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How to Make a Trackback in Wordpress…
January 1st, 2009In this tutorial. Jack Humphrey from the Friday Traffic Report explains how to properly make a Trackback with a Wordpress Blog.
Very Informative.
Understanding Web Vision…
December 31st, 2008In this Video, Andy Edmonds, Stompernet Faculty Member discusses the sciences why the eye and brain find sites are more attractive than others.
Learn how to construct your sites to be eye and brain friendly..
5 Simple Steps to Maximize Your SEO
December 21st, 2008
So, you want to maximize your SEO and get ranked quickly in 5 easy steps?
1. Get a good domain name. Get a domain name that is related to your products or services.
To learn how to easily register a domain name: Click Here for a quick tutorial.
2. Get your title tag On!
Most small businesses make the mistake of neglecting title tags on pages in their sites. Some HTML editors don’t flag missing title tags so many web developers either neglect or are ignorant of the mighty title tags. Click Here for more about Title Tags.
3. Use Keywords Wisely: Keyword density is important and many owners fail to properly sprinkle their keywords throughout the site. Including the term, "wedding favors" in every other sentence is not "friendly" to users or the search engines, so use your chosen keywords wisely.
4. Link Up! Many years ago, the major spider bots would reward you for reciprocal linking, meaning, I link to site B if Site B links to Site A. Those days are over with Google and inbound links to your pages (links to your deep interior pages are best) is the key. There are many strategies to ethically acquire many quality inbound links. Join the Donzos Mastermind Group for Free to learn more.
5. Content is King. (But Links are Still Queen)
There is an old expression used by SEO experts.
"Content is King and Linking are Queen."
If Site A has more more content (eg. news articles, editorials, etc) than Site A, then technically the bots and search engines will reward the site A with more content (that is why so many newspapers sites are so highly ranked, by the way) than site B.
Search engines LOVE fresh, quality content.
All You Need to Know About the Robots.txt File
December 5th, 2008
There is lots of bad information out there regarding SEO, and internet marketing.
Whether you are a savvy internet marketer or a rookie I am confident that you have heard of the robots.txt file.
You have probably heard myths, conflicting information, and advice on how to use to use it.
The robots.txt file was designed to inform bots how to behave on your site. What information they can get and what information they can’t. It’s a simple text file that is very easy to create, once you understand the proper format.
An important point to remember is to create your robots.txt file in Notepad or another text editor. DO NOT, under any circumstances, create your robots.txt file in an HTML Editor like DreamWeaver, GoLive or FrontPage. FTP clients usually convert the file into Unix, but there are occasions when it will fail. Do not take the chance, create it in Notepad instead.
User-agent
The User-agent line specifies the robot.
For example: User-agent: googlebot
You may also use the wildcard character ‘*’ to specify all robots. For example: User-agent: * You can find user agent names in your own logs by checking for requests to robots.txt. Most major search engines have names for their spiders.
Here is a partial list:
Googlebot MSN Robot Yahoo! Slurp (recently renamed) Google AdSense Robot Noxtrumbot Xenu Link Sleuth
The second part of a robots.txt file consists of Disallow: directive lines. Just because the Disallow statement is there, doesn’t mean that the bot(s) are completely disallowed on the site. These lines can specify files and/or directories. For example, if you want to instruct spiders to not download private.htm, you would enter: Disallow: private.htm
You can also specify directories: Disallow: /cgi-bin/ This will block spiders from your cgi-bin directory.
Common Questions about the Robots.txt File
Q: Why should I use it when I can use the meta-robots tag instead.
A: First of all, the meta-robots tag is not compliant to the needs of search engines. All the major engines and most of the minor engines look for the robots.txt and do their best to obey it. This is not true with the meta-robots tag. Also, if you use the meta-robots tag, don’t use the "index,follow" parameter. That is what a search bot does by default. You don’t need to be told to do that and neither do the bots.
Q: Where do I place the robots.txt file?
A: The file should be placed in the root directory of your server. In other words, in the same place as your index.html file for your home page.
Q: What are some things that I would want to exclude from the robots?
A: Here are a few examples: * Any folder that is "off limits" to public eye that you have not (for whatever reason) password protected. * Print Friendly versions of pages (to avoid the duplicate content filter) * Images - to protect them and to avoid spidering problems * CGI-BIN (programming code) * Review your weblogs and find spiders that you don’t want to come to your site and deny them.
Q: I exclude bots from indexing my site in the robots.txt file, but they come and crawl anyway. What am I doing wrong?
A: Make sure you validate your robots.txt file. I prefer the one from Search Engine World. Another option would be that you have encountered an "evil" bot that wants to harvest either your content, or your email addresses for spam. "Evil Bots" are not going to obey the robots.txt file on purpose. Instead, you will need to use your HTAccess file (Apache Server) to do this.
Conclusion Creating your robots.txt file is not complicated and will take less than seven minutes if you follow these steps:
1. Copy and paste the robots.txt file from our blog to Notepad
2. FTP to your web server and write down the folders you want to exclude
3. Modify the Disallow lines in the robots.txt to reflect the folders you targeted
4. Save the file
5. Upload to your server
6. Validate the file
7. If you need to make changes, do so and then repeat steps 4-6 In about two weeks, you will begin to see improve spidering, a greater depth of indexing and maybe even a rise in your rankings.
Pagerank vs. (PR) Toolbar
October 15th, 2008Understanding the Differences Between Google’s Pagerank and Google’s Pagerank Toolbar.
According to Wikipedia Pagerank is a link analysis algorithm that assigns a numerical weighting to each element of a hyperlined set of documents, 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 E is also called the PageRank of E and denoted by PR(E).
In laymen terms, Page Rank is the "weight" google gives to specific pages within web site. The higher the pagerank, the more weight the specific page has. The highest page rank google may award is 10. (the scale is from 0 to 10)
Page rank calculated on a daily basis, however, Google only updates the pagerank data for public view (and displayed on their pagerank toolbars) about four times year.
Firefox King of Browsers Hill
June 8th, 2008
Firefox To Become King of The Browsers Hill.
Mozilla Corp.’s Firefox browser is on pace to hit the 20% market-share mark next month, a Web metrics company said today.
(Check this link for resource.)
Firefox boosted its share by 0.6% in May, accounting for 18.4% of the browsers used during the month and putting it within shouting distance of a major milestone, according to Net Applications Inc. "Firefox is trending to hit 20% market share sometime in July," said Vince Vizzaccaro, the company’s executive vice president of marketing, in an e-mail.
Net Applications’ May figure represents a record for the open-source browser, which resumed gains that had been interrupted in April when its share dropped slightly. The one-month increase was also the largest by Firefox since March 2007.
"Firefox is surging again, but their gains when reviewed over time aren’t out of the ordinary," said Vizzaccaro. "Other than the stagnation Firefox experienced in mid-2007, their growth has been fairly consistent."
Top Reasons Donzos Recommends Firefox For SEO and Web Browsing
1. Security - The firefox application is a free downloadable application that can be used on PCs, MACs The application is supported by a network of developers and the developers are constantly looking to improve the application’s security and patch any vulnerability. For this reason, firefox remains the #1 recommended choice for browsing the net.
2. Stability- There is nothing more frustrating than having to re-load or re-boot a PC when the site you’ve been viewing or browsding suddenly crashed. In informal testing, Mozilla Firefox outperformed all other browsers.
3. Speed is important and Firefox is as quick as they come.
4. Open Source Development - One of the best benefits of open-source is that the developers can "listen" to the market. Got a special need that you would like firefox to handle. Contact the group and see if it flies.
5. Compatibility Between Macs and PCs.
6. SEO Add-Ons. Any internet marketer or anyone who knows their way around SEO will agree that the add-ons firefox gives you are like a toolchest to mechanic. You’ll never want to leave home without it.
What’s Better For SEO…Blogs or Regular Websites?
May 27th, 2008
Let’s Settle the Score.
The Battle Royale of Websites
What’s better for SEO…Regular Websites or Blogs.
http://www.squidoo.com/donzos#module9685095
I’ll post the results later.
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