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How to Give images meaning to search bot
Submitted by GeorgeS on Fri, 01/30/2009 - 13:34The only information a bot can gather about pictures comes from the alt attribute used within a picture's tag and from text surrounding the picture. So therefore, always take care to provide a description using the "alt" along with your images and at least one text-only link ( for example, outside of an image map) to all pages on your site.
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Financial Jargon
Submitted by yan on Fri, 01/30/2009 - 06:39Hedge funds are unregulated investment pools, usually funded by rich individuals and pension funds. To contain risk, they often “hedge”, ie, buy shares in Sainsbury's, but bet against a fall in Tesco shares.
A derivative is a bet “derived” from the performance of shares or some other asset. Futures and spread-betting, for instance. A company can buy a contract (a future) to purchase a commodity at a given price on a certain date.
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Setting up Drupal AdSense
Submitted by GeorgeS on Thu, 01/29/2009 - 10:33Step 1. Setup & register your http://www.google.com/adsense account first. At the end of the wizard cut and paste the code generated. You will need this later. You will need all the code plus the google_ads_slot value.
Step 2. ( get the installation kit) for 6.x
Note the Publisher ID: ( top right corner begins with pub-xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Download the following modules;
AdSense http://drupal.org/project/adsense
AdSense Injector http://drupal.org/project/adsense_injector
Who is hosting who
Submitted by GeorgeS on Wed, 01/28/2009 - 20:09If at any point you would like to know who is hosting a site eg. one of your competitors , simply visit www.domaintools.com and type in the domain you want to check into the search bar.
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Controlling Googlebot crawls
Submitted by GeorgeS on Wed, 01/28/2009 - 19:42For some Google crawls too often which comsumes too much bandwidth. For others it visits too infreqently. Some complain that it doesn't visit their entire site and others get upset when areas that they didn't want accessible via search engines appear on the Google index. It is not really possible to attract robots. Google
will visit your site often if the site has good content that is updated often and is mentioned by other sites. However it is possible to deter robots. You can control both the pages that Googlebot crawls and request reduction in the frequency or depth of each crawl.
How quickly you can expect to be crawled
Submitted by GeorgeS on Tue, 01/27/2009 - 17:01There are no firm guarantees as to how quickly new sites or web pages will be crawled by Google and then appear in the search index. However , following one of the four actions above, you would normally expect to be crawled within a month and then see your pages appear in the index two or three weeks afterwards. In my experience, submission via google webmaster tools is the most effective way to manage your crawl and to be crawled quickly, so I typically do this for all my clients.
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