Archive for January, 2007

Launch Applications Faster

Friday, January 26th, 2007

Three steps to launch your application software faster:

1) Right click on the shortcut icon of the program and select properties.

2) In the Target=> Field add the /prefetch:1 switch to the very end of the path.

3) Click Apply and then click OK.

That’s it.

P.S.

Does not work with all applications.

How to change Mambo/Joomla menu item type?

Friday, January 26th, 2007

Manu item types in Mambo/Joomla cms are unique in the sense that it determines how to display the contents under a particular menu item. Though there are many different types of menu items, but, i’ve used only three of them.

1. Link URL : When you create a menu, if you select Link URL as the menu item type, an href link to the target url is created, and when someone clicks on that menu, the target url opens up.

2. Content Table: Selecting this menu item type will display all the content items under the menu in a tabular form, like, Date created, Title, Hits, and so on, by default.

3. Blog Section: This type of menu item shows the content items under them in blog format, with intro text and a live link to the detailed part, by default.

But for any reason whatsoever if you want to change the menu item type, so far as my knowledge goes, it is not possible to do so. The only option is to delete the existing menu item and create a new one with the same name with appropriate item type selected.

Whether to submit your website or not?

Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007

Here is a long debate that forces me to write this topic. There are two options for you to get your site indexed in major search engines and these are:

1) Submit your site to Major search engines like Google, Yahoo and MSN direct using their respective submit url link. You can search for such links or read my tutorial site to get a quick info of how to submit your site in Google, Yahoo and MSN.


2) Let the search engines find your site and index it naturally.

Now what is the best policy to adopt?

It depends a lot on the situation. I think it is better to submit only after you are cent percent satisfied with the design, nevigation, content and SEO of that site. Better to put your site for reviews in different forums before submitting to search engines. This will help you to take note of few mistakes that you might have made out of oversight.
Otherwise, if you are not quite confident, just work on your website to improve it and promote your url. Allow the search engines to find your site themselves. Depending upon the quality of your website and promotional efforts, it may take anything from a couple of days to a couple of months. But that is a safe policy to adopt.

Personally, I do not like the idea to submit sites in different search engines as I know they are clever enough to pick up the links and index the site in due course.

How to verify site ownership for Google Sitemap Account in Joomla

Sunday, January 14th, 2007

For Mambo/Joomla site, do not attempt to use Upload HTML File method to verify your site. It will not work in default Mambo/Joomla (I’ve studied upto version Joomla 1.0.11) installation.

You have to Add a Meta tag to verify site ownership.
Copy the Google sitemap generated meta tag you have to add, the name of the META tag is “verify-v1″ or may differ a bit and content = “abUjdndngYmakfkgkgmsksdds” - something like this. You have to simply copy and paste the tag in the head section of your homepage.

How to add the meta tag in Mambo/Joomla?

Simply open the index.php file under the template directory you are using.i.e., /template/template_name/index.php

Add the Meta Tag Code generated by Google anywhere in between the opening and closing head tag. Save the file, close it and upload it using your favorite FTP.

Now click verify button in the sitemap account., Google will give you the feedback that your site has been verified.

Done.

BTW.

You must have a google sitemap account to do the same.
Please leave your comments if you find this small tip useful.

Coolest Keyword Research Tool

Sunday, January 7th, 2007

Free Keyword Research

Checks for search volume in  different major search engines, suggests alternative keywords, its a good stuff altogether.
url: tools.seobook.com/general/keyword/ 


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