Has Sunday been a sunny day in the UK or has the Panda Google’s update already stricken? Crawl rates show that the bots are done indexing the UK sites. It should be a matter of weeks. Any thoughts ?

Review of awR coming soon…

Your site’s design is the first thing people See
It should be a reflect of you in the Industry…

Make it easy for spider to crawl what you provide…

Everybody knows it is more flexible, better coding to write CSS yourself.

• But is it more efficient?

I am very bad at coding CSS.

• How can a grid help me out?

• Which CSS Framework should I chose SEOwise?

My requirements:

I am looking for a grid that is SEO friendly:Where I can push upp or down the different modules so that the navigation appears after the main content of the page.

I need a good control over the Font css.

The nominees are:

Two frameworks stands out:  Blueprint and YUI frameworks followed by960 CSS http://960.gs/ (less known but that might be more SEO friendly).

YUI framework:
+ Template columns are source-order independent, so you can put your most important content first in the markup layer for improved accessibility and search engine optimization (SEO).

- Does YUI framework provide us with semantic CSS?

Clear Cache of local install
symfony freeze

in web/.htaccess

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Options +FollowSymLinks +ExecCGI
 
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
  RewriteEngine On
 
  AddType x-mapp-php5 .php
  AddHandler x-mapp-php5 .php
 
  # UNCOMMENT the following line, if you are having trouble getting no_script_name to work
  #RewriteBase /

  # we skip all files with .something
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} \..+$
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !\.html$
  RewriteRule .* - [L]
 
  # we check if the .html version is here (caching)
  RewriteRule ^$ index.html [QSA]
  RewriteRule ^([^.]+)$ $1.html [QSA]
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
 
  # no, so we redirect to our front web controller
  RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php [QSA,L]
</IfModule>
 
# big crash from our front web controller
ErrorDocument 500 "<h2>Application error</h2>symfony application failed to start properly"

in web/php.ini

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magic_quotes_gpc = off
magic_quotes_runtime = off
magic_quotes_sybase = off

Do the switch in databases.yml and propel.ini

Through the study of the backlinks of your site or the one of your competitor, you can tell many things:

• Who gives you natural backlinks,
• which kind of sites do they have,
• what demografics the web master belong to…

But to make a thorough study over time you need to start somewhere and scrap your (competitors) backlinks;

You can do it by scraping yahoo site explorer or in a more elegant way through Yahoo API. Lets try the API solution http://developer.yahoo.com/search/siteexplorer/V1/inlinkData.html

Set the variables

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<?php
 
$api_service_url = "http://search.yahooapis.com/SiteExplorerService/V1/inlinkData";
$apiid = "Your Key";
$query  = "languagekompis.com";
$entire_site  = "";   // "1" to provide results for the entire site
$omit_inlinks = "domain";
$linksperrequest = 10;   // 100 is max value
$startposition = 1;
 
$request_url = sprintf("%s?appid=%s&query=%s&entire_site=%s&omit_inlinks=%s&output=php", $api_service_url, $apiid, urlencode($query), $entire_site, $omit_inlinks);

unserialize() the Yahoo response into an array $data["ResultSet"]["Result"]

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$currentpos = 0;
while ($currentpos++ >= 0) {
 
   // Formating API request url
   $requrl = sprintf("%s&start=%s&results=%s", $request_url, ($currentpos-1)*$linksperrequest+$startposition, $linksperrequest);
 
   // Handle errors
   if (($content = file_get_contents($requrl)) === FALSE ) {
   echo "HTTP error: $requrl
";
   exit;
   }
 
   // Unserialize data from response
   $data = unserialize($content);
 
   if (!array_key_exists("ResultSet", $data)) {
   echo "Error: Bad response from server
";
   exit;
   }
 
   // Extracting each link from array
   for ($i=0; $i<sizeof($data["ResultSet"]["Result"]); $i++) {
      $url = $data["ResultSet"]["Result"][$i]["Url"];
      $title = $data["ResultSet"]["Result"][$i]["Title"];
 
      echo '<p><a href="'.$url.'">'.$title.'</a></p>';
 
 
   }
 
   // End loop if no more results
   if (sizeof($data["ResultSet"]["Result"]) < $linksperrequest) break;
}
 
?>

done. Get the title and more from the yahoo response! Yahoo api

5 reasons why I want to be an SEO Expert:

1. For any Internet Business, a good SEO Strategy is the key success factor. SEO is life. No matter how good the business model or the application are, the site will not perform, buried in the SERP.
2. Being on top of SEO requires the willingness to continuously discover and adapt. The fast pace of SEO world and the Real Time Optimization offer exciting new challenges.
3. SEO Expert is at a very strategic position. At the crossing of all departments, the SEO expert is in the driver seat and is accountable for the success of their strategy.
4. The SEO needs to cooperate with people across the organization so its traffic acquisition strategy is implemented with success.
5. Finally, there are no universities where you can learn SEO: It is learning by doing and the firm is certainly the best place to develop these skills.

6 reasons why I should be a SEO specialist

6 reasons why I could be an SEO Specialist.

• I have a Master of Sc. in computer network which I believe can give me the analytical skills required for this position.
• I have for a year now, closely monitored the analytics of my site, proposed bounce rate analysis, carried out the “on site” optimization and suggested new keywords to target.
• In 2008, I developed a language exchange community from scratch. I used basic “on site” optimization techniques. Today the site ranks for competitive keywords and the community counts more than 1800 members
  Through this project, I also manage a small team of volunteers that help me develop this project.
  Daily, I use tools such as Google analytics, site catalyst, Google Webmaster Tools, Semrush to analyze web traffic and fine tune my site.
• Business minded? My freelance consultancy experience taught the basic rules of running a business: Respecting my customers and their money. It taught me that they were no shortcuts, and that it was better to chose experience over money. I am also graduated of an MBA specialized in market finance…
• I am entrepreneurial and will gladly share some example of the project I have been working on that should benefit the company.

5 reasons why I want to be an SEO Expert

or how not to give a link in exchange of a link.

In the HTTP header, we can set the X-Robots-Tag :

header("X-Robots-Tag: noindex", true);

will prevent search engines from showing the file.

However, you could prevent search engines from following the links on those pages, by doing the following:

 header("X-Robots-Tag: nofollow", true);

The links on the page will appear as followed when they are not followed.