Strategies For Linking - Video Tutorial

I found this great little video while searching youtube this morning. This is worth watching for anyone trying to improve their websites pagerank and traffic through building quality links.

Dreamweaver Video Tutorial of the week #4

To start this week there is another dreamweaver video tutorial for you to enjoy. This one focuses more on the HTML side of dreamweaver, but users with basic skills (like me) will still be able to follow this one. It is important to remember that a well coded page should be the top priority when making a web site.

Dreamweaver video tutorial of the week #3

Button Rollovers
This is the third video tutorial in this series and is well worth watching if you are trying to develop and your own website. This will help you create button rollovers, where the image changes when you hover your mouse over it. Enjoy!

Webmaster Tip - Dreamweaver video tutorial of the week #2

This is the second video tutorial in this series and well worth watching if you are trying to design your own website. Yes the guys voice is annoying and he explains things very slowly, but there is some really good advice and tips here to be worth the 17 minutes (hell I watched it and I don't even use dreamweaver).
This video focuses on creating hyperlinks and simple menu bars. Enjoy

Webmaster Tip - Dreamweaver video tutorial of the week

Without a doubt dreamweaver has helped spawn hundreds of websites many built with the WYSIWYG editor. The program is the best in its class and has helped thousands of computer code illiterates to build some very fine (and not so fine) pages. This video tutorial will help you start to gain a basic understanding of building a website with dreamweaver. It is filled with great tips and is a recommended watch for anyone learning dreamweaver or wanting to make their own website.

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HTML Tip - How to open a link in a new window

Open a link in a new window Its easy to use HTMLso that links open in a new window. This is a better way than using javascript as it will work whether the browser has javascript installed or not. You can implement it by adding the text target="_blank" to your anchor tag. For example: <a href="http://www.tipsntutorials.com/" target="_blank">click here to visit Tips 'n' Tutorials in a new window</a>

Webmaster Tip - SEO video tutorial

I found this great little tip while searching youtube today. It talks about a method of finding out how many websites have a certain word in their title. You can use this to judge how much competition you will have or to simply work out which keywords you will target. This video is very short, but it is certainly a handy thing for all webmasters to know.

Webmaster Tip - How to link so that people will click

Don't use "click here" as link text

We have all seen it before, a site tells us to click here, but is that the best way to get someone interested in clicking? Here are some following dos and don'ts of linking:

How to link

If you want someone to click on your links, use brief but meaningful link text that:

• provides some information
  
• explains what the link offers
• is not a verb phrase

Don't do this - An example

Avoid the following sentence on your page:

To visit my blog, click here.

or:

To sign up to blogger, go to the Blogger Website and fill in the necessary form.

This doesn't explain what blogger is or offers

Instead try this - An example

If you want to call your reader to action, use something like:

Visit Webmasters Central!

A longer link text might be:

Tell me more about Blogger: A free blog creator that lets you create you very own blog.

I hope this little tip has helped. Good luck writing quality links!

How important is Search Engine Optimization

There is no doubt that most webmasters and businesses on the web put search engine optimization (SEO) at the top of the importance list. Still this really is the ultimate question most people are asking.

Ask yourself - how many visitors do I want?
If the answer is a dozen a day then SEO shouldn't be a major concern. You should simply focus on writing great content and a few people will certainly come and visit. Good content is one of the keys to a decent google ranking and rumours abound that great content will become even more valuable to your listing in the future. That is why constantly updated blogs get into the top rankings of google - their content is always being updated! If you want hundreds of visitors daily then certainly put some of your focus into SEO, but still don't forget to write great content.

In the end true long term success with google comes from genuinely good content.

What should I be doing to optimize my page...?
Heaps of information can be found on this and I am not going to go into great detail, but these are the things you should be trying to do:

• Write good meta tags - you can view my blog post entitled how to write good meta tags here
• Get Inbound Links (including directories) - you can view my blog post about submitting to directories here
• Write great content (and lots of it) and optimise it for the search engine spiders

Is there anything I should be careful of...?
There are some things that google doesn't like and these can get you banned:
Keyword stuffing - filling the page with a ridiculously high percentage of keywords

• Duplicate Content - Duplicating content on different pages in and attempt to gain multiple search engine positions.
  
• Using "doorway" or "cloaked" pages which distort the true content of the website. This includes hidden text designed to be read by the search engine spider, but invisible to human visitors (often used by porn pages).
• Paying for links - Google keeps telling us this is bad yet people keep doing it - be careful