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In celebration of jQuery’s 4th birthday, the jQuery team is pleased to release the latest major release of the jQuery JavaScript library! A lot of coding, testing, and documenting has gone into this release, and we’re really quite proud of it.

You can feel free to include the above URL directly into your site and you will get the full performance benefits of a quickly-loading jQuery.

With jQuery 1.4 we attempted to minimize any large upgrade hassles – maintaining the signatures of all public functions. That being said, please read through the list of potentially-breaking changes to be aware of what might cause problems in your applications.

Features

Below is an overview of all the changes and functionality added to jQuery 1.4. Additionally all of the changes have been documented in the jQuery 1.4 docs.

And you can go jQuery.com to view the detail

Why SEO?

Search engine optimization (SEO) is important for any publically facing web-site.  A large percentage of traffic to sites now comes from search engines, and improving the search relevancy of your site will lead to more user traffic to your site from search engine queries (which can directly or indirectly increase the revenue you make through your site).

IIS Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Toolkit

The SEO Toolkit helps you improve your Website’s relevance in search results by recommending how to make your new or existing site content and structure more search engine-friendly. It works on any Website on the Web. Best of all – it’s a small, lightweight free download!

ASP.NET 4 SEO Improvements

ASP.NET 4 includes a bunch of new runtime features that can help you to further optimize your site for SEO.  Some of these new features include:

• New Page.MetaKeywords and Page.MetaDescription properties
• New Response.RedirectPermanent() method
• New URL Routing support for ASP.NET Web Forms

You can use the above routes and methods for both ASP.NET Web Forms and ASP.NET MVC based URLs.

ASP.NET 4 includes a bunch of feature improvements that make it easier to build public facing sites that have great SEO.  When combined with the SEO Toolkit, you should be able to use these features to increase user traffic to your site – and hopefully increase the direct or indirect revenue you make from them.

The IIS Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Toolkit is an IIS7 extension that helps identify search engine and user experience optimizations for Web sites. The following features are included:
Site Intelligence

• Reporting and error identification for broken/invalid links, duplicate content, tag validation, etc.
• Visibility into user routes, referring pages and other patterns
• Drilldown into page resource usage and load time

Search Relevance

• Best practice rules for optimizing URL structure for search engines
• Extensibility model to enable integration for keyword acquisition
• Automatic generation of search engine support files like sitemaps and robots.txt

Key Features including

• Improve the volume and quality of traffic to your Web site from search engines
• Control how search engines access and display Web content
• Inform search engines about locations that are available for indexing
• Site Analysis Features
• Robots Exclusion Features
• Sitemap and Sitemap Index Features

Instructions

You will need to run the installation package as an administrator. This can be accomplished by one of the following methods:

• Logging in to your server as an administrator account and then double-clicking on the MSI file.
• Logging on using an account with administrator privileges and opening a command-prompt by right-clicking the Command Prompt menu item that is located in the Accessories menu for Windows programs and selecting "Run as administrator", then typing one of the commands listed below:
  msiexec /I IISSEO_x86.msi
  msiexec /I IISSEO_x64.msi

It takes less than 5 minutes to download and run the SEO Toolkit Analyzer against your web-site.  You simply point the tool at the top-level URL of your web-site, and then it will automatically crawl your site like a search engine would – following each link, reviewing the HTML on each page, and generating a human friendly report of every SEO or content violation it finds on the site – along with suggestions on how to fix each of them.

If you haven’t downloaded the SEO Toolkit and used it to analyzer your web-site yet, then spend 10 minutes now and give it a try.  You’ll find it provides a really easy, automated way to quickly find and identify SEO issues you have on your web-site – along with suggestions on how to fix them.  Fixing them will increase the traffic and visitors to your web-site.

Alexa Rank is a ranking system which bases on the level of traffic that each site receives from the number of people who visit it. So the more the number of traffic you get from your visitor, the more you’ll rank well in Alexa. How you can check your site rank in alexa is simply go to Alexa home page site and search for your own site.

In order to increase your Alexa ranking you must be proactive in your strategies and plan your steps carefully to succeed. With the right Alexa ranking you can demand higher prices from current advertisers and attract new advertisers just the same. If you want to increase your Alexa ranking, there are a few things you can do right now to get there. Remember in order to move up in your alexa rank, you have to bump someone out. You are competing for someone else’s ranking and you better be willing to do what it takes to achieve a higher ranking.

1. The most basic step is install the Alexa toolbar or Firefox?s SearchStatus extension. Then you can set your blog as your homepage.
2. Put up an Alexa rank widget on your homepage. Maybe it?s a little annoying but trust me this step is very important. I?ve doing this, and in just couple days my Alexa Rank get raised for about 30%.
3. Call your friends or your family, ask them to review and rate your Alexa website profile.
4. Make a post about Alexa. It could be ?100 tips and tricks to increasing your Alexa Rank?, ?Increasing Your Alexa Rank in just 3 Seconds?, etc. Make sure you make an attractive title for your post. Your post will attract many bloggers and webmasters to read. If your post has certain quality, don?t be surprised if you get some juicy backlinks from them.
5. Make useful articles then promote it on social networking websites. You can also promote it on many webmaster forums, such as Promo Junkie, Digital Point, etc.
6. Make a cool and useful tool and post it on your blog. It can be a webmaster tools, etc. One of the good examples is TechCrunch’s YouTube Downloader. If your tool very useful, it will make visitors revisit to your website frequently.
7. Make sure you Dugg or Stumbled your fresh post.
8. Buy paid-traffic. Did you know that you can buy a thousand traffics at DigitalPoint as cheap as $1? Make sure that you pick a trustful traffic seller. You can also buy advertisements from Google, Adengage, etc. It’s cheap and very useful.
9. If you want to use a free one, try Alexa auto-surfs. You can search it on Google. Try to use a good one.
10. The last tips could be a little blackhat, so I don’t recommended it. The trick is by using your social network account on MySpace, Facebook, Friendster, etc. Use attractive pictures and link them to your redirected Alexa URL. Yes, just that simple.

Have a try ~ ~

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What is .htaccesss?

.htaccess is a configuration file for use on web servers running the Apache Web Server software. When a .htaccess file is placed in a directory which is in turn ‘loaded via the Apache Web Server’, then the .htaccess file is detected and executed by the Apache Web Server software. These .htaccess files can be used to alter the configuration of the Apache Web Server software to enable/disable additional functionality and features that the Apache Web Server software has to offer. These facilities include basic redirect functionality, for instance if a 404 file not found error occurs, or for more advanced functions such as content password protection or image hot link prevention.

How to use .htaccess

‘.htaccess’ is the filename in full, it is not a file extension. For instance, you would not create a file called, ‘file.htaccess’, it is simply called, ‘.htaccess’. This file will take effect when placed in any directory which is then in turn loaded via the Apache Web Server software. The file will take effect over the entire directory it is placed in and all files and subdirectories within the specified directory.

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