Site Map

A quick search on Google for advice on creating a site map initially threw up many links to software you could buy or download for free to create a site map.
But why do you need a site map?

Basically as websites get larger and more complex both the human browser and the search engine spiders need an easy to follow map to find all the pages within your site. A site map gives them a simple navigational tool.

Site maps have 3 main benefits:
1) A site map allows visitors to easily find what they are looking for by simply visiting your site map and clicking on the link to go directly to the page they want to visit.
2) Often technologies employed to assist in reading webpages such as web page readers and screen readers can only follow text links. For practical reasons it may not always be possible to show a text link to every other page within your site on your main page and other pages within your website and so use a site map.
3) Search engine spiders like text and text links. If they cannot follow a text link to a page of your site it may not get indexed. Make it easy for the spider to index all your pages through a site map.
A site map consists of the two things search engines love - text and keywords. To build a good site map combine relevant keywords with a hyper text links. For example on your site map you may have a link to your webpage about website promotion so your hyperlink should contains the words 'website promotion' and link directly to that page within your site.
A site map does not need and indeed should not be fancy, but should be clear and easy to navigate.

Here are some tips for a good site map:
1. Place a prominent link to your site map on every page and lable it SITE MAP.
2. It should show all your webpages through different levels as basic text links.
3. Use standard colours for links and visited links.
4. It should show a quick, easy to follow over view of the site without the need to scroll around in the web browser.
Google started allowing people to submit site maps to their account as a way of letting google know about all your webpages and updates to your site. It does not increase your page ranking at all but is worth taking the time to set up properly.

You can find free software for creating site maps at:

http://www.likno.com/sitemap.html
http://www.freesitemapgenerator.com
http://www.sitemapspal.com

And when you are done, don't forget to tell Google about your site map so they can trawl and hopefully index all the pages of your site.

http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/login

A well planned site map can ensure your Web site is fully indexed by search engines.

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Meta Tag

A meta tag is a tag (that is, a coding statement) in the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) that describes some aspect of the contents of a Web page. The information that you provide in a meta tag is used by search engines to index a page so that someone searching for the kind of information the page contains will be able to find it. The meta tag is placed near the top of the HTML in a Web page as part of the heading.

There are several kinds of meta tags, but the most important for search engine indexing are the keywords meta tag and the description meta tag. The keywords meta tag lists the words or phrases that best describe the contents of the page. The description meta tag includes a brief one- or two-sentence description of the page. Both the keywords and the description are used by search engines in adding a page to their index. Some search engines also use the description to show the searcher a summary of the page's contents.
Although most search engines also use the contents of a page as a way to determine how to index it, the creator of a Web page should be sure to include meta tags with appropriate keywords and description. Well-written meta tags can help make the page rank higher in search results. 

As we known, meta keyword is one important way to optimize your website search ranking. Search engines use meta keyword to filter sites for the search result of querry occured by their search tool. If your keywords is bad, click rate of your site in search result low, your rank will be lower, lower and may be banned out of the list. So, is meta-keyword important?

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PCI to IEEE-1394 Ports Adapter

This 1394 card has high performance Serial Bus based on IEEE 1394 chipset. It provides a high-performance IEEE 1394-1995 interface with the capability to transfer data between the 1394 phy-link interface, the PCI bus interface, and external devices connected to the local bus interface. The IEEE supported 1394 standard was born out of a need for a flexible and cost-effective way to share real-time information among data-intensive applications such as digital camcorders, digital VCRs, and digital video disks(DVD). As an all-digital interface, 1394 was first used in digital cameras to replace existing analog transmission interfaces that significantly degrade the quality of the output picture. We use brands interchangeably for this item. Retail box. Model no: FW-PCI-323.

Features:

·  Supports up to 63 devices that can be run simultaneously on a system

·  Texas Instruments IEEE 1394 chipset on-board

·  32-bit PCI Bus Master design

·  Supports the Plug-and-Play Specification

·  1394 is an IEEE standard for a high-speed, low cost serial bus

·  Both asynchronous and isochronous data transfers are supported

·  Designed to IEEE1394 Open Host Controller interface Specification

·  Provides Four General Purpose I/Os

Minimum System Requirements: PC with Pentium 200MHz or faster processor; Available PCI slot with v2.1 or above; 32MB of memory; Windows 98 Second Edition of future Windows platforms; 80MB of available hard disk space(for digital video capture only); 4MB AGP or PCI video card, with true-color(24bit) or hi-color(16bit) display, 800x600 pixels (for digital video capture only); 4X CD-ROM drive (for digital video capture only).

Additional Recommended System Requirements; PC with Pentium II 266MHz or faster processor; 64MB of memory; EIDE or faster hard disk drive(for digital video capture only); Sound card (for digital video capture only)

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Keep You PC Clean and Error Free with CCleaner - A must have Utility

CCleaner is a freeware system optimization and privacy tool. It removes unused files from your system - allowing Windows to run faster and freeing up valuable hard disk space. It also cleans traces of your online activities such as your Internet history. But the best part is that it’s fast (normally taking less than a second to run) and contains NO Spyware or Adware! CCleaner 2.11.636 Changes: - Optimized startup and closing of application. - Improved Registry cleaning on 64-bit OS. - Improved memory usage on Windows Vista. - Added System Tray icon status. - Internal refactoring of code for efficiency. - Improved Uninstall Tool accuracy with MSI installers. - Fixed bug in Uninstall Tool on 64-bit OS. - Fixed bug in INI file folder recursion. - Fixed bug in INI file OS detection. - Added Live Messenger cleaning for .SQM files. - Added Vietnamese translation. - Minor tweaks and improvements.

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