Free ebook from Google about modern web technologies
jhnidk - November 22nd, 2010 in: Uncategorized
What is the world wide web, how does browsers work, and what do you need to know to navigate the web efficient and safely.
In this new and free ebook from Google, you’ll get these questions answered. You also get a interesting insight in what HTML 5 can be used for, since the ebook is created as a html 5 site
New Official SEO guide from Google
jhnidk - October 7th, 2010 in: SEO
SEO can anything between science and voodoo, since Google and other search engines typically keep their ranking very secret, to prevent irrelevant results from spamming the search results.
That’s why it’s very interesting that Google just published a guide on how to SEO optimize websites.
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The secret Google Stock API
jhnidk - July 2nd, 2010 in: PHP
Are you looking for NASDAQ stock information, then maybe the secret Google Stock API can be helpful.
This API is not a part of the official Google API family, which means that the usage rights are unclear, and the API isn’t supported by Google.
However the API is very useful, so I’ll illustrate the possibilities with the API in this post.
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The “Can I” Google Suggest worldmap
jhnidk - June 22nd, 2010 in: WordPress
Search suggestions as implemented on the new Google homepage can be a great help to users. However since these suggestions are ranked by search query volume, the search suggestions can also be a good indicator in what the hottest topics currently are.
In this post I have armed myself with Google Translate, and tried to search for the same term “Can I” in different local versions of Google.
And I can tell you that it’s actually quite interesting to see what’s most popular for this very generic search term…
Customized Google Search engine in PHP
jhnidk - June 8th, 2010 in: PHP
Google has a great AJAX API for integrating Google search on your own site.
However if you want to tweak layout and functionality, the AJAX API can be difficult to work with.
In this post we’ll build a Google Powered web search in PHP, where you can customize the look and feel anyway you like, and easily add enhanced functionality like screenshots, or whatever is relevant for your site.
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The perfect 404 page
jhnidk - April 26th, 2010 in: PHP, SEO
A error 404 page is displayed in the cases where another site is linking to a URL on your site that isn’t available.
There can be different reasons why the URL isn’t valid, maybe you redesigned/restructured your site to a new URL structure, maybe somebody just made a typo in a link or in the browsers address bar, or maybe some of your content has been removed.
There are different philosophies about 404 pages. Some people just want to redirect the users to the sites front page, however if the user expects to see a very specific page on your site, being redirected to the front page isn’t a very good user experience.
In this post we’ll build a 404 page in PHP that tries to guide the user as close as possible to the most relevant content on your site.
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12 tips to get your SEO flying
jhnidk - April 24th, 2010 in: SEO
SEO optimization sometimes sounds like a mix of facts and Voodoo. The search engines won’t reveal too many details about their ranking algorithms, because somebody might want to misuse this information to put the wrong sites on top of the search results.
Therefore the information on how the ranking on search engines exactly works isn’t available, but there is many theories on how a site is best built to be search engine friendly. In this post we’ll focus on the facts about SEO, and not so much on the Voodoo.
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