SEO
How to Create Sitemaps for multiple sites
If you have multiple websites, you can simplify the process of creating and submitting Sitemaps by creating one or more Sitemaps that includes URLs for all your verified sites, and saving the Sitemap(s) to a single location. All sites must be verified in Webmaster Tools. You can choose to use: A single Sitemap that includes [...]
How to use Standalone XML Sitemap Generator
A sitemap is a way of organizing a website, identifying the URLs and the data under each section. Previously, the sitemaps were primarily geared for the users of the website. However, Google’s XML format was designed for the search engines, allowing them to find the data faster and more efficiently.
How to configure Standalone XML Sitemap Generator
The priority of a particular URL relative to other pages on the same site. The value for this tag is a number between 0.0 and 1.0, where 0.0 identifies the lowest priority page(s) on your site and 1.0 identifies the highest priority page(s) on your site.
The default priority of a page is 0.5.
How to Install Standalone XML Sitemap Generator
By placing a formatted xml file with site map on your webserver, you enable Search Engine crawlers (like Google) to find out what pages are present and which have recently changed, and to crawl your site accordingly
List of Best and Worst practices for designing a high traffic website
Here is a checklist of the factors that affect your rankings with Google, MSN, Yahoo! and the other search engines. The list contains positive, negative and neutral factors because all of them exist. Most of the factors in the checklist apply mainly to Google and partially to MSN, Yahoo! and all the other search engines of lesser importance. If you need more information on particular sections of the checklist, you may want to read our SEO tutorial, which gives more detailed explanations of Keywords, Links, Metatags, Visual Extras, etc.
What is Search Engine Optimization?
Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of improving the volume and quality of traffic to a web site from search engines via “natural” (“organic” or “algorithmic”) search results. Usually, the earlier a site is presented in the search results, or the higher it “ranks,” the more searchers will visit that site. SEO can also target different kinds of search, including image search, local search, and industry-specific vertical search engines.
Disadvantage of dynamically created pages
Dynamically created web pages often cause problems with search engines. If your web pages are dynamically created, it’s likely that many search engines have difficulty to index them.Many search engines don’t like dynamically created pages because they might get in an infinite loop if they follow some dynamically created pages.
Google has an official statement about this in its webmaster guidelines:
“If you decide to use dynamic pages (i.e., the URL contains a “?” character), be aware that not every search engine spider crawls dynamic pages as well as static pages. It helps to keep the parameters short and the number of them few.
15 Best Image Search Engines to Find Photos Online
Imagery is my favorite image search engine due to the intuitive interface. This has a cool tabbed search interface to browse your searched images. Just keep searching new image terms, which keep compiling in new tabs, click to load full size image at the bottom or in new window. Loads 20-100 images at a time in ajax-y fashion. Best for research and keep collecting all your search images easily. You can tweak preferences to select JPG, GIF or PNG, sort by size, sort by black and white, grayscale or color and of course get safe for work images too. Test
10 Steps to Being Found on Search Engines
Your placement on search engines like Google or Yahoo Search is important. At a minimum, it should be easy for your current constituents to find your site using your organization’s name. Showing up on the first page of search results for key terms — for instance, something like “Cincinnati women’s shelter,” if that describes your organization — can also make a huge difference in your site traffic, not to mention in potential donors, volunteers, and clients’ ability to find and connect with you.
Tafiti Search Visualization
Tafiti Search Visualization is a Website which brings a new user experience to researching (searching and storing results). It was originally created by Microsoft to demonstrate Silverlight and the Windows Live Search APIs. Now Tafiti has been released as a Windows Live Platform Quick Application on CodePlex under a MS-PL license (free for use). Tafiti [...]
Google Chrome Powered by Chromium
Why has Google named its web browser Chrome? Its because the technology that powers Google Chrome is Chromium, an open-source project, and a powerful platform for developing a new generation of web applications. Chromium doesn’t have an extension system as yet, but supports NPAPI-style “pluginsâ€, such as Adobe Flash and Apple QuickTime. They are releasing all [...]
How to Index Data in Solr
The exampledocs directory contains samples of the types of instructions Solr expects, as well as a java utility for posting them from the command line (a post.sh shell script is also available, but for this tutorial we’ll use the cross-platform Java client). To try this, open a new terminal window, enter the exampledocs directory, and [...]
How to Install Solr
Requirements To follow along with this tutorial, you will need… Java 1.5 or greater. Some places you can get it are from Sun, IBM, or BEA. Running java -version at the command line should indicate a version number starting with 1.5. A Solr release. FireFox or Mozilla is the preferred browser to view the admin [...]