Using Images on Your Website/Blog

Posted by maiq on Dec 1st, 08 Filed under Internet, Tips, Websites   Tags , , ,

You can get more traffic from Google just by using images. If you treat your images right, they can appear on Google Image Search.
There are a few things you can do to improve the indexing of your images.

  • Use descriptive file names for your images.Name your pictures “picture_name.jpg” not “photo1234.jpg”. This helps Google to know what the image is about.
  • Use the alt attribute on your images.
    The alt attribute is what determines the text that shows up when you hover your mouse over an image.Here is an example:
    • <img src="path_to_image" alt="description" width="100" height="100" />

    The alt=”description” is the alt attribute. (It is sometimes called the “alt tag”.)

    Be careful to make this descriptive and not too long. For blind readers, this is what gets read to them in place of the image. For people with images turned off, this is the text that they will see instead.

  • Use captions or descriptive text near the image.
    Google also uses the text it finds near the image to help figure out what the image is about.
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Increase Your RSS Subscriber Count

Posted by maiq on Nov 26th, 08 Filed under Blogging, Tips, Websites   Tags , ,

Readers who subscribe to your blog can be some of your most loyal readers. When they subscribe, they are letting you know that they value what you have to say and that they do not want to miss anything that you write. Here are 5 ways to increase you RSS Subscriber Count.

  1. Create quality content - People read blogs for one reason - the content. Create posts that are clear and concise. You have about 5 seconds to get the readers attention. Make every second count.
  2. Ask your readers to subscribe - If you are trying to increase your RSS subscriber count, ask your readers. Make it easy for them. Make it visually appealing and provide multiple options.
  3. Get a custom website design - At the very least, find a free template that is not being used by every site in your niche. Your new template should provide easy navigation, load quickly, and be pleasant to look at.
  4. Make use of lists - If you look at the most popular blogs or websites, they all have one thing in common. They make use of lists extensively. Lists have a way of grabbing your attention. One of the contributing factors of eHow’s success, is the format of its articles…LISTS.
  5. Give Stuff Away - Of all of the ways to increase your RSS Subscriber count, this is the most effective. Create a small e-Book and give it away to subscribers. Hold a contest and give away money or entrecard credits to your subscribers. Make it fun!
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Search Engine Friendly Pages

Posted by maiq on Oct 28th, 08 Filed under Internet, Tips, Web design, Websites   Tags , ,

There is no point in building a website unless there are visitors coming in. A major source of traffic for most sites on the Internet is search engines like Google, Yahoo!, MSN, Altavista and so on. Hence, by designing a search engine friendly site, you will be able to rank easily in search engines and obtain more visitors.

Major search engines use programs called crawlers or robots to index websites to list on their search result pages. They follow links to a page, reads the content of the page and record it in their own database, pulling up the listing as people search for it.

If you want to make your site indexed easily, you should avoid using frames on your website. Frames will only confuse search engine robots and they might even abandon your site because of that. Moreover, frames make it difficult for users to bookmark a specific page on your site without using long, complicated scripts.

Do not present important information in Flash movies or in images. Search engine robots can only read text on your source code so if you present important words in Flash movies and images rather than textual form, your search engine ranking will be affected dramatically.

Use meta tags accordingly on each and every page of your site so that search engine robots know at first glance what that particular page is about and whether or not to index it. By using meta tags, you are making the search engine robot’s job easier so they will crawl and index your site more frequently.

Stop using wrong HTML tags like <span>to style your page. Use CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) instead because they are more effective and efficient. By using CSS, you can eliminate redundant HTML tags and make your pages much lighter and faster to load. </span>

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