Posts Tagged ‘Document’

What about SEO just for press releases? One of the things you look for with press release optimization is keyword density, right?

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008

When you stick to specific keyword density numbers, you put yourself at risk somewhat, of hanging your hat on a shingle that will fall down later. Search engines are constantly evolving and changing how they rank web pages.

What you want to do is use your keywords high and to the left of the document. Two or three times, four times maybe. Use general guidelines and focus on the user. It’s a matter of not being too clever and ironic and being literal with the keywords you’re using. Use them high in a document and in links as opposed to saying, “Let’s shoot for a 6% keyword density every time.”

SEO:The Problem With Keyword Searching

Monday, June 30th, 2008

Keyword searches have a tough time distinguishing between words that are spelled the same way, but mean something different (i.e. hard cider, a hard stone, a hard exam, and the hard drive on your computer). This often results in hits that are completely irrelevant to your query. Some search engines also have trouble with so-called stemming — i.e., if you enter the word “big,” should they return a hit on the word, “bigger?” What about singular and plural words? What about verb tenses that differ from the word you entered by only an “s,” or an “ed”?

Search engines also cannot return hits on keywords that mean the same, but are not actually entered in your query. A query on heart disease would not return a document that used the word “cardiac” instead of “heart.”

HTML:Highlight select html textarea contents

Monday, June 30th, 2008

<script type=”text/javascript”>
if (document.forms["form_id"] && document.forms["form_id"].data) {
document.forms["seofilter"].data.select();
}
</script>
this should be put after the form or near </body> because form may not be accessible.
In this example the textarea has name ‘data’.

JavaScript:How to get selected value of html select/dropdown list with Javascript

Monday, June 30th, 2008

document.getElementById(’yourSelectBoxId’).options[document.getElementById('yourSelectBoxId').selectedIndex].value
or
document.getElementById(’yourSelectBoxId’).value

Javascript:How to convert string to ASCII number sequence in JavaScript

Monday, June 30th, 2008

<script type=”text/javascript”>
var str = “Hello World!”
var res = “”
for (i=0;i < str.length; i++) {
res += str.charCodeAt(i) + ‘,’;
}
res = res.substr(0, res.length - 1);
//Result: 72,101,108,108,111,32,87,111,114,108,100,33
document.write(res);
</script>

How to convert ASCII number to string in JavaScript

Monday, June 30th, 2008

<script type=”text/javascript”>
// outputs: “Hello World!”
document.write(String.fromCharCode(72,101,108,108,111,32,87,111,114,108,100,33));
</script>

Common Errors in PHP

Saturday, June 28th, 2008

‘Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at filename line no __) ‘

If you run a PHP document get the above error message, it means that an error has occured in your php document. This takes place if there are any executable statements like echo before the set cookie or session variable. Try to find the statement and remove it and then run the same program.

Office 2007 Users

Saturday, June 28th, 2008

Users who have Office 2007 on their computers can save each file in the earlier version. For example, when saving a document in Word:

1. Click on the Office button
2. Choose the Save As - Word 97-2003 Document

This will save the file in the recognized format for older versions (.doc).

A second option is to have Office 2007 users change the default setting for their files in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc. to automatically save in a lower version. This is better than having to try and remember each time you save a file to change the file type. To change the default setting:

1. Open an Office application, for example Word
2. Click on the Office button
3. Click on the Word Options button at the bottom of the window
4. Click on Save to display the options
5. Click the down arrow next to the field for Save files in this format and choose  Word 97-2003 (*.doc)
6. Click OK to save the default

Office 2007 Converter

Saturday, June 28th, 2008

Microsoft released it’s much-anticipated 2007 version of its Office product in January 2007. Years in the making, Office 2007 contains a number of new features, the most notable of which is the entirely new graphical user interface called the Ribbon, replacing the menus and toolbars that have been the cornerstone of Office since its inception. Students and faculty purchasing new computers since January have been purchasing this new version. Although there are many improvements to Word, PowerPoint, Excel and Access, one thing that you should be aware of is that the default file formats are not only different from all past versions, they are not readable by past versions. This means that if a student creates a document in Word 2007 it will automatically be saved in a format called .docx. Since this file type is not recognized in Word 2003 or XP, you will not be able to open it. Some of you may have already run into this problem with student submissions.

Anchor Text, How Important is it Anyway?

Saturday, June 21st, 2008

What is Anchor Text?

Anchor text is the hyper-linked text that allows the user to move around web sites.

Anchor Text Relevancy

From a search engine stand point it is important that the anchor text be relevant to the information that it points to. If it is it can improve your ranking in the search engines. So for example if your web site is dedicated to selling exercise videos and the page that you are going to point to has numerous articles on exercise videos then you have a high relevancy.

To achieve even higher relevancy make sure that the integrity of the document that your pointing to has been marked up with those same anchor text phrases. I.E. The page title of the page you are going to is called “exercise videos” and your anchor text is the same.

What Not To Do:

It is a common mistake to see people use “click here” in anchor text. In doing this you are loosing many possible users. Instead use descriptive anchor text phrases that are relevant to the subject matter.