all they see is a number of words that mean great things to the search engines but almost nothing to them because they are very common and they've met the same sentences and phrases in 10 other places?

The easiest and most basic SEO rule is that the search engine spiders can be relied upon to read basic body text 100% of the time. By providing a spider with basic text content, you offer the search engines information in the easiest format for them to process. Some search engines can strip text and link content from flash files, but nothing can compare with the basic body text when it comes to providing information. You can always find at least one way to add text into a site without compromising it's functionality, looks and feel.

The content itself should be thematically focused, it means you should keep it simple and clear. When you want to approach multiple topics try to put them on different pages inside the site, it will be clearer for the humans as for the spiders. Keep always in mind that unique topic-focused content for the pages inside your site is a basic seo techniques to make everything simpler but also to improve the quality of your content.

The ways (and some suggestions) how to write the content is another subject, I will approach it some other time. But one thing is for sure: not all of us are gifted to such thing, some are better than other. If you are not satisfied with the content of you site or you don't know how to write it ask somebody that knows. There are a lot of bloggers and copywriters (people that are writing web content for money) in this big world that can help you.

Heading Tags

The heading tags used to be only the responsibility of the web designer, but since the development of the wysiwyg editors (what you see is what you get editors) you can format you own content a lot better than before. You've seen them in wordpress, blogger, blogspot, in any blogging system by the way.

I've written already about the choosing of the keywords. Use the heading tags to underline the keywords: many search engines place more emphasis on the text within heading tags, so make sure they use keywords. Use one <h1> tag per page with the most important keywords and use the other head tags (<h2>, <h3>, etc) to provide variations and support the main heading.

 

<h1>Books</h1>

<h2>Romantic books</h2>

<p>... some list about the romantic books and their love stories...</p>

<h2>Adventure books</h2>

<p>... Robin Hood, Robinson Crusoe, The lord of the rings...</p>

<h2>Horror books</h2>

<p>... Stephen King and all the others writers...</p>

Page text and the rest of the content

 

The relevance of your pages is given in some way by the keywords and common phrases the people might find inside them so be sure your pages contain that. Write accordingly to the thematic of the site, but write about what interest others. Be careful about the frequency of your keywords... you want to have them occur at least a few times if possible, but don't repeat them so much that the copy becomes unnatural. It is important to discretely spread keywords around without making it obvious. Neither keyword should take up more than 12-24% of the entire body text, it is often considered as spam.

Also remember that text contained within images will not be picked up by the search engines, they still can not read that. Only actual text on the page will be indexed.

Do not use too much content right on the front page: the loading time of the page and the redundancy of additional words used will reduce the chance of showing up in relevant searches.

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In case your website uses a language different than the default of the search engine which your target audience prefers (for example: someone for America or Asia finds something on the web page from Romania) or your website uses special characters unique to that language, make sure to implement the proper HTML codepage tag. The Unicode versions of special characters (HTML encoded characters) are more or less impossible to look up for now in most search engines.

 

Lately, I mean the last few years, when I design pages for my clients I am always telling them to write as much and as good as they can. Mainly my job finishes when the page is fully functionally and the maintenance I do in time is limited to the scripts, and almost nothing about the content of the page. That depends of the project, of course, but I had the chances to see clients adding products to the sites with only few words as description, nothing special. That pages did not have many visitors, only a few people found them using the search engines and the most part of them visited the pages because the advertisement in the “real” life.

Remember this: the content of your page is the best advertiser and the search engines through the structure of the site are it's tools.

Every search engine has it's own rules to process the html tags inside the head tag. Following next are some some general rules.

The <Title> Tag

First, the title of the html page should be relatively short and describe the page content accurately. Wherever possible, try to include keywords but without distorting the true purpose of the title.

It is one of the most important elements of SEO when it is used properly. A website can increase organic search traffic for each page by using an appropriate keyword within this tag, but this is only effective though when the actual content of a page is about that specific keyword. Search engines are indexing the content of the page as the meta tags and they can easily figure out whether or not the title tag is appropriate for the content contained on a specific page. In order to get full benefit of this tag, the keyword used within it should appear in its exact form within the content of the page. This is the best way to relay to the search engines exactly what a page is about and what keywords it should rank for within the search engine result pages.

The domain name shouldn't be repeated in the title, it is often considered as spam. Also, it should not be used the same filename as the title tag or the same filename as the domain name, it is often considered as spam.

The title should not be any longer than 70-100 characters including spaces. (Google - DMOZ)

The title should bot be any longer than 60 characters. (scrubtheweb.com)

The title should not begin with the domain name, it is often considered as spam.

The <Meta Keywords> Tag

The meta keywords tag is the least important metatags because the majority of current search engines no longer support these tags and they place little to no importance on them, but it is good to have them filled in on each page. Use the description and keywords metatags in the head of each web page and make these tags different on each web page. The search engines does not like duplicate metatags.

First of all, keep the keywords as descriptive as posibile. It should not used words that are not present in the body of the page (for example: do not enter movies in the keywords tag when the page is only about books). Redundant characters will not hurt overall results, however words after the first 300 characters rarely help in any way.

The first keyword should be the main keyword that the content is based around, this keyword generally appears within the title of the article or page content. The second keyword should be the second most important keyword that the content is based around. Then you should list the next four important keywords or variants of the main two keywords. This has the potential to help a search bot to understand what the content of each page is about.

The tag should not be any longer than 378 characters (searchenginewatch.com referring to Google).

The tag should not be any longer than 268 characters (AltaVista).

Start all keywords with capital letters. (Relevant only on alphabetical listings)

Separate keywords with the ", " (comma, space) character combination. (Most search engines use either character as the separator ).

You may use phrases as well, but it should not be used any word, not even within phrases, more than 3 times. It is often considered as spam.

The <Meta Description> Tag

This is a very important element of SEO, it allow a unique opportunity for websites to convince searchers to visit their sites and a particular page on the site. First of all, keep the description as descriptive as posibile, but the descriptions on some web pages are often a snippets of content that appear below the clickable titles of a search listing. Creating high quality meta descriptions can improve click through rates in the search results, also creating a poor description can be one of the quickest ways to get passed over by searchers within the search results.

It should not be any longer than 100 characters (Google).

It should not be any longer than 25-30 words (DMOZ).

It should not be any longer than 150 characters (scrubtheweb.com).

It should not be any longer than 200 characters (searchenginewatch.com referring to Google).

Every search engine has it's own rules to process the html tags inside the head tag. Following next are some some general rules.

The <Title> Tag

First, the title of the html page should be relatively short and describe the page content accurately. Wherever possible, try to include keywords but without distorting the true purpose of the title.

It is one of the most important elements of SEO when it is used properly. A website can increase organic search traffic for each page by using an appropriate keyword within this tag, but this is only effective though when the actual content of a page is about that specific keyword. Search engines are indexing the content of the page as the meta tags and they can easily figure out whether or not the title tag is appropriate for the content contained on a specific page. In order to get full benefit of this tag, the keyword used within it should appear in its exact form within the content of the page. This is the best way to relay to the search engines exactly what a page is about and what keywords it should rank for within the search engine result pages.

The domain name shouldn't be repeated in the title, it is often considered as spam. Also, it should not be used the same filename as the title tag or the same filename as the domain name, it is often considered as spam.

The title should not be any longer than 70-100 characters including spaces. (Google - DMOZ)

The title should bot be any longer than 60 characters. (scrubtheweb.com)

The title should not begin with the domain name, it is often considered as spam.

The <Meta Keywords> Tag

The meta keywords tag is the least important metatags because the majority of current search engines no longer support these tags and they place little to no importance on them, but it is good to have them filled in on each page. Use the description and keywords metatags in the head of each web page and make these tags different on each web page. The search engines does not like duplicate metatags.

First of all, keep the keywords as descriptive as posibile. It should not used words that are not present in the body of the page (for example: do not enter movies in the keywords tag when the page is only about books). Redundant characters will not hurt overall results, however words after the first 300 characters rarely help in any way.

The first keyword should be the main keyword that the content is based around, this keyword generally appears within the title of the article or page content. The second keyword should be the second most important keyword that the content is based around. Then you should list the next four important keywords or variants of the main two keywords. This has the potential to help a search bot to understand what the content of each page is about.

The tag should not be any longer than 378 characters (searchenginewatch.com referring to Google).

The tag should not be any longer than 268 characters (AltaVista).

Start all keywords with capital letters. (Relevant only on alphabetical listings)

Separate keywords with the ", " (comma, space) character combination. (Most search engines use either character as the separator ).

You may use phrases as well, but it should not be used any word, not even within phrases, more than 3 times. It is often considered as spam.

The <Meta Description> Tag

This is a very important element of SEO, it allow a unique opportunity for websites to convince searchers to visit their sites and a particular page on the site. First of all, keep the description as descriptive as posibile, but the descriptions on some web pages are often a snippets of content that appear below the clickable titles of a search listing. Creating high quality meta descriptions can improve click through rates in the search results, also creating a poor description can be one of the quickest ways to get passed over by searchers within the search results.

It should not be any longer than 100 characters (Google).

It should not be any longer than 25-30 words (DMOZ).

It should not be any longer than 150 characters (scrubtheweb.com).

It should not be any longer than 200 characters (searchenginewatch.com referring to Google).

The keywords are relevant for the search engines in two places inside the site: the <Meta Keywords> Tag and the content of the site. When you write content keep in mind a very specific idea and choose your keywords before you start to write, that makes an important difference between creating an optimized site from scratch and the work needed for later optimization.

A research done by Entireweb says that 31% of people enter 2 word phrases into search engines, 25% of all users look for 3 word combinations and only about 19% of them try their luck with only a single word.

Do not choose a keyword to optimize your site for that you don't have the slightest chance of ranking good with because of the fierce competition.

Do not choose a keyword that nobody looks for. Make a simple comparison: how many people searches for differential equations versus shoes versus porn (or sex). So use only generally popular keywords if you do not need targeted traffic.

Do not choose a keyword that does not relate strongly enough to your content.

Do not use words that may get your site filtered or banned from search engines.

Do not use images with file names or ALT tags (Alt attributes of IMG tag) that may get your site filtered or banned from search engines.

Use lots of relevant content, well laid out into separate pages.

For best results optimize one page for one keyword.

Do not post online half-finished sites.

The purpose of search engine optimization is to make a website as search engine friendly as possible... so it can be easily said that basic SEO is all about common sense and keeping the web page very simple. It's really not difficult, you only need to understand how search engines work. The problem with a lot of web developers is they does not consider the search engine optimization as a part of designing a site so they just ignore this part... I have some examples to give, what I've met in the last years, but they were improved in time or became offline.

Well, the exclusion of seo from web designing is wrong: why creating a great looking web site if nobody will find it? Of course, the word about it's existence will spread and you'll have some visitors in time, but usually the most visits come from the search engines. That's why, from my point of view as a web designer, seo is one of the main things to think about when creating the structure of the website.

In the beginning there are two aspects of search engines to consider: the first is how spiders work, the second is how search engines figure out what pages relate to which keywords and phrases.

The electronic spiders (known also as bots) are the tools used by the search engines to collect data about a website, they copy its content which is stored in the search engine's database. They are designed to follow links from one page to the next, to record these links, to assimilate the content of the web pages and to send other bots to gather data from the linked pages. The process goes on forever, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, every week. By now the databases of the search engines measure their size in thousands of billions records.

It can easily be assumed that the spiders will find your site on their own if there are links on the web targeting it, so it is not need to submit the site to the major search engines manually or electronically. Search engines have the ability to judge the topical relationship between pages that are linked together, so the most valuable incoming links of the web come from the sites that share topical themes.

What you have to prioritize about seo is the ways to help the spiders to find your websites and to traverse it from A to Z. So you have provide easy to follow text links directed to the most important pages on the site in the navigation menu on each page, one of the links should lead to a text-based sitemap containing a text link to every page on the site. The sitemap can be the most basic page in the site (with no decorations and interactive parts for the visitors) as its purpose is more to direct spiders than help lost site visitors. As a designer you should also keep in mind that Google also accepts more advanced XML based sitemaps which can be read about in their Webmaster Help Center.

There might be parts of your site you don't want to be visited by the spiders, in this case you can restrict the free access using "robots.txt" files. The spiders will not add in the search engines databases the files you will add in the robots.txt files, but they will have to be organized in a specific format.

There are two very important parts of search engine optimization: offering the spiders access to the site and the content of the site. Having an optimized page depends of both of them, there can not be one without other. You can be the best writer in the world, but if nobody reads your work you are nobody, but if you write nonsense and everybody is able to read you but nobody is really interested you are still nobody. On the internet the search engines are supposed to provide their users with lists of pages that relate to the search terms people enter in their search box. So these search engines need to determine which thousand of billions of pages is relevant to a small number of specific words... in order to do this, they needs to know your site relates to those words and they assimilate the content of the site.

When examining a page the search engines are looking for a few elements: the url of the site, the site tile, the description meta tag (the last two elements are found in the head section of the source code), then if follows the content of the site (the spiders read the pages just the same way the Europeans read the papers: from the left to right and from top to bottom, following the columns). Every part is important and they will be treated separately later on the site.

Finally, for this article anyway, the search engines operate by funds as well: the funds are collected from selling advertisement placement, selling listings or both. They sell out the area above or in the right of the search results as advertisement space and displays only relevant results based on what the users were looking (the search is applied to the advertisments database as well). Their logic is that most people will be mislead by the placement of such links and will choose them instead of the actual results.

That search engines that operate by selling listings will not show your website within the results regardless of its relevance unless you sign up for their service.

There is always the option to index your site on the directories the search engine company buys information from. However, such directories like Yahoo.com, DMOZ.org, Business.com, Best of the Web and others are moderated based on relevance and content, thus getting listed there may take some time and efforts.

Most search engines rank your website by relevance which is measured by the threshold of keywords. Some search engines, such as Google as well, will sort even relevant sites by their popularity, measuring the page rank by the actual links leading to the site. Also, the text or ALT TAG text accompanied with these links will influence the keywords the website is shown in the listings for.

Some search engines will consider a website more and more popular when they are clicked on the results page. These include AltaVista.com .

What you must remember if you start working in this field is that there are a lots of way you can do things in seo (they vary a lot) and the possibilities and combinations are infinite. You may experiment with any campaign freely, but only with a relative knowledge of the DONTs (what you MUST NOT DO) you will be able to maintain a sustainable development plan for your website.

We offered consultance for the optimization for the search engine for the page Compressor-Express.ro and the appearance on the first page of the results for google.

One of the methods to send parameters to a dinamic page is by url (uniform resource locator), it means the text written in the browser. It was constantly proven that it is very helpfull to the search engines that some keywords to the search to be found in the title (url) as well in the content of the page.

Gaminvest SRL is a company in Oradea that has as fields of activity real estate, various services, bookkeeping, consulting in starting a business and startups, investments.

The release of the page: september 2010.

The technologies and the programming languages used:

- html javascript

- php

- mysql

- css

- ajax

The page is created to be dinamic, there is the option to add anytime new services and new fields of activity. There is optimised for search engines and the user has the option to fill in and dinamic the metatags.

Imobiliare Ungaria has since yesterday a Wordpress blog. The reason of this is to keep you informed about our actions, our offers, our articles and the articles from mass-media about us.

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It’s hard to believe that a monopolist company like Google could be frightened by the new search engines (as Bing or the one Facebook is developing), or even their combination with Yahoo (especially because the Yahoo accepted that their own search engine to be replaced by Bing). But, evan so, just just a couple of months after Microsoft launched Bing, Google announced it is tweaking a new technology to search online with the code name „Caffeine”, that could change the position the companies are holding in the search results. To that companies and persons that makes good money or they are surviving according the traffic generated by Google, the new technology represent a motive of worry.

Google suggested on the company's official blog, the fact that the technology could change the results of the searches, and that could oblige the beneficiaries of the Google search engines to change the solutions to optimize the results of the search engines (SEO) to protect their good results in the top of the list.

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Google officials said on August 10 that the company is seeking help testing a new-and-improved search system, codenamed “Caffeine” — complete with changes to its indexing, ranking and crawling mechanisms. Silicon Alley Insider speculates that Caffeine could be the “secret project” to which the New York Post was referring back in June when it reported that Google cofounder Sergey Brin was assembling a team of Google search experts to tweak Google’s engine in response to Bing.

„For the last several months, a large team of Googlers has been working on a secret project: a next-generation architecture for Google's web search. We are hoping that the new technology to bring a plus in speed and precision for Google”, announced on the company blog two of project responsibles, Sitaram Iyer and Matt Cutts.

„Most users won't notice a difference in search results. But web developers and power searchers might notice a few differences”, are writing the two Google engineers in the blog.

Bing, the renamed Live Search and soon going to be integrated in Yahoo, included a number of user-interface changes, as well as tweaks to the underlying Microsoft search algorithm. The Caffeine test site — available for anyone starting August 10, when it is not down — doesn’t offer any kind of noticeable UI tweaks. It does, however, change the way results are ranked.

Search Engine Land did a side-by-side comparison of a search for “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” using the old and new Google engines. They found the new Google infrastructure returned video and news results midway down the page. The current Google search system, however, returned news at the top, video in the middle, and images at the bottom of the page.

With Bing, Moby images are the first link. The whole Bing page feels more like a site optimized to sell users something: Moby MP3 downloads, ringtones, posters, t-shirts. With Caffeine, video links are fourth on the page. News and blog posts about Moby are a little further down. On Bing, news and blog links are nowhere to be found on the first page of results.

This is hardly a definitive test, but so far, Google’s Caffeine indexing system seems like it is meant to yield results that are more Bing-like in any way.

 

 

Last hour message from Caffeine sandbox:

„Please try your search again in a few hours.

We are upgrading elements of our data center. The Caffeine sandbox should be available for searching again in a few hours”

 

Useful links:

http://www.businessinsider.com/google-shows-off-next-generation-search-architecture-2009-8

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/08/help-test-some-next-generation.html

http://www2.sandbox.google.com/

 

 

 

 

 

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