SEO Friendly Dynamic Websites
By Jeff PhillipsÂ
One of the most important aspects of search engine optimization is relevant content and the management of that content on your website. Your website should include up to date information about your services, industry or products. Continual updates should be a part of your weekly or monthly website maintenance process. Areas that can provide strong content to your site are industry related news, online newsletters and text that shows you as an authority in your field.
A content management system allows the website owner to post the latest news and information about their company on the website. The site owner can log into an administrative area of the website and post news updates and archive older postings for retrieval and reading by the website visitor from any computer in the world that has Internet access.
Be careful when selecting a CMS. Choose one that is easy to use, employs a unique URL naming convention, and is search engine friendly and easy on the budget. Choose one that allows you to set your page titles, Meta descriptions and Meta keywords. A good CMS should employ a unique naming convention in the URL that actually means something to the search engine spider. You can download a free CMS from other sources, but if you are looking for an advantage to the thousands of other pages on the web that look like this… http://www.somedomain.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=category§ionid=4&id=16&Itemid=27 Then make sure you do your homework.
A fast growing segment on the web is the RSS feed and the ability to use RSS feeds (with the authors permission) to supplement the content on your website. Typical web based RSS aggregators simply allow you to publish a headline and a link from your chosen feed. This provides you with very little fresh content on your site and gives visitors no potential reasons to return. This also offers very little value to search engine optimization efforts. Some rss aggregators take information from the feeds you choose and generates SEO friendly html pages for each item in the feed. This quickly turns a 10 page website into a much larger, more robust site complete with relevant content that continually grows.
When selecting tools to develop your seo friendly dynamic website, pay attention to the options offered and how they may impact your site. Several tools are available, but only a hand full are worth their salt.
Jeff Phillips is the Founder and President of CAD Enterprises LLC. CAD Website Design is a full service web design company dedicated to creating user friendly websites that reinforce branding, increase site traffic and strengthen customer loyalty. CAD Website Design provides sophisticated database design and programming that enables dynamic content generation and database integration using PHP Programming and MySQL. By providing simple to use back end management areas, CAD Website Design empowers you to manage your content and edit information with the simple click of a button.
For more information, please visit http://www.CADWebsiteDesign.com, or contact Jeff Phillips at 888-830-2326.
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Does Google Sandbox exist?
There are so much talk about so called Google “Sandbox†that we to decide to chip in. So does this so called “Google Sandbox†exists? In order to answer this question let us recap again what this “sandbox†means according to many web-masters. This sandbox is talked about as it was a read place somewhere on the Google’s data centers where all the new website are placed. And it takes about six months in order for your new website to get out off there.
There are many false presumptions in this kind of logic. If you think about how much stress is being put on the “relevancy†of search engine results, how many more sites will be relevant let say to keyword “weight lossâ€. Two million? Where do we draw the line?
Some one compared a website to a Chinese restaurant business. If you open yet another Chinese restaurant not to many people will flock to it just because you opened it. But if with the time people begin to spread word bout your restaurant or you stay in business for a year or so, you may have more clients coming to you. Why should you presume that it should be different with your website?
Of course there are times that you can open a Chinese restaurant in the are where here is none. Then you can probably expect visitors simple because they have no other place to choose from.
It not enough therefore to build a website and submit it to a dozens of search engines and the sit and expect flow of visitors. If you do that , the myth of “Google Sandbox†will grow and you will become believer in this myth.
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Who can qualify? Any independent retailer, online store, catalog or mail-order company that has already an e-commerce Web site. Your website must currently offer online payment methods such as Internet merchant account, PayPal, Google Checkout or any other online payement method. You must enter by December 31, 2006.
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WordPress Hosting: Tips and Tricks
While WordPress is a wonderful blogging tool “out of the box†so to say. There are many different ways to improve your website’s performance. Variety of different plugins are available to improve your SEO efforts along with improving overall look and feel of your site as well as spam prevention. Here are just few tips and plugins that may help you.
Spam Prevention
As you get more familiar with WordPress and discover the shear volume of plugins available to prevent spam posts on your website it can be difficult to decide which one is the best. You will find plugins that require users to answer all sorts of questions and even do some “math†in order to post on your site. While this may seem as a good idea at first, many users may be turn away from your site do to this questions. WordPress comes with already pre-installed plugin called Askimed. This is a community driven plug in that has helped to cut a lot of spam. Using that plugin will give you also an opportunity to contribute back. Since every time you will mark a post as a spam, Akismed registers your imput and other users begin to benefit from information you have provided. We use Akismed on our site and it catches about 100 spam comments a day.
SEO Efforts
Permalinks. After you have installed your WordPress, you can configure the permalinks setting for your website. By default, WordPress creates URLs that contain question marks and other funny characters in them. While search engines are indexing these kind of URLs, from SEO point of view your site may perform better if your URLs contain keywords in them. For example, this page that you are looking at right at this moment has following URL http://www.web-hostingreview.com/wordpress-hosting-tips-and-tricks/. If we were to use default permalinks setting this URL would look something like following http://www.web-hostingreview.com/?p=162.
Meta Tags.
Among the variety of meta tags plugins you will find plugins that automatically insert keywords and description meta tag into your website. You should be aware though that recently search engines give less value to “keywords†meta tags to prevent so called “keyword stuffingâ€. Some search engines instead of paying attention to your “description†tags, now use the content of your site while indexing and generally display in the search results excerpt from the first and the last paragraph from your page.
When it comes to title tags, their importance will still be relevant for some times therefore we highly recommend Optimal Title Plugin that allows you to customize your title meta tags.
Site Maps.
You may have recently heard that Yahoo and MSN are officially supporting Google Sitemap protocol. Google Sitemaps Plugin comes in very handy that respect, since you can use the sitemap that is generated by this plugin and submit it to Yahoo and MSN.
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Google Sitemap- Yahoo and MSN on board!
Google Blog, has posted that Yahoon and MSN are officially supporting sitemap protocol, a feature introduced by Google about a year ago.
Submitting a site map to Google does not guarantee that your site will automatically be included into the search results, but it does offer more information about your website to search engine crawlers so they can in turn do better job on crawling your website.
Many web-masters has reported that the sitemaps, that were originally generated for the use in Google Webmasters Tools, were frequently accessed by Yahoo and MSN crawlers. It is only the matter of time for the rest of the search engine to join in as the web becomes more and more dynamic with constant “inflow†of fresh content.
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Installing WordPress with your WebHosting Provider
Before you can install WrodPress on your server first you have to make sure that your web hosting plan supports PHP and MySQL, two essential elements needed in order for your WordPress powered web site to function. If you are not sure if your web hosting plan offers this support you can simply call your web hosing provider to find out or you can try to upload a PHP file to your server to see if it works. We have described in on of our articles how you can check if PHP is supported and even check the latest version of PHP on your server.
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Installing WordPress with Fantastico Installer.
Many web hosting providers offer you to install WordPress through Fantasctico scripts, along with variety of other blogger platforms, content management systems and need little web design gadgets. The benefit of Installing WordPress or other applications via Fantascito is that it is very quick and literally you can have your website up and running withing 15 minutes.
Installing WordPress without Fantastico Installer.
While some web hosting providers do not offer Fantastico installer, they still may offer you a script to install WordPress. Again installation should be quick and easy. Both through Fantasctico and script installation you will be guided step by step to set up necessary elements like database and database administrator.
If your web hosting provider does not offer neither Fantastico or other script to install your WordPress, but supports PHP and MySQL, you can download and install WordPress by yourself. At www.wordpress.org you can find the latest version of WordPress together with installation instruction. This installation requires you to set up a MySQL database that your WordPress will use to store the data. Also this database should already exist on your server when installing WordPress.
Is it possible to run multiple WordPress sites on one server?
Not only it is possible but many web masters do have multiple installation of WordPress on their server. You can also consider installing so called Multiple User platform of WordPress. But if you plan to run your website let say in two different languages, multiple installation would be your best choice.
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Domain Name Privacy
When registering domains, many web hosting providers offer you an option to keep your private contact information from being displayed on the sites like WHOIS. This option is called Domain Privacy. Below is the example of how you information would appear on WHOIS with and without Domain Privacy.
Getting Your Website Listed Quickly by Search Engines
Every time some one uses submission form provided by the search engines to submit a site, a thank you note comes up and a statement that it may take more than few weeks for your website to be listed with that particular search engine. If this is the only method you use to promote your website it is very likely to take more than few weeks for your site to appear in the search engines.
If you would like your website to be listed in the major search engines like Google, Yahoo or MSN, it is much better if they discover your website on their own. One way they can find your website is to have and incoming high quality link from another website to your own website. High quality does not necessarily mean high rank, it simply means a link to your website on the website that is being frequently indexed by search engines. You can achieve in several different ways:
Find a blog that is closely related to the content of your website. If you can post comments on that blog, take this opportunity, but do not post senseless and unrelated comments, otherwise your comments may be deleted.
Many people have reported that their sites got indexed if they have shared the content of their website on the sites like www.digg.com and www.bluedot.us. These two sites are highly trafficked sites, and on top of being indexed frequently by the search engines may send your way many visitors.
Finally use on line article distribution websites. Many web-masters are constantly looking for a good quality content to include in their website or a newsletter. When submitting an article remember to include a link back to your website. This can be done by either inserting the link in the content of your article or in the reference space provided just for that purpose. You should read the terms of service first, since some of the sites will not allow you to have a link in the first paragraph of your article and you may be limited to a certain number of links your article can contain.
Web-masters that have used above methods to promote their website report that their websites were indexed by the search engines as quickly as 48 hours from the time they submitted articles and content to other high trafficked web-sites.
Getting Your Website Listed Quickly by Search Engines
Every time some one uses submission form provided by the search engines to submit a site, a thank you note comes up and a statement that it may take more than few weeks for your website to be listed with that particular search engine. If this is the only method you use to promote your website it is very likely to take more than few weeks for your site to appear in the search engines.
If you would like your website to be listed in the major search engines like Google, Yahoo or MSN, it is much better if they discover your website on their own. One way they can find your website is to have and incoming high quality link from another website to your own website. High quality does not necessarily mean high rank, it simply means a link to your website on the website that is being frequently indexed by search engines. You can achieve in several different ways:
Find a blog that is closely related to the content of your website. If you can post comments on that blog, take this opportunity, but do not post senseless and unrelated comments, otherwise your comments may be deleted.
Many people have reported that their sites got indexed if they have shared the content of their website on the sites like www.digg.com and www.bluedot.us. These two sites are highly trafficked sites, and on top of being indexed frequently by the search engines may send your way many visitors.
Finally use on line article distribution websites. Many web-masters are constantly looking for a good quality content to include in their website or a newsletter. When submitting an article remember to include a link back to your website. This can be done by either inserting the link in the content of your article or in the reference space provided just for that purpose. You should read the terms of service first, since some of the sites will not allow you to have a link in the first paragraph of your article and you may be limited to a certain number of links your article can contain.
Web-masters that have used above methods to promote their website report that their websites were indexed by the search engines as quickly as 48 hours from the time they submitted articles and content to other high trafficked web-sites.
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