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Generating Search Engine Friendly Titles for your URL

May 12th, 2009 Gertjan No comments

For most dynamic websites you will want to create “Search Engine Friendly” or “User Friendly” URLs, rather than using ugly and meaningless strings or IDs to reference your content. The way you interpret the URLs and use them to get your content is for another article and I won’t go into that right now, what I want to talk about is how to turn your page titles into versions that can be used in your URL.
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20 Excellent AJAX Effects You Should Know

February 5th, 2009 Gertjan No comments

Take a look at the following 20 Excellent AJAX Effects You Should Know, you might learn something from it.

There are a few special techniques or effects that can spice up just about any web page. These are the top 20 Ajax effects that every web developer should know. They’re essential parts of any web developer’s toolbox. If you haven’t seen them yet, you no doubt will in your future web development endeavors.

The 20 effects are:

  1. TextboxList meets Autocompletion
  2. Ajax IM
  3. LiveValidation
  4. Inline Editing
  5. Ajax Upload
  6. Fancy Upload
  7. ClickHeat Clicks Heatmap
  8. Ajax Mail Form
  9. Ajax Directory Manager
  10. Ajax Email Client
  11. Improve Form Usability with Auto Messages
  12. qGallery
  13. Ajax Star Rating
  14. CakePHP Ajax Form
  15. Amberjack Site Tours
  16. Prototype UI
  17. JCrop
  18. jQuery Auto-tabbing Plugin
  19. Sort Table Rows with Ajax
  20. DrasticMap

Link: 20 Excellent AJAX Effects You Should Know

What is the color of your website?

August 14th, 2008 Gertjan No comments

Psychology behind the colors that can make or break your website’s success.

Did you know that the values associated with colors can have a significant impact on your website’s success? And did you know that you can change your visitor’s feeling, mood and reaction by using different colors on your website?
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5 Reasons Why Headlines Are Crucial To Your Website’s Success

August 14th, 2008 Gertjan 1 comment
By: Robert Boduch

With such visual and sequential prominence, it’s little wonder why headlines are the number one key to an effective web site.

Without a powerful lead, your message stands little chance of being noticed in an increasingly competitive marketplace. If your headline doesn’t capture attention and pull prospects into your sales copy, than your marketing effort is a total waste of energy and resources.

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Meta tag optimization results in high search engine ranking

August 14th, 2008 Gertjan No comments

I was compelled to publish this article after noticing several SEO specialists writing in reference to meta tags being dead or obsolite. Meta tags are not dead. I will be the first to say, meta tags are utilized by all major search engines and are very much in use and extremely important to search engine ranking. If you need proof of how important meta tags are, try removing your meta tags and watch what happens to your search engine positioning. Your site will plummet to the depths of the unvisited web. Meta tags are frequently an overlooked factor which can improve the ranking of most any website.
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Generate Traffic from Search Engines

August 14th, 2008 Gertjan No comments
By: Wayne Robinson

Traffic — And lots of it! It is the dream of every netrepreneur. After all, without steady stream of visitors — or should I say “potential customers” to your web site, how will you earn your e-fortune?
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Four Critical Web Design Rules

August 14th, 2008 Gertjan No comments

“Content is King! If you want a website to generate back-links and have quality content the search engines love, be sure to make it readable by both people and search engines. Search engines are working to give people quality results. Thus, they are looking for sites with quality content. So – by building site content for people, not only are you getting back to basics (information dissemination to people via the Internet), you are creating a site search engines will love. So, build sites for people – and the search engines will come.
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Search Engine Optimization – A Beginner’s Guide

August 14th, 2008 Gertjan No comments

Getting your site listed in the top search engines, such as Google, Yahoo, or MSN is no small job. There is lots of work that needs to be done to guarantee the highest placement possible, and even more work is needed to keep your ranking for any period of time. Here are some simple tips and strategies to keep your site listed, and listed well, without spending any extra cash on pay per clicks.
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Understanding Google’s Algorithm

August 14th, 2008 Gertjan No comments

What is the Google Algorithm?

An algorithm is a mathematical equation that uses certain information from your website in order to define its rankings. If you’re looking for a printout of the specific equation Google uses to rank sites and how much each factor is weighed, this is not the place to get it. The actual algorithm used by Google is a secret, and will stay that way for as long as they can keep it. Although the specifics of the algorithm are not released at all, Google patented the basics of their algorithm, which makes it easily accessible to the public. If you would like to view the patent in all its splendor, simply search in whatever search engine you would like for the phrase “Google Patent.”

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What Is Page Rank?

July 28th, 2008 Gertjan No comments

Page ranks are defined numerically, from 1 through 10 – 10, being the highest. Very few pages have a page rank of 10, and anything above a 6 is considered very good. There are many factors that determine a page’s rank, but the main variable seems to be based on how many websites link to your page. The higher page ranked sites that link to your site, the better. In other words, 10 links to your page from high ranking sites like CNN.com, Yahoo.com, etc, will easily outweigh five times that amount of links from unknown sites with low page ranks. And, just to make it trickier, the amount of “credit” your site gets from incoming links, is also divided by the amount of sites you link OUT to.
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