» Archive for September, 2008
30Sep Hidden text and links
Hiding text or links in your content can cause your site to be perceived as untrustworthy since it presents information to search engines differently than to visitors. Text (such as excessive keywords) can be hidden in several ways, including:
* Using white text on a white background
* Including text behind an image
* Using CSS to hide [...]
29Sep Cloaking, sneaky Javascript redirects, and doorway pages
Cloaking
Cloaking refers to the practice of presenting different content or URLs to users and search engines. Serving up different results based on user agent may cause your site to be perceived as deceptive and removed from the Google index.
Some examples of cloaking include:
* Serving a page of HTML text to search engines, while showing a [...]
28Sep GOOGLE WEBMASTER GUIDELINES
Webmaster Guidelines
Following these guidelines will help Google find, index, and rank your site. Even if you choose not to implement any of these suggestions, we strongly encourage you to pay very close attention to the “Quality Guidelines,” which outline some of the illicit practices that may lead to a site being removed entirely from the [...]
27Sep 301 and 302 Redirects for your Website
302 Redirects
The “302″ refers to the HTTP status codes that are returned to your browser when you request a page. For example, a 404 page is called a “404″ because web servers return a status code of 404 to indicate that a requested page wasn’t found. The difference between a 301 and a 302 is [...]
26Sep Keyword Density for SEO
Keyword Density is the percentage of keywords compared to the rest of the text in your Web page. This metric is important because it gives you a tool to compare a Web page or site to that of similar pages with higher rankings. You can see how your use of keywords compares to theirs.
If you [...]
21Sep Keyword Selection for SEO
I called in the expert for this article. Mikkel has spent many an hour learning and discovering the way the search engine world works. Here are his thoughts on choosing keywords for your home page….
Most Internet users rely on search engines like Google™, Yahoo!®, MSN® Search, AOL® Search, etc. when searching for content on the [...]
17Sep Design Process and Evaluation of your website
There are several usability-related issues, methods, and procedures that require careful consideration when designing and developing Web sites. The most important of these are presented in this chapter, including ’up-front’ issues such as setting clear and concise goals for a Web site, determining a correct and exhaustive set of user requirements, ensuring that the Web [...]
15Sep Optimizing the User Experience in your website
Web sites should be designed to facilitate and encourage efficient and effective human-computer interactions. Designers should make every attempt to reduce the user’s workload by taking advantage of the computer’s capabilities. Users will make the best use of Web sites when information is displayed in a directly usable format and content organization is highly intuitive. [...]
15Sep http://www.miamirealpropertyvalue.com
Miami Real Property Value
Experts Miami Real Estate Appraisers
Welcome to Miami Real Property Value.com. We are specialists in estimating the value of your real estate and the structures on that real estate property. If you are currently in the process of buying a home, selling a home, applying for, renewing, or refinancing your mortgage, obtaining insurance [...]
14Sep Web sites should be designed to ensure Accessibility
Web sites should be designed to ensure that everyone, including users who have difficulty seeing, hearing, and making precise movements, can use them. Generally, this means ensuring that Web sites facilitate the use of common assistive technologies. All United States Federal Government Web sites must comply with the Section 508 Federal Accessibility Standards.
With the exception [...]



