Archive for May, 2008

Search Engine Optimization

Sunday, May 25th, 2008

Search Engine Optimization is a process of choosing the most appropriate phrases targeted keywords related to your site and ensure that the rank of your site in search engines so high that when someone looks for specific phrases it returns to your site in mind. It essentially consists in refining the content of your site with the HTML and Meta tags and also the process of consolidating appropriate link. The most popular search engines are Google, Yahoo, MSN Search, AOL and Ask Jeeves. Search engines keep their methods and ranking algorithms secret, to get credit for finding the most valuable research and the results deter spam pages from clogging those results. A search of these may have hundreds of factors while ranking the listings where the factors themselves and the weight each carries may be changing. Algorithms can differ so widely that a webpage that ranks # 1 in a search engine could rank # 200 in another search engine. New sites need not be “subjected” to search engines to be listed. A simple link from a site will be created search engines to visit the new site and begin to spider its contents. It may take several days or even weeks from the reference of a link from a website created for all major search engines to start visiting and indexing the new site.

If you are unable to research and choose keywords and work on your own search engine ranking, you may want to hire someone to work with you on these issues.

Search engine marketing and promotion companies will focus on the plan of your site and make recommendations to increase your search engine ranking and web sites. If you wish, they will also provide ongoing consultation and reporting to monitor your website and make recommendations for editing and improvements to maintain the flow of traffic to your site and rank search engine above. Normally your search engine optimization experts work with your web designer to build an integrated plan from the outset so that all aspects of design are considered simultaneously.

Referrer Logs

Wednesday, May 21st, 2008

Reference logging is used to allow web servers and websites to determine where people are visiting them either for reasons of security or promotion. You can find out which search engines they use to find your site and if your client has come to a linked site. It is basically the URL of the page your link was followed.

By default, most hosting accounts do not include newspapers, but referrer subscribedd may be for a monthly fee. If your host does not provide a graphic report of your log files, you can still view the referrer logs of your website by connecting to the server using free or low cost FTP software, such as:

FTP Explorer: http://www.ftpx.com/
LogMeIn: http://secure.logmein.com/dmcq/103/support.asp
SmartFTP: http://www.smartftp.com/
FTP Voyager: http://www.ftpvoyager.com/

The log file is available on your Web server that can be downloaded to your computer later. You can use a tool for log analysis, as mentioned below, to create a graphical report of your log files so that files are easier to understand.

Abacre Advanced Log Analyzer http://www.abacre.com/ala/
Soft reference http://www.softplatz.com/software/referrer/
Log Analyzer http://www.loganalyzer.net

You can view the files using Word, Word Perfect, txt or WordPad files even if you do not have the correct tool. This information is crucial for your business and marketing plans and it is not advisable to neglect it.

In addition to identifying the search engine or linked site, from which the visitor arrived, referrer logs can also tell you which keywords or keyword phrases your client used for research.

As a sponsor of information can sometimes violate privacy, some browsers allow the user to disable the sending of referrer information. Proxy and firewall software can also filter the information of sponsorship in order to avoid leaking the location of private websites. This can cause other problems, as some servers block parts of their site to browsers that do not send the right sponsorship information, in an attempt to prevent a deep link or unauthorized use of the bandwidth. Some proxy software gives the highest address of the site itself as the target benchmark, which prevents these problems and does not disclose the user last visited the site.

Since the referrer can easily be forged or counterfeited, however, it is of limited usefulness in this regard except on a casual basis.