More and more people are investing in SEO. Big companies are investing more and more into SEO. But, average everyday people are also putting their investment dollars into SEO.
I laugh to myself when I hear everyone in SEO talking about how the most important thing to improve your website's position in Google is backlinks. Now don't get me wrong, I definitely agree that building backlinks to your pages is important, but there is something that I consider much more important - and that is keyword research.
One of the trends that has been popular over the last few years is ranking your site for long tail keywords in your niche market so you can get more visitors without having to compete with the big competitors. In this article I want to show you why this strategy still works and why you should still use it today.
One of the best ways to get more visitors to your site is to use article marketing to make it happen. If you do it the right way, you can get a lot of visitors to your site and make a lot of money using this traffic source. In this article I want to show you the right way to get a lot of rankings in your niche market with article marketing.
Many internet marketers always find themselves on the loosing even after investing thousands of dollars in coming up with a flashy and appealing website. The main reason for this is because they tend to forget some of the fundamentals that make a website rank high.
Easily determining what objects are located in all your SSIS packages can be a challenging endeavor. James Greaves brings us a technique that can help you determine which packages might need to be changed based on objects you alter in your database.
When you think of starting a new online business make the authors area a frequent place to visit. Writing your own original content will brand your business. Submit your one of a kind article to only one directory and then write a new one to submit to another directory. Branding your business products and or services will create a structure of trust, when others see that you understand what you are doing.
A good optimization company can be found on the Internet. These SEO companies are proud of their qualifications, awards, honors, and reliability. These are solid signs of their dedication to their expertise and focus on getting "the bottom line". They also showcase why they are above the rest of other SEO firms.
I have a problem with my search in Windows 8. When I search through the Modern UI style (WinF) for files, it won't return a single result from none of my drives.
Searching via Windows Explorer works fine.
I had the same problem in Windows 8 Consumer Preview, but it worked in Developer Preview. And I looked on the net for other users with similar problems, but I haven't found anything.
Is there someone who knows what the problem might be?
I have a music collection and use sphinx for searching in it. Search mode is SPH_MATCH_PHRASE, but when I search f.e. for "B'Day" album - sphinx cuts "'" and searching by "Day" query. How can I force sphinx to search by exact phrase without filtering any symbols?
SEO is critical to having your small/local business being found online. There are services out there that charge hundreds or even thousands of dollars a month for this service and frankly many of them are worth that and more for the qualified leads they help send your way. However for the small business person there often is no budget for this so they have to have a more DIY (do it yourself) approach at the start. This article is the first in a series that outlines some basics before you start spending money.
In tracking down poorly performing queries for clients I often encounter the query text in a trace file I've captured, but don't know the source of the query. I've found that many of the poorest performing queries are those written into the reports the business users need to make their decisions. If I can't figure out where they came from, usually years after the queries were written, I can't fix them. First thing I did was find a great utility called RSScripter , which opens up a Windows dialog...(read more)
Carpet and furniture cleaning companies have so much to do and then they are burdened by having to determine what functions best to promote their web site. Normally the web administrator is not excited to do a single thing for them.
SEO can be broken down into 2 main categories, on-page optimization, and off-page optimization. On-page optimization involves the changes that are made on your actual site, like through a CMS such as MODx. Changing heading tag, title tags, alt tags, etc., are all examples of on-page optimization. Off-page involves anything and everything that isn't actually done on your site, such as social media, blogs, forums, etc.
Competing pages are literally the only one factor every one of the online businesses have in common, regardless of which business you're in. If you have got an online business you have joined the competition. In order to succeed, you have got to know the rules for effectively competing.
Though those who are into Internet marketing would like to know what the future holds for them, but frankly, it is very difficult to predict this accurately. Forget about the future of SEO, actually it is very difficult to even predict the future of Internet and computers in general. For instance, if 40 years back anyone had predicted that a computer would be sitting on a table of almost every home in the country, then everyone would have thought that he or she was crazy.
There is a site of ill-repute known as thedirty which has completely mirrored my site and now has links appearing on Google at the #1 spot using my content. I checked my log files and noticed that this site has been crawling mine for sometime, and also has 10,000 links from their site to mine.
I have blocked user access which is referred from this site and reported them as web spam to Google already. I also disavowed the domain.
How are they getting top links in Google (even overtaking mine) for such nefarious tactics? What are the steps to completely eliminating an issue such as this?
When it comes to getting visitors to your site from Google you have to realize that there is literally one thing that you can do to get more rankings that you are probably not doing right now. In this article I want to show you exactly what that one thing is and show you how it can help you get more rankings.
I have the following problem: I have a database containing more than 2 million records.
Each record has a string field X and I want to display a list of records for which field X contains a certain string. Each record is about 500 bytes in size.
To make it more concrete: in the GUI of my application I have a text field where I can enter a string. Above the text field I have a table displaying the (first N, e.g. 100) records that match the string in the text field. When I type or delete one character in the text field, the table content must be updated on the fly.
I wonder if there is an efficient way of doing this using appropriate index structures and / or caching. As explained above, I only want to display the first N items that match the query. Therefore, for N small enough, it should not be a big issue loading the matching items from the database. Besides, caching items in main memory can make retrieval faster.
I think the main problem is how to find the matching items quickly, given the pattern string. Can I rely on some DBMS facilities, or do I have to build some in-memory index myself? Any ideas?
EDIT
I have run a first experiment. I have split the records into different text files (at most 200 records per file) and put the files in different directories (I used the content of one data field to determine the directory tree). I end up with about 50000 files in about 40000 directories. I have then run Lucene to index the files. Searching for a string with the Lucene demo program is pretty fast. Splitting and indexing took a few minutes: this is totally acceptable for me because it is a static data set that I want to query.
The next step is to integrate Lucene in the main program and use the hits returned by Lucene to load the relevant records into main memory.
Having a well optimized website is a important key factor any small business that's targeting their local market. Coming up with a strategy or game plan will help get your products and services seen by your prospective buyers. Here's few tips to help optimize your small business website and promote your company website.