How do you view the source code?

Wednesday, November 7th, 2007 by admin

Viewing the source of a website is always a good starting point when doing an SEO health check. Let’s look at a few ways:

  1. Do you use 'ctr+u' in firefox and take the old fashioned approach of checking out the code?
  2. Do you put on your xray specs to see key elements?
  3. My current favourite is the 'inspect’ option using firebug.
  4. Another option is to use the web developer extension and there is little doubt that its the best all rounder. Use the 'Outline block level elements' and 'Show elements names when outlining' to view HTML elements.

Do you have a another handy way?

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What’s new at Web Master Central?

Saturday, November 3rd, 2007 by admin

Quite a lot as it happens:

  • You can now associate website content by the country per-domain, per-subdomain, or per-directory level "“ very useful indeed. It will be interesting to see how useful this really is.
  • View and block potential Google sitelinks. I have experience of this taking two weeks, very useful if you have out-of-date sitelinks
  • You may like to submit multiple sitemaps to Google's Web Master Central, now you can.

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Firefox more popular than I.E. 6

Saturday, November 3rd, 2007 by admin

Slightly misleading as Internet Explorer is still the most popular browser, but Firefox is more commonly used than Internet Explorer 6, just!

Firefox is growing at by roughly 5% of the market share per year. This implies that 2010 could be the year that the fox out muscles Microsoft for the biggest market share of Internet users "“ go fox, go!

Browser stats source

2007

IE7

IE6

IE5

Fx

Moz

S

O

September

20.8%

34.9%

1.5%

35.4%

1.2%

1.6%

1.5%

August

20.5%

35.7%

1.5%

34.9%

1.3%

1.5%

1.7%

July

20.1%

36.9%

1.5%

34.5%

1.4%

1.5%

1.9%

June

19.7%

37.3%

1.5%

34.0%

1.4%

1.5%

1.8%

May

19.2%

38.1%

1.6%

33.7%

1.3%

1.5%

1.7%

April

19.1%

38.4%

1.7%

32.9%

1.3%

1.5%

1.6%

March

18.0%

38.7%

2.0%

31.8%

1.3%

1.6%

1.6%

February

16.4%

39.8%

2.5%

31.2%

1.4%

1.7%

1.5%

January

13.3%

42.3%

3.0%

31.0%

1.5%

1.7%

1.5%

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