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Designing A Search Engine Friendly Website
There are many factors that hinder search engines from ranking Websites for many keywords. When web development companies create Websites, often they do not create Websites for the search engines. Usually, they design sites strictly for Internet users.
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...or will the meta tags (description, keywords, etc.) placed in
the index.html file be sufficient to gain substantial rank?
I would say that depends on your Market and your choice of
Keywords. If your market is saturated then it's gonna be a tough
one. If you know the Keywords people use to Search for products in
your Market... I would say that's as good as it can/will get.
You can always Submit your site to the Search Engines in
hopes of being ranked high.
If it seems worth it... you can always go the Pay per Click
route.

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Making my website search engine friendly

Hi there
Hope somebody might be able to help me..
I am trying to make my website search engine friendly so that it lists the website, has a good ranking etc.
I have built my website with dreamweaver and some flash elements. I have used both flv content for streaming
video and swfs for information on certain pages.
The problem I have is that the website is totally built using AP divs with images inside (or the flash elements mentioned).
There is no text, unless it is contained within a jpeg, or swf.
I gather that search engines don't read images. So I have used alternative text for most of the
images, which I gather search engines, such as google, can read.
I have also used page titles, inserted html head tag descriptions and keywords.
Is there anything else I can do to make my website more search engine friendly?
Somebody told me that I should try to have hidden paragraphs of text, because it is important
that search engines have enough text to detect within my site..
Is is not enough that I have provided alt text for the images? Or should I include these hidden paragraphs of text..
And if so, how?
Also, some of my AP div images contain quite a lot of text within them.. I notice that when inserting the image
into the AP div, it gives you the option to insert alternative text OR provide a url with a longer description contained
within it.. How does that work? Is the url a html document with text inside?
Please let mne know if you have any ideas regarding any of this.
Regards
Sarah

Is is not enough that I have provided alt text for the images? Or
should I include these hidden paragraphs of text.. And if so, how?
Alt text is for web accessibility. Say your image doesn't load, alt="description" appears in the browser to give visitors some idea of what the missing image is. Similarly, Screen Readers express Alt text to people who cannot see images.
Will putting alt text on images improve your Google ranking? Not all by itself. Alt is no substitute for good old fashioned content inside HTML headings <h1> <h2> <h3>, paragraphs and lists.
Put keyword rich content on your site. Use Flash Object swapping to show Flash to people who have support for it. Everyone without Flash, including engines, screen readers and translators will get the HTML version. If JavaScript is disabled, both versions will display.
More on FlashObject swapping below:
http://blog.deconcept.com/flashobject/
Nancy O.
Alt-Web Design & Publishing
Web | Graphics | Print | Media Specialists
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www.alt-web.blogspot.com

Drop down menus / search engine friendly

Hi,
I've been tasked with creating a new company website and having it go live April 10th. I would like to use iWeb to get it done.
Are drop down menus possible with iWeb? To be clear, I'm talking about if you hover your cursor over a menu item; say products, a drop down menu will appear listing specific products and link to that products page.
The other main requirement is that the site be search engine friendly. Our current website is in Flash and is virtually invisible to search engines.
I hope that these questions haven't been answered by digging just a little further, it's just that I'm under a tight deadline and must get started.
I've been a Mac user since 88 and I would like to work on my preferred platform. I've got a decent background in design. (I'd like to not use Dreamweaver under this deadline) Our current website is www.rapid.com. It was made from a flash template that I was told to use so I made the best of it.
I'm going for a clean looking non fussy user experience, unlike what we have now.
Thanks for any help you may have.

As Massimo says, they are just fine in the basic sense.
The adminition you are familiar with was related to *any*
menu system that
embedded your actual menu links within javascript
'document.write' commands,
just the way the DW pop-up menus prior to CS3 does, and the
way the FW
pop-up menus prior to FW8 did.
If you can look at the HTML on the psge, and SEE the links in
the HTML, then
a search engine will also be able to see them, and therefore
spider your
site.
BUT - if you have sub-menus, and I have javascript disabled,
*I* will not be
able to access those sub-menu links when I come to your site.
Further,
neither will anyone with a screen reader. That's a
problem....
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> In the past one was discouraged to not use javascript
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new CS3 Spry
> Menus?

Search Engine Friendly URL Rewriting

Hi,
Has anyone done any kind of URL rewriting to convert the big, query ridden portal
URLs to search engine friendly URLs?
eg. Portal URL: http://somedomain/application?event=blah&pageID=blah&blah=blahblahblah
gets converted to
http://somedomain/pageID/page.htm or something like that.
Any help will be appreciated.
Thanks,
Parag

Filter your recordset based off text values for your table fields ex. field 'model' will have values Honda, Toyota, Suzuki, etc. and field 'color' will have values red, blue, green. etc.
The filtered URL will be www.example.com/?model=Honda&color=red to show all red Hondas in the filtered recordset.
Using .htacces mod_rewrite you can convert the above example to something like www.example.com/red/honda.html
http://corz.org/serv/tricks/htaccess2.php

Search engine friendly URLs

Is it possible to use search engine friendly URLs like http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource with JSP?.
Does any frameworks support this feature?
Edited by: SreejithS on Sep 15, 2009 10:07 AM

you may want to remap the URL to your jsps, like
<servlet>
<servlet-name>Foo</servlet-name>
<jsp-file>foo.jsp</jsp-file>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>Foo</servlet-name>
<url-mapping>/very/friendly/foo</url-mapping>
</servlet-mapping>

Search Engine friendly text in Flash websites

Does anyone know if search engines pick up text (selectable text) like they do on html websites to get better rankings?
Thanks in advance.
Shaneo

From what I've read page ranking is mostly determined by the number of links referring to your site and links from high ranking sites like youtube myspace, Adobe Forums are especially valuable. So if I put links to some of my pages here like http://jimslounge.com , http://charliegooddog.org or http://cybermountainwebservices.com or http://cybermountainwebservices.com/date/ then they might get a slightly higher ranking.

Implementing search engine on website

Hi,
can anyone advise me on how to go about implementing a search engine that I have coded in java onto a website? Thanks!

Without knowing anything about what you've coded, no.

Redirect - "Search Engine Friendly"

<%
Response.Status="301 Moved Permanently";
Response.AddHeader("Location","
http://www.moreproductinfo.com/index.asp");
%>
Was looking at a site that had the above code as a
recommendation to add
to a page to "correctly" pass on information to search
engines.
I thought it should go with my redirect but I end up with
errors in ASP
<%
If Request.Querystring() = "" Then
Response.Redirect("index.asp")
Response.Status="301 Moved Permanently";
Response.AddHeader("Location","
http://www.new-url.com/");
End If
%>
This is what the actual redirect looks like... It looked
right to me but
it comes up with errors:
Microsoft VBScript compilation error '800a0401'
Expected end of statement
/1.asp, line 262
Response.Status="301 Moved Permanently";
---------------------------------------^
Any ideas how this should be implemented? Do I put it on the
page I'm
redirecting from or to? Where on the page, does it matter?
Formatting?

yeah, you don't need the brackets :
<%@ Language=VBScript %>
<%
Response.Status="301 Moved Permanently"
Response.AddHeader "Location", "
http://www.mysite.com/new-page.asp"
%>
"danilocelic AdobeCommunityExpert"
<[email protected]> wrote in
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> Art wrote:
>> <%@ Language=VBScript %>
>> <%
>> Response.Status="301 Moved Permanently";
>> Response.AddHeader("Location","
http://www.new-url.com/");
>> %>
>>
>> This is the original script that I got off of SEO
>
> Ah, yeah, yet another difference between ASP JavaScript
and ASP VBScript.
> For the line causing the issue
> try:
> Response.AddHeader "Location","
http://www.new-url.com/"
>
>
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Search Engine-friendly while content copying blocked?

Hi all
I am trying to see if there is a way to create a PDF file that has "Copying content" blocked, without stopping a search engine from reading and indexing that content. is there any way to do this?
Thanks for any help you can provide

Filter your recordset based off text values for your table fields ex. field 'model' will have values Honda, Toyota, Suzuki, etc. and field 'color' will have values red, blue, green. etc.
The filtered URL will be www.example.com/?model=Honda&color=red to show all red Hondas in the filtered recordset.
Using .htacces mod_rewrite you can convert the above example to something like www.example.com/red/honda.html
http://corz.org/serv/tricks/htaccess2.php

:: Tutorial Announcement :: Building :: Advanced Search :: Application.

Hello everyone.
In this tutorial i will show you how to create an easy and powerfull :: Advanced Search :: that allow Visitors of your site to search through records and other members in your site.
This :: Advanced Search :: is give the visitor to search for members registered in your site, it`s very useful if you have dating site, because it provide the searcher the chance to search between number of records are matching same age, say we need to search about:
- Man looking for Women age between 18 to 30.
* the results will give us how many member are matching this search criteria
The estimated completion time for this section is about 15 minutes. It depends on your authoring knowledge with Adobe Dreamweaver and Developer Toolbox.
:: Go To Tutorials ::
:: Go To Online Demo ::

Hi there Waleed (or anybody who can help
My name is Charis
If you have time I would like a little help....
I have been following your tutorial "Building Advanced Search" Tutorial
It is great, Just what I am looking for ........ but I can't get it to work properly (work at all)
I am pretty good at Dreamweaver I can setup the rest of my site ok I can create databases insert and display data no problem
I can follow your tutorial steps 1,2 and 3 ok but I get lost in part 4 "building results page" It is all a bit over my head but I have been trying
I am having trouble creating the recordset, I can create simple recordsets no problem but I have never had to cut and paste anything so......
In yoututorial "step2 Copy and past into SQL Query"
I am assuming you mean paste into the 3rd text field on the recordset dialoge box, below the "name' and 'connection' fields
I can copy and paste the code into that field no problem
I am guessing that I have to test it and then the variable fields would be automatically populated.... but no....
I follow your diagrams and create the variables 'KTColParam1' and 'KTColParam2' and configure as shown in your diagrams (screenshots)
But in you next diagram there are KTCColParam1,2,3,4,5 and six and I not sure how to configure them?
And that is as far as I can get
Am I missing somthing? AM I doing somthing wrong?
Could you please give me a little help to sort this out? or update the tutorial with a little more detalail would be great
My email is [email protected]
This is the exact thing I need to get my site up and running so any help would be great

MX Includes (or whatever they are called after the take-over) search engines friendly urls - what am

Hi
I have a set-up with PHP, Apache (mod-rewrite enabled), using "MX includes" and I'm trying get it to work with "/whatever" instead of "mod=whatever" having removed the "mod" from the server behavior. In the database (includes from table) I have added a / before the url.
But it just does not work. When calling e.g. index.php/news nothing is returned.
What could I be doing wrong?
Regards,
Tom

Computer operation 101.
Get a bootable, external HD (preferably FireWire, since it's 40-50% faster than USB 2 and designed for data transfers), make a bootable backup/clone before updating/upgrading, using something like Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper!, and ensure that it's bootable and works like the original. That allows you to revert to the previous good state without having to reinstall or reset anything. See these for details:
http://www.macmaps.com/upgradefaq.html
http://www.macmaps.com/backup.html
http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/installswupdates.html
http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/backuprecovery.html
If you only have a Time Machine backup, ensure that you can reliably restore it to another disk/volume/partition before updating/upgrading.

Why does the website bar no longer show on firefox and why am i no longer able to get a search engine and firefox symbol/logo on each tab i open.

All the other versions of firefox used to have a website bar on the top and you used to be able to open a new tab and have multiple websites open at a time and on each one you opened get a firefox symbol/logo and a search engine or website bar however that's no longer the case I don't know if its the new version or not. I used to also be able to do a search and open multiple websites in multiple tabs however that's no longer the case I don't know if its a bug or if its something new with firefox or newer versions.

Make sure that toolbars like the "Navigation Toolbar" and the "Bookmarks Toolbar" are visible: "View > Toolbars"
* If items are missing then open the Customize window via "View > Toolbars > Customize" or via "Firefox > Options > Toolbar Layout"
* If a missing item is in the toolbar palette then drag it back from the Customize window on the toolbar
* If you do not see an item on a toolbar and in the toolbar palette then click the "Restore Default Set" button to restore the default toolbar set up.
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Toolbar_customization
*https://support.mozilla.com/kb/Back+and+forward+or+other+toolbar+items+are+missing

Registering .mac website with search engines

Hello! Does publishing a site to .mac using iweb automatically register your site with all the search engines out there? I would like to publish a website to .mac but I'd like anybody to be able to stumble across it on a search engine such as google or whatever. Does iweb or .mac take care of this or do I need to look after this myself? Simply by publishing with iweb to .mac, could my site be found if someone were to type key words or topic specific words into google?
Thank you!

This is a reply from .Mac Support
—"Why can't I google my website?"
Most Web search engines use programs called "spiders" to scan the Web for new pages to add to their search results. To protect Apple's customers, and in accordance with Apple's privacy policy, we do not allow spiders to access .Mac and gather data from .Mac HomePages. As a result, .Mac HomePages by default do not appear as search results in Google, Yahoo, AltaVista, and other search engines.
If you are interested in having your HomePage appear in a search engine's search results, you can visit that search engine's website to learn how to add your page's URL to their index.—
I have tried registering my .Mac site with Google and it has never come up.

How to make my site top in the search engines for a high ranking?

I am new at this, and I am planning to build a big site on iweb, but my question is where can I get information on how to make my site with high rankings? Would I have to post my site in lots of search engines, or have the hosting company help out? how do i do this?

As SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is important to you, you may want to consider alternatives to iWeb as "iWeb websites are not made to be search engine friendly" — read more here:
SEO For iWeb: How to get your iWeb Websites into Google & Other Major Search Engines
...iWeb is designed for personal sites and, as such, Apple apparently thinks there's no need for Google — you tell grandma the URL of your personal iWeb site, she painstakingly types it in and then gazes admiringly at the photos of her grandchildren.
Apple hasn't changed this approach in three iterations of iWeb but perhaps, with all the feedback it receives on this issue, there's still hope. Meanwhile, web-design apps for business sites tend to integrate search engine optimization — Sandvox Pro is an example:
http://www.karelia.com/sandvox/getyour_site_noticed_andb.html
Another advantage of Sandvox is that, when viewing your site in Safari, the text increase & decrease commands will work — they don't work for an iWeb-created site. ...For business use, it's important that customers don't turn away from your site because they consider your text too small to read.
However, if you still really want to use iWeb, this article may help:
http://www.iwebformusicians.com/SearchEngines/SEO.html
By the way, for more info about SEO in general, this blog of a web-design app (Yola) recently started a multi-part series on the subject — the first is here:
http://blog.yola.com/2009/06/15/seo-101
The rest of the series (in no particular order) can be found here:
http://blog.yola.com/category/seo/
And a video:
_Using Title Tags Effectively For Search Engine Optimization (SEO)_

IWeb Discoverable using search engines

Hello - how do you make an iWEB blog discoverable using search engine without paying to have it come up in search results?

+"iWeb websites are not made to be search engine friendly."+ ...Read more here:
_SEO For iWeb: How to get your iWeb Websites into Google & Other Major Search Engines_

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