Keeping it clean could give you a boost.Written by mark white
Keeping it clean could give you a boost. By Mark WhiteEveryone is striving to be at top of pile, we all want to get a better google PR and want this to reflect in more visitors to our site. But after we have followed all advice about keyword placement and alt tags is there anything else we can do? I recently asked Tinu Abayomi-Paul well respected google expert from freetrafficdirectory.com if having tidy html coding helped. She told me that although there is no absolute proof that it helped she had noticed that site’s with good xhtml code often seemed to get a higher ranking . It is my belief that when spiders visit they prefer a clean house. So how do you know if your pages are up to scratch and up to search engine standards? There are a couple of sites that you can visit and get your pages spring cleaned for free so it’s worth a visit. The first site is site valet and this is in my humble opinion most useful as they use an online version of html tidy , program was originated by Dave Raggett and now at Source forge and it offers to tidy your pages straight off your hard drive, did I mention word free, yes this valuable resource is free. The big bonus for me is that if Tinu is correct then this site can convert from html to xhtml, what a bonus it could be to raise my google PR at same time as making my code better. The online report gives you a not to complicated list of warnings about missing tags, attributes and offers advice about what you could add or change for people with non graphical browsers. The magic is that site valet gives you your page code back in tidy form, just copy and paste code for a spotless site. As well tidy site offers more rigorous but more technical page tidy so if you know exactly what you want and are a techie then page tidy option is for you.
| | Popup Killers - Not just killing that Popup but also your Revenue!Written by Jason Hulott
With increased use of popups on sites - when you enter, when you leave, while you are there - Popup killers (or stoppers) are all rage. Companies use Popup killers as a marketing tool for frustrated webusers - they kill Popup, webuser uses their service be it as an ISP or Toolbar. New ISP Disks, Toolbars, and Browsers all now come with some form of Popup killer. While we all want to stop frustration of having several popups being delivered while surfing around web, to webmaster a Popup killer can totally kill a site's normal functionality. ** What do I mean? If I said rename a Popup killer to a Javascript killer,(which is how some Popup killers work), then you will get thegist! With some SEOs advocating hiding links that they don't want a search engine to spider or to hide affiliate links within Javascript functions, having a user visit your site with a Popup killer enabled could kill more than that annoying Popup. It could mean that when a user clicks on your apply button or affiliate link, it won't work! The user can click on it as often as they like. It won't work!
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