Search engine friendly websites is one of those often heard phrases, both from web site development companies and from their clients. Everyone knows that this is important to have, and yet it is one of the things that is actually often overlooked.

Search engine optimisation companies actually spend a lot of their time analysing a website and removing barriers to the search engines ranking a site highly. At the web development level, it is possible to build a site that is perfectly search engine friendly. One of the hardest types of sites to get right though are database driven websites. Listed below are ten of the most common issues that are created, often unknowingly, in the development process of a dynamically generated web site.

1. Pages with duplicate content - not enough differential areas within the pages, so that only small areas of the page change from page to page. It is essential that enough of the page text changes for the search engines to see an appreciable difference between one page and the next.

2. Pages with duplicate page titles - the page title is a great indicator to the search engines of the primary content of the page. Whilst this is often unique on sites such as e-commerce websites, it is often overlooked in other sites, particularly where small areas of the site are generated from a database, such as news pages.

3. Pages with duplicate meta descriptions – again, this is easy to overlook and set a global or category level meta description. These give the search engines a reason to penalise your site for not giving them enough information, and again, creating a unique meta description for every page is an essential SEO task.

4. Using auto-generation of pages as a shortcut instead of creating good content. This is linked quite closely to point 1, where it is possible to create pages that have only a tiny percentage difference between them. Databases are fantastic ways of storing information, but you still need to put the work in to fill them with content. Unique information about the subject of the page will immensely help both the long tail and the ability of the search engines to determine that a page is valuable.

5. Creating pages that are hidden behind form submissions or javascript postbacks that cannot be accessed by a search engine crawler. This is far more common that is generally realised. For instance .NET creates postback links by default instead of proper links – potentially making huge sections of a site unreachable. Likewise, it is easy to hide lovely content rich areas of your site behind a drop down selector in a form that means certain areas of the site are not visible.

6. Too many query strings – this is a common bugbear of the professional SEO, where complicated database selections create deep levels of pages, but with seven or eight &id= type strings. Additionally, some bad development methodology can leave pages with null query strings that appear in every URL but don’t do anything. The answer to this is generally URL rewrites, creating much more search engine friendly and user-friendly URLs!

7. Putting query strings in different orders when accessed through different places – this can create duplicate content issues, which can cause major penalties.

8. Not using user language to generate automated pages – if you are going to create a database driven website that uses words in the query strings (or better in rewritten URLs) make sure that you use words that will help you with SEO – if you sell widgets, make sure you are using the word widgets somewhere in the URL instead of just product= or id= – keyword research can assist with this.

9. Not allowing the meta data and title to be edited easily after the site build. It is possible to hardcode the generation of meta information into a database that doesn’t allow it to be edited later. Creating a mechanism for modifying this information initially helps everyone at a later stage when the information needs changing without shoehorning it into an already developed structure.

10. Creating keyword stuffed pages by using auto-generation. Once upon a time, search engines quite liked pages with high densities of your keywords, but now these are likely to get you marked down rather than up. So be aware when creating pages that long pages with lots of your products on can create too high a density. For instance listing blue widgets, light blue widgets, navy blue widgets, sky blue widgets is going to create a page with a very dense page for the phrase “blue widgets”.

These are just 10 of the most common potential optimisation pitfalls when creating dynamic websites. There are many more facets to producing a great database driven site, including user friendliness, speed, performance and security, but they all add together to make the best solution to your needs.

About the Author: Mark Stubbs is a freelance writer who specialises in internet marketing and web site development. For more information on database driven websites he suggests that you visit www.obs-group.co.uk.

I found these really useful article about Advanced Link Building Strategies on here. I keep in this blog to remind me and also maybe useful for you.

Enjoy

Link building requires dedication and consistent effort. It is the most difficult, time-consuming and important task an SEO performs to get a website ranked well. Certain strategies are well known to SEOs, while others are in the realm of the experts or forward-thinkers who puzzle them out. I have attempted to list here many of the link building tactics used by the SEO community.

1. Directories

Although it may seem an obvious and tired way to build links, directory use is still valuable and valid. I have compiled an exhaustive list of directories including PR, pages that have been spidered, and submission requirements for directories – see List of SEO Directories. When submitting to directories, make sure to vary anchor text and try to use your keywords in the description and title fields as naturally as possible. A good SEO should be able to obtain between 75-150 unique backlinks just from directories.

2. Top Competition

This tactic can help you generate the most visitors to your site. Search Yahoo, Google, MSN and the other search engines for each of your important keyword phrases and make a point of attempting to get a link from each page. Oftentimes a direct phone call to site owners or a very tactful email can go a long way. I’ve even used handwritten letters to attempt to cajole site owners into giving me a link. Use whatever resources you have help persuade – links from other sites you own, money (if you have it), free SEO services, contributions of articles or content, etc.

When I use this technique, I’ll typically make a spreadsheet listing all of the sites I have a shot at getting a link from (i.e. excluding direct, obvious competitors). I then get as much contact information as I can about each one and run down the list. This can be very time-consuming, but also exceptionally worthwhile. Even if your site doesn’t get ranked much higher, each link from a site that ranks in the top 20 will bring direct, targeted traffic.

3. Link Searches

This old technique has been honed to a science by many SEOs, but there is always room to improve. The goal is to use Google/Yahoo to search for pages that let you add a link (reciprocal, paid, etc.) that already have your keyword or some closely related content on them. Often these searches turn up smalltime site operators with reciprocal link directories managed by 3rd party software. Don’t overlook these, and make sure you submit. But the real prize is pages that give free links or offer paid links to sites they feel are important – many of the highest PR links can be obtained through this method, especially if you conduct the search at SEOChat’s PR Search Tool.

The following searches are worthy of being tried, but feel free to experiment:

1. intitle:add+url “keyword phrase”
2. intitle:submit+site “keyword phrase”
3. intitle:submit+url “keyword phrase”
4. intitle:add+site “keyword phrase”
5. intitle:add+your+site “keyword phrase”
6. intitle:directory “keyword phrase”
7. intitle:list “keyword phrase”
8. intitle:sites “keyword phrase”

All of the above searches can be used without the intitle to give even more results. As with other link building processes, these are tedious and time-consuming, but it is critical to stay focused on finding quality, relevant links. When using this method, make sure you note to which other sites the page is linking and what text content is listed. If it fits well with your content, don’t worry if the page is PR0.

4. Usurping Competitors’ Links

Although this may sound unseemly, it is one of the most effective ways to build links, and is commonly practiced. The goal is to find as many domains and pages as possible that link to your competitors’ sites and get those sites to link to you as well. This is often easier than it sounds, because the site is already linking out to people in your industry. Money, services, links or simple requests are all used to get the job done.

The most effective ways to find your competitors’ links are listed below:

1. At Yahoo! type linkdomain:url.com -site:url.com
2. At MSN’s techpreview type link:url.com -site:url.com
3. At Yahoo! type link:http://www.url.com
4. At Google type “url.com” -site:url.com

These are typically the most reliable way to find the sites and pages that link to your competitors and, incidentally, those sites which link to you. Remember to be as courteous, direct and friendly as possible. Don’t forget how effective non-electronic methods of communication can be – phone, letters, etc.

5. Article Writing & Submission

Writing unique, valuable content about your subject matter for your own site is the most critical piece of on-site SEO. But it can also be a fantastic way to generate quality links from other sites. Many existing websites are designed around hosting the content of others and providing links back to them. I have listed some of the biggest 3rd-party article hosting sites below.

General Articles – These cover a wide range of subjects and will accept submission on many topics:
* Idea Marketers – http://www.ideamarketers.com/writers.cfm
* Buzzle.com – http://www.buzzle.com/secure/become-editor.asp
* EBooksnBytes – http://www.ebooksnbytes.com/articles/submit.shtml
* Article Central – http://thewhir.com/find/articlecentral/suggest.asp
* Go Articles – http://www.goarticles.com/ulogin.html
* EzineArticles – http://ezinearticles.com/submit/
* AMAzines – http://amazines.com/
* Article City – http://www.articlecity.com/article_submission.shtml
* BPubs.com – http://www.bpubs.com/cgi/add.cgi
* Business Know-How – businessknowhow.com/newsletter/articleguidelines.htm
* WWIO – http://www.certificate.net/wwio/ideas.shtml
* About.com – http://sbinformation.about.com/library/blsubmission.htm (note, this is just of many places on the site where you can submit articles – choose the subject that best matches your site)
* NetterWeb.com – http://www.netterweb.com/articles/
* Simply Search 4it – http://www.simplysearch4it.com/article/addart.php
* Vector Central Marketing – http://www.vectorcentral.com/articles-form.html
* Learning Folder – http://www.learningfolder.com/SubmitArticle.aspx
* Knowledge Bed – http://www.knowledgebed.com/submission.html
* Article Insider – http://www.articleinsider.com/start.php
* Articles that Sell – http://www.articlesthatsell.com/submityourarticle.htm
* Smart Ads – http://www.smartads.info/articles/
* Writing Career – http://www.writingcareer.com/freearticles-submit.html

These are just some of the thousands of sites that offer the ability to spread your content around the web. Additional sites on your specific topics can be found using the search engines. Especially prevalent are sites offering content in website marketing & technology – there are hundreds of sites that deal in content on these issues.

6. Forums & Online Communities

Generating links through forums is often considered spam, but forums are valuable tools for link builders as long as the proper methods are employed. The forum signature of a member is certainly a fair place to promote your site, and while doing so may not provide a worthy backlink in the search engines’ eyes, it does offer visitors on the forum a chance to see your site.

The primary goal of joining a forum should be to contribute and learn from the community, but promotion certainly isn’t out of place, as long as it remains on-topic. In SEO forums, people constantly plug their new directories, tools, articles, etc. These are all appropriate as long as they are subtle, relevant and not overdone.

When a specific page, tool or link would provide a great resource or answer to a question in a community, don’t hesitate to provide it. Much of the information used to write this article and the SEO Survey tool was provided in forums through links. Just remember to carefully read the terms of use for the forums you post in – many are harsh if they feel someone is there to spam or advertise.

7. Blogging & Comments

Blogging is a very effective way to get natural inbound links, and by having a personal blog at your site, you can more easily make commentary at other sites that link back to you. DO NOT spam blog comments with advertisements; your goal is to create an online reputation you can be proud of. Blog owners and visitors will not take kindly to blog spam. The key to effective blogging for links is to make sure you comment relevantly & intelligently about the specific subject in the blog. A well thought-out response to a relevant blog or article can bring not only search engines, but more importantly other readers of the blog to your site through the link. If your content proves interesting, you could build much more than just a single link through your comments.

Another important thing to remember is that your link in blog comments may not count at all in the search engines. Many blogs prevent access to these comments or don’t provide direct, spiderable links for blog visitors. This, combined with the fact that these comments are buried at least 2-3 links deep from the main page means that you should keep your focus on the visitors you might generate, rather than the search engine optimization you might get.

However, you should still be as SE friendly as possible. If the subject matter deals directly with your keyword phrases, you’re in fine shape, but if they are on related subjects, it can’t hurt to use your keyword phrase(s) once or twice in a longer comment/entry. You should also try to make your ‘name’ – which is typically the anchor text for your link contain at least one of your kw phrases, but remember to keep it varied and never let it overtake the importance of getting visitors, i.e. if your site is about Orange County T-Shirts, having a ‘name’ of OC-Tshirt-Man can’t hurt you, but Orange-County-T-Shirts is probably not as wise.

8. Renting Pages from Authority Sites

This tactic is not often mentioned, but can be extremely valuable. The premise is to rent, for a monthly fee, a page hosted on a larger or more authoritative site in your industry. You then add content & links on the page to your own site(s) with the anchor text you choose and in the format you select. These are almost like ‘advertorials’ in magazines, where you provide content that the site links to (hopefully not more than 2 links from the homepage) and then link back to your own site.

The fundamental difference between this tactic and simple article hosting is that you approach a site or company that doesn’t normally host other people’s content about having your information. Although rejection is often likely, the benefits can be phenomenal, as the page itself may rank well for your search terms very quickly.

9. Purchasing Online Advertising

Link building through advertising is exceptionally expensive, but it can bring in good returns if properly managed. Make sure as you buy links that you get the click-through rate from the seller for the past 6 months. You should get a lot of other statistics to review as well – make sure to avoid advertising in places where the seller doesn’t have good information on click-through rates, visitors, etc. You’ll also have to work around re-direct scripts, links sent through ad networks (like DoubleClick), etc. As long as you are up front and friendly, you’ll be able to have some success in this arena as long as you have the funding.

10. Text Link Brokers

Although initial thoughts about link brokers can give a bad impression, this new industry can actually have a positive value on your link building efforts. I recommend against purchasing sitewide links unless your only goal is to build PR (i.e. directories or SEO related sites, etc.). Sitewide links have come to be associated with “manipulation” of the SERPs by search engines and should be largely avoided. However, purchasing text links on specific, related sites surrounded by the content of your choice can be beneficial, if difficult to find.

The key to a successful text link is that all the components of natural SEO are there:
* Is the page closely related to your site’s topic?
* Is the link placed in a strategic position – i.e. not in an obvious advertising space or footer?
* Is the site related to the topic of your site and the topic of the page?
* Is the site spidered frequently by the search engines and do the pages have visible PR?

If the link meets these criteria, it could be very worthwhile. However, be careful to avoid paying high prices for a particular page or site, simply because of its PR. It is more likely that multiple low PR (3,4 & 5) pages are worth more to you than a single PR7 or 8.

Several lists of text links sellers are available online:
1. Link Sellers – List of Text Link Ad Sellers
2. Text Link Brokers – Discussion and some links at SearchEngineWatch Forums

Be wary and always do some search research and asking at the major SEO forums prior to buying from text link brokers. The industry is, sadly, rife with scammers & companies that don’t deliver as promised.

11. Unique Tools & Services

By offering specific, relevant free Internet tools/services at your site, you can generate naturally built links. My recommendation is to find a tool or service that isn’t currently offered or that you believe you can improve upon. For some industries, this will be much harder than others, but creativity is your best tool. Imagine what automated web service, list of resources or submission-type tool would best benefit you and then build it and offer it on your site.

Some excellent examples are listed below (these come straight from my imagination):
* For a site about animals, a tool that visually diagrams the phylum/genus/species relationships
* For a site about travel, a tool that creates a pre-planned itinerary based on a selection of interests
* For a site about real estate, a tool that estimates property value or gives a % chance of selling for a based on time, region & price.

The possibilities are endless, and there is little doubt that the web can automate and make easier hundreds of tasks in any industry. The key, after you have built your tool, is to promote it with industry leaders – send it to bloggers who discuss your subject matter, ask people to use and evaluate it on forums, etc. You can even try to promote it by writing an article about your findings, development or the simple existence of the tool and submitting it across the newswires.

Today, got bad news for friends. His google adsense account has been deleted. He is not eligible to show google adsense in his blogs and websites again… I feel sorry to you my friends. For you to know, he already run his adsense campaign almost 2 years. And he never did any violation to google term and conditions. I still don’t know why google did such a things. He already email to google ask why google want to do that. He need a logic reason. But unfortunately google did not reply any single words.
Is it because google to arrogant to answer it?
My friends quick his jobs December last year to focus his internet advertising jobs including google adsense. His large revenue comes from google adsense. No wonder he is so sad right now. No jobs, google already suspend his account forever..:(
Its start with last month, his gross revenue double up almost 40%. His revenue around 1k / month.
He also used adwords to generate traffic to his site.
Sorry to you my friends..

Phiuhhh…. Let me tell you what i am doing for live.. I am an oracle developer. I have been doing this developer jobs for 5 years plus. This may, its already 6 years i am doing this jobs. Its fine although, good pay..:) But as you know, man never get satisfied.. Yup, thats happen to me also. Don’t know why..:D
Then i started to take a look at how making money from the internet. As a developer, you never do coding all days rite? Come on, don’t be lie , 40% of you working hours maybe you do for browsing and checking your email? Maybe open your friendster, youtube, facebook, flickr hehehe.. i know..

So, what you can do to get more money from the internet? A lot of internet program offer you how to make money from internet. Maybe some of you ever heard this term :
PPC ( Pay Per Click )
PPP ( Pay Per Post )
PPR ( Pay Per Review )
Affiliate
and a lot of more programs that offer you money from the internet. Its up to you where do you want to start. I start first with PPC => google adsense and the Affiliate => amazon.
What do you choose ?

So back to the topic.. Get Back to Work !!!!!

Its a very interested questions? I found out some one asking this question. What do you think? Is it worth to be DBA?
As you know, DBA is the man behind the gun…(hehehe..) He is the person that know everything about your database, your administrator, your best person to ask if there is something wrong the the database.
From what i have heard, DBA usually work late in the night. In the morning until afternoon, the did not do anything, they just play in their computer hahaha… But after office hours they start to working.. Because they can not bother the day to day operations. They only can work after working hours. So the next question is, why they have to work in the normal working hours then, if they did not do anything in that time. The answer is just to in case there are problems happen.
I don’t know much about the DBA thinks. I just developer, but i know that DBA is something that will get good pay than the developer. emmm maybe i have to try apply as a DBA
Someone in oracle community also said that DBA is a glamorous job. Maybe it is. But you need to understand the consequence also. There is a reward behind your responsibilities. Its sure be.
So what are you DBA thinks about your jobs. Its worthed ?

Its always like this for the start for every blog with wordpress platforms. Its a welcome message from wordpress to you.

Welcome to WordPress.com. This is your first post. Edit or delete it and start blogging!

Let me try something different :

Welcome to WordPress man, have fun with this, lets start blog and write what ever in your mind

What about that? Do you like my welcome message?

Its my first time using this wordpress.com to blog. Don’t get it wrong, its not my first time using wordpress. I have several sites using wordpress. I just want to explore more about this wordpress in “her own body“. You know what i mean right?