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	<title>Freelance PHP Web Developer London &#187; Resources</title>
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		<title>Backlinks &#8211; What They Are and How to Get Them</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 21:29:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rizwan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Backlinks are also referred to as inbound links; the key to improve a website’s position in the Search Engine Rankings. One way of getting at the top of popular search engines, like Google or Yahoo, is to pay lots of money for advertisement purposes. ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Backlinks are also referred to as inbound links; the key to improve a website’s position in the Search Engine Rankings. One way of getting at the top of popular search engines, like Google or Yahoo, is to pay lots of money for advertisement purposes. An alternate way is to have large amount of backlinks. Backlinks are simply links located on one website that links back to another website. If a highly rated website has got your link on its webpage, the greater chances of improving the rating/position of the linked website. If you get backlinks from high page ranked websites then your website’s position on the Search Engines can be greatly improved. The key here is to get backlinks from popular and highly page ranked websites.</p>
<p>The major problem or rather a common question is how to get quality backlinks to your website? For a webmaster, there are various ways of doing it. Some people prefer writing articles and the submitting their articles on blogs or forums or simply commenting on them and posting your website link at the end so that people may visit your website. Another way of creating backlinks is to submit your website to popular web directories like DMOZ or ‘Open Directory’; both of them are highly reputed as there is no automation in this directory; means that all websites are placed by human editors. The major issue for these directories is that it usually takes too long to get your website included in these directories.</p>
<p>One of the ways of creating backlinks is to use various Social Bookmarking websites available on the internet. Popular examples of Social Bookmarking websites are photobucket.com or dailymotion.com where people can make their own profiles and can upload photos or videos; Social Bookmarking websites are also referred as community websites. Social bookmarking websites allow the users to Bookmark their favourite websites on the site which can be tagged along with a very brief description of the website. This bookmark list can be made public so that everybody that is part of that Social Bookmarking site can see it and then visit it.</p>
<p>Internet technologies are evolving rapidly and continuously answering the questions that had been raised in the past. With the introduction of Web 2.0, obtaining backlinks has become far easier than it was in the past. Most websites today allow users to create their personal profiles. Most websites today include blogs or forums where registered users can make comments or include their own articles. Most of the time, the maker of the blog actively participate in the blog and make it look like a conversation. Using links in these blogs is a great way of creating backlinks that can improve a website Search Engine ranking.</p>
<p>Creating Backlinks is not a difficult task and it is a learning process for most of the webmasters as they keep on discovering new ways of creating backlinks and with the advent of Web 2.0, creating backlinks has become an enjoyable process and it helps in growing one’s own social network.<br />
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		<title>Advantages of using CSS in web design</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 21:23:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rizwan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[CSS or Cascading Style Sheets, as its name suggests are style sheets or a mechanism that allows web designers to structure their own web documents. With the help of Cascading Style Sheets, web designers can develop their own layout. For instance, web designers can structure the font, spacing, tables etc for their web document. CSS is a great feature that allows web designers to use the same layout for various web pages without requiring making changes for every page, however, for every web page, web designers can update or modify the CSS. ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h2>What is CSS?</h2>
<p>CSS or Cascading Style Sheets, as its name suggests are style sheets or a mechanism that allows web designers to structure their own web documents. With the help of Cascading Style Sheets, web designers can develop their own layout. For instance, web designers can structure the font, spacing, tables etc for their web document. CSS is a great feature that allows web designers to use the same layout for various web pages without requiring making changes for every page, however, for every web page, web designers can update or modify the CSS. </p>
<p>With the help of CSS, web designers can define the layout for all web pages in a single and centralized CSS document. Moreover, it really helps in creating attractive and dynamic web pages with ease. CSS is recommended for all those who want to do online business. In order to get the most out of the CSS, you must understand the potential advantages and standards of CSS. Moreover, you should also know your browser well and how it responds to the requests that you make. Once you have gained enough knowledge, then you are ready to take full control of your web page design using CSS. </p>
<h2>Advantages of Cascading Style Sheets</h2>
<p>A precise definition of CSS would be a mechanism of expressing or defining how to display various html elements in a web page. Html elements can be displayed using various styles; however, CSS explicitly define how these html elements will be displayed. Amongst many advantages, following are some of the most common advantages of using CSS: </p>
<p>•<span> </span>Smaller Size: CSS or cascading style sheets helps in saving valuable bandwidth by reducing the code and hence reducing the size of the file in comparison with old files using ordinary mark-ups. </p>
<p>•<span> </span>CSS files: All external style sheets developed by web designers are stored in separate CSS files and these files can control the layout of the html elements. Moreover, these files can control the layout of more than one web page without requiring having multiple style sheets documents. Instead of defining the layouts of various html elements like table, font etc again and again in a single html file, which results in increasing amount of code, a single CSS file can control the layout of entire website including multiple pages. </p>
<p>•<span> </span>Saving work: Today, almost all browsers support CSS, so it is always advisable to use CSS as it can help you in saving a lot of work which may be required if you don’t use CSS. If you don’t use CSS, then you will have to define the layouts of various html elements again and again for every web page included in your website. </p>
<p>•<span> </span>Better control of page structure: Cascading Style Sheets give great control over the structure of a web page. With the help of CSS, you can choose which information should be hidden from the web browsers and which information should be visible for the web browsers. CSS allows better control over the structure without requiring the web designers to use presentational mark-ups. </p>
<p>In short, CSS allows enough flexibility to the web designers so that they can easily control the presentation of the html elements used in a website. Mostly the colours, borders, font colours and backgrounds remain the same throughout a website. CSS allows the web designers to create a centralized style sheet that can be used for defining the structure of all web pages of a website. CSS supports forward as well as backward compatibility for browsers. Some of the examples of CSS websites are</p>
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		<title>Facebook: How it can benefit your online business</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2009 21:16:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rizwan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been through various technical forums about the facebook. Most of the forums had a discussion about a common opinion that facebook helps in directing good amount of quality traffic to one’s website; this is how I got interested in facebook as getting quality traffic towards my website means a lot to me. I got interested in Facebook more than other social network sites because of the distinction between simple traffic and quality traffic; the term which is associated with facebook. After reading all about that, I created a Facebook profile.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have been through various technical forums about the facebook. Most of the forums had a discussion about a common opinion that facebook helps in directing good amount of quality traffic to one’s website; this is how I got interested in facebook as getting quality traffic towards my website means a lot to me. I got interested in Facebook more than other social network sites because of the distinction between simple traffic and quality traffic; the term which is associated with facebook. After reading all about that, I created a Facebook profile.</p>
<p>After making my profile in facebook, I started discovering the benefits of facebook. I found that facebook, really, can bring quality and relevant traffic towards your website. For instance, you can use your facebook profile to promote your own or your company’s products. Moreover, you can target a particular city, country or any region as well; means that you can Geo Target your customers. You can advertise your product or make any advertisement using facebook applications. The amount that you have to pay for every ad is not too much; however, it helps in getting quality traffic to your website and improves the ROI. Facebook applications also allow you not only to target a region but it allows you to target a particular age group as well. You can customize your advertisement in the way you want. For instance, by customizing your advertisement, your ads will be visible only to a portion of facebook users; not all.</p>
<p>Another advantage of using Facebook is that you can promote your own product as if it is a brand. After reading the advantages of facebook, in the context of online business, all you need to do is to make a facebook profile; hang around and make some relevant friends and join relevant groups that share a common interest with you and advertise your product or services.</p>
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		<title>Making Search Engines Work For You</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2009 21:49:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rizwan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Search engines are the single most popular way to get new visitors to your website. They also bring in seven per cent of website visitors. All of that means that you have to take pretty good notice of generating search engine traffic if you want to make serious success of your e-commerce site.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Search engines are the single most popular way to get  new visitors to your website. They also bring in seven per cent of website  visitors. All of that means that you have to take pretty good notice of  generating search engine traffic if you want to make serious success of your  e-commerce site.</p>
<p>You don’t need to know too much about website  building to make a success of it, though. There are many software packages that  allow even a complete beginner to write very good static pages in HTML. This is  the most effective way to get search engines to notice you.</p>
<p><strong>Even a short time spent</strong>promoting your commercial website to the most well known search  engines will be likely to generate a lot of traffic. Google is the most  commonly used search engine in the UK, but Yahoo! And MSN run it a close second and third.</p>
<p>In building your commercial website you need to be aware  that most people browsing the internet will only look at one or two pages on  the search engine results, so to get noticed, your website needs to be in the  Top 20 for these search engines, to be noticed and get significant traffic.</p>
<p>So, with that in mind, here is how to get your website – or  at least its homepage – into the top twenty results on the search engines.</p>
<ol>
<li>Select a couple or three  keyword phrases that you know that people are using to browse for when they  look for the kind of product or service that you offer. You should make your  keyword term specific, so that not too many results are returned that you need  to compete with for front page rankings. You should also use terms rather than  single keywords. You can test out the popularity of your search terms by  searching for them on Google and finding out how many websites are listed.</li>
<li>It is also important not to try  to include too many keyword phrases on each page. You can always write more  pages for other keyword phrases. You could take a look at what keywords  competitors’ websites are targeting. It isn’t necessarily a good idea to use  all the same keyword phrases but at least they will give you some guidance.</li>
<li>Each page of your website  should have a header section. You need to put meta descriptions in these  headers and ensure that they are written using your targeted keyword phrases.</li>
<li>Your tags for each website page  should be of approximately 7-8 words. They should include the keywords you are  targeting in that particular web page. For example, on a website called ‘JayBee  Journo’ a meta tag for the keyword phrase   ‘ copyrighting services&#8217; may be set up accordingly:</li>
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<p>&lt;head&gt;</p>
<p>&lt;title&gt;JayBeeJourno: &lt;/title&gt;</p>
<p>&lt;meta name=&#8221;description&#8221; content=&#8221;copyrighting services, for  all your writing needs&#8221; / &gt;</p>
<p>&lt;meta name=&#8221;keywords&#8221; content=copywriting services, writing&#8221;  / &gt;</p>
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<li>You should make sure that all  the keyword phrases that you use appear naturally in page text, an they should  appear at least four times per page, with the first occurrence being near the  beginning.</li>
<li>Include your keyword phrases in  the Alt text which is attached to the images in your website, such as:</li>
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<p>&lt;img src=&#8221;writing.gif&#8221;  alt=&#8221; copyrighting services, writing &#8221; / &gt;</p>
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<li>You should actively build one-way  and reciprocal links to relevant, high-ranking sites, which will boost your  website’s search engine rankings.</li>
<li>Never try to sneak in your  keyword phrases in white text or tiny letters hoping they won’t be seen because  you hope search engines will be more likely to find you. Most major search  engines will penalize you for this black hat tactic and they will rank you  lower and may even ban your website from their search engine listings.</li>
<li>Never use frames because these  are difficult for search engine spiders to crawl and to recognize. Even if you  have great content with expert use of SEO&lt; you won’t be ranked highly this  way.</li>
<li>Your website pages should always be manually submitted your pages to  search engines. Here are a list of the main ones, but be aware that you have to  pay to list your website on some search engines.</li>
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<li>AltaVista</li>
<li>Ask.com</li>
<li>Google</li>
<li>GoTo</li>
<li>HotBot</li>
<li>Looksmart</li>
<li>MSN</li>
<li>Open        Directory (http://dmoz.org/)</li>
<li>Yahoo</li>
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<p>There are several free services through which you can see  your website’s rankings. You can find these by entering &#8216;free position checker&#8217;  into a search engine.</p>
<p>There is just as much art in search engine optimisation as  there is science. Nothing is guaranteed and it can involve trial and error.  However frustrating they are, you need to take good notice of search engine  rankings.</p>
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