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Optimizing a website for the mobile audiences

admin — Tue, 11 May 2010 10:10:09 +0000

Mobile communication is no longer something that most webmasters aren’t familiar with. In fact, webmasters may find themselves having visitors from mobile phones and it is best to optimize their sites to suit the mobile audiences.

A good way of doing this is by creating a whole new section for mobile phones. If the site is being run with a CMS such as Joomla or Wordpress, the task gets very easy but a static website may find it hard to be turned into a mobile website. Websites such as Wapple should help users integrate their websites for mobile purposes.

In addition to that, a good mobile website should have no flash available. This is because this feature isn’t supported in a lot of mobile phones and the iPhone is a good example of one. Any flash based page should be turned to a fully HTML website. However, with a Verizon iPhone coming out, expect users with high speed. Things may change with an iPhone 4g or the iPhone HD but on the mean time, stay out of Flash

Go against a framed website. They would look horrible in a mobile phone due to the constraint in the screen size. Try using AJAX instead or create a unique content instead of taking it from another website.

Try browsing the website first hand using a mobile phone and if everything looks great, then users will find little to no problem with the mobile website.

Typical problems while doing SEO

admin — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 08:53:16 +0000

If a person asks any people that do search engine optimization, the answer will always be the same – it isn’t an easy task and most often than not, a lot of problem arises while doing the optimization as well. Knowing what the problem is and trying to fix it may be the best thing to do so that the website will be properly optimized for the search engine.

One common problem that a person faces is the creation of sitemaps. Sitemaps are by far, one of the handiest tools while doing SEO. It gives the search engine all the necessary pages in a website that it should crawl thus eliminating the chances of the search engine missing a page. Most content management systems or CMS such as Joomla has their own sitemap generator but a static website might not have one. In this case, sites such as GSiteCrawler and Google Sitemap Generator can be handy.

Sometimes, to know how search engine works, the webmaster will have to be in their shoes to know more. Only then will they be able to fix most of their problems. One way of doing so is by going to sites such as SEO-Browser.

Secrets to a successful website and SEO

admin — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:36:32 +0000

A website is like a cake. A great cake has great contents and is baked just nice without overdoing it or doing it less. The content of a cake resembles the content of a website. If the content of the website is made with the highest quality product, it isn’t guaranteed that the result will be good. To make a great cake, the temperature along various other things needs to be controlled. For a website, this is the search engine optimization of a website.

There are ways of getting popularity for a website. It can be good and it can be bad. Bad PR can be attributed from spam or by giving out bad comments to others. Good PR on the other hand works if the person gives out excellent advice while still promoting their website.

In addition to that, try targeting long tail keywords instead of general keywords. After you have scored with the long keywords, try aiming for a shorter keyword until you get to that general keyword. The process may be slow but it would be the best way to rank in a diverse keyword.

Websites must be easy to access by both search engines and visitors. If it takes too many clicks to get to a desired page, consider making it easier by placing some links that would help visitors navigate throughout the website. Webmaster ego can potentially destroy a website so it is best to stop thinking about oneself and more about other people.