tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21915953496920082202024-03-22T02:19:36.116-07:00Expert SEO firm in India - ERP in India - Internet MarketingIf you want to know more about these topics than search my blog.Pinkyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11686220802783291168noreply@blogger.comBlogger31125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2191595349692008220.post-1331547906226075302012-08-06T06:04:00.001-07:002012-08-06T06:04:23.709-07:00Business Focused Analytics – The Starting Point<div class='posterous_autopost'><p> <p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; color: #5b5a5a; overflow: hidden; line-height: 21px; text-align: justify;">Having been a Business Intelligence practitioner for the last 13 years, there has never been a more exciting time to practice this art, as organizations increasingly realize that a well implemented BI & Analytics system can provide great competitive advantage for them. This leads us to the question of – ‘What is a well implemented BI system?’ Let us follow the Q&A below.</p> <p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; color: #5b5a5a; overflow: hidden; line-height: 21px; text-align: justify;"><strong><em>Q: What is a well implemented <a href="http://hexaware.com/business-intelligence-analytics.htm" title="BI System" target="_blank">BI system</a>?</em></strong></p> <p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; color: #5b5a5a; overflow: hidden; line-height: 21px; text-align: justify;"><strong>A:</strong> A well implemented BI system is one that is completely business focused.</p> <p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; color: #5b5a5a; overflow: hidden; line-height: 21px; text-align: justify;"><strong><em>Q: Well, that doesn’t make it any easier. How can we have BI that is completely business focused?</em></strong></p> <p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; color: #5b5a5a; overflow: hidden; line-height: 21px; text-align: justify;"><strong>A:</strong> BI & Analytics becomes completely business focused when they have ‘business decisions’ as the cornerstone of their implementation. The starting point to build / re-engineer a BI system is to identify the business decisions taken by business stakeholders in their sphere of operations. Business decisions can be operational in nature (taken on a daily basis) and/or strategic (taken more infrequently but they tend to have a longer term impact). To reiterate, the starting point for BI is to catalog the business decisions taken by business stakeholders and collect the artifacts that are currently used to take those decisions.</p> <p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; color: #5b5a5a; overflow: hidden; line-height: 21px; text-align: justify;"><strong><em>Q: The starting point is fine – What are the other pieces?</em></strong></p> <p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; color: #5b5a5a; overflow: hidden; line-height: 21px; text-align: justify;"><strong>A:</strong> The next step is to identify the metrics and key performance indicators that support decision making. In other words, any metric identified should be unambiguously correlated to the decision taken with the help of that metric and by whom. Next we need to identify the core datasets in the organization. Please refer to my earlier blog post titled ‘<a href="http://blogs.hexaware.com/business-intelligence/business-datasets-the-conceptual-framework-for-bi/" target="_blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; color: #f37e20;">Thinking by Datasets</a>’ on this subject.</p> <p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; color: #5b5a5a; overflow: hidden; line-height: 21px; text-align: justify;"><strong><em>Q: What about the operational systems in the landscape? Aren’t they important?</em></strong></p> <p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; color: #5b5a5a; overflow: hidden; line-height: 21px; text-align: justify;"><strong>A:</strong> Once we have documented the relationship between Business Decisions to Metrics to Datasets, we need to focus on the transactional applications. The key focus items are:</p> <ul style="margin: 0px 0px 10px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"> <li style="margin: 0px 5px 4px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 12px; border: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: ; color: #5b5a5a; line-height: 18px; background-position: 0px 6px;">Inventory of all Transactional Applications</li> <li style="margin: 0px 5px 4px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 12px; border: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: ; color: #5b5a5a; line-height: 18px; background-position: 0px 6px;">Identify the business process catered by these applications</li> <li style="margin: 0px 5px 4px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 12px; border: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: ; color: #5b5a5a; line-height: 18px; background-position: 0px 6px;">Identify the datasets generated as part of each of business process</li> <li style="margin: 0px 5px 4px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 12px; border: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: ; color: #5b5a5a; line-height: 18px; background-position: 0px 6px;">Next step is to drill-down into individual entities that make up each of the datasets</li> <li style="margin: 0px 5px 4px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 12px; border: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: ; color: #5b5a5a; line-height: 18px; background-position: 0px 6px;">Once the Facts & Dimensions are identified from the entities, sketch out the classic ‘Bus Matrix’ which would form the basis for dimensional data modeling</li> </ul> <p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; color: #5b5a5a; overflow: hidden; line-height: 21px; text-align: justify;"><strong><em> </em></strong></p> <p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; color: #5b5a5a; overflow: hidden; line-height: 21px; text-align: justify;"><strong><em>Q: All this is good if we are building a BI system from scratch – How about existing BI systems?</em></strong></p> <p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; color: #5b5a5a; overflow: hidden; line-height: 21px; text-align: justify;"><strong>A:</strong> For existing BI applications, the above mentioned process could be carried out as a health-check on the BI landscape. The bottomline is that every single report / dashboard / any other analytical component should have traceability into the metrics shown which should then link to the decisions taken by business users. BI & Analytics exist to help organizations take better business decisions and that defines its purpose & role in an enterprise IT landscape.</p> <p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; color: #5b5a5a; overflow: hidden; line-height: 21px; text-align: justify;">The answers mentioned above provide the high-level view of Hexaware’s approach to Business Intelligence projects. We have worked with many organizations across industries and a business focused analytical approach has provided good value for our customers.</p> <p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; color: #5b5a5a; overflow: hidden; line-height: 21px; text-align: justify;">Thanks for reading. Please do share your thoughts.</p> </p></div>Jessicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06078135459876557198noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2191595349692008220.post-68076659413307537152012-07-25T22:02:00.003-07:002012-07-25T22:02:35.275-07:00Earnings Conference Call on Tuesday, July 31st 2012 at 4.00 pm IST<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 535px; color: rgb(91, 90, 90); overflow: hidden; line-height: 17px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify; ">The Board of Directors of <a href="http://hexaware.com" title="Hexaware Technologies" target="">Hexaware Technologies</a> is scheduled to meet on July 31<sup>st</sup>, 2012 to consider the audited results for the quarter ended June 30<sup>th</sup>, 2012 (Q2 2012).</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 535px; color: rgb(91, 90, 90); overflow: hidden; line-height: 17px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify; ">The company is hosting an earnings conference call for investors and analysts on the same day to discuss the results.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 535px; color: rgb(91, 90, 90); overflow: hidden; line-height: 17px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify; ">Details of the conference call are as follows:</p><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(91, 90, 90); margin-bottom: 15px; text-align: justify; width: 543px; "><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="border: 1px solid rgb(214, 214, 214); text-align: left; vertical-align: top; padding: 5px; word-wrap: break-word; width: 190px; "><strong>Date</strong></td><td valign="top" style="border: 1px solid rgb(214, 214, 214); text-align: left; vertical-align: top; padding: 5px; word-wrap: break-word; width: 190px; "><strong>July 31<sup>st</sup>, 2012</strong></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" style="border: 1px solid rgb(214, 214, 214); text-align: left; vertical-align: top; padding: 5px; word-wrap: break-word; width: 190px; "><strong>Day</strong></td><td valign="top" style="border: 1px solid rgb(214, 214, 214); text-align: left; vertical-align: top; padding: 5px; word-wrap: break-word; width: 190px; "><strong>Tuesday</strong></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" style="border: 1px solid rgb(214, 214, 214); text-align: left; vertical-align: top; padding: 5px; word-wrap: break-word; width: 190px; "><strong>Time</strong></td><td valign="top" style="border: 1px solid rgb(214, 214, 214); text-align: left; vertical-align: top; padding: 5px; word-wrap: break-word; width: 190px; "><strong>4:00 PM IST</strong></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" style="border: 1px solid rgb(214, 214, 214); text-align: left; vertical-align: top; padding: 5px; word-wrap: break-word; width: 190px; "><strong>Dial-in Access Numbers</strong></td><td valign="top" style="border: 1px solid rgb(214, 214, 214); text-align: left; vertical-align: top; padding: 5px; word-wrap: break-word; width: 190px; "></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" style="border: 1px solid rgb(214, 214, 214); text-align: left; vertical-align: top; padding: 5px; word-wrap: break-word; width: 190px; "><strong>Mumbai</strong></td><td valign="top" style="border: 1px solid rgb(214, 214, 214); text-align: left; vertical-align: top; padding: 5px; word-wrap: break-word; width: 190px; ">Primary Access:<strong>+91 22 <strong>3065</strong> <strong>0539<br></strong></strong>Secondary Access:<strong>+91 22 <strong>6629</strong> <strong>0539</strong></strong></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" style="border: 1px solid rgb(214, 214, 214); text-align: left; vertical-align: top; padding: 5px; word-wrap: break-word; width: 190px; "><strong>Hexaware Participants</strong></td><td valign="top" style="border: 1px solid rgb(214, 214, 214); text-align: left; vertical-align: top; padding: 5px; word-wrap: break-word; width: 190px; "><strong>Atul Nishar</strong>– Chairman<strong><br>P. R. Chandrasekar</strong> – Vice Chairman & CEO<strong><br>R. V. Ramanan</strong> – Executive Director & Head – Global Delivery<strong><br>Prateek Aggarwal</strong> – Chief Financial Officer<strong></strong><strong><br>Deependra Chumble</strong>– Chief People Officer<strong><br></strong><strong>Sreenivas V</strong>– Chief Strategy Officer</td></tr></tbody></table><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 535px; color: rgb(91, 90, 90); overflow: hidden; line-height: 17px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify; "><strong>Replay Facility*</strong></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 535px; color: rgb(91, 90, 90); overflow: hidden; line-height: 17px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify; ">Playback number: <strong>+91 22 3065 1212<br></strong></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 535px; color: rgb(91, 90, 90); overflow: hidden; line-height: 17px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify; ">When prompted, please enter the Conference ID<strong> <strong>32580</strong> </strong>followed by <strong>#<br></strong></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 535px; color: rgb(91, 90, 90); overflow: hidden; line-height: 17px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify; "><em><em>*<em>The replay facility of the conference call will be available 60 minutes after the call ends and for three days from July 31<sup>st</sup> to August 02<sup>nd</sup> 2012.</em></em></em></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 535px; color: rgb(91, 90, 90); overflow: hidden; line-height: 17px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify; ">Participants are requested to kindly dial-in 10 minutes in advance.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 535px; color: rgb(91, 90, 90); overflow: hidden; line-height: 17px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify; ">Thank you!</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 535px; color: rgb(91, 90, 90); overflow: hidden; line-height: 17px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify; ">For further information: please contact – Sreenivas V<br>[e-mail: <a href="mailto:sreenivasv@hexaware.com" target="_blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; color: rgb(243, 126, 32); ">sreenivasv@hexaware.com</a>; phone: +91 99401 90091]</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 535px; color: rgb(91, 90, 90); overflow: hidden; line-height: 17px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify; ">More: <a href="http://hexaware.com/news/earnings-conference-call-on-tuesday-july-31st-2012-at-4-00-pm-ist-2/">http://hexaware.com/news/earnings-conference-call-on-tuesday-july-31st-2012-at-4-00-pm-ist-2/</a></p><br /><br />Pinkyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11686220802783291168noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2191595349692008220.post-1309470167244534932012-07-25T22:02:00.001-07:002012-07-25T22:02:25.164-07:00Earnings Conference Call on Tuesday, July 31st 2012 at 4.00 pm IST<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 535px; color: rgb(91, 90, 90); overflow: hidden; line-height: 17px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify; ">The Board of Directors of <a href="http://hexaware.com" title="Hexaware Technologies" target="">Hexaware Technologies</a> is scheduled to meet on July 31<sup>st</sup>, 2012 to consider the audited results for the quarter ended June 30<sup>th</sup>, 2012 (Q2 2012).</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 535px; color: rgb(91, 90, 90); overflow: hidden; line-height: 17px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify; ">The company is hosting an earnings conference call for investors and analysts on the same day to discuss the results.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 535px; color: rgb(91, 90, 90); overflow: hidden; line-height: 17px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify; ">Details of the conference call are as follows:</p><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(91, 90, 90); margin-bottom: 15px; text-align: justify; width: 543px; "><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="border: 1px solid rgb(214, 214, 214); text-align: left; vertical-align: top; padding: 5px; word-wrap: break-word; width: 190px; "><strong>Date</strong></td><td valign="top" style="border: 1px solid rgb(214, 214, 214); text-align: left; vertical-align: top; padding: 5px; word-wrap: break-word; width: 190px; "><strong>July 31<sup>st</sup>, 2012</strong></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" style="border: 1px solid rgb(214, 214, 214); text-align: left; vertical-align: top; padding: 5px; word-wrap: break-word; width: 190px; "><strong>Day</strong></td><td valign="top" style="border: 1px solid rgb(214, 214, 214); text-align: left; vertical-align: top; padding: 5px; word-wrap: break-word; width: 190px; "><strong>Tuesday</strong></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" style="border: 1px solid rgb(214, 214, 214); text-align: left; vertical-align: top; padding: 5px; word-wrap: break-word; width: 190px; "><strong>Time</strong></td><td valign="top" style="border: 1px solid rgb(214, 214, 214); text-align: left; vertical-align: top; padding: 5px; word-wrap: break-word; width: 190px; "><strong>4:00 PM IST</strong></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" style="border: 1px solid rgb(214, 214, 214); text-align: left; vertical-align: top; padding: 5px; word-wrap: break-word; width: 190px; "><strong>Dial-in Access Numbers</strong></td><td valign="top" style="border: 1px solid rgb(214, 214, 214); text-align: left; vertical-align: top; padding: 5px; word-wrap: break-word; width: 190px; "></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" style="border: 1px solid rgb(214, 214, 214); text-align: left; vertical-align: top; padding: 5px; word-wrap: break-word; width: 190px; "><strong>Mumbai</strong></td><td valign="top" style="border: 1px solid rgb(214, 214, 214); text-align: left; vertical-align: top; padding: 5px; word-wrap: break-word; width: 190px; ">Primary Access:<strong>+91 22 <strong>3065</strong> <strong>0539<br></strong></strong>Secondary Access:<strong>+91 22 <strong>6629</strong> <strong>0539</strong></strong></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" style="border: 1px solid rgb(214, 214, 214); text-align: left; vertical-align: top; padding: 5px; word-wrap: break-word; width: 190px; "><strong>Hexaware Participants</strong></td><td valign="top" style="border: 1px solid rgb(214, 214, 214); text-align: left; vertical-align: top; padding: 5px; word-wrap: break-word; width: 190px; "><strong>Atul Nishar</strong>– Chairman<strong><br>P. R. Chandrasekar</strong> – Vice Chairman & CEO<strong><br>R. V. Ramanan</strong> – Executive Director & Head – Global Delivery<strong><br>Prateek Aggarwal</strong> – Chief Financial Officer<strong></strong><strong><br>Deependra Chumble</strong>– Chief People Officer<strong><br></strong><strong>Sreenivas V</strong>– Chief Strategy Officer</td></tr></tbody></table><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 535px; color: rgb(91, 90, 90); overflow: hidden; line-height: 17px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify; "><strong>Replay Facility*</strong></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 535px; color: rgb(91, 90, 90); overflow: hidden; line-height: 17px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify; ">Playback number: <strong>+91 22 3065 1212<br></strong></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 535px; color: rgb(91, 90, 90); overflow: hidden; line-height: 17px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify; ">When prompted, please enter the Conference ID<strong> <strong>32580</strong> </strong>followed by <strong>#<br></strong></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 535px; color: rgb(91, 90, 90); overflow: hidden; line-height: 17px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify; "><em><em>*<em>The replay facility of the conference call will be available 60 minutes after the call ends and for three days from July 31<sup>st</sup> to August 02<sup>nd</sup> 2012.</em></em></em></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 535px; color: rgb(91, 90, 90); overflow: hidden; line-height: 17px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify; ">Participants are requested to kindly dial-in 10 minutes in advance.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 535px; color: rgb(91, 90, 90); overflow: hidden; line-height: 17px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify; ">Thank you!</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 535px; color: rgb(91, 90, 90); overflow: hidden; line-height: 17px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify; ">For further information: please contact – Sreenivas V<br>[e-mail: <a href="mailto:sreenivasv@hexaware.com" target="_blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; color: rgb(243, 126, 32); ">sreenivasv@hexaware.com</a>; phone: +91 99401 90091]</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 535px; color: rgb(91, 90, 90); overflow: hidden; line-height: 17px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify; ">More: <a href="http://hexaware.com/news/earnings-conference-call-on-tuesday-july-31st-2012-at-4-00-pm-ist-2/">http://hexaware.com/news/earnings-conference-call-on-tuesday-july-31st-2012-at-4-00-pm-ist-2/</a></p><br /><br />Pinkyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11686220802783291168noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2191595349692008220.post-14645946891652342802012-06-08T21:40:00.003-07:002012-06-08T21:40:11.365-07:00Quality Assurance and Testing Services: Strategy of Oracle BI Testing<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: small; ">This Document gives an overview of </span><a href="http://hexaware.com/bi-consulting.htm" style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(16, 72, 107); text-decoration: none; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: small; ">OBIEE Testing</a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: small; "> and commonly used in BI Components while doing validation.</span><br style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: small; "><br style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: small; "><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.3em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: small; "><b style="margin: 0px; ">1. Testing in Levels:</b> In a typical <b style="margin: 0px; ">OBIEE</b> project, it is advisable to test in multiple areas rather than attempting to test everything at once.</p><p style="margin-top: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 1.3em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: small; "><b style="margin: 0px; ">a)</b> The first set of tests can verify the accuracy of the column to column transport of the data between the source and target. This verification is typically done using SQL statements on the source and target databases.</p><p style="margin-top: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 1.3em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: small; "><b style="margin: 0px; ">b)</b> The next step is to verify the accuracy of the repository (the .RPD file.) These tests will include testing with appropriate dimensional filters on the metrics and the formula used to compute those metrics. Testers can build two sets of comparable queries within the repository interface.</p><p style="margin-top: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 1.3em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: small; "><b style="margin: 0px; ">c)</b> The next step in testing will be to verify the dashboard / reports against comparable queries on repository metrics. In these tests, testers verify dashboard charts / reports against corresponding results from queries they execute on metrics of the repository.</p><p style="margin-top: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 1.3em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: small; "><b style="margin: 0px; ">d)</b> Finally, the functional interface tests will cover tests to verify the lookups, performance, ease of use, look and feel etc.</p><p style="margin-top: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 1.3em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: small; ">The first three types of tests are performed by testers who can create simple SQL statements.</p><p style="margin-top: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 1.3em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: small; "><b style="margin: 0px; ">Structure and organization of test cases:</b></p><p style="margin-top: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 1.3em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: small; ">The choices on test cases naming convention and structure can help organize the test artifacts better and aid a great deal in implementing the overall testing strategy.</p><p style="margin-top: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 1.3em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: small; "><b style="margin: 0px; ">For example:</b> If the test cases are grouped based on the nature of the tests, like, source to target verification, RPD metrics tests, functional, security, performance and usability, it would be easier to pick and choose the tests based on the testing context and tester capabilities.</p><p style="margin-top: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 1.3em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: small; "><b style="margin: 0px; ">1. User acceptance criteria:</b><br style="margin: 0px; ">Users typically have an existing legacy mechanism to verify if what is displayed in the new solution makes sense. Testers should dig into this and understand how the end users built the project acceptance criteria. Testers should challenge the assumptions made by the business community in deriving the acceptance criteria. This activity helps get an end user perspective built into the testing efforts from early on.</p><p style="margin-top: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 1.3em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: small; "><b style="margin: 0px; ">2. Validating Master Detail Report:</b> <br style="margin: 0px; ">Master Details linking of views allows you to establish a relationship between two or more views such that one view, called the master view, will drive data changes in one or more other views, called detail views.</p><p style="margin-top: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 1.3em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: small; "><b style="margin: 0px; ">3. Time series functions validation:</b> Time series functions provide the ability to compare business performance with previous time periods, allowing you to analyze data that spans multiple time periods.</p><p style="margin-top: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 1.3em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: small; ">Time series functions enable comparisons between current sales and sales a year ago, a month ago, and so on.</p><p style="margin-top: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 1.3em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: small; "><b style="margin: 0px; ">a. Ago:</b> With ago function we can compare period to period<br style="margin: 0px; "><b style="margin: 0px; ">b. To date:</b> Time series functions enable comparisons between current sales and sales a year ago, a month ago, and so on.<br style="margin: 0px; "><b style="margin: 0px; ">c. Period rolling:</b> The PERIODROLLING function does not have a time series grain; instead, you specify a start and end period in the function.</p><p style="margin-top: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 1.3em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: small; "><b style="margin: 0px; ">4. Oracle bi-publisher validation:</b> Oracle BI Publisher known as XML Publisher offers efficient scalable reporting solution available for complex, distributed environments. It provides a central architecture for generation and delivering information to employees', customer and business partners both security and in the right format.</p><br /><br />Pinkyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11686220802783291168noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2191595349692008220.post-66848108227445787652012-06-07T05:17:00.002-07:002012-06-07T05:17:31.878-07:00Quality Assurance And Testing Services: OBIEE Validations<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Source to target validation:</b> Here source is represented by metadata repository and Target represents OBIEE Reports & Dashboards, BI Publishers.</div>
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<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">1. Presentation layer object validation:</b><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />This is the layer of the logical business model that is accessible for the client through the structure query Language better known as the logical SQL. The presentation is the appropriate layer to set user permissions and to validate user permissions to reports.</div>
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<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">2. Categorizing the metrics:</b><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />It is important to classify the metrics from multiple perspectives such as, their frequency of use, potential performance impacts, and complexity of calculations involved. Such a classification helps drive priority of testing</div>
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<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">3. Dashboard charts and filters criteria:</b><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />User interface testing should encompass tests with multiple options in the available filter criteria. OBIEE gives enough drilldown features to verify the underlying data on the clickable components of the charts. Test cases written should be detailed enough to verify data aggregated at various layers.</div>
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<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">4. Filter Validation</b><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />. Validate the entire filters which are available on report. Example refers below report and its filter<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />. Example: For Performance Measure filter- Validate filter contents against report requirement and database</div>
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<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Filter types:</b><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Local filters: Filtering the records in the report level.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Global filters: Filtering the records based on user selection in Dashboard.</div>
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<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Dashboard Validation:</b><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />When a user selects certain request that need to display the exact results in the dashboard.</div>
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<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">5. Data level security:</b><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Data level security validation means user will be able to see only particular data for the given permission<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Example:</b> Both the Eastern and Western region Sales Managers will be seeing the same reports but the Data visible to them in the reports will be Eastern and Western region Sales data respectively.</div>
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<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Object Level security:</b> Need to validate whether the particular user is able to access the particular dashboard or folder etc.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Example:</b> For example, users in a particular department can view only the subject areas that belong to their department.</div>
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<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">6. Bursting the reports:</b><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Bursting the reports means distributing the reports based on the regions. <br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Example:</b> If there are 4 regional reports, validate to burst the reports (based on East, West, South, North regions).</div>
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<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">7. Buzz Matrix validation: </b><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Need to validate the alerts in the Dashboard.</div>
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<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Example:</b> We are running stock market and CEO is very much interested to know today’s business weather, has it reached a certain level that which he expects compared to the last week. If the level has reached to a certain level in Dashboard Buzz (Alert), it should raise an alert saying that it has reached the level in such a way the buzz matrix validates.</div>
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You should ask to see proof of certification and other qualifications before allowing any such professional into your house.</p><p style="padding: 4px 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; "><br></p><p style="padding: 4px 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; ">More: <a href="http://www.articleconsortium.info/article.php?id=22231">http://www.articleconsortium.info/article.php?id=22231</a></p><br /><br />Pinkyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11686220802783291168noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2191595349692008220.post-76052804434285525442012-06-05T00:27:00.003-07:002012-06-05T00:27:56.512-07:00Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE)<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: small; ">The primary focus of DW/BI testing is to ensure competent and perfect database structures, ETL processes, front-end access and that BI reports generation processes completely support the client requirements.</span><br style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: small; "><br style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: small; "><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.3em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: small; "><b style="margin: 0px; ">What is OBIEE?</b><br style="margin: 0px; ">Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE) is a comprehensive business intelligence platform that delivers a full range of analytic and reporting capabilities. Designed for scalability, reliability, and performance, <a href="http://hexaware.com/oracle-application-management-service.htm" style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(16, 72, 107); text-decoration: none; ">Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise</a>Edition delivers contextual, relevant and actionable insight to everyone in an organization, resulting in improved decision-making, better-informed actions, and more efficient business processes. In our project, we are doing OBIEE Report testing:</p><p style="margin-top: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 1.3em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: small; ">. Understanding Sub Queries<br style="margin: 0px; ">. Understanding Table Manipulation<br style="margin: 0px; ">. XML in SQL Server<br style="margin: 0px; "></p><p style="margin-top: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 1.3em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: small; "><b style="margin: 0px; ">Prerequisites:</b></p><p style="margin-top: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 1.3em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: small; ">Before go through the below documents we must have basic knowledge of <a href="http://hexaware.com/oracle-implementation-service.htm" style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(16, 72, 107); text-decoration: none; ">OBIEE</a> and its components</p><p style="margin-top: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 1.3em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: small; ">Like . . .</p><p style="margin-top: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 1.3em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: small; ">Oracle Bi Server<br style="margin: 0px; ">Oracle Business Intelligence Dashboards<br style="margin: 0px; ">Oracle Business Intelligence Answers/Analysis<br style="margin: 0px; ">Oracle Business Intelligence Delivers<br style="margin: 0px; ">Oracle Business Intelligence Briefing books<br style="margin: 0px; ">Oracle Business intelligence Publisher<br style="margin: 0px; "></p><p style="margin-top: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 1.3em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: small; "><b style="margin: 0px; ">1. Sample report and Navigation steps:</b><br style="margin: 0px; ">. Oracle Interactive Dashboard page is displayed as designed for project<br style="margin: 0px; ">. Click on Customer Subject area (Note: Generally set of reports may or may not come under specific subject area)<br style="margin: 0px; "></p><p style="margin-top: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 1.3em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: small; "><b style="margin: 0px; ">2. Checking the Source record count and Target record count:</b><br style="margin: 0px; ">. Checking the source record count and Target record count for matching<br style="margin: 0px; ">. While writing the queries we can validate the record count<br style="margin: 0px; "></p><p style="margin-top: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 1.3em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: small; ">Once the Report gets executed we need to validate query in database by finding the matching record count.</p><p style="margin-top: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 1.3em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: small; "><b style="margin: 0px; ">3. Checking the Naming Conventions:</b><br style="margin: 0px; ">During the Project setup and later during maintenance these conventions can help for communication about several possible entities: ETL, DWH and Repository. Using naming convention is only effective if they are used by everyone at the same level of details:</p><p style="margin-top: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 1.3em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: small; ">. Fact Table (W_xxx_F)<br style="margin: 0px; ">. Dimension Table (W_xxx_F)<br style="margin: 0px; ">. Dimension Hierarchy Table(W_XXX_DH)<br style="margin: 0px; ">. Aggregated Fact Table (w_xxx_AG)<br style="margin: 0px; "></p><p style="margin-top: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 1.3em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: small; "><b style="margin: 0px; ">4. Authentication:</b><br style="margin: 0px; ">Is the process used to verify the identity of a user who tries to access the system. This is implemented by <a href="http://hexaware.com/bi-consulting.htm" style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(16, 72, 107); text-decoration: none; ">BI Server</a>using either the Internal Authentication or External Methods</p><p style="margin-top: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 1.3em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: small; "><b style="margin: 0px; ">Authorization:</b> Is the process used to verify that a user has been granted sufficient privileges to perform the requested action on the special object.</p><p style="margin-top: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 1.3em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: small; "><b style="margin: 0px; ">5. Report Data Validation:</b><br style="margin: 0px; ">In <a href="http://hexaware.com/business-intelligence-analytics.htm" style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(16, 72, 107); text-decoration: none; ">BI testing</a> world, generally we call it as End to End testing hence we need to perform report data validation against data warehouse(DB) and source system data (i.e. Test data which are created specific to report from Business team or Front office team)</p><p style="margin-top: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 1.3em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: small; ">Whenever the report is opened, one session log will be generated with Query which is used to identify the physical data source to which Oracle BI Server is connecting. Use this SQL to analyze the tables and fields while validation the data of the report.</p><p style="margin-top: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 1.3em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: small; "><b style="margin: 0px; ">6. Steps to follow to navigate to the Session log Query:</b><br style="margin: 0px; "><b style="margin: 0px; ">Step 1:</b> Click Settings > Administration to open the Oracle BI Presentation Services Administration window<br style="margin: 0px; "><b style="margin: 0px; ">Step 2:</b> In the Session Management window, under Cursor Cache, click the View Log link for the last entry</p><p style="margin-top: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 1.3em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: small; "><br></p><p style="margin-top: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 1.3em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: small; ">Read more: <a href="http://www.ideamarketers.com/?articleid=3290307&wherefrom=LOGIN&CFID=184837668&CFTOKEN=64001061">http://www.ideamarketers.com/?articleid=3290307&wherefrom=LOGIN&CFID=184837668&CFTOKEN=64001061</a></p><br /><br />Pinkyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11686220802783291168noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2191595349692008220.post-18676216922064510802012-01-12T11:13:00.000-08:002012-02-08T11:15:00.832-08:00Feel the Heaven with SEO RankThe backbone of a web business has always been its website and why shouldn’t it be when there is no one to speak with the customer other than this website. Online marketing of the products is not easy as it appears and requires a lot of skill to do the same. You should be proficient enough and well versed with all the latest changes happening around. No one would ever want to go its hard work into waste and in order to achieve it the way you expect; you should follow the practices of SEO Rank in India. They have been into Search Engine optimization for so many years now with their ability to optimize the website content as per the standards of the Search Engine requirement. Each Search Engine demands something unique in the website so that it could help the customer for the ting they require. So you need to win the heart of Search Engine first in order to reach to the customer.<div><br />Starting from laying down the online marketing sample to implementing it to your site, all is done by SEO agency that would ultimately help you to achieve the business goals. The more a website is Search Engine friendly, more it will be positioned higher in the list and more will be its visibility to the customers. For the ones who are new to the online business, it becomes very important to follow the standard of Search Engine Optimization; the best would be to take the services of some experts to assist them in the same. From the web marketing to the website optimization, everything requires to be perfect in order to attain the key of success.</div><div><br />With the effective Search Engine Optimization technique, one can expect to have minimum number of links which are otherwise required to make the website visible more often in the Search Engine. You need to win the trust of your customers not just by making your site something which looks attractive but should enable the customer to trust on you with the products listed in the website. Usage of different keywords to make your site easily approachable to the customers will do wonders to your business and help the customer to quickly search for the products he is willing to purchase. All such attributes are offered by SEO Rank Agency approach and is advisable to avail their service no matter how small or big your business is.</div><div><br />As it is important for any website to be Search Engine friendly, it is as important for it to be customer friendly since it will be of no use if the customer halts at your site and left after few seconds or minutes with empty hands. So you need to make sure that with the effective usage of keywords to place your site in top list of Search Engines, you also make proper use of content writing. Effective content writing techniques of SEO India aims at making the content not only attractive but interesting to the customer. It will pull the customer towards your product and increase your sales.</div><div><br /><i> One approach that has been giving successful results for online business over the years now is SEO Ranking and is quite effective in increasing your company’s brand value.</i></div>Jessicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06078135459876557198noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2191595349692008220.post-27063087819457878042011-12-05T03:01:00.000-08:002011-12-06T03:02:02.333-08:0018 Free AdSense Blogging Platforms That Allow AdSense Ads<p>This is our list of free blogging platforms that allow AdSense ads. Some of these sites share the ad space with you and some of them allow you 100% of the revenue from the AdSense ads.</p> <p>We decided to republish this list because the original post at<a href="http://www.raief.com/blogging-tips-tricks/free-stuff/building-an-adsense-business-with-free-blogs-and-web-2-0-sites/" target="_blank"> <strong>Building an AdSense Business with Free Blogs and Web 2.0 Sites</strong></a> did not receive very much attention.</p> <p>Some allow you to place other adverts and <span class="caps">CPA</span> offers on the blogs. This is the same list that we posted earlier but without Squidoo and HubPages included since they are not blogging platforms. They are web 2.0 sites.</p> <p>We did not include WordPress because to place AdSense ads on WordPress you have to pay for hosting, so it is not really free.</p> <p>You may want to read <strong><a href="http://www.raief.com/blogging-tips-tricks/free-stuff/building-an-adsense-business-with-free-blogs-and-web-2-0-sites/" target="_blank">our short discourse and tutorial</a></strong> on how these free AdSense Blogging Platforms work and how you can benefit from them.</p> <h3>Free blogging platforms that allow AdSense</h3> <p><a href="http://www.blogger.com/" target="_blank">http://www.blogger.com/</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.i.ph/" target="_blank">http://www.i.ph/</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.flixya.com/nav/register" target="_blank">http://www.flixya.com/nav/register</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.blogsome.com/" target="_blank">http://www.blogsome.com/</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.paranormaltimes.co.uk/" target="_blank">http://www.paranormaltimes.co.uk/</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.20six.co.uk/" target="_blank">http://www.20six.co.uk/</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.netcipia.com/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome" target="_blank">http://www.netcipia.com/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.blogdrive.com/" target="_blank">http://www.blogdrive.com/</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.blogates.com/" target="_blank">http://www.blogates.com/</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.weebly.com/" target="_blank">http://www.weebly.com/</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.ebloggy.com/">http://www.ebloggy.com/</a></p> <p><a href="http://bloghi.com/" target="_blank">http://bloghi.com/</a></p> <!-- AdSense Now! V1.97 --> <!-- Post[count: 2] --> <div class="adsense adsense-midtext" style="float: right; margin: 12px;"><script></script> <script></script><ins style="display: inline-table; border: medium none; height: 60px; margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt; position: relative; visibility: visible; width: 234px;"><ins id="aswift_3_anchor" style="display: block; border: medium none; height: 60px; margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt; position: relative; visibility: visible; width: 234px;"><iframe allowtransparency="true" hspace="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" vspace="0" id="aswift_3" name="aswift_3" style="left: 0pt; position: absolute; top: 0pt;" width="234" frameborder="0" height="60" scrolling="no"></iframe></ins></ins></div><p><a href="http://www.blogr.com/" target="_blank">http://www.blogr.com/</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.tblog.com/" target="_blank">http://www.tblog.com/</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.blogtext.org/" target="_blank">http://www.blogtext.org/</a></p> <p><a href="http://freeflux.net/" target="_blank">http://freeflux.net/</a></p> <p><a href="http://inube.com/" target="_blank">http://inube.com/</a> (this site added on 2010/06/06 — revenue sharing)</p> <p><a href="http://blogreaction.com/" target="_blank">http://blogreaction.com/</a> (added on 2010/08/30 — revenue sharing for both Adsense and Kontera)</p>Pinkyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11686220802783291168noreply@blogger.com110tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2191595349692008220.post-80845187935913227722011-11-12T04:49:00.000-08:002011-11-12T04:54:32.585-08:00WordPress Automatic Facebook Page Update<a style="text-decoration: none;" name="fb_share" type="button_count" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ridhuan.com%2Fblog%2F2011%2F03%2Fwordpress-automatic-facebook-page-update%2F&t=WordPress%20Automatic%20Facebook%20Page%20Update%20%7C%20Ridhuan%27s%20Blog&src=sp"><span class="fb_share_size_Small "><span class="FBConnectButton FBConnectButton_Small" style="cursor: pointer;"><span class="FBConnectButton_Text"></span></span></span></a>This entry is the continuation to <a title="Automatically Post Blog Entries to Facebook Page" href="http://www.ridhuan.com/blog/2011/03/automatically-post-blog-entries-to-facebook-page/">the entry I’ve posted last night</a>. Here I’m going to share with you the 2nd suggestion on how to automatically update the Facebook Page every time you update your blog. However this second suggestion is ONLY suitable for those using WordPress self-hosted blogs. This method is also recommended for those who have not yet created any Facebook Page for their blogs.<div class="single-entry"> <p style="text-align: justify;">2. Using the <a title="Simple Facebook Connect" href="http://adf.ly/1c9vG" target="_blank">Simple Facebook Connect (SFC)</a> WordPress plugin by Otto.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">The first step is to go to your “<strong>Plugins</strong>” admin page in WordPress and click on the “<strong>Add New</strong>“ button.</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.ridhuan.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/fb1auto08.png"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-658" title="fb1auto08" src="http://www.ridhuan.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/fb1auto08-300x156.png" alt="Automatic Facebook update from WordPress" height="156" width="300" /></a></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Then search for “<em>simple facebook connect</em>” and press the “<strong>Search Plugins</strong>“ button. Click the “<strong>Install Now</strong>” link. You can also do manual installation via ftp. The plugin can also be downloaded from the <a title="SFC WordPress plugin" href="http://adf.ly/1c9x4" target="_blank">WordPress plugins directory</a>.</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.ridhuan.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/fb1auto09.png"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-659" title="fb1auto09" src="http://www.ridhuan.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/fb1auto09-300x156.png" alt="Update Facebook automatically from WordPress" height="156" width="300" /></a></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">After installation there will be a lot of new “<strong>SFC blah blah blah</strong>” plugins in your plugins list. Look for “<strong>Simple Facebook Connect - Base</strong>” and activate it.</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.ridhuan.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/fb1auto10.png"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-660" title="fb1auto10" src="http://www.ridhuan.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/fb1auto10-300x156.png" alt="Wordpress auto-update Facebook Page" height="156" width="300" /></a></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Then go to your WordPress admin “<strong>Settings > Simple Facebook Connect</strong>” to customize the plugin. This is where you will need to put your Facebook page’s information. SFC also offers various Facebook functions such as WordPress login using Facebook profile and page’s activity feeds. Most of this functions including the automatic Facebook Page update will require custom Facebook application which you have to create by yourself.</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.ridhuan.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/fb1auto11.png"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-661" title="fb1auto11" src="http://www.ridhuan.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/fb1auto11-300x156.png" alt="Connect WordPress to Facebook" height="156" width="300" /></a></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">To create a Facebook application you need to go to this link: <a title="Create Facebook Apps" href="http://www.facebook.com/developers/createapp.php" target="_blank">http://www.facebook.com/developers/createapp.php</a>. After creating the App you will be displayed with your Apps information that will be needed by the plugin.</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.ridhuan.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/fb1auto12.png"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-662" title="fb1auto12" src="http://www.ridhuan.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/fb1auto12-300x156.png" alt="Creating Facebook application for WordPress" height="156" width="300" /></a></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">After you done setting up the base. Go to your “<strong>Plugins</strong>” page and activate the “<strong>SFC – Publish</strong>“.</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.ridhuan.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/fb1auto13.png"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-663" title="fb1auto13" src="http://www.ridhuan.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/fb1auto13-300x156.png" alt="Facebook Publish plugin for WordPress" height="156" width="300" /></a></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Then go back to “<strong>Settings > Simple Facebook Connect</strong>“. Now you need to give permission for the newly created Apps to automatically access your Facebook data.</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.ridhuan.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/fb1auto14.png"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-664" title="fb1auto14" src="http://www.ridhuan.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/fb1auto14-300x156.png" alt="Setting up automatic Facebook update from WordPress" height="156" width="300" /></a></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">There are major differences between all 3 methods I’ve posted in this blog. I prefer this method because once somebody clicked on the Wall Post of the Facebook Page they will be redirected to your blog without any other medium in between. Give your opinion about this entry and share it with your friends.</p></div><br />Read more: <a style="color: rgb(0, 51, 153);" href="http://www.ridhuan.com/blog/2011/03/wordpress-automatic-facebook-page-update/#ixzz1dUlO3XqJ">WordPress Automatic Facebook Page Update | Ridhuan's Blog</a> <a style="color: rgb(0, 51, 153);" href="http://www.ridhuan.com/blog/2011/03/wordpress-automatic-facebook-page-update/#ixzz1dUlO3XqJ">http://www.ridhuan.com/blog/2011/03/wordpress-automatic-facebook-page-update/#ixzz1dUlO3XqJ</a><br />Under Creative Commons License: <a style="color: rgb(0, 51, 153);" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0">Attribution Non-Commercial</a>Pinkyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11686220802783291168noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2191595349692008220.post-34552994639256083802011-11-12T04:17:00.000-08:002011-11-12T04:21:15.526-08:00SEO New York Makes Promotion Understandable<span name="KonaFilter" style="color: rgb(78, 40, 0); font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">SEO New York can make the content of your web pages more applicable, more beautiful, and more easily read by search engines and their swarming and indexing software. 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Some of the changes which are optional could include changes to the text content which is enclosed within individual pages. </span><br /><br /><span name="KonaFilter" style="color: rgb(78, 40, 0); font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Other types of changes will not consequence what is shown in the browser, but will help the search engine spiders to properly view and index a site. You have doubtless noticed that when searching for some topics, some of the results seem to have very little applicable to your search terms. Certain pages listed in those outcomes may even direct you to a completely different web site than the one listed. The traffic which arrives in from that website is pointing to the feeling of your post on that writer, who linked to your page which means that user may or may not like what it will find there so as an upshot the user may or may not come back to your site. Things are quite different with SEO New York because it helps you to build invariable growing traffic which also helps you to gain reliability and trust from your visitors.</span><br /><br /><span name="KonaFilter" style="color: rgb(78, 40, 0); font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Gaining trust is very central because is the one that helps you to make a real community so, as a consequence you will get RSS Readers, more Twitter followers and people who are involved in buying your products or just interested in the data or services you are offering.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.theseonewyorker4websiteoptimization.com/" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(244, 141, 29);">SEO New York</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>articles are the ones that build integrity and trust so, as a sign of respect, the users will go after you on twitter, subscribe to your RSS feeds and they will know that on your website the required information can be found and start gaining social media power. </span><br /><span name="KonaFilter" style="color: rgb(78, 40, 0); font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br />Minting money on the web can be frustrating or menacing to some. If this is the case you should learn some ways to ease your indecision because making money online has never been simpler and it can actually be a lot of fun if you take the right direction. Implementing the right direction through various SEO New York software programs is often the route that many people want to take with internet marketing. However, people have their own likes and different things work for diverse people. It is truly up to you to choose which route you would like to take to monetary freedom. It does bring about a great deal of fiscal achievement in the long term but it does not happen right away. </span><br /><span name="KonaFilter" style="color: rgb(78, 40, 0); font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br /><i>SEO New York is the best promotional step that tends to enhance the goodwill of a particular company that is willing to showcase some profit.</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"><br /></span></span>Pinkyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11686220802783291168noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2191595349692008220.post-47821787867686975432011-02-26T09:57:00.000-08:002011-02-26T10:00:19.378-08:00Google Instant Search Offers Challenges to SEO ContentRanking well with the search engines is something all businesses try to be cognizant of. It is the reason why <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine_optimization">SEO material</a> is created for the main pages of a website as well as in all of the rest of the content which is added later on. The idea is to make sure that no matter what someone is looking for on the internet, they will be able to find the sites which are the most helpful to what they are looking for. The challenge is in making content which is friendly to the reader and to the search engines at the same time. <p>The new <a href="http://www.google.com/instant/">instant search from Google</a> has created a new caveat that web owners have to pay attention to. The service from Google makes it possible for the search engine to offer suggestions of websites which might fit your need as you are typing in the keywords into the search window. The list is constantly updated based on what is being typed in. An educated guess by the system can cause a problem for the many websites looking to be found. The problem is how to make sure that your website will always be found in instant search.</p> <p><strong>Understanding the New Service</strong><br />The new product from Google is something which they hope will offer users an easier time of surfing the internet by offering even faster results. By offering lists based on even a few letters, it is possible that users will be able to find useful content within seconds of the time that they get started. The hope is that the users will be able to return to the search engine even more because they find the new service even more useful. You will be able to find something like internet VoIP service without having to enter a long string keyword. It is something which will save time for the user, but create a challenge for websites.</p> <p><strong>Deciding on Keywords</strong><br />Many websites have started to take a look at the kinds of keywords they are using with the content that they have. They wonder how they will be able to utilize keywords which will give them <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PageRank">better rankings</a> even when only a fraction of the keyword is used. It is important to remember that you should not try to use fractions of keywords in content as it will be caught by the spiders and could even cause your website to be ignored altogether. Rather you should pay attention to which keywords are being searched most often as this will likely change now with the new feature from Google.</p> <p><strong>Focusing on Content</strong><br />It is a good idea to take a good look at the kind of content you are offering on your website to make sure you have the kind of information which will allow for better results with the instant search option on Google. Your content is what the spiders are looking for when they crawl the web. They are tending to avoid the sites which are geared more towards the search engine rather than the search engine users. Focus more on the kind of content which provides useful information to those interested in your company and what you have to offer. Remember you can include content which has to do with the industry you are in as well. Adding industry news to your site will only help to lend to the idea that you are an authority within your industry. </p> <p><strong>Learning the New Algorithms</strong><br />The new ideals being looked for with Google is that they want to only feature websites which are produced in an organic manner. They advise all websites to focus on the kind of content which will be useful once the visitor lands on the site. They are paying attention to the <a href="http://analytics.blogspot.com/">kinds of analytics</a> which suggest whether or not those who visit the site have found what they are looking for or not. If there is a high bounce rate for certain keywords on your site, they tend to send you less traffic as a result. Focus your attention on the keywords which tend to make sure that people are spending the right amount of time on your site.</p> <p><strong>Defining Your Website</strong><br />It is a good idea to take a look at exactly what kind of content your website should have on it so that you can further define your message and the direction of your website. By defining your website, it is possible for more people to grasp the concept and for you to get a higher ranking with the search engines. Things like website organization and content will play heavily in the usefulness of your website to those who visit. Paying attention to these factors will help your site to be highly successful with Google instant search.</p><input id="gwProxy" type="hidden"><!--Session data--><input onclick="jsCall();" id="jsProxy" type="hidden"><div id="refHTML"></div>Pinkyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11686220802783291168noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2191595349692008220.post-55333134621752757242011-02-26T09:53:00.000-08:002011-02-26T09:54:52.492-08:00Article Submission Trumps Ezine Ads and Google AdWords<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-left: 8px; margin-right: 10px; text-align: left;"> You may have heard advice from Internet marketing gurus that ezine ads are one of the best forms of advertising. You may also have heard that Google AdWords and other pay per click search engines are one of the best advertising methods. But when it comes to marketing your web site, article submission trumps ezine ads and Google AdWords anytime.<br /><br /> The advantage of article submission is trust. Suppose you subscribe to an ezine in the form of an email newsletter. You've just sat down at your PC, coffee in hand, to read your email. There in your inbox is a copy of one of your favorite ezines, the one you read every time. Clicking on the newsletter, you see that this edition starts with a sponsor ad and then has a couple of great sounding articles and a couple more ezine ads. Sipping your coffee, one of the articles catches your attention. You read the article, and you were right. It's a great article. </p>At the bottom of the article, there is a link to the author's web site and a short biography. You notice the author has a link to pick up a free report with more information about the article's topic. Then you notice that right below that there's a sponsor link in an ezine ad. The sponsor's link is for a different web site, but it also offers a free report about the same topic.<br /><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-left: 8px; margin-right: 10px; text-align: left;"><br /> Now you might click both links. But if you could only click one, which would you choose: the one by the author of the great article you just read or the one in the ezine ad?<br /><br /> If you would click on the one from the author of the article you just read, you're not alone. Most people would, wouldn't they?<br /><br /> Now suppose you're surfing around on the web. You do a Google search on a topic you're interested in, and you follow a link to a great article with some excellent advice on the topic. Again, there is a link to the author's web site and a link to a free report with more information on the topic.<br /><br /> Right beside it are five Google AdWords ads on the same topic. As luck would have it, they are also each offering a free report on the same topic.<br /><br /> You would still be most likely to click on the author's link at the bottom of the article, though, wouldn't you?<br /></p><br /> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-left: 8px; margin-right: 10px; text-align: left;"> A Article submission trumps ezine ads and Google AdWords because you establish a relationship and build trust with your reader. You are obviously the expert. After all, you wrote the article. And the webmaster or ezine publisher wouldn't have published the article if they didn't think you knew what you were talking about, right?<br /><br /> Years ago, I used to do direct sales in people's homes. I learned that one of the first things you need to do is the "warm up." You've just entered someone's home, they don't know who you are as a person, and they know you're going to be trying to get money from them before you leave.<br /><br /> If you don't establish rapport quickly, it's difficult to overcome people's natural sales resistance. In direct sales in the home, you do that by talking a little with people before you begin your sales presentation. They get to know you as a person, and their resistance is lowered. </p><br /> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-left: 8px; margin-right: 10px; text-align: left;"> Most people can't do sales because they remain the "enemy," the horrible sales person who wants to sell something. Let's face it, people hate sales people!<br /><br /> But imagine if you could warm up to people easily - and not just one or two people, but thousands of people. Imagine if instead of selling them something, you could educate them about something that will solve a problem and be of great benefit to them. That's entirely different, isn't it?<br /><br /> Article submission allows you to do exactly this, and on a massive scale. If you submit many articles to article submission sites and article directories, many will be published on web sites and in ezines around the Internet. People will read your articles and warm up to you. Solve their problems and they'll want more.<br /><br /> It's hard to accomplish that with Google AdWords. You only have three lines and a few words to build interest and trust and to get the click. It's also hard to achieve that with ezine ads. Even with solo ezine ads, evéryone knows they are advertisements.<br /><br /> Article submission is the secret. Writing and submitting articles is relatively easy. Just write very helpful articles on your topic and link to your web site. Through article submission you will build your reputation. Through article submission you will gain trust. And through article submission you will get visitors to your web site that already like you, value your advice, and want to know more about what you can do to help them.<br /><br /> That's already an incredible benefit, but it gets even better. Article submission is usually free, or low cost if you use an article submission service. Ezine ads and Google AdWords can be very expensive, and it is unlikely you could ever get traffic coming to your site as open to listening to you and trusting you as they will be from an article submission.<br /><br /> This is why article submission trumps ezine ads and Google AdWords. </p><input id="gwProxy" type="hidden"><!--Session data--><input onclick="jsCall();" id="jsProxy" type="hidden"><div id="refHTML"></div>Pinkyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11686220802783291168noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2191595349692008220.post-20255195251850403272008-09-10T04:40:00.000-07:002008-09-10T04:41:10.086-07:00SEO FAQ<p style="margin-top: 0.19in; margin-bottom: 0.19in;"><a name="whatissearchengine"></a> <b>What is a Search Engine?<br /></b>A search engine is an online database of websites that allows Internet users to search for information contained on websites contained in the database by "Keywords".<br />Keywords are words that Internet searches are likely to use when looking for information on a specific topic. For example, the words "grad schools" would likely be used when looking for information on continuing post-secondary education.<br />Each search engine has slightly different behaviors and characteristics.</p> <p style="margin-top: 0.19in; margin-bottom: 0.19in;"><a name="whatisdirectory"></a> <b>What is a Directory?<br /></b>A directory is a search tool much like a search engine but with a few major differences. Directories tend to employ human editors to review and rank websites submitted to their database. Yahoo! is the most well known example of a directory. Most directories catalog websites based on a variety of topic categories such as Business and Economics, or Arts and Culture. Most directories demand payment before assigning a website review to one of their editors. </p> <p style="margin-top: 0.19in; margin-bottom: 0.19in;"><a name="whatispayperclick"></a> <b>What is PPC or Pay Per Click?</b><br />Several Search tools are now offering Pay per Click rankings. Companies such as GoTo and iWon allow webmasters the chance to purchase placement in an auction system. StepForth has several plans for managing bidding accounts and finding the least expensive keywords to bid on.</p> <p style="margin-top: 0.19in; margin-bottom: 0.19in;"><a name="simplesolution"></a> <b>Is there a simple solution to top placement?</b><br />There is no simple solution to attaining high search engine rankings. Search engine optimization is time consuming work and requires a healthy knowledge of how the Internet functions and how search engines operate.</p> <p style="margin-top: 0.19in; margin-bottom: 0.19in;"><a name="allthesame"></a> <b>Are not all search engines the same?</b><br />Each search tool has its own unique characteristics. As businesses, each search tool has found ways to make its service slightly different from other search tools.</p> <p style="margin-top: 0.19in; margin-bottom: 0.19in;"><a name="stayattop"></a> <b>Will my website stay at the #1 position once my website is placed there by StepForth?</b><br />Search Engine rankings fluctuate frequently, however, if your site is properly maintained by search engine specialists month to month then it is likely that the movement will be confined to within the top10 positions. </p> <p style="margin-top: 0.19in; margin-bottom: 0.19in;" align="center"><span style="color:#0000cc;"><b>TIP:</b></span> StepForth offers a monthly maintenance service which is designed to maintain optimal positioning for existing clientele. </p> <p style="margin-top: 0.19in; margin-bottom: 0.19in;"><a name="badfirstround"></a> <b>My website did not get accepted last time I submitted to the search engines... why?</b><br />Search Engine listings are not guaranteed to everyone who posts a website to the Internet. Search engines are for-profit businesses and have the right to refuse to list any site for virtually any reason. At StepForth we specialize in getting sites listed on search engines. We ensure all bases are covered and all necessary elements are present before submitting the finalized site to the search engines or directories.</p> <p style="margin-top: 0.19in; margin-bottom: 0.19in;"><a name="timeforresults"></a> <b>How long does it take to see results?</b><br />It can take between 2 - 12 weeks to see results, depending on each search engine. StepForth starts tracking your website's performance 14 days after submission. We will forward all results as they come in over time. Ask about our reporting services.</p> <p style="margin-top: 0.19in; margin-bottom: 0.19in;"><a name="sefindwebsites"></a> <b>How does the Search Engine find websites?<br /></b>There are two ways a search engine can find a website to add to its database. The first and most direct method is to accept submissions from website designers and optimizers. Most search engines have a "submit your URL" section inviting submissions from Internet users.<br />The second, and least obvious method of finding websites is to send a "spider" to follow each and every link on, off, and through a website. New URLs encountered by the spider will be added to the database. In this way, some search engines will grow very rapidly. </p> <p style="margin-top: 0.19in; margin-bottom: 0.19in;"><a name="whatisspider"></a> <b>What is a "Spider"?<br /></b>A "spider" is an electronic robot that travels the web examining websites in order to add them to a search engine database and rank them according to the specific ranking criteria for that search engine. Most search engines use spiders to quickly and efficiently canvass the web for information. </p> <p style="margin-top: 0.19in; margin-bottom: 0.19in;"><a name="whatisseo"></a> <b>What is Search Engine Optimization?</b><br />Search Engine Optimization is the process of making websites search engine friendly. The process often involves minor modifications to, or additions of, several standard elements of a website.</p> <p style="margin-top: 0.19in; margin-bottom: 0.19in;"><a name="searchenginefriendly"></a> <b>What do you mean by Search Engine Friendly?</b><br />We use this term to describe a website that has specific elements added or modified to attract and please search engine spiders or live directory editors. Here is a link to an article that will provide you with more information: "<span style="color:#0000ff;"><u><a href="http://news.stepforth.com/2006-news/Is-Your-Website-Search-Engine-Friendly.shtml">Is Your Web Site Search Engine Friendly? Your Personal Checklist</a></u></span>" </p> <p style="margin-top: 0.19in; margin-bottom: 0.19in;"><a name="extraelements"></a> <b>Why might I need to have extra elements added to my website?</b><br />A search engine spider is an automated program that electronically probes every URL submitted to its database. As the spider is a computer program, it is designed to look for and rank very specific items on each page it probes. If those elements are present, the spider computes a higher ranking than it would if those elements were not present. </p> <p style="margin-top: 0.19in; margin-bottom: 0.19in;"><a name="lackofelements"></a> <b>If these elements are so important, why didn't they get added when my site was originally designed?</b><br />Most website designers haven't learned the importance of search engine friendly design. In almost every case we've encountered, the site designer is a highly skilled and creative person whose job is to put your ideas on the web. More often than not, the designers have not received any training in search engine optimization and don't think about it while pursuing a cool looking design. Search engines are also constantly changing their ranking criteria. They do this to prevent gross manipulation of their search tools. Often, website designers are not fully up to date with changes at search engines. For an example, ask your website designers about Theme Engines. At StepForth, we spend a good portion of our time studying how search engines work and how any sudden changes might effect our clients.</p> <p style="margin-top: 0.19in; margin-bottom: 0.19in;"><a name="doityourself"></a> <b>Why don't I just do the work myself and save money?</b><br />You can do the work yourself. You will need to continuously update your knowledge of how the various search engines work and any changes made in the way they work. This shouldn't take you too much time. Once you get the hang of it, search engine optimization can be as simple as re-shoeing the brake pads on your car or replacing the motherboard and system bios in your computer.</p> <p style="margin-top: 0.19in; margin-bottom: 0.19in;">You should know that if you make a mistake in optimization and submission, it can take months to find the mistake and fix it, resubmit the site and obtain the search engine ranking you desired. Our 10+ years of experience with search engine optimization helps us avoid most mistakes. </p> <p style="margin-top: 0.19in; margin-bottom: 0.19in;"><b>What is an Affiliate Program?</b><br />A mutually beneficial relationship between a website and a company. The company seeks to either generate more web traffic, sell more products, or seek out potential customers through leads. The website seeks to make a profit by selling ad revenue on the site. Affiliate programs come in many shapes and forms.<br /><br /><b>What is an Affiliate Network?</b><br />This is by far the quickest and easiest way to begin selling advertising on your website. A secondary company called an affiliate network acts as a liaison between the advertiser and your website. The affiliate network sells ad space on your site and then takes a cut of the profit generated from this advertising. This can be an especially good method for small sites or people just starting in the advertising market, because it is extremely difficult to find individual advertisers on your own. In addition, the hardware and software needed to run and track an advertising campaign is all taken care of by the affiliate network.<br /><br /><b>What is CPS (Cost Per Sale)?</b><br />The cost an advertiser pays per sale. This is a very common method of selling advertising. You receive a credit for a sale when a web surfer clicks on one of the ads on your site and ends up buying something from your advertiser's site. A sale does not always occur directly after the click as most advertisers will have a certain time during which both the sale and click through must occur in order to receive credit. This time period is often called the 'cookie duration'.<br /><br /><b>What is CPL (Cost Per Lead)?</b><br />The cost an advertiser pays per lead. This is a very common method of selling advertising. A lead can be anything from an email address for a newsletter to a complete survey that needs to be completely filled out and verified in order to get credit. CPL prices can range greatly depending on the program.<br /><br /><b>What is CPA (Cost Per Action)?</b><br />This term refers to pay per lead and pay per sale affiliate programs.<br /><br /><b>What is CPC (Cost Per Click)?</b><br />The cost an advertiser pays per click.</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b>Does meta tags make your site rank better?</b><br />This is NOT true. The fact is that according to the W3C HTML coding standards it is good coding practice to make use of Meta tags. Meta tags are also used by some directories and Yahoo! also admited at looking at meta tags 2 years ago. It is also true that search engines like Google DO NOT care much for meta tags. Meta tags therefore does very little if any for your rankings. It is also good practice not to stuff a bunch of keywords in your meta tags but that the meta tags should be relevant to the theme and keywords targeted on the specific page it is located on.<br /><br /><b>Is page titles important?</b><br />Yes, a good page title assist the search engine in determining the targeted theme of the page. Each page must have it’s own unique title that are representative of the page content. Also just target a single keyword phrase per page title.<br /><br /><b>Should I target many keywords on a single page?</b><br />No, the best strategy is to target a single keyword phrase for every individual page. This can cause a single page to rank for several keywords relevant to the incoming backlinks and the keywords targeted by the page.</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b>What is a reciprocal link?</b><br />Reciprocal linking is when you link to a site and they link to your site in return.<br /><br /><b>What is a triangular link?</b><br />This is a link strategy whereby you link to a site form your one domain and they link back to another of your domains.<br /><b><br />What is Natural rank</b><br />This the rankings that you obtain without paying for position. In Google the paid rankings normally is located on the right hand side of their search results and the natural rankings are the results listed on the entire left hand side of the search results.</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b>What is hidden text?</b><br />This is text that is visible to a search engine spider as it views the HTML source code but it is not visually visible to a human visitor. Webmasters usually make use of style sheets and the class attribute to fool search engines. This will definitely end up with a removal and penalty by a search engine when detected.<br /><br /><b>What is a Doorway page?</b><br />These are normally single pages created with the sole purpose to target specific keywords. It usually do not reflect the rest of the site. A splash page can be mistaken as a doorway page and should be avoided as search engines can penalize a domain for the use of doorway pages.<br /><br /><b>My web design company submitted my site to 1000’s of search engines, do I still need to do SEO?</b><br />Submission software is to a large degree a selling mechanism that means nothing to the website. Only a handful of search engines being submitted to are actually useful and those will focus on other factors to determine your site’s rankings. It is a well known fact that Google uses more than 200 factors to rank a website. The only thing that submission software does is letting search engines know that your site is out there. Obtaining backlinks from sites already being indexed however has the same result.</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b>What is SEO?</b><br />It is the process that enable search engines to access and understand the content of a site with the end result of improved positioning on the SERPS of relevant search engines in order to obtain relevant targeted referrals with improved conversion ratios, from search engines.<br /><br /><b>What is Cloaking?</b><br />In short cloaking means to determine who visits the website and then presenting the applicable visitor with the site content relevant to their needs. In other words serving Google bot with a different page than for example the Yahoo! spider is cloaking. This will definitely result in a banning of the relevant site in a search engine, if discovered. Enabling actual human visitors to view only information relevant to their needs is not considdered cloaking. Cloaking's main objective is fooling search engines.<br /><br /><b>What is an Algo?</b><br />The abbreviation for algorithm. This is a mathematical formula that determines the ranking of pages in the relevant search engines search results.</p>Pinkyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11686220802783291168noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2191595349692008220.post-69048760973522572772008-09-10T04:34:00.000-07:002008-09-10T04:36:23.275-07:00SEO Tools<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color:#000000;"> <span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><b>SEO Tools</b></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><b>Seo Administrator</b></span></span></span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:85%;"> is an integrated suite of web promotion utilities that cover all aspects of website optimization and promotion. Professionals and newcomers alike have successfully used Seo Administrator to enhance their websites and have found it to be simple and intuitive to operate.<br /><br />Here is an overview of the powerful utilities that are included in the Seo Administrator package:<br /><br />The </span></span></span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><b>"Ranking Monitor"</b></span></span></span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:85%;"> utility. This seo tool uses your website keywords to obtain the ranking position of your website from a wide range of search engines. The list of over thirty major international search engines includes: </span></span></span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><b>Google, Yahoo, MSN, AltaVista, AllTheweb, Lycos, HotBot</b></span></span></span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:85%;"> and so on.<br /><br />The</span></span></span><span style="color:#0000ff;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><b> </b></span></span></span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><b>"Link popularity checker" </b></span></span></span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:85%;">seo tool. The number of inbound links to your website is a major factor in successful search engine promotion and this tool analyzes these links. The Seo Administrator package enables you to create a comprehensive list of links to your web project and follow their dynamics by revealing new and out-dated links. The module can also analyze your competitor's websites and search for potential link exchange resources.<br /><br />The</span></span></span><span style="color:#0000ff;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><b> </b></span></span></span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><b>"Site indexation tool"</b></span></span></span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:85%;"> utility. This seo tool checks for website page indexing. Before being included in keyword-based search results, a web page needs to be indexed by the search engines. Seo Administrator reveals the pages of your site that have been indexed by various search engines. The program supports all major international search engines<br /><br />The</span></span></span><span style="color:#0000ff;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:85%;"> </span></span></span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><b>"Log analyzer"</b></span></span></span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:85%;"> program is designed for analysis of your website log-files. It provides comprehensive estimates of resource usage, numbers of visitors, search queries that were used to find your site, site referrers, visitors' countries and much more.<br /><br />The</span></span></span><span style="color:#0000ff;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:85%;"> </span></span></span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><b>"Page Rank analyzer"</b></span></span></span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:85%;"> seo tool automatically obtains the Google PageRank value for your list of URLs. The number of inbound links is also obtained. It also checks for the presence of each URL in the DMOZ and Yahoo catalogues.<br /><br />The</span></span></span><span style="color:#0000ff;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:85%;"> </span></span></span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><b>"Keyword suggestion tool".</b></span></span></span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:85%;"> Choosing the right keywords and keyphrases to target in your pages is extremely important to help people find your website. This seo tool uses a variety of sources to suggest keywords relevant to each page. The program also provides the competition number of the keywords. Less competition means that you may get higher ranking in search engines.<br /><br />The</span></span></span><span style="color:#0000ff;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:85%;"> </span></span></span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><b>"HTML analyzer"</b></span></span></span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:85%;"> module is a seo program that analyzes html page content. The program provides a full report on the weight and density of keywords and keyphrases in your web pages. As well as providing a preliminary analysis of your own site, it can be used to analyze your competitors' sites.<br /><br />The</span></span></span><span style="color:#0000ff;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:85%;"> </span></span></span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><b>"Google Data Centers"</b></span></span></span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:85%;"> program. This seo program is a tool that allows you to query all of Google's Data Centers from one convenient interface<br /><br />The</span></span></span><span style="color:#0000ff;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:85%;"> </span></span></span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><b>"Snippets viewer"</b></span></span></span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:85%;"> seo program. The brief, automated descriptions (snippets) of your resource displayed by search engines are also very important. An attractive description will make visitors to choose your link among all the others suggested by a search engine. This seo program analyses your snippets and compiles a database of them.<br /><br />Seo Administrator automates site promotion allowing you to utilize your time spent on the project more effectively, efficiently and productively.</span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><strong>SEO tools collection</strong> </p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Hey fellows, recently written an article <span style="color:#0000ff;"><u><a href="http://moneybloggers.net/2007/03/25/ultimate-seo-tools-collection/" target="_blank">Ultimate SEO tools collection</a></u></span> based on some SEO tools. Hope it helps.<br /><br />Page Rank<br /><br /><span style="color:#0000ff;"><u><a href="http://www.iwebtool.com/rank" target="_blank">Rank Checker</a></u></span> - Get a overview of your website's ranking<br /><span style="color:#0000ff;"><u><a href="http://www.seochat.com/seo-tools/pagerank-lookup/" target="_blank">PageRank Lookup</a></u></span> - check the PageRank for a website<br /><span style="color:#0000ff;"><u><a href="http://www.iwebtool.com/pagerank_prediction" target="_blank">Google PageRank Prediction</a></u></span> - check predicted PR of a site<br /><span style="color:#0000ff;"><u><a href="http://www.iwebtool.com/multirank" target="_blank">Multi-Rank Checker</a></u></span> - View your Google PageRank and Alexa Ranking in bulk<br /><span style="color:#0000ff;"><u><a href="http://www.iwebtool.com/pagerank_checker" target="_blank">PageRank Checker</a></u></span> - View your Google PageRank on differnet Google servers<br /><br />Links related<br /><br /><a href="http://www.searchbliss.com/seo-tools/bookmark-blog-search.asp" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0000ff;"><u><br /></u></span><span style="color:#0000ff;"><u>Bookmark & Blog Search Check</u></span></a> - Find your backlinks in the major bookmarking sites and blog search engines<br /><span style="color:#0000ff;"><u><a href="http://www.webconfs.com/reciprocal-link-checker.php" target="_blank">Reciprocal Link Check</a></u></span> - check whether your link partners are linking back to your website<br /><span style="color:#0000ff;"><u><a href="http://www.linkworth.com/link_popularity.php" target="_blank">Link Popularity Checker</a></u></span> - a popularity score given to a website based on inbound links<br /><span style="color:#0000ff;"><u><a href="http://www.linkworth.com/tools/price-quote.php" target="_blank">LinkPrice Lookup</a></u></span> - check the price of your link<br /><span style="color:#0000ff;"><u><a href="http://www.webconfs.com/link-value.php" target="_blank">Link Price Calculator</a></u></span> - another tool for checking the price of links<br /><span style="color:#0000ff;"><u><a href="http://www.ranks.nl/cgi-bin/ranksnl/tools/checklink.pl" target="_blank">Link Checker</a></u></span> - check your links to see if it's still valid or not<br /><span style="color:#0000ff;"><u><a href="http://www.seochat.com/seo-tools/link-popularity/" target="_blank">Link Popularity</a></u></span> - checks the total number of web pages which link to a website<br /><span style="color:#0000ff;"><u><a href="http://www.seochat.com/seo-tools/link-price/" target="_blank">Link Price Calculator</a></u></span> - help to determine the approximate amount you should be paying (or charging) per month for a text link (ad) from each and every page of the specified website<br /><span style="color:#0000ff;"><u><a href="http://www.seochat.com/seo-tools/site-link-analyzer/" target="_blank">Site Link Analyzer</a></u></span> - analyze a given web page and return a table of data containing columns of outbound links and their associated anchor text<br /><span style="color:#0000ff;"><u><a href="http://www.seochat.com/seo-tools/url-rewriting/" target="_blank">URL Rewriting</a></u></span> - convert dynamic URLs into static looking HTML URLs<br /><span style="color:#0000ff;"><u><a href="http://www.iwebtool.com/link_extractor" target="_blank">Link Extractor</a></u></span> - Extract links from a specific web page<br /><span style="color:#0000ff;"><u><a href="http://www.iwebtool.com/link_shortener" target="_blank">Link Shortener</a></u></span> - shorten a web address<br /><span style="color:#0000ff;"><u><a href="http://www.searchbliss.com/seo-tools/back-links-finder.asp" target="_blank">Back Links Finder</a></u></span> - Build relevant website back links<br /><span style="color:#0000ff;"><u><a href="http://www.webconfs.comurlnchor-text-analysis.php/" target="_blank">Backlink Anchor Text Analyzer</a></u></span> - check link text used by your backlinks to Link to your wesbite<br /><br />Keyword related<br /><br /><span style="color:#0000ff;"><u><a href="http://www.marketleap.com/verify/default.htm" target="_blank">Keyword Verification</a></u></span> - checks to see if your site is in the top three pages of a search engine result for a specific keyword<br /><span style="color:#0000ff;"><u><a href="http://www.markhorrell.com/tools/density.asp" target="_blank">Keyword Density Analyser</a></u></span> - another SEO tools for keywords<br /><span style="color:#0000ff;"><u><a href="http://www.seochat.com/seo-tools/keyword-cloud/" target="_blank">Keyword Cloud</a></u></span> - a visual representation of keywords used on a website<br /><span style="color:#0000ff;"><u><a href="http://www.seochat.com/seo-tools/keyword-density/" target="_blank">Keyword Density</a></u></span> - another SEO tool for checking keyword density<br /><span style="color:#0000ff;"><u><a href="http://www.seochat.com/seo-tools/keyword-difficulty/" target="_blank">Keyword Difficulty Check</a></u></span> - see how difficult it would be to rank for specific keywords or phrases<br /><span style="color:#0000ff;"><u><a href="http://www.seochat.com/seo-tools/keyword-optimizer/" target="_blank">Keyword Optimizer</a></u></span> - optimizer your keywords with this tool<br /><span style="color:#0000ff;"><u><a href="http://www.seochat.com/seo-tools/keyword-typo-generator/" target="_blank">Keyword Typo Generator</a></u></span> - generate a list of suggestions for likely human misspellings and typos<br /><span style="color:#0000ff;"><u><a href="http://www.iwebtool.com/keyword_suggestion" target="_blank">Keyword Suggestion</a></u></span> - Find related keywords matching your search<br /><span style="color:#0000ff;"><u><a href="http://www.apogee-web-consulting.com/tools/keyword_tool.php" target="_blank">Free Keyword Research Tool</a></u></span> - analyze the meta keywords of your competition<br /><br />Sitemap<br /><br /><span style="color:#0000ff;"><u><a href="http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/" target="_blank">XML-Sitemaps</a></u></span> - Build your Site Map online (XML, ROR, Text, HTML)<br /><span style="color:#0000ff;"><u><a href="http://gsitecrawler.com/" target="_blank">Gsitecrawler</a></u></span> - Google (and Yahoo!) Sitemap Generator for Windows<br /><span style="color:#0000ff;"><u><a href="http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/validate-xml-sitemap.html" target="_blank">Validate XML Sitemap</a></u></span> - Search Engine Optimizion Tool for validating your xml sitemaps<br /><br />Search Engines<br /><br /><span style="color:#0000ff;"><u><a href="http://www.google.comurlnalytics/" target="_blank">Google Analytics</a></u></span> - tells you everything about your visitors<br /><span style="color:#0000ff;"><u><a href="http://www.searchbliss.com/seo-tools/google-backlinks.asp" target="_blank">Google Backlinks Check</a></u></span> - Check Google and 9 data centers for backward link updates<br /><span style="color:#0000ff;"><u><a href="http://www.iwebtool.com/google_banned" target="_blank">Google Banned Checker</a></u></span> - check whether a site is banned by Google or not<br /><span style="color:#0000ff;"><u><a href="http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/se-bot-simulator.html" target="_blank">Search Engine Bot Simulator</a></u></span> - SEO Tool to simulate search engine parsing of webpages and display discovered links.<br /><span style="color:#0000ff;"><u><a href="http://www.seochat.com/seo-tools/indexed-pages/" target="_blank">Indexed pages</a></u></span> - check the no. of indexed pages for your blog<br /><span style="color:#0000ff;"><u><a href="http://www.seochat.com/seo-tools/spider-simulator/" target="_blank">Spider Simulator</a></u></span> - simulates a search engine by displaying the contents of a web page<br /><span style="color:#0000ff;"><u><a href="http://www.seochat.com/seo-tools/redirect-check/" target="_blank">Search Engine Friendly Redirect Checker</a></u></span> - checks the exact HTTP headers that a web server is sending with an HTTP response.<br /><span style="color:#0000ff;"><u><a href="http://www.iwebtool.com/search_engine_position" target="_blank">Search Engine Position</a></u></span> - Locate your search listings on Google and Yahoo!<br /><span style="color:#0000ff;"><u><a href="http://www.iwebtool.com/search_listings_preview" target="_blank">Search Listings Preview</a></u></span> - Preview your website on Google, MSN and Yahoo! Search<br /><br />HTML related<br /><br /><span style="color:#0000ff;"><u><a href="http://www.iwebtool.com/html_encrypter" target="_blank">HTML Encrypt</a></u></span> - Hide your HTML source code<br /><span style="color:#0000ff;"><u><a href="http://www.iwebtool.com/html_optimizer" target="_blank">HTML Optimizer</a></u></span> - Optimize and clean your HTML source code<br /><span style="color:#0000ff;"><u><a href="http://www.iwebtool.com/http_headers" target="_blank">HTTP Headers</a></u></span> - Extract the HTTP Headers of a web page<br /><span style="color:#0000ff;"><u><a href="http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/http-headers-viewer.html" target="_blank">HTTP Headers Viewer</a></u></span> - check HTTP headers for any specific URL<br /><span style="color:#0000ff;"><u><a href="http://www.iwebtool.com/metatags_extractor" target="_blank">Meta-tags Extractor</a></u></span> - Extract meta-tags information from a web page<br /><span style="color:#0000ff;"><u><a href="http://www.iwebtool.com/metatags_generator" target="_blank">Meta-tags Generator</a></u></span> - Generate and configure your meta-tags<br /><span style="color:#0000ff;"><u><a href="http://www.seochat.com/seo-tools/meta-analyzer/" target="_blank">META Analyzer</a></u></span> - analyze a website's meta tags<br /><span style="color:#0000ff;"><u><a href="http://www.seochat.com/seo-tools/meta-tag-generator/" target="_blank">Meta Tag Generator</a></u></span> - help you to generate meta tags<br /><span style="color:#0000ff;"><u><a href="http://www.searchbliss.com/seo-tools/meta-tags-optimization.asp" target="_blank">Meta Tag Optimization</a></u></span> - Check your Title and Meta Tags for keyword optimization<br /><span style="color:#0000ff;"><u><a href="http://www.iwebtool.com/code_viewer" target="_blank">Source Code Viewer</a></u></span> - View the source code of a page<br /><br />Domain related<br /><br /><span style="color:#0000ff;"><u>Alexa Traffic Rank</u></span> - View and compare Alexa Ranking graphs<br /><span style="color:#0000ff;"><u><a href="http://www.webconfs.com/domain-age.php" target="_blank">Domain Age Tool</a></u></span> - find out the age of your competitor's domains<br /><span style="color:#0000ff;"><u><a href="http://www.webconfs.com/domain-stats.php" target="_blank">Domain Stats Tool</a></u></span> - get all kind of statistics of your competitor's domains<br /><span style="color:#0000ff;"><u><a href="http://www.iwebtool.com/domain_availability" target="_blank">Domain Availability</a></u></span> - Check the availability of domains<br /><span style="color:#0000ff;"><u><a href="http://www.iwebtool.com/domain_lookup" target="_blank">Domain Look-up</a></u></span> - Retrieve a range of information about a domain<br /><span style="color:#0000ff;"><u><a href="http://www.iwebtool.com/whois" target="_blank">Domain Whois</a></u></span> - Retrieve domain whois information<br /><span style="color:#0000ff;"><u><a href="http://www.iwebtool.com/instant" target="_blank">Instant Domain Checker</a></u></span> - Check the availability of domains instantly<br /><span style="color:#0000ff;"><u><a href="http://www.iwebtool.com/ping" target="_blank">Ping Test</a></u></span> - Check the presence of an active connection<br /><span style="color:#0000ff;"><u><a href="http://www.iwebtool.com/reverse_ip" target="_blank">Reverse IP/Look-up</a></u></span> - Resolve a host to an IP address<br /><span style="color:#0000ff;"><u><a href="http://www.iwebtool.com/server_status" target="_blank">Server Status</a></u></span> - Check if your website is online or offline<br /><span style="color:#0000ff;"><u><a href="http://www.iwebtool.com/speed_test" target="_blank">Website Speed Test</a></u></span> - Find out how fast your website loads<br /><span style="color:#0000ff;"><u><a href="http://www.whatismyipaddress.com/" target="_blank">What Is My IP Address</a></u></span> - shows your ip address<br /><span style="color:#0000ff;"><u><a href="http://www.webrankinfo.com/english/tools/class-c-checker.php" target="_blank">Class C Checker</a></u></span> - check if some sites are hosted on the same Class C IP Range<br /><span style="color:#0000ff;"><u><a href="http://www.webconfs.com/ip-to-city.php" target="_blank">IP to City</a></u></span> - determine the Country, City, Latitude and Longitude of an IP Address<br /><span style="color:#0000ff;"><u><a href="http://www.webconfs.com/website-to-country.php" target="_blank">Website to Country</a></u></span> - determine the Country in which the specified website is Hosted<br /><br />Web stats<br /><br /><span style="color:#0000ff;"><u><a href="http://www.statcounter.com/" target="_blank">Statcounter</a></u></span> - famous free web tracker<br /><span style="color:#0000ff;"><u><a href="http://www.histats.com/" target="_blank">HiStats</a></u></span> - Free, real time updated web stats service<br /><span style="color:#0000ff;"><u><a href="http://www.addfreestats.com/" target="_blank">Addfreestats</a></u></span> - provide free website statistics<br /><br />Miscellaneous<br /><br /><span style="color:#0000ff;"><u><a href="http://www.feedvalidator.org/" target="_blank">FEED Validator</a></u></span> - for Atom and RSS<br /><span style="color:#0000ff;"><u><a href="http://validator.w3.org/" target="_blank">W3C Markup Validation Service</a></u></span> - check for conformance to W3C Recommendations and other standards<br /><span style="color:#0000ff;"><u><a href="http://www.webconfs.com/kontera-preview-tool.php" target="_blank">Kontera Ads Preview</a></u></span> - preview Kontera Ads on your website<br /><span style="color:#0000ff;"><u><a href="http://www.markhorrell.com/tools/spellcheck.asp" target="_blank">Online spell checker</a></u></span> - simple online spell checking tools<br /><span style="color:#0000ff;"><u><a href="http://www.markhorrell.com/tools/browser.shtml" target="_blank">Browser Screen Resolution Checker</a></u></span> - shows what your site looks like with different screen resolutions<br /><span style="color:#0000ff;"><u><a href="http://www.iwebtool.com/browser_details" target="_blank">Your Browser Details</a></u></span> - View your IP address and your browser details<br /><span style="color:#0000ff;"><u>Anonymous Emailer</u></span> - Send e-mails to users anonymously<br /><span style="color:#0000ff;"><u><a href="http://www.iwebtool.com/md5" target="_blank">md5 Encrypt</a></u></span> - Encrypt text to MD5<br /><span style="color:#0000ff;"><u><a href="http://www.iwebtool.com/online_calculator" target="_blank">Online Calculator</a></u></span> - A simple online calculator</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color:#0000ff;"><u><a href="http://moneybloggers.net/2007/03/25/ultimate-seo-tools-collection/">http://moneybloggers.net/2007/03/25/ultimate-seo-tools-collection/</a></u></span></p>Pinkyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11686220802783291168noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2191595349692008220.post-88246123811875348532008-09-08T03:41:00.000-07:002008-09-08T03:42:56.426-07:00A new Browser by Google - Google Chrome<h3><a id="post-143" title="Permanent Link to Google Chrome Review" rel="bookmark" href="http://nunos.zi-yu.com/2008/09/google-chrome-review/">Google Chrome Review</a></h3> <p> </p> <p><img src="http://nunos.zi-yu.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/chrome.png" alt="Chrome" height="100" width="100" /></p> <p>Before i start, let me just say that the only browsers i use are firefox (THE Browser) and IE (just to check if the pages that i develop appear correctly and work). So, in advance, i’m sorry if i point some feature in google Chrome that already exists natively in other browser.</p> <p>Yesterday i finally got access to Google Chrome Download Page, some time after the anouncement made on <a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/google-chrome-now-live.html">google’s official blog</a>. The expectation was high and Google didn’t disappoint.</p> <p>First, the installation is very quick. I went to <a href="http://nunos.zi-yu.com/2008/09/google-chrome-review/www.google.com/chrome">http://www.google.com/chrome </a>, Clicked the big blue button, downloaded a setup file, and chrome was installed in no time. Simple, quick, straight to the point.</p> <p>First thing i noticed: The speed!!! The browser loads in a flash (not like firefox that, at least in my computer, takes a little time to load). When i started to browse some pages, i was astonished with the load speed. </p> <p>Like google explained in the <a href="http://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/">google chrome presentation comic book</a>, chrome uses one process for each tab. This has several advantages. The ones that i best remember are:</p> <ul><li>If a page crashes, only that page is closed, not the browser;</li><li>When we don’t need a page, the process of that tab is closed and the memory allocated is released.</li></ul> <div>After this i decided to explore the developer suport that the browser offered. Well, i was amazed because chrome is only a beta and already has several features that are really useful. All of this without installing any plugin.</div> <div>The dom inspector makes me remember Firebug. Can inspect every element and, at the same time, travel through the dom and see the styles aplied to each element. Yes, we already have this feature in firefox using firebug, but in chrome this feature is native, thats the beauty of it.</div> <div>For javascript i found a console and a text mode debugger. I didn’t spent any time exploring them. Maybe one of this days i’ll take a few hours to explore this tools.</div> <div>Finally two features that are really handy (at least for me):</div> <div> <ul><li>native language corrector (it has some bugs, but this is only a beta, i give a discount).</li><li>element inspector in the right context menu.</li></ul> </div> <div>Google Chrome surprised me. Fast, Simple, Lite. Can be both a browser for the common internet user, has it can be a browser for a developer. Google exceeded my expectations and proved, once more, to be a company that studies the market and knowns what the users want.</div> <div>Chrome is going to be a first choice for now on. <strong>I’m official Chromed</strong>!!! I hope that future releases bring more and more new features to help improve even more this browser.</div> <p>Download Google Chrome at <a href="http://www.google.com/chrome">http://www.google.com/chrome</a></p> <p>Source: http://nunos.zi-yu.com</p> <p>————————————————————</p> <p>to download google chrome and use visit: <a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/google-chrome-now-live.html">http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/google-chrome-now-live.html</a> or view this also</p> <p><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/fresh-take-on-browser.html">http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/fresh-take-on-browser.html</a></p> <p>some draw back of this all.</p> <p>its only available for windows.</p> <p>no extra plug in can be downloaded now for this.</p> <p>google toolbar is not with this neither it can be downloaded till yet with this.</p> <p>some times it seems using some features of IE8.0</p>Pinkyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11686220802783291168noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2191595349692008220.post-67733057594469308102008-09-08T03:34:00.000-07:002008-09-08T03:37:37.647-07:00Video Search Engine OptimizationMost of us know that a site that's well configured for search engine access is a major part of getting <a style="background: transparent url(http://files.adbrite.com/mb/images/green-double-underline-006600.gif) repeat-x scroll center bottom; cursor: pointer; color: rgb(0, 102, 0); text-decoration: none; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; margin-bottom: -2px; padding-bottom: 2px;" name="AdBriteInlineAd_high" id="AdBriteInlineAd_high" target="_top">high</a> <a href="http://click.adbrite.com/mb/click.php?sid=545926&banner_id=11965267&variation_id=1276727&uts=1220870067&cpc=302e3037&keyword_id=14234&inline=y&zk_id=30236917&ab=168165622&sscup=018b38d22d4d6a5fa45396fce2357204&sscra=e1a1bc0438411fe49cec787db60a3cdf&ub=977559931&guid=3a0a35c78db9ad3e2298cdcf9d20448a&rs=&r=" style="background: transparent url(http://files.adbrite.com/mb/images/green-double-underline-006600.gif) repeat-x scroll center bottom; cursor: pointer; color: rgb(0, 102, 0); text-decoration: none; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; margin-bottom: -2px; padding-bottom: 2px;" name="AdBriteInlineAd_traffic" id="AdBriteInlineAd_traffic" target="_top">traffic</a> levels. However, you might not have thought about optimizing your video as well as the rest of your site. Since multimedia content is becoming a much more popular way of distributing information, correct video search engine optimization is important.<br /><br />For instance, on YouTube alone (which <a style="background: transparent url(http://files.adbrite.com/mb/images/green-double-underline-006600.gif) repeat-x scroll center bottom; cursor: pointer; color: rgb(0, 102, 0); text-decoration: none; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; margin-bottom: -2px; padding-bottom: 2px;" name="AdBriteInlineAd_accounts" id="AdBriteInlineAd_accounts" target="_top">accounts</a> for more than ninety-eight percent of the videos viewed via Google), more than eighty-two million people watched over four billion videos last year. That makes YouTube both the top video sharing site and the top video search engine.<br /><br />YouTube receives as much as thirteen hours of new user-submitted video every minute, and more than fifty percent of the people watching videos online share links with other people. So, getting a good YouTube ranking could be an important way to bring people to your site.<br /><br />For owners of video content, video search engine optimization is a good way to get exposure, ad income, and free traffic. Being discovered by the viewers has to happen before you can get lots of views. That means making sure that your data is rich in meta information, and that you use quality RSS or MRSS feeds that you update on a regular basis.<br /><br />Make sure that your meta data is well placed and relevant to the topic. A cleaner can help you remove distracting or irrelevant meta information from the file.<br /><br />Only after you produce well optimized content should you contact the search engines and submit your video. This places you in the queue of web crawlers, and means you'll be indexed more quickly and more often than if you hadn't bothered to submit. The more regularly your content is crawled, the better your chance of rating well on search results.<br /><br />Index your site on other engines than Google or YouTube. They can spread your video to other search engines you may not have thought of. For instance, indexing your site on Blinkx will cause it to show up on Ask and MSN, among others.<br /><br />One important part of your strategy should be a series of related videos. When a viewer sees a video online that he or she likes, there's a good likelihood that this viewer will look for others like them. While a single great video will be popular and welcomed, you'll do even better if it's part of a series.<br /><br />Use an embedded video player, too. Many viewers will be more inclined to view your submission if it's part of your site or blog than if they had to go to your video hosting service to see it. However, you should avoid players that use only Flash. Don't use pop-up players, which annoy more people than they amuse, and will actually cause you to lose views.<br /><br />The more views you get, the more likely you are to be picked up by other sites, linked to, and rank well on video searches. You can even customize embedded video players to display playlists related to your company, and adjust the layout, and other information.<br /><br />Create traffic by placing a video search box on your site. This adds unique content and boosts ad revenue. Make sure that you create a video of the appropriate length for your audience, and that you're looking for the right response.<br /><br />You can use analytics to find out how long a customer stays on your video page, which will tell you if your video is too long. You can also use analytics to tell you which of your videos get the best response. Once you know this, you'll be able to decide which content should be linked first on your home page.<br /><br />Remember that no webcrawler has ever bought a product or a service. If you're a local business using video to advertise, clicks are a lot less important than calls. Include a call to action with your contact information as part of your video - thumbnails are an excellent way to do this. You can use YouTube to create thumbnails at the quarter, half, and three-quarter marks. Making sure that you have both a local listing and a video listing on Google's Search Engine Results Page also increases your likelihood of getting visits.<br /><br />You may also wish to make sure that your videos are high enough quality for and in the right format for television. Google TV is very affordable, and lets you create closely targeted video.<br /><br />Don't use Active X controls and export all files as swf format. Use Google Video sitemaps to help with navigation, and build a separate page for each video, rather than hosting many videos on the same page. Use a simple text title and description, and optimize that page as you would any other. Then, link to it from the index page.<br /><br />Descriptions and titles need to be consistent across all your sites, and file names should descriptive and make sense to the viewer. Remember that Different communities require different approaches. Prominent keywords can help on many sites. However, while keyword rich content will help videos hosted on your site be noticed by Blinkx or Truveo, it won't help on YouTube.<br /><br />You'll need to get the attention of the community in general. Video responses to popular, related videos can help get others to visit your contribution. Your content will appear in close proximity to videos that are already popular. Make sure you include an active URL in the description of your video, and end the video with a mention of the link. Annotations can help you link to other YouTube videos. Be sure to allow comments!<br /><br />Don't tag with irrelevant search terms, no matter how popular they might be. Remember that you need to appeal to real people, rather than just optimizing blindly. While you might turn up early in a search with good optimization, an unappealing video will cause people to pass you by. If you know what kind of content your audience prefers, you'll be able to create the right video marketing plan for your business or organization.<br /><br />Video search engine optimization is an important part of any video marketing strategy. If you're planning to market your business or organization using multimedia content, creating it correctly and surrounding it with the right keywords and other information can help it be noticed. Before you submit a video, make sure it's optimized.<br /><br /><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cols="1" frame="void" rules="none"> <colgroup><col width="342"></colgroup> <tbody> <tr> <td align="left" height="17" width="342"><b>Video sites<br /><br /></b></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" height="17">www.digg.com</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" height="17">http://www.footytube.com/submit-content/</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" height="17">www.blogspot.com</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" height="17">www.wordpress.com/</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" height="17">http://www.bitsofnews.com/</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" height="18"><u><span style="color:#0000ff;"><a href="http://www.blogtopsites.com/business/">http://www.blogtopsites.com/business/</a></span></u></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" height="17">http://dabble.com</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" height="17">http://www.tubelist.com</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" height="18"><u><span style="color:#0000ff;"><a href="http://lankavideos.magnify.net/">http://lankavideos.magnify.net</a></span></u></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" height="18"><u><span style="color:#0000ff;"><a href="http://www.infeedia.com/">http://www.infeedia.com</a></span></u></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" height="17">http://www.videosift.com/queue</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" height="17">http://www.infectiousvideos.com/</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" height="17">http://www.minglebox.com</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" height="17">www.vox.com</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" height="17">www.yourmtb.com</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" height="18"><u><span style="color:#0000ff;"><a href="http://www.popcurrent.com/">http://www.popcurrent.com</a></span></u></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" height="18"><u><span style="color:#0000ff;"><a href="http://hollywood.magnify.net/">http://hollywood.magnify.net</a></span></u></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" height="17">http://mizona.netjoven.com/dkregistrar.dkb</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" height="17">http://videos.nighi.com/</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" height="17">http://konkan.tv/video/</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" height="17">http://www.pinoytechie.com/</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" height="17">http://www.share-video.info/</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" height="17">http://subtitle.in</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" height="17">http://www.mysarkaar.com</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" height="17">http://www.moviewalah.com</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" height="17">http://www.infeedia.com</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" height="17">http://www.nogged.com/</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" height="17">http://www.zoomgroups.com</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" height="17">http://www.apnivideos.com/</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" height="17">http://www.videoduniya.com</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" height="17">http://please.kissordiss.us</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" height="17">http://www.thevideoawards.com</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" height="17">http://www.lia99.de/</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" height="18">http://www.telurica.com/</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" height="18">http://www.ganges.com/</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" height="17">http://www.videoplayerweb.com</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" height="17">http://hollywood.magnify.net</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" height="17">http://www.buscatube.com</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" height="17">http://www.skyblog.com</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" height="18"><u><span style="color:#0000ff;"><a href="http://www.gazzag.com/">http://www.gazzag.com/</a></span></u></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" height="17"><u><span style="color:#0000ff;">http://bluedot.us/friends/dots<br /><br /></span></u></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" height="17"><b>Video Forum<br /><br /></b></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" height="17">http://vewgle.com/showthread.php?p=13214#post13214</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" height="17">http://www.network54.com/My_Account/Forums/</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" height="17">http://www.network54.com/Forum/353391/</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" height="17">http://vewgle.com</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" height="18"><u><span style="color:#0000ff;"><a href="http://www.rifmelody.com/">http://www.rifmelody.com</a></span></u></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" height="17">http://www.ny-dev.com</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" height="17">http://www.developmentonline.co.uk</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" height="17">http://www.askmehelpdesk.com</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" height="17">http://www.bigsoccer.com</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" height="17">http://www.englishforum.ch/</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" height="17">http://www.yardbarker.com/</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" height="17">http://mepislovers.org/</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" height="17">http://www.merabollywood.com</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" height="18"><u><span style="color:#0000ff;"><a href="http://torchthebridge.com/">http://torchthebridge.com</a></span></u></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" height="17">http://www.voy.com</td> </tr> </tbody> </table>Pinkyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11686220802783291168noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2191595349692008220.post-88914807618425902692008-07-04T00:04:00.000-07:002008-07-04T00:09:41.551-07:00SEO Tips - improve Google ranking of your website<p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;" >Search Engine Optimization activities can be divided into two sets of ongoing processes: on-site optimization (ways of building and improving your website) and off-site optimization (outside factors, such as links from other websites). These techniques may be further divided into “good” SEO, that is accepted by the search engines, also known as “White Hat SEO Practices”, and the bad, techniques, such as spam, link farming, etc., that can get your website penalized or even banned from search engines like Google or Yahoo.</span></p> <div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Verdana;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Verdana;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Verdana;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Verdana;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Verdana;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Verdana;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Verdana;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Verdana;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Verdana;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Verdana;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Verdana;" ><span 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<h2>On-Site Optimization</h2> <ul><li>Choosing the right domain name</li></ul> <p>One of the first choices that you have to make when starting your website is the choice of your domain name. This is important because Google and other search engines look at your domain name when determining the relevancy of the search engine results page (SERP). It is therefore beneficial to have the keywords that you are targeting present in your domain name.</p> <ul><li>Title</li></ul> <p><title> tag) should be descriptive and relevant to the content of your website. It is beneficial to include some of the targeted keywords and/or keyphrases in the title of your site. Also, be sure to have unique titles for every each one of your sub-pages, as it is more descriptive and increases the amount of keywords that you can use.</title>Title of your web page (specified with the use of the </p> <ul><li>Keyword density</li></ul> <p>When writing content for your website, try to include all your keywords within the body of your pages. That way, when a search engine bot (crawler) indexes your website, it sees the keyphrases included in your copy, and thus can determine the relevancy of your website for a given search querry.</p> <ul><li>Header tags</li></ul> <p>Divide the content of your site into certain parts and begin each with a relevant (keyword-rich) description bound by the header tags (h1, h2, h3, etc.).</p> <ul><li>Links</li></ul> <p>Make sure that your site does not have any broken links, for it is frowned upon by the search engines. The anchor text (name that your link is displayed as) should be relevant, and keyword rich. If certain keywords are more important to you, you may increased their value in the eyes of search engines by using one of the bold and strong tags or putting them as a header.</p> <ul><li>File names</li></ul> <p>Make sure that the file names of your web pages contain the targeted keywords. For example instead of calling your gallery page gallery.html, call it fast-cars-photogallery.html (for a gallery of sports cars). Remember not to go overboard with sticking too many keywords into one file name, because it may appear too spamy to search engines.</p> <ul><li>Image alternative text.</li></ul> <p>Remember to include the alternative text for all your images (ex: <img src="%E2%80%9Ddogpicture.jpg%E2%80%9D" alt="”Picture" />). Alt text is important for a variety of reasons: it helps visually disabled people to read your website, helps when somebody is using text only web browser, it is standards compliant, and of course it is yet another place to put some more keywords.</p> <ul><li>Meta Data: description, keywords</li></ul> <p>In your html code, be sure to put adequate, not too long, not too short description of your website and the list of your keywords.</p> <ul><li>Url rewriting</li></ul> <p>Remember that you can manipulate your urls and make them more search engine friendly with such tools as .htaccess on an Apache server or the IIS on a Microsoft platform.</p> <ul><li>W3C compliant syntax</li></ul> <p>Make sure that the html you are coding is compliant with the standards set by the World Wide Web Consortium. You can check your site at validator.w3.org. Some people believe that having valid html helps with your SERP, some think otherwise. In my opinion it is a good prudent and proactive step to take; it won’t hurt, but it may help. I myself, try to always use valid strict xhtml (specified in the doctype statement in the top part of your code).</p> <p> </p> <h2>Off-Site Optimization</h2> <ul><li><strong>Link building </strong>- you can submit your link for free to many websites such as:<strong></strong></li></ul> <ul><li>Yahoo & Google Locals</li></ul> <p>At these sites you can submit your business listing, and not only get a valuable link from an important, high PR site, but also increase your brand awareness and potentially land some business deals.</p> <ul><li>Directories (DMOZ, Yahoo Directories (paid listing), etc.)</li></ul> <p>There is an abundance of online directories floating on the internet. Some of them are free such as DMOZ (very hard to get listed, but extremely beneficial to your SEO and eMarketing efforts), some offer paid inclusion (Yahoo directories, I think annual fee of $290), and some offer you a listing in exchange for a link back to their site. Be careful with linking to those directories because some might be treated as link-farms and will get you penalized by the search engines. If linking to a directory, find out if it is a legitimate website first. Also, try linking only to those sites that are related to yours in some way.</p> <ul><li>Video sharing (Youtube.com, Google Videos, etc.)</li></ul> <p>If you have some skills at shooting interesting videos or making video tutorials (such as a SEO tutorial or a witty Photoshop technique tutorial) you can post them on a variety of video-sharing networks, and put a link to your website in the description of your input.</p> <ul><li>Social Networking (MySpace.com, Facebook.com, etc.)</li></ul> <p>Social networking sites are a great way to show of your business along with your website to the world. A profile on MySpace or Facebook can gain you new clients, help to stay in touch with existing ones, develop business relations with other companies, and be a source of links and traffic to your website.</p> <ul><li>Blogs (blogger.com, wordpress.com, etc.)</li></ul> <p>Blogs, similarly to social networking sites, are a good way of sharing information about your business/website with the world. By writing relevant content, you can gain links and exposure</p> <ul><li>Message boards, forums</li><li>Digg.com</li><li>Wikipedia.org</li><li>Google Pages</li><li>Link Exchange</li></ul> <ul><li><strong>Email Marketing/Newsletter</strong></li></ul> <p>A company online newsletter can keep your visitors updated and in touch with your website. Marketing emails can also attract possible clients for your business. If you decide to engage in an email marketing campaign, keep one thing in mind: “Don’t SPAM!”</p> <p>I will be posting new techniques and tips for search engine optimization, as well as discussing the ones contained in this article in more detail, so stay tuned!</p><p>Source: <a href="http://www.kocisz.com/seoguide/2008/04/seo-tips-improve-google-ranking-of-your-website/">Click here</a>
<br /></p>Pinkyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11686220802783291168noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2191595349692008220.post-32003103874109079922008-06-26T02:43:00.000-07:002008-06-26T02:44:20.311-07:00How to Know that Your Domain is Banned in a Search EngineDo you have a domain that appears to have ranking problems in Google, Yahoo or MSN? Sometimes this may leave you wondering, “Has my Web site somehow been banned in the search engines?”; “Did my search engine optimization firm do something bad?”.<div class="postentry"><div class="snap_preview"> <p>If your Web site is brand new, you can skip this and just read some earlier columns on <a href="http://searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?page=3627675">optimizing a new Web site</a>.</p> <p>If your Web site once ranked and all of a sudden seems to be taking a hit, perhaps you should check to see if you’ve suffered a ban in any one of the search engines or encountered a penalty.</p> <p>First, let’s take a look at what a ban might look like.</p> <p>Oftentimes it is difficult to tell whether a domain name is banned in the search engine or simply penalized by the search engine. Or, perhaps the domain name is neither banned, nor penalized. It could be, you just managed to screw up your site. Let’s look at all of the possibilities and explore how to tell whether or not a domain name is banned.</p> <p>Let’s first look at Google. Go to www.google.com and type in the domain name, with and without the “www.” For example, search for “www.domain.com” and then search for “domain.com” (without using quotes around the domain name). If the domain shows up in the search results then it is not banned in Google.</p> <p>If the domain name does not show up in the search results but there are search results then there may be an issue with that domain name. For example, if the domain name does not appear, but the domain name is highlighted or shows up in bold on other sites in the search results, there most likely is a problem with that domain name.</p> <p>To investigate a domain further at Google, let’s look at what Google returns when we perform a site: search at Google. For example, if you go to Google and search for “site:www.domain.com” and then “site:domain.com” and Google comes back with “Your search - site:www.domain.com - did not match any documents,” the site most likely is banned at Google.</p> <p>If you add the domain name to <a href="http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/">Google Webmaster Tools</a>, you should be able to learn more about the domain name, even if you do not own that domain name. In fact, you can add just about any domain name (as long as it resolves to a page, or is up and running). I recently added a domain name that I know is banned in the index and received the message from Google, “No pages from your site are currently included in Google’s index. Indexing can take time. You may find it helpful to review our information for webmasters and webmaster guidelines.”</p> <p>If you own the domain name and have the ability to perform Google’s verification procedure then you may find out additional information about the domain. I recently verified a domain name that I know is currently banned in the Google index, and learned that if a site is truly banned in Google, their Webmaster Tools section will not show you any data. For example, when you look at the Diagnostics/Web Crawl area there will be no data shown; in the Links/Pages with external links section, there will be no data listed.</p> <p>What should you do if the domain name appears to be banned? If the domain is banned in Google, make sure you take a look at the <a href="http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=35769">Google Webmaster Guidelines</a> and see if the domain/Web site violates any of those guidelines. If you are certain that the domain name does not violate any of the guidelines, or if it once did but no longer does, then you should consider putting in a <a href="http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=59833">reinclusion request</a>. Google explains that you need to sign into your Google Webmaster Tools account and go to the Removed Content tab, and then click “Reinclude” next to the content you’re trying to get back in the Google index.</p> <p>There are several reasons why domain names can be banned in Google. Some bans appear to be different than others. For example, if a domain name is not renewed, I have seen it appear to be removed from the Google index, especially when a domain name reaches the “pending delete” status.</p> <p>Also, newly registered domain names tend to be immediately indexed, but then will tend to drop out of the index. In these cases, the domains aren’t necessarily banned from the index; they’re simply removed. Adding content to the domain and getting links to that domain from other web sites will help get the domain back in the Google index. Otherwise, some really tricked up SEO, or just bad luck, can certainly get you banned.</p> <p>A couple of great forum discussions on this topic are currently happening here:<br /><a href="http://forums.searchenginewatch.com/showthread.php?t=21728">Google Penalty?</a><br /><a href="http://forums.searchenginewatch.com/showthread.php?t=6508">Why is this Web site banned in Google?</a></p> <p>Let’s take a look at Yahoo and Microsoft Live Search and determine whether or not a domain name is banned in their indexes. Searching for the domain name in either Yahoo’s or Live Search’s search field (e.g., www.domain.com) will show pages from that domain name. If the domain is not found in the search results, then going to Yahoo’s <a href="http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/">Site Explorer</a> or Microsoft’s <a href="http://webmaster.live.com/">Webmaster Center</a> will also help determine if the domain is in the index or not.</p> <p>If the domain name is not in either Yahoo or Microsoft’s index, then it will most likely show a message like, “We were unable to find any results for the given URL in our index: www.domain.com”. If the domain name shows that pages are indexed, then most likely it is not banned.</p> <p>Here’s a forum discussion on a Yahoo ban: <a href="http://forums.searchenginewatch.com/showthread.php?t=2212">Banned by Yahoo?</a></p> <p>In most cases, loss of rankings could just be a stupid mistake that someone made (302 redirecting a bunch of pages from your site to a different domain; redesign/relaunching a Web site and not properly 301 redirecting the URLs; redesigning/relaunching a Web site and going from 1,000 pages indexed to 40). These are just a few examples of how you could “ban yourself” (”penalize” would be a more appropriate term). It is far more common that you hurt yourself than it is that the search engines ban you.</p> <p>As always, if you’re not sure, contact a search engine optimization professional for assistance/counseling.</p> <p>Source: http://searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?page=3629040</p> </div> </div>Pinkyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11686220802783291168noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2191595349692008220.post-78946990210372447582008-06-26T02:40:00.000-07:002008-06-26T02:42:01.095-07:00Become a Pay Per Click Expert in 5 Quick and Easy Steps!<p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Verdana,Helvetica;" >Ever heard of the 90/10 pay per cliíck rule? Basically it says that 90% of PPC success is enjoyed by only the top 10% of advertisers who know the inside methods to getting the most from their PPC campaign. And oddly enough, it’s basically true. Especially when it comes to Google’s AdWords, which offers the most advanced methods to help advertisers get their money’s worth (and then some!)Some people use PPC as their primary source of search engine marketing while others use it as a way to get steady supplemental targeted traffíc. As an SEO professional I’ve developed PPC campaigns for my clients so they get targeted traffíc while the organic optimization is ramping up, which often takes weeks or months. Whatever the reason, PPC is a good way for any online business owner to get targeted traffíc and a great way for those who know how to use the system to their advantage. And that’s exactly what this article will do for you.</span><br />But before we dive in, just why is AdWords so valuable? There are plenty of reasons but for starters…</p> <p><strong>1.)</strong> AdWords listings are seen by more than 80% of all Internet users on millions of sites ranging from Google and AOL to very specific niche locations it would otherwise take forever to research and manage independent advertising accounts with.</p> <p><strong>2.)</strong> Your ads can be targeted specifically by region or language.</p> <p><strong>3.)</strong> Ads that you can constantly update and test are a great way to test what keywords are really best for targeting in your organic SEO efforts, which can be very time consuming and expensive.</p> <p><span><strong>Step 1: Get an AdWords Account</strong></span></p> <p>If you don’t already have an AdWords account, it’s easy enough to sign up for at <a href="http://adwords.google.com/" target="_blank">http://adwords.google.com</a>. Once you have your account you can begin creating ads and finding the best keywords. Actually, you can use Google’s free AdWords keyword research tool even without an account by visiting:</p> <p><a href="https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal" target="_blank">https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal</a>.</p> <p><span><strong>Step 2: Develop a Killer Ad</strong></span></p> <p>Here are the things to know about ad development broken out by Title and Body…</p> <p><span><strong>Ad Title:</strong></span></p> <p><strong>1.)</strong> Use targeted keywords NOT your company name</p> <p><strong>2.)</strong> Mention a benefit, rather than a feature.</p> <p><strong>3.)</strong> Take advantage of the “Dynamic Titles” feature by entering the following code in your title “<strong>{KeyWord: Your Keyword}</strong>” (without quotes.) This allows you to use the same ad body text with a dynamically generated title that matches exactly what the searcher is looking for and makes your ad the most relevant it can be. By the way, this is case sensitive; “{KeyWord: Your Keyword}” will make the first letter of each word capitalized while “{keykord: your keyword}” will make it all lower case.</p> <p>The body or text of your ad need only do two things; hook ‘em and then reel ‘em in. The hook is something that peaks their interest such as “íncrease your profíts with XYZ software.” While reeling them in involves what traditional marketers refer to as a “call to action.” This might be “Download your Free 30 day Tríal now.”</p> <p><strong>Note:</strong> Do not over capitalize your ad. At best just capitalize the words you feel are most important to the viewer. It’s OK to capitalize the first letter of each word in the title but not the body.</p> <p><span><strong>Step 3: Maximize URL Usage</strong></span></p> <p>While we’re on the subject of what the searcher sees in your ad, we need to consider the URL. Google will let you make the visible URL different than the actual URL leading to the landing page where the visitor will end up after clicking your ad. This is huge! Take advantage of it.</p> <p>This feature will let you test multiple landing pages in your ads to see what pages are converting sales best while showing the visitor the “display” URL for your product. Let’s say the landing page being tested in this particular ad is “…com/XYZ/purchase3.htm.” When that ad gets clicked you will soon see if “/purchase3.htm” is converting better than “/purchase1.htm.” But here’s the magic… By using a display URL of “…com/XYZ/” , and actually having the product there as well, you are building your brand and providing a visual queue for users to manually type in the URL if for some reason your landing page is unavailable.</p> <p><strong>Step 4: Use Special Keyword Advantages</strong></p> <p>Obviously keywords are a very big factor in the success of your campaign. Choosing the best keywords is extremely important and using Google’s “Keyword Matching Options” can help take your great keywords one step further. Just clíck the “Advanced option: match types” link when setting up your ads and choose from the following…</p> <p><strong>1.) Broad Match:</strong> Is the default and will show your ad each time all of the keywords in your keyword phrase are entered.</p> <p><strong>2.) Phrase Match:</strong> Looks for the order of words in your keyword phrase and only shows your ad if the order matches. Your ad will still show if your phrase is any part of the search query, but only if the word order is the same.</p> <p><strong>3.) Exact Match:</strong> This is the most stringent and will only present your ad if your exact keyword phrase, and ONLY your exact keyword phrase, is used.</p> <p><strong>4.) Negative Match:</strong> This is a nice feature that will stop your ad from showing if a word appears in the search query that you don’t want to get clicks for. The most common example is “free” which would eliminate you paying for clicks from people who just want a free version of what you offer.</p> <p><span><strong>Step 5: Find and Use the Best Keywords</strong></span></p> <p>Now for the most important aspect of your PPC campaign; keyword selection. The more targeted keywords you can find, the better. Google offers a great free keyword tool as we discussed early on. Here are the qualities to look for in your keywords:</p> <p><strong>1.)</strong> A good “Average Search Volume” rating (check out the blue bars)</p> <p><strong>2.)</strong> A high search volume for the previous month (especially true for seasonal topics)</p> <p><strong>3.)</strong> The lowest possible “Advertiser Competition” rating</p> <p><strong>4.)</strong> Look for common misspellings and use the “exact match” feature to get plenty of low cost targeted traffíc.</p> <p><strong>5.)</strong> Scroll down the page and find hidden gems that others miss. There are a lot for those who look carefully enough.</p> <p><strong>Insider Tip:</strong> You can also collect hundreds of low volume keywords, put them in a spreadsheet for easy upload and use the “Dynamic Title” feature we discussed earlier to generate hundreds of low cost highly targetëd leads.</p> <p><strong>Professional Tip:</strong> SEO professionals typically use specialized keyword selection and SpySoftware because it does weeks worth of work in a matter of hours. <a href="http://www.keywordeliteweb.com/" target="_blank">Keyword Elite</a> for example, can generate thousands of valuable keywords in minutes and does “ethical spying” that exposes the competition and makes placement takeover easy.</p> <p>That’s all you need to know to join the top 10% of PPC advertisers getting the most out of their campaigns with minimal effort. Best of luck!</p> <p>Source: <a href="http://www.sitepronews.com/" target="_blank">SiteProNews</a></p>Pinkyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11686220802783291168noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2191595349692008220.post-35643558859762129262008-06-26T02:39:00.000-07:002008-06-26T02:40:27.160-07:00My Web Site is Built - So Where’s the Traffic and Business?<div class="postentry"> <div class="snap_preview"><p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;">Your website is built and sitting pretty. So where are all the people you hoped would come over to play? You need traffic for your site to be effective and to start generating leads. Now that you know that just having a website won’t necessarily drive business to you, you should consider the most important thing most people miss in this effort.</p> <p>Here are the 3 factors that need to be in place for a successful website and successful business. I’ll líst them from least important to most important:</p> <p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;"><strong>1. Sound ‘on-site’ Search Engine Optimization strategies</strong>. This refers to the things many consider the most important. There are the basic A-B-C’s of getting things set up with keywords and phrases so that you will rank well against your competition in Google, Yahoo and the like. This involves a lot of elements that you, as the end user, may not realize or see. Having the proper titles for each page, putting in the right key words and header tags. There are solid things that should be done and most web designers that I talk to rarely take it beyond this point. Being ranked well by search engines starts here but the best realize this is only the start.</p> <p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;"><strong>2. Content That Is Effective.</strong> Visitors are useless unless they buy something or make contact with you. We call this “Conversion Ratio”. What percentage of your website visitors convert into buyers and users of your services? This can and should be measured. The important things here are the attractiveness and professional appearance of the site with content that is compelling. Having the right mix of words, graphics and informational content can take conversion rates from being non-existent to well over 10%.</p> <p>Web designers get so many calls from business owners that can only think to ask, “how much do you charge to make me a website?” What they miss is what it will cost them in business profíts if it is not done right. Web designers may know how to make a good looking site but not necessarily how to input the words and content for the best results. Writing compelling content is a very specialized talent. This takes more work and more time to do. It costs more, but the difference can be huge on your return on investment.</p> <p>When you have this part right, the most important part of driving traffic can be taken advantage of. This aspect is where many web developers simply drop off the map in helping clients. If you are shopping price only, you won’t find this part of the mix. What is it that they miss?</p> <p><strong>3. Off Site Factors Are Most The Important Factors in Driving Traffic!</strong> What are ‘off site factors’? The most important key for ranking well with Google are the links that come to you from other sites that Google considers to be important sites. MSN and Yahoo are important sites. So are Digg.com, Wikipedia.com and WowWebWorks.com. OK, so the last one is more important to me than Google.</p> <p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;">Here is the rub. How can you control whether or not other sites talk about you and link to you? I don’t mean calling other site owners and saying something like, “Hey, I’ll link to you if you link to me” stuff. Mutual links are not important anymore. One way links are. So how can you get those rolling? Well, this takes work. The nice part is that it is work that will have a direct effect on your bottom line. You have enough “busy work” as a business owner. This isn’t busy work; it’s vital.</p> <p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;"><span style="font-size:14;"><strong>Social-Business Networking Sites - Use Them</strong></span></p> <p>This is where sites like LinkedIn.com, Facebook.com and even MySpace.com come into play. I recommend using LinkedIn.com for business development. From there you can refer to your website and create interest in your site in others. I have a full article of ideas for this elsewhere so I won’t elaborate here. For more on this see “<a href="http://www.sitepronews.com/2008/05/22/why-bother-with-linkedin-or-facebook/" target="_blank">Why Bother with ‘LinkedIn’ or ‘Facebook’?</a>” . Posting your information and inviting contacts to link in with you can be huge. It’s like having a second or third website with positive recommendations about you and your business.</p> <p><span style="font-size:14;"><strong>Effective PR Campaigns</strong></span></p> <p>This can be the most important foundation for your business success. As our business partners Ray Lohner and Jerry Ogg from E3 Public Relations have drilled into me, most businesses have it all backwards. Here is what they preach for priorities:</p> <p><strong>1. Advertising => 2. Marketing => 3. Public Relation</strong> (If at all)</p> <p>Wrong!</p> <p><strong>1. Public Relations => 2. Marketing => Advertising</strong> (If still needed)</p> <p>Right!</p> <p>Many businesses we build websites for already do some advertising with varying degrees of success. They do advertising yet often don’t know how that differs from marketing and ignore PR altogether.</p> <p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;">It is PR that really sets the table for all the rest to work. The Internet is transforming even PR. Every time you have a bit of company news from hiring a new employee to lending support to a local charity it deserves a PR piece. Open a new office? PR. Have a unique solution to a problem? Let the press know - they may just do a story on it.</p> <p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;">The idea is that if you get enough good PR working for you it opens doors for marketing and advertising because your company and name are more recognizable and respected. Just knowing who you are can be huge.</p> <p>What has changed in the PR realm in recent years is the rise of online PR companies that will take your electronic releases and send them as feeds to news services nationwide. An example is <a href="http://www.prweb.com/" target="_blank">www.prweb.com</a>. It is chock full of information about good PR and advice on how to write it for best effect. Your submissions are sent out and picked up as a feed by other services. If your PR piece has a reference to your website, you now have 1 if not dozens of incoming links to your website. Do dozens of releases and you have dozens of one-way links and start to get noticed by other people interested in your field. Google notices this also.</p> <p><span style="font-size:14;"><strong>Why Is PR All But Ignored?</strong></span></p> <p>So why don’t more businesses use this? Why do business owners nod in agreement but rarely follow through doing this? Because it takes time and effort to put together a good PR piece in a form that will be picked up by other sites or publications. It takes some knowledge to know where to even send it after you write it. Frankly, you probably don’t have time to sit down and pen out a 700-word piece. Few have the writing talent to do it right. It’s a skill, a specialized skill. Even if you do have the ability, you may well not know where to send it or who at a publication might be interested in it. This is exactly why PR firms exist. They do it well, know where to send it for greatest effect and they know what is newsworthy to send. They usually know people at the publications on a first name basis and what they are looking for.</p> <p>I’m betting that if you cut your advertising budget in half and put that half into paying for a PR firm to take over that job that your remaining advertising will be even more effective than before.</p> <p>This is one of the added values for quality web development companies. Next time you call a web design firm and ask, “How much does it cost to build us a website?” find out if “fries” come with that. Do you get just a website or do you get the added value of expertise in Public Relations, Marketing and Advertising. Trust this, you will get no more than you pay for.</p> <p>If your web developer doesn’t do this, find a good PR firm and make sure they work together to do the job right.</p> <p>Find out if they know enough about LinkedIn to even be there. If not, maybe they can’t help you there. How about their press releases? Do they even do them for themselves? How do they pro-actively do marketing for themselves? There are probably reasons why the cheapest bidder is the cheapest bidder. I hired the cheapest bidder to pave my driveway. Huge mistake now that it’s cracking after only 3 years.</p> <p>A larger vision can make you a lot more money. You have to decide if “who’s the lowest bidder” is more important than how much money and exposure the site adds to your bottom line. After all, isn’t making money the point?</p> <p><span style="font-size:16;"><strong>About The Author</strong></span><br />John Clark is the President of Wow Web Works in Kalamazoo, MI. This and other articles of interest are posted on his blog at <a href="http://www.wowwebworks.com/community" target="_blank">wowwebworks.com/community</a>.</p> </div> </div>Pinkyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11686220802783291168noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2191595349692008220.post-39382884915787150542008-06-26T02:38:00.001-07:002008-06-26T02:38:31.976-07:00Tools<p><strong>Keyword research tool</strong></p> <p>Keyword research and, ultimately, keyword selection are extremely important parts of the overall<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.avangate.com/articles/Effective-SEO-through-good-code-structure_30.htm">SEO</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>process.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.avangate.com/articles/keyword-research_40.htm">Selecting keywords</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>relevant to your field of activity is essential. Make sure you conduct a proper in-depth keyword research before you begin placing keywords on your web site.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p> <p>If you want your web site to be high ranked in search engines, then use these tools to find out the words that searchers use to get to a website like yours, and place them in the appropriate places. Nevertheless, remember that no tool is perfect. Don’t be afraid to use your intelligence and common sense.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p> <table style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse;" align="center" border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="1" width="75%"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 19px; font-family: arial,sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.01em; text-align: left;" width="30">1.</td> <td style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 19px; font-family: arial,sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.01em; text-align: left;"><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.webmaster-toolkit.com/keyword-research-tool.shtml" target="_blank">Keyword Research Tool - Webmaster toolkit <sup><img class="external_link" style="margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt;" src="http://www.avangate.com/images/external.png" alt="" border="0" /></sup></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 19px; font-family: arial,sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.01em; text-align: left;">2.</td> <td style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 19px; font-family: arial,sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.01em; text-align: left;"><a rel="nofollow" href="https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal" target="_blank">Keyword External Tool - Google Adwords <sup><img class="external_link" style="margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt;" src="http://www.avangate.com/images/external.png" alt="" border="0" /></sup></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 19px; font-family: arial,sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.01em; text-align: left;">3.</td> <td style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 19px; font-family: arial,sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.01em; text-align: left;"><a rel="nofollow" href="http://inventory.overture.com/d/searchinventory/suggestion/" target="_blank">Keyword Selector Tool - Inventory Overture <sup><img class="external_link" style="margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt;" src="http://www.avangate.com/images/external.png" alt="" border="0" /></sup></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 19px; font-family: arial,sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.01em; text-align: left;">4.</td> <td style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 19px; font-family: arial,sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.01em; text-align: left;"><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.seochat.com/seo-tools/keyword-suggestions-overture/" target="_blank">Keyword Suggestions Overture - SEO Chat <sup><img class="external_link" style="margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt;" src="http://www.avangate.com/images/external.png" alt="" border="0" /></sup></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 19px; font-family: arial,sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.01em; text-align: left;">5.</td> <td style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 19px; font-family: arial,sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.01em; text-align: left;"><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.webconfs.com/website-keyword-suggestions.php" target="_blank">Website Keyword Suggestions - Webconfs<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span> <sup><img class="external_link" style="margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt;" src="http://www.avangate.com/images/external.png" alt="" border="0" /></sup></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 19px; font-family: arial,sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.01em; text-align: left;">6.</td> <td style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 19px; font-family: arial,sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.01em; text-align: left;"><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.selfseo.com/keyword_suggestion_tool.php" target="_blank">Keyword Suggestion Tool - Self SEO <sup><img class="external_link" style="margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt;" src="http://www.avangate.com/images/external.png" alt="" border="0" /></sup></a></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p><strong>Keyword density</strong></p> <p>These tools helps you achieve the ideal keyword density (how many times a keyword is used on a page divided by the number of words on that page) for a set of key terms. Why is it important? Because search engines use this meter in their process of qualification determining relevant websites. Read more about this topic on<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.seochat.com/c/a/Choosing-Keywords-Help/Keyword-Density-Frequently-Asked-Questions/" target="_blank">seochat.com <sup><img class="external_link" style="margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt;" src="http://www.avangate.com/images/external.png" alt="" border="0" /></sup></a>.</p> <table style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse;" align="center" border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="1" width="75%"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 19px; font-family: arial,sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.01em; text-align: left;" width="30">7.</td> <td style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 19px; font-family: arial,sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.01em; text-align: left;"><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.seochat.com/seo-tools/keyword-density/" target="_blank">Keyword Density - SEO Chat <sup><img class="external_link" style="margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt;" src="http://www.avangate.com/images/external.png" alt="" border="0" /></sup></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 19px; font-family: arial,sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.01em; text-align: left;">8.</td> <td style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 19px; font-family: arial,sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.01em; text-align: left;"><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.ranks.nl/tools/spider.html" target="_blank">Keyword Density & Proeminence - Ranks<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span> <sup><img class="external_link" style="margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt;" src="http://www.avangate.com/images/external.png" alt="" border="0" /></sup></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 19px; font-family: arial,sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.01em; text-align: left;">9.</td> <td style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 19px; font-family: arial,sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.01em; text-align: left;"><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.keyworddensity.com/" target="_blank">Keyword Density Analyzer - Keyword density <sup><img class="external_link" style="margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt;" src="http://www.avangate.com/images/external.png" alt="" border="0" /></sup></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 19px; font-family: arial,sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.01em; text-align: left;">10.</td> <td style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 19px; font-family: arial,sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.01em; text-align: left;"><a rel="nofollow" href="http://googlerankings.com/ultimate_seo_tool.php" target="_blank">Analyze Keywords Density - Google rankings<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span> <sup><img class="external_link" style="margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt;" src="http://www.avangate.com/images/external.png" alt="" border="0" /></sup></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 19px; font-family: arial,sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.01em; text-align: left;">11.</td> <td style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 19px; font-family: arial,sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.01em; text-align: left;"><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.webconfs.com/keyword-density-checker.php" target="_blank">Keyword Density Checker - Webconfs <sup><img class="external_link" style="margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt;" src="http://www.avangate.com/images/external.png" alt="" border="0" /></sup></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 19px; font-family: arial,sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.01em; text-align: left;">12.</td> <td style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 19px; font-family: arial,sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.01em; text-align: left;"><a rel="nofollow" href="http://tools.seobook.com/general/keyword-density/" target="_blank">Keyword Density Analyzer Tools - SEO Book <sup><img class="external_link" style="margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt;" src="http://www.avangate.com/images/external.png" alt="" border="0" /></sup></a></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p><strong>Competition Analysis</strong></p> <p>Analyzing your competition is an important step in the search engine optimization process and it takes into consideration: what keywords your competition has chosen and how they use them on their website.</p> <p>If you want to see who is your competition for the targeted keywords you’ve chosen then check these tools:</p> <table style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse;" align="center" border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="1" width="75%"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 19px; font-family: arial,sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.01em; text-align: left;" width="30">13.</td> <td style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 19px; font-family: arial,sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.01em; text-align: left;"><a rel="nofollow" href="http://seodigger.com/" target="_blank">Competition Tool - SEO Digger <sup><img class="external_link" style="margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt;" src="http://www.avangate.com/images/external.png" alt="" border="0" /></sup></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 19px; font-family: arial,sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.01em; text-align: left;">14.</td> <td style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 19px; font-family: arial,sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.01em; text-align: left;"><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.seoscorecard.com/" target="_blank">Competition Analysis Tool - Seoscorecard <sup><img class="external_link" style="margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt;" src="http://www.avangate.com/images/external.png" alt="" border="0" /></sup></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 19px; font-family: arial,sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.01em; text-align: left;">15.</td> <td style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 19px; font-family: arial,sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.01em; text-align: left;"><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.webuildpages.com/seo-tools/top-competitor-tool.php" target="_blank">Top Competitor Tool - Webuildpages <sup><img class="external_link" style="margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt;" src="http://www.avangate.com/images/external.png" alt="" border="0" /></sup></a></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p><strong>Search engine keyword position tool</strong></p> <p>When done correctly, search engine positioning can increase web traffic by a tremendous amount. Use these tools to check your current position of your keywords in major search engines like: Google, Yahoo, MSN:</p> <table style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse;" align="center" border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="1" width="75%"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 19px; font-family: arial,sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.01em; text-align: left;" width="30">16.</td> <td style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 19px; font-family: arial,sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.01em; text-align: left;"><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.seochat.com/seo-tools/search-engine-keyword-position/" target="_blank">Search Engine Keyword Position - SEO Chat <sup><img class="external_link" style="margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt;" src="http://www.avangate.com/images/external.png" alt="" border="0" /></sup></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 19px; font-family: arial,sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.01em; text-align: left;">17.</td> <td style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 19px; font-family: arial,sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.01em; text-align: left;"><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.mcdar.net/KeywordTool/keywordtool.asp" target="_blank">Keyword Analysis Tool - Mcdar <sup><img class="external_link" style="margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt;" src="http://www.avangate.com/images/external.png" alt="" border="0" /></sup></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 19px; font-family: arial,sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.01em; text-align: left;">18.</td> <td style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 19px; font-family: arial,sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.01em; text-align: left;"><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.linkvendor.com/seo-tools/serps-position.html" target="_blank">SERPS Position Checker - LinkVendor<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span> <sup><img class="external_link" style="margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt;" src="http://www.avangate.com/images/external.png" alt="" border="0" /></sup></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 19px; font-family: arial,sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.01em; text-align: left;">19.</td> <td style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 19px; font-family: arial,sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.01em; text-align: left;"><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.rnk1.com/" target="_blank">Website Position Tool - Rnk1 <sup><img class="external_link" style="margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt;" src="http://www.avangate.com/images/external.png" alt="" border="0" /></sup></a></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="word-spacing: 0pt; text-transform: none; color: rgb(32, 32, 32); text-indent: 0pt; font-family: arial; white-space: normal; letter-spacing: normal; border-collapse: separate; text-align: left; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><strong>Link Popularity</strong></span></div> <p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="word-spacing: 0pt; text-transform: none; color: rgb(32, 32, 32); text-indent: 0pt; font-family: arial; white-space: normal; letter-spacing: normal; border-collapse: separate; text-align: left; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">Link popularity counts the total number of web pages which link to a website and it is considered to be a major factor used by search engines in determining a site’s position in search results. A site with more inbound links will be positioned higher than a similar site with fewer links.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p>It is helpful to keep track of your backlinks, to know which sites are linking back to you, and how the anchor text (a keyword incorporated into the text of the hyperlink) of the backlink incorporates keywords relating to your site.</p> <p>These tools will query the major search engines like: Google, Yahoo, MSN and will return the total link count for each URL:</p> <table style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse;" align="center" border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="1" width="75%"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 19px; font-family: arial,sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.01em; text-align: left;" width="30">20.</td> <td style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 19px; font-family: arial,sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.01em; text-align: left;"><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.seochat.com/seo-tools/link-popularity/" target="_blank">Link Popularity - SEO Chat <sup><img class="external_link" style="margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt;" src="http://www.avangate.com/images/external.png" alt="" border="0" /></sup></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 19px; font-family: arial,sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.01em; text-align: left;">21.</td> <td style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 19px; font-family: arial,sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.01em; text-align: left;"><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.webmaster-toolkit.com/link-popularity-checker.shtml" target="_blank">Link Popularity Checker - Webmaster Toolkit<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span> <sup><img class="external_link" style="margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt;" src="http://www.avangate.com/images/external.png" alt="" border="0" /></sup></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 19px; font-family: arial,sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.01em; text-align: left;">22.</td> <td style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 19px; font-family: arial,sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.01em; text-align: left;"><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.widexl.com/remote/link-popularity/index.html" target="_blank">Link Popularity Check - Widexl Internet Solution <sup><img class="external_link" style="margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt;" src="http://www.avangate.com/images/external.png" alt="" border="0" /></sup></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 19px; font-family: arial,sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.01em; text-align: left;">23.</td> <td style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 19px; font-family: arial,sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.01em; text-align: left;"><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.marketleap.com/publinkpop/" target="_blank">Link Popularity Check - Market Leap<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span> <sup><img class="external_link" style="margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt;" src="http://www.avangate.com/images/external.png" alt="" border="0" /></sup></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 19px; font-family: arial,sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.01em; text-align: left;">24.</td> <td style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 19px; font-family: arial,sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.01em; text-align: left;"><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.searchbliss.com/seo-tools/popularity.asp" target="_blank">Link Popularity - Backlinks Checker - Search Bliss<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span> <sup><img class="external_link" style="margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt;" src="http://www.avangate.com/images/external.png" alt="" border="0" /></sup></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 19px; font-family: arial,sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.01em; text-align: left;">25.</td> <td style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 19px; font-family: arial,sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.01em; text-align: left;"><a rel="nofollow" href="http://sitening.com/seo-tools/backlink-analyzer/my-analyzer/" target="_blank">Backlink Analyzer - Sitening<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span> <sup><img class="external_link" style="margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt;" src="http://www.avangate.com/images/external.png" alt="" border="0" /></sup></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 19px; font-family: arial,sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.01em; text-align: left;">26.</td> <td style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 19px; font-family: arial,sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.01em; text-align: left;"><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.webuildpages.com/neat-o/" target="_blank">Check Backlinks - Webuildpages <sup><img class="external_link" style="margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt;" src="http://www.avangate.com/images/external.png" alt="" border="0" /></sup></a></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p>If you’ve realized that your website link popularity needs to be increased, then you can start by reading some articles about were can you submit you web site content in order to receive quality backlinks. We recommend:</p> <ul style="padding-left: 14px; font-size: 1em; list-style-image: url(http://www.avangate.com/images/red_dot.gif); margin-left: 12px; line-height: 19px; font-family: arial,sans-serif; list-style-type: none; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><li><a href="http://www.avangate.com/articles/press-release-distribution_69.htm">50 Press Release Submission Websites</a></li><li><a href="http://www.avangate.com/articles/article-submission_72.htm">50 Free Article Submission Websites</a></li><li><a href="http://www.avangate.com/articles/rss-submission-directories_58.htm">Free RSS Submission Directories List</a></li><li><a href="http://www.avangate.com/articles/top-directories_52.htm">Top 50 Free Directories</a></li><li>Social Media Web Sites:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.digg.com/" target="_blank">digg<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span> <sup><img class="external_link" style="margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt;" src="http://www.avangate.com/images/external.png" alt="" border="0" /></sup></a>,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.del.icio.us.com/" target="_blank">del.icio.us<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span> <sup><img class="external_link" style="margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt;" src="http://www.avangate.com/images/external.png" alt="" border="0" /></sup></a>,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.reddit.com/" target="_blank">reddit<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span> <sup><img class="external_link" style="margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt;" src="http://www.avangate.com/images/external.png" alt="" border="0" /></sup></a>,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/" target="_blank">stumbleupon<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span> <sup><img class="external_link" style="margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt;" src="http://www.avangate.com/images/external.png" alt="" border="0" /></sup></a>,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.spurl.com/" target="_blank">spurl<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span> <sup><img class="external_link" style="margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt;" src="http://www.avangate.com/images/external.png" alt="" border="0" /></sup></a></li></ul> <p class="MsoNormal"><strong>Class C Checker</strong></p> <p>When developing a network of linked web sites, you should bear in mind that search engines incorporate historical and IP address data. So in order not to be penalized for receiving links from the same Class C IP (the number of bits used to identify the network and the host vary according to the network class of the address) you should check where your linking partners are hosted and test what their IP Address is. This could make a difference for SEO purposes if you are going to get new links from different web sites.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p><table style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse;" align="center" border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="1" width="75%"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 19px; font-family: arial,sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.01em; text-align: left;" width="30">27.</td> <td style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 19px; font-family: arial,sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.01em; text-align: left;"><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.webrankinfo.com/english/tools/class-c-checker.php" target="_blank">Class C Checker - Webrank Info<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span> <sup><img class="external_link" style="margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt;" src="http://www.avangate.com/images/external.png" alt="" border="0" /></sup></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 19px; font-family: arial,sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.01em; text-align: left;">28.</td> <td style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 19px; font-family: arial,sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.01em; text-align: left;"><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.webmaster-toolkit.com/class-c-checker.shtml" target="_blank">Class C Checker - Webmaster Toolkit <sup><img class="external_link" style="margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt;" src="http://www.avangate.com/images/external.png" alt="" border="0" /></sup></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 19px; font-family: arial,sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.01em; text-align: left;">29.</td> <td style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 19px; font-family: arial,sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.01em; text-align: left;"><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.seochat.com/seo-tools/class-c-checker/" target="_blank">Class C Checker - SEO Chat <sup><img class="external_link" style="margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt;" src="http://www.avangate.com/images/external.png" alt="" border="0" /></sup></a></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p class="MsoNormal"><strong>Spider Simulator</strong></p> <p>What you see as a visitor in your browser while watching at any web site differs a lot from what the search engines spiders see when indexing your pages.</p> <p>Find out what spiders see when they crawler your websites by using these simulators:</p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p><table style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse;" align="center" border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="1" width="75%"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 19px; font-family: arial,sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.01em; text-align: left;" width="30">30.</td> <td style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 19px; font-family: arial,sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.01em; text-align: left;"><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.seochat.com/seo-tools/spider-simulator/" target="_blank">Spider Simulator - SEO Chat <sup><img class="external_link" style="margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt;" src="http://www.avangate.com/images/external.png" alt="" border="0" /></sup></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 19px; font-family: arial,sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.01em; text-align: left;">31.</td> <td style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 19px; font-family: arial,sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.01em; text-align: left;"><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.iwebtool.com/spider_view" target="_blank">Spider View - Iwebtool <sup><img class="external_link" style="margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt;" src="http://www.avangate.com/images/external.png" alt="" border="0" /></sup></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 19px; font-family: arial,sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.01em; text-align: left;">32.</td> <td style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 19px; font-family: arial,sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.01em; text-align: left;"><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.anownsite.com/webmaster-resources/search-engine-spider-simulator.php" target="_blank">Search Engine Spider Simulator - Anownsite<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span> <sup><img class="external_link" style="margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt;" src="http://www.avangate.com/images/external.png" alt="" border="0" /></sup></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 19px; font-family: arial,sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.01em; text-align: left;">33.</td> <td style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 19px; font-family: arial,sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.01em; text-align: left;"><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/se-bot-simulator.html" target="_blank">SE Bot Simulator - XML Sitemaps <sup><img class="external_link" style="margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt;" src="http://www.avangate.com/images/external.png" alt="" border="0" /></sup></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 19px; font-family: arial,sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.01em; text-align: left;">34.</td> <td style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 19px; font-family: arial,sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.01em; text-align: left;"><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.linkvendor.com/seo-tools/se-spider.html" target="_blank">SE Spider - LinkVendor <sup><img class="external_link" style="margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt;" src="http://www.avangate.com/images/external.png" alt="" border="0" /></sup></a></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="word-spacing: 0pt; text-transform: none; color: rgb(32, 32, 32); text-indent: 0pt; font-family: arial; white-space: normal; letter-spacing: normal; border-collapse: separate; text-align: left; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><strong>Browser Screen Resolution Checker</strong></span></div> <p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="word-spacing: 0pt; text-transform: none; color: rgb(32, 32, 32); text-indent: 0pt; font-family: arial; white-space: normal; letter-spacing: normal; border-collapse: separate; text-align: left; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">It is important to test a web site in as many ways as possible: view it in different screen resolutions, various computer platforms and different browsers. Find out how your web page looks like with the viewer’s monitor set to different screen resolutions as you want to be sure your visitor can see everything or at least the important navigation links:</span></p> <table style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse;" align="center" border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="1" width="75%"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 19px; font-family: arial,sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.01em; text-align: left;" width="30">35.</td> <td style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 19px; font-family: arial,sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.01em; text-align: left;"><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.markhorrell.com/tools/browser.html" target="_blank">Browser Screen Resolution Checker - Markhorrell <sup><img class="external_link" style="margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt;" src="http://www.avangate.com/images/external.png" alt="" border="0" /></sup></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 19px; font-family: arial,sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.01em; text-align: left;">36.</td> <td style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 19px; font-family: arial,sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.01em; text-align: left;"><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.anybrowser.com/ScreenSizeTest.html" target="_blank">Screen Size Tester - AnyBrowser<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span> <sup><img class="external_link" style="margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt;" src="http://www.avangate.com/images/external.png" alt="" border="0" /></sup></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 19px; font-family: arial,sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.01em; text-align: left;">37.</td> <td style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 19px; font-family: arial,sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.01em; text-align: left;"><a rel="nofollow" href="http://andylangton.co.uk/stuff/screen-resolution-checker" target="_blank">Screen Resolution Checker - AndyLangTon <sup><img class="external_link" style="margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt;" src="http://www.avangate.com/images/external.png" alt="" border="0" /></sup></a></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p><strong>HTML and CSS validations</strong></p> <p>Although it’s not yet proved without doubt that W3C validation gives you better search engine rankings, it’s sure that errors in your code can cause you big problems. Converting your website pages to XHTML will help you reach more customers, as your site will work better in more browsers and non-traditional devices. Read more about this topic in our article:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.avangate.com/articles/seo-html-validation_38.htm">Does your website need W3CF Validation</a></p> <p>In order to see if you’re CSS files or HTML code turns out to be valid use these tools:</p> <ul style="padding-left: 14px; font-size: 1em; list-style-image: url(http://www.avangate.com/images/red_dot.gif); margin-left: 12px; line-height: 19px; font-family: arial,sans-serif; list-style-type: none; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><li><strong>HTML</strong><br /><table style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse;" align="center" border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="1" width="75%"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 19px; font-family: arial,sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.01em; text-align: left;" width="30">38.</td> <td style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 19px; font-family: arial,sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.01em; text-align: left;"><a rel="nofollow" href="http://validator.w3.org/" target="_blank">W3C Validator <sup><img class="external_link" style="margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt;" src="http://www.avangate.com/images/external.png" alt="" border="0" /></sup></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 19px; font-family: arial,sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.01em; text-align: left;">39.</td> <td style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 19px; font-family: arial,sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.01em; text-align: left;"><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.htmlhelp.com/tools/validator/" target="_blank">WDG HTML Validator - Web Design Group<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span> <sup><img class="external_link" style="margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt;" src="http://www.avangate.com/images/external.png" alt="" border="0" /></sup></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 19px; font-family: arial,sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.01em; text-align: left;">40.</td> <td style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 19px; font-family: arial,sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.01em; text-align: left;"><a rel="nofollow" href="http://onlinewebcheck.com/" target="_blank">CSE HTML Validator Lite <sup><img class="external_link" style="margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt;" src="http://www.avangate.com/images/external.png" alt="" border="0" /></sup></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 19px; font-family: arial,sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.01em; text-align: left;">41.</td> <td style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 19px; font-family: arial,sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.01em; text-align: left;"><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.validome.org/" target="_blank">Validation Services for your HTML / XHTML / WML - Validome<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span> <sup><img class="external_link" style="margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt;" src="http://www.avangate.com/images/external.png" alt="" border="0" /></sup></a></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </li><li><strong>CSS</strong><br /><table style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse;" align="center" border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="1" width="75%"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 19px; font-family: arial,sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.01em; text-align: left;" width="30">42.</td> <td style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 19px; font-family: arial,sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.01em; text-align: left;"><a rel="nofollow" href="http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/" target="_blank">CSS Validator - Jigsaw<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span> <sup><img class="external_link" style="margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt;" src="http://www.avangate.com/images/external.png" alt="" border="0" /></sup></a></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </li></ul> <p class="MsoNormal"><strong>FireFox Extensions</strong></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p><table style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse;" align="center" border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="1" width="75%"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 19px; font-family: arial,sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.01em; text-align: left;" width="30">43.</td> <td style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 19px; font-family: arial,sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.01em; text-align: left;"><a rel="nofollow" href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/60" target="_blank">Developer ToolBar<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span> <sup><img class="external_link" style="margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt;" src="http://www.avangate.com/images/external.png" alt="" border="0" /></sup></a></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p class="MsoNormal">A toolbar designed for Firefox, Flock, Mozilla and Seamonkey, with various web developer tools.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p><table style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse;" align="center" border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="1" width="75%"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 19px; font-family: arial,sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.01em; text-align: left;" width="30">44.</td> <td style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 19px; font-family: arial,sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.01em; text-align: left;"><a rel="nofollow" href="http://seopen.com/firefox-extension/index.php" target="_blank">SEOpen<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span> <sup><img class="external_link" style="margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt;" src="http://www.avangate.com/images/external.png" alt="" border="0" /></sup></a></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p class="MsoNormal">SEOpen is an extension for Firefox to help with search engine optimization. It provides many helpful tools at the click of a mouse: Yahoo Backlinks, Pages in Yahoo Index, Google Backlinks, Google Cache, and Pages in Google index, Google Related, PageRank Check, MSN Backlinks, Pages in MSN Index, Alexa Overview, Alexa Traffic, Alexa Related.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p><table style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse;" align="center" border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="1" width="75%"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 19px; font-family: arial,sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.01em; text-align: left;" width="30">45.</td> <td style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 19px; font-family: arial,sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.01em; text-align: left;"><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.webmasterbrain.com/seo-tools/firefox-extensions/seo-links/" target="_blank">SEO Links Extension <sup><img class="external_link" style="margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt;" src="http://www.avangate.com/images/external.png" alt="" border="0" /></sup></a></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p class="MsoNormal">When enabled, SEO Links extension, hovering any link in FireFox (compatible width FireFox 1.0-1.5 ) will show you Yahoo, MSN, and Google link popularity and ranking data for the URL and anchor text pair.</p> <p><strong>Speed Tester</strong></p> <p>It’s important to consider how fast your pages load because users will shy away from sites they can’t navigate quickly and easily. Additionally, smaller pages are indexed by Google and other search engines easier:</p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p><table style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse;" align="center" border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="1" width="75%"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 19px; font-family: arial,sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.01em; text-align: left;" width="30">46.</td> <td style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 19px; font-family: arial,sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.01em; text-align: left;"><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.linkvendor.com/seo-tools/speedtester.html" target="_blank">Speed Tester - LinkVendor <sup><img class="external_link" style="margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt;" src="http://www.avangate.com/images/external.png" alt="" border="0" /></sup></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 19px; font-family: arial,sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.01em; text-align: left;">47.</td> <td style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 19px; font-family: arial,sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.01em; text-align: left;"><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.web-hosting-top.com/web-hosting/tools.website-speed-test" target="_blank">Website Speed Test - Web Hosting Top<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span> <sup><img class="external_link" style="margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt;" src="http://www.avangate.com/images/external.png" alt="" border="0" /></sup></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 19px; font-family: arial,sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.01em; text-align: left;">48.</td> <td style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 19px; font-family: arial,sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.01em; text-align: left;"><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.iwebtool.com/speed_test" target="_blank">Website Speed Test - Iwebtool <sup><img class="external_link" style="margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt;" src="http://www.avangate.com/images/external.png" alt="" border="0" /></sup></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 19px; font-family: arial,sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.01em; text-align: left;">49.</td> <td style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 19px; font-family: arial,sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.01em; text-align: left;"><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.websitegoodies.com/tools/speed-test.php" target="_blank">Speed test - WebSite Goodies<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span> <sup><img class="external_link" style="margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt;" src="http://www.avangate.com/images/external.png" alt="" border="0" /></sup></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 19px; font-family: arial,sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.01em; text-align: left;">50.</td> <td style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 19px; font-family: arial,sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.01em; text-align: left;"><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.websiteoptimization.com/services/analyze/wso.php" target="_blank">Web Page Speed Report<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span> <sup><img class="external_link" style="margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt;" src="http://www.avangate.com/images/external.png" alt="" border="0" /></sup></a></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="word-spacing: 0pt; text-transform: none; color: rgb(32, 32, 32); text-indent: 0pt; font-family: arial; white-space: normal; letter-spacing: normal; border-collapse: separate; text-align: left; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><strong>Page Rank Prediction</strong></span></div> <p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="word-spacing: 0pt; text-transform: none; color: rgb(32, 32, 32); text-indent: 0pt; font-family: arial; white-space: normal; letter-spacing: normal; border-collapse: separate; text-align: left; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">PageRank is an algorithm used by Google to measure the relevance and importance of a web page. In order to find a way to make the difference between the million of pages on the web, Google rates each of them, gives them a “vote”. Find out more about:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.iprcom.com/papers/pagerank/" target="_blank">Google Page Rank Algorithm <sup><img class="external_link" style="margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt;" src="http://www.avangate.com/images/external.png" alt="" border="0" /></sup></a>.</span></p> <p>By using these tools you will get an estimation of your future page rank:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p> <table style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse;" align="center" border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="1" width="75%"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 19px; font-family: arial,sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.01em; text-align: left;" width="30">51.</td> <td style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 19px; font-family: arial,sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.01em; text-align: left;"><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.seochat.com/seo-tools/future-pagerank/" target="_blank">Future PageRank - SEO Chat <sup><img class="external_link" style="margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt;" src="http://www.avangate.com/images/external.png" alt="" border="0" /></sup></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 19px; font-family: arial,sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.01em; text-align: left;">52.</td> <td style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 19px; font-family: arial,sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.01em; text-align: left;"><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.pagerankprediction.com/" target="_blank">Predict PageRank - Page Rank Prediction<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span> <sup><img class="external_link" style="margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt;" src="http://www.avangate.com/images/external.png" alt="" border="0" /></sup></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 19px; font-family: arial,sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.01em; text-align: left;">53.</td> <td style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 19px; font-family: arial,sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.01em; text-align: left;"><a rel="nofollow" href="http://futurerank.com/rank/" target="_blank">Future PageRank<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span> <sup><img class="external_link" style="margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt;" src="http://www.avangate.com/images/external.png" alt="" border="0" /></sup></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 19px; font-family: arial,sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.01em; text-align: left;">54.</td> <td style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 19px; font-family: arial,sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.01em; text-align: left;"><span class="redstar" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">*</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.dnlodge.com/seo/pagerank_prediction.php" target="_blank">Page Rank Prediction - DNLodge <sup><img class="external_link" style="margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt;" src="http://www.avangate.com/images/external.png" alt="" border="0" /></sup></a></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p> </p> <div class="smallcomment" style="margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt; color: rgb(137, 137, 137);"><span class="redstar" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">*</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>minim 100 backlink in order to estimate future Page Rank</div> <p class="MsoNormal">Check your current Page Rank:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p> <table style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse;" align="center" border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="1" width="75%"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 19px; font-family: arial,sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.01em; text-align: left;" width="30">55.</td> <td style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 19px; font-family: arial,sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.01em; text-align: left;"><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.iwebtool.com/visual_pagerank" target="_blank">Visual PageRank - Iwebtool <sup><img class="external_link" style="margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt;" src="http://www.avangate.com/images/external.png" alt="" border="0" /></sup></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 19px; font-family: arial,sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.01em; text-align: left;">56.</td> <td style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 19px; font-family: arial,sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.01em; text-align: left;"><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.seochat.com/seo-tools/pagerank-search/" target="_blank">Search PageRank - SEO Chat <sup><img class="external_link" style="margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt;" src="http://www.avangate.com/images/external.png" alt="" border="0" /></sup></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 19px; font-family: arial,sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.01em; text-align: left;">57.</td> <td style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 19px; font-family: arial,sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.01em; text-align: left;"><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.pageranktool.net/" target="_blank">Page Rank Tool<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span> <sup><img class="external_link" style="margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt;" src="http://www.avangate.com/images/external.png" alt="" border="0" /></sup></a></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p><strong>Traffic Rankings</strong></p> <table style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse;" align="center" border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="1" width="75%"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 19px; font-family: arial,sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.01em; text-align: left;" width="30">58.</td> <td style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 19px; font-family: arial,sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.01em; text-align: left;"><a rel="nofollow" href="http://alexa.com/site/ds/top_500?qterm" target="_blank">Alexa Traffic <sup><img class="external_link" style="margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt;" src="http://www.avangate.com/images/external.png" alt="" border="0" /></sup></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 19px; font-family: arial,sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.01em; text-align: left;">59.</td> <td style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 19px; font-family: arial,sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.01em; text-align: left;"><a rel="nofollow" href="http://awstats.sourceforge.net/" target="_blank">Awstats <sup><img class="external_link" style="margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt;" src="http://www.avangate.com/images/external.png" alt="" border="0" /></sup></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 19px; font-family: arial,sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.01em; text-align: left;">60.</td> <td style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 19px; font-family: arial,sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.01em; text-align: left;"><span class="redstar" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">**</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.sitetracker.com/" target="_blank">Sitetracker<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span> <sup><img class="external_link" style="margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt;" src="http://www.avangate.com/images/external.png" alt="" border="0" /></sup></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 19px; font-family: arial,sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.01em; text-align: left;">61.</td> <td style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 19px; font-family: arial,sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.01em; text-align: left;"><span class="redstar" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">**</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.histats.com/" target="_blank">Histats <sup><img class="external_link" style="margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt;" src="http://www.avangate.com/images/external.png" alt="" border="0" /></sup></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 19px; font-family: arial,sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.01em; text-align: left;">62.</td> <td style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 19px; font-family: arial,sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.01em; text-align: left;"><span class="redstar" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">**</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.google.com/analytics/" target="_blank">Google Analytics<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span> <sup><img class="external_link" style="margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt;" src="http://www.avangate.com/images/external.png" alt="" border="0" /></sup></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 19px; font-family: arial,sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.01em; text-align: left;">63.</td> <td style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 19px; font-family: arial,sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.01em; text-align: left;"><a rel="nofollow" href="http://compete.com/" target="_blank">Compete <sup><img class="external_link" style="margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt;" src="http://www.avangate.com/images/external.png" alt="" border="0" /></sup></a></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <div class="smallcomment" style="margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt; color: rgb(137, 137, 137);"><span class="redstar" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">**</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>you need to create an account</div> <p class="MsoNormal"><strong>Search Engine Saturation</strong></p> <p>Search Engine Saturation refers to the number of pages a given search engine has in its index for your website domain. It is important because this kind of information tells you if the engines are finding and indexing all the pages and files on your website.</p> <p>Use the tools we recommend to verify your search engine saturation levels and compare your website to competitors on a regular basis in order to see if it is climbing or falling.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p><table style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse;" align="center" border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="1" width="75%"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 19px; font-family: arial,sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.01em; text-align: left;" width="30">64.</td> <td style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 19px; font-family: arial,sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.01em; text-align: left;"><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.marketleap.com/siteindex/" target="_blank">Search Engine Saturation - Market Leap <sup><img class="external_link" style="margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt;" src="http://www.avangate.com/images/external.png" alt="" border="0" /></sup></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 19px; font-family: arial,sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.01em; text-align: left;">65.</td> <td style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 19px; font-family: arial,sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.01em; text-align: left;"><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.build-reciprocal-links.com/searchengine-saturation/" target="_blank">Search Engine Saturation Tool - Build Reciprocal Links <sup><img class="external_link" style="margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt;" src="http://www.avangate.com/images/external.png" alt="" border="0" /></sup></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 19px; font-family: arial,sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.01em; text-align: left;">66.</td> <td style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 19px; font-family: arial,sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.01em; text-align: left;"><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.searchbliss.com/seo-tools/saturation.asp" target="_blank">Search Engine Saturation - SearchBliss <sup><img class="external_link" style="margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt;" src="http://www.avangate.com/images/external.png" alt="" border="0" /></sup></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 19px; font-family: arial,sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.01em; text-align: left;">67.</td> <td style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 19px; font-family: arial,sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.01em; text-align: left;"><a rel="nofollow" href="http://totheweb.com/tools/sesat/index.php" target="_blank">Search Engine Saturation Tool - To the Web<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span> <sup><img class="external_link" style="margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt;" src="http://www.avangate.com/images/external.png" alt="" border="0" /></sup></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 19px; font-family: arial,sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.01em; text-align: left;">68.</td> <td style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 19px; font-family: arial,sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.01em; text-align: left;"><a rel="nofollow" href="http://tools.seobook.com/general/sesat/" target="_blank">Search Engine Saturation Tool - SEO Book <sup><img class="external_link" style="margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt;" src="http://www.avangate.com/images/external.png" alt="" border="0" /></sup></a></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <div><em></em></div> <p><em></em></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><em>It doesn’t matter what tool you choose for your research as long as you know that they are only informative and nobody can guarantee your results. Nevertheless, such tools are useful to provide you with a broad picture of the markets you decide to compete in.</em></p>Pinkyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11686220802783291168noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2191595349692008220.post-44558506100835029282008-06-26T02:36:00.001-07:002008-06-26T02:36:58.818-07:00Search engine optimisation questions related to analysis<p>1. Are you familiar with web analytics and what packages are your familiar with?<br />2. From an analytics perspective, what is different between a user from organic search results vs. a type-in user?<br />3. How do you distinguish the results of your search optimization work from a seasonal change in traffic patterns?<br />4. How do you evaluate whether an SEO campaign is working?<br />5. What does competitive analysis mean to you and what techniques do you use?<br />6. If you’ve done 6 months of SEO for a site and yet there haven’t been any improvements, how would you go about diagnosing the problem?<br />7. How many target keywords should a site have?<br />8. How do you help a customer decide how to their budget between organic SEO and pay per click SEM?<br />9. You hear a rumor that Google is weighting the HTML LAYER tag very heavily in ranking the relevance of its results, how does this affect your work?<br />10. Why does Google rank <a href="http://www.wikipedia.org/">Wikipedia</a> for so many topics?<br />Industry Involvement</p> <h2>Search engine optimisation questions ooops interview questions.</h2> <p>1. If salary and location were not an issue, who would you work for?<br />2. In Google Lore - what are ‘Hilltop’, ‘Florida’ and ‘Big Daddy’?<br />3. Have you attended any search related conferences?<br />4. Google search on this candidates name, (if you cannot find them, that’s a red flag).<br />5. Do you currently do SEO on your own sites? do you operate any blogs? do you currently do any freelance work and do you plan on continuing it?<br />6. Of the well known SEOs, who are you not likely to pay attention to?<br />7. What are some challenges facing the SEO industry?<br />8. What industry sites, blogs, and forums do you regularly read?<br />9. Who are the two key people who started Google?<br />10. Who is Matt Cutts?<br />11. If you were bidding on a contract, what competitor would you most worry about?<br />Open Ended</p> <h2>Search engine optimisation questions regarding SEO experience</h2> <p>1. Tell me your biggest failure in an SEO project<br />2. What areas of SEO do you most enjoy?<br />3. In what areas of SEO are you strongest?<br />4. In what areas of SEO are you weakest?<br />5. How do you handle a client who does not implement your SEO recommendations?<br />6. Can you get “xyz” company listed for the keyword “Google” in the first page?<br />7. What do you think is different about working for an SEO agency vs. doing SEO in-house?<br />8. Why are you moving from your current position and / or leaving any current projects?</p> <p><span>This is some few <strong>SEO</strong> interview Questions? I like to Answers On this, Let us Discuss On this question.</span><span>1) Give me a description of your general <strong>SEO</strong>experience.<br />2) Do you currently do <strong>SEO</strong> on your own sites and give me some examples. Do you operate any blogs? Do you currently do any <strong>freelance</strong> <strong>work</strong> and do you plan on continuing it?<br />3) Where do you think the <strong>SEO</strong> industry is headed?<br />4) What industry sites, blogs, and forums do you regularly read?<br />5) Have you attended any search related conferences?<br />6) What <strong>SEO tools</strong> do you regularly use?<br />7) What <strong>SEO</strong> areas are you weak and strong in, and give examples of both. <img class="wp-smiley" src="http://s.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_cool.gif" alt="8)" /> What areas do you think are currently the most important in organically<strong>rank</strong>ing a site?<br />9) Do you have experience in copywriting and can you provide some writing samples?<br />10) What kind of strategies do you normally implement for backlinks? What do you think about link buying, link bait, and other specific <strong>back link</strong>strategies?<br />11) What are your thoughts on the direction of Web 2.0 technologies with regards to <strong>SEO</strong>?<br />12) Are you familiar with any blackhat SEO techniques, search arbitrage, and affiliate marketing?<br />13) Are you familiar with enterprise web analytics and what packages are your familiar with?<br />14) Are you familiar with A/B testing and multivariate testing?<br />15) Do you have experience in email marketing, banner advertising, other types of media buys and other forms of online advertising?<br />16) Are you experienced in managing <strong>PPC campaigns</strong>? To what extent and on what platforms?<br />17) Do you have experience in <strong>bid management tools</strong>, API tools, and click fraud issues?<br />1 <img class="wp-smiley" src="http://s.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_cool.gif" alt="8)" /> Do you have experience in extensive competitive analysis and what techniques do you use?<br />19) What technologies are you familiar with? (We primarily use HTML, CSS, ASP, .net, PHP, SQL, and JavaScript)<br />20) Why are you moving from your current position and/or leaving any current projects?<br />21) Do you know who Matt Cutts is?<br />22) What is the Ultimate Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything?<br />Thanks to Rand at <strong>SEO</strong>moz.org for this post on <strong>SEO</strong> hiring. It helped quite a bit in assembling this list. Any additional questions anyone can think of?<br />*** UPDATE ***<br />22) what is page segmentation? (Ever heard of VIPS?)<br />23) What’s the difference between PageRank and ToolBar PageRank?<br />24) What is Latent Semantic Analysis (LSI - Indexing)?<br />25) What is Phrase Based Indexing and Retrieval and what roles does it play?<br />26) In Google Lore - what are ‘Hilltop’ Florida’ and ‘Big Daddy’?</span></p> <p><strong><span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Page Rank algorithm?</span></span></strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><strong><span>PageRank</span></strong><span> is a <strong>link analysis</strong> algorithm that assigns a numerical weighting to each element of a <strong>hyperlinked</strong> set of documents, such as the World Wide Web, with the purpose of “measuring” its relative importance within the set. The algorithm may be applied to any collection of entities with reciprocal quotations and references. The numerical weight that it assigns to any given element <em>E</em> is also called the <strong><em>PageRank</em></strong><em> of E</em> and denoted by <span class="texhtml"><em>PR</em>(<em>E</em>)</span>.</span></span><span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">The name PageRank is a trademark of Google. The PageRank process has been patented (U.S. Patent 6,285,999<span class="pdflinknoprint"><a title="http://www.pat2pdf.org/pat2pdf/foo.pl?number=6285999" href="http://www.pat2pdf.org/pat2pdf/foo.pl?number=6285999"><span> </span></a></span>). The patent is not assigned to Google but to Stanford University.</span></span></p> <h1><strong>Some More are:</strong></h1> <p>One thing I have learnt quickly in this game is that it is always the best prepared candidate that gets the job. It is impossible to predict what questions will be thrown at you but a bit of preparation and research can go a long way. I came across this post today from <a href="http://forums.seo.ph/showthread.php?t=201">http://forums.seo.ph/showthread.php?t=201</a> and had to share it here, sample interview questions to really test your knowledge and help you clinch that dream job:</p> <p>1. What SEO results can you show?</p> <p>2. What do you believe are important things to take into consideration when optimising a site?</p> <p>3. Who do you respect in the industry?</p> <p>4. What web analytics programs are you familiar with?</p> <p>5. List On-Page SEO factors</p> <p>6. List 5 link building techniques.</p> <p>7. What is page segmentation? (Ever heard of VIPS?)</p> <p>8. What’s the difference between PageRank and ToolBar PageRank?</p> <p>9. What is Latent Semantic Analysis (LSI - Indexing)?</p> <p>10. What is Phrase Based Indexing and Retrieval and what roles does it play?</p> <p>11. What is sandbox?</p> <p>12. How long does it take to get out of sandbox?</p> <p>13. How can you track your rankings?</p> <p>14. What services does the wordtracker offer, and how do they relate to seo?</p> <p>15. What are the common factors between google/yahoo/msn?</p> <p>16. How can you keep your PPC bids from cannibalizing your search efforts on other (non pay per click) search engines?</p> <p>17. What percentage of your pay per click budget should go to each search engine?</p> <p>18. Does either Google Adwords or Overture work better for your particular product or service? Or, perhaps neither one is appropriate from a return on investment (ROI) perspective.</p> <p>19. Give me a description of your general SEO experience.</p> <p>20. Do you currently do SEO on your own sites and give me some examples. Do you operate any blogs? Do you currently do any freelance work and do you plan on continuing it?</p> <p>22. Where do you think the SEO industry is headed?</p> <p>23. What industry sites, blogs, and forums do you regularly read?</p> <p>24. Have you attended any search related conferences?</p> <p>25. What SEO tools do you regularly use?</p> <p>25. What SEO areas are you weak and strong in, and give examples of both.</p> <p>26. What areas do you think are currently the most important in organically ranking a site?</p> <p>28. What kind of strategies do you normally implement for backlinks? What do you think about link buying, link bait, and other specific backlink strategies?</p> <p>29. What are your thoughts on the direction of Web 2.0 technologies with regards to SEO?<br />blogs, rss, podcasting</p> <p>30. Are you familiar with search arbitrage?</p> <p>31. Are you familiar with enterprise web analytics and what packages are your familiar with?</p> <p>32. Are you familiar with A/B testing and multivariate testing?</p> <p>33. Do you have experience in email marketing, banner advertising, other types of media buys and other forms of online advertising?</p> <p>34. Are you experienced in managing PPC campaigns? To what extent and on what platforms?</p> <p>35. Do you have experience in bid management tools, API tools, and click fraud issues?</p> <p>36. Do you have experience in extensive competitive analysis and what techniques do you use?</p> <p>37. What technologies are you familiar with? (We primarily use HTML, CSS, ASP, .net, PHP, SQL, and JavaScript)</p> <p>38. Why are you moving from your current position and/or leaving any current projects?</p> <p>39. Do you know who Matt Cutts is?</p> <p>44. In Google Lore - what are ‘Hilltop’ Florida’ and ‘Big Daddy’?</p> <p>45. What changes did you make and what ranking effect did it have?</p> <p>46. What is sticky content?</p>Pinkyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11686220802783291168noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2191595349692008220.post-6671801681505746652008-06-26T02:35:00.000-07:002008-06-26T02:36:06.645-07:00Search engine optimisation questions ooops interview questions.1. If salary and location were not an issue, who would you work for?<br />2. In Google Lore - what are ‘Hilltop’, ‘Florida’ and ‘Big Daddy’?<br />3. Have you attended any search related conferences?<br />4. Google search on this candidates name, (if you cannot find them, that’s a red flag).<br />5. Do you currently do SEO on your own sites? do you operate any blogs? do you currently do any freelance work and do you plan on continuing it?<br />6. Of the well known SEOs, who are you not likely to pay attention to?<br />7. What are some challenges facing the SEO industry?<br />8. What industry sites, blogs, and forums do you regularly read?<br />9. Who are the two key people who started Google?<br />10. Who is Matt Cutts?<br />11. If you were bidding on a contract, what competitor would you most worry about?<br />Open EndedPinkyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11686220802783291168noreply@blogger.com0