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Top 10 Tips to Optimize New Website & 6 Tips for Back-linking! As it is said that "Necessity is the mother of all inventions", one of my clients wanted my advice as what are the points to be considered while optimizing a new website for Search Engines. So, even though I know what points will make a new website completely optimized, here is a list of guidelines that can be called as SEO tips for new web sites or what ever the users want to call it.

Below are the points that can be followed while starting an Optimizing process for a new website:

"Webmasters can now mark parts of a page with a 'robots-nocontent' tag which will indicate to our crawler what parts of a page are unrelated to the main content and are only useful for visitors.

We won't use the terms contained in these special tagged sections as information for finding the page or for the abstract in the search results

Addressing some comments and questions, with regards to links, the 'robots-nocontent' does not in any way affect how links are treated.

Google Inc has acquired GrandCentral Communications, a start-up that lets users manage their existing phones and voice mailboxes over the Web as if they were a single account, the company said on Monday.

This is the easiest way to get and test php support in a apache web server. First, create a file in your htdocs directory (ask the location from your web hosting provider if you are not sure named test.php. Second, Open the file in your favorite text editor and add the line:
< ?php phpinfo() ?>

Finally, Save the file and open it using your browser:

http://host_name/test.php

That's it! now you can see a page with php information and get all abilities that your server can handle.

Embedding PHP code into html is powerful rule that most programmers use. However, you should configure your server in order to get the benefits of this feature. It will only work if your Apache server has PHP enabled (how to test php support in a apache server) and .htaccess enabled.

In the root directory of your html files create a file named .htaccess (DOThtaccess).

Open the file in your favorite editor (I use notepad) and add the following lines:

addtype application/x-httpd-php .html
addtype application/x-httpd-php .htm

Apache HTTPD servers are configured by default to display directory listing, when index files like index.htm or index.html of index.php etc. are not present in the directory. This can expose sensitive information to prying eyes and are often indexed by search engines. This can compromise your data by making it visible to unintended audience. The solution is simple. You can add a line to your .htaccess file (create the file if not present) to prevent directory listing for that directory and its sub-directories:
IndexIgnore *

Software Failures List (start from recent):

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A September 2006 news report indicated problems with software utilized in a state government's primary election, resulting in periodic unexpected rebooting of voter checkin machines, which were separate from the electronic voting machines, and resulted in confusion and delays at voting sites. The problem was reportedly due to insufficient testing.
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