February 24th, 2008 in Website of the Day
Moving through life, we all try to keep our roots close. In light of keeping my roots close, I’d like to highlight one of the best web design reference guides from a college of which I am not alumni of. For many years, the great people from the ITSS department of University of Minnesota – Duluth have built out an amazing archive of some of the best web design articles, tutorials and references from all over. The reference covers topics ranging from accessibility to usability.
February 13th, 2008 in SEO Tips
Got a burning question that you need answered? Then consider asking it on Yahoo Answers. With a solid user base, you’re sure to get a response from every point of view. While browsing the questions and answers, finding something of interest shouldn’t be difficult and could provide a great backlink opportunity. With a mass of open questions, people are open to recommended sources and feedback that could potentially provide them a resolution.
If you’re promoting a real estate website, then search for real estate questions. Then get ready to roll-up your sleeves and dig into the questions. If you find something where your website could provide a credible solution, then throw your link up there along with a decent description describing it. You’ll be amazed how quickly the visitors will start rolling in.
February 8th, 2008 in Web Tools
Over the past couple of years, I’ve had a difficult time finding a decent link checker program for finding broken links. Just recently a co-worker recommended Xenu Link Sleuth and it has worked great! Check it out!
February 7th, 2008 in SEO Tips
If you haven’t heard of or used Wordpress yet, then you are one of few in the web world. After reading a recent posting in the Sitepoint Forums asking web developers to supply their Wordpress SEO checklists, I decided to post my own.
After installing Wordpress, download and install the following plugins:
Contributing factors:
- .htaccess: force the www rewrite for your website so all the urls.
#Force www domain
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^yourdomain\.com [nc]
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.yourdomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]
#End force www
- XHTML/CSS: Develop a wordpress theme that has clean XHTML with semantic tags and clean CSS.
- Robots.txt: identify your sitemap and make sure your content is crawled correctly with the robots.txt file. Be sure to disallow the “wp-admin” directory.
- Permalinks: set to custom use %postname%. Ultilize keywords in your URL.
- More Tag: utilize the more tag so your entire post doesn’t show up on your homepage and it’s own page.
Useful Links and Resources:
February 3rd, 2008 in SEO Tips
Page redirection can be accomplished very easily and can be well received by users. In order to best satisfy the needs of search engines a 301 redirection is the optimal way to redirect pages across your website. A 301 status code means “moved permanently” and can be accomplished very easily with some slight variations between coding platforms. Ideally, you will want to focus more on the server side redirects. Client side redirects are prone to issues if users or search engine spiders can’t read javascript.
HTML Redirect
<html>
<head>
<title>301 Moved Permanently</title>
<meta http-equiv=”refresh” content=”4;url=http://www.yakiji.com/newpage.html”>
</head>
<body>
<h1>301 Moved Permanently</h1>
This page has moved. You will be automatically redirected to its new location in 4 seconds.
If you aren’t forwarded to the new page,
<a href=”http://www.yakiji.com/newpage.html”>http://www.yakiji.com/newpage.html</a>.
</body>
</html>
ASP Redirect
<%@ Language=VBScript %>
<%
Response.Status=”301 Moved Permanently”;
Response.AddHeader(“Location”,”http://www.yakiji.com/newpage.html”);
Response.End
%>
ASP.NET Redirect (without tracking)
<%@ Page language=”c#” %>
<script runat=”server”>
private void Page_Load(object sender, System.EventArgs e) {
Response.Status = “301 Moved Permanently”;
Response.AddHeader(“Location”, Link);
}
</script>
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