Yahoo Pipes is a cool tool that I have been look at over the last couple weeks.
It basically mashes up RSS feeds and combines them to allow you to work with the data however you want, from reading news to programming, flickr, and video.
Big link, but you can create your own and manage it differently.
I think it has some great programming value and web design value for adding content and such to a site. Fresh content daily from multiple resources to give to your readers! SEO Heaven.
Take a look into it, there is clearly possibility and value you can use to optimize a site and stay on top of technology.
You can convert the AdWords Editor template to this format then upload it to the conversion utility in Yahoo. It takes a little bit of work to match up the fields and fill in some of the blanks, but it is a huge time savings vs creating a full Yahoo upload sheet manually from Google data.
I recently was accepted into the Yahoo Publisher Network beta program. I really like how they have it set up. One unique feature I really liked seeing was the ability to add an RSS feed ad to your WordPress or TypePad blog software.
I added this to my AjaxKnight blog today, but I haven’t had much chance to test or play with it. I will be looking around for tips on how best to utilize this and letting everyone know what I find.
The interface is easy to use, not cluttered and the ad code creation section is dynamically updated with changes you make. I think the color selector needs work. I added a custom color but it is not displayed in the ‘preview’ box, but it does change in the code selection area.
There are some newer, free JScripts that can use to do some pretty spectacular effects for sites. Huddletogether.com has some great image viewing scripts, Lightbox JS & Lightbox JS v2.0, that have the look of flash, but are solely javascript. Scriptaculous also has some great effects to use for adding some slick effects to your sites.
JasonR let me know about a great resource for Flash, PHP, Photoshop and CSS tutorials [http://www.kirupa.com]. They include lots of video tutorials as well as code walkthroughs. They have a good selection of tasks that they walk you though.
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 traffic coming to see it?
A beautiful new site is not all there is to it. You have to have the foundation in place as well to support the web technology, search engines, and marketers who are the ones that really drive traffic to that new site of yours.
Flash is one of the primary methods of having a visually enhanced and interactive site. You can create some really cool effects and movies with it. Some other similar technologies include Flex, AJAX, and Javascript.
The problem with these lays in the fact that they leave little for search engines to see in the way of indexing content. All the text and link system is embedded into the flash movie or script content and relatively unaccessible by most search engines. (Google has been reported to be able to index some content in Flash, but I would not trust that too far.)
Before we start jumping into some coding examples and recommendations there are a couple things to consider and be aware of. There are a lot of “black hat” optimization techniques used by spammers and disreputable SEO firms that may get you to the top fast, but also run the risk of getting your website banned. All the examples here stay away from these techniques, or explain how to do the proper thing with the code.
NOSCRIPT Tags:
NOSCRIPT tags are basically a block of text or HTML code that is not displayed unless the user has a text only browser or has scripts turned off. Generally however this block of text is only seen by search engines. While not all engines rank this information it is good to have for those that do.
The thing to be careful of with the NOSCRIPT tag is that it is widely used by spammers for keyword stuffing. They will add large blocks of repetitive keywords to fool the search engines. What you should only do with the NOSCRIPT tag is add the information that is contained within your dynamic script or Flash file.
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The above is the headers and content that the user misses in the Flash and images. It is good to use the tags appropriately to get the maximum effect.
XML/RSS Data:
Another good way to link content in your site is though RSS feeds. You can embed a link to your RSS feed in the header of your site. This allows some of the new browsers like Firefox2 and IE7 to automatically give you the option to view or subscribe to a websites RSS feed.
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:
$dbh=mysql_connect ("localhost", "user", "password") or die ('I cannot connect to the database because: ' . mysql_error());
mysql_select_db ("db_toxml");
$sql="SELECT * FROM tbl_mysqltoxml ORDER BY xml_tutorial_id DESC LIMIT 0,10";
$results = mysql_query($sql);
$number = mysql_num_rows($results);
$i=0;
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 is that you cannot search on topical results such as “ajax” unless it is labeled in the code itself, perhaps in the # comments # section.
