Video on the net is really taking off if you haven’t noticed! There are so many great sources for video, bit it educational, news, music, sport or just the plain ridiculous.
So, where do you find all this great stuff? Well, a new search engine just in beta has launched aimed purely at video searches. You can try it out:
Enjoy.
Do you ever struggle to come up with a catchy domain name for your new sites? One that is also SEO friendly and still available?
Take a look at www.nameboy.com
You give the suggestion tool a primary and optional word for your domain name and it goes off and searches for all the available combinations and more. I found that some of the names were a bit whacky but did give me some ideas for other combinations.
As part of my ongoing Adsense experiment and trying to get the right ads to show I’ve tried another technique. Good SEO says that you should always add an "alt" tag to your web graphics and again, I don’t know the algorithms of the Google AdBot, but putting a lot more graphics with alt tags has definitely improved the relevancy of the ads.
You can also use what Google call "section targeting" by removing sections of content that you don’t think are highly relevant. By adding tags:
<!– google_ad_section_start –>
<!– google_ad_section_end –>
in your html code, you can decide which parts of the content you want Google Adsense to see. There is a whole section on Google Adsense section targeting here:
Google Adsense section targeting
Check back for Part 3 of Adsense Relevancy
Do your ads from Google Adsense sometimes seem to have little relevancy with regards to the content of the page? Generally, the keyword density in an article is enough to trigger the correct contextual ads but sometimes this just doesn’t seem to work. I have had a problematic page recently that would show generally the right ads but not the specific context I wanted. I changed the <h1> title, changed the first paragraph and increased the keyword density with little result.
In desperation I tried changing the meta keywords as these were a little general. I didn’t think that Google paid much attention to meta keywords anymore but unless this was pure coincidence it seemed to work. Maybe the Google AdsenseBot does look at these tags?
The more complex your site becomes, the more likely you are to use .htaccess and .htpasswd files to control access to directories and files. You can of course write your .htaccess files in a text editor but you will still have to encrypt the password into MD5 format.
There is an easier way of course, and that is to use one of the many .htaccess generators on the web. Just search for htaccess generators and you will find quite a few.
For a more sophisticated approach there is a FREE script from the people who wrote aMember called htEdit. This Perl script can be installed into the cgi-bin of your server and whenever you need to protect a file or directory you just call up the path to htEdit, browse for the file and follow the instructions. I have used this for years but only remembered how useful it was the other day when protecting a directory for a client.
Here’s the link:
htEdit free Perl Script
