Google has unveiled yet another interesting tool from their labs, its called Google co-op (also known as custom search engine or CSE). The tool finally caters to the needs of those who waited long enough to offer search facility on their websites. I gave it a try on my website PHPCatalyst, and it works like charm. Very easy to setup and full of features. I haven’t fully explored it yet but I loved the ease with which I could build
Continue ReadingRecently, I was searching for ‘basic unix commands’ and ‘tar -I option’ on Internet, and came across some websites which were totally messed up in terms of layout, design and content. The content was, of course, available in the site but then I had to do a ‘ctrl + F’ to search for those words on the page. This compelled me to write down some of the best practices that should and must be kept in mind while designing a
Continue ReadingDIY – Do it yourself! Yes, as simple as that. The website optimization techniques discussed in this post are very simple to implement and can affect your website ranking in the search engine to a great extent. The changes you might do in the site may take any where between 4-6 weeks to show up in search engines. First, a look at the quality guidelines by search engines. Failing to adhere to these guidelines can seriously damage the ranking of
Continue ReadingSearch Engine Optimization, better known as SEO is a technique or a process to optimize or tune a website for better search engine visibility. Why should you bother to optimize your website? you might ask. Read on… All major search engines such as Google, Yahoo! visit your site, read the content and then analyze it for listing in their engines. This method of search engine visiting your website and reading through your content is called crawling and a robot (pre-programmed
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