Wednesday, July 6, 2011

7 Great JavaScript Resources

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As a JavaScript developer, you'll need to keep up with the latest news and learn new skills. We've put together a list of our favorite JavaScript resources to help save you time and energy.

As browsers and server-side platforms advance, and libraries new and old grow and mature, JavaScript evolves as well. Staying at the top of your game is important. As a JavaScript developer, you’ll need to keep up with the latest news and learn new skills.
We’ve put together a list of seven of our favorite JavaScript resources to help save you time and energy along the way. Whether you’re a beginner or a seasoned pro, we think you’ll find the sites below both informative and beneficial. If you know of other great resources, feel free to share them in the comments.

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Sunday, July 3, 2011

Are you using Google Webmaster Tools?

Google Webmaster Tools gives you tons of information about your website and how to give it the best search engine exposure it can possibly get. It is a fantastically powerful collection of free, online tools to let you find out by what searches internet users worldwide are finding your site and how Google itself sees your site and places it within its search results. It lets you see whether there are any problems with your site that is stopping Google from reaching certain parts of it and lets you see which other internet sites have links which are pointing to it (which is very important for SEO). You can even submit a sitemap to Google using these tools and many believe that this makes Google more willing to regularly check up your website. We at VodaHost believe absolutely everyone who owns a website should use Google Webmaster Tools.

So, let’s get you set up with Google Webmaster Tools (you will need a Google Account for this; if you have a GMail account you're ready to go) and optimize your website for Google.

First, visit: http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/ - the home of Google Webmaster Tools.

Then, to add and verify a site:

1. Sign into Google Webmaster Tools with your Google Account.
2. Click Add a site, and type the URL of the site you want to add. Make sure you type the entire URL, such as http://www.earnimoney.blogspot.com
3. Click Continue. The Site verification page opens.
4. In the Name box, type a name for your site (for example, My Web Hosting Page). (This step is optional)
5. Select the verification method you want, and follow the instructions.

Once you've verified your website, go back to the home page and click on your website domain name to get to the Google Webmaster Tools dashboard. On the main page you'll be presented with several main areas and loads of extremely useful information to help you out:

I. Top Search Queries

When people searched on Google, how did they find your website? Generally speaking, as you look over these keyword phrases, they should be in line with what your website is about (its overall topic) and current search engine rankings. What's very important is that the phrases that are here are related to your website and that there aren't any weird or unrelated keyword phrases showing up. If you do see some strange phrases, you might investigate them further to see if there are issues with your website, your website's inbound links, or if that keyword phrase appears somewhere on your website or not.

If you dig deeper into the Top Search Queries area, you'll see that there are two different sections: Impressions and Clickthroughs. Ideally, these should be very close (what's shown on the left side is also shown on the right side). There may be keyword phrases that you're site is being located with, but people aren't clicking through to it. By comparing these two lists, you can make changes to your pages so that they are more likely to get clicked. For some reason, users may search for a keyword phrase and they may not be clicking through to your website. If you can figure out why they're not clicking through, you may be able to fix it to attract more visitors, and bring in more sales.

II. Links to your site

Remember, a golden rule of SEO states that the more quality links to your site from outside, the better as a main emphasis of Google's search algorithm is the number and quality links from other websites to your website. Google publicly won't tell your competitors which other websites link to you but, they will tell you the links if you're the website owner; this is why you had to verify your site. This is very helpful, especially to see how you're doing overall, and to verify that your website is getting new links--Google will give you the date that they found the link to your website. You can export all of the links to a Microsoft Excel file if you wish, and then you can sort them by date, for example. We recommend that you look at the links to your website on a very regular basis, if possible. They are of great importance.

III. Crawl errors

Ideally, when Google crawls your website (when it sends its search engine spider, the Googlebot, to have a look at the web pages on your website and report back) there should be no errors whatsoever. If there are errors, they'll be reported here. If your website is unreachable (say, that pesky 404 Not Found error) then it will report those errors here. If you're having issues with a lack of sales, for example, you might have look to see if there are any errors being reported and if any of your web-pages are not available to the Googlebot and to your visitors.

IV. Sitemaps

A Sitemap is a listing of all of the web pages on your website and providing the search engines a sitemap may be very helpful to your website. It won't help you rank better, but it will give the search engines a list of pages to crawl and look at. You should know how many web pages (and how many products) you have. If there is a big difference in the number of pages that you know you have on your website and the number that's reported in this section, there may be a problem. If that's the case, then you might want to investigate further to make sure that all of the products that you're selling, or all the web-pages you are hosting, are included.

You should check how Google "sees" your site regularly, certainly every time you make big revisions to your site and most importantly you should pay attention to what it tells you. If it tells you that your primary keywords are not yielding any visitors, then you should change them. If you find that there are links on your page that do not work you can correct them immediately without having to check that every single link on your site works yourself. You may also have an agreement with other sites that they will link to your website. You should check to see what links you have and make sure that in general these links are increasing in number. Google Webmaster Tools is very helpful for any website owner. 

How To Make Money Online With Google AdSense

Google AdSense Money is a program that you can make money by placing adverts on your websites or blogs. You earn money when someone clicks on the ad. It is simple as 1, 2 and 3 if you have a website and blog that have good traffic. As you know that good traffic means good content. A site or blog has good content then visitors will come back to read and find more fresh useful information.
How hard is that to make money by working for Google AdSense? To be honest, it is not easy or hard to work online for Google. I get used to this term but you don’t actually work for Google online. You place the adverts on your sites and blogs to earn money from valid clicks. Don’t think about earning money from Google is a piece of cake so you can enjoy playing and making money online. This is wrong. You have to spend time on it, get good traffic, which result in good income online you can make. Remember you earn for valid clicks from your websites and/or blogs. So, don’t think about clicking on these ads yourself and make money. You will be banned off and won’t be able to work for Google AdSense anymore. You must follow the AdSense policies.
How To Get Traffic To Your Websites or Blogs
To earn money from Google AdSense, you need a lot of traffice. Some of good ways to get traffic on your site are article marketing, social networking techniques, Google AdWords, web directories, etc. The best aspect that bring traffic on your website is the content which is the king. With good fresh content, search engines will find your site and index it so that searchers can find it. The more traffic you bring in is the more money you can make with Google AdSense.
There are many ways to make money from Google AdSense. Google AdSense for Content includes different size of text and banner ads you can place on your websites or blogs. Google AdSense for Search is the search box you place on your sites so that your visitors can search for what they want and you will get paid when they click on the searches. Google Videos are new program that attracts many webmasters to place videos on their websites.
For starters who want to make money online, you should sign up for Google AdSense program. There are other affiliate programs such as Commission Junction, ClickBank, Yahoo PPC, MSN, etc, but none is well-established as AdSense. It is one of the most popular affiliate program that you can start with.
Most people have heard about Google AdSense program but they don’t understand clearly about how it works. Google AdSense program will pay you for valid clicks that generated from your websites or blogs. The more clicks you get is the bigger income you can make by working online for Google.
How To Get Started With Google AdSense?.
If you have a website or blog, then you should sign up for Google AdSense at http://www.google.com/adsense/ today. After that, you have to wait until your account gets approved. Then, you can start placing ads on your site or blog.
When you place a code on your site or blog, Google Adsense will match the content based on your niches.
After you get everything setup, it is time you start thinking about getting traffic on your website or blog. If you can get 10 unique visitors a day, then you may get 2 clicks. Each click costs between $0.05 to $5.00. On average, I get around $0.45 per click. Here is the estimate of income monthly.
30 days x 10 clicks = 300 clicks per month
300 clicks x $0.45 = $135 per month
$135 x 12 months = $1620 per year
How about the old visitors who come back, they may click on the ads too.
If you keep making more sites and blogs, then you can make a lot of money by working for Google online. Good luck!

How to make Google love your website

Make no mistake; the Google means business!



If the Googlebot doesn't like what it finds when it visits

your site then you're in serious trouble! Your website will

be on page 273 of Google Search and you will be losing

customers and money; there's no doubt about it!

 
The Googlebot is a very sophisticated computer program. It is a search engine spider that scours the Internet and inspects web sites in order to have them ranked according to Google’s standards. It’s “job” is to look at your web page, make a few notes and then report back to Google, who in turn give your page a ranking.

In this article I’m going to tell you a little about how to attract the Googlebot to your website and how to make sure it’s happy with what it finds. Think of it like this: The Googlebot needs love too.

1] Read Google's Webmaster Guidelines: Most of Google’s algorithms (search rules) are really secret; we can only guess what they are.Their guidelines are very simple and precise, however. Following their guidelines can’t “hurt” your site's ranking and Googlebot will “enjoy” its time with your website. Disregarding their guidelines can and probably will hurt you and your website in the long run.

2] Make the links in your site text links: Google says: "Make a site with a clear hierarchy (structure) and text links. Every page should be reachable from at least one static text link."

The native language of the Googlebot is text; this is not to say that you cannot make your site really pretty and fill it with lashings of Java Script and Flash but you MUST have regular text and standard text links. Usually you can achieve the desired effect by having extra navigation menus based on standard text links.

3] Give every page a a complete and meaningful title: This is also directly from Google's Webmaster Guidelines. Have a look at Rule #1.

The "title" tag is supported by every web creation tool out there, and goes in the header of a web page. Make sure your title is not just a list of keywords and that it is related to the actual content of the page. Google can and will check that, before deciding on your page's 'relevance' and fate...

4] DO NOT place important text inside images: Google says: "Try to use text instead of images to display important names, content, or links. The Googlebot doesn't recognize text contained in images."

It is very tempting to create images with text inside them, for the very simple reason that you are not limited to the very few font options that basic HTML allows. Also, different browsers tend to display things differently nowadays, so it is much easier to create a text image, which will be shown consistently and not worry about styles, operating systems, etc. Unfortunately, the Googlebot doesn’t like this one bit...

5] Use descriptive "ALT" tags: The "ALT" tag is used as a text alternative for images and image links and was designed so that text browsers do not just display a generic 'Image' for every picture link you might have. If all your links say 'Image', how would a potential visitor know what they are?

Make sure that the text description is meaningful and accurate. If the "ALT" tag only says "display", that is what Googlebot will see and index. If the tag says something like "example of a tradeshow display design", that is certainly more useful to the information-hungry Googlebot.

6] Use meaningful descriptions for links: Whether you use picture links or text links, please use meaningful text inside your tags so that Googlebot can associate that text with that link.

In other words, if you intend to put a link to a set of sample coffee mugs promos, say something like "link to samples of Y.O.U.R. branded coffee mugs", not just "coffee mugs", or even worse, "click here for pictures". Never use link text like "read more" or "go here" or "download it", "click here", "don't click here". Googlebot will not understand what you mean...

7] Use a "description" tag for every page: Include a <meta name="description" content="[insert your site's description here]"> tag in your page header to summarize your site. Use a meaningful one or two sentence description and certainly do not keyword spam.

Even better, include descriptive text on the site's front page where users can actually read it. It is this text will appear as the description for your site in Google results.

You should place more important content higher in the page than less important content in a page. The Googlebot does categorize text on a page based on it's position, text at the bottom of a page is considered less relevant.

8] Use robots.txt: Google says: "Make use of the robots.txt file on your web server. This file tells crawlers which directories can or cannot be crawled."

This almost ancient and very standard mechanism for directing well-behaved robots like the Googlebot will allow you to specify places where the robot is not welcome, for whatever the reason. You might want to keep the robot away from your cgi-bin directory and other places you maybe don't want available to the entire Googling population of the world. Remember this is a guideline, not a barrier; robots that are not programmed to comply will ignore it. So, use the robots.txt to guide the noble Googlebot but not for any real security enhancing reason.

9] Make a sitemap: Google says: "Offer a site map to your users with links that point to the important parts of your site. If the site map is larger than 100 or so links, you may want to break the site map into separate pages."

A site map is just a page on your website where you guide your users through the structure of your site. The most basic form of sitemap is a page that lists all of your pages, with a brief description and a link - ALL TEXT, of course; the Googlebot cannot read siemaps that are not in plain text. When you make the sitemap, follow all the rules above and don't forget that the purpose of the sitemap is to guide your human visitor.

10] Google Webmaster Tools: You should also check out Google Webmaster Tools 101, our article on Google Webmaster tools, a great way to find out why Google is or is not listing your website in its search results.

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