On 16 December 2010 W3C published a number of documents from the XHTML 2 Working Group as W3C Notes: XHTML 2.0 , a general-purpose markup language designed to represent documents for a wide range of purposes across the World Wide Web. XML Events 2 , designed to provide an interoperable way of associating behaviors with document-level markup. CURIE Syntax 1.0 , a syntax for expressing Compact URIs HLink , a module that provides the ability to specify which attributes of elements represent links, and how those links should be traversed. HLink also extends XLink use to a wider class of languages than those restricted to the syntactic style allowed by XLink. XHTML Role Attribute Module , a module to support role classification of elements XHTML Access Module , a module designed to enhance document accessibility. XFrames , intended originally to replace HTML Frames. Learn more about the XHTML 2 Working Group . Related Links XHTML page with considerations of search engine op...

Even though Google and other search engines do not use the keywords meta tag, many search engines, Other search engines believes that the keywords meta tag is a good location to include words that you want indexed where those same words are not included with your content. Three examples for using the keywords meta tag are: 1. To include synonyms of words that are not included in the content of your page. People search on many variations of words and phrases. Sometimes it is hard to include all of the different variations of those words in the content of your page without making your page sound like a keywords page. 2. To place emphasis on certain words. It is not always easy to place your major keywords at the top of your page or in a <h1> tag. Your major keywords might not be introduced until the middle of your page. Using the keywords meta tag, you can add these keywords to inform the search engines that these words are important. Remember two important rules when using t...

The title of your Web page is the first piece of information that an Internet searcher will see about your site. Many people will decide whether or not to click to your site based on the title text. Title tags are also used for: 1. Indexing your site with almost all major search engines. 2. Describing your page when someone adds it to their Favorites or Bookmarks. 3. Provides the main hyperlink text that links to your site. For these reasons, make sure that your title tag is descriptive, unique, clear, concise and contains keywords that people use when they are searching for your site. Do not use "Home Page". This is neither descriptive nor unique. Also, use different titles for different pages. This will allow your results to be unique in the results page if multiple pages from your site are displayed together. Read SEO - Page description meta tag

On 24 November 2010 the XHTML2 Working Group published three revised Recommendations: XHTML 1.1 - Module-based XHTML Second Edition , XHTML Basic 1.1 Second Edition , and XHTML-Print Second Edition . A related specification, XHTML Modularization, defines a framework for building XHTML language definitions from a set of modules. Each of the revised Recommendations combines modules to different ends. XHTML 1.1 is a "full" set of modules, XHTML Basic 1.1 is a minimal set of modules for environments such as mobile phones, PDAs, pagers, and set top boxes. XHTML Print targets printing, e.g., from mobile devices to printers that may not be full-featured. These revisions incorporate corrections to errata; see each document for the list of changes. Learn more about the XHTML 2 Working Group .

19 November 2010 The Web Applications Working Group has published the First Public Working Draft of HTML5 Web Messaging . This specification defines two mechanisms for communicating between browsing contexts in HTML documents. Cross document messaging allows documents to communicate with each other regardless of their source domain, in a way designed to not enable cross-site scripting attacks. Channel messaging allows independent pieces of code (e.g. running in different browsing contexts) to communicate directly. Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity .

New features in ASP.NET 4 for search engine optimization. Page.MetaKeywords and Page.MetaDescription properties URL Routing support for ASP.NET Web Forms Response.RedirectPermanent() method Page.MetaKeywords and Page.MetaDescription properties Now with ASP.NET 4 web forms we can easily add MetaKeywords and MetaDescription in code behind classes. We can now set keywords and description programmatically.   Below is a simple code snippet that demonstrates setting these properties programmatically within a Page_Load() event handler In addition to setting the Keywords and Description properties programmatically in your code-behind, you can also now declaratively set them within the @Page directive at the top of .aspx pages.  The below snippet demonstrates how to-do this: URL Routing support for ASP.NET Web Forms URL routing was a capability we first introduced with ASP.NET 3.5 SP1, and which is already used within ASP.NET MVC applications to ...

Some basic things to remember while optimizing search engine SEO Analysis and Review Pre-Optimization SEO Analysis Keyword Research & Analysis Competitive Analysis Log File Analysis No. of On-Page Optimization Activities According to the Package   Title Tag Optimization META Tags Optimization Image Alt Tags Optimization Content Optimization HTML Sitemap Creation Robots.txt Creation Google Analytics Setup Google XML Sitemap No. of Off-Page Optimization Activities According to the Package   Search engine submission - Manual Directories Submission - Manual Link Exchange   Article Writing Article Submissions Classified Submissions Forum Postings No. of SMO Activities According to the Package   SMO Profile Creations (Twitter, Facebook etc.) Social Bookmarking Press Release Distribution Blog Posting Video Submissions * Create unique, accurate page titles * Make use of the "description" meta tag * Improving Site Structure * I...

W3C 03 November 2010 The International Standards Organization (ISO), and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) took steps that will encourage greater international adoption of W3C standards. W3C is now an "ISO/IEC JTC 1 PAS Submitter" , bringing "de jure" standards communities closer to the Internet ecosystem. As national bodies refer increasingly to W3C's widely deployed standards, users will benefit from an improved Web experience based on W3C's standards for an Open Web Platform. W3C expects to use this process (1) to help avoid global market fragmentation; (2) to improve deployment within government use of the specification; and (3) when there is evidence of stability/market acceptance of the specification. Web Services specifications will likely constitute the first package W3C will submit, by the end of 2010. For more information, see the W3C PAS Submission FAQ .

How to track SEO progress ? is very common question for seo experts and website owners.We can track the search engine optimization pregress by using verious analysis tools. It is very important to find out  Popularity of website ,Website compliance,Visitors analysis and Content analysis Top seo analysis tools are listed below. Woo Rank WooRank is the fruit of much hard work by online marketing consultants, clockwork-precision developers and creative designers. Together they’ve built a simple yet powerful website analysis tool meant to leverage search engines. Website Gradder Website gradder by hubspot is one of the most popular website tool which analyze your full page on-site and off-site SEO factors. This analysis also includes domain information, meta-data information, RSS links, inbound and outbound links.  Lipperhey Lipperhey Is an online service that uses objective criteria to analyze the quality and searchability of a website by the major search engines...

26 October 2010 The Web Performance Working Group has published the First Public Working Draft of Navigation Timing . To address the need for complete information on user experience, this document introduces the NavigationTiming interfaces. This interface allows JavaScript mechanisms to provide complete client-side latency measurements within applications. With the proposed interface, the previous example can be modified to measure a user's perceived page load time. Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity .

The HTML Working Group published eight documents: •Working Drafts of the HTML5 specification, the accompanying explanatory document HTML5 differences from HTML4, and the related non-normative reference HTML: The Markup Language. •Working Drafts of the specifications HTML+RDFa 1.1 and HTML Microdata, which define mechanisms for embedding machine-readable data in HTML documents, and the specification HTML Canvas 2D Context, which defines a 2D immediate-mode graphics API for use with the HTML5 element. •HTML5: Techniques for providing useful text alternatives, which is intended to help authors provide useful text alternatives for images in HTML documents. •Polyglot Markup: HTML-Compatible XHTML Documents, which is intended to help authors produce XHTML documents that are also compatible with non-XML HTML syntax and parsing rules. Learn more about HTML5 . Friday, January 14, 2011 - HTML Working Group : Eight HTML5 Drafts Updated

The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Working Group has published updates of two Notes that accompany WCAG 2.0: Techniques for WCAG 2.0 and Understanding WCAG 2.0. (This is not an update to WCAG 2.0, which is a stable document.) To learn… W3C News

To Start SEM you need to understand and analyze the Business information of your client and for what they are best known for? For example understand brief description of company or business , products of company and its services, what are the other competitors and what they are doing. Create list of Important Technical Information about clients Business. If your client have not identified the keywords for his business then make a list of suggested keywords. do some further research on the keywords, which are best for the business. Identify the geographical target of business and market like Local / Regional / National /International or   all Clarify the clients view on Pay-Per-Click / Email & Newsletter Marketing / Affiliate Marketing etc.? then make plan for Link Popularity and Building marketing campaign for the website List out the best customers of your clients business and What organizations or industries are supportive and/or complimentary to ...

The Multimodal Interaction Working Group has published an updated Working Draft of Multimodal Architecture and Interfaces (MMI Architecture) , which defines a general and flexible framework providing interoperability among modality-specific components from different vendors - for example, speech recognition from one vendor and handwriting recognition from another. The main changes from the previous draft are (1) the inclusion of state charts for modality components, (2) the addition of a 'confidential' field to life-cycle events and (3) the removal of the 'media' field from life-cycle events. A diff-marked version of this document is available. Learn more about the W3C Multimodal Interaction Activity .

The XML Security Working Group has published five working drafts. XML Signature 2.0 , Canonical XML 2.0 and the XML Signature Streamable Profile of XPath 1.0 are part of an ongoing effort to rework XML Signature and Canonical XML in order to address issues around performance, streaming, robustness, and attack surface. The Working Group has also published updated Working Drafts for its XML Signature Best Practices and XML Security Relax NG Schemas Working Group Notes. Learn more about XML Security .

You should implement your portal in a series of short, focused phases, each of which is designed to deliver value to the business. The modular nature of the portal, which promotes the creation of modular, reusable port let- and template-based UIs, user profiles and content types, helps in this regard. Basic Requirements in Web Portal development: • Provide portal administration user interface • Provide functionality of User groups and directory • Portal should highlight Dashboard, intranet or enterprise searching • Provide facility for Dashboard personalization and customization • Include Calendar tool (individual, group, enterprise) • Provide alerting messages and events • Instant messaging • Facility for newsletters subscription • Blogging application 1. Member login 2. Blog Creation: Provide topic selection and tag selection for blog 3. Blog Verification and approval 4. Allow comments on blogs 5. Stars rating for Blogs • Licensed news...

W3C has announced a new Web Performance Working Group , whose mission is to provide methods to measure aspects of application performance of user agent features and APIs. As Web browsers and their underlying engines include richer capabilities and become more powerful, Web developers are building more sophisticated applications where application performance is increasingly important. Developers need the ability to assess and understand the performance characteristics of their applications using well-defined interoperable methods. This new Working Group will look at user agent features and APIs to measure aspects of application performance. Group deliverables will apply to desktop and mobile browsers and other non-browser environments where appropriate and will be consistent with Web technologies designed in other working groups including HTML, CSS, WebApps, DAP and SVG. Learn more in the Working Group charter and how this work fits into the W3C's Rich Web Client Activity .

First step is Choose Quality CMS. Using various analytical reports on Open source CMS, Choose best one which fits your business requirements.Analyze hosting, geographic location and domains situation. Ensure the maintenance and upgrade path is clear. This will reduce the SEO consultant’s basic work, set strict quality-control procedure for content management system implementation. Validate a reference site with the W3C Check metadata and Meta description are accessible and editable for CMS. To achieve this use correct plug-in. Check URLs are correctly generating for content. Use standard procedure for this activity Main drawback of cms is they use different paths for the same content. we can fix this using a correct plugin that allows you to choose the most valid address for the content item or page Other regular seo activities are applicable for cms like 1. Use Key Words in URLs 2. Use Site Navigation as Text links, don't use images 3. Publish to a Flat Directory 4. Eli...

Obviously content is very important for search engine optimization If you have a site with no quality content and no backlinks yet are 100% compliant with W3C standards, the site will still not rank well in search engines Google has clearly stated that W3C validation does not affect search engine rankings. the page will not rewarded with a higher in search ranking. Still we should consider the Points listed below as a Role of w3c validations in Search engine optimization 1.Minimize Page Load Time for great website visitor experience 2.Minimize Bounce Rates for your website When you validate your content grammatically ,Markup,css,rss,mobile compatibility using w3c validations,then you can go for other important Search engine optimization tasks. http://seow3c.blogspot.com/2010/07/seo-tasks.html

Here we are discussing importance of keywords in website development. Domain name and page names should be a valid Keyword relevant to the web content. In URL first words are very important Areas where KEYWORD plays very important role : 1.Page Header with proper Keywords 2.Page Title tag with proper Keyword 3.Description Meta tag with Keyword 4.Keyword in metatag 5.Keyword density in body text 6.Keyword in H1, H2 and H3 7.Font size of Keyword 8.Keyword in alt text 9.Keyword in links to site pages (anchor text)

The Web Security Context Working Group has published a W3C Recommendation of Web Security Context: User Interface Guidelines . This specification deals with the trust decisions that users must make online, and with ways to support them in making safe and informed decisions where possible. It describes user interactions and user interface guidelines with a goal toward making security usable, based on known best practice in this area. Learn more about the Security Activity .

The RDFa Working Group has just published two Working Drafts: RDFa Core 1.1 and XHTML+RDFa 1.1 . RDFa Core 1.1 is a specification for attributes to express structured data in any markup language. The embedded data already available in the markup language (e.g., XHTML) is reused by the RDFa markup, so that publishers don't need to repeat significant data in the document content. XHTML+RDFa 1.1 is an XHTML family markup language. That extends the XHTML 1.1 markup language with the attributes defined in RDFa Core 1.1. This document is intended for authors who want to create XHTML-Family documents that embed rich semantic markup. Learn more about the Semantic Web Activity .

W3C has released Unicorn , a one-stop tool to help people improve the quality of their Web pages. Unicorn combines a number of popular tools in a single, easy interface, including the Markup validator , CSS validator , mobileOk checker , and Feed validator , which remain available as individual services as well. W3C inviting developers to enhance the service by creating new modules and testing them in our online developer space (or installing Unicorn locally). W3C looking forward to code contributions from the community as well as suggestions for new features.  Learn more about W3C open source software . download The W3C's unified validator service will definetly help the people to improve the quality of their Web pages

Obviously content is very important for search engine optimization. But equivalently Code your pages using external CSS and JavaScript and use relevant and semantic XHTML formatting which will be part of on-page optimization. Benifits Of XHTML Strict XML syntax encourages authors to write well-formed markup, which some authors may find easier to maintain Integrates directly with other XML vocabularies, such as SVG and MathML Allows the use of XML Processing, which some authors use as part of their editing and/or publishing processes   Definations of XHTML •XHTML (Extensible Hypertext Markup Language) is a family of XML markup languages that mirror or extend versions of the widely used Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), the language in which web pages are written •The next generation of HTML, compliant with XML standards. Although it is very similar to the current HTML, it follows a stricter set of rules, thus allowing for better automatic cod...