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Common Mistakes in Search Engine Optimization and How to Avoid Them

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Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Secrets Outsmarting Google: SEO Secrets to Winning New Business (Que Biz-Tech) Search Engine Optimization: SEO Secrets For 2011 SEO Made Simple For 2011 - Kindle Bestseller If you want to achieve a strong online presence, you need to optimize your website for search engines for a higher exposure rate. And on that count search engine optimization or SEO is the best option if you want an easy way to obtain huge traffic on your website. However, some beginners who commit some mistakes on SEO practices. So aside from helping their website achieve huge number of visitors, those mistakes only do harm to the website. It is therefore crucial that you know the common mistakes that you should avoid. The use of too much flash and scripts on the website One popular mistake in SEO is the use of too many flash and other scripts in the website. Of course, it is a plus point if your website is appealing to the eye thus many website owners try to incorporate f...

First Draft of DeviceOrientation Event Specification Published

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The Geolocation Working Group has published the First Public Working Draft of DeviceOrientation Event Specification . This specification defines several new DOM event types that provide information about the physical orientation and motion of a hosting device. Learn more about the Ubiquitous Web Applications Activity . Learn HTML and CSS with w3Schools XML Schema: The W3C's Object-Oriented Descriptions for XML SEO for 2011: Search Engine Optimization Secrets- Kindle Bestseller SEO Made Simple For 2011 - Kindle Bestseller Search Engine Optimization: SEO Secrets For 2011 Search Engine Optimization Secrets: SEO for 2011 (Search Engine Optimization Kindle Bestseller) SEO Made Simple For 2011: Search Engine Optimization (Volume 1)

Incubator Group Report: Semantic Sensor Network XG Final Report

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The W3C Semantic Sensor Network Incubator Group has published their final report . As networks of sensors become more commonplace there is a greater need for their management and querying to be assisted by standards and computer reasoning. Building on the OGC's Sensor Web Enablement services-based architecture and standards, including four description languages, the group produced ontologies for describing sensors and extended a language to support semantic annotations. The report lists use-cases and reviews existing ontologies leading to the selection of the SSN ontology, analyzes examples and semantic markup as well as mapping to existing standards. The report also includes a list of directions for future work in the context of Linked Sensor Data, or Semantic Internet of Things for work at the border of Internet of Things and Internet of Service. The group plans to create a W3C Community Group to focus on the maintenance and extension of the SSN Ontology. This publication is ...

SEO-Optimizing your site for local searches

The Google base submission system is a platform whereby you can directly load items or categorize specific content which can then be searched on Google maps, Froogle and Google. This facilitates easy searching. To help people find you, even having a website these days is not necessary. All information can be posted on this online Google base. Google has been promoting Google Maps on search results pages, and according to Hitwise, their promotion is paying off. As a result, Google Maps has seen a sizeable increase in their traffic in the last year. If you were to search for an address on Google before last January, you would have seen map links for Yahoo, MapQuest, and Google Maps. Now, you only see a link for Google Maps. Local search engine listings may be little more than an afterthought to some webmasters, but they are a source of business that you shouldn’t ignore. Optimizing your site for local searches and making sure you’re listed in the local versions of the major search ...

Six Drafts Published Related to XSLT, XQuery, Xpath

W3C published six documents related to XSLT, XQuery, and XPath: XSLT and XQuery Serialization 3.0 This document defines serialization of an instance of the data model as defined in [XQuery and XPath Data Model (XDM) 3.0] into a sequence of octets. Serialization is designed to be a component that can be used by other specifications such as [XSL Transformations (XSLT) Version 3.0] or [XQuery 3.0: An XML Query Language]. XQueryX 3.0 This document defines an XML Syntax for [XQuery 3.0: An XML Query Language] . XQuery 3.0: An XML Query Language XML is a versatile markup language, capable of labeling the information content of diverse data sources including structured and semi-structured documents, relational databases, and object repositories. A query language that uses the structure of XML intelligently can express queries across all these kinds of data, whether physically stored in XML or viewed as XML via middleware. This specification describes a query language call...

For Review: Updated Techniques for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)

The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Working Group today requests review of draft updates to Notes that accompany WCAG 2.0: Techniques for WCAG 2.0 (Editors' Draft) and Understanding WCAG 2.0 (Editors' Draft) . Comments are welcome through 26 August 2011. (This is not an update to WCAG 2.0, which is a stable document.) To learn more about the updates, see the Call for Review: WCAG 2.0 Techniques Draft Updates e-mail . Read about the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) .

SEO Ranking factors and Social Media

Website rankings are no longer about putting meta-tags and link building. The ranking factors have expanded their horizons to include the Social Media too. Both Bing and Google have confirmed that links shared through Twitter and Facebook have a direct impact on rankings Interview by Danny Sullivan on this topic Danny Sullivan: If an article is retweeted or referenced much in Twitter, do you count that as a signal outside of finding any non-nofollowed links that may naturally result from it? Bing: We do look at the social authority of a user. We look at how many people you follow, how many follow you, and this can add a little weight to a listing in regular search results. It carries much more weight in Bing Social Search, where tweets from more authoritative people will flow to the top when best match relevancy is used. Google: Yes, we do use it as a signal. It is used as a signal in our organic and news rankings. We also use it to enhance our news universal by marking how m...

Two XML Schema Notes published: Unicode block names for use in XSD regexps; XSD datatype for IEEE floating-point decimal

The XML Schema Working Group published two Group Notes today: Unicode block names for use in XSD regular expressions and An XSD datatype for IEEE floating-point decimal . The former lists the names of character categories and character blocks defined by Unicode and used in the regular expression language defined by XSD 1.0 and XSD 1.1. The latter defines a datatype designed for compatibility with IEEE 754 floating-point decimal data, which can be supported by XSD 1.1 processors as an implementation-defined datatype. Learn more about the Extensible Markup Language (XML) Activity .

SEO-Importance of Relevant Content

Having content relevant to your main page or site topic is perhaps the most important SEO aspect of a page. You can put all the keywords you want in the meta tags and alt image tags, etc — but if the actual readable text on the page is not relevant to the target keywords, it ends up basically being a futile attempt. While it is important to include as many keywords in your page copy as possible, it is equally as important for it to read well and make sense. I’m sure we’ve all seen keyword stuffed pages written by SEO companies that honestly don’t make much sense from the reader’s point of view. When creating your site copy, just write naturally, explaining whatever information you’re discussing. The key is to make it relevant, and to have it make sense to the reader. Even if you trick the search engines into thinking your page is great — when a potential customer arrives at the site and can’t make heads or tails of your information and it just feels spammy to them — you can bet th...

First Draft of CSS Regions Module Draft Published

The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group has published the First Public Working Draft of CSS Regions Module . The CSS Regions module allows content to flow across multiple areas called regions. The regions do not necessarily follow the document order. The CSS Regions module provides an advanced content flow mechanism, which can be combined with positioning schemes as defined by other CSS modules such as the Multi-Column Module or the Grid Layout Module to position the regions where content flows. Learn more about the Style Activity .

Visibility, Timing Control for Script-Based Animations, Navigation Timing

The Web Performance Working Group published three drafts a First Public Working Draft of Page Visibility , which defines a means for site developers to programmatically determine the current visibility state of the page in order to develop power and CPU efficient web applications. a First Public Working Draft of Timing control for script-based animations , which defines an API web page authors can use to write script-based animations where the user agent is in control of limiting the update rate of the animation. Using this API should result in more appropriate utilization of the CPU by the browser. an update to the Candidate Recommendation for Navigation Timing , which defines an interface for web applications to access timing information related to navigation and elements.