Development & Coding

How can I make my site appear at the top of the Google search results?

I get this question a lot. So instead of writing a new answer to the question every time I get asked, I've decided to write a tutorial, entitled "Search Engine Optimization - Improving Search Engine Rankings: A Quick SEO Primer, By George Jaros". It contains a bunch of techniques for improving your search engine rankings.

Undoubtedly there are a bunch of other methods for boosting your page rank that I don't cover. But the topics should give you enough to get your site ranked fairly well. I've relied on these simple techniques and have had great success with my page ranks. I've seen sites climb from 50th to 2nd in Google search results simply by applying the techniques here. Sites may not be #1, but they do very well and get the exposure they deserve. If you are still looking for more ways to improve your page rank, do a Google search. You'll find hundreds of pages, tips, forums, and discussions.
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Back on June 29th I posted an entry about a JavaScript bug when using the parseInt() method to get the value of strings "08" and "09". (See JavaScript parseInt() Bug) Since I poosted that bug I've found an interesting solution to the problem. It seems that the bug is related to JavaScript counting in Base 8 rather than Base 10. So in the parseInt() method you can force it to use Base 10: parseInt('08',10) So give this code a try and see what it does:

<script language="Javascript">
function examplenumbers(){

   var correct = parseInt('07', 10);
   var wrong = parseInt('07');
   alert('the value of seven is ' + correct + ' not ' + wrong );

   correct = parseInt('08', 10);
   wrong = parseInt('08');
   alert('the value of eight is ' + correct + ' not ' + wrong );

   correct = parseInt('09', 10);
   wrong = parseInt('09');
   alert('the value of nine is ' + correct + ' not ' + wrong );

   correct = parseInt('10', 10);
   wrong = parseInt('10');
   alert('the value of ten is ' + correct + ' not ' + wrong );
 }
</SCRIPT>

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Well, things were going great with my security code script for my guestbook. Over three days without a single false signature attempt getting through. However, the way i had the code written, none of the spam bots were getting banned either. So now I've adjusted my code so that the messages are checked for spam before the security code is checked. This means that spammers will still get banned and the few that don't will still have to enter the correct security key. Hopefully this means taht I won't ever have to delete messages from the spam bots that fool my spam word filters. And as time goes oon I'll probably loosen up my filters so that actual guestbook entries will be able to have URLs and stuff in them.