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Richard Vanderhurst reviews the Asus EAHD4870X2

14-Jun-09

 

Richard Vanderhurst reviews the 33483068-2-200-0

Whether you put a value on those features or not, the first reason for buying a pricey 3D card is speed.

This latest update to Windows’ DirectX programming model came with Vista Service Pack one ( if you installed SP1, you have DirectX 10.1 ), and enabled a few graphics tweaks for game developers. By the point Windows seven hits, you should expect both AMD and Nvidia will have compatible hardware. And even if there’s only rare game support for DirectX eleven at launch ( as with DirectX ten and Vista ), the subsequent full-fledged version of DirectX will receive broader game-developer interest in the long run than a short-lived, incremental update like DirectX 10.1.

Therefore , buying an AMD card for its support of DirectX 10.1 would be very short-sighted. This movement is still in its early days, and we do not expect it to reach a critical mass till DirectX eleven, an element being intended to provide developers with a neutral, broadly adopted standard for the purpose.

You may hear more about parallel computing ( as it’s known ) as each graphics-card seller amps up its promotional efforts leading in to the launch of Windows seven ( Nvidia’s “Visual Computing” campaign is well in progress ), but as with PhysX and DirectX 10.1 support, bringing parallel computing to the graphics processor will not receive broad software support, and so shouldn’t be a first purchasing consideration for most consumers for quite a long time.

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Richard Vanderhurst Discusses Entry and Exit Pages

31-May-09

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Every website has an entry and exit page. These are the pages that are seen first and last when a surfer browses through your site. Search engines that create linkages to your site allow the entrance of web users. Linkages may vary depending on which category in your site it belongs to. Therefore, entry passages may not necessarily begin through the home/main page. Nevertheless, it is important to your search engine optimization to carefully construct an effective entry page or pages since this is the first thing users will see from your site. It ultimately determines the impact and image of your site, which begins at face value.

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Richard Vanderhurst points out that it is important to have proper positioning of entry points. Analyze carefully which pages would be best to locate these entries. This can initially contribute to a higher site ranking. Have the entry pages monitored by a web analytic program to make sure that they are properly working. On the other hand, exit pages are the pages in which the surfer is led through an exiting link or when they are done browsing through your page. They serve two main purposes:

1. To drive users through a path that leads to a desired exit page.
2. To leave a bread-crumb trail that serves as an indicator for the user on where they specifically are in your site. It serves as a guide to the user’s navigation as well as to help crawlers easily follow your links.

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One of the most essential elements of SEO is the page title. Crawlers examine the title page before anything else and it is included in the criteria for ranking. Richard Vanderhurst enumerates several considerations when creating your title page:

• Use Descriptive Keywords. Using descriptions in your title page will initially guide users as it gives out the specific information regarding the content of your page.

• Minimize Page Title Characters. Limit the characters of your page title to only 50 (including spaces). This creates more precision, which can help put you at the top of the search results

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Apart from the page title, content is definitely another element to look out for. Some of the factors to consider are the following:

• Right Choice of Keywords. Choosing appropriate keywords contribute to good content. Do not exceed more than three keywords as this may cause its defectiveness and may result to delisting from crawlers since they see this as “keyword stuffing”.

• Avoid Multiple Usage of a Keyword. Search engines calculate the keyword density or the number of times a keyword is used. If it goes beyond or below 5-7 percent, your ranking will be at stake and can lead to exclusion from search results.

• Freshness. Keep your contents regularly updated and report broken links to the webmaster.

• Interactive Forums. This will help establish a connection with users and boost your ranking.

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Richard Vanderhurst shows you how to stay on Top of the SEO Game

24-Apr-09

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Seeing your web site at the top of a search result is a nice feeling. All the SEO efforts you have done have finally materialized. Does this mean it is time for you to relax? Absolutely not, but a little celebration would be nice. But be sure not to turn your head too far for too long.

Richard Vanderhurst teaches students that search engine algorithms change every so often. One day you are on top, the next day you are three pages behind or right at the bottom of the first page. As an SEO expert, you know being at the bottom is not as bad as being pages behind. However, you also know that it is a part of the page that searchers simply do not scroll down to.

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You must be at the top of your game all the time. Continuous SEO effort is a must. In addition to your already brilliant SEO strategy, position monitoring and web-site analytics can help your web site stay on the top rank.

Position monitoring is an application that allows you to monitor your web site position or search ranking from the different search engines. This tool, however, must only be used in moderation as automated ranks checkers are a violation of Google’s terms of service. Sanctions such as disabling connectivity and searches on Google.com are given to those who are caught with this violation.

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Richard Vanderhurst shows us that web analytics monitoring is just as important as position monitoring. This tool provides you with important information regarding the visitors that come to your web site. Through web analytics, you are able to learn where your visitors are coming from, the length of time they spend on your web site and the pages that they browse from your site. Web analytics can also tell you how many people bounce from your web site.

Quick information: Bounce – a term that refers to an occurrence where visitors come to a web site and leave immediately. If you find a lot of bouncers from your site, it should give you a hint that you need to double check your optimization strategy. Visitors bounce because they do not find what they are hoping to find from your web site.

You should also constantly monitor keywords and links. Keywords change all the time. What could be a popular jargon for the kind of business that you run today may be different tomorrow? Monitoring links, on the other hand, should not only focus on the links on your web site that lead your visitors to where you want them. Although, of course, you have to make sure that you are leading your visitors to the right pages. You should also monitor the links where your visitors are coming from. There are incoming links that could damage your web site. These are the links that are established by unethical unrelated web site or group of web sites.

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Keeping your web site busy produces good results. Add contents and links in proper time intervals so as not to make the web crawlers suspicious. Be sure that all the contents and links you add are highly relevant to your web site. Just the same, adding new pages to your web site can really help and this is a sign that your web site is active. While doing so, you should also add internal page links. This allows a visitor to stay and navigate around your web site longer. Last, but not the least, rename the pages and images in your web site to reflect the keywords that you have chosen.

Stay competitive. The rules change, the competition changes. Get ahead of them and keep you’ll reign at the top.

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