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When writing selectors that target an element with a certain class or id value, you can omit the element type before the . (class selector) or # (id selector).

So, instead of writing

1. div#content { /* declarations */ }
2. fieldset.details { /* declarations */ }

you can write

1. #content { /* declarations */ }
2. .details { /* declarations */ }

and save a few bytes for each selector.

This is especially useful for id selectors since they must be unique in a document, which reduces the risk of rules conflicting with each other. class names on the other hand can be used any number of times in a document, and different element types can be assigned the same class name (or names). To style element types with the same class name differently you will need to specify the element types in the selector.

Be aware that the above rules are not identical. If you write one rule with and one rule without the element type in the selector, the rule that uses the element type will have higher specificity.

Unique content is important too. You need to provide content that has different information than what is on other sites and other Web pages.

Yahoo! Finance was the leader in the category during May with 18.5 million visitors, up 58 percent versus year ago, followed by AOL Money & Finance with 15.2 million visitors (up 48 percent) and MSN Money with 13.7 million visitors (up 13 percent).

Here are the top 10 Financial News and Research Sites:

Total Unique Visitors (millions) May 2008
1. Yahoo! Finance 18.5
2. AOL Money & Finance 15.2
3. MSN Money 13.7
4. Forbes Property 7.0
5. Dow Jones & Company 6.6
6. CNN Money 6.0
7. BNET 5.6
8. TheStreet.com Sites 5.3
9. Reuters Sites 4.8
10. Reed Business Information 3.8

The category displayed visitor growth across virtually all demographic segments. However, certain segments contributed more than others.

The number of visitors to the category age 50 and older grew 46 percent versus year ago, while visitors under 50 grew by 32 percent. Above average growth was also seen in the following segments: households earning at least $60,000 annually (40 percent), households with children (38 percent) and households with at least 5 people (57 percent).

In other words, the segments displaying the greatest growth are those more likely to have greater financial responsibilities or challenges, such as paying for their kids to go to college, or needing to figure out how best to handle rapidly escalating monthly payments on home mortgages. And don’t get me started on rising gas prices.

Why should search engine marketers pay attention to this trend? Check out your favorite financial news site, search for a couple of publicly traded companies, and see how many press releases you can find in the results. Most of them have been distributed by Business Wire, Marketwire, PrimeNewswire and PR Newswire.

Build quality links to your site pages from other well ranked sites on your target search engine.

Make sure you provide quality content that have something unique to offer and that have keywords or key phrases people might search to find your site.

Optimize you web site pages by making sure your top keywords appear in your title, meta tags and content.

If you sell products, give something away free (The word “free” is one of the top most searched words on the internet).

Keep a track of your listings/ranking in the top 10 search engines and analyze it periodically. Some tips on this:

Indexed Pages: To know which pages on your site are listed in the search engine and to see how they will appear to searchers type site:www.yourdomainname.extn in the search box, You might need to use host: instead for some of the search engines.

Link Popularity: To keep a track of sites that link to you (and also see their page rank), type link:www.yourdomainname.extn in the search box,You might need to use url: instead for some of the search engines.

PageRank is relative and shared throughout a website by a unique voting system created by Google. I could spend two days trying to explain how PageRank works, but what it comes down to is having efficient navigation throughout your site. That where a site map page comes in. Since every page on the website will be linked to the sitemap, it allows webcrawlers (and users) to quickly and easily find content. This SEO tip is one of my favorite of top 10 SEO tips.

It use to take 4 clicks to get to a product page at www.questinc.com. By creating a site map, users and search engines can now access any page on the site with only two clicks. The PageRank from these deep pages went from 0 to 2 in about 3 months and the ranking went from virtually not existent to #1 almost across the board for nearly 2,000 pages on their site.Feel free to search Google for any of the terms on this catalog page, such as MITSUBISHI Monitor Repair. See how powerful a site map can truly be.

Every server on the internet is assigned a unique number – an IP (Internet Protocol) address. This number can be thought of as a ‘telephone number’ which allows other computers to find and access files no matter where they are. The IP  address is 4 bytes (32 bits). Each byte is known as an octet and can have a value between 0 and 255, so IP addresses are written in the form of 123.456.78.9.

IP addresses of 32 bits theoretically allow for more than 4 billion unique addresses, but in practice the actual number is much less. Certain ranges are reserved for special purposes so the number of available IP addresses is limited. Web sites can get around this limitation by using shared hosting or virtual servers. Rather than using one server for one web site, shared hosting allows several sites (sometimes hundreds) to be hosted on the same server. Each of these sites has the same IP address. They are uniquely identified by their domain name (e.g. mydomain.com).

There are plans to expand the number of IP addresses with the introduction of version 6 (We currently use version 4) of the Internet Protocol. IPv6 has IP addresses which are 128 bits wide. This provides an almost unlimited number of unique addresses, but will take several years to implement because of the heavy cost of upgrading the Internet infrastructure.

Shared hosting solves the problem of limited IP addresses for web sites, but there is also a need for IP addresses for each personal computer which connects to the Internet to browse the web or send email. Rather than assign each PC a unique IP address, Internet Providers can use a system of ‘dynamic addresses’. This means that each time you connect to the Internet through a dial-up or DSL modem you are assigned a different IP address.

So far we have been discussing how to use a web hosting company to host a web site, but there is no reason why you can’t host a site on your home computer. The biggest technical difficulty for most people, though, is that they connect to the Internet using a dynamic IP address. Dynamic addresses make it difficult to host a web site from home. Since the IP address is constantly changing nobody would be able to find your site unless you somehow notified them of your current IP address. There are dynamic DNS services, however, which allow you to assign a domain name to a site with a dynamic IP address. Each time you are assigned a new address your computer automatically notifies the service, which in turn updates its DNS (Domain Name Server).

Hosting a web site on your home computer, however, may not be a good idea. The computer has to operate server software and needs a high speed Internet connection. Your home Internet connection is probably a lot slower than those used by hosting companies so your web pages may load slowly – especially if they have a lot of graphics. If you have a small personal site with few visitors, though, it may be feasible to host your own site. Dynamic DNS is available as either a free or subscribed service.

With the various source codes for JavaScript you will be able to customize your own objects to use for your website. This gives your web pages a very unique look because too many people leave the ones that are built in for their visitors to see. Offering visitors to your site something fresh to look at will definitely capture their attention. For those of you that aren’t familiar with it, an object function is very similar to a regular function. However, it is in place to clearly define the function.

As you set up the parameters for your objects in JavaScript you will give it a value. Snippets allow you to search for any type of item or criteria that a person puts into the search box. This works very quickly so users aren’t sitting around waiting to see what it will pull up for them. It is nice to be able to offer your company logo for visitors to your site to become familiar with. With the image effects offered by JavaScript you will be able to display it and to also have it available in different places as the user moves around your site. You want the logo to be visible wherever they are on your web pages but not to block the information on them.

You will then need to add properties in order to define the object. This will be though a coding process that is behind the scenes so your visitors won’t have access to it. You can change these properties at any time without too much time or trouble being involved in the process. The next step is the most complicated and it involves adding the methods to your objects.

You will start by declaring and defining the function for each method you need to offer. You will find all the free JavaScript codes online that you need for each type of method. To ensure you get them all in correctly you should copy and paste them exactly as they are. If you have JavaScript errors when you verify it is likely in this step and you will want to check each one again.

The process of setting up JavaScript objects is much easier than you might think. Take some time to explore how this particular function of JavaScript can help you build a better website. You will be quite impressed with the results you get as well as how simple the process is even for those that have very little experience with computer programming or designing websites.