Meta Tags

The code for a basic meta tag:
<meta name="" content="">
or
<meta http-equiv="" content="">

Meta tags are in your head section of your html document.  The meta tags help the spiders index your page.  You can redirect a webpage with a meta tag, control spiders, prevent certain browsers to function differently with a code and even set your page’s language with it.

Here is a list of interesting meta tags you can observe and use:

Description Meta tag:

<meta name=”description” content=”put your page description here” />

This is what appears in the search engines as your description, usually right under your page title when listed in search results.

Keywords Meta tag:

<meta name=”keywords” content=”put your keywords here” />

This code will help you get listed under correct search results.  You should write keywords that best fits your website.  You should also spererate your keywords with a comma. You can use the below example as a resource.

<meta name=”keywords” content=”how to create a free website, get a free website, what is a keyword” />

Redirection code:

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="2 ; url=anotherpage.html">

The above code is set to refresh the page and redirect it to anotherpage.html in 2 seconds.  You can change these fields according to your needs.

Cache Prevention code:

<meta http-equiv="pragma" content="no-cache">

This code is useful when you update your pages a lot and you don’t want someone loading a page that has been cached on their system. It is supposed to keep a browser from caching your page. Some browsers will ignore the code and cache anyway.

Code to allow Index Follow for Search Engines (Google,Live ect.) :

<meta name="robots" content="index,follow">

This code will basically tell the robots to index whatever they find on your website.

Include Files

On this article, I will explain how to use Include files on Html, Asp, and Php files.  Most of the paid hosting companies allow you to use include files.  It is one of the best ways to control your fully loaded website.

Include files in Html

In html, you can use a simple code to include a file in another one.  So let’s say you have index.html and you want to add menu.html as an include file; so you would open the source code for index.html and add the following code:

<!--#include virtual="menu.html" -->

If you add this code to your index.html’s source html code and it doesn’t work, don’t give up.  Most hosting companies allow to add include files to only .shtml files.  So what you is easy and simple, just rename your index.html to index.shtml

Include files in Asp and Asp.NET

In asp it is very easy to add an include file to your source codes.  It is just like the code above for Html files but in a different words.  The code is:

<!–#include file=”example.asp” –>

YES! there is only one word difference.  Instead of “virtual” your going to use “file” to include a file.

Include files in Php

Include files in Php is the same concept.  The code is below:

<?php include("example.php"); ?>

You can use any type of files you wish to include.  If you have a page named menu.html  you can include this page into your Php or Asp coded page.  For example:

<?php include("menu.html"); ?>

Domain Transfer

On this article I will explain how to transfer your existing domain to a new registrar.  Every domain registrar has their own way of doing things differently, but I will explain the main process on this article.

What is a Domain Transfer ?

A domain transfer is when you transfer your existing domain name to a new registrar.

Why should I transfer my Domain ?

There might be many reasons for this cause.  Most popular one might be the price of the domain name and what the registrar offers you.  For example if you pay $10 for a domain name in a registrar, and get basic features, and if you pay $7 at another company and get the same features then you might think of transfering your domain name.  Sometimes the customer care and the user interfrence have affect aswell.

How to transfer a domain name to another register

FIrst, you need to have an account at the new registrar your planning to transfer your existing domain to.  Then you need to find the Authorization code (Auth Code) of the domain name your transfering.

When you get this code, go to your new registrar and submit atransfer inquiry, you need your Auth code for this inquiry.  When you submit this inquiry, your new registrar will send an email to your existing registrar informing it about the transfer, you must aprrove the transfer on this email to contuinue.

After this your domain should be able to transfer to your new registrar without any problems.  It might take couple days for you to recieve the  approval email.

What is a SiteMap ?

On this article I will explain what a Sitemap is and what is it used for. You can guess that a sitemap is a Map of your Site of course, and that definition is from me to explain in the simplest way. According to Wikipedia, a sitemap is defined as:

The Sitemaps protocol allows a webmaster to inform search engines about URLs on a website that are available for crawling.

google-botLike the definition above, a sitemap informs the search engines about the available urls that can be crawled on your website. Some websites need sitemaps because their website might not be liked by the Google Bots or the Bots might have trouble indexing your website. But this is not the case all the time.

A sitemap makes your website extremely easy to be accessible by search engines. It is usually an XML file.

If you have a flash website, your content is not going to be indexed by the search engines because they can’t see the links. You can add a sitemap linking to those links and tell the Search Engines that you have those urls on your website so they can come and index them. If your entire content is in flash, then this is not a good option for you, but you can create extra html files to be seen by the search engines.

You can create a sitemap very easily online or with an program that you would download it to your personal computer.

If you are using a ready to go system, check to see if they already have an module for it. For example the Wordpress ready to go system has many plug-ins created by different programmers to generate a sitemap automatically.

How to add a “Email me” Link

On this article I will explain the way of adding your email address to your website as a link. First of all I want to touch the fact that people just write their email as text on there website like:

You can contact me at admin@website-name.com

I find these what so called “contact” ways so lame. They look very eye distracting. Instead of these you can have a “Contact” or “Email me” link on your website that would just open Outlook automatically to send a email to you.

You can do these by just adding the following simple link to your website. It is just like adding a normal hyperlink but instead of http:// on the link placement you add mailto: just like on the following example.

The Free Traffic System

Have you ever thought of getting backlinks easily? Well, of course you have, this webiste I have came accross differs from many other websites. First of all it is easy to use, plus it is 100% free to use.

The Free Traffic System is a free article publishing tool that allows you to add 2 links on the articles you write, you submit them and it automatically submits it to other websites, you get FREE backlinks for FREE and for LIFETIME.

Check out the url below to go to the actual website.
The Free Traffic System

What is Google AdWords

In this article I will explain what is Google Adwords and how you can use it to find success on the internet. Google adwords is an Search Engine Marketing tool offered by Google Inc. If we look at it from the official definition it is:

Google Adwords is an online advertising program run by Google.

google-adwordsGoogle AdWords is an marketing tool you can use to sell your products. If you have an eCommerce website, instead of waiting for your website to rank better so you can get more visitors, try using AdWords, this way you can target specific search keywords and still appear on the “Google 1st Page” for any keyword.

Every keyword has different price, the more the compitition, the more is the price. This is why you should use this marketing program. You bid on keywords like an auction, the more you pay the more higher you are ranked in the AdWords space, you can choose to pay from 1 cent to any amount you would like to pay.

I prefer people who are selling online should use this program. Unfortunately if you are making earning from your content with an affiliate this is not a bad idea but still it wouldn’t make you too much money.

Changing Table Backgrounds

In this article I will explain how you can change your table backgrounds with the bgcolor tag.  It will be very short but I hope I will get my point through.

Example code:

And here is how it will look:

This Row is Yellow!
This Row is Gray!
This Row is Red!
This Row is Blue!
This Row is Pink!
This Row is Lime!

That is an basic table code with bgcolor tag applied to it.  You can easily figure out how I used it.  If this article is confusing for you please leave a comment and I will reply with my best!

Changing Background Color

This is a very short article explaining how to change your website’s background color.  It works with a simple tag which is bgcolor=”red” on this article I will use actual color names to make it more understandable.  But you can always use Hex color codes which has more variety of color options.  You can find a Hex color chart on my website by using the search form and search “Hex”.

You need to add the bgcolor tag to your <body> tag like its shown above.  This will change the background of your webpage to the color you want.

you can also check my How to Change Table Backgrounds article to learn how this bgcolor tag can apply to table codes.

Add a PayPal Donation button to your web page

On this article I will explain how to add a PayPal donation button to your website. First thing is frist, login to your PayPal account and follow the below steps.

From your Paypal account top navigation, click Merchant Services, then a list will appear, from the list click on Donations.

 paypal-donation-button

Now you will setup your Donation settings. These are very unique easy steps to follow. After these steps click on Create Button Now.

And there you go. You will have a Html code on the next page, copy the code and paste it into your Html source.  The code will appear like the below example:

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