Archive for May, 2009
Programming SEO – Tags and Keywords
May 28th, 2009 | 
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Last week I started a series on SEO from a programming perspective. Today we want to look at one of the topics I discussed in that post in a little more detail. Tags.
Strictly speaking, tagging a page on your web site will have little or no effect on your ranking. However, tags will be the cornerstone of a lot of other elements of our on-site optimizations as you will discover in future post. So the first thing we need to add to our site is the ability to add tags to our pages and the ability to make those tag URLs display useful content.
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if IE Conditional CSS using ASP.NET Themes
Yesterday when I introduced Artisteer I mentioned that they use conditional link comments to include IE6 and IE7 specific CSS in the master page.
In my world, I like to use ASP.NET themes for my CSS, which means the CSS will get included automatically. So the question is, how can we use Artister with ASP.NET themes? Or for that matter, how can we include IE-specific CSS as part of our themes?
jQuery Progressbar
Once you venture into the land of AJAX you’ll soon discover the need to let your user know that some work is taking place in the background. If you can, you’ll want to let them know just how long that work will take before they can continue. For that, jQuery has the progress bar.
SEO From a Programming Perspective – Theory
Many of my peers think of me solely as a programmer. Many don’t realize that I also specialize in search engine optimization. In fact, about 25% of my income is derived from SEO-related activities.
I thought it would be useful to many of you if I spent a few posts discussing things I’ve learned along the way as they relate to programming. But before we get into that, we need to discuss a bit of SEO theory.
CSharp ?? Operator
One of the problems with learning a language early in its life cycle is that by the time version three comes out, you never look at or implement any of the new features.
There are two reasons for this. First, the features you are using already cover 80% of the features you need. Second, you never look at the manual to discover what new features are available–features that may help you write your code more efficiently.
The CSharp ?? operator is one such feature.
