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Tips to Optimize Your Website Design for SEO

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When it comes to SEO, you can approach it in many more ways than just placing keywords in your website content. One such way is through the design and layout of your website; search engines emulate a user, and so if you want to get ranked you have to have a website that is functional and can actually be used by the public. Here are my top 10 tips to make sure you get the most out of SEO using web design.<br /><br />Pure HTML<br />Make sure that your HTML is as clean and easy for search engines to read as possible. Use whitespace to your advantage so that things can be easily viewed; if you have different web languages mismatched all over the place you’ll find your search engine ranking lower than a similar website which has clean, clear code. <br /><br />Simple page names<br />Try to use simple page names where possible. If you had a FAQ page, call it FAQ.html, rather than something obscure that can be misinterpreted such as Freq_asks.html. Simple, clear names that utilize keywords will mean that your website is not only easier for the public to view (sometimes people like to glance at the URL rather than page title) but will rank you highly in the search engine results pages. Avoid numbering your pages as page1.html, page2.html etc. as much as possible, and avoid any symbols. If you stick to alphanumeric characters you’re on the right track. <br /><br />Keywords in Meta tags<br />The <meta> tag is neglected by some web designers, but this is a mistake which can be deadly for SEO. You want to use Meta tags to point search engines at the key words they should be looking for on your page, as well as a short description of what the page is about. While there are definitely other aspects of SEO that take precedence nowadays, Meta tags should never be completely neglected.<br /><br />Remember your W3C guidelines<br />As previously stated you want to make the job of SEO spiders as simple as possible. By using the W3C guidelines on web design you should make this job easier for them, thus improving your ranking. Always get your web code validated using the online validation pages on the W3C website – you’ll regret it if you don’t.<br /><br />Consider your navigation<br />As great as they are for the everyday user, search bars aren’t useful for search engines because they want to index your entire website, not specific pages that they search for. This means that you should have a navigation tree that is easy to use and lists every page. A good rule of thumb is to make sure that any page can be reached within three clicks of the mouse – if it takes longer, you need to look at your navigation. Making things as easy for your visitors and search engine spiders as possible is the first rule of SEO. <br /><br />Hide incomplete or duplicate pages<br />Search engines will penalize your website for having copies of the same web page, or for having pages that are broken or incomplete. Make sure that you implement blocking code on your web pages that you want to hide so that they don’t impede your ranking. Shopping websites will do this for the various checkout pages that they have; they don’t add anything to the website, and will qualify as duplicate pages which brings down rankings. <br /><br />Use headers<br />The <h1> tag is another part of HTML that you shouldn’t ignore. They point the search engine spider towards what the page is about, and show the various sections that should be crawled. Without header tags the job of indexing your website is harder, and thus your ranking may not be as high as it otherwise would be. Once again – make things simple and you’re doing SEO correctly. <br /><br />On a .html page, only list HTML<br />Most websites nowadays use CSS and JavaScript as their website coding languages, but list .html as the page extension. This is a mistake unless you are externalizing the script. If you do use CSS or JavaScript, save them in a separate document and link to them using HTML; your website will still function the same, but it will make the job of the spider a lot easier and your code will look cleaner. It also makes it easier on your part when you are editing scripts – there’s no chance that you will edit the wrong piece of code because all of your languages are isolated in separate documents.<br /><br />Have a section to reflect updates<br />Search engines like to show content on the first results page that is regularly updated. Include a section on your website that lists the last time a page was updated, or a specific part of the page where you can list new updates on the website. If you run a blog, you might want to make sure that there’s always room to add more sections and keep the site alive – stale, rarely updated websites don’t feature very highly on search engines.<br /><br />Add in ALT text on images<br />It can be easy to forget, but a good SEO tip is to make sure that the ALT text on an image tag is filled in correctly. This is because although it’s rare, sometimes images won’t load when a visitor is browsing your website and the ALT text will allow them to understand what the image should be of. For search engine spiders it points out what the image is of, regardless of whether it loads. The title tag is somewhat less important, but still useful to have filled out for users browsing your web page. <br /><br />Author’s bio:<br />The guest post is written by Sonia Jackson from <a href="http://www.cool-essays.com/" target="_blank">http://www.cool-essays.com</a>. 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Growing Demand for Web Developers

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It is hard to image how life must have been without technology. Today, we can talk to loved ones living at the other end of the globe by making a phone call or even video chat at a considerable rate as and when we want. It has indeed made our lives much easier. Not just communication, but the very of living which include the necessities of food, clothes and shelter, are influenced by it. We are unable to move a step without it. The unthinkable can now be thought with the establishment of digital age.<br />
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When Charles Babbage invented the computer, little did we know that computers would control our lives. For a common person today, his phone is able to deliver him all round news, music, videos, chatting facility, social media browsing and the ability to make a call! This is the extent of application of computers. Almost everyone needs to use the internet for some purpose or the other. This is where the role of web technology comes in.</div>
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Web development:</h3>
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The term web development refers to the process involved in designing a website for making it available on the internet or for private network. The work may include designing a simple page or complicated applications for the internet, social media or electronic business.  For professional web developers, the term usually means coding and markup.</div>
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The web development service has a wide range of functions today. It includes solutions for e-commerce, web designing, web hosting, content designing, services for application development and applications customizing web. Those that require the internet to increase their sales development use this field. It is much easier to design a web page but when it comes to making improvements and maintenance, one has to keep an eye on the changing trends to make the webpage more user-friendly and popular.</div>
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Software involved in web development:</h3>
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In a market where everyone is trying to topple the other, remaining on the top is a matter of hard work and intelligence combined. One has to provide the best process for customer building. That is the only way he can remain at the top. This requires many modifications, as one has to continuously strategize to make his e-commerce solution or website unique and popular. There are tools that help to link the website one designs in the top list of search engines. Web developers normally have knowledge on languages like HTML, Flash, DHTML, CGI and other such languages. They are also experts in designing languages like JAVA, ASP, PHP, NET, etc.</div>
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Areas of focus for a web developer:</h3>
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•    Gathering required information<br />
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•    Design <br />
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•    Test and delivery<br />
•    Performing maintenance</div>
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The demand for web developers has greatly increased as the use of internet has gained widespread attention. Whether in business or public sector, in hospitals or hotel industry, sports or education; the use of the internet and websites are indispensable. So is the need of a web developer.<br />
Description: The use of the internet is evidently growing. Web developers are the ones who are the brain behind the popularity of websites and internet surfing.<br />
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C/C++ on Android

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C and its brother C++ are very powerful languages having a lot of support all over. Looks like fame of these languages have penetrated into the world of smartphones.<br />
As the tittle says, the Android phones will now be able to compile as well as run C/C++ programs.<br />
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Thanks to sourceLair for their wonderful app which makes us code on our own phone! The news comes with a cherry on the top, which is that the App is totally for free! It even gives us many options for customizing the application for better experience.<br />
Here is the link to the App<br />
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<a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sourcelair.androidapp&feature=related_apps" target="_blank">Google Play™ - sourceLair</a><br />
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Along with sourceLair, <a class="doc-header-link" href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=n0n3m4">n0n3m4</a> a developer at Goggle Play as introduced us the C4Droid. Another excellent app for programming C/C++ on. Its also very affordable, just $ 1.50 (86 Rs.)<br />
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<a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.n0n3m4.droidc&hl=en" target="_blank">Google Play™ - C4Droid</a><br />
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These Apps take our programming life to the next level. I recommend it to every coder practicing C/C++. <br />
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C/C++ on Android

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The new HTML5 tags you need to know about

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<b><span style="font-size: small;">HTML5 brings a host of new elements and attributes to allow 
developers to make their documents more easily understood by other 
systems (especially search engines!), display data more uniquely, and 
take on some of the load that has required complex JavaScript or browser
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<span style="font-size: small;">1: <video> and <audio></span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: small;">One of the biggest uses for Flash, Silverlight, and similar 
technologies is to get a multimedia item to play. With HTML5 supporting 
the new video and audio controls, those technologies are now relegated 
to being used for fallback status. The browser can now natively display 
the controls, and the content can be manipulated through JavaScript. 
Don’t let the codec confusion scare you away. You can specify multiple 
sources for content, so you can make sure that your multimedia will play
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<span style="font-size: small;">2: <input> type attributes</span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The venerable <input> element now has a number of new values 
for the type attribute, and browsers do some pretty slick things 
depending on its value. For example, set type to “datetime” and browsers
 can show calendar/clock controls to pick the right time, a trick that 
used to require JavaScript. There is a wide variety of type attributes, 
and learning them (and the additional attributes that go with some of 
them) will eliminate the need for a lot of JavaScript work.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The <canvas> tag gives HTML a bitmapped surface to work with, 
much like what you would use with GDI+ or the .NET Image object. While 
<canvas> isn’t perfect (layers need to be replicated by using 
multiple canvas objects stacked on top of each other, for example), it 
is a great way to build charts and graphs, which have been a traditional
 weak spot in HTML, as well as custom graphics. And that is just a 
start!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">4: <header> and <footer></span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The <header> and <footer> tags are two of the new 
semantic tags available. These two tags do not get you anything above 
and beyond <div> for the actual display. But they will reap 
long-term rewards for your search engine efforts, since the search 
engines will be able to tell the difference between “content” and things
 that are important to the user but that aren’t the actual content.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">5: <article> and <section></span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The <article> and <section> tags are two more semantic 
tags that will boost your search engine visibility. Articles can be 
composed of multiple sections, and a section can have multiple articles.
 Confusing? Not really. An article represents a full block of content, 
and a section is a piece of a bigger whole. For example, if you are 
looking at a blog, the front page might have a section for the listing 
of all the posts, and each post would be an article with a section for 
the actual post and another for comments.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">6: <output></span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The new <output> tag is unique, in that it expects its content 
to be generated dynamically with JavaScript. It has a value attribute, 
which can be manipulated through the DOM with JavaScript to change what 
is displayed on the screen. This is much more convenient than the 
current ways of doing things.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">7: <details></span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: small;">It seems like every Web site needs to have an expanding/collapsing 
block of text. While this is easy enough to do with JavaScript or 
server-side code, the <details> tag makes it even easier. It does 
exactly what we’ve all been doing for years now: makes a simple block 
that expands and collapses the content when the header is clicked. The 
<details> tag does not have widespread support yet, but it will 
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<span style="font-size: small;">8: <figure> and <figcaption></span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><figure> is a container for content (typically images, but it 
can be anything), and <figcaption> (which gets put inside the 
<figure> tag) provides a caption or subtitle for the contents of 
the <figure> tag. For example, you could have four images 
representing charts of sales growth within a <figure> tag, and a 
<figcaption> with text like “Year-to-year sales growth, 1989 - 
1993.” The images would be shown next to each other with the text 
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<span style="font-size: small;">9: <progress>and <meter></span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><progress> and <meter> are similar. You use 
<progress> for a task or a “measure how complete something is” 
scenario. It also has an indeterminate mode for something that has an 
unknown duration (like searching a database). The <meter> tag is 
for gauges and measurements of value (thermometers, quantity used, 
etc.). While they may look alike on the screen in many cases, they do 
have different semantic meanings.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">10: <datalist></span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The <datalist> tag acts like a combo box, where the system 
provides a pre-made list of suggestions, but users are free to type in 
their own input as well. There are tons of possible uses for this, such 
as a search box pre-populated with items based on the user’s history. 
This is another one of those things that currently requires a bunch of 
JavaScript (or JavaScript libraries) to handle but that can be done 
natively with HTML5.</span></div>
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