Tag: Semantics

Link Building in Light of Vision-based Page Segmentation

Posted on Jul.03, 2009, under Web Traffic No Comments

The days of basing a successful link building strategy on link quantity and anchor text alone may be numbered. The link popularity theories behind PageRank and Hilltop remain important, but major search engines are continually adding new elements to their link algorithms to improve search relevance. One of these new elements is the concept of visual page segmentation which was recently proposed in a paper entitled “Block-level Link Analysis,” by Deng Cai, Xaiofei He, Ji-Rong Wen and Wei-Ying, available online [...]


Professional Web Development

Posted on Dec.30, 2008, under Web Design No Comments

Web development incorporates all areas of creating a Web site for the World Wide Web. This includes Web design (graphic design, XHTML, CSS, usability and semantics), programming, server administration, content management, marketing, testing and deployment. The term can also specifically be used to refer to the “back end”, that is, programming and server administration. There is usually more than one member that works on a given Web Development team, each specializing in his or her own field.
These days, almost everybody [...]