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Create Search Engine Friendly URLs using .htaccess 2008-05-09 01:23:46 In this post, we will see how to use .htaccess to create search engine friendly URLs. Using .htaccess, mapping dynamic pages to static address is easy and this helps search engines to index the pages fast, effective and strong.Initially, create a file .htaccess in your favorite editor, use the rewrite rule as below to map dynamic id passing url's to static version. Use the code and create your dynamic pages for search engines spiders**************************************************************RewriteEngine on## Rewrite Rules ##RewriteRule ^category/([0-9]*)/([0-9]*)/([a-z_]*)$ category.php?id=$1&page_id=$2 [L]RewriteRule ^category/([^/]*)/([a-z_]*)/([^/]*)$ category.php?r_name=$2&id1=$1***************************************************************For eg: Originally the page URL looks like subcategory.php?id=5&page_id=1Using the above .htaccess code, you can create the URL ascategory/5/1/product_nameHere, RewriteRule ^category/([0-9]*)/([0-9]*)/([a-z_]*)$ ^ - Refer to start C ...

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Methodology FlowChart 2008-04-17 04:18:39 First of all, you all will be happy to see flowchart on SEO Methodology, Why this? - We see lots of posts online related to SEO, we tend to misunderstand most of the SEO theories written by different peoples, due to their language and presentations and so on :), so I decided to draw a flow chart based on SEO approach and procedures, its below ...

Google's Stunning Growth From Nov 11, 1998 - Oct 12, 2007 2008-04-09 07:17:25 We all know Google is one of the major search engine and a great competitor of Yahoo, MSN and so on, but do you know how they where before, here you can see how Google was before and how was their approach before, i have added some selective screen shots below, hope this creates interest in you to know more about Google growthThe screen shot below shows how Google was in 1997 - 1998, Google had special search feature like Stanford and Linux search, and even had option to” Get Google updates monthly" subscriptionEgroups was used for Google Search Announcement and discussionsWhen i looked for the egroups site, its been re-directed to yahoo, hope yahoo acquired egroups :)In 2000, Google had even displayed total "Search 1,326,920,000 web pages" available, but not now in 2008 :), hope you all know whySlowly in 2003, Google started showing maturity on design presentations, from the below screen shot you can see the difference in style and Google moved the "Searching 3,307,998,701 web pages ...

SEO and SMO Relationship Out Of Sight 2008-04-05 13:35:03 As we all know Search engine optimization called as SEO and some knows social media optimization called as SMO right? :)By reading this post, you will be an expert in SMO too :)Practical Introduction to SMO:SMO, one of my favorite is http://del.icio.us, how about you?, the site helps to share the website to your network and makes your site more visible in social media traffic circle.You have a website and its listed for your top keywords, thinking why you should go for SMO and waste time?, its wrong then, you will be missing neighborhood and fans around you. Target audience in SMO are different from keyword search visitors, my personal experience, also not all social media sites work for your line of business sites, for example if your site has resources like health tips, web development and so on, then you can try out del.icio.us and if your site has some hardware related products or services then digg will be the best choice, like that each social media have different crowd, you need ...

SEOContest2008 2008-03-31 07:30:50 Generally website or blog participator of SEOcontest2008 tend to list there website to top for SEOcontest2008 keyword, if the site gives real solutions, tips and has enough materials to educate the visitors about SEO there is no doubt of winning the competition , as the search listing is concernend all the top 10 are winners, do you all agree? May be the price is for first three or five :)Here is the participant details UK Webmaster World SEO Contest I joined 31st March 2008 and Contest result is on 1st of April 2008 at 1pm (UK time), funny right?As far as SEOcontest2008 is concerned i believe search engine should only list website and blogs with real SEO solution, we norrmally see sites using keyword SEOcontest2008 and there we find informations not related to SEO. Stratergies should be followed to meet search engine surfers expectation and not just to bring temporary traffic or non quality traffic.I wish search enige spider eyes should spotlight the keyword SEOcontest2008 and elimina ...

SEO Hacking, Think Smart to Protect 2008-03-31 06:35:51 We always become silent for at least a second when we hear the word "hacking". Yes as you know or not, now website and web application are also been hacked for traffics and also for making the competitor penalized with the help of SEO hackers, here it starts with...SEO hackers are experts in SEO techniques, a real hacker understand SEO Methodology and Search engine algorithm, they mostly apply black hat SEO for functioning, mostly on a small level they will try to insert their links to websites which has high page rank / traffic with hidden links through forms and browser queries and so onMostly well know marketing consultants sites are been hacked by feeds, the most used hacking method is redirecting feeds traffic to the hacker blog or websiteBefore promoting the site, we need to setup data security through all types of validation from simple forms to query injection; nothing should be taken easy and eliminated. Mostly small level SEO hacker for fun they will try to insert JavaScript ...

Online Branding by way of SEO 2008-03-06 07:47:48 “Brand – a trademark or a unique name to identify your product or a manufacturer”, has always remained the most important criteria for companies to gain their popularity. It is very important to create and maintain your brand and brand image throughout your presence in the market. It is difficult to attain this result as the market gets saturated with every company aiming towards it. You need to keep an eye on your customers and markets regularly to achieve this branding success.Now how does SEO got to do with this? In earlier days, branding was achieved majorly with campaigns, television ads, radio ads, billboards or every other place where the company can put up their product posters or details. But every time these techniques work for every kind of customers? The World Wide Web is a huge space. Every minute large number of sites and pages are being added on to the web. In such a scenario, where do your products and efforts stand? Where do they take you in the competitive mar ...

Importance of Top 59 Social Bookmarking Websites 2008-03-06 07:46:19 If your a blogger or website owner dont miss to understand the importance of social bookmarking, its a free web promotion technique.Social bookmarking site are becoming popular and easy, it allows users to save bookmarks online and share with yourfriends with respective tags and categories as keywords, instead of saving it in your browser bookmarksVisit some of the sites provided below, create account, then bookmark interesting and useful links in the areas of your interest or expertise. By doing so you create a useful Feed and share your fav also dont forget to integrate social bookmarking websites with your blog or website as i did in my blog, it's been great successHere is a list of Social Bookmarking websites, which will help your bog or website to be saved by your visitors(1) Del.icio.us - Currently the most used software application. (2) Digg - Digg is a technology news website that combines social bookmarking, blogging, RSS, and non-hierarchical editorial control.(3) BlogMarks. ...

Regular Online Reputation Protection and Management – An Insight View 2008-03-06 07:38:03 Companies & marketers put in so much of effort to make their visibility in the search results appreciable. Reputation is a vital factor for every organization. It may even cost you millions of dollars. With the vast usage of Internet, blogs products and brands reach the customers at the faster rate never as before. Henceforth, online reputation has become a basic necessity.With so much of attention being given to reputation and steps taken to bring it up, yet it so happens that sometimes the page rankings given by search engines (SERPs) become unsatisfactory. With the massive increase in the companies in the market, their websites and customer expectations, you are always on the urge to have a cutting edge over your competitors and win over your potential customers.Gossips, Unnecessary rumors, dissatisfied customers can highly damage your company reputation. Many companies see that poor brand building are a public relation issue, while its actually held up with the PR firms. They f ...

Search Engine Preferences For Top Level Domain Extensions 2008-03-06 07:22:10 Whats yours .com, .biz or .net?The domain name extension or TLD (Top Level Domain) plays an important role for search engine optimization, too..com domain names will always be the best choice to go with. This does not mean that your website will not be successful if you decide to go with a different Top Level Domain like .uk or .inFollowing are search engine top level domains in order, pick up domain related to your business.aero.biz.cat.edu.com.coop.info.jobs.mobi.museum.name.net.org.pro.travelPick up matching business domain name with keywords and perfect domain name has 14 characters or less.If need more than 14 characters, 22 characters should be your upper limit.It should also be easy to remember.Dont go with long domain names to avoid problems.Good Luckboomp3.cominternet advertisingShare with your friends:          Thanks for your time and support, Leave a reply ...

Do you or your website promotional company follow this SEO process? 2008-03-06 07:21:58 Steps to be followed while optimizing a website for global reach and to increase targeted traffic, staying ahead of competitor and to increase your sales conversion1. Existing website structure analysis2. Competitor analysis3. Keyword analysis and research4. Prepare Search engine marketing report / Bench mark report5. Right Keywords identification according to targeted audience related to website local or global6. More direct and keyword rich folder and file naming approach7. Adding optimized keywords to Meta tags8. Measuring keyword density on each page9. Adding breadcrumb trails to each page for internal links10. Adding robots to website, tell the search engines to index your site and which pages they should index11. Validating HTML http://validator.w3.org12. Improving Web page presentation, using External CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) and JavaScript ( Please not: Dont use Java Script for displaying Content and Navigation Links)13. Reducing Table structure14. Improving the HTML struct ...

Your blog not bringing the kind of visitors you want? 2008-03-06 07:21:24 Give good time for your valuable blog readers by writing quality interesting original content, if you have more to write, its not necessary to write only technical content, you can very well write you experience in the related field and share your good and bad experience on the fields you like and involved.(1) For the start, choose catchy titles and interesting titles, which is valuable and should be unique(2) Don’t urge by adding blogs by count, write few good blogs and gradually increase the count, you obviously will increase your blog posts when you see comments from your loveable visitors in future :)(3) Select or think topic on problems vs. solutions, and write your experiences and thoughts and ask for comments and add their valuable ideas towards your blog, this will create pillars for your blog(4) Don’t use too much of images like banners in blog, since blog is only meant for content and make your visitors to read your valuable write-ups, of course you can add your photo :)( ...

Relax and Listen to SEO Process: Audio Format 2008-03-06 07:21:01 boomp3.comThis a short (2.46 min) time-sensitive announcementinternet advertisingShare with your friends:          Thanks for your time and support, Leave a reply ...

Do you want to receive email when GOOGLE SPIDERS and YAHOO BOT visits your BLOG Or WEBSITE? 2008-03-06 07:20:49 Use the below code code to receive email when Google spiders / Yahoo Bot your blog or website pages See When A Page Is Spidered This is a typical output from the code: Today is Wednesday, February 12 2007 The time is 12:15 (-0500 GMT)internet advertisingShare with your friends:          Thanks for your time and support, Leave a reply ...

News: Google Takes a Crack at Wikipedia with Knol (defined as a "unit of knowledge") 2008-03-06 07:20:32 Google is gunning for Wikipedia with a new service called Knol that aims to capitalize on the growing popularity of social encyclopedias.According to a recent blog posting about the Knol project by Google we know a bit about what to expect. From what I can tell Knol shares a lot of the same traits as the pre-existing types of social reference pages such as Wikipedia, Squidoo, and Mahalo. As with these other services Knol users have the ability to create a page on any topic with information, pictures, links and more. It's in the details where Google is looking to one-up the competition and justify its existenceClick this image for a look at what a Google Knol entry looks like.Source: http://blogs.pcworld.com/staffblog/archives/006068.html http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/12/encouraging-people-to-contribute.htmlinternet advertisingShare with your friends:          Thanks for your time and support, Leave a reply ...