Posts Tagged ‘system’

The Quality of SEO Content

Wednesday, September 24th, 2008

Before starting the first step of the lesson, you are requested to read an article. Don’t worry; I have no plans to bother you more than this simple request. Although all the articles in this web are good as the same as the Search article, I recommend you to read the Search one. After reading it, we can start with the first step of writing SEO contents.
The Search article is a great example of how SEO contents should be written. The self-expression of the text is average, but despite it, it is a high standard of SEO content. Why is that? Well, you always should remember the next rule, which will lead you to a very safe success in the process of writing SEO contents - writing reliable data and using a classic structure of text are the key. Let’s try to be more coherent; when you write SEO content, no matter what issue it contains, try to avoid from false ideas and search for reliable sources. In addition, try to use a classic structure, don’t write a cumbersome text: start with introduction, continue with deep structure (the main content) and finish with summary of the article. Why it’s so important? SEO is a marketing system, if you want to reflect a well profile of your company, business or anything else; your web site is your visit card. Traffic at your web pages will not serve your main goal if quality and reliability are missing. Don’t forget, SEO content is an important and necessary method, but it is not a goal.

Seo:Doorway Pages

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008

Using doorway pages or a doorway page system is the lazy man’s way of building a website. A doorway page system involves the use of hidden text and graphic links, creation of a bunch of doorway pages all separately optimized for different keywords, and a hidden site map that links to all of the doorway pages.

The doorway pages themselves are filled with optimized text and function primarily to get visitors to go to your other pages on your website. One of the problems with this hidden doorway system is that it smacks of trickery. The doorway pages don’t provide real content to the visitors, but provide a means to navigate to the other pages on your site.

If this were a legitimate system of navigation, why hide the text and graphic links, the site map and the doorway pages in the first place?

Here is one way to create a system of hidden doorway pages. First, you research relevant but relatively low ranking keywords for your site that don’t have much competition. Second, you create a bunch of these doorway pages that are optimized for these keywords. Third, you build a sitemap containing links to all of these hidden doorway pages. The doorway pages are not directly linked to your homepage or any other of your main pages. The sitemap, however, does contain links to all pages on your site including your homepage and main pages AND your hidden doorway pages.

This hidden sitemap, once completed, is the only page you link directly to your homepage. You do this with a hidden text or graphic link. Creating a hidden graphic link is easy. You simply create a .jpg or .gif file that has the same color as the background of your home page. Search robots cannot distinguish colors inside a pixel-based file. You link this graphic to your sitemap and you are done. The only telltale signs that this exists is in your source code and if you happen to run your cursor over the area it will change to the hand.
Creating a text link is a bit trickier since some search engines will penalize sitesthat have link text color that is too close to the background color (especially if it is the same as the background color).

Some sources suggest you create your pages with a white background (color code #FFFFFF) and that you create your hidden link text with an almost white color #EDFAE6 that is almost invisible to the eye and will not get your penalized with the search engines.
Now, instead of creating a tricky, hidden doorway page system filled with no real content for your visitors, why not make your homepage and other main pages your doorway pages? Instead of picking a bunch of low-ranking keywords and optimizing your pages for these keywords, why not pick the highest-ranking relevant keywords for your business and optimizing all or most of your pages towards these keywords?
With this method, the trick is to create content-rich, keyword-optimized pages that serve the dual purpose of informing your visitors and serving relevant information to the search engines. This is not the lazy man’s approach since this method takes quite a bit of skill and expertise in writing these pages with both purposes in mind.

The benefit of making all of your pages content-rich doorway pages and not hidden doorway pages is threefold. First, you avoid the ethical gray area of the hidden doorway page approach. Second, you pick the highest-ranking relevant keywords, build your website around these words, and make these pages content rich for your visitors and keyword rich for the search engines which keep visitors interested in your site (and buying your products) and when they rank well with the search engine will bring in more traffic than the lesser ranked, hidden pages. Third, when you develop content-rich doorway pages you don’t run the risk of the search engines finding your ethically questionable hidden doorway page system, realizing this is what is going on, and penalizing your site, burying it deep within the rankings of the search engine.

Now, you may ask, why not create a content-rich doorway page system AND a hidden doorway page system? You can, but you run the previously-mentioned risks plus when you develop a hidden system, you are taking time away from developing the rest of your website that could go into other, more productive areas such as rewriting your pages in respect to content and keywords or developing new pages. Remember, not all pages have to do well in the search engines. Some of your pages are just for your visitors to enjoy like Flash or Shockwave game pages, streaming audio or video or a product picture page with very little text on it.

In order to get visitors to come to your site, you may also want to work on your reciprocal linking with other sites, buy or trade traffic with other sites, develop your own newsletter, buy or trade for advertising in other sites’ relevant newsletters and other marketing methods to bring visitors to your site. Doorway pages may have been the “in” thing a couple of years ago, but now they have gone out of fashion. But if you keep your site focused and direct your energy in productive marketing methods, you site will see significant gains in traffic. At this point it will be up to you to find ways to convert your visitors into customers and reap the profits from your efforts.

PHP:Get current operating system ( os )

Monday, June 30th, 2008

<?php
echo PHP_OS;
// Result os info:
// XP: WINNT
// FreeBSD : FreeBSD
// more detailed os info:
print php_uname();
// Result:
// Windows NT MY_COMPUTER 5.1 build 2600
?>

Archive Effectively

Thursday, June 19th, 2008

The best archives are carefully organized into subjects and date ranges. For search traffic (particularly long tail terms), it can be best to offer the full content of every post in a category on the archive pages, but from a usability standpoint, just linking to each post is far better (possibly with a very short snippet). Balance these two issues and make the decision based on your goals. A last note on archiving - pagination in blogging can be harmful to search traffic, rather than beneficial (as you provide constantly changing, duplicate content pages). Pagination is great for users who scroll to the bottom and want to see more, though, so consider putting a “noindex” in the meta tag or in the robots.txt file to keep spiders where they belong - in the well-organized archive system.
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Recover a Corrupted System File

Wednesday, June 18th, 2008

If an essential Windows file gets whacked by a virus or otherwise corrupted, restore it from the Windows CD. Search the CD for the filename, replacing the last character with an underscore; for example, Notepad.ex_. If it’s found, open a command prompt and enter the command EXPAND, followed by the full pathname of the file and of the desired destination: EXPAND D:\SETUP\NOTEPAD.EX_ C:\Windows\NOTEPAD.EXE. If either pathname contains any spaces, surround it with double quotes.

If the file isn’t found, search on the unmodified filename. It will probably be inside a CAB file, which Win XP treats as a folder. Simply right-drag and copy the file to the desired location. In other Windows platforms, search for a file matching *.cab that contains the filename. When the search is done, open a command prompt and enter EXTRACT /L followed by the desired location, the full pathname of the CAB file, and the desired filename; for example: EXTRACT /L C:\Windows D:\I386\Driver.cab Notepad.exe. Again, if the destination or CAB file pathname contains spaces, surround it with double quotes.

Increase your RAM and so system speed

Wednesday, June 18th, 2008

1). Start any application, say Word. Open some large documents.

2). Press CTRL+SHIFT+ESC to open Windows Task Manager and click Processes tab and sort the list in descending order on Mem Usage. You will notice that WINWORD.EXE will be somewhere at the top, using multiple MBs of memory.

3). Now switch to Word and simply minimize it. (Don’t use the Minimize All Windows option of the task bar).

4). Now go back to the Windows Task Manager and see where WINWORD.EXE is listed. Most probably you will not find it at the top. You will typically have to scroll to the bottom of the list to find Word. Now check out the amount of RAM it is using. Surprised? The memory utilization has reduced by a huge amount.

5). Minimize each application that you are currently not working on by clicking on the Minimize button & you can increase the amount of available RAM by a substantial margin. Depending upon the number and type of applications you use together, the difference can be as much as 50 percent of extra RAM.

In any multitasking system, minimizing an application means that it won’t be utilized by the user right now. Therefore, the OS automatically makes the application use virtual memory & keeps bare minimum amounts of the code in physical RAM.