Archive for April, 2006

Checklist – Do’s and Dont’s before Website Designing or Redesigning

April 29th, 2006

1) Don’t make the users to guess or think. Always keep the UI decisions simple enough, so that users can make their decisions, without having to draw workflow diagrams or  without  making them  feel lost in  pages between you website.

2)  Very Important ,If you dont have experts who can give you feedback on you website, do the peer website walk through which means let your peer have a go at your website and tell them comment upon their experience.

3) Always have people easily figure, where they stand, in the current scheme of things. Implementing this principle would be as easy as having a page name at the top of the page, or in the case of a website, with very deep branches, have a clearly explained path at the top of the page.

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Uploading Multiple Files with PHP

April 27th, 2006

Today we will see how can we write a code to upload mutilpe files, this is pretty simple. You can do it using one file or one html file and php file.

Today will see how we can do it with a single ( please see I am not adding bells and whistles)
// Absolute path of location where file is to be uploaded and don’t forget to have CHMOD 777 for it
$fileDir = “absolute path to location”;
$intuploadcount = 0;
for ($intCount=0;$intCount<$numoffile;$intCount++)
{
//Check if the all the input box have data or not
if (trim($_FILES['file']['name'][$intCount])!="")
{
$newfile = $file_dir.$_FILES['file']['name'][$intCount];
move_uploaded_file($_FILES['file']['tmp_name'][$intCount], $newfile);
$intuploadcount++;
}
}

if (isset($intuploadcount)&& $intuploadcount>0)

print “$intuploadcount files uploaded
“;

if (isset($intuploadcount)&& $intuploadcount>0)

print “$intuploadcount files uploaded
“;

// echo “

“;
//for($i=0;$i<$filecount;$i++) {
// echo "
“;
//}
// echo “
“;
//echo “

“;
//?>
?>
Doing with html and php files is simple, you just need to create form in html and instead of using ‘for’ loop to generate box, you need to make different box and then create another file ( name it ) and in action of form give the name of file..

That;s it, it should work now.

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FAQ’s contd..

April 26th, 2006

a.) Why does Google hate me/pick on me?

A: “Google” does not pick on individual sites but instead allows complex mathematical equations to decide the value of your site in any particular search. Although it may sometimes feel like they are picking on you, most times a ban or bad results can be traced to a small piece of bad or misguided SEO.

b.) Google banned my website?

A: You can check whether you are banned in Google or not indexed in Google, by using the ’site:’ operator in Google’s search. For instance ( site:www.yourdomain.com)

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Google FAQ’s….contd

April 25th, 2006

a.) What are things to look for if your site ranking goes down in Google listing? ( i.e. I have lost the top spot, what happened?)
A: Most obvious reason would be a drop in backlinks. Obviously when you are not aggressively acquiring new inbound links to your site on a day-to-day basis, existing backlinks may even deteriorate in value or The referring site may disappear, be changed, lose relevance or lose PR itself, reducing the PR that is passed onto you. Thus resulting in dip of your listing.

b.) Should I submit my website to Google every month?
A: No, you only need to do it once. In most cases you will not even need to submit your website to Google. If you are active in building links to your website then Googlebot will frequent your site soon, and thus include it in the index.

c.) My site is not cached in Google, I’ve submitted it to google numerous times but I’m not seeing it crawl my entire site. I’m also seeing an incomplete listing.
A: Sometimes the googlebot will visit, and leave, only to come back at a later time in order to crawl all of your pages. If a site has no cache, or an incomplete listing, it has not been crawled and indexed properly yet. The best thing you can do is get more in bound links to your site, so that the googlebot arrives to your site from more than 1 source.

d.) When I look up my site in Google, I am #23, but when some in Sanjose looks it up I am #31. Which one is right?
A: They both are! Actually, a more accurate explanation is that Google using multiple datacenters that deliver the results you see. The datacenter that is used depends on your geographical location. It is very common to see a small difference in results depending where you are. Sometimes, results can differ when you move just a few miles away!

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Google FAQ’s….contd

April 25th, 2006

a.) What are things to look for if your site ranking goes down in Google listing? ( i.e. I have lost the top spot, what happened?)
A: Most obvious reason would be a drop in backlinks. Obviously when you are not aggressively acquiring new inbound links to your site on a day-to-day basis, existing backlinks may even deteriorate in value or The referring site may disappear, be changed, lose relevance or lose PR itself, reducing the PR that is passed onto you. Thus resulting in dip of your listing.

b.) Should I submit my website to Google every month?
A: No, you only need to do it once. In most cases you will not even need to submit your website to Google. If you are active in building links to your website then Googlebot will frequent your site soon, and thus include it in the index.

c.) My site is not cached in Google, I’ve submitted it to google numerous times but I’m not seeing it crawl my entire site. I’m also seeing an incomplete listing.
A: Sometimes the googlebot will visit, and leave, only to come back at a later time in order to crawl all of your pages. If a site has no cache, or an incomplete listing, it has not been crawled and indexed properly yet. The best thing you can do is get more in bound links to your site, so that the googlebot arrives to your site from more than 1 source.

d.) When I look up my site in Google, I am #23, but when some in Sanjose looks it up I am #31. Which one is right?
A: They both are! Actually, a more accurate explanation is that Google using multiple datacenters that deliver the results you see. The datacenter that is used depends on your geographical location. It is very common to see a small difference in results depending where you are. Sometimes, results can differ when you move just a few miles away!

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Google FAQ!

April 18th, 2006

Search Engine Optimization:

There are many question that comes to your mind when one thinks of SEO, In this article I am trying to answer few of those question. If you any question you can ask me at info@varshltech.com

1.) How can I use Robot file; can you give us an example of it?
Ans:- I believe you talking about robots.txt. It’s a file in the main/root directory of a website which informs the crawler/search engine spiders where they are allowed to go, i.e which all pages in the website they should crawl.

A basic robot.txt file is:
User-agent: *
Disallow:

You can disallow folders or files by putting this into the file:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /foldername/filename or /foldername
official guidelines and keep the number of links per page below 100.

2.) How can I find out how many people have searched for my keywords?
A: There are number of tools available on Internet, but the one that is free and very good is overture, Google for “Overture keyword Toll” and you will find it. The Search Term This Tool  will show you number of searches per month on Overture’s network.

3.) What are SERPs?
A: Search Engine Result Pages

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Components of SEO

April 15th, 2006

Components: There are three major components of search engine optimization that you should keep in mind and incorporate into any web design, written Web page content, coded HTML, and programming scripts for your site.

1. Keywords and Phrases – To optimize your site, you must strategically select and place words or phrases into your Web page content and specific HTML tags – the areas from which search engines grab words and phrases to build their indices. If you want your target audience to find your site through a search engine, your Web pages must contain keywords or keyword phrases that match the search queries of your target audience. Often, there are multiple words or phrases that mean the same thing. From an SEO standpoint, it is important to include all the words or phrases your target audience may use in their searches. The closer the match between your Web site’s content’s keywords and phrases with those terms, the higher you will be ranked in a result set.

2. Web Site Structure and Page Layout –The way you structure your web site and design your Web page layout will have a large impact on your site’s search engine ranking. This includes how you serve your Web pages (e.g., as static HTML or XHTML pages or dynamically from a database or Web script), the directory structure of your site, the names of your site’s directories and individual HTML or XHTML files, and the URLs you choose when selecting your domain names. Also, each Web page on your site needs to be optimized individually to most effectively present the content it contains to the search engines. Thus, the elements of a page’s layout, including navigation, site maps, graphics and multimedia elements such as Flash and QuickTime movies, need to be placed correctly on every Web page. Using W3C Web standards such as XHTML and CSS can allow you to place unique content for a given page above its navigational elements, while at the same time reducing the file size of these Web pages. Other factors that affect a Web site’s ability to be successfully indexed are the use (and sometimes non-use) of Image Maps, Frames, JavaScript and, most importantly, your Web page title tags.

3. Web Pages Popularity – Putting up a Web site is not enough to market your company competitively on the Internet. For your target audience to find you, your Web site needs to be found easily by search engine spiders/crawlers and then to be ranked well in search engine results sets for the keywords and phrases you have selected and placed in the content of your Web site.

That’s the end of “Basic of SEO”

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Basic of SEO…contd

April 7th, 2006

Page Rank

PageRank is in some ways related to link popularity, but the calculation is dependant on the quality and strength of the links your site obtained, not just the number of links. So, first question that comes into your mind is how does one go about building and increasing their Page Rank?. It is not as difficult as some may think, but surely require some research and effort.

Types of Linking:
Internal linking : This also plays a factor in the Page Rank of the pages within a site. The linking structure within the site should follow the themed approach to internal linking, which stresses importance on minimizing linking between 2nd and 3rd level directories and pages. Since the internal linking of your site plays a factor, not in increasing PR, but in sharing the PR of the site, and the dilution of your keyword strength and theme, it is important to review the internal linking structure of your site. Then there are modifications that could be made to improve the site’s internal linking.
External linking : is the largest factor in determining PageRank, and is the place where you have the least control. There is no way to force another web master to link to your site, especially when they already have a high PageRank. For this reason and many more, increasing your PageRank is difficult, but important nonetheless. When contacting other websites to link to your site in the attempt to build and increase your Page Rank, these web pages that you are requesting a link from should be relevant and of the same theme and market of the page that you are requesting they link to. Perform a search for your target keyword in Google, ODP, and Yahoo to start, and check the top 40 ranking sites. contact them and request that they link to your site. Be prepared for them to ask for a reciprocal link.

Your website and pages within your site must meet certain criteria for this to work, with one piece being the most important: the site and pages within your site must be quality content that people will actually want to link up to. This is one of the basic points of
SEO

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Basic of SEO

April 6th, 2006

Introduction
Search engine optimization (SEO) is an online marketing strategy which is used to increase a website visibility to the millions of people who look for information and various services on the Internet with the help of different search engines available on the internet. Search engine optimization helps rank your company/website among the top search results for a given query/keywords. This can dramatically increase traffic to your Web site and establish a Web presence for your practice. Among other things, SEO involves optimizing the page structure and layout of your website and the text that appears on it, as well as gaining links to your website from other websites, to help make it popular with search engines. Since the number of Web sites on the Internet increasing at an exponential rate, gaining top positions in search engine rankings allows you to market your company in a very powerful and effective way.

To be continued…….

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