Archive for September, 2006
Friday, September 29th, 2006
SEO: Friday Tip - Character Limits
Welcome to Friday everyone!
Here is a bit of information regarding character limits on <Title> tags.
As you should already know if you are reading this, the Title tag is what gets displayed in the blue bar at the top of your browser window as well as the Title that is displayed on search engines like [...]
No Comments » - Posted in SEO by Steve Terjeson
Thursday, September 28th, 2006
News: Invisalign To Own OrthoClear for $10M
Today Align Technologies, the inventor of Invisalign(r) announced that it has signed a Binding Settlement Term Sheet with OrthoClear which states that OrthoClear will no longer accept new patient cases for treatment and will transfer all rights to Align Technologies.
This seemingly ends the legal court battles between the two competing makers of invisible teeth [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in News by Steve Terjeson
Wednesday, September 27th, 2006
Google: PPC Positioning Changes
Lengthy article about PPC and Google’s stance on the positioning and listing.
Topics of relevance: Ranking ads based on performance in the “blue” and sponsored links areas are getting modified. This is to promote sites it finds users like more than others basically.
No Comments » - Posted in Google, News by Steve Terjeson
Wednesday, September 27th, 2006
SEO: Optimize Around Flash or Dynamic Content
SEO Tip: Optimize Around Flash or Dynamic Content
Having a brand new visually stunning website these days seems to be the new trend. Designers want to show off their skill and promote a site to the pleasure of the audience. Fun or dynamic features make the site interesting and interactive. But what happens when you need [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in Code Samples, SEO by Steve Terjeson
Wednesday, September 27th, 2006
Blog Update
I added the mod_rewrite to help make things a bit more understandable for everyone. Having the post title instead of a random number should make things a lot easier and friendlier to use.
No Comments » - Posted in Blog by Steve Terjeson
Wednesday, September 27th, 2006
SEO Updates
Worked on a couple clients websites today and modified the optimization based on the SE performance. Dr. Frank Grimaldi, Dentist in San Francisco is being optimized for his sedation dentistry specialty as well as for general dentistry in San Francisco. Dr. Kelly Mitchell, Orthodontist in Greensboro and Kernersville, NC has an older site that has [...]
No Comments » - Posted in News by Steve Terjeson
Wednesday, September 27th, 2006
AJAX: Mozilla Dev Center: AJAX Getting Started
This article guides you through the AJAX basics and gives you two simple hands-on examples to get you started.
No Comments » - Posted in Code Samples, Programming by Steve Terjeson
Tuesday, September 26th, 2006
PHP: Generate XML File From MySQL Records
How to generate a XML file from a MySQL database.
Create a database and name is db_toxml. Create a table in the database and name it tbl_mysqltoxml. Now create four fields in the table. The fields are as follows:
xml_tutorial_id: autoinc.
xml_tutorial_title: (varchar - 100)
xml_tutorial_link: (varchar - 250)
xml_tutorial_description: mediumtext
[php]
No Comments » - Posted in Code Samples by Steve Terjeson
Tuesday, September 26th, 2006
O’Reilly Code Search
This Code Search beta search engine released by O’Reilly searches through over 700 O’Reilly books which means there are over 123,000 examples and 2.6 million lines of code.
The search results page works quite well with the condensed view and the full view code options inline with the results.
The downside to the search capability [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Code Samples, Programming by Steve Terjeson
Tuesday, September 26th, 2006
Network Solutions Downtime
Network Solutions website (www.networksolutions.com) and customer access has been down for several hours this morning. The main domain name resolves a page with:“Site BusyWe’re sorry, but our site is temporarily taking no more connections. We are working to resolve this problem, and should have it fixed shortly. Please return later.”
The alternate domain name www.netsol.com does [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in News by Steve Terjeson
Friday, September 22nd, 2006
ActionScript 3.0 Links (200)
Tons of links to Adobe ActionScript 3.0 code and samples.
1 Comment » - Posted in Programming by Steve Terjeson
Friday, September 22nd, 2006
SEO for AJAX
From the Search Engine Watch Forums:
“AJAX is kind of like Flash - it looks and acts kind of like a webpage,
but it’s actually a program. As such, it’s not search-friendly.
Like Flash, there are methods to make parts of it show up, or to
provide alternative content. Also like Flash, much of it’s
functionality is based on the [...]
