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• Misspelled Keyword Generator

I also have a really good Misspelled Keyword Generator program for PC that I can share, just let me know if you want it.

May 2008

• May 1:legend of sleepy hollow, edward brooke, baba o riley lyrics
• May 2:gemase simmons, marvin harrison, nona dirksmeyer
• May 3:eight belles, kentucky derby results, eight belles kentucky derby
• May 4:partners in health, justine bateman, rita rudner
• May 5:largest lake in central america, acme comedy club, ryan reynolds
• May 6:cynthia rodriguez, lake county indiana, life is a highway
• May 7:zombie road, hasan elahi, american idol top 3
• May 8:hit the road jack lyrics, movin on up lyrics, tantara
• May 9:intrade, nima arkani hamed, john graziano
• May 10:freedom ship, bill russell, max baer
• May 11:paul giunta, survivor china, kim kardashian calendar
• May 12:lily and marshall sell their stuff, lilyandmarshallselltheirstuff.com, susan blakely
• May 13:gina carano, liz murray, annika sorenstam
• May 14:dagmar midcap, whitney thompson, american idol top 2
• May 15:blame it on the rain lyrics, copernicus, california gay marriage
• May 16:juicy campus, juicycampus.com, jim nance
• May 17:walter gropius, preakness results, ted kennedy
• May 18:desperate housewives season finale, garth brooks, trisha yearwood
• May 19:amantadine, huntington s, jon lester
• May 20:malignant, malignant brain tumor, glioma
• May 21:george michaels, david cook wins, donna summers
• May 22:george michaels, 9 news, navy advancement center
• May 23:keening, janet chandler, jimmy goldstein
• May 24:vinegar hill, ufc 84 results, redbox
• May 25:ashley harkleroad, scott dixon, langoustine
• May 26:sydney pollack, vacation swap, chelle hawn
• May 27:janaki purushe, flavor flav proposal, voyage of the damned
• May 28:iron lung, chris cagle, tramonto s
• May 29:jeremy bentham lost, octagon global recruiting, harvey korman
• May 30:jeremy bentham lost, miraval estate, crane collapse
• May 31:cauliflower ear, robbie lawler, anita ekberg

Search engines (like google, yahoo, msn) have their own secret algorithms that determine which website ranks higher in search results for a perticalur keyword. You cannot pay google to be placed high in their search engine so the only way to get first page rankings in google search is to optimize your website. Google’s exact algorithm is very complex and not known to anyone but there are certain factors that have been tested over time that prove to work effectively across all or most search engines. SEO takes these factors into consideration while improving internal and external aspects of a website during development/design or redesign/optimization.

Some of these factors include rectifying the website structure and content, properly tagging HTML elemnts, focusing content on core keywords, etc. When optimizing your website for search engines keep in mind that your users must also understand your website once they arrive so while developing and designing everyone should keep usability and accessibility in mind. Also, SEO should not be an afterthought, if websites are not designed to be search engine friendly, the redesign process can be very difficult.

CSS was designed to separate content from design. Tableless design refers to using CSS to position HTML elements instead of using tables for layout. As a result of separating design from structure, you can offer different layouts for different devices (phones, PDAs, etc) so going tableless really improves web accessibility. Screen readers and braille devices follow a logical structure and have fewer problems with tableless designs.

Also, using tables for layout creates lots of embedded tables and good content usually lives inside the inner-most embedded tables. Search engines can read tables, but once the design goes about three tables deep, most spiders will have issues and might decide that you placed the content deep in the page because it’s not significant. Some people argue that spiders have no problem indexing deeply tabled content but even if the information gets indexed it certainly might still be considered not important. So, generally, if you can avoid tables and move towards XHTML and CSS, you will have a much cleaner design and code.

Tableless design results in smaller, more compact, and faster Web pages which equal bandwidth savings. Embedded tables and spacer images can increase download times, bandwidth, and latency of a busy or popular site. Tableless design is also great because maintaining a website that goes through many changes is significantly easier and faster. You do not have to touch the content, the HTML file, because all layout changes can be made in the separate CSS file.

Are there any problems with using Table-less design? The biggest problem with tableless design is cross-browser support. Every browser is developed differently and thus, you see variations of how your website looks and/or functions across browsers. To fix this you might need to tinker around with your CSS and maybe even use complex hacks and workarounds. If your website is currently written in tables, it might be hard to convert it to a pure CSS layout. Also, if you need to support super old browsers that very few people use, they might not have CSS support.

In summery, avoid using tables for layout because tables are slow, inflexible, create accessibility issues for screen readers, don’t degrade gracefully, and they do not print. They also usually prevent incremental rendering (it takes longer for the page to show anything), they are semantically incorrect markup for layout, and they make redesigns much harder. It might take a little up-front learning to understand CSS, but in the end, using CSS for layout should be faster to implement than using tables for layout. But do not avoid tables completely. Tables are acceptable and appropriate to use for tabular data.

Good usability also benefits SEO in more direct ways. For example, some usability experts argue for explicitness, accuracy, verbose phrasing, grouping related things together, putting important things at the top and left, being consistent, using descriptive values, etc. Considering one of these usability recommendations, putting important things at the top, is also beneficial for SEO because search engine spiders also consider content that is higher in the code to be more important. For more information on usability, check out Step-by-Step Usability Guide, About’s Usability on the Web, and the Web Style Guide.

Web accessibility refers to making websites usable by people of all abilities and disabilities. The goal of accessibility is making web pages easier to navigate and read and it can be helpful to all readers. Well designed websites give all users equal access to information and functionality. They also directly benefit search engine optimization. Consider blind users that use text-to-speech software or screen readers to view websites. In order for this software to work properly, your website has to be coded with semantically meaningful HTML, with textual equivalents provided for images and with links named meaningfully. An image without an ALT tag to explain what the image is about is meaningless for the blind. But, good ALT tags are also an essential part of SEO, so good accessibility will directly benefit search engine optimization.

So, what is important in web accessibility? Consider your audience, think about the fact that the population is getting older and older which means poor sight is going to be a larger and larger issue in the future. Make your images and text large or enlargable. Make your links stand out by being underlined and/or colored. If you are adding flashing effects to your website just for a “wow” or “cool” factor either make them optional or just get rid of them. For more information on accessibility, check out Wikipedia’s article on Accessibility, W3C’s Web Accessibility Initiative, and Section508 which refers to the Section 508 law that requires Federal agencies’ electronic and information technology to be accessible by people with disabilities.

XHTML, or Extensible HyperText Markup Language, is a markup language that has the same depth of expression as HTML, but also conforms to XML syntax. XHTML is a reformulation of HTML in XML and valid XHTML can be automatically processed using standard XML tools (unlike HTML). This language has been added to W3C recommendation list. So why use XHTML instead of HTML? You don’t have to but it could be beneficial! Most people that use XHTML today use it because it allows you to deliver web content to many devices (like phones) that cannot support HTML syntax. This can bring more traffic to your website and you save time and problems in creating custom XML. In reality, however, many of these devices today are quickly adding HTML support. Others use XHTML because it’s “the future” and it has to be well-formed so if it validates you have really clean code. However, there are also arguments against using XHTML.

As I mentioned before, XHTML is well-formed and it carries requirements from XML. This means that all element and attribute names are case-sensitive, tag names need to be lowercase, all attribute values must be enclosed by quotes, and all elements must be explicitly closed, including empty elements. There are many other requirements which make it more difficult to add certain objects to a website, like some DHTML or Flash content, without getting errors from validation. However, if your page validates, you have clean code that search engines can quickly understand. Thus, weather you choose to use HTML or XHTML, remember to write clean code and validate.

How do you validated a website document? First, before you validate, make sure to included the correct DOCTYPE in your code! A DOCTYPE, or document type declaration, tells the browser which Document Type Definition (DTD) the document conforms to and thus, tells the browser validator which version of (x)html you are using. A Document Type Declaration should be placed at the top of every page before the root element. Your markup and css will not validate without it. Most importantly, DOCTYPES are essential to have your website render and function properly across browsers. So what DOCTYPE should you use? If your code is done in HTML you will need a different DOCTYPE than XHTML so it depends on your code but take a look at Valid DTD List to make your decision. When you set the DOCTYPE properly use the W3C’s Markup Validator to validate your website.

CSS, or Cascading Style Sheets, is a stylesheet language used to describe the presentation of a document written in a markup language. It is used to style web pages written in HTML and XHTML, but it can be used with any kind of XML document. The CSS specifications are maintained by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). CSS has a simple syntax that consists of a list of rules that define colors, fonts, layout, and other aspects of document presentation. The purpose of CSS is to separate document content from document presentation which gives a website more flexibility and control. It also improves accessibility and reduces complexity and repetition in the structural content. Thus, same markup page can be presented in different styles for different rendering methods. For example, you can create an alternate stylesheet for “print view” where content stays the same but it’s presented differently with CSS and more appropriately for printing. Overall, you should use CSS!

Over time, your website will acquire many incoming links and search engines will give you better results. Thus, if you make changes to your website through some redesign or redevelopment, remember not to lose your link popularity. If you change your URL structure, you should utilize a 301-permanent-redirect to transfer the equity. Otherwise, you will lose search engine ranking equity, bookmark equity, and direct citation equity.

The 301 status code notifies the search engine that the resource has been “moved permanently” to a new location. It also tells search engines that the link equity from the previous URL should be credited to the new one, but in practice, it may take some time for this to occur. There are many ways to code this redirect, below there are php and .htaccess examples:

How to do a 301 Redirect with PHP:

How to do a 301 Redirect with .htaccess:

To Move a single page:

Redirect 301 /oldpage.html http://www.example.com/newpage.html

To change domain names:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^.*oldwebsite\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.preferredwebsite.net/$1 [R=301,L]

When websites with high PageRank link to your pages, your PageRank increases. Building relevant links naturally adds to a higher PageRank but irrelevant links can hurt the rankings because Google attempts to devalue irrelevant links. But remember that PageRank is a measure for a page and not the entire website. So, while your website homepage might carry a PageRank of 8 it does not mean that other pages have the same rank.

PageRank indicated by google is a cached value and thus, it is usually out of date and not a very accurate metric. Also, Google’s PageRank is not the only link-related ranking algorithm, but it’s the most popular one today; others include Hilltop algorithm, ExpertRank of Ask.com, HITS, and TrustRank. Recently, there have been many arguments against PageRank and some even claim that PageRank wrecked the web.

Always try to include the most relevant keyword(s) in the page title and put your keywords in the beginning of the title. Keywords should not be repeated as you might get penalized by the search engines. After the keyword(s), follow up with a call to action so that the reader understands what he will get from visiting your page. You should keep your titles short and precise, using about 7 to 8 words or 60 characters. Get rid of stop words (and, the, a) because they are ignored by search engines and they just waste space. You can use separators like - or | instead.

People usually scan over titles so make sure to write in simple language and avoid unclear titles with multiple meanings. Also, you do not need to put a company name in the title tag unless you are a well-known company that people would search for by name. If you need to put it in, place it at the end of the title. Finally, remember to not use the same title for all your pages.

In the HTML source code of the page, the page title is defined in the <TITLE> tag:

Syntax:
In the HEAD section of the site add:
<TITLE>Your Keyword-Rich, Accurate, and Original Page Title Here</TITLE>