1. Splash Page I’ve seen this mistake many times, where people put up a big banner image and a link "Click here to enter" on their homepage. The worst case — the "enter" link is embedded in the Flash object, which makes it impossible for the search engine spiders to follow the link. This is fine if you don’t care about what a search engine knows about your site; otherwise you’re making a BIG mistake. Your homepage is most likely your website’s high
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Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) is an essential ingredient to consider when selecting your web design company, as a poorly built website has ZERO potential for traffic! You may have heard terms like CSS, Strong Tags, Titles, URLs, Meta Tags, etc without really understanding them. The key is not for you to understand them, but for you to make sure your web designers know them... and more importantly, use them!
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One line find and replace find . -name '*.txt' -print0 |xargs -0 perl -pi -e 's/find/replace/g' *.txt - files to find find - pattern to find replace - replace found pattern
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It is hindering to see web developers and SEO 'experts' still attempting to trick Google with their illegal search engine optimisation tactics. Illegal SEO tactics such as keyword spamming will do more damage to your website's standing on Google than good.
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Slideshow is what was used during KayWeb's CLIENT INFORMATION SESSIONS in July 2008. KayWeb: KEYS to WEB TRAFFIC view presentation (tags: search seo kayweb 2.0)
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Earlier this month, ICANN - the internet's global governing body - decided on an unprecedented expansion of top level domains (TLDs). This means the 21 variations of domain extensions currently available (EG: .com, .com.au, .org) are about to be monstered by what is essentially a free-for-all policy where one can select their own domain extension!
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Since their introduction, social networking websites such as MySpace, Facebook, Friendster, Orkut and Bebo (among others) have attracted millions of users; many of whom have integrated these websites into their daily routine.
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Generating a thumbnail / screenshot of a video has many uses. Many video websites out there, including the ever popular YouTube, use this function to show a static preview of the video through a screen grab or set of screen grabs in image format. You may think it is difficult to create thumbnails from a video file. But I'm here to say 'no, it's not'!
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Most online readers don’t read line by line; instead they scan from one point to another. For this reason, designers create typographic contrast and flow by emphasising certain text. Contrast is important because not all content within a page have the same value; some have greater significance than others.
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This blog will explain how to search a MySQL database using keywords, then returning results which are sorted by relevance. The key involves an alternative to the "LIKE %keyphrase%" technique.
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