Have you spent much time adding posts thumbnails using custom fields.. or -like me- spent much time trying many plugins that either not working well or very limited.
Meta keywords are very important to do better SEO for your blog.. And you should know that Search engines look for different description and keywords for each page of your site. If you put the same thing across all pages of your site, search engines may regard this as spam.
I saw lots of examples on how to add meta title/description based on the post title for Blogger/Blogspot. but I couldn't find one for using labels/Tags as meta keywords for each post.
Optimizing web pages for Google and other search engines is not enough. A successful concept for online marketing your blog or site has to be regarded in a more comprehensive way and must include the community [The Wisdom of Crowds!].
Web 2.0 is part of the community and vice versa. Social bookmarking is part of it, too. so you should make it as easy as possible for your visitors to bookmark your site. and gathering information on the best social bookmarking sites, their icons, submission URLs, and ranking is quite a pain.
This is a simple JavaScript that you can paste to any web page or blog to add the top 20 ranked social bookmarking sites as advised in [List of social bookmarking sites] and It should look like Icons on the right side -->>
And as you might know: loading many small images can slow down your page loading, as browser opens a new connection for each image to download, a well-known better approach is to put all this related images in one image, and use CSS to set background-position..
Here is the JavaScript to paste
<script type='text/javascript'>
function SocialBookmarks(){
var holder = document.getElementById("SocialButtonsPlace");
if (!holder) return;
var title = encodeURIComponent(document.title);
var url = encodeURIComponent(location.href);
/* these are the social bookmaking sites' icons ,ordered by rank, you can remove a line
but don't change the 'pos' so icon would show up correctly */
var socials = [
{'name':'Yahoo','pos':-16,'url':'http://myweb2.search.yahoo.com/myresults/bookmarklet?t='+title+'&u='+url},
{'name':'Google','pos':-32,'url':'http://www.google.com/bookmarks/mark?op=edit&bkmk='+url+'&title='+title},
{'name':'Live','pos':-48,'url':'https://favorites.live.com/quickadd.aspx?url='+url+'&title='+title},
{'name':'Facebook','pos':-64,'url':'http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u='+url+'&t='+title},
{'name':'Digg','pos':-80,'url':'http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&url='+url+'&title='+title},
{'name':'Ask','pos':-96,'url':'http://myjeeves.ask.com/mysearch/BookmarkIt?v=1.2&t=webpages&url='+url+'&title='+title},
{'name':'Technorati','pos':-112,'url':'http://technorati.com/faves?sub=addfavbtn&add='+url+'&title='+title},
{'name':'Delicious','pos':-128,'url':'http://del.icio.us/post?url='+url+'&title='+title},
{'name':'StumbleUpon','pos':-144,'url':'http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url='+url+'&title='+title},
{'name':'Squidoo','pos':-160,'url':'http://www.squidoo.com/lensmaster/bookmark?'+url},
{'name':'Propeller','pos':-176,'url':'http://www.propeller.com/submit/?U='+url+'&T='+title+'&C='+title},
{'name':'Slashdot','pos':-192,'url':'http://slashdot.org/bookmark.pl?url='+url+'&title='+title},
{'name':'Reddit','pos':-208,'url':'http://reddit.com/submit?url='+url+'&title='+title},
{'name':'Fark','pos':-224,'url':'http://cgi.fark.com/cgi/fark/submit.pl?new_url='+url+'&new_comment='+title+'&linktype='},
{'name':'Newsvine','pos':-240,'url':'http://www.newsvine.com/_wine/save?u='+url+'&h='+title},
{'name':'Furl','pos':-256,'url':'http://www.furl.net/storeIt.jsp?t='+title+'&u='+url},
{'name':'Blinklist','pos':-272,'url':'http://www.blinklist.com/index.php?Action=Blink/addblink.php&Url='+url+'&Title='+title},
{'name':'dzone','pos':-288,'url':'http://www.dzone.com/links/add.html?url='+url+'&title='+title},
{'name':'Magnolia','pos':-304,'url':'http://ma.gnolia.com/bookmarklet/add?url='+url+'&title='+title},
{'name':'SWiK','pos':-320,'url':'http://stories.swik.net/?submitUrl&url='+url}
];
for(var i=0; i<socials.length; i++)
holder.innerHTML = holder.innerHTML + '<li><A class=\'SocialButton\' style=\'background-position:0 '+socials[i].pos+'px\' href=\''+socials[i].url+'\' title=\''+socials[i].name+'\' target=\'_blank\'> </A></li>';
}
/* This call can be placed in body onload event */
SocialBookmarks();
</script>
And place this CSS code in the HTML Head or in an included CSS file
#SocialButtonsPlace {
list-style:none;
/* must do - Browsers WORLD WAR!*/
margin:0; padding: 0;
}
#SocialButtonsPlace Li{
float:left;
}
.SocialButton {
display:block;
height:16px;
width:16px;
line-height:16px;
margin:2px;
text-decoration:none;
background-image:url(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_3JiqFA24tHU/STkZkl2vjHI/AAAAAAAAALY/NO4zWTJT33I/s400/bar.gif);
}
And create a place holder UL where the icons will show up
<UL id="SocialButtonsPlace"></UL>
Don't forget to save the icons [Bar Image] and upload it some where on your site and change its location in CSS.
You may also use an Image-Map to display the bar image horizontally or vertically and define the clickable regions..
that's it.. enjoy!
If you are interested in SEO or web search or marketing your blog, you should check that great article
[Can Social Bookmarking Improve Web Search] by Paul Heymann , One look on the author photo and you will want to read it..
Or watch the video
Can Social Bookmarks Improve Web Search?
Presentation (February 12th, 2008)
Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM2008)
URL rewriting is usually needed to make a URL for a dynamic web page more presentable for the reader or for search engines optimization.
For example, a regular ASP URL might look like this:
http://www.site.com/Articles/Article.asp?id=20
A more presentable way of rewriting the URL might be:
http://www.site.com/Articles/20.htm
of course, you can write HTML/ASP file for each article, but that would be much of I/O overhead on adding/updating articles and for reading too..
one solution is to use an ISAPI filter but many people want to avoid this for due to either the limitation on the skills, a limitation of the hosting service they use, or just to avoid complexity and potential risk. It also makes the solution less portable.
A much simple solution, is to use 404 custom error page in IIS, here are steps and code:
1- Create "URL-Rewrite.asp", under Articles folder.
2- in IIS , right-click on "Articles" folder > properties > Custom errors > Select 404 and click "Edit Properties" ..
set Message Type : "URL", and set URL : "/Articles/URL-Rewrite.asp"
3- Place this code in "URL-Rewrite.asp" <% option Explicit
Dim Er,ID
Set Er = Server.GetLastError()
If Not Er Is Nothing Then
'' For 404: URL will be passed as query string
ID = GetURLID(Request.QueryString )
'Http error 400 won't raise a code error
If ID>0 And Er.Number=0 Then
Response.Status = 200
Call DisplayArticle(ID)
' error 500 or similar
ElseIf Er.Number<>0 Then
Response.Write "Unexpected error was occured"
' undesired URL
Else
Response.Status = 404
Response.Write "Page cannot be found"
End if
End If
Set Er = Nothing
Function GetURLID(URL)
' Extract ID using regular expressions
Dim ID : ID = 0
Dim reg : Set reg = New RegExp
reg.Global = False
reg.IgnoreCase = True
reg.Pattern = "^404;http://www.site.com/Articles/(\d+).htm$"
if reg.Test(URL) Then
ID= reg.Replace(URL ,"$1")
End If
Set reg = Nothing
GetURLID = ID
End Function
Sub DisplayArticle(ID)
'''' here you will place the real code that read article form database and write it
Response.Write "<html>" &_
"<head>" &_
"<title>Article "& ID &"</title>" &_
"</head>" &_
"<body>" &_
"Content " & ID &_
"</body>" &_
"</html>"
End Sub
%>
now,when requesting the url "http://www.site.com/Articles/20.htm", the IIS doesn't find the file so it transfer execution to the custom error page "http://www.site.com/Articles/URL-Rewrite.asp" and sending "404;http://www.site.com/Articles/20.htm" as query string.
The Transfer happens by calling "server.Transfer" which keeps the existing query string and any form variables available to the page it is transferring to, in our case "URL-Rewrite.asp".
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