Blogs are increasing in popularity as an easy to promote website. Blogs
tend to have better search engine visibility and rankings and they have
many advantages over conventional websites.
Each blog post is
worth a few backlinks straight off the bat. This is because each time
you post your blog software pings services like technorati which then
link to your post. The more you post the more backlinks you get and the
greater your chances of higher page rank.
Blogs also seem to
have more "pages" of content than static websites. Consider in how many
ways a single post appears. It can be accessed through your frontpage,
archives, category overview, tag overview or as a single post. In
almost every case it appears alongside different posts that together
make the whole page unique. This is why blogs have more pages and SEs
like websites with lots of pages.
By its very nature a blog is
designed to be updated regularly. SEs love websites that have fresh
content and so they will rank a blog with regularly updated content
better than a static site that is only occassionaly updated.
Blogs are also easier to promote because they provided rss feeds that your users can subscribe to.
One
of the most important factors behind SEO is the need to have your
content at the very start of your web page. Since a lot of blogs favour
the right hand sidebar, they usually have most of their content at the
beginning of the source code. This makes them more search engine
friendly.
For all these reasons blogs are easier to promote.
Just 7 entries later this site has reached the first page of the Google Search Engine Results Page for
"website theme"! The main reason for this jump appears to be the domain and the free theme I recently created and promoted. Just goes to show the potential in this domain.
Coding according to w3c standards is a major selling point for website designers these days. But how hard is it really? Consider some of the differences between valid XHTML transitional and the usual sloppy HTML coding:
- All tags in XHTML are written in simple letters. So no more <P> or <BODY> but <p> or <body>. Saves typing really.
- All tags are closed even ones that you wouldn't close in HTML. For example: <br /> .
- img tags need to specify alternate text like <img src="gg.gif" alt="somting" /> .Note also the self closing of the img tag.
These are just some of the simple changes you have to make to get your site to validate. So in essence its not really a lot of work!
Introduction
PHP Hypertext Preprocessor (PHP) is the most popular server-side scripting language on the world wide web. This guide is designed to introduce programmers familiar with other programming languages to PHP.
This guide will take the form of a series of posts that will cover PHP from the basics to intermediate level. In this post I will cover code delimiters, comments and PHP statements.
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A standards based pure CSS design that is full of rounded rectangles and soft shadows. An ideal theme for a blog or personal site, roundedcorner is free for most uses. I would appreciate it if you did not remove the link to my site in the footer of each page. This theme has 3 variations included in the zip file.
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