19 Jan, 2008
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If there’s anything I particularly hate when it comes to SEO, it’s the meta keywords tag. I so wish it had never been invented. It’s practically useless, yet people still obsess over it. In this article, I’ll explain more about why you shouldn’t worry about it except perhaps for misspellings, as well as which search engines support it.
The meta keywords tag is one of several of meta tags that you can insert into your web pages to provide search engines with information about your pages that isn’t visible on the page itself. For example, my Meta Robots Tag 101: Blocking Spiders, Cached Pages & More article covers how you can use a different meta tag — the meta robots tag — to block pages from being indexed. Users don’t see this information (unless they look at your source code), but search engines do.
I recently read an interesting article I think may help some people with SEO concerns out there for their major sites and / or blogs. The above is a quote from the article. Link is below:
Link: Meta Keywords Tag 101: How To “Legally” Hide Words On Your Pages For Search Engines.
17 Jan, 2008
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Regardless of how long you’ve been programming in a language, let’s face it, here and there, it’d be nice to just pick up a sheet of paper, view a simple image, click on a single link, and get a good reference table to aid you. In todays time, there are so many languages that people are trying to cram, that they sometimes lose focus, and mix and match, or just dilute them selves so heavily (think of the butter spread to evenly on the bread example), that they know a language, but sometimes just can’t recall some of the functions.
Below you will find a list of as many cheat sheets as I could find on the internet. If you have one you’ve made, or links that you know that contain cheat sheets, let me know via comments. Thanks!
Visual Development
Web Development Cheat Sheets
Databases / SQL Cheat Sheets
Language Cheat Sheets
Version Control Cheat Sheets
Other
Commercially Printed CheatSheets
Be sure to favorite, backlink, pingback, and bookmark this, as I will be adding a ton more shortly.
Update:
If you’re looking for some UNIX & Perl Cheat Sheets, among others such as BASH, and GAWK, check out Peteris Krumins blog. Intersting, well developed cheat sheets.
17 Jan, 2008
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A lot of people depend so heavily on their pagerank lately. There are some people who don’t even know what a pagerank is. Hopefully this explains some of the myth behind Googles pagerank.
- What is Page Rank / PR ?? - Page Rank or PR is a number (between 0 and 10) that Google gives your site which relates to the number and quality of inbound links to your site. While it is the case that popular sites generally have a high page rank, it does not work the other way around and this number should not be used as a bases of determining the quality of traffic to a domain.
- But a high page rank means I have loads of links to my site, so that means I will have loads of traffic, right? - If you have build those links up in the right way, through collaboration with related sites. The more you interact with websites in your area of interest then the more chance you will have of obtaining quality back links to your site. The traffic coming from these sites are far more likely to be interested in buying your product or reading your content than traffic from 10,000+ directories that you have submitted your site to.
- So I should focus on Page Rank? - NO! On no account should Page Rank be your main focus, by all means use it as a guide but be aware that it tells you nothing about how popular or visible your site is.
- My site was in the top 5 for “Insert Keywords Here” now it is on the 3rd page. HELP!?!?! - Google has loads of data centers, each one produces different rankings since it is impossible for Google to share data about every site around so many data centers, it is likely that your are simply checking another data center. On the other hand it could mean that Google has updated a data center and your site has fallen behind because it lacks quality, relevance or back links (see 1-3 before you argue about this point). The best you can do is focus on improving your site, and perhaps not rely so heavily on free search engine traffic.
- How can I rank highly for <Insert Stupidly Competitive Keyword> - Build a quality site, advertise heavily (It’s good to have a reasonable marketing budget - at least $100,000). Get people talking about you on blogs, forums, news sites etc. Do what every other company after that spot it doing.
- What SEO Tips can I use to Rank Highly?? - Many people think SEO is a magic bullet to top rankings. The truth of course is that most SEO techniques are directed at the wrong cause. Instead of asking “How can I rank highly“, ask “Why do I want to rank highly“. The answer is usually, “I want traffic”. There are far better things you can do to attract traffic, I mentioned a few in the last question, now granted, they cost money, but as the saying goes “You gotta spend money to make money”.
- My site is made up of articles taken from other sites, will Google punish me? - Yes: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogsp…e-content.html
- Can’t you give me any help? - Not really. It is all on you. If you build a quality site, advertise, interact with the community surrounding your area, then you will achieve far more than any number of directory submissions will.
