Search Engine Optimization Tips

SEO Tips: We can divide all the search engine optimization work in seven simple steps or phase.

1. Identifying and understanding the business type
This is the first step of seo job, where you can analyze and identify nature of the business and it's targeted audience. Try to collect complete information on the website you have to work. These information would help you a lot while optimizing a website.
Check for all the possible opportunities and go through your competitor websites operating in same business.

2. Make a list of targeted keywords
Choosing relevant and popular keywords is essential for optimizing a website effectively. This is something that will directly reflect your efforts. Right keywords can give you a good business deal & targeted traffic and wrong keyword will get all your efforts in vain, so be careful while choosing keywords.

3. Designing the website
Design a website in that manner so that it looks & feel good. Make sure all the internal links, code and validation are working correctly. A well designed site becomes easy to use and also get back the traffic on the site.

4. Writing the meta tags and contents
Description and Keywords meta tags helps a lot in ranking high, because all the search engines looks it at least once for getting the information about a page. Put your all important information in description meta tag which should not be more then 255 characters long. You can place your all possible keywords and phrase using keywords meta tag.

5. Relevant Title
Give a relevant and small title which could be in between 60 to 64 characters. Most of the search engines gives importance to title tag while indexing result.

6. Directory and search engine submission
After completing all the five vital phase given above, you can submit the website url to major search engine and directories. It will take some time to list your site url.

7. Link Building
The last and final step of SEO tips is a link building. Build links on many site which is relevant to your business or can get you targeted traffic. By building links on different site makes you popular and also helps to rank high in search engines.

10+ Windows XP keyboard shortcuts to speed everyday tasks

The shortcutsKeystroke	Function
Alt + Tab	Switches between open programs
Alt + F4 (in a program)	Closes the program
Alt + F4 (from the desktop)	Opens the Windows Shutdown/Restart dialog box
Alt + Enter	Opens the Properties page of a selected item
Alt + Esc	Cycles between open programs in the order they were opened
Alt + Spacebar	In the active window, this brings up the corner dialog box for Move, Size, Minimize, Maximize, or Close
Shift + Insert a CD/DVD	Inserts a CD/DVD without triggering Autoplay or Autorun
Shift + Delete	Permanently deletes an item (rather than sending it to the Recycle Bin)
Ctrl + Shift + Esc	Opens the Windows Task Manager
Ctrl + drag an icon	Copies that item
Ctrl + Shift + drag an icon	Creates a shortcut for the item
Right-click + drag an icon	Brings up a menu to copy, move, or create a shortcut for the item
F1	Opens Windows XP Help
F2	Highlights the label of a selected item for renaming
F3	Opens Windows search for files and folders
F5 (or Ctrl + R)	Refreshes an Internet Explorer page or other window
F6	Cycles through the elements that can be selected in a screen or window
F10	Selects the menu bar in the active program (usually the File menu) so that you can use the arrow keys to navigate through the menus and the Enter key to display one
Shift + F10	Displays a shortcut menu for an item (like right-clicking with the mouse)
Ctrl + Esc	Opens the Start menu

Roll your own shortcut

You can also create custom Windows XP shortcuts. Just right-click on the icon of a program or program shortcut, choose Properties, click the Shortcut tab, and enter a keystroke combination in the Shortcut Key field. Windows will let you assign only key combos that aren’t already taken.

Create your own special characters in Windows XP

If you’ve ever wanted to create your own font or maybe just a special character — for example, a character showing your initials for when you wish to approve documents with your “signature” — you can easily create your own special characters using a hidden Windows XP tool called the Private Character Editor. Here’s how:

1) Press [Windows]R to open the Run dialog box.
2) Type eudcedit in the Open text box and click OK.
3) When the Private Character Editor launches, you’ll see the Select Code dialog box. Click OK.
4) A user interface that looks and works very much like Paint will appear. From this, you may use standard tools to create your characters.
5) When you finish, select the Save Character command on the Edit menu.

Once you save your new character, you can access it using the Character Map tool. Here’s how:

1) Press [Windows]R to open the Run dialog box.
2) Type charmap in the Open text box and click OK.
3) When the Character Map appears, select the Font drop-down list and select All Fonts (Private Characters).
4) Select your character, click the Select button, and then click the Copy button.

You can now paste your font character in any document that you want.