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Using Social Networks to get more Google Juice

Posted on by Ankit Gupta

Hello readers, I hope you are benefiting from Part 1 and Part 2 of Google Juice: Hard to Get but Tasty to Drink Series. As promised, I am here with Part 3 of this Google Juice Series in which I am going to share with you a very effective trick to place your website quicker and higher up in Google Search results.

Are you wondering how promoting your pages on Social Networks can get you more Google Juice? Well, let me explain this with an example:

Search Google for the term Floral V/S Grunge, the first result will point you to one of my earlier posts. Now take a closer look at the other search results.

Did you notice something? Observe a bit carefully and be surprised! You’ll see that the Floral VS Grunge post is listed on almost all major services like Flickr, Digg, BlogCatalog, Twitter, Friendfeed, Facebook, and many more. And all of them are indexed in Google and on the very first page!

Wow! How does it all work?

This is no big secret! It’s only a technique for some Google Juice from various social networking websites. All the services that you saw in the search results are those communities-based social networks that I use to keep in touch with my friends, family, and lovely readers. All I did after publishing a post was to share the Post Title and the Permalink with all my contacts on different social networks. This way I get a lot of people to visit my posts on the website and the real magic is Google Juice that comes along.  When you search for relevant terms, many of the listed results will point to your post/page either directly or indirectly. You get the point, right!!

But isn’t this spamming?

No. It is absolutely not. I just shared my post with only my contacts that have chosen to receive updates from me. People follow me on Twitter because they want to keep a track of whatever I do. Subscribers want me to update them with new posts and pages. If I set my Facebook, Orkut, or IM status to a link pointing to my blog posts, I am not spamming anyone’s social profiles or emails!

I am not sending anyone any emails to buy my services whatsoever. I just created something and I am sharing it. Sharing is caring, not spamming!

So, how do I go about with this?

Start using social networks. Create an account on MyBlogLog (Yahoo), BlogCatalog, Twitter, Friendfeed, Facebook, Twitter, StumbleUpon, Digg, Plurk, Del.icio.us, etc. There are hundreds of them all around the Internet. Find some time to read reviews and do research on which ones will be the most useful for you and how much time you can spare to spend on these. What I feel is that the few moments you can spare to spend on promoting your posts effectively for a little extra Google Juice. Worth it, man!

And, to make your life easier…

Now, I am going to recommend to you, an awesome service that will save you a lot of time and effort. It’s definitely going to make your life a lot easier! Ping.FM is a service that you can use to share your stuff and thoughts on multiple websites with just one click. It is exactly like the website puts it, “Ping.fm is a simple service that makes updating your social networks a snap.”

I know time is precious, and so here you go with Ping.FM, But some more icing on the cake is always nice. So I’d further go on to share this nifty Firefox Add-on – PingFire. PingFire is a Firefox add-on for Ping.FM service. It adds a tiny button in your browser which helps to use this service with great ease and comfort.

To use PingFire, you need to update your username and application key in the add-on options. You will find your application key at //ping.fm/key/ and you need to be logged in to Ping.fm to access this URI. So go ahead, implement these simple tips and extract some Google Juice out of social networks that you use.

I hope you enjoyed reading this post and learned something new! I’ve more in store for you but I’ll keep them for a later post. Please feel free to share some of your SEO tips. Drop us a comment using the form below. Your comments and feedback are valuable and much appreciated.

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Why I use WordPress as CMS?

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If you think WordPress is yet another blogging platform, take a quick look at other pages of iogoos.com (right from the homepage). Do you really think we could do this with  “Just-Another-Blogging-Software”? Absolutely not!!

Custom Pages, Custom Widgets, Photo Galleries, Portfolio, eCommerce! What, out of these, and even more hasn’t been set up using WordPress.

Only recently, I updated my portfolio with more websites that I had finished, which were not under non-disclosure policy. After adding these projects in my portfolio, I realized that in accomplishing 90% of my work, WordPress plays the role of a CMS. With all the work done so far I am amazed by just how much of its capability I have discovered and how much of it is still unknown to me. Here are a few things that my clients ask when I recommend using WordPress, even for static websites, and what I’ve to say to back my recommendation.

Is it easy to use?

It is The Most Robust and Feature-Filled Platform, which is not only easy to use, but also, very much user friendly. So far all my clients are really happy with the decision to use WordPress as a backend. Moreover, WordPress.tv has made our lives much easier. I refer my clients to this website to learn the features and backend functionality while I am busy creating the best solutions for their requirements.

I need a blog as well…

I guess everyone has realized the value of blogging for their personal and professional web presence by now and most of my clients ask for a blogging platform with a unique and custom website design. It’s really easy to create a few custom pages within WordPress, rather than, creating a WordPress theme that matches the website design. And its really easy to embed WordPress features on these static web pages.

What about Search Engine Optimization?

I am pretty sure you are not new to this term and would want your website to be listed in top search results. With WordPress, you can use plugins like All in One SEO Pack, just to name some, that does most of the work without user intervention. SEO is a wide topic and there’s a lot that needs to be done to achieve good search engine rankings. However, a WordPress installation with a few plugins can help you get there without much hard work. You might want to check a few posts I have written on search engine optimization.

What all WordPress can do?

Honestly, I can’t deny that after using WordPress I haven’t even cared to search for any other CMS. WordPress is an amazing platform which can be customized to create Personal websites, Portfolio, e-Commerce, Galleries and Photo Blogs, Magazine or News websites, Article Libraries and a lot more. If you are comfortable with custom functions and template tags you can actually do wonders with just a single custom WordPress theme.

I don’t know programming?

While creating websites for my clients, I make sure they don’t have to spend their valuable time learning xHTML/CSS to update their websites. I have taken WordPress customization to next level where it provides a separate section in admin area to update the front end of our custom themes. It also has WYSIWYG capabilities where you can update and stylize the content which is not a part of WordPress post or page.

Moreover, these custom functions don’t save any data in core WordPress database tables (wp_options) so there’s no chance it won’t work with any other plugins and features.

Here’s a screenshot of Custom Theme Options I provide to make my client’s life a bit easier.

Theme settings

That’s not all, to add a few more features in the list…

  • WordPress is Free and Opensource
  • WordPress is easy to install and upgrade
  • WordPress is standard compliant
  • WordPress is Popular (CNET, Ford, ZDNET and various other popular sites has used WordPress as a CMS)
  • Free support from a vibrant and amazing community of developers and contributors
  • Huge amount of documentation is available
  • Plugins are available for almost everything you can think of

I bet no other CMS can compete with this master piece. If you are using WordPress as CMS please drop your website links in comments. Don’t try to spam as a very powerful spam protection plugin (Akismet) comes with its default installation 😀

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An easy way to create Loading Bar!

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“People count up the faults of those who keep them waiting”
Seems like I kept them busy decoding this loading bar 😀

Recently, while browsing I landed on a page on StackOverflow.com where people were discussing how I implemented this loading bar on www.iogoos.com I could sense a lot of confusion in the discussion so thought I would take the mystery out as I love to share best practices. Here’s how you can create a loading bar in a few steps…

Things You’ll Need

  1. A nice loading image: If you are good at creating animated GIF images that are nice, otherwise you can create a loading image with this cool Ajax Loading Gif Generator.
  2. jQuery: We are creating this loading bar using jQuery so download the jQuery latest version here.

jQuery Code within <head>..</head> tags

<script type=text/javascript src=jquery.js></script>
<script type=text/javascript>
$(window).load(function(){
      $("#loading").hide();
})
</script>

HTML Code within <body>..</body>tags

<div id="loading">
    Loading content, please wait..
    <img src=loading.gif alt="loading.." />
</div>

Make sure you add this code just below the starting <body> tag so it should be downloaded first.

CSS Code for loading DIV

#loading {
    position:absolute;
    width:300px;
    top:50px;
    left:50%;
    margin-left:-150px;
    text-align:center;
    padding: 10px;
    font:bold 11px Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
    background: #222222;
    color: #ffffff;
}

Use your imagination and create something nice & unique.

Your comment, suggestion, and feedback are highly appreciated. There’s more to come to stay tuned…

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CSS Tips – Get Consistent Results in All Browsers

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Web standards are prevailing guidelines used on the World Wide Web to ensure websites and information is accessible to all in the most efficient manner. Most Web browsers have different default settings for the base margin and padding.

This means that if you don’t set a margin and padding on your body and XHTML tags, you could get inconsistent results on the page depending upon which browser your users are using to view the page. A simple way to solve this is to set all the margin and padding on the XHTML and body tags to 0:

html, body {
    margin: 0px;
    padding: 0px;
}

This will keep your design structure in the same place on all browsers.

Borders

You may be thinking “but no browsers have a border around the body element by default”. This is not strictly true. Internet Explorer has a transparent or invisible border around elements. Unless you set the border to 0, that border will mess up your web page layouts. So add the following to your body and XHTML styles:

html, body {
    margin: 0px;
    padding: 0px;
    border: 0px;
}

Here’s a nice and detailed article on CSS Reset: Resetting Your Styles with CSS Reset Stay tuned for more web design tips.

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Enable Auto-Complete Search in WordPress Blog!

Posted on by Ankit Gupta

“One sometimes finds what one is not looking for”

I am pretty sure that you are aware of Google Search Suggest and Yahoo Search Assist features. This feature helps you effortlessly find exactly what you’re looking for. No doubt, it lists a few suggestions to keep the user looking for more and more.

As you type something in the search box, it automatically offers search terms and phrases in real-time. How nice will it be to have the same feature on your website or blog. In this post, I am going to explain an easy way to add a search suggestion feature to your WordPress blog or website.

Things You’ll Need

jQuery: You can download the latest version from jQuery.com
Autocomplete Plugin: Download this plug-in by JÜrn Zaefferer from //bassistance.de

Now let’s play with some code

Include this code within <head>..</head> tag.

<script type=text/javascript src=js/jquery.js></script>
<script type=text/javascript src=js/jquery.autocomplete.pack.js></script>
<link href="js/jquery.autocomplete.css" rel="stylesheet" media="screen" type=text/css />

Here I am assuming you are using “js” folder to keep all your java scripts and supported files. You may need to update the location of these files based on your folder setup.

Here’s the actual jQuery code to enable this feature on an input box:

<script type=text/javascript>
    var data = "Search Terms Separated With Spaces".split(" ");  
    $("#myInputBox").autocomplete(data);
</script>

Variable “data” hold the terms that you would like the user to see in the search suggestion list and $(“#myInputBox”) is the id of the search input box.

Let’s check out how we can automatically call WordPress tags in our search suggestions, using WordPress wpdb class:

<?php 
    global $wpdb;
    $search_tags = $wpdb->get_results('SELECT name FROM $wpdb->terms');
    foreach ($search_tags as $mytag){
        echo $mytag->name. ' ';
    }
?>

Here I am using WordPress wpdb class to fetch all tags assigned to the posts.

Here’s the complete code to enable this feature on your WordPress blog. Just replace the folder name with actual folder and the jQuery selector $(“#myInputBox”) with the actual id of search input box.

<script type=text/javascript src=PATH_TO/jquery.autocomplete.pack.js></script>
<link href="PATH_TO/jquery.autocomplete.css" rel="stylesheet" media="screen" type=text/css />
<!-- This goes in the head -->
<script type=text/javascript>
	$(document).ready(function(){  
		var data = '<?php global $wpdb; $search_tags = $wpdb->get_results("SELECT name FROM $wpdb->terms"); foreach ($search_tags as $mytag){ echo $mytag->name. " "; } ?>'.split(" ");
		$("#ID_OF_SEARCH_INPUT_BOX").autocomplete(data);  
	});
</script>

Don’t forget to add your inputs in the comments section below.

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How to read minified CSS with ease?

Posted on by Ankit Gupta

Today we have a quick tip for those who feel depressed and cry when they see the holy grail of CSS in one single line in their website/theme stylesheets.

Recently I started hearing from a lot of people complaining about their theme developers using minified CSS in their themes for maximizing performance without any consideration for their ease of use/customization. People keep asking me if there are tools that convert minified CSS back to normal human-readable form and recently someone even asked me to do a job – normalize some minified stylesheets (of course I didn’t do it and rob him off!)

Whether or not developers should minify CSS when giving out themes/websites has been a subject of debate for a long time but why developers choose to minify some parts of their stylesheets has often been overlooked. Performance issues for larger projects, minifying the reset styles (you don’t have to change them anyway!) and non-developer license are just some of the reasons!

Anyway, coming back to the subject of this post – How can you read minified CSS with ease?
(No, we are not going to install any 3rd party software!)

Simply validate the CSS (only the minified part if you have other files attached as well) in question using the W3C’s CSS Validation service!

The output of the validation check is:

  1. whether or not, your CSS validates to standards set by W3C.
  2. Normal, Properly Formatted, and Easily Readable version of your minified/compressed CSS

Do you need to keep the formatted and decompressed CSS? Just copy it from the validation output and replace your version. Voila!

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An easy way to create a login panel with jQuery and CSS

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Among many studies conducted to find out just what influences people’s perception of a website’s credibility, one interesting finding is that users really do judge a book by its cover… or rather, a website by its design.

Rapid changes in design trends are driving focus towards its usability. More and more features are being zipped into a plain and simple design for users to get bountiful results without spending more than a jiffy. The back-end coding is the key device to achieve this simplicity in design.

Keeping this mind, I’ve designed a small script to introduce a sliding login box into your website, just as you see in Twitter login page. The script comprises jQuery & CSS techniques to display this arty feature. Checkout the code below and try it yourself or simply download the ready to use files.

HTML

<div id="demo-header">

	<!-- Code for Login Link -->
	<a id="login-link" title="Login" href="#login">Clients Area</a>

	<!-- Code for login panel -->
	<div id="login-panel">
		<form action="" method="post">
			<label>Username: <input type=text name=username value="" /> </label>
			<label>Password: <input type=password name=password value="" /> </label>
			<input type=submit name=submit value="Sign In" /> <small>Press ESC to close</small>
		</form>
	</div>

</div>

CSS

<style type=text/css>

    a{text-decoration:none;}

    #demo-header{
        width: 980px;
        margin: 0 auto;
        position: relative;
    }
    #login-link{
        position: absolute;
        top: 0px;
        right: 0px;
        display: block;
        background: #2a2a2a;
        padding: 5px 15px 5px 15px;
        color: #FFF;
    }
    #login-panel{
        position: absolute;
        top: 26px;
        right: 0px;
        width: 190px;
        padding: 10px 15px 5px 15px;
        background: #2a2a2a;
        font-size: 8pt;
        font-weight: bold;
        color: #FFF;
        display: none; 
    }
    label{
        line-height: 1.8;
    }
</style>

jQuery

<script src=//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.11.0/jquery.min.js></script>
<script type=text/javascript>

	// jQuery to apply actions to the link
	$(document).ready(function(){
	    $("#login-link").click(function(){
	        $("#login-panel").slideToggle(200);
	    })
	})

	//jQuery to apply actions to the ESC key
	$(document).keydown(function(e) {
	    if (e.keyCode == 27) {
	        $("#login-panel").hide(0);
	    }
	});

</script>
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WordPress Themes & Why You Should Have Unique Design

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When you have a website or blog you want to stand out from all the other websites, which is why having a good WordPress theme that sets you apart is so critical. There are millions of websites that are run using WordPress and with that, there are many themes out there that are being used many times over. This can cause your website to look like many other websites if you are using one of the standard themes out there.

If you can find a theme or someone to create a WordPress theme for you that is unique, you will be one step ahead in terms of branding and making your website stand out. Free WordPress themes are not the best way to go because anyone can have the same exact design as you. Not only will it not stand out to your visitors, but search engines as well. If someone comes across your website and they have seen that design before, they may think twice about visiting your site again.

The search engines will also see your site as the same as many other websites on the web. This can play a role in your website ranking well for any keywords that you want to be ranking for. Search engines have been cracking down on all the non-unique, or otherwise spam-type websites. One way that the search engines will see your site as a spam site is the design and layout. If your website is the same as millions of other websites, they will automatically put your website on hold until it creates some authority.

In conclusion, the best way to create brand equity and build a brand for yourself or your company is to have a unique design. Visitors and search engines will see your website as a legitimate source for quality information or products.

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Why Keyword Research is Key?

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Good keyword research is the foundation of a successful SEO strategy. Without good keywords, all of your hard work writing SEO-friendly content, optimizing your title tags, getting rid of duplicate content and all of that fun stuff will be much less effective and, in some cases maybe even fruitless.

Keyword research is more than picking out keywords that fit your niche or offer. It requires gaining insight into patterns and searcher intent.

I encountered a great example of this very recently while looking to increase the volume of inquiries for “L1 Visas”, a type of US work visa, to a local immigration law firm. At first glance, one might think it logical to target keywords in the “L1 Visa” theme. But after doing a little research and giving it some thought, I found that this keyword is searched very infrequently and that it is very likely that the searcher making this query is researching L1Visas, and is probably not ready to seek out a lawyer for assistance.

Instead, you may want to target keyword themes that have higher search volumes and are more likely to reflect the kind of searcher intent that is going to bring you conversions. In other words, you want to get into the searcher’s way just when they are looking for what you offer, which of course is the beauty of SEO and the reason why search traffic can be so valuable.

With that in mind, it is very important to gain a complete and comprehensive understanding of your potential keywords before you do any SEO at all so that you know what trees you should be barking up. But where do you start? Here are six easy steps to keyword success:

Brainstorm: Take some time to think about all possible keywords themes that would be relevant to your business and offers. Think short-tail and don’t worry about permutations (i.e. “L1 visa” and “visa L1”), this part will come later. For now, just gather all of the root themes together into a list.

Use a keyword tool: At this point, you should engage a keyword tool to help you get more ideas and gather data. The Google Keyword Tool is ever-improving, is free, and in my opinion is pretty much all you need if used right. Plug in all of your keyword ideas – only one or a few at a time – and try to pare them down to just the relevant ones since the tool tends to include some not-so-relevant suggestions. Play with it to get to know how it works.

Build a list: Most if not all keyword tools will allow you to export your research results to Excel format. As you find more keywords, export them all to a spreadsheet. Clear out all of the less important stuff, which will usually leave you with search volume (local and global, or whatever makes sense for your campaign) and average Adwords CPC. Organize all of your keywords into themes, and sort each theme by the search volume.

Do a ranking scan: If your site is brand new, skip this part, but if you have been around for at least a few months, find out where you are ranking for all of your most relevant keywords (keep it under one or two hundred for now). Record this on your spreadsheet.

Look at your Analytics: Again, skip this part of your site is new. Here, you want to look at your Analytics to see how much traffic and/or conversions and/or revenue you are getting to each of your top keywords. Record this on your spreadsheet.

Spot opportunities: Now you have a complete and comprehensive keyword data set with which you can make informed choices and decisions. This document should give you directions. Look for your best opportunities. An example of an ideal keyword is one where you are ranked somewhere on the second page and where you are already getting a fairly significant volume of traffic/conversions/revenue. This keyword is a sitting duck – you know that getting your site onto the first page for this keyword is going to make you more money.

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Blockbuster BigCommerce Annual Partner 2021 Recognitions

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The most imaginative and along – allowing BigCommerce desk and technology consorts across America, EMEA and APAC are feted for their devotedness in aiding dealers to come off and dress during trailing demand inconstancies.


AUSTIN, Texas – March 2, 2022 – BigCommerce (Nasdaq BIGC), a guiding Open SaaS eCommerce podium for swift-raising and showed B2C and B2B trademarks, here and now uncloaked the blockbusters of the 2021 BigCommerce Partner Accolades. nowadays in its fourth time, the periodic accolades calendar recognizes highest – doing consorts among BigCommerce’s general mesh of fresh than desk and technology consorts. This time’s blockbusters are feted for their owing devotedness and fealty to feeding BigCommerce dealers with definitive technology and benevolences claimed to flourish, dress, and come off through unheard-of demand inconstancies.


“BigCommerce’s public, best-of-species consort ecosystem continues to secern our podium and redeem indeed lesser creation to an assiduity that has endured both unheard-of exceptions and stimulating excrescence,” passed Russell Klein, prime corporate officer at BigCommerce. “With that, this time’s periodic Partner Accolades image the owing fealty our blockbusters position ahead into aiding our dealers catch and overbear account expectancies and flourish against demand inconstancies. We’re feted to command you as our consorts and act along to unceasing supernova concurrently. Congratulations!”


The 2021 BigCommerce Partner Accolades pressed 17 full leagues across the Americas, APAC and EMEA areas whose appliers were assessed by a commission of BigCommerce retainers and archons. The accolades feted one success for each league grounded on their achievement’s individual to the geographic demesne in which they handle. This time’s blockbusters are Agency Partner of the Year Rewarded to Certified BigCommerce desk consorts that command showed devotedness to enduing in the podium, administering for customers and generating revelatory custom over the concluding time.


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