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Royston posted this in TipDrop on August 22nd, 2009

Folksonomies – new tagging strategies to share content

A new consumer phenomenon is called “tagging” or “folksonomies” (short for folks and taxonomy). Tagging is powerful because consumers are creating an organizational structure for online content. Folksonomies not only enable people to file away content under tags, but, even better, share it with others by filing it under a global taxonomy that they

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Royston posted this in WebTools on August 18th, 2009

How Do Search Engines Work – Web Crawlers

Search Engines use spiders to index websites. When you submit your website pages to a search engine by completing their required submission page, the search engine spider will index your entire site. A ‘spider’ is an automated program that is run by the search engine system. Spider visits a web site, read the content on the actual site, the site’s Meta tags and also follow the links that the site

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Royston posted this in SEO Tools on July 18th, 2009

Protecting Your Search Engine Rankings

Your website’s ranking on search engines is a vital element of your overall marketing campaign, and there are ways to improve your link popularity through legitimate methods. Unfortunately, the Internet is populated by bands of dishonest web masters seeking to improve their link popularity by faking out search engines. The good news is that search engines have figured this out, and are now on guard for “spam” pages and sites that have increased their rankings by artificial methods. When a search engines tracks down such a site, that site is demoted in ranking or completely removed from the search engine’s

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Royston posted this in SEO Tools on July 18th, 2009

Increasing Your Search Engine Ranking

The methods employed to increase your search engine rankings may seem like rocket science to you, so you have probably avoided dealing with this issue. I am here to tell you – the time has come to face your website! A high search engine ranking for your website is so essential that if you have the slightest desire to actually succeed in your business, there is no way you can continue to avoid this

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Royston posted this in SEO Tools on July 17th, 2009

Pay Per Click Advertising – enter the bidding wars

Pay-Per-Click is a simple type of paid advertising that most search engines, including some of the largest ones, now offer. It requires a bid for a “per-click” basis, which translates to your company paying the bid amount every time the search engine directs a visitor to your site. There is the added bonus that when a per-click site sends your website traffic, your site often appears in the results of other prevalent search

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Royston posted this in SEO Tools on July 17th, 2009

link popularity is so imperative that increasing it is a key to success

You’re probably wondering what the blazes is popular about a link! Well, in a word – plenty! Link popularity refers to the ranking assigned to your website by the search engines, and it determines the ranking your page gets when keywords are entered into a search engine. So, you’re probably wondering, how do I make my link

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Royston posted this in SEO Tools on July 17th, 2009

Selecting a Search Engine Optimization Company – careful selection can be important

A Search Engine Optimization Company can be an invaluable asset in your Internet marketing campaign. They specialize in knowing how to raise your search engine positions, monitoring those positions on the regular basis, and adjusting their strategies to account for undesirable results in any given month. Since this takes a lot of time, effort, and specialized knowledge, it can be in your best interest to go to an outside source rather than try to maintain high search engine positions on your

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Royston posted this in SEO Tools on July 16th, 2009

Evaluating Web Site Performance – key attention points to make your site effective

Setting up a website is the very first step of an Internet marketing campaign, and the success or failure of your site depends greatly on how specifically you have defined your website goals. If you don’t know what you want your site to accomplish, it will most likely fail to accomplish anything. Without goals to guide you in developing and monitoring your website, all your site will be is an online announcement that you are in

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Royston posted this in WebTools on June 3rd, 2009

Easy PHP Templates – tutorial in php programming – Take Control of Your Website

Demystifying PHP—Note from Ed: Hey – PHP shouldn’t be scary. It’s just like HTML, except it lets you do some nifty things. This tutorial shows you some basics and also has some samples that you can work with right away. Designing your websites with PHP templating is useful for managing your sites navigation, header and footer files independently from your sites actual content allowing you to make instant changes across your entire website by changing the one file. We design a template page with “php include” tags that will insert the content from whatever page it is set to call where ever you place the tag on your template

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