Posts Tagged ‘difference’

How to Optimize Your Meta Tags?

Tuesday, September 16th, 2008

META tags are hidden code read only by search engine webcrawlers (also called spiders). They live within the HEAD section of a web page. There are actually 2 very important META tags you need to worry about: description and keywords.
1. description
2. keywords
Sequencing of these tags may be extremely important. I say “may” because SEO is mostly hypothesis due to the changing algorithms of the search engines. Even though the W3C states that tag attributes do not have to be in any particular sequence, I’ve noticed a significant difference when I have the tags and attributes in the order described here. The only deviation from the list above is that the Title tag should come before the META description.

The description META tag is the text that will be displayed under your title on the results page. See the OC Internet Advertising example above. There’s also a lot of controversy about the number of characters you should have in this tag. I’ve seen sites with a paragraph in their description listed in the top results, so I don’t think the number of characters here plays any kind of role with the search engines.

<meta name=”description” content=”your_keywords_here followed by a statement about your product service or organization.” />

The last important META tag is the keywords META tag, which some time ago lost a lot of points in Google’s search engine algorithm. Along with being valuable to this top 10 SEO tips list, this tag is still important to many other search engines and should not be ignored. Based on my experience with this tag, you can have approximately 800 characters in this tag (including spaces).

fwrite vs fputs in php

Monday, July 14th, 2008

So far all the functions have been running fast anyway so the difference haven’t been that significant but things are starting to get interesting with the run time jumping to 20-24 microseconds to write a short string to a file.

fwrite vs fputs
fwrite: 24.9826359749 seconds
fputs: 20.1990799904 seconds
Time saved: 4.7835559845 seconds; 23.6820488199%

With a difference of over 4 microseconds you could run both fputs and floatval in the time it takes to run fwrite. The difference is over 23% which clearly makes fputs the better function. It’s shorter as well.

Php:is_int vs is_integer

Monday, July 14th, 2008

Next it is time to try some validation with is_int and is_integer.

is_int vs is_integer
is_int: 3.11394786835 seconds
is_integer: 3.42630600929 seconds
Time saved: 0.312358140945 seconds; 9.11646946006%

The difference is smaller this time but again both functions are executing in a little over 3 microseconds. is_int is faster than is_integer so again the shorter function name wins. Is this going to be a pattern?

Indenting Text within a Web Page

Monday, July 14th, 2008

The <blockquote> tag will enable you to indent your text from the left and right margins within your web page. However, it won’t enable you to indent your text from just one side.

If you would like to indent your text from the left margin only, you can use the <UL> tag (the same tag you would use to create a bulleted list). The only difference is that you won’t use the <LI> tags with it. Your text will be indented just as a bulleted list is, but there won’t be any bullets.

This example is displayed using the <UL> tag without the <LI> tags. Notice how the text is indented from the left margin.

<UL>
Place your text between the <UL> and </UL tags without the <LI> tags.
</UL>

SEO:Difference between a 301 redirect and a 302 redirect

Monday, June 30th, 2008

301 is permanent redirection
302 is temporary redirection

SEO is Not an Advertising Model Like PPC

Thursday, June 26th, 2008

Search Engine optimization is a technique and series of services that best helps when there are quality contents around. PPC is pay-per-click advertising, one of the marketing techniques. There is always a misconception among people of the online world where there is clashes of Search Engine Optimization with PPC campaigns. The scenario now is that pay -per-click advertisements and the prices starts to rise and shrinking is happening in the margins. This has demanded the corporations and the website owners to start the investments in organic SEO quite larger. But these investments may prove frustrating are what experienced people feels. The following article will emphasize on the subject.

SEO is known for the incapability in estimating the results and the time consumed to feel the success always leaves the SEO investments hard to pin down. This adds more to the elusiveness when the misconception about PPC and SEO arises. People do think that they are one and the same. The essential difference that the people have on these two concepts is the rapidity. But this is a myth. PPC is faster but different in the terms of results. SEO id slower indeed, but is different of PPC. To understand the SEO results, it is essential to know hoe SEO techniques were implemented. Profound impacts can be drawn with optimized SEO techniques.

With this background, let us understand that Pay Per Click is a campaign of marketing. This model in which advertisement is paid is obviously an advertising model. But it is to be noted that Search Engine Optimization is not advertising. Thus this small difference can essentially define the difference between PPC and SEO.

Now it becomes important to know how PPC and Search Engine Optimization are connected with each other. Consider the following argument and decide the relationship between Search Engine Optimization and Pay Per Click Advertising.

We all know how online world has influenced people around the world. The consumers all around the world have told that the information from the sites helps in choosing a product. People visit websites even before going for a movie. They visit a website before going for shopping. Thus the information in the web pages affects the customers greatly. Now you may understand how contents are important for online world. These contents are used only as a SEO tool and it is the integral part of Search Engine Optimization. But PPC is not.

Choose the Right Blog Software (or Custom Build)

Thursday, June 19th, 2008

The right blog CMS makes a big difference. If you want to set yourself apart, I recommend creating a custom blog solution - one that can be completely customized to your users. In most cases, WordPress, Blogger, MovableType or Typepad will suffice, but building from scratch allows you to be very creative with functionality and formatting. The best CMS is something that’s easy for the writer(s) to use and brings together the features that allow the blog to flourish. Think about how you want comments, archiving, sub-pages, categorization, multiple feeds and user accounts to operate in order to narrow down your choices. OpenSourceCMS is a very good tool to help you select a software if you go that route.

A website makeover makes all the difference

Monday, June 16th, 2008

Make your website work for your business – give it a complete makeover. That’s what Business Feet has just done, in a bid to demonstrate some of the ways websites can be an interactive business tool.

So what’s new on the Business Feet website? The backdrop is a regularly changing wallpaper that makes a witty reference to events through the seasons and on the British calendar.

But importantly the content of the website changes regularly, too. Around a core of information that explains Business Feet’s main marketing communications services, covering identity, websites, advertising, business events and guerrilla marketing are a series of additional opportunities for visitors to learn and interact.

Information sections include a regularly changing menu of informative articles, providing free advice and building a valuable marketing resource. There’s an opportunity to sign up for a regular e-newsletter, offering marketing advice and support and alerting readers when new information is added to the website.

Business Feet holds regular events, enabling businesses to network in appropriate venues, and the site allows visitors to find out more about events, and pre-register online.

The site has been designed using the latest Content Management System techniques, ensuring it is quickly and easily updated, something that many companies can now do themselves without the need for complicated programming. The system also helps deliver e-newsletters efficiently and manages the distribution database.

The site is also designed to be very attractive to search engines, with many of the techniques used in the design helping to achieve high  enabling businesses to network . One such technique, which eagle eyed visitors to the site will notice, is the deliberate mis-spelling of complicated words. This ensures even those who wrongly spell words when searching the web, still find the Business Feet website.