Thursday, January 10, 2008
If you are new to SEO, you may have heard webmasters talking about frames. Frames permit webmasters to upload pages to windows on the main page. These windows are also known as "frames." The other windows on the site will stay the same. One advantage to using frames is that the navigation menu could exist in a single file. Because of this, if a webmaster wanted to modify the navigation menu, all they have to do is change one navigation menu file. If the navigation bar was used on a page which didn't use frames, the code will be placed on every page of the site, and making changes to it would take much longer.
Server side includes have solved many of the SEO problems which were caused by frames. A lot of the things frames were used for can now be done in different ways. Because of this, some webmasters believe that frames are no longer necessary. Despite this, if you prefer to use frames on your website, there are techniques you can use to optimize it. It should be noted that there are a few problems with using frames. While visitors to a site with frames will see the text on the pages, the search engines will only be able to detect the code. Most search engines don't recognize frames, and cannot travel through the links within the frames.
Because of this, the search engine will not be able to spider the pages of your site. To solve this problem, the first thing you want to do is add a NOFRAMES tag. This tag was invented for old browsers which couldn't detect frames. A NOFRAMES tag will advise visitors to update their browser in order to properly view your site. However, this doesn't solve the problem with the search engine. One thing you will want to do is add spider friendly content and links to the NOFRAMES tag. To keep the search engines from listing your page without the navigation bar, you will want to add code which will allow the search engine to list your entire site.
Please feel free to reprint this article, just be sure that my signature file remains in tact and the link inside of it is clickable to the proper destination. To learn more about what Aaron Nimocks does visit his site at Orchid Directory.
Why Look for Good Internet Deals and Daily Freebies?
Every day, more and more consumers are realizing that shopping on the internet means good, or even great deals that just aren't available at the traditional brick and mortar establishments in their local communities. The smaller stores are out and about on the Internet dangling some of these mega-deals on a fishing line with the hopes that you'll bite and possibly buy an additional item or two from them "while you're at it", or later on down the river. Either way, your name, address and email address are all in their database for future e-mail campaigns and catalogs.
Even the big, national chain stores are enticing their customers to shop online with phenomenal deals that are available "Online Only". Why? These corporations already have a warehouse to store their merchandise until its ready to be shipped to the store. At the store level, the products need to be taken off of the truck and inventoried before it can be set onto the sales floor to be sold. The store needs lights, heat/cooling and employees to maintain, sell and ring up the merchandise, and perhaps even bring it out to you car. When the item is sold on the Internet, the consumer pays shipping charges, which includes unloading the item from the truck and carrying it to your front door. It now costs the store substantially less money to sell you the product. The end result is a cheaper price for you, the consumer when shopping on the Internet.
Free shipping is one of the fabulous incentives used by both small and large companies to persuade you to spend more money on their website, typically tiered or leveled at a pre-set, specific dollar amount. Although nominal handling charges may still apply, having your internet deal shipped to you for free is even better than when you find a bargain at your local store, as you didn't need to use any expensive fuel to get to the store, nor will you come home from shopping with the infamous crowd-causing headache.
And who doesn't love something for free? "Daily Freebies" are all over the Internet (and there are new ones every day, too!), you just need to know where to look for them. Listings include product samples, promotional products with discounts and other types of free offers.
To assist you in gathering the necessary information for a successful shopping experience, there are websites devoted especially to your cause. These newfound genius sites not only compile all of this useful information for you, but they organize it into categories. From clothing and accessories to CD's, gifts and coupons, they've got your shopping needs covered!
John Tyler recommends that you visit http://www.88malls.com for more information on Good Internet Deals and Daily Freebies.
VRE – The way to increase your Adsense earnings?
VRE – it's the latest buzzword to hit the internet, you'll find it everywhere.
So what is VRE?
VRE stands for Virtual Real Estate, which normally means a lot of websites owned and run by the same person. It is also a term used in the gaming fraternity, but that won't concern us at the moment.
The idea is simple enough. You start a site about a subject in which you have an interest, promote it by whichever method you choose, and get some traffic.
Then you put some Adsense code in your website, and you make a few dollars income.
Having looked at your measly three dollars, you then think "I can make three dollars a day on this one site, if I had a hundred sites just like this one, I could make three hundred dollars a day!"
So that's the theory, and it's one propounded by John Reese and other internet gurus.
But, like anything that sounds easy, it's not!
First of all, you have to find a hundred topics for your one hundred sites. Actually, that's not that hard to do. Go to sites like Wordtracker and Overture, input a keyword, and they will suggest similar keywords.
For example, if you put in the keyword "golf", you would get golf clubs, golf tips, golf schools, golf holidays etc. – you get the picture. Then if you take "golf clubs", you could have sites "Golf Clubs – Alabama" through to "Golf Clubs-Wyoming", there are fifty sites for you right there. Now if you did the same for "Golf Schools", you've got fifty more!
The next thing to do is to get 100 sites up and running. Are you going to just do one site and then clone it for the other 99? Remember Google does not like duplicate sites, so you will have to get some items of difference between them, and not just in the title.
Are you going to make 100 individual sites?
How much time will it take to put on all your adsense in the best position on every site? There are software packages which will create sites based on keywords and insert your adsense in the places you have chosen, and indeed I use one myself. (You'll find the link on the "money" site in my signature.)
Then you have to find a host for your 100 sites – do you have completely separate domains or do you have several sub-domains coming off your main one? The costs associated with these could be a significant factor in your VRE plans.
Another thing to consider is the upkeep of all those sites. As well as duplicate sites, Google does not like static sites, so you will have to keep adding content. Using RSS feeds will help do this, but you need to get other content as well.
One option for VRE would be to set up a blog, and let your visitors update your site for you, but again you have to set this up and also have a vibrant subject, which will generate lots of interest and comments, and you would need this setup on each of your sites. Would you have enough interesting keywords to generate this interest? Most webmasters would be very happy to have just one site like this. Another way to add content to your blog is by grabbing articles (see below) and adding one a day, just to keep the search engines interested.
But, in spite of all this, there is some hope for you! There are ways of getting VRE without having lots of sites, but once more you will have to do some work.
You could start an article directory, which would have articles on all different subjects, each one carrying your adsense ad. This would give you VRE all within one site. Of course you would still have to get the articles to fill up your site, but if you give enough incentive for authors to submit their articles to your site instead of someone else's article directory, you will have your updating VRE. Once you have a lot of articles, encourage bloggers to come to your directory and take articles for use on their blog. You can view my own article directory at the "article" site in my signature at the bottom of this article.
Alternatively, you could start a link directory. This is a site which gives the visitor a selection of links to other sites relating to your sphere of interest. This is a method used to build up page ranking, by reciprocating links with other webmasters who already have sites with good page rankings. Then hopefully a little bit of their ranking will spill over onto yours. Of course this means that you have to give the other site owner some incentive, otherwise why should he benefit you by giving you that little bit of his ranking? By the way, beware of link exchange programs that agree to swap links with you. Virtually all of them are just listings of sites, and the link to yours will be down at number 854, and no visitor will ever scroll down to that level. Also, none of these sites have any page ranking themselves, so they are of no use to you.
So this is just a brief overview of VRE. If you still feel this way of increasing your earnings is right for you, then by all means go ahead, and many happy returns!
Peter Phillips
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