maiq 
Dec 1st, 08
Internet, Tips, Websites 
Internet, SEO, Tips, Websites
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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maiq Oct 28th, 08
Internet, Tips, Web design, Websites Internet, SEO, Websites
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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maiq Oct 16th, 08
Internet, Web design, Websites Internet, Web design, Websites
If you want to keep your reader on the page, or even attract new readers, you need to provide some eye-candy to keep them on the page. Plain text is such a turn-off when it comes to presenting anything, and it doesn’t matter how good or important the text is, unless it’s an academic text or novel. images help keep readers on the page and give readers a more pleasant and memorable experience than just plain text would.
Well tagged images will also increase your search engine ratings as well as bringing in visitors searching for images associate with your tags. Even If you are not using your own hosting or html to display images, simpluy giving them an appropriate name will help your ranking rise.
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