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HTML Cheat Sheet Plus Many More

Today I came across a website that offers a variety of cheat sheets or reference cards if you will. Among them were an HTML Cheat Sheet and a CSS Cheat Sheet. The website is called Added Bytes and is ran by a guy named Dave Child from the UK and his cheat sheets are free to download. Read more »

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Prevent DMOZ Description From Showing in Search Engine Results

Sometimes when looking at search engine results, the descriptions will be something other than the meta description or snippets from the site. In most cases, this is the result of the search engine showing the DMOZ description instead.

If you have a site listed in DMOZ and you don’t want the description to show up in the search engine results, then add this simple meta tag in the head section of your site. Read more »

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How to Use Div Tags for CSS Layout?

In our last lesson, we went over how to create navigation menus using lists. Our design to this point seems kind of bland and boring so we are going to cover some basic CSS styles so we can style our page and make it look more like the end product. Read more »

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Enter Your Website or Nominate Other Websites for the About.com Reader’s Choice Awards

About.com is having their annual reader’s choice awards. This is a chance to nominate a site or submit your site for a variety of topics. Topics this year include: Read more »

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How You Can Rank Higher in Search Engines

SEO companies can really enhance the performance of your search engine rankings. This can be a lengthy process depending on the competitive strength of your niche. It can also be an expensive process as well.

What can you do yourself to make a difference in your rankings without paying an SEO company? Here is a list of 7 on page optimization tips you can implement that, if done correctly, will have a positive impact on your site. Read more »

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Navigation Menus with List Styles

This is our 3^rd installment for our HTML 101 series. Today we will be adding the navigation menu for our website. We will accomplish this by creating a list menu. We will also create a placeholder page to link to from the navigation menu. Let’s get started. Read more »

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What is a Sitemap?

Before we jump straight into creating a sitemap let’s just briefly review what a sitemap is. Sitemaps are basically a map of your site. It defines the URL structure and helps search engines know what is contained in your site so search engines can find those pages. Read more »

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You Must Pay to Play in Google

There have been a rash of blogs and forums who have noted a strange phenomenon of Google Local Listings not displaying their niche businesses anymore. These niches range from Web Design, Search Engine Marketing, to Real Estate.  Apparently,  according to Google, there was a glitch in a fix they rolled out and this caused some additional mishaps. This caused the map to disappear completely from search results for these niche businesses. Read more »

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Nice Link Gathering Tool

Here is a great tool I found that allows you to gather links for search terms in Google that you can use to help plan out a link campaign. It is a slick tool created by Liam Delahunty of Online Sales. He calls it the Google Results Bookmarklet. Check it out.