Blogging for SEO

One of the disadvantages of CSS is its inability to be controlled vertically, causing one particular problem which a table layout doesn’t suffer from. Say you have a column running down the left side of the page, which contains site navigation. The page has a white background, but you want this left column to have a blue background. Simple, you assign it the appropriate CSS rule:

#navigation
{
background: blue;
width: 150px
}Just one problem though: Because the navigation items doesn’t continue all the way to the bottom of the screen, neither does the background color. The blue background color is being cut off half way down the page, ruining your great design. What can you do!?

Unfortunately one of the only solutions to this is to cheat, and assign the body a background image of exactly the same color and width as the left column. You would use this CSS command:

body
{
background: url(blue-image.gif) 0 0 repeat-y
}This image that you place in the background should be exactly 150px wide and the same blue color as the background of the left column. The disadvantage of using this method is that you can’t express the left column in terms of em, as if the user resizes text and the column expands, it’s background color won’t.

Using this method the left column will have to be expressed in px if you want it to have a different background color to the rest of the page.

Adding relevant content periodically on a regular basis is very important for good search engine rankings, since Search engines continue to crawl sites and regularly check for updated content. Also as search engine algorithms evolve and become more complex, logics, they seek content that is relevant to the item they are searching for. They also will attempt to offer newly created or updated content to their searchers.

so you may be wondering, why do the engines want to search engines want to offer the newest most search related results to the user?  Actually the search engine market is growing at a pretty quick pace, Google has shown that if an engine simply provides its users what they are looking to find, they will return time and time again. Which means  more business for the search engine. If every time you came back and searched your favorite engine you found the same old content, you probably would not need to come back that often. Nope. You would be far more likely to go where you can something new that you have not seen before. Todays engines spend lots of time and money on improving the relevancy of their results, it is taken quite seriously, since providing the surfer with what they are looking for is how their livelihood.

because virtually all searches are word based searches, it is super important what you actually provide as content on your website. For instance, if your are an selling cars via internet auction you should have plenty of information about ‘internet auto auctions’ ‘used car auctions’ and other relevant words and text. But it is important how you display them, you would not do well to just drop keywords and important terms all over in a way that would make no sense to a reader. The search engine robots are set up to look for this type of thing. They can recognize the  pointless overuse of  key phrases and that is likely to only hurt your rankings. So remember, add content regularly, and make it good.

Today is all been about a client with a home based business site….trying to figure out a different way to write content and style site…..still trying to work it out in my head exactly what I would like to do but I have figured out that just writing one paragraph on every keyword is a pretty effective way of writing content…I felt like today I could get more keywords in each paragraph by writing it this way instead of just picking half or so of the keywords and trying to fit everything into a specific group….we shall see if this works once I get the site up and it starts getting hits

Kind of funny the site is called Finally See Results and that is precisely what I am waiting to see……..

This is pretty much all I had time to do today, writing MLM content is a long tedious process, it is ashame it is so hard to get ranks on these sites, not easy so the content must be very strong and that takes time for SEO purposes…..

Optimization:SEO Improving Your Websites Odds

“Search engine optimization” is referencing the actual act of altering your site so that it will rank well for the particular terms you would like, especially with the standard crawler-based search engines.
So imagine that there was a way to increase the odds of having your site pop up in a listing when users type in a particular search word or words. Search engine optimization is basically the art of doing this. It’s making sure that the specifics of your site are altered to make it appear more relevent for what in particular you would like to be relevent to, as far as searches go.
Search Engine Placement & Positioning: Ranking Well

Terms such as “search engine placement,” “search engine positioning” and “search engine ranking” refer to a site actually doing well for particular terms or for a range of terms at search engines. This is the ultimate goal for many people — to get that “top ten” ranking for a particular keyword or search terms.
Search Engine Marketing & Promotion: The Overall Process

Terms such as “search engine marketing” or “search engine promotion” refer to the overall process of marketing a site on search engines. This includes submission, optimization, managing paid listings and more.

and so having good placement for your keywords is about more then just being submitted correctly to the search engines that you would like to index you. search engines placement is much more then this. Optimizing your site and getting good rank for a particular term. It has to do with the total job of improving how your site relates to the different search engines, so that the audience you need can easily locate you.

I don’t think you need me to tell you that there are a lot of different browsers out there. They all read the code that you write to a certain degree depending on how old the browser is, but even the newly updated ones tend to read the code and interpret it different ways. While working to complete a York North Carolina real estate site, the code is interpreted differently to show different versions of what the designer meant for you to see.

Browsers like Safari and Firefox read the site I had been working on pretty much the same. Now, if you start looking at it through Internet Explorer, you’ll find that the links on the side of the site I was working on are pushed to the right a little more than intended. Also, if the main tagline was under the header image, you would see it completely disappear, whereas in Firefox of Safari, you would still be able to see it. Opening up a few more possibilities for design. Just remember that when working on a site, to test its compatibility with different browsers to make sure that the important things can be seen by everyone and that it still looks good.

With style sheets, you can change the cursor when the mouse moves over a certain area or over a link. The command is just:

cursor:type

Where we will replace “type” with the type of cursor we want. So, let’s say we want a crosshair (looks like a cross) when someone moves over a link. We just add the style=”cursor:crosshair” attribute to the link tag:

<A href="#" style="cursor:crosshair">A Cross Link</A>

This would give us the following link, move your mouse over it to try it out:

A Cross Link

Here are some other cursor types:

auto             Shows it according to how the viewer has it set (plain)
crosshair     Looks like a cross
default        Makes the cursor stay the same
move           Looks like you should be moving something
hand           The hand you usually see over links
help            A question mark beside the arrow
text            The bar you see when the mouse is over text
wait           The “waiting” hourglass!

In Joomla!, a Component is a major part of the overall functionality of the CMS. It is generally an application, or process, that enables content or information to be created and controlled. A Component sits on top of, but integrates closely with, the Joomla! Framework itself.

Typical examples of the types of Component available within the Joomla! core installation are:

• Content
• Banners
• Administration
• News Feed
• Front Page
• Web Links
• Menu

Some of these add functionality to the Front-end, of Joomla! whilst others, the Back-end. This list is by no means exhaustive as Joomla! typically installs more than 40 Components on a standard installation. The output from Components, that run in the Front-end, can usually be found in the main content area of the displayed page. Those for the Back-end will generally be shown in the main content area of of the Administrator workspace.

Info found at Joomla.com

You may have developed your website using an expensive “what you see is what you get” editor but there’s no guarantee that site visitors “will get the website as you see it“.

You will need to extensively test the website to ensure that visitors have a comfortable stay and don’t leave your site in a jiffy.  And here are some useful tools to help you completely check your website:

Browsershots is an online service that automatically captures full page screenshot images of your website in various browsers across all different OS platforms. You also have the option to preview the website design in browsers with or without Flash, Java and JavaScript.

browser-screenshots Browsershots is extremely popular and you may therefore have to wait a few minutes for this service to render screenshots of your website.

IE NetRenderer is another service that’s much faster than Browsershots but it can check the rendering only for different versions of Internet Explorer. Mac oriented websites can try BrowsrCamp which is like Browsershots but for the Mac OS browsers only.

To see how your website appears on the small screens of mobile phones like the BlackBerry or Windows Mobile, check out BrowserCam. Another good option is the Opera Simulator that lets you experience a mobile version of Opera from the desktop.
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Using RSS feeds, we can help increase the ranks of a site just a bit more with the different content it pulls in from different sources. In the case of a site for Carbon Copy Pro, the content pulled in through RSS feeds helps support the keyterms that they’re trying to become ranked for.

Here is an answer to the often pondered question “How long does it take to see  results in SEO?

Anwser: First we need to ask another question, ‘how long does it take to make any product a success in its market?’. The answers could be,  depending on the product capabilities,  how well you advertise your product or service, as well as  your competition.
In the same way  the time  required to get a website success in search engines depends on many things. Your website is your on-line sales  marketplace,  and your huge audience shops from the search engines.  How fast you can convince them, surpass your competition as well as, get the attention to bring you to the front of the pack? If your website is close to your competition, there is a good chance things will go more quickly then if you were starting from ground zero. It is still very hard to give exact timeframes, if your website stands close to your direct competition websites, you may be able to see improvement in as little as days or weeks of completion of suggested SEO steps.

However if your website is far behind while comparing with the competition…it will take the minimum time of getting the website atleast in line with the  close competition. this time will depend on the amount of effort you put in to getting noticed.

Don’t forget that there are literally  hundreds of known factors Search Engines  evaluate at when placement is determined. The shortest way to the higher ranks is  finding your direct competition. Even when you know this information the approach varies

It is super important to have a solid comprehension of the fact that SEO  is not a one time fix or solution for your website.  Search Engine Optimization needs to be a part of all of the steps involved in your website. and included in the thought process and consideration when changes and needs are addressed.

In the best case scenario you would start at the beginning. Even considering SEO when choosing your domain name! I realize that many of us are well past this poin. but understanding that SEO is a part of the website from as early on as possible will allow for the best results.