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Here is another nice, well I think it is nice, since it’s pretty short and gives you an over view quickly. All PHP developers must find one Framework for them before your client forces you to learn one.

Thanks to Ryan and Team for this precise information.

Here is a nice presentation which talks about the standards for Mobile web development.

Not exactly, if you optimize your site for Google SEO factors you will generally do well for SERPs in all the major search engines. In addition you need to do some tweaks in turn for the difference in the algorithm. I have done some research to the sites that lists in Google and Bing for high traffic Global and local keywords and I see some additional importance to the on page and off page factors related to the Google and Bing algorithm. Hope these helps for Bing SEO too

(1) Title tag - Equal importance for Both Google and Bing
(2) Keyword prominence - Equal importance for Both Google and Bing
(3) Keyword density - Bing looks for lesser keyword density compared to Google
(4) Link density - Google gives more priority than Bing
(5) H tag - Bing gives more priority than Google
(6) Clean code - Equal importance for Both Google and Bing
(7) Meta tags - Equal importance for Both Google and Bing
(8) Anchor texts - Bing gives more priority than Google
(9) Super relevant content for optimized keywords - Equal importance for Both Google and Bing
(10) Domain age - Bing gives more priority than Google
(11) Site popularity - Google gives more priority than Bing
(12) Social sites in links - Google gives more priority than Bing

BTW, if you are new to Bing and not listed in Bing search results you may submit your site to http://www.bing.com/docs/submit.aspx

In addition, to list better in Bing you need to implement some additional tasks along with above on page and off page factors.

Configure your site to Bing Webmaster tool http://www.bing.com/webmaster by adding your sitemap.xml file and with an XML file verification code for your site ownership .

And you may also validate your Robots.txt file using the Robots.txt validator tool in the Bing Webmaster section and robots.txt would look like

User-agent: *
Disallow: /images/
Disallow: /includes/
Disallow: /media/

Sitemap: http://www.xyz.com/sitemap.xml

These would help Bing bot to crawl your site pages and lists in search results efficiently

Hope the post helps and more research has to done as the Bing algorithm changes. I will be positing than and then, so keep watching

Today I revived few questions from Carl Williams of Odin Jobs for a blog entry. I believe every designer should ask themselves to keep the answers with them always.
1. When and how did you get started in web design?
2. What is the single most important attribute/skill a good web designer must have?
3. What hard and soft skills should a web designer have? Should he/she have a degree or can you be self taught?
4. Your opinions on:
    a. Fixed width or Fluid Design?
    b. EMS, percentage, pixels or points?
5. What tools are a must have in a good web designer’s arsenal?
6. Any advice to budding and beginning web designers?
I am sure you will find yourself interesting in your job, if you have the right answers.
I welcome your answers as comments.

At present you have a website that has been designed and development meeting your business needs and you admire the look and feel of your website, easy user interface and functionality for your customer, and thinking how you and your business will be known to your customers?
 
Then you need to think of populating your website to your online customers and getting traffic to your website. Well to reach your customers you need to get help from an efficient SEO consultant. Why?
 
Search Engine Optimization is a do process and can’t be said done
 
SEO is a continuous process. Webmaster, small business owners, designers and developers learn online resources and go with the process. But do they know which resources are niche to the specific business website. Many may be theoretical than practical. SEO is a practice, which can be attained only by real time knowledge. SEO practices do change according to industries and targeted customers and as told SEO needs to be worked in long term. On other side many do not have time to carry out the process and update their knowledge on current search engine industry. There comes an SEO consultant role who can tell you “What to do and what not” and “Where to spend time and where not”.
 
Website Designers and Developers are not SEO Consultant
 
Website designers and developers are professionals who tend to have knowledge about SEO and say they offer SEO services by adding H tag, Breadcrumb, sitemap and few come up with website SEF navigation but they are not complete SEO. Why?
 
It takes years of experience in design to become a professional designer and the same for developer for efficient website development. They focus on one area related to the profession to find do and don’t and to find what client prefers and their customer and do you think they have time for below SEO essentials?
 
SEO consultant measures and balance on-page and off-page optimization
 
An SEO consultant reviews your website, provides advice to the success of your online business and performs the following SEO factors below

• Site competitor analysis
• Keyword analysis and research
• Right keywords identification according to targeted audience both locals and global
• Improvement in the HTML structure of each web page
• Improving home page and inner pages user friendliness for conversion
• Keyword density measurement
• Keyword effectiveness index
• Right Meta tag optimization
• Content optimization
• Website internal links structure
• External link juice creation through local and regional directories, news, press release, feeds and video submissions
• Analysis and improvement on the existing traffic
• Added: Social sites conversions and blogging benefits
• Search engine marketing report
• SEO Return on Investment

And many more SEO factors related to specific industry.

Do you think a designer, developer or a Webmaster without in-depth knowledge and experiance can provide these above factors in a professional manner? I would say big No; they are professionals in their own field but not in SEO. All these needs continues practice in the SEO field that can be achieved only through understanding business, handing various industry related projects and by all possible SEO examines

Now you would have known the real need of an SEO consultant to make your online business success. Start looking for one, the best!

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