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|Jul 4, 2006
|Filing date
|Jan 5, 2001
|Priority date
|Oct 30, 2000
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|Mohamed Abdel Hamid Hassanin, Jeffrey L. Bogdan
|Original Assignee
|Microsoft Corporation
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|Patent Citations (3), Referenced by (15), Classifications (10), Legal Events (4)
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet
This application claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Application No. 60/244,483 filed Oct. 30, 2000. Provisional Application No. 60/244,483 is specifically incorporated herein by reference.
In general, the present application relates to computer software, and in particular, to a system and method for providing directional properties to user interface objects.
Generally described, the ability for a common user interface to be accessible to a variety of users is necessary for the distribution of the common user interface in a global marketplace. For example, to facilitate use of the common user interface in different countries/regions, the user interface should support multiple languages. In the simplest form, a software provider can provide multiple language user interfaces by manually customizing the user interface software code to satisfy the specific language requirements of each supported language. This approach is generally inefficient, however, in that the software provider must maintain separate software code bases for each of the supported languages. Accordingly, the software provider must independently support each separate software code base, such as providing technical support, providing updates, and/or providing patches.
Another attempt to expand the languages supported by a user interface utilizes a common user interface software code base in conjunction with various language-specific resource libraries. One such system is Microsoft Corporation's multilingual user interface ("MUI"). Generally described, under MUI, the operating system includes a common user interface code base and a default resource module that serves as a default language for the user interface. Additionally, the operating system maintains a number of alternative language-specific resource modules for displaying some or all the user interface objects in an alternative language. Accordingly, if a user specifies one of the non-English language supported by MUI, the operating system loads the resources from the corresponding alternative language resource module.
While use of language-specific resource library files, such as an operating system implementing MUI, increases the number of languages that can be supported by a common user interface, language-specific library files are still inefficient in allowing the common user interface to be adapted for some languages. For example, some languages, such as Arabic or Hebrew, follow a right to left ("RTL") language reading direction. If a common user interface is laid out in languages that utilize a left to right ("LTR") language reading direction, such as in Spanish, French, or English, a mere translation of words composed in a language following a LTR language reading direction, does not suffice to make the user interface understandable in a language following a RTL language reading direction.
Thus, there is a need for a common user interface that is capable of mirroring user interface objects for language reading direction conversion.
A system and method for user interface mirroring are provided. User interface objects are defined according to an object hierarchy that defines a logical relationship between a root element and one or more child elements. Additionally, the root element includes a directional property that is inherited by the child elements. A layout manager obtains the logical relationship and the specified directional property and correlates a set of physical coordinates to each display object according to the directional property, while maintaining the logical relationship. A renderer renders each of the display objects according to the specified directional property, while maintaining a truth table for graphical resources that could be rendered in one or more directions.
In accordance with one aspect of the present invention, a method for processing a directional property in a display object is provided. In accordance with the method, a layout manager obtains an object hierarchy having a root element and one or more child elements and that defines a logical relationship between each object hierarchy element. The layout manager associates a directional property for the object hierarchy. Additionally, the layout manager generates a set of physical coordinates corresponding to a display screen for each element in the object hierarchy. The physical coordinates also correspond to the logical relationship between the object hierarchy elements and the directional property associated with the object hierarchy.
In another aspect of the present invention, computer-readable medium having computer-executable components for processing a directional property is provided. The computer-executable components include a layout component for accepting an object hierarchy having a root element and one or more child elements defined according to a logical relationship. The layout component is operable to generate a set of physical coordinates for the object hierarchy corresponding to the logical relationship and a directional property for the object hierarchy.
In a further aspect of the present invention, a method for processing a direction property in a display object is provided. A renderer obtains a display object including a graphical resource and including rendering information to determine whether the graphical resource can be rendered in a specific direction. The renderer also obtains a specified directional property specified for the display object. The renderer determines whether the display object can be rendered according to the specified directional property
The foregoing aspects and many of the attendant advantages of this invention will become more readily appreciated as the same become better understood by reference to the following detailed description, when taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, wherein:
The invention is operational in numerous other general purpose or special computing system environments or configurations. Example of well known computing systems, environments, and/or configurations that may be suitable for implementing the invention include, but are not limited to, personal computers, server computers, laptop devices, multiprocessor systems, microprocessor-based systems, network PCs, minicomputers, mainframe computers, distributed computing environments that include any of the above systems, or the like.
The invention may be described in the general context of computer-executable instructions, such as program modules, being executed by a computer. Generally, program modules include routines, programs, objects, components, data structures, etc. that perform a particular task or implement particular abstract data types. The invention may be also practiced in distributed computing environments where tasks are performed by remote processing devices that are linked through a communications network. In a distributed computing environment, program modules may be located in both local and remote computer storage media, including memory storage devices.
With reference to
The computer 20 typically includes a variety of computer-readable media. Computer-readable media can be any available media that can be accessed by the computer 20 and includes both volatile and non-volatile media, removable and non-removable media. By way of example, and not limitation, computer-readable media may comprise computer storage media and communication media. Computer storage media includes, but is not limited to, RAM, ROM, EEPROM, flash memory or other memory technology, CD-ROM, Digital Versatile Disk (DVD) or other optical disk storage, magnetic cassettes, magnetic tape, magnetic disk storage or other magnetic storage devices, or any other medium which can be used to store the desired information and which can be accessed by the computer 20.
The communication media typically embodies computer-readable instructions, data structures, program modules or other data in a modulated data signal such as a carrier wave or other transport mechanism and includes any information delivery media. The term "modulated data signal" means a signal that has one or more of its characteristics set or changed in such a manner to encode information in the signal. By way of example, and not limitation, communication media includes wired media such as a wired network or direct wired connection, and wireless media such as acoustic, RF, infrared and other wireless media. Combinations of any of the above should also be included within the scope of computer-readable media.
The system memory 24 includes computer storage media in the form of volatile and/or non-volatile memory such as read only memory (ROM) 28 and random access memory (RAM) 30. A basic input/output system 32 (BIOS), containing the basic routines that help to transfer information between elements within the computer 20, such as during start-up, is typically stored in ROM 28. RAM 30 typically contains data and/or program modules that are immediately accessible to and/or presently being operated on by the processing unit 22. By way of example, and not limitation,
The computer 20 may also include removable/non-removable, volatile/non-volatile computer storage media. By way of example only,
The drives and their associated computer storage media discussed above and illustrated in
The computer 20 may operate in a network environment using logical connections to one or more remote computers 65. The remote computer 65 may be a personal computer, a server, a router, a network PC, a peer device or other common network node, and typically includes many or all of the elements described above relative to the computer 20, although only a memory storage device has been illustrated in
When used in a LAN network environment, the computer 20 is connected to the LAN 66 through a network interface adapter 68. When used in a WAN network environment, the computer typically includes a modem 69 or other means for establishing communications over the WAN 67, such as the Internet. The modem 69, which may be internal or external, may be connected to the system bus 26 via the serial port interface or other appropriate mechanism. In a networked environment, program modules depicted relative to the computer 20, or portions thereof, may be stored in the remote memory storage device. By way of example, and not limitation,
Those skilled in the art will understand that program modules such as the operating system 46, the application programs 48 and data 52 are provided to the computer 20 via one of its memory storage devices, which may include ROM 28, RAM 30, hard disk drive 34, magnetic disk drive 38, or optical disk device 42. The hard disk drive 34 is used to store data 52 and the programs, including the operating system 46 and application programs 48.
When the computer 20 is turned on or reset, the BIOS 32, which is stored in ROM instructs the processing unit 22 to load the operating system from the hard disk drive 34 into the RAM 30. Once the operating system 46 is loaded into RAM 30, the processing unit executes the operating system code and causes the visual elements associated with the user interface of the operating system to be displayed on the monitor 65. When an application program 48 is opened by a user, the program code and relevant data are read from the hard disk drive and stored in RAM 38.
The present invention provides a system and method for implementing a common user interface capable of mirroring user interface objects. In accordance with an actual embodiment, the present invention will be described in relation to a user interface for mirroring user interface objects according to a RTL or LTR language reading direction. It will be readily understood by one skilled in the relevant art, that the disclosed embodiment is only done by way of example and should not be construed as limiting.
In one aspect, the present invention provides an object hierarchy that facilitates the inheritance of a root element direction property by each element in the object hierarchy.
As utilized in the present invention, each element corresponds to a display object generated for a user interface.
Returning to
However, as further illustrated in
Generally described, an operating system includes a layout manager and a renderer for processing display objects, such as user interface display objects. For example, a layout manager accepts display object layout properties and generates the placement of each object by specifying physical coordinates for the objects on a display screen. Additionally, a renderer, such as a box renderer, accepts display layout properties for display objects and generates each display object on the display screen according to the physical coordinates set out by the layout manager. The function of layout managers and renderers will be understood by one skilled in the relevant art and will not be explained in greater detail.
In another aspect of the present invention, once specified, a renderer, such as a box-rendering model, honors a directional property of an element when rendering individual display objects. In an illustrative embodiment of the present invention, display objects, such as display object 78 (
In an actual embodiment of the present invention, in the event display object 106 is to be rendered as display object with a RTL language reading direction, the box renderer honors the directional property by adjusting the reference point of the display object corresponding to the specified language reading direction.
In a further aspect of the present invention, an operating system layout manager is configured to honor a directional property specified for the display elements in performing layout calculations. Generally described, layout managers are utilized in manner to minimize the number layout calculations required by an application author to specify a display object. For example, an application author defines an object hierarchy having a root element and its child elements and then utilizes the layout manager to lay out the elements. Accordingly, the application author may change the display by specifying a different configuration and allow the layout manager to change the physical layout of the display objects on the display screen. This configuration relieves the application author from tracking the element children and facilitates changing a layout configuration.
Cx=Width of Grid/2 (1)
Accordingly, one skilled in the art will appreciate that by making Cx variable, the layout manager can preserve the relationship between the bounded rectangles for any one of a variety of grid sizes.
With continued reference to
Cy 1=Length of Grid/3 (2)
Similarly, bounded rectangle 120 is defined by the logical coordinates "x=Cx" and "y=Cy2", where Cy2 is defined as a point along the y-axis of the grid 110 that is a function of the total length of the y-axis. Accordingly, the layout manager correlates physical display coordinates to each bounded rectangle based on an evaluation of the logical coordinates.
In another illustrative embodiment of the present invention, the layout manager defines each child element by a bounding rectangle organized as a flow layout.
In accordance with the present invention, a layout manager is configured to adjust the layout of each child element according to an indicated language direction of its parent element. As explained above, the parent element, "A" defines each child element bounded rectangle in terms of logical coordinates that define the relationship between the child elements and that are agnostic to the language reading direction. Additionally, as explained above, the parent element also defines a directional property that is inherited by each child element. Accordingly, upon obtaining the logical coordinates of the child elements and a language reading direction, the layout manager then generates a layout based on the language reading direction, while preserving the bounded rectangle relationship specified in the logical coordinates.
In yet another aspect of the present invention, some display object including graphical resources such as bitmaps, icons, and cursors further include directional properties to instruct the renderer how to render the particular graphical resource. As described above, a layout manager allows for the layout of display objects relative to one another. Additionally, a renderer allows for the honoring of a directional property in the rendering of additional display object properties. However, some graphical resources are unique in that they cannot change directional property regardless of the directional property specified for the display object hosting graphical resource. For example, assume a display object is defined as including a bitmap image of a company logo that must remain uniquely in an RTL language reading direction. If the display object is specified as having an RTL language reading direction, the renderer displays the drawing object as specified. However, if the display object property is changed to have an LTR language reading direction, the renderer attempts to render the graphical resource by changing its direction. However, in the case of the company logo, rendering the display object with an LTR would be an error.
To mitigate the rendering of non-mirrorable display object, the present invention provides each graphical resource with information indicating whether the resource can be mirrored and what direction the resource was authored in. Specifically, the present invention utilizes a truth table that establishes whether a display object can be rendered with a different directional property.
As illustrated in
The present invention provides a system and method for mirroring display objects for a common user interface. Specifically, the present invention utilizes display objects organized in a hierarchy that allows child elements to inherit directional properties from a parent element. Additionally, the present invention utilizes a renderer that honors a directional property in rendering individual display objects and that utilizes a truth table to preserve directional properties for some graphical resources. Moreover, the present invention utilizes a layout manager that accepts logical coordinates to define the relationship between display objects, while honoring a directional property inherited by a parent element in correlating physical coordinates to the display objects.
While an illustrative embodiment of the invention has been illustrated and described, it will be appreciated that various changes can be made therein without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention.
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SEO Advice For Business Owners and Marketers
Standout SEO Advice For People Like You
Ok, so you have your web domain. It's hosted on a fast platform and you have a cool funky site, great! Now what?
The Google of today looks at many aspects of a domain when deciding how to rank it.
Page Speed is Important
Make sure that your content loads fast and use a tool to assess this. If it isn't, then make it so, through on page changes and solid hosting.
Mobile Friendly and Useable Across Devices
Make sure that your content renders across devices in ways that users will find useful and useable. Use the mobile friendly page tester to ensure that your site meets the requirements. Strongly consider looking at an AMP (accelerated mobile page) version of your site and seize the opportunities that this presents.
In addition to page speed and user experience, being relevant to the query is the biggest factor in its decisions I could get super granular and break it down further but confusion isn't the aim.
Being Relevant to the Query
Well duh, who'd have thought that people will actually want to see stuff that's related to what they searched for! So how does it all work?
In short, you could break it down in to two distinct camps. What you show on the page and what happens off the page.
What you show on the page is…Onsite SEO
When you create a piece of content that you are looking to rank in Google or Bing, you should (in most cases) be in the habit of researching your subject and ensuring that you have an audience that actually searches for what it is you are about to write. You should do this via keyword research, using a tool like Google Adword's keyword planner. You can get an idea for what it is that people search for, in what volume and where, along with related phrases that you can weave in to your copy.
Research your intended audience
Keyword volumes are a handy way of gauging the potential traffic you'll receive and enable you to make better investment decisions around the products you are looking to sell or the ideas you are looking to promote. They are the corner-stone to success, as without them, you are shooting at fish in a pond in the dark, and why would you want to do that?
Assess the competition and be realistic
You also need to gauge the likelihood of success – To quote an extreme example, there's little point in being Joe Bloggs the insurance agent on main street and seriously expecting to be able to rank for 'car insurance' simply because the level of competition for such phrases is insane and is targeted by multi nationals with weekly budgets larger than the probably value of your entire business. So take a considered view on what it is you aspire to and be creative in how you are going to target it.
You might have a particular angle for your locality perhaps and you might well have enough local understanding of issues and the landscape to get your content picked up by local news outlets or shared on social media which may then appear in Google in related tweets.
Look at people who you consider to be the competition in your space, see what they rank for, look at the type of content they create, note who shares it, take notes and emulate the best aspects of their strategy, dig deep and see what applies to you.
Put the right pieces in the markup at the right places
The code that outputs your pages is often referred to as mark up – mark up encompasses a multitude of html tags that are interpreted by the browser to display your content and informs the way in which Google and Bing and other properties may output their search results.
If we think of document relevancy and how search engines decide what is and what isn't relevant we find that some html tags have more weight than others and that the placement and incidences of words throughout them can have a substantial bearing on how relevancy is interpreted.
In the <head> of your documents. ensure that your page contain your aspired to key phrases and ensure that yourdo the same.
In the <body> of your content use <h#> headings to head up your copy with headings that work closely with your target key phrase aspirations and ensure that what you write in your copy also contains mentions of your target phrase, along with semantic variants where possible. Write naturally, don't force it, and don't 'keyword mention' spam.
Some folk will talk of italicizing certain words, or bolding certain phrases. Others talk of using different font sizes to tell the search engines that some words are more important than others. Like most things, there are sensible things you should do and things that you shouldn't. If it feels right to play with font sizes to make things stand out, then do so, but don't expect any direct search benefit as a result.
If you look at how many standard content pieces are written, you'll pretty much see that most ranking documents use a wide range of methods for displaying what they say. Don't waste your time trying to reverse engineer some secret sauce, because it doesn't exist. Just write for your users and pepper your content with a liberal dose of words that make sense to your reader, reinforcing the core of what it is all about.
You can read more about how to position your page content here, from Google itself.
Create keyword relevant urls
Make sure that the urls you create contain your target key phrases – this might be achieved via /filename-with-keyword-phrase-alone.html or use a directory type /key-phrase/related-branch.html approach. It doesn't really matter which, but it's important that you use one or the other as to not include the core aspect of your target phrase may well hamper your ability to rank for your aspiration.
Through using keyword rich URL's you not only give your users a good indication what the page is about should the link be shared in an email, but you may also increase the incidence of keyword diversity when such links are shared as urls.
Use hyphens as a separator, not underscores, partly because that's what Google used to advise (some Googlers say it doesn't matter anymore) but also because if shared as hyper links, the underscores can be missed and can create confusion in type in scenarios, whereas hyphens are clear and unambiguous.
They also appear in the search engine results page and act as a re-enforcement in the users mind when submitting their query. Google often emboldens words that match the query, so it's a good thing to do.
Use a logical navigation structure on your domain with useful anchor text
Make sure that your users will have some insight in to the pages that they are clicking through to.
Don't use words like product 1 or service 2, be specific, in your menus and site navigation be sure to think about the types of things that users search for and inject these into your structures.
Use solid tried and tested practices that users like and reinforce these throughout.
Consider the use of bread crumb trails to enable the user to see where they are in their journey and reinforce the message to both people who read it and the bots that will spider and index your content.
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Is infinitely better than nothing or something that was devoid of links or product/service mentions. Shows your users where they are, adding context and meaning.
Think about how you name your files and images
Similar to using target key phrases in your URLs, you should also consider how you use and name imagery or files within your content. An image named image1.gif isn't very useful to bots or people, whereas descriptive-file-name.gif is. This will increase the likelihood of your images appearing in image search and may also have a direct ranking benefit too.
Images should also contain descriptive alt attributes and it certainly doesn't hurt to use the title attribute too. Be sure to be sensible avoiding the urge to be spammy or ridiculous.
For the more technically adept there's of course a whole host of other considerations to be had too which will enhance how your content appears across search and other platforms.
Ever wonder how some results in the SERP (search engine results page) have stand out extra graphical elements? These are commonly referred to as rich snippets. Here's an example of them in action.
Rich Snippet Mark Up
Rich snippets are pieces of code that often generate enhanced search displays, making your content more visible to your target audience. They do this through the use of structured data standard called schema.org microdata. There are a range of different types:
To quote one example, "events" are often seen in the SERPs, and they might look a little like this. We can produce an example of a fictional event, showing both the markup and the visual representation.
The guys at verve search have an excellent run down of the considerations involved so do check out their post.
Twitter MarkUp
Ever noticed how some tweets seem to have an image associated with a shared link?
That's twitter cards in action and it's a very simple addition to do.
We can see how it works with this page here – when the page is shared on Twitter, it receives an enhanced preview.
The code that makes that happen can be viewed below
<meta name="twitter:title" content="Plan your travels from Bayeux France to La Rochelle France" />
<meta name="twitter:card" content="summary_large_image">
<meta name="twitter:site" content="@distantias" />
<meta name="twitter:creator" content="@distantias" />
<meta name="twitter:image" content="https://mw2.google.com/mw-panoramio/photos/medium/94269660.jpg" />
You can read more about adding Twitter cards here.
Facebook Open Graph Code
We've all shared content on Facebook and seen the previews created as we do. The cool thing is, you can actually control how your message is presented and display a custom image to fit.
The code that makes it happen is this.
<meta property="og:title" content= "Journey Planning From Bayeux France to La Rochelle France "/>
<meta property="og:description" content="Plan your travels from Bayeux France to La Rochelle France Create friendships, Earn points , Book Hotels and more"/>
<meta property="og:site_name" content="Distantias" />
<meta property="og:image" content="https://mw2.google.com/mw-panoramio/photos/medium/94269660.jpg">
<meta property="og:image:type" content="image/png">
<meta property="og:image:width" content="100″>
<meta property="og:image:height" content="70″>
<meta property="go:image:height" content="70″>
When shared on Facebook, this produces this.
HREFLANG – Calling International SEO
Some companies target international audiences. You can use hreflang to target different geolocations and languages.
The implementation is too lengthy to go into detail here, but if you'd like to know more than you can read all about it here or hit me up and I'll walk you through it.
What Happens Off the Page is…Off Site SEO
So, in the previous part we took a quick look at various on-site or on-page factors that help influence ranking and page performance, this being just one part of being "relevant to the query".
In this part, we are going to look at the off page factors and talk about how things work and what you can do to influence your domain in the best most effective way.
As previously discussed, Google use a variety of signals to determine relevancy.
In addition to what they say on the page, websites can boost their perceived importance and score through obtaining citations from across the web from other websites through using a variety of anchor texts (the text used in a link to reference other pages on the web).
The facts of life are that for many queries, in terms of the content contained within the pages that discuss them, there is often more than one relevant useful page for a query. So, when faced with this predicament, the algorithm uses external citations (effectively votes ) in an attempt to sort it all out and decide who should be shown and who should not.
The idea being, that if a page has more links to it around a topic and those pages are adjudged to be authoritative on the topic, then that's a good signal to use when sorting any wheat from the chaff.
How to determine authority from linking pages
So, this begs the question of what IS an authoritative page and how should you get them to talk about you?
In the old days, people would talk of the concept of PageRank. PageRank was once a a publicly accessible metric displayed by google in its toolbar. Various tools used this number to assess link acquisition worthiness. It was a useful, easy to understand metric.
Google eventually took this number away from the public domain, mainly because it was no longer necessary for public relations purposes and it was used and abused by people seeking to influence its algorithm.
The breach was filled by companies like, MajesticSEO and SEOMoz who effectively reverse engineered aspects of how they believed PageRank may have been calculated and so, developed scoring systems of their own. Domain authority for Moz and Trust and Citation Flow for MajesticSEO to use similar principles to that of PageRank. Not prefect and devoid of other factors used for ranking, but an indicator nonetheless and, in the world of understanding the machinations of black box technology – they are therefore, useful.
Competitor analysis
You should have already identified a handful of competitors and gained an understanding of what they rank for, what they write about and generally assessed their abilities via some kind of SWOT analysis (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats) These would have helped inform your content production decisions and given you a pretty good idea of the kinds of things you need to be doing onsite.
Additionally, they should also have informed you on some of the other reasons why they were succeeding via an analysis of the linking domains to their website.
This post from Koozai looks at the variety of tools that exist that help you to do this and there are many of them. SEMRush is my current favourite as it's highly flexible, and gives you a lot of insight that is actionable in simple easy to understand ways.
Obtaining links
So you've done your analysis and you have a hatful of linking opportunities.
If you are thinking of emulating link profiles (think mixed competitor mashup) then you'll need to asses the likelihood of obtaining those links and ask yourself a few hard questions.
Will they link to you? Are they a direct competitor perhaps? Why should they link to you? What value do you offer to their readership, what's in it for them?
If you think about those questions first, you'll be better placed to succeed in your request.
If you are thinking of emulating ideas, then look at how successful those ideas were and do some leg work in investigating why. Use tools like BuzzSumo to evaluate those social shares and take note of who shared and why.
Here's a couple of other things you should do when link building
Don't go in cold, take the time to build a relationship.
If they are a blogger, then read about them, find out what motivates them, look at how they write and what they write about. Follow them on social media perhaps, engage with them a few times, retweet their stuff. After a period of time, send them a little email or if you are great on a phone, pick up a phone and talk to them.
Talk about how you can help them, think about how you can help them, in fact make that your focus. If you do that (genuinely) then they'll be far more receptive and you won't have to work that hard to get them to like you and talk about you.
If they are operating in the same business sphere as you, then think about partnerships. Talk to them about how you can help each other, focus on the mutually beneficial aspects of the web and your brand and your products and use these to make your case.
If they are a community like a forum, then take the time to contribute, but do so in a way that adds value.
Here's a couple of things you shouldn't do when link building
Don't just send out a boiler plate shitty email, saying your site is great, here is my link, please link to me. That's lame of course, but don't think that by tarting it up with sophisticated language that it'll be any less so.
Don't pick up the phone and call cold and tell them the benefits of how linking to you can help them.
Don't go on forums or other places related to your niche and spam the hell out of them. It'll bite you on your bum if you do. Don't just expect to be able to rock up and leave your deposit on someones manicured lawn.
In Conclusion
There's many things that influence ranking, and it's often an ever shifting thing that you need to watch and refine. You should ensure that you look at your site analytics and webmaster tools daily and keep up to speed with change and innovation in your space. Failure to do so, could cause all manner of downsides for your business, a lot of which can be avoided through regular assessment. I hope this has given food for thought and is of use to you!
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What should you do if your website traffic falls off a cliff?
"OMG Our Search Engine Rankings Have Died!!"
First off, it isn't funny, at all. It's totally traumatic.
If you've enjoyed months or years of traffic for keywords relevant to your business and it's switched off overnight, then it's truly going to impact you and your business. You have bills to pay, staff salaries to maintain and the loss of traffic is often truly devastating.
Second, they were never really yours anyway. They were always going to be subject to the actions and whims of another for profit entity.
Unfortunately, when it comes to dumb algorithms, there's little kindness involved. If your website hits the thresholds that say rank this domain lower then you need to take action to reverse those aspects that may be contributing to your misfortune.
The search engine guidelines set out what is and what isn't acceptable. Hidden text, spammy links, keyword stuffing being 3 top level well known no no's. There are however a myriad of other no no's which are often fuzzy and hard to pin down. We need to understand that ultimately, search engines (generally) don't earn money from sites that use effective SEO so it's no surprise that they'd make it all a little bit of a minefield. It's easy to say "Make the best site for your users" but with only 10 spots available to have for each query, it's understandable that companies and site owners will push the envelop a little to get ahead. It's this process that often trips folks up which can often lead to ranking catastrophes. FUD is a powerful tool in dissuading the allocation of marketing budget
It's important to differentiate between penalties and algorithmic shifts of course. Penalties are manually applied whereas algorithmic shifts like Penguin and Panda are changes to the way pages are scored.
What to do if your search rankings have disappeared overnight?
If you know what you are doing then it's pretty academic. Why are you even here reading this?
If you don't know what you are doing then don't waste your time trying to figure it out.
You. Will. Drive. Yourself. Mad.
Employ an experienced seo specialist to look at the situation for you.
Algorithmic Search Engine Penalties
They should know if there has been a recent major algorithm change and will look at your website analytics to see if your traffic fall coincides with an algorithm change. If it does, then it's usually either due to a Penguin or a Panda update.
If your website has been affected by Panda, then it is perceived to have a page quality issue. These might be due to spammy or thin content issues, or machine generated content that is considered to be of low quality.
Your appointed specialist should be able to honestly appraise your site and be frank enough to tell you that it's lacking in quality.
If your website has been affected by Penguin, then you have a so called back link quality issue.
A backlink quality issue relates to the quantity and quality of the number of links to your website.
Sites that have acquired many links at once for example might be seen to be manipulating their link profile. Sites with lots of so called 'money' keywords in their anchor text might be another.
In the circumstances outlined; you'll need to begin the process of fixing your sites on and off site issues.
The good news is that your appointed specialist will be able to help identify these and help you with a way forward, the bad news is that you'll often have to wait until the algo has updated or refreshed before your site reappears for your keywords. Even then, there are no guarantees as with penguin for example, the link cleaning process may even remove links that offered value whilst retaining those that hamper. It's critical therefore, to ensure that you use someone who has experience with these and the tools that help identify them
Manual Search Engine Penalties
In some cases, websites receive so called 'Manual' penalties. These are applied by search engineers for what would be in their view egregious manipulation of the algorithm. There have been many cases of these over the years for all manner of organisations. They are a good PR tool for search engines as they send out the message that they are watching for exploitation of their resource and will punish those who try it on.
The good news is that you can clean things up and submit a re-inclusion requests whereby a search engine will review what you've done and reinstate your domain in search. The not so good news is that they may refuse it and ask you to try harder.
A friendly suggestion on the way forward
Finally, regardless of whether you have or have not had an issue; perhaps it's time to take a long hard look at what you do and really ask yourself some honest questions around your content marketing efforts.
The web is only going to get more competitive, to rely on big profit driven corporations for non paid for sustenance is a little bit mad really.
The proliferation of platforms that are taking market share will only continue to grow. People are using an ever increasing level of device and apps to access information. Desktop PC's, Laptops, Phones, Tablets, Phablets, Watches, TV's – Search engines are cannibalising content to keep users on site, social media platforms are doing the same pulling folks away from search engines in the process, maybe it's time to act like search engines didn't exist even; become the destination for your niche, be the best.
Good luck.
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Today I was flicking through the blogosphere in search of a little inspiration. It's hard at times to release the old creative juices, it can get a little tiring.
I didn't want to complain about a service or talk about the launch of some new product or service, or reference a blogger with a cool idea that I liked, or take a good look at a google algo aspect or even point to some a-lister in the hope of some little mention or other.
Its funny how I just did all those things, but yet by reading these people today I was able to arrive at the point of where I am right now. An aspect of the beauty of how things are created is how things can just pop into your head like a little light brightening a darkened room- ping!
So, here is the idea.
This is what I don't want to do.
I don't want to review or look at a blog. Blog software is pretty standard with lots of tools that you can plugin and play with, I just don't really want to look at tagging and hacking themes and generally dealing with all that stuff that so many others talk about so eloquently already.
No, what I'd like to do is look at something a little different. A standard 'ordinary' hand built website made by some random person out there who for whatever reason decided to build something from the ground up. They might be a friend of a blogger, or a business associate or just some resource that people need to know about yet just doesn't show up in the serps for what they should or at least could.
Lots of sites out there merit a place in a kw related SERP somewhere. Yet an ever increasing reality is that the competition for available slots gets increasingly more competitive.
Whilst a site might have great content, its very design and layout and accessibility to spiders and indexers may inhibit its ability to perform how it ideally could.
In many ways basic SEO can help these sites perform so much better. Be it via original title tags for each page, better structured content, better copy, a few more links, better internal navigational structure, inaccessible flash, over use of graphics, a little PR…the list could go on.
There is a little difficulty with this request as most of the people who read the stuff I gab on about are either SEO's, bloggers or savvy shrewd marketers, but I know that this isn't entirely the case either so, we shall see.
Whats in this for me I hear you ask..
There's lots in it for you.
Straight away it gives you a new idea to write about.
What better way to spend a Sunday or whenever, than helping someone you like or admire even?
Ok sure I can think of a few selfish alternatives, but hey – isn't there just a bit of appeal in a "give out a little love and get it back tenfold" mindset? Giving beats receiving every single time.
What should you do?
You can write about a site that you think is really cool, or a site that you use daily that isn't mainstream and that people should know about. It could be one of your own sites, or it could be a site of a friend or a relative even. By writing about them you will be raising an awareness and giving them some all important link juice too.
If you'd like me to consider the site for a review then all you gotta do is link back to this post and hopefully I'll pick it up and have a little look. In an ideal world you'd choose one of these sets of phraseology, "Rob is offering the chance for some Free SEO Advice " or "Rob is offering a website review", but I'm cool with a rob or a yackyack or a click here even!
I'll let things run for a week or two and select a site that I feel could do with a little help, I'll then write up a few words offering suggestions and ideas for improvement and forward it to the blogger who wrote about them. I can't help everyone so please, dont be offended or narked if I don't pick you, its nothing personal. 🙂
If you participate then great have fun with it, I look forward to seeing you pop up in the blogosphere.


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I ran for charity this year after a few failed ballot attempts. I'll admit its a hassle essentially paying £1200 for a marathon place and I wouldnt want to go that route every year, but the charities have taken over this race and it makes it hard for the amateur runner to get involved unless they are close to elite speeds or good for age.
I was hoping maybe there would be a second marathon in london in 2012, as its olympic year, that finishes in the stadium and maybe follows some of the olympic route.
Even if you have a charity place, you still have to pay £100 yourself when you "buy" the place, plus all the travel/accomodation costs to and from the race AND the expo that its probably cheaper to fly over to amsterdam/berlin/dublin/edinburgh and do those. Throw in the fact that with a charity place you'll be starting in the massive pack at the slower start, its not really a PB race.....that being said the buzz from the support was amazing.
And whilst clubs have places, they are usually only given to their fastest runners. So anyone outside of amateur elite is probably not the person for london any more
GFA on the VLM web site.
Think it's 3:15 for men and 3:45 for women under 49.
Oh yeah and clubs don't nec. give places to their fastest runners, some hold ballots, others open offers on merrit. (eg if you represent the club a lot at other races you may get offered a place).
I'd be very surprised if any clubs' places went to their fastest runners. If you're fast enough to ''compete'' for your club in any sense, i.e. in the England Athletics national championship, then you would have qualified for a Champs place, which won't eat into the club's allocation.
After that I can't imagine any clubs would favour, say, a 3:50 runner over a 4:30 runner. If they did, I'd be pretty miffed if I was the slower runner!
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I've recently started working for a disabled children's charity in Hampshire and have just discovered we have 10 places for next year's marathon, due to our allocation not being used in the past. www.roseroadchildrensappeal.org.uk, we have no registration fee but the usual £1500 sponsorship, please get in touch if you're interested! We intend to go all out next year and really look after our runners & offer them a whole package of support!


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by: Steve Udelson Updated:
CHARLOTTE - Nice weather in Charlotte will soon end as a storm forms along the Gulf Coast and heads toward the area.
The weather will be cloudy, breezy and noticeably cooler Sunday. Rain will not begin until Sunday night for the Charlotte area, but the South Carolina midlands may see light rain during the day.
Once the rain arrives it will become steadier before tapering off midday Monday.
There will be a chance for severe thunderstorms when the cold front moves through on Monday afternoon and evening. These storms could bring damaging winds late Monday. The WSOC weather team will be monitoring conditions.
Once the storm moves through there will be dry weather Tuesday through Friday. Rain totals of 1 inch or greater are possible.


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The Redemption of Kevin White
Kevin watched the boy who had led him to the deck run off, and a twinge of pain that had nothing to do with his burns rushed through him. The boy was putting himself in danger to save this 'Joshua', and so was Jimmy, muttering to himself all the way. And yet he himself stood on the deck, safe and sound, scenes from only moments ago playing through his mind.
He had felt elation first. For only a split second, but he had done it. He had accomplished the one goal that had eluded him for so long. Anything Kevin White put his mind to, he could do, but this one thing had caused him no end of trouble.
There were students aboard The Golden Thrush with extraordinary power. Some, like him, had influence within the outside world, potential to change things for the better with the proper education, but others had power of a different sort. Abilities only ever dreamt of by normal people, only ever seen in dreams and fiction. And some lucky few had both. Jimmy was one of these people. Kevin was not.
For all of his intelligence, all of his determination, he was still just a normal person. All the ambition in the world wouldn't change that. But Kevin refused to believe there was something not in his reach.
He knew the dangers of unchecked ambition - the recipe for turning well-meaning people into villains in most stories - but was confident that he could keep himself in check.
Fire had always fascinated him, and there were those already with the ability to manipulate it aboard The Golden Thrush, so Kevin had decided that pyrokinesis would be the ability he would develop out of thin air. "Spontaneous combustion," he had joked to himself. There was only one pyrokinetic on the ship at the time, though, and she refused to teach Kevin, telling him it wasn't something that could be learned.
So he had tried on his own. He had done research, practiced, meditated, and all to no avail. For the longest time, no results, and Kevin shut himself in because of it, dedicating every moment of his free time to the pursuit of developing this ability.
Then Piper angered him.
Something happened, some reaction to the intense feeling, and suddenly Kevin's wildest dreams came true. The small flame from his lighter erupted into a jet of flame. But Kevin quickly realized it was completely out of control. His ire was mirrored in the wildness of the flame, and fear quickly replaced his feelings of accomplishment as his room transformed into a blazing inferno.
Then, he blacked out. The next thing he remembered was being led to the deck by the young boy who had just ran back in to the fire. The fire Kevin himself had caused. He had put all these people in danger. He really had become a villain.
"No," he said, and though his voice was quiet, it was so stern that those standing near him started and turned to look at him. The young man they saw could not have been more different from the confused individual Benny had run into belowdecks.
He ran off after the other two boys, Benny's robe billowing behind him like a cape. Looking back on the incident, Kevin would have enjoyed the symbolism; this moment would determine whether he wore the metaphorical effects of a hero or a villain.
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"Benny, wait!"
Benny, of course, did not listen. Joshua was not only a child, and blind, and nearly helpless, but he was also his friend, and Benny would not let him come to harm in this fire, even if it meant he took the harm upon himself. He didn't know where this bravery had come from, but that was the furthest thing from his mind at the moment.
"Benny!" Jimmy yelled, exasperation pulling lines across his face as he chased after the younger boy. He had no idea when the bellboy had developed a sprinter's legs, but he could tell that if he didn't catch him soon, he would be putting himself in danger. Already the smoke above their heads was thickening.
Luckily, Joshua was not staying in a room far from the deck. Unluckily, Kevin's room was a mere floor or two below, and the fire was most intense right by Joshua's quarters. In fact, as Benny skidded to a halt at the end of the hall, he could see it was almost entirely engulfed in flames.
Benny's courage faltered for a moment, and the time it took for him to gulp and brace himself for the heat allowed Jimmy to nearly catch up. By the time Benny had pulled his shirt over his mouth and started toward the flame, Jimmy was only a few feet behind him.
"Benny! Don't even think about it! You'll be cooked!" Seeing Benny continue toward the licking flames, Jimmy cursed under his breath and dove at the boy, tackling him to the ground. Benny struggled with surprising strength to get free, but Jimmy managed to keep him under control.
That is, until an intense wave of fear washed over Jimmy, completely paralyzing him. He was confused for a moment as to what was going on until he felt a hint of familiarity in the feeling. It was Joshua! He was projecting his fear into his surroundings, and Jimmy had picked it up like a satellite dish. The feeling subsided suddenly, and he was elated to find out that Joshua was still alive, but Benny had slipped out of his grasp while Jimmy had been incapacitated, and was now scrambling toward the fire.
"Benny!" Jimmy yelled as the young boy reached the flames and ran right into them. He flinched and looked slightly away, but a strange flash of light caught the corner of his eyes, and when he looked back, he saw Benny sprinting through an arched corridor of safety in the middle of the fire.
Confusion wracked his brain once more (did Benny possess an ability that he didn't know about?) until he heard a grunt of exertion and turned to see Kevin standing behind him, arms stretched out toward the fire and a look of immense concentration on his face.
"Thank you!" Jimmy said, too surprised to form a more coherent sentence.
"Go... with him," Kevin managed, gritting his teeth. It was clear that maintaining the hole in the fire was taking a lot out of him.
Jimmy sprang to his feet and dashed after Benny. He found Joshua's room, and noticed that the door had apparently been kicked in, or run right through. He never would have guessed Benny would have had the strength to do such a thing, but then again, he never would have guessed he would have run into a fire either.
Looking into the room, which was filled with flame but not nearly as badly as the hallway, he spotted Benny walking toward him, little Joshua lying limply in his arms. He knew why the fear had subsided now, and it was clear that Benny's strength was fading; he was only barely managing to lift the other boy, and his eyes looked exhausted.
"Let's get out of here!" Jimmy yelled above the roar of the flames, taking Joshua from the younger boy and putting him over his shoulder. He then grabbed Benny's hand and pulled him from the room.
Reaching the edge of the fire, he sent Benny ahead of him and turned to Kevin.
"Let's go. I don't hear anyone else in there."
Kevin paused for a moment and then shook his head and jerked it toward the wall behind him. Looking to where Kevin had gestured, Jimmy spotted a sign that pointed the opposite way and read "Engine Room". He nodded solemnly at Kevin and clasped his shoulder.
"I'll send help when I get him to safety," Jimmy said.
He understood what Kevin was doing; the ship had sails, but there were also engines on board in case the wind was not cooperating, or for emergencies. If the fire reached the engine room, and lit the fuel... The results could be disastrous. Jimmy knew that Kevin intended to try and hold the fire back, and so he took off for the deck, Joshua still over his shoulder.
But what he didn't know was that Kevin had only realized the ability to control the flame moments before, and wouldn't be able to hold his own for much longer.
I hope your help comes soon, Kevin thought grimly. I'd rather not be made a martyr.


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Ontario Racehorses Die In Fire At Classy Lane Stables Training Centre
PUSLINCH, Ont. — A massive fire that gutted a barn and killed more than 40 racehorses inside has caused one of the most financially and emotionally devastating losses to rock the community, the local fire chief said Tuesday.
Steven Goode said officials in Puslinch, Ont. are still in shock from the massive blaze that erupted at the Classy Lane Stables on Monday night and was only subdued after the efforts of 50 firefighters from the town and surrounding cities.
The cause of the fire is still under investigation by the Ontario Fire Marshal's office and the exact financial impact is still being determined, but Goode said the scope of the loss is already apparent.
"We consider this a horse community and it is absolutely devastating," Goode told a news conference.
The fire broke out shortly after 11 p.m. on a night when temperatures dipped as low as -20 C.
Update: Owners of Classy Lane Stables were in Florida at time of Puslinch barn fire https://t.co/lKN8uTNtOI pic.twitter.com/SCShHmbmWw
— CityNews Toronto (@CityNews) January 5, 2016
Goode said the fire was first reported by a neighbour who spotted the blaze at the barn located about 20 kilometres south of Guelph.
Local crews responded quickly, but found the barn with at least 40 horses inside fully engulfed in flames once they arrived on scene, he said.
The dozens of firefighters from Puslinch, Guelph, Cambridge and Hamilton had to struggle with adverse conditions caused by the frigid temperatures, Goode said, adding the wintry weather caused hose lines to keep freezing up and created challenging road conditions.
Goode declined to say exactly how many of the racehorses died in the fire, but described the fire as a "multimillion-dollar" blaze that is "the highest dollar loss that we've experienced in our township."
Classy lane co-owner Barb Miller previously estimated that about 43 of the standardbred racehorses housed at the barn died in the fire.
Miller's husband and co-owner was hastily flying home to Canada from Florida to assess the damage, she said.
Miller said the horses traditionally raced at the Mohawk, Woodbine and Flamboro Downs racetracks in southern Ontario.
The Classy Lane website says the facility opened in 2003 and has five barns that accommodate 222 horses.
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KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Darfur's splintered rebel groups on Wednesday united in praising U.S. film director Steven Spielberg for quitting as artistic adviser to the Beijing Olympics, and called for athletes to follow his lead.
Spielberg withdrew on Tuesday, saying the competition's hosts China should do more to persuade Sudan to end attacks and other humanitarian atrocities in Darfur.
Activists accuse Beijing of arming the Khartoum regime and funding it through oil revenues.
Lobby groups and celebrities led by Hollywood's Mia Farrow have used this summer's Olympics as a platform for their campaign to persuade Beijing to step up political pressure on Sudan.
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NZD/USD remains above the support level of 0.8762, which is located 23.6 Fibo level, so this pair has been strong in the bullish trend. However, remember that the NZD/USD found strong resistance at the level of 0.8793, so it is very likely that this pair fall to the support level of 0.8712, which coincides with the 61.8 Fibo level.
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First, of course, is the message of the movie. Actually, I should say the history that the movie contains. This is the true story of Sophie Scholl, a young German woman who was a student during the 1940s. She, along with her friends and her brother, dared to participate in a resistance movement virtually under the noses of the Nazis.
For many years, I have read about this movie that was made in 1982. The German-language film has been referenced in countless other reviews for its compelling performances and authentic feel. Problem is, the film is not available on DVD. In fact, I searched for it and found it available on only a handful of used VHS tapes priced from $25 to $130. It is no exaggeration to say that this is a rare film indeed. I thought that most likely I would never get a chance to see it.
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The title refers to a group of students at the University of Munich who, during a few months in 1942 and 1943, wrote, printed and distributed anti-Nazi fliers in a secret resistance movement. Among the leaders of the activists were siblings Hans and Sophie Scholl, played in the movie by Wulf Kessler and Lena Stolze, respectively.
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