Archive for April 5th, 2008

How To Get Listed On Google In 24 Hours?

Saturday, April 5th, 2008

One of the top problems webmasters face is getting into the search engines quick and ranking well. The reason is that they over complicate things and thus even risked being delisted from the search engines because of these complicated, blackhat methods.

The main component of good Search Engine Optimization is to gain quality backlinks.

Here is a quick and easy way, which you can accomplish in one hour, to allow you to appear in Google’s search engine quickly:

Step One:
Create a blog at all these places - Blogger.com, Wordpress.com, MySpace.com, Spaces.msn.com, Tripod.com, Pages.google.com

Step Two:
Post some useful content on all these pages, then post one link back to your site.

Step Three:
Ping all these blogs at these places - Pingomatic.com, Pingoat.com, Pingtheempire.com.

Step Four:
Watch your site appear in Google’s rankings in as little as 24 hours!

Step Five:
Post to your blogs once every two or three weeks to give it fresh content that the search engines will love.

Posted by Mahesh ( Tryangled )

Yahoo unveils its brand new search engine?

Saturday, April 5th, 2008

New Delhi, 29 October 2007, Yahoo is all set to launch its own and indigenous search engine. The new search engine will feature a newly developed index and ranking mechanism and would be bit different from the conventional Google search algorithm and index, which Yahoo had been using over the years.

The news of the launch has come amidst high speculation about what type of algorithm Yahoo would be finally adopting? While some experts eyed Yahoo adopting Inktomi search, remember Yahoo acquired Inktomi about a year ago! some had been eyeing towards a rejuvenated Google algorithm for Yahoo. The truth is, however, much more interesting than anticipated. In fact Yahoo is neither adopting Inktomi search nor enhancing its Google search. It is launching an indigenous search engine.

Yahoo had been eyeing on an indigenous search engine for a long time. For this, search engine experts at Yahoo had been busy figuring popular search engines and what would it take to make a next generation search engine that would be completely user oriented.

While what Yahoo will finally deliver is still a mystery, some of the features that Yahoo would probably feature in its indigenous search engine can be anticipated.

Search Assist definitely tops the list. This facility provides real time suggestions on is designed to help users by providing real-time query suggestions as they type their queries in the yahoo search box. Search Assist automatically senses the query and provides a drop down with the predicted searches.

The advantage of Yahoo search over it peers is that it has been designed to predict complete answers and not only links. Using search assist, Yahoo aims at ensuring that users get the best answers, bet it a link to a website, photo, video, or music.

The biggest boon for Yahoo users would be the volume of indexes Yahoo wishes to pertain. For example, Yahoo Search index has been programmed to capture the entire text of web pages up to an impressible 500K limit, a sharp rise over Google’s 101K limit. Additionally, Yahoo indexes HTML, PDF, and Microsoft office documents to give everyone a fair share of search engine exposure.

Pro Googlers are, however, not impressed with Yahoo’s offering. According to some pro Google skeptics, Yahoo simply cannot topple Google no matter what. Google has been The truth is, however, quite contrary to what the skeptics have been saying.

A survey conducted by compete.com reveals that Yahoo gets consistently higher CTR (click through rate) on its search results over Google and other popular search engines. This means that by advertising in Yahoo, your chances of being clicked by your target visitor is higher than what you can expect after advertising in Google.

While this simply shows Yahoo’s predominance in the search advertising market, Yahoo has also been monetizing its searches with the rejuvenated Panama program, Yahoo’s answer to Google Adwords which contributed much to Google’s rise to monarchy.

Posted by Mahesh ( Tryangled )

How do I draw a box with CSS?

Saturday, April 5th, 2008

To draw a box of a fixed shape all you need to do is specify the width and height of the area. You can then add padding and border to your box which will surround your content. Padding is the distance between the content and the border.

This code has produced this inner green box
<style type=”text/css” media=”screen”>

.box {
background:#829900;
color:#fff; padding: 5px;
height: 340px;
width: 340px;
margin-top: 5px;
margin-right: auto;
margin-bottom: 5px;
margin-left: auto;
}
</style>

<div class=”box”>
This code has produced this inner yellow box
</div>

Posted by Mahesh ( Tryangled )

Can the horizontal rule be changed by CSS?

Saturday, April 5th, 2008

To change the lifeless standard horizontal rule you can use the following styles:
<style type=”text/css” media=”screen”>

hr.newrule {
color: #FFFCCC;
text-align: center;
height: 10px;
width: 30%;
border: 1px solid #FF0000;
background-color: #FFFCCC;
margin:auto;
</style>

Posted by Mahesh ( Tryangled )

Deep linking?

Saturday, April 5th, 2008

Make sure you have links coming in to as many pages as possible. What does it tell a search engine when other web sites are linking to different pages on your site? That you obviously have lots of worthwhile content. What does it tell a search engine that all your links are coming in to the home page? That you have a shallow site of little value, or that your links were generated by automation rather than by the value of your site.

Posted by Mahesh ( Tryangled )

Microsoft And AOL Step Up Their Mobile Services?

Saturday, April 5th, 2008

April 3rd, 2008,
A few days ago, Jupiter research had predicted that mobile search ad revenues would touch $5 billion over the next 5 years. Microsoft and AOL are both taking this statement very seriously. They are working very hard to improve their mobile offerings in an effort to make up for the loss of market share in desktop search.

Microsoft are adding new features to their Windows Mobile and BlackBerry services, such as improved mapping and a voice interface for the Blackberry. InformationWeek reports that these new services will allow clients to speak into their Blackberry handsets, instead of having to enter queries through the number pads, which can be quite a tedious process.

Users will now be able to find directions to restaurants, theatres, offices and other places of interest by simply speaking the name of the place they want into their mobile devices. It is also expected that customers will shortly be able to map a contacts address, and view custom maps on Virtual Earth on their mobiles.

Bill Gates has long been in favor of technologies such as voice, touch and pen-based computing, but there were several obstacles to this in the past. Voice recognition technology has made a lot of progress in the last year and has been available on Microsoft Live Search Mobile for Windows Mobile devices since October of last year. The support for additional devices will make this service especially useful in cars as the driver will no longer have to look away from the road.

AOL has also launched a new mobile service. The Market Intelligence Service reports that the beta version of AOL MyMobile will allow BlackBerry users to access personalised AOL services through mobile phones. They have also started an AIM TXT short-code service for all major carriers in the U.S.

AOL MyMobile

Windows mobile users will now be able to receive personalised services by downloading AOL MyMobile. This platform will provide integrated relevant Web and mobile search results. AOL MyMobile has drop-down lists and menus, which are easy to access. It will also remember user favorites and recent requests.

Users will be able to save directions to various places and even access them off-line or outside their network range. News of these innovations has raised the share price of AOL’s parent company Time Warner Inc, which has been rumoured to be on the lookout for a buyer for the former Internet giant.

Posted by Mahesh ( Tryangled )

what is difference between DataReader and Dataset?

Saturday, April 5th, 2008

The ADO.NET DataReader is used to retrieve “read-only” / “forward-only” data from a database. Using the DataReader increases application performance and reduces system overheads. This is due to one row at a time is stored in memory. You create a DataReader by calling Command.ExecuteReader after creating an instance of the Command object.

The following line of code is used to retrieve rows from a data source.

SqlDataReader myReader = myCommand.ExecuteReader();
The Read method of the DataReader object is used to obtain a row from the results of the query, like so.

(myReader.Read())  Console.WriteLine(”\t{0}\t{1}”,
myReader.GetInt32(0), myReader.GetString(1));
myReader.Close();

The DataSet is a in-memory representation of data that provides a consistent relational programming model regardless of the data source. It can be used with multiple data sources. The DataSet represents a complete set of data including related tables, constraints, and relationships among the tables. The methods and objects in a DataSet are consistent with those in the relational database model. The DataSet can also persist and reload its contents as XML and its schema as XML Schema definition language (XSD) schema.
The DataAdapter acts as a bridge between a DataSet and a data source for retrieving and saving data. The DataAdapter provides this bridge by “mapping Fill”. Which changes the data in the DataSet to match the data in the data source. Upon this an Update occurs, which changes the data in the data source to match the data in the DataSet.
On connecting to a Microsoft SQL Server database, an increase in overall performance can be obtained by using the SqlDataAdapter along with its associated SqlCommand and SqlConnection. For other OLE DB-supported databases, use the DataAdapter with its associated OleDbCommand and OleDbConnection.

Posted by Mahesh ( Tryangled )

How do I call a stored procedure from my application using ADO.Net?

Saturday, April 5th, 2008

Using stored procedures with ADO.Net in C# is extremely simple, especially when we have developed the application with SQL commands. All we need is:
* Create a command object (SqlCommand, etc) and specify the stored procedure name
* Set the CommandType property of the command object to the CommandType.StoredProcedure enumeration value. This tells the runtime that the command used here is a stored procedure.

// Preparing Insert SQL Command
SqlCommand insertCommand = new SqlCommand(”InsertProc”, conn);
insertCommand.CommandType = CommandType.StoredProcedure;
dataAdapter.InsertCommand = insertCommand;
insertCommand.UpdatedRowSource = UpdateRowSource.None;

Posted by Mahesh ( Tryangled )