The proper way to use the robots.txt file

Written by Jimmy Whisenhunt


When optimizing your web site most webmasters don’t consider usingrepparttar robots.txt file. This is a very important file for your site. It letrepparttar 132328 spiders and crawlers know what they can and can not index. This is helpful in keeping them out of folders that you do not want index likerepparttar 132329 admin or stats folder or content that they can not index.

Here is a list of variables that you can include in a robots.txt file and there meaning:

1)User-agent: In this field you can specify a specific robot to describe access policy for or a “*” for all robots more explained in example. 2)Disallow: Inrepparttar 132330 field you specifyrepparttar 132331 files and folders not to include inrepparttar 132332 crawl. 3)#repparttar 132333 number sign represents comments

3 Tips You Can Use Right Now to Improve Your Web sites Usability

Written by Jason Mann


Studies done by Jakob Nielsonrepparttar man touted as the, “King of usability” by Internet Magazine showed that people do not read onrepparttar 132326 web like they would normally read offline.

So what does this mean to you and why should you care?

Visitors to your web sites are in a rush, they wantrepparttar 132327 information you promised and they want it NOW.

If they don’t getrepparttar 132328 information they want they will leave and this means you loserepparttar 132329 sale,repparttar 132330 opt-in or whatever action you wantrepparttar 132331 visitor to take while at your site.

The following 3 tips will help you give your visitors what they want and in a way that will increase your web sites usability.

1. Concise Text

By keeping your paragraphs down to one single idea you can help speed up how your visitor absorbs your information.

For example, instead of:

“In today’s market place many people tend to become overwhelmed withrepparttar 132332 over hyped and highly charged writing that most web sites employ to gain visitors business. This causes people to be turned off byrepparttar 132333 sites language and ultimately they will clickrepparttar 132334 back button on their browser and leave.”

Why not say,

“Today more than ever people are turned off by over hyped marketing language of websites they visit and because of this frustration they will end up leaving your site.”

See how that short, torepparttar 132335 point paragraph saysrepparttar 132336 same thing but quicker?

Go through your home page first and take out long, multiple thought paragraphs and edit them down to be precise. One idea per paragraph once you finish your thought (in 3-4 lines) start another paragraph.

2. Scannable Text

Web site users do not read online text. They scan it.

Use short bold text, for example inrepparttar 132337 form of a hyperlink, to make important information stick out fromrepparttar 132338 page.

Bullet lists are an invaluable tool as well. Put your important sets of words in bullets. For example instead of,

“You will learn how to create your own web site, design pages that load faster, pickrepparttar 132339 right color scheme, and improve your sites navigation.”

Use this,

“You will learn:

How to create your own web site

Design pages that load faster

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