Tag: Root Directory
How to Prevent Duplicate Content with Effective Use of the Robots.txt and Robots Meta Tag
Posted on Jun.30, 2009, under Web Traffic No Comments
Duplicate content is one of the problems that we regularly come across as part of the search engine optimization services we offer. If the search engines determine your site contains similar content, this may result in penalties and even exclusion from the search engines. Fortunately it’s a problem that is easily rectified.
Your primary weapon of choice against duplicate content can be found within "The Robot Exclusion Protocol" which has now been adopted by all the major search engines.
There are two [...]
Site Maps: Let Search Engines Find Your Pages
Posted on Jun.24, 2009, under Web Traffic No Comments
With 40 million websites in existence, and more than 3 billion web pages indexed by Google at the time of this writing (July 2003), it’s no wonder that more and more people are relying on search engines to find their way through the unruly world that the web has become.
Nowadays, it is crucial to get your pages indexed by the most important search engines. To maximize traffic to your site, you must make sure that all your internal pages are [...]
PHP: Easy Dynamic Websites
Posted on Apr.21, 2009, under Web Design No Comments
PHP is the most popular scripting language on the web, and the
reason for that is how easy it makes it to create dynamic
websites quickly. If you’re already a programmer, you’ll be able
to learn the basics of PHP in about five minutes, and if you’re
not then it probably won’t take much longer.
Getting Started in PHP
There’s a tradition in programming that the first thing you do
in any language is say ‘Hello World’. Well, here’s how you do
that in PHP. First of all, [...]
How to Create a Favicon for Your Web Site
Posted on Apr.21, 2009, under Web Design No Comments
One of the simplest things you can do to give your site ‘identity’ and to make it stand out from other sites is to use a favicon (favourite icon). They are the little logos that go next to the website listing in your favourites folder, and pop up in other places, (depending on your browser and operating system). To see one, go to Big Wow Web Hosting. Bookmark the site, open another browser window and then go to open the [...]
Designing your website with change in mind.
Posted on Mar.26, 2009, under Web Design No Comments
We all know that our websites seem to take of live of their own.
As your site grows updating pages becomes more and more of a
task. This is where server side includes (SSI) can make your
site updates a lot easier and requires a lot less effort.
Visualize your page layout in sections. Most pages Usually
contain a top (header) section, a navigation system, content,
and then a footer (containing copyright info and date). Using
server side includes you can maintain each section in a separate
file [...]
.Htaccess
Posted on Mar.22, 2009, under Web Design No Comments
A .htaccess file is a file that works on Apache and other
NCSA-compliant webservers. The name is actually a bit of a
misnomer due to the fact that hyper-text access is only a small
function of what it’s capabilities are.
The .htaccess file affects the directory it is located in and
all directories below it on the directory tree unless there is a
.htaccess file contained within a directory, in which case it
will take priority for that directory and all directories
located below it in tree. [...]
The meta tag and the art of redirection
Posted on Mar.21, 2009, under Web Design No Comments
The meta tag and the art of redirection
There are many occasions when you wish to display your URL in
the form yourdomain/display.html but would like, instead, to
direct visitors to another URL, say
some-other-domain/best-mouse-trap.html.
For example, you are promoting an affiliate program with URL
your-merchant-URL/sales-page/your-affiliate-code, and you think
that the URL is too long, or you want to hide the fact that it
is an affiliate link, or you want to prevent people from
stealing your affiliate commission, you could use this
technique. You could even check how [...]
Web Site Redirection – How to Implement a 301 Redirect
Posted on Mar.15, 2009, under Web Design No Comments
You just created a new web site but want to pass on the
search engine rankings of the old one to the new one. What
is the most effective and spider/visitor friendly strategy
to implement your web site redirection? You should use a
301 redirect.
What is a 301 redirect?
It is used when you want to redirect your web site or web
pages. The code “301″ is interpreted as “moved permanently”.
After the code, the URL of the missing or renamed page is
noted, followed by a space, [...]
Some File Naming Tricks for Your Online Home Based Business Web Pages
Posted on Mar.07, 2009, under Web Design No Comments
Conventional Wisdom states you should use Sub-Directories to organize your web Pages. Unfortunately the Page Indexing Tools Penalize your Page Rankings when you Do this, Many of the Page Ranking Algorithms in use
today deem that pages closed to your Root are of a Higher Value then pages that are further away from your root. If you have 2 Web Pages with the Exact same content (web1.html and web2.html) http://yourdomain.com/web1.html and
http://yourdomain.com/articles/training/web2.html
All things being equal Web1 will have a higher [...]
Redirect Your URL Using META Tag
Posted on Feb.19, 2009, under Web Design No Comments
There are many occasions when you wish to display your URL in the form yourdomain/display.html but would like, instead, to direct visitors to another URL, say some-other-domain/best-mouse-trap.html.
For example, you are promoting an affiliate program with URL your-merchant-URL/sales-page/your-affiliate-code, and you think that the URL is too long, or you want to hide the fact that it is an affiliate link, or you want to prevent people from stealing your affiliate commission, you could use this technique. You could even check how [...]
