A starter guide for implementing google maps on your site.
Step 1: Getting a Map to show on your site!
First up you need a key, which is straight forward – just ask google for one! So long as you have a live domain, just sign in to google and click here.


Create a page and add the following to your header;
</p> <script src="http://maps.google.com/maps?file=api&v=2&key=abc123" type="text/javascript"></script><p>

Link Farming

Definition: The process of exchanging links with other websites in order to increase Search Engine Rankings.

Background: Amongst other things, search engines rank sites based on the quantity and quality of incoming links to a page – indeed Google’s pagerank algorithm is based on incoming links. Getting quality backlinks will perhaps have the most significant impact on a websites traffic. So how about Link Farming?

Hi guys,

I found this somewhat amusing link - a good read for people trying to build links! (Worth a free link!)

http://www.dindorp.co.uk/Link_deception_01.htm

Pretty URLs are increasingly popular. Not only are huge website businesses implementing them, but smalltime web designers are equally striving for that good look in the address bar in your explorer. This article is a follow up based on the comments of my previous story Pretty URLs (How to). I wasn’t planning on this sequel, that’s why part 1 doesn’t say “Part 1”.

Pretty URLs are good to have. People like pretty. There are various ways to accomplish this, but I will go over a simple way that I’ve personally never heard before. That means I invented it, even though many other people have already invented it, but never told me.

Whether you have your own personal web site or you're a developer guru, web security is an important issue that can't be overlooked.
Issues about security and availability range from those that are out of your control to simple precautionary measures that can be designed into your site.
According to the annual x-force report published by ISS critical security holes jumped 28 per cent in 2007 and network security analysts forecast that the web and other Internet services are increasingly the target of hackers, spammers, scammers and criminals.
In this article I'll delve into some of the issues concerning web security including: hosting, DoS attacks, webjacking, forum abuse, database security and online transactions.

I noticed at the weekend, that a simple mistake (several months ago), has led to a chunk of one of my sites being inaccessible ever since... My embarrassment only just outweighed my frustration! Fixing the mistake took seconds, and released a lot of content, but it demonstrates just how easy it was to make the mistake. Since then, I've had a look at some link checking tools and stumbled across this Fast Link Checker, which allows 30 days of free trial - easily enough time to quickly check your links are in order.

After you've sorted out your keywords another major step in SEO is cultivating back links. Nothing gets you noticed faster by search engines than external links to your site from a few heavy weights. You know the ones I mean, those with a high page rank and zillions of eyeballs.
But how do you know who links to your site?

Any web guru would tell you that the first step to optimising your website is to manage your keywords - and when first planning and designing your site, it's key to know what keywords to use, and how to use them effectively. Here, lets investigate some of the tools available to help with keyword optimisation, and discuss strategies for managing keywords. First, what are keywords and why are they important?

So, you've finished your site, and are ready to promote it. Having a look around the web, and of course sites like this will give you stacks of ideas of what you can do to improve your search engine rankings - its time to do SEO (Search Engine Optimisation). The SEO strategies that you'll come across will describe ways to collect links from high rankings sites, through link exchanges or persuading others to link to you because of your content.