SEO
YouTube Introduce Auto Captioning For Videos
by AdenaAnette on Mar.24, 2010, under SEO
Of late there has been news on automatic captions for all YouTube videos that lets users to add subtitles to their clips so that viewers get to read what is been said on any particular video. And now Google is working on releasing this technology is many languages, but for now you can enjoy English. Opportunely, Google by now has the technology to translate written words into dozens of languages that is why it is now launching Translate Captions, a feature that does now need any explanation.
Andrew Gomez, associate product marketing manager at YouTube, wrote -
We recently mentioned on the official Youtube blog that we were enabling auto-captioning for all Youtube videos. This new technology takes advantage of Google’s speech-to-text algorithms to add captions to videos with spoken English content. Captions have clear benefits for the hearing impaired, but there is another benefit which is worth noting: translation.
As you know, Google Translate can already translate between any of our 52 supported languages, whether the text is a word, paragraph or website. We this new advancement in Youtube’s technology we can now add “captions” to that list as well.
Although it is nice to see auto-captioning in for all videos, the fact is that this technology isn’t wide in use currently. However, YouTube is sure that this would change soon and that captions are enabled for as many clips as possible. Along with auto-captions, the translate feature must also pick up in use. YouTube thinks that as many as 150,000 channels would now implement both features in the next few months.
Title tag with the webpage and PR
by AdenaAnette on Dec.21, 2008, under SEO
The title tag is a really important, yet often overlooked aspect of good web design. I think it gets overlooked so often because it hides up there at the top of the page with all that meta, xmlns, http & charset gobbledegook.
Or, sometimes your good intentions to ‘fix those title tags’ after all your pages are built gets forgotten in the joy of finally finishing the web site.
Poor little title tags.
- They are what search engines see as a good indicator of your web pages content
- They are what people see in the results list of their search queries
- They are what people see in thier bookmarks folder
How should you use the title tag?
Opinions vary, as do the search engines importance on them. But, it seems a good web design practice to use them for every possible advantage they may hold.
- Make them precise and indicitive of your most important keywords
- Don’t waste space with ‘Welcome’ or ‘Homepage’ or stop words like ‘as, the, a, or, and’
- Make your title about 40 to 60 characters (including spaces) long
- Company name? Nope. Use descriptive, searchable keywords instead
- Put your most important keywords in the first part of the title
How often do you think the title tag is overlooked? Try this google search for ‘untitled document‘ (the default title tag in Dreamweaver). There are over 97 million results.
Check out how many sites have ‘Welcome to‘ in their title tag. Wow, over 200 million.
By making the title tag a simple focus in your web design practices, you can make a giant leap over your online competition.
SEO Tools : Search Engine Friendly Redirect Checker
by AdenaAnette on Dec.11, 2008, under SEO
This is the tool to check if your redirect method is Search Engine Friendly
How it Works
A lot of us lose out on valuable search engine traffic due to incorrectly configuring our redirects.
It is very import that when a search engine comes to crawl your website it is able to follow any redirects you have set up.
Suppose you have a website http://www.foo.com and you create a redirect such that whenever any visitor types in the URL http://www.foo.com he is automatically redirected to http://www.foo.com/widgets/, If the Search Engine is not able to follow the redirect it would think that http://www.foo.com has NO contents, http://www.foo.com would end up ranking very badly in search engines.
This tools help you determine if the redirect you have created is Search Engine Friendly.
Click to check it http://www.webconfs.com/redirect-check.php
SEO info: How to Redirect a Web Page
by AdenaAnette on Dec.11, 2008, under SEO
301 Redirect
301 redirect is the most efficient and Search Engine Friendly method for webpage redirection. It’s not that hard to implement and it should preserve your search engine rankings for that particular page. If you have to change file names or move pages around, it’s the safest option. The code “301″ is interpreted as “moved permanently”.
Below are a Couple of methods to implement URL Redirection
IIS Redirect
- In internet services manager, right click on the file or folder you wish to redirect
- Select the radio titled “a redirection to a URL”.
- Enter the redirection page
- Check “The exact url entered above” and the “A permanent redirection for this resource”
- Click on ‘Apply’
ColdFusion Redirect
<.cfheader name=”Location” value=”http://www.new-url.com”>
PHP Redirect
Header( “HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently” );
Header( “Location: http://www.new-url.com” );
?>
ASP Redirect
<%
Response.Status=”301 Moved Permanently”
Response.AddHeader “Location”,”http://www.new-url.com/”
%>
ASP .NET Redirect
private void Page_Load(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
Response.Status = “301 Moved Permanently”;
Response.AddHeader(”Location”,”http://www.new-url.com”);
}
</script>
JSP (Java) Redirect
response.setStatus(301);
response.setHeader( “Location”, “http://www.new-url.com/” );
response.setHeader( “Connection”, “close” );
%>
CGI PERL Redirect
print $q->redirect(”http://www.new-url.com/”);
Ruby on Rails Redirect
headers["Status"] = “301 Moved Permanently”
redirect_to “http://www.new-url.com/”
end
Redirect Old domain to New domain
Create a .htaccess file with the below code, it will ensure that all your directories and pages of your old domain will get correctly redirected to your new domain.
The .htaccess file needs to be placed in the root directory of your old website (i.e the same directory where your index file is placed)
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.newdomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]
Please REPLACE www.newdomain.com in the above code with your actual domain name.
In addition to the redirect I would suggest that you contact every backlinking site to modify their backlink to point to your new website.
Note* This .htaccess method of redirection works ONLY on Linux servers having the Apache Mod-Rewrite moduled enabled.
Redirect to www
Create a .htaccess file with the below code, it will ensure that all requests coming in to domain.com will get redirected to www.domain.com
The .htaccess file needs to be placed in the root directory of your old website (i.e the same directory where your index file is placed)
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
rewritecond %{http_host} ^domain.com [nc]
rewriterule ^(.*)$ http://www.domain.com/$1 [r=301,nc]
Please REPLACE domain.com and www.newdomain.com with your actual domain name.
Note* This .htaccess method of redirection works ONLY on Linux servers having the Apache Mod-Rewrite moduled enabled.
How to Redirect HTML
Please refer to section titled ‘How to Redirect with htaccess’, if your site is hosted on a Linux Server and ‘IIS Redirect’, if your site is hosted on a Windows Server.
