The Best Google Street View Fails, Wins, And WTF’s
Long Sunday afternoons were just made for relaxing and enjoying the aftershocks of technology. On Monday, we can all get back to inventing something new.
For today, let’s enjoy some Google Street View victories, disasters, NSFW almosts, and of course ,some awkward oopsies. Let’s go.
Beginners Guide to SEO
By Abi Andrews
Most people realise Google is currently the number 1 search engine in the world so it makes sense to build websites to rank highly on it. What most people don’t understand is that the position at which a website is listed on Google is not random. When you type in a search string, google ranks each relevant site based on Google Algorithm, which in essence calculates a score based on a “secret” points system, and list sites according to the highest score.
I get asked all the time, how can I improve my website ranking? Well, at the very least you should follow these tips. There is no short cut, you have to read and learn. There is also no guarantee where you will rank on Google, no matter what you do to improve your ranking, but there are some basic things you can do to your site, to at least help positioning.
Here is an informative article on the basics of search engine optimization techniques. This is a basic SEO and not a conclusive guide, but should give you some ideas to get you started.
1. Keywords / Keyword Phrases
12 Free SEO Tools You Must Use
Effective SEO strategies require a lot of effort and time. Although in the search engines market exist very advanced tools that cost a lot, there are many free SEO tools which can help the novice and advanced SEO marketer to save valuable time.
Here is a list of free and proven for their effectiveness SEO online instruments:
1) http://www.alexaranking.com – It displays multiple domains instead of one. Therefore, you can have instant traffic results from Alexa Rankings instead of typing and search each time separately.
2) http://www.xml-sitemaps.com – Sitemaps are extremely important for websites because they help search engines crawl and index them. This is a free xml sitemap generator.
7 Reasons Why CSS Is Better Than HTML Tables
Website designers have been utilizing CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) for many years now. Over and over again, however, I come across an argument that CSS offers no real advantage and whether you code with it or not is just a matter of preference and habit.
I couldn’t disagree more.
If you are looking to improve the presentation of your website, CSS will help you do it more efficiently and effectively. CSS based design offers advantages that table-based layout can’t compete with.
And here’s how:
Faster loading of pages
The 7 Deadly SEO Linkbuilding Mistakes
SEO linkbuilding has become one of the main high leverage activities in any online business. The simple fact is that backlinks will give you a high page rank and a high page rank will rank you higher in the SERP’s. Obviously this means more traffic and more money.
Backlinks make up 90% of your Google rank and because of this linkbuilding has taken on a life of it’s own. Most people seem to misunderstand it complete. For starters you should know that not all back links are good links. They can actually hurt you more than help you.
The Importance of Backlinks
If you’ve read anything about or studied Search Engine Optimization, you’ve come across the term “backlink” at least once. For those of you new to SEO, you may be wondering what a backlink is, and why they are important. Backlinks have become so important to the scope of Search Engine Optimization, that they have become some of the main building blocks to good SEO. In this article, we will explain to you what a backlink is, why they are important, and what you can do to help gain them while avoiding getting into trouble with the Search Engines.
What are “backlinks”? Backlinks are links that are directed towards your website. Also knows as Inbound links (IBL’s). The number of backlinks is an indication of the popularity or importance of that website. Backlinks are important for SEO because some search engines, especially Google, will give more credit to websites that have a good number of quality backlinks, and consider those websites more relevant than others in their results pages for a search query.
Develop Your Own Google with Apache Lucene (Java Nutch Solr)
Apache Lucene is Open Source API that allows a Java developer (.Net libraries available) to write indexing and full-text search capable applications. I have been writing applications based on Lucene for the last 3 years and some of the applications have been deployed at large corporations. I know there are other libraries available to developers who wish to write indexing engine but this blog will solely focus on Apache Lucene. I will not compare it to other API.
Lucene is a very mature API and can be found in NetBeans IDE, Liferay, JackRabbit among others. IBM has written a very good document about the Lucene architecture, therefore I will not delve into it here.
Top 10 Source Code Search Engines
Google Code Search
Google does not search the Internet when you search
Google uses a so-called robot to surf the Internet. This robot is a simple software program that parses all web pages that it finds on the Internet and then stores the information it finds in Google’s database. When you search on Google, you’re actually searching the database that has been collected by that robot.
If you want to get high rankings on Google, you must make sure that Google’s robot finds the right information on your website and that the robot writes the right information about your website in Google’s database. Following are what you need to do:
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