Get Good Ranks through Search Engines

There are a few points you need to focus on if you want to get good ranks in the search engine.
In order of importance, here are what you should focus:
1. Keyword research
The idea is to find low-competition keyword phrase with good demand. Many people, especially newbies, try to optimize for competitive keywords and wonder why they never get to the top 10 in the search engine.
A simple approach is to type in a keyword phrase into Google and check how many results it returns. If it returns less than 500,000 results, you will have a good chance to rank well for that keyword phrase.

2. Link building
Link building is almost the "everything" of SEO.
If you are not a newbie, you would have read everything about link building.
article marketing
social bookmarking
web 2.0 sites
website directories
blog comments
press release
RSS
LinkVana
The game of search engine optimization is a game of link building, and the game of link building is a game of time vs money.
If you have all the time in the world, it is possible to do everything yourself. Else, you will have to spend money to get the chore done.
That's why I said link building is a game of time vs money.

3. SEO friendly website
I just want to quickly give you a checklist of things you need to take note in onpage optimization.
Use keywords as your domain name.
For every article, make sure that the keywords are in the title, first sentence of the first paragraph and inside the last paragraph.
Keywords in the title and keyword meta tags.
You should use the filename of the article as the filename of your webpage.

4. Unique content
Is it a must to rewrite the articles? My answer is no. But contrary to my answer, 95% of my websites are created using rewritten articles. I don't want Google to wake up one day thinking that they want to penalize duplicated content and suddenly my income becomes $0 overnight!

5. 'Beauty' of the website
Many people don't focus on this. What happen is Google measures the duration a visitor stays on your website. If the duration is long, Google will think your website has good content and it will reward you with better rank.
To get good ranks in the search engines, you need to focus on all the 5 points. Search engine optimization is not a rocket science. It's purely hard work and leverage. Most of the work are tedious, but if you know how to outsource and buy tools that can simply the work, you will greatly cut down your time on search engine optimization.

Good Web Design Tips

There are a few design elements that must be present if you want your website to encourage visitors to stick around and eventually make a purchase. These elements include using appropriate colors and designs, great graphics and pictures, a clean design, easy to read fonts, a contact form and good, informative text. Below, we will discuss good web design tips in more detail.

Graphics and pictures help to personalize your website and make people feel comfortable. They also aid in building trust. When people see pictures of people smiling, looking pleased or excited, this warms them to your website and product. They get the feeling that they are actually dealing with people and not a webpage.

Easy to read fonts are something that a lot of marketers and companies don’t give a lot of thought to. However, it is extremely important that the font that you use, the type and the size, is readable. If you use a font that is too small, readers will be forced to strain their eyes to read your text and may eventually give up. If your font is too big and decorative, this can also be a turn off. This is one of the many good web design tips that too often gets ignored.

You want to make sure that your website design is uncluttered. A messy design is annoying and confusing. People won’t spend much time at cluttered sites. This potentially means less sales for you. The longer that you can get someone to stay at your website, the more likely they will make a purchase.

Providing good information is also a vital element of good website design. A potential customer should be able to learn just about everything that they need to know about you, your product or service from your website. Your site should inform and give you a good opportunity to close the deal.

Providing contact information is also extremely important. One of the major reasons some people don’t’ make purchases at specific websites is that there is not contact information listed. Individuals want to know that if they spend money with you, they will be able to contact you if there is a problem with your product or service. You have to prove that you are not some cyberspace scammer. Therefore, it is very important to provide some type of email, phone or instant message contact information. Visitors may even want to ask you questions prior to making a purchase. Make sure that you respond very quickly or you risk turning away customers. Your website’s email should preferably be an email address that is connected with your domain name. Using a free email account might raise suspicion and hints at unprofessionally.

Use appropriate colors and design. Your colors and design should fit your niche. If you have a real artsy niche then it is fine to be a lot more creative in your graphics and colors. However, if you have a business website where your customers are more conservative, you will want to use graphics and colors that they would be most comfortable with.

Building a good website requires that include certain elements. The information given above are just a few of the many good web design tips that you can use to increase the conversion ratios of your visitor. Remember, to use appropriate colors and design, readable fonts, an uncluttered design and provide your visitors with a method to contact you.

CSS3

CSS-Only form

A great example of a table-less form created by Jeff Howden. A real time saver for web developers:

http://jeffhowden.com/code/css/forms/

Link Thumbnail with CSS

A great way of previewing what the link you are about to click is about. Why send your users to a website they dont wanna go? Let them preview it through a thumbnail:

http://lab.arc90.com/2006/07/link_thumbnail.php

CSS Submit Buttons

Almost every single website has a form of some sort. Here’s a good way of treating your beloved form submit button. Great article:

http://www.ukthoughts.co.uk/journal/css…

Star Ratings

You see theese more and more. Mostly on CSS Galleries, Netflix, etc. Here’s a looooooong but very interesting article on how to put stars on your already-rocking website:

http://www.komodomedia.com/blog/2005/08/…

Target WHO?

Let users decide if they want to open a link in a new window or not. A good article on the subject:

http://webdesign.maratz.com/lab/new…

Oh yeah, the link above opens a new window :)

You will never ask about round corners again!

A massive set of techniques to create rounded corners with CSS. Some use images for the corners, some dont. Try the different methods and see what matches your preference. I personally think: The less images the better, but it all depends on what you are trying to create. Enjoy:

http://www.smileycat.com/miaow/archives/…

Photoshop-Style Drop Shadows with CSS

I was recently working on a project that required each uploaded image to have a drop shadow blow it. After searching all over the place, I found a really simple and comprehensive solution to the problem. Check this out:

http://theshapeofdays.com/….

CSS Tab Menus!

A great set of CSS Menus created by exploding boy. Take a look at the source code and notice how each menu code is segmented so that it’s easy to follow.

http://exploding-boy.com/images/cssmenus/menus.html

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By using modern standards like CSS and XHTML, you can dramatically reduce the cost of building and maintaining a website when compared to legacy HTML-only pages. You can also greatly reduce the amount of physical bandwidth and hard disk space required, resulting in immediate long-term benefits for any webmasters and web visitor

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Cascading Style Sheets, commonly referred to as CSS, is a simple design language intended to simplify the process of making web pages presentable. Put simply, CSS handles the look and feel part of a web page or a whole website. With CSS, you can control the color of the text, the style of fonts, the spacing between paragraphs, how columns are sized and laid out, what background images or colors are used, as well as a variery of other effects and styles explained here.

The term cascading in Cascading Style Sheets refers to a specific way in which browsers determine which styles to apply to a specific part of the page. This method is called “the cascade”, and it’s from the cascade that CSS takes its name.

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