Sep
19

Tutorial: create animated favicon

Valters BožeDevelopment, search engine optimization, webComments (2)

Animated favicon is supported only by Firefox, for now. (Are you still using Internet Explorer??
) If you don`t know how to create a simple favicon – just put an icon file with name “favicon.ico” in your web root folder (e.g. www.yourdomain.com/favicon.ico).

Animated favicons are stored in .gif image. You can see an example of animated icon at information security awareness blog , it shows in the address bar and on the tab. You can create it yourself using some gif animation software or exporting from Adobe Flash (I do it). When you have your gif icon ready, upload both “favicon.ico” and “favicon.gif” to your web root folder, then add this code to your webpage somewhere between <head> and </head> tags:

Aug
28

Google`s fight against spam

Valters Božesearch engine optimization, webNo Comments

Google search engine results depend on some defined behaviour or algorithm. There have always been some clues in patents on how these algorithms work. There have been thousands of patents and you never know if they will be implemented in search engines algo, but you can definitely see the direction that Google is going – human editorial approach.

To get better SERP (search engine result pages) results, algorithm will not count on links or page rank only, but on human reported sites like Dmoz.org directory entries and others. so the system is semi-automatic.

Jul
10

Google subdomain exploit

Valters Božesearch engine optimization, webNo Comments

If you`re interested in SEO, then you should subscribe to www.sitepronews.com newsletter. They always have good articles (dunno if they are original or “private label articles”).

Latest article by Eric Lester is about exploiting in google`s algorithm and how one guy filled Googles index with few billion sp@m pages. He explains that Google indexes each subdomain as independent, so on one domain you could generate countless pages with keywords and AdSense ads. In some previous article they stated, that subdomains add PR to the original domain, so this is even more useful for those who practice “artificial SEO”.

Jul
7

Google Conversion University helps out!

Valters Božesearch engine optimization, webComment (1)

Google analytics is one of the best free tools for web statistics, but now Google makes another step towards web developers. Google posted about its Conversion University – online resource for SEO tactics and optimizing your web page for better conversions (both Adsense and organic). Right now the “university” offers articles in 4 categories:

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