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Server side includes are widely used these days in web design, Lots of forums, large template based sites etc use Server side includes for better editing of certain pages, Many people have doubt whether Server side includes AKA SSI cause any problem for search engine crawlers, From our extensive experience NO, server side coding are done server side, what ever is parsed to the browser only matters, Lots of search engine crawlers like googlebot ( google's crawler ) , yahoo slurp ( yahoo's crawler ) , MSNbot ( MSN's crawler) are sophisticated enough to parse good html from complex server side coding, All these crawlers read clear html and they dont have any problem with server side includes, Very important thing is the SSI code should be properly tested, if they are not tested properly server might not understand the coding and cannot parse proper html and sometimes important server side coding will be revealed to the browser, it is very important only good clean code is delivered to the browsers, Revealing server side coding of a site might reveal important sql coding which might result in an attack on the server, SSI code is never a problem these days for top search engine crawlers, For search engine optimization and search engine promotion purposes SSI is not an hinderance, SSI helps in editing large sites easily, We recommend using server side includes in your coding since it will be easy for you to add links especially template based sites like blogs, forums, message boards, large news sites etc, SEO Blog Team,
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Yahoo's video search is an excellent product from yahoo, yahoo has introduced ways to search videos online, they use their web crawler yahoo slurp to index millions of video URLS and give that to their Users, yahoo video search is excellent, Today I was browsing through videos of yahoo and they have a huge database, I was very excited by seeing some videos which I had never seen before, though their product looks more similiar to altavista video search they have more videos than altavista used to have those days, Now altavista is owned by yahoo and we can expect some technology implementation of altavista into yahoo video search, overall yahoo video search is a great product, To read more on yahoo video search visit their help page, http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/ysearch/video/index.htmlAlso their search blog describes ways to include your own videos, http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000060.htmlYahoo accepts video URLs in Media RSS format, To submit your videos to yahoo video search visit this URL, http://tools.search.yahoo.com/mrss/submit.htmlWhat is media RSS?? "Media RSS" is a new RSS module that supplements the enclosure capabilties of RSS 2.0. RSS enclosures are already being used to syndicate audio files and images. Media RSS extends enclosures to handle other media types, such as short films or TV, as well as provide additional metadata with the media. Media RSS enables content publishers and bloggers to syndicate multimedia content such as TV and video clips, movies, images, and audio. From http://tools.search.yahoo.com/mrss/You can even to advanced yahoo video search visit the yahoo videos help page for more information,
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Log file analysis is very important in sucess of website,Log file information provides a baseline of statistics that indicate use levels and support use and/or growth comparisons among parts of a site or over time. Such analysis also provides some technical information regarding server load, unusual activity, or unsuccessful requests, and can assist in marketing and site development and management activities. Server log file analysis is also an important part of search engine optimization, it also helps in determining the best keyword that converts and best keyword mostly used, What's in a Log FileEvery communication between a client's browser and a Web server results in an entry in the server's log recording the transaction. In general, a log file entry contains: the address of the computer requesting the file the date and time of the request the URL for the file requestedthe protocol used for the request the size of the file requested the referring URLthe browser and operating system used by the requesting computer. What Can You Learn From a Log File?Data available from a log file can be compiled and combined in various ways, providing statistics or listings such as: total files and kilobytes successfully served number of requests by type of file, such as HTML page views distinct IP addresses served and the number of requests each made number of requests by domain suffix (derived from IP addresses) number of requests by HTTP status codes (successful, failed, redirected, informational) totals and averages by specific time periods (hours, days, weeks, months, years) URLs from which user came to the site browsers and versions making the requests. number of requests made ("hits") number of requests for specific files or directories How good are log files?We should be able to differentiate between hits, page view and unique visitors, not all hits and page views are visitors, there are good free tools for seperating the data that way, some are funnel web analyser, awstats, webalizer etc, For more information on tracking and logging visit this forum thread, Tracking and Logging http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum39/
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Javascript is a complex language which needs lot of browser understandable coding to make it friendly for browsers, Search engine crawlers are not too sophisticated browsers, they dont have high capabilities like Internet explorer or firefox in understanding Javascript, So best is to reduce the use of javascript in web pages intend to be search engine friendly, Large javascript coding also covers a lot of the page and search engines find difficult to index contents buried lower than the javascript, Best option is to add the javascript used for your site in an external .js file, that way the size of the page is reduced, Search engines like google used to crawl only the first 101kb of the html of the page, so it is important that the higher level of the page is well accessible by crawlers, Also it is best to avoid Javascript dropdown menus, rollovers, popups etc, Search engines find difficult to crawl these stuff, if you have a javascript menu best is to add text only links to your inner pages, that way search engines wont struggle in finding your precious inner pages, Googlebot google's crawler has recently been reported to crawl javascript, it is a great improvement but still it is in beginning stage, so better avoid javascript menus and avoid large coding in javascript, Use external .js files to reduce the size of the page, SEO BLOG TEAM,
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When i was browsing through webmasterworld.com the ultimate forum I found a thread where the thread starter was worried that his competitor using hidden text and the site was not penalized, Read more in this thread here http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum30/28211.htm Read answers of great experts like Brett Tabke, Ciml etc they have seen this all the time from newbies and they are taking all the efforts to correct newbies so called seo experts, One thing people should know that search engines are not for seos, webmasters or site owners it is solely run for end users who perform searching, Webmasters are just an other group of google users, Google needn't have to worry about how well they make webmasters happy, They just have to worry about their search users, If something is hurting their search users they will definetely take action on it, SEOs or webmasters neednt have to whine all the time that their competitor site is not banned by google or any search engine for spam( spam in seos mind ), According to experts search engine SPAM report for so called search engine optimization experts is simply a waste of time, A great expert gave a clean expansion for useless SEOs definition of SPAM, SPAM - Sites Positioned Above Mine.Dont whine if your site dont rank, Keep working on contents and backlinks, stop worrying what others use to rank their sites, An other expert clearly said "If you think sites using hidden text or hidden links ranks high and you cant outrank them, it simply means you SUCK at search engine optimization"
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There is a new way to detect rel=nofollow tag using the firefox browser, Detecting this tag helps in catching cheating webmasters using this tag in their directories and link exchanges, rel=nofollow tag can be highlighted in firefox by adding a simple line to the main CSS file ( usercontent.css ) which powers the appearance of the web pages in firefox browser, we have to find the path of the usercontent.css file and add a simple line so that the rel=nofollow link appears in a different colour, For Windows XP / windows 2000 users: C:\Documents and Settings\[User Name]\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\hmgpxvac.default\chrome hmgpxvac can be anything on your system, For PCs using Windows 98 / ME: C:\WINDOWS\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\hmgpxvac.default.default\chrome Open up your new userContent.css file and add the following line: a[rel~="nofollow"] { border: thin dashed firebrick! important; background-color: rgb(255, 200, 200)! important; } save the file, if above code is used firefox will automatically highlight links in red, You can highlight links in internet explorer too refer the attached for it, http://www.searchenginegenie.com/seo-blog/ie-detection-nofollow.txtSEO Blog Team,
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Google has introduced a new feature search the movie: This new search helps users to find movie related information, For example we can find reviews, movie related etc using this search, Movie: search also helps to find movie names you happen to forget, read what google says about movie: command, Just in time for the Oscars, we've created a new "movie:" operator that enables you to find movie-related information faster and more easily, whether you're looking for titles or actors, director or genre, famous lines or obscure plot details. Can't remember the name of that film where Tom Hanks made friends with a volleyball? Search for [movie: Tom Hanks talking to a volleyball] and Google will tell you: it was Cast Away. GOogle is reaching great heights and their new feature will be absolutely helpful,
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Automated submission are not good, Todays search engines are sophisticated crawler based search engines and they find sites based on links pointing to that site, Better and more the links better search engines will crawl the site, Automated submission rarely hurt your site, Search engines understand that even your competitor can submit your URLs repeatedly to search engines, So automated submission rarely hurts, but we have to avoid automated submissions, Just for self satisfaction we can do a manual submission and leave it to search engines to find the site, crawl it, index it and rank, Keep building links to your sites definetely all search engine crawlers will find your site, Avoid automated search engine submissions, SEO Blog Team,
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