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How to Succeed in Search Engine Marketing Without Trying

High Ranking Pages Are Important

Over my web design career, I have learned the importance of high-ranking search engine results and want each of my clients to succeed in their online business. Since high-ranking search engine results tend to equal high-traffic web pages, I have felt pressure to design pages with the search engines in mind. Of course, I still think there is value in taking the needs of a search engine into account when setting up pages and planning content, but what has changed is my focus. Let me explain.

What Search Engines and People Need

Ultimately, what a search engine needs and wants is not a raft of well-designed pages that carefully target key phrases and words. What search engines and web connoisseurs need is relevant content and current information regarding their topic of interest. After watching successive changes in the leading search engine’s page ranking algorithm change the rank of my carefully crafted SEO friendly pages, I have reached a conclusion to the whole matter. I will design search engine friendly pages, but my clients will now understand that their only chance at being a real destination online is to create and publish (REGULARLY) content relevant to their product or service. In a virtual world that is driven by information, the only sustainable way to succeed is to provide valuable information free of charge.

Giving Information Away

Why should I give away my valuable information? Perhaps this is a question for another article, but let me answer it in part with some examples. If I am a book publisher, I will obviously not want to give away my books. Instead, I could convince my authors to write short articles relevant to their specialty that would enhance their status as authors and heighten interest in their books. If I were a manufacturer, I would not give away my product but would publish articles that enhance my credibility as an expert in the field to which my product pertains.

Let me sum up. One secret to growing, organic, sustainable growth in any online business is its strategy for the cultivation and development of valuable information related to its product or service.

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A Visual QuickPro Guide: DHTML and CSS Advanced

Jason Cranford Teague’s Visual QuickPro Guide, DHTML and CSS Advanced, is an excellent overview of the modern web design world. Following in the footsteps of the other excellent QuickStart and QuickPro books from Peachpit Press, this topical resource features project based examples in practical terms: a web designer’s cookbook of DHTML and CSS design techniques.

The topics the book covers can be grouped into the following: JavaScript, Cascading Style Sheets for Layout, Forms, and Server Side and Database topics.

True to its promise, DHTML and CSS offers some advanced CSS techniques, but it is mostly an introduction to dynamic web design, XML , JavaScript, CSS, and Server Side Programming languages.

Though it is a valuable resource for its technical details, I enjoyed the introductory chapters that give an overview of web design planning techniques. In light of the need for planning and site wide design control, the case is well made for the effectiveness of CSS as a web design tool.

The CSS portion offers example layouts, discusses creating contextual templates, and includes various styles of navigation tabs. Some detail is spent on creating special effects with CSS and proprietary DHTML, drop shadows, transitions, ambient sounds, floating objects, and transparency effects.

This useful desk reference closes with lengthy appendices covering CSS, DHTML, Browser-Safe Fonts, and WAI Accessibility. The CSS and DHTML appendices are complete with a comprehensive list of browsers that support each property and browser. The WAI Accessibility appendix details each accessibility priority and checkpoints to evaluate the effectiveness of an accessible design.

Reading any reference work is not a compelling literary experience. However, this book will prove highly valuable on any beginning to intermediate web designer’s desk and will likely become well worn by use. In fact, any web designer, no matter his expertise will find the appendices very useful and may find himself turning to the specific examples offered in this small volume, much like a chef revisits a well-known recipe for forgotten details.

Title: Visual QuickPro Guide - DHTML and CSS Advanced
Author: Jason Cranford Teague
Publisher: Peachpit Press
ISBN: 0321266919
Date: 2005
Format: Paperback
Pages: 424
Cover Price: USD: $29.99 CDN: $42.99 UK: �21.99

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