This is a good video about the SEO benefits of Social Bookmarking – a great way of gaining traffic. Thanks to http://videos.sitepronews.com/ - Read More
Posted By Mike Hopley On June 15, 2009 @ 12:52 pm Hot on the heels of Yahoo’s Yslow [1], Google have published Page Speed [2], a tool they have been using to optimize their own web pages. Now you can use it too. Page Speed is similar to Yslow in several respects: it’s an add-on to Firebug; it analyses your pages according to a set of performance rules; it draws attention to rules that you score badly on; and it also provides a page activity monitor. For each rule, Page Speed gives you a general indication of how well you’re doing, in the form of a green tick (good), red circle (bad), or amber triangle (indifferent). You can also hover over a rule to see your percentage score. Page Speed does not provide an overall percentage score, but it does arrange the results in order of importance. Since my previous article about Yslow 1.0 [3], Yslow 2.0 has been released; this includes a - Read More
Fred Morgan – seoexploration.com With the modern style of losing the “www” at the beginning of the website URL you may encounter problems – especially with statistical analysis programs. I’m not really concerned with the semantics of whether one should or should not use the starting “www” but being of the old school I still tend towards using it. These days most hosting facilities utilise the dual base directories of “public_html” and “www” where “www” is the automatic clone of the “public_html” directory so, under normal circumstances, either URL will work fine. However, I have seen browser cache problems give display problems identifying a difference between them – i.e. missing favicon images and intermittent flash errors etc. It took me a long time before I identified where the - Read More
2 September, 2009 André Scholten Earlier this year I did a guest post on this site to show you how to track your SEO rankings with Google Analytics. It was quite some news for a lot of people, just take a look at the 300+ comments. And now it’s time for the follow-up. Google’s new technology Since a while Google is testing a new AJAX version of their search engine. I’m not sure who’s seeing the AJAX version and who isn’t, but in Holland most of the Firefox users do see it. You can see if you’re one the new one by looking at the url of a result page: The great thing about this new version is that it makes Google Analytics capable of tracking the clicked position. Yes you heard what I say: the position. Where the ‘old’ Google only allowed us to track the page a keyword was on, the new Google allows us to track the exact - Read More
By William Bontrager Although I’ve written several articles that included examples of positioning, such as “Instant Info” and the “No-Kill Pop Box” series, it occurred to me that I’ve never written an article about how to do the positioning itself. This is it. Basically, it’s three steps: 1. Create a DIV tag. 2. Put content within the DIV. 3. Tell the browser where to put the DIV. What you’re doing is making a layer. I’ll explain those three steps in a moment. Without the above, text and images can move, and probably will, depending on which browser is displaying your page and the size preferences the user has specified. That’s not necessarily bad. But if you must have something in an exact position, making a layer and positioning it is a way to do it. You might want a photograph overlapping - Read More
by Patrick Altoft on June 12, 2007 The Advanced Google Analytics Tutorial raised more questions than it answered so I have spent this afternoon going through everybody’s comments and trying to answer them. If you have any more questions please feel free to ask in the comments at the end of this post. Google has just announced a few new features including the ability (finally) to click on referring url’s and be taken to the referring page. Michael asked: Is there a way to see stats based on a specific day? I’d love to be able to see which pages are more popular as I’ve changed my site over time. I might change link position or something for a week and it’d be nice to see stats for that time period only to be able to compare them. Click on Content > Top Content and then scroll right down to the form that says Find url and type the page you want to view the stats for. In - Read More
by Patrick Altoft on June 7, 2007 Since Google Analytics was launched in 2005 it has become one of the top analytics packages for small to medium sized websites. Growth was initially slow due to the frustrating waiting list system initiated by Google to avoid over stretching their servers. Now that the waiting list has been removed anybody can sign up to use this great service. The user interface had a major redesign in May 2007 and a lot of the features we love have become hard to find. This guide should help you find your way around the new system. I see a lot of comments on the forums asking whether Analytics can do X, Y and Z. In most cases it can do it but people just don’t realise it. As webmaster of several large sites I have been using GA for around a year now to track a huge number of variables. In this post I will go through a few of the more obscure interactions that GA - Read More
Compression is a simple, effective way to save bandwidth and speed up your site. I hesitated when recommending gzip compression when speeding up your javascript because of problems in older browsers. But it’s 2007. Most of my traffic comes from modern browsers, and quite frankly, most of my users are fairly tech-savvy. I don’t want to slow everyone else down because somebody is chugging along on IE 4.0 on Windows 95. Google and Yahoo use gzip compression. A modern browser is needed to enjoy modern web content and modern web speed — so gzip encoding it is. Here’s how to set it up. Wait, wait, wait: Why are we doing this? Before we start I should explain what content encoding is. When you request a file like http://www.yahoo.com/index.html, your browser talks to a web server. The conversation goes a little like this: 1. Browser: Hey, GET me /index.html 2. Server: Ok, let me see - Read More
For a web page to function properly, six essential tags must be present. The six tags must also be placed in specifice order as well and they form the basic ’shell’ or ’skeleton’ for any web page that you build. The six tags and their order is as follows (you have to memorize the tags and the order that they are placed in In every HTML page, the words starting with < and ending with > are called HTML tags. These tags allow the web browser to display the web page properly. Most HTML tags have two parts: an opening tag, to indicate where a piece of text begins, and a closing tag, to show where the piece of text ends. Closing tags start with a / (forward slash) just after the < symbol. For example, the <body> tag tells the web browser where the actual body of text begins and the </body> indicates where it ends. Everything between the - Read More
