We all know there are many free amd convenient SEO sites or tools out there for particular functions and sites, but the SEO process can usually gets cumbersome and boring , expecially when you are trying to check the stats of your site on a couple of search engines.
I found an interesting SEO tool yesterday. It is a add-on for Mozilla Firefox which offers a collection of SEO tools for major search engines like Google, Yahoo, MSN (now Bing) and also the page ranking site Alexa.You can preform functions like check backlinks, indexed and domain links and on each site with just a single click.
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Here are the functions of the add-on: Read more…
What is robot.txt?
You might have heard of robot.txt before when you are trying to build a website or looking over a webpage’s root directory, but what exactly is this robot.txt? Robot.txt protocol, also known as the robots exclusion standard, is a file to instruct the search engine robots which pages and files to be indexed or ignored. Robot.txt can prevent disclosure of privacy from search engines and reduce unnecessary bandwidth load to the server. A web administrator can decide what instructions to give to the robots by filling in the robot.txt. Just like the META tags, robot.txt is not a necessary component of the webpage, but it doesn’t hurt to create one, as robot.txt will give the search engines an idea how should they treat your webpage, which might help your page ranking a bit!
Create your own Robot.txt
You can create robot.txt with any text editors, such as notepad and wordpad. There are only two fields in the text file. They are user-agent and disallow. User-agent represents the name of the spider/bot, while disallow stands for the directory or file you want to exclude from crawling. The basic format of robot.txt is as follow: Read more…
Meta elements are special HTML codes that contains the metadata, which is the”data describing data itself”. Unlike regular codes, meta elements do not affect the appearance of the website. Its purpose is to specify and provide certain information of the page such as author and copyright, identify and assign proper values.
Once the meta tags play a major role in the algorithm of the search engines. Although they are no longer the primary factor, they are still important to a website and good to have regardless, since they can give your page a unique description to the search engines. Meta tags are relevant for a successful website SEO process.
There are four valid attributes of meta elements. They are : content, name, http-equiv and scheme.”Content” provides the property of the meta information, while”Name” provides property name for the corresponding value. The”scheme” formats and interprets the property value.” Http-equiv” is used to indicate the property as a HTTP header for HTTP servers to gather informantion and respond.
The <meta> tags should always stay inside the <head> element.
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<title>Mavista - Web Site Management Solutions</title>
<meta http-equiv=”Content-Type” content=”text/html; charset=utf-8″>
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Here are some common usage of the meta tags:
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Social media is make up by a variety of components. Blogs, forums, media-sharing, networking…and these are all driven by the integration of human communication and connections. Making use of the technology, everyone can express themselves and share their thoughts through the social media platforms. Many businesses are trying to advertise themselves and gather data through social media sites – IBM even opens up its own social network site. Here are my 10 recommended sites for businesseses: Read more…
Alibaba is one of the biggest online business trade and retail platform site for small and medium-sized enterprises. There are two Alibaba sites aiming for different users. Alibaba.cn is a trading platform for traders within China, while Alibaba.com is an English language site specialized for international buyers looking for trades with China and other Asian manufacturing countries. The two sites operates independently , which means if a seller in China wants to promote his products to both International and China buyers, he/she have to register one account at each site and manage them separately (This review will be focusing on Alibaba.com) .
Users will be offered a “Website” for users to show their company information and promote their products. You could list the information of your product or services on your website. Premium users can create a customized layout for the site to attract visitors. Put in mind that a product will take up to a day to approve before it is going to be listed. Read more…
My first task is to setup an account at BT Tradespace, a young and rapid growing business networking service dedicated to small and medium businesses, provided by the BT group.
Everything is just like your regular social networking website, you can create your personal profile for yourself and your company, join communities, but most importantly, you can create your own 「Tradespace」. It’s a platform for you to promote your business by putting up your product information. The site supports Paypal, so you could actually sell your product through your space, there will be 5% transaction fee if you have successfully make a trade.
I specially like the uploading feature of this platform. Other than posting pictures and texts, The site allows users to upload up to 10 podcasts and 10 video files to promote their products or services for free users. I think this is an excellent way to show show your future clients what they are going to get from you. There is also a simple blog function for users to report and share the recent activities of your company. Read more…
In the past few years, online marketing platforms and social network websites are becoming ubiquitous, promotion for business is no longer a difficult task for a marketing newbie. Through the internet, the reach of your promotion could be easily extended to the planet in a second.
As an intern, I’ve been guided and asked to promote my company’s product, a CMS web design tool . Aside from making phone calls, marketing can also be done through the world wide web. At the beginning I thought it’s going to be tough since this is my first time doing any online marketing, but in fact it isn’t. I found some of the things I am doing is very familiar: Register an account at a community, posting decorative messages to attract visitors’ attention…Hey, Isn’t that just what an average teenager will do over the internet everyday?
Of course I did learn tons of new things . I’ll try to share my findings and leave a record of useful tidbits that I have came across during my experience here. I hope you will like it. 