Search engines can provide one of the best free Internet advertising methods for any business. The problem is that everyone is submitting their sites to search engines and it is very competitive. If you don’t rank relatively high in your selected keywords it really won’t make any difference no one will ever see you’re site.

The first of this 2-part series showed you how to use the <form> tag and the many uses of the <input> tag, including hidden fields. This second part completes the tutorial with multi-line text input areas, selection lists, and a complete form using all the examples and a script to process the form’s information.

HTML forms are a means of collecting information. People fill in a form and/or select something. Then they click a button. Forms don’t actually process information.

Hello Ross, Here are my questions:

1. What are the differences between a typical site map page and a crawler page?

2. Is there any wisdom in having the meta tag with key words only on the Home page of a twenty page site?

Tell people in a short phrase or sentence what you want them to know or remember about the business. It should conjure up a strong mental image that will be forever linked with you in their memories.

A short while ago, I was surfing around, wasting time, when I came upon a site with links like, paraphrased, “Rotate content in an IFRAME” and “Display different content every day in an IFRAME.”

We all know and dearly love ColdFusion Studio (and its little brother HomeSite). We all have favorite features, we all have our own little tips, tricks, and settings, and we all find ways to make it work as suits as best.

Now, I know what you are thinking; “surely we don’t need to worry about Meta tags, as most search engines ignore them” and for the most part you would be right. The importance of Meta tags has diminished so considerably over the past couple of years, that I fully expect this to be the last article that I will write discussing their optimization. That’s not to say that they are already a dead issue, but in the next 6-12 months their importance will be virtually extinguished.

Google is currently the web’s most popular search engine. Getting a high Google ranking is a must if you want your website to succeed! In addition to being the most used search engine in its own right, Google also provides the search results for other mega-sites, including America Online. By following a few simple guidelines, you can watch your site climb up the Google ladder and your traffic will climb right along with it. This article will show you how to make effective use of meta tags to help your website climb that ladder!

This is a question I get a lot when I bring up custom tags. A custom tag is a piece of code that you create and you call it from within your ColdFusion applications. Think of it as a “SNIPPLET” that you can implement at any time, anywhere in your site. What can you do with a custom tag? Well, just about anything!

Ask Shari anything about search engines and see your answer published in DevWebPro’s weekly SEO Corner column.

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When starting any SEO campaign it is tempting to leap straight in and start tweaking meta tags and changing text. However, like any successful marketing strategy, it is vital to ensure that you know whom your audience is and how to reach them. In the same way traditional advertising agencies survey their demographic audience, search engine marketers must ensure that their SEO campaign targets the correct keywords or search phrases. Target the wrong search phrase and you could end up with great search engine rankings for keywords that have no search requests. A few hours now spent ensuring that the correct search phrases are targeted, can save months of useless optimization.

There are certain tricks and techniques in SEO industry, which can fetch you real quick and top ranking in short run and get banned for ever, which I am discussing in this article. Before optimizing any site, always follow code of ethics and never spam.

For easier and faster development, Struts provides five tag libraries that act and function just like other JSP tag libraries: HTML, Bean, Logic, Template, and Nested. This three-part article series covers the HTML tag library. Part 1 discusses how to configure a Struts application to use this library and its first group of tags, Part 2 explains the second group of tags, and Part 3 demonstrates an application that uses this library.

Is Your Framed Site Doomed? Not Necessarily!

The question of whether or not to use frames when designing a Web site seems to be as old as time, or at least as old as frames themselves!

If you have a Web site, have you ever wondered what a search engine sees when it visits your site to add the site to its index? Do you know that it doesn’t see the beautiful graphics or the fancy Web design? Do you know that it only sees the source code, or the “skeleton” of your Web site?

This tutorial is divided into two parts. We will explain how to create an XML document and how to assign data types to the values in the XML document. All of the examples in this tutorial are designed to be viewed with either Internet Explorer 5.0 or 5.5.

Several respected publishers; jl scott of iCop in the WHISTLE BLOWER mailto:WhistleBlower-on@m… Boogie Jack in Almost A Newsletter http://www.boogiejack.com and Armando in F.B.C.N. http://www.emailexchange.org/ — have all mentioned these gruesome visitor stealing technologies, this week and quite rightly, ranted about the injustices.

In the last issue of DesignNewz, we covered the basics of cascading style sheets, their hierarchy, and how to reference them in HTML. In this issue we will go more in depth on style sheets, focusing primarily on the the basics of syntax.

When hypertext markup language was introduced to the world in 1990 by the W3 group, no one could have possibly known the impact it would have on the world. The language was so simple and direct that it allowed anyone with the desire to learn it to create virtual spaces for information. As the Internet took off, and the browser wars began, more and more functionality was piled into HTML, and by the last release, support for scripting languages, frames, and a host of other things had been included.