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Are your Web pages written for all the major browsers? There was a time when Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator were the only browsers available. Now there are many browsers competing each other for greater market share. Only the sites that are HTML standard-compliant will appear properly… Read full article.

“The 25 EC member states and nine accession countries have all signed up to a new inclusion plan that could make accessibility in e-procurement mandatory.

The 34 countries all signed an agreement in Riga yesterday, committing themselves to the ‘internet for all’ action plan, designed to ensure the most web-disadvantaged groups can get online.”

With a rollout of web accessibility standards slated for 2010, what type of impact will this really have for increasing awareness and accessibility in the countries affected?

Read the whole story at Silicon.com

Choosing the right SEO Consultant can be very challenging. You want an ethical consultant who has experience, industry knowledge, and innovative ideas. How to choose an SEO consultant?

There are Six Golden Rules, which can help you out to find the right one for you.

In order to help spark a bit of interest in fundamentals and/or inspiration for readers Andy Rutledge have put together a little multiple-choice quiz to help test your understanding of design. While he does provide the answers for checking your accuracy, there’s no tool there to grade you or present your score for others to see. This little exercise is just for you to see just how well you grasp some design fundamentals.

Do your search results often contain links to pages that seem to have absolutely nothing to do with what you were searching for? That’s spam. It’s in our email and it’s on the web. When optimizing your site you want to be sure to avoid some of the tell-tale signs that a page is spam.
Aaron Wall’s article Quick Indications of Low Quality Search Spam can give you a few good ideas about what to watch out for. It’s certainly not a comprehensive list, but enough to get you started in thinking about how much your page might appear to be spam the next time the search engines crawl your site.

Good SEO has a lot in common with good marketing.
There is lot of SEO commentary, but the essentials are sometimes overlooked.

Here are top ten SEO mistakes you should avoid.-

Whether you are a manager, a Web developer, a Marketing or Communications team member, or perhaps an individual Web master, you have read about the interest in Web standards from many sources. You have understood that standards are beneficial for your Web site in terms of cost savings, ease of management and profitability, and so you have decided to switch - and employ standards within your Web site. See here how that works.

LSI is a methodology for automatic document classification. It examines all the words in all the documents of a corpus and calculates similarity measurements for each document or for individual terms. It can gauge very accurately which documents in a corpus are really relevant to a search phrase even if that search phrase does not appear in a document. Measuring relevancy is a key component of a search engine’s ranking algorithm. When search engines use it, LSI can have a significant impact on the ranking of your web pages

This tool crawls your entire site and then analyzes all your pages for duplicate content. It shows similarity percentage among all pages on your site, so you can see what pages are similar enough to trigger a flag in major search engines and consequently they can penalize your site for duplicate content.

The higher the similarity, the more […] Check it out!

Some web site owners and SEOs claim that by not using keyword and description meta tags at all in their web pages, they are actually able to get better rankings in Google and Yahoo than before when they used the meta tags. Do you believe that? If yes, you might change your mind, if you read this evidence based article of Jennifer Sullivan Cassidy, at SEO Chat.