Archive for March, 2005

CSS: Absolute Positioning

Monday, March 21st, 2005

Here are a few tutorials that cover “Absolute Positioning” with CSS.

Tutorial: CSS Positioning
W3Scools: The position property
MSDN: About Element Positioning
HTML Tutorials: CSS Layout

Google LocalRank

Friday, March 18th, 2005

Here are a couple links to information about LocalRank:
-LocalRank: Google’s 2 rankings & you
-LocalRank: Forum Post
-LocalRank: Patent

Search Engine Ranking Factors

Monday, March 14th, 2005

Source: SEOMOZ.org

http://www.seomoz.org/articles/search-ranking-factors.php

Search Engine Spam Reporting

Monday, March 14th, 2005

Search Engine Spam Reporting links:
–Google
–Yahoo
–Where To Report Spam

Checking Backlinks on Search Engines

Monday, March 14th, 2005

Google:
“yoursite.com” -site:www.yoursite.com

Yahoo:
linkdomain:www.yoursite.com -inurl:yoursite.com

Internet Connection Speed

Friday, March 11th, 2005

If you would like to test your internet connection speed here is a link to McAfee’s Internet Connection Speedometer.

Copyright Symbols

Tuesday, March 8th, 2005

Here is a page for Copyright Symbol Code and Images:
The Copyright Symbol Webpage

PHP Mail Forms

Tuesday, March 8th, 2005

Here are a few sites with information on how to build PHP Email Forms:
Email Forms in PHP
PHP: Mail Manual
Email - Making Forms
Project: phpFormGenerator
Form Processing Solutions

Web Page Review Tools

Wednesday, March 2nd, 2005

Netmechanic’s HTML Toolbox: This will provide information on Load Time, HTML Check, Browser Compatibility, Spell Check, and Link Check.

W3C’s Markup Validation Service: This will provide specific code errors.

Delorie’s Lynx Viewer: This will give you an idea of how your page lays out for the search engine spiders.

Web Page Analyzer

Bobby: Accessibility

Change Default Directory Page

Wednesday, March 2nd, 2005

If you want to change your default directory page from “index” to something else, and you’re on an Apache Server, with Mod_rewrite installed, you can add this code to your .htaccess file:

DirectoryIndex otherpage.html

You can also set it up so that if the default page isn’t found that another takes its place:

DirectoryIndex otherpage.html differentpage.html

Of course, use […]

Keyword Diffiuculty Tool

Tuesday, March 1st, 2005

Keyword Difficulty Tool

This tool measures the relative difficulty of optimizing for a particular keyword phrase by analyzing such metrics as number of results for the terms in quotes, number of pages with the keyword phrase in the title, bid amounts at Overture, and more.