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Back links Monitor online free

2011-11-20T06:45:00.000-08:00

Back links are the one of the major player in website or blog’s search engine ranking & Page Rank. Sometimes we make some deals on back links like purchase or link exchange. And we think that we have make a deal with perfect one and will not cheat us on. But this is not true. Some webmasters remove our links after a time and we never check whether it our links are live on sites we have taken or not.

Backlink Reporter is the big solution to this problem. This free online tool allows us to keep track of all of our links we have traded. With this software it’s easy to check your links along with anchor keywords. It automatically finds the links removed and inform us quickly. It’s totally free but requires a link to their site on our site.

How Back link Reporter works?
Here is a video which gives full explanation of the Back link Reporter

Try this Backlink reporter and Monitor easily with a sharp eye for your Back links.

Get Google Adsense account in one day

2011-11-20T06:43:00.000-08:00

Getting an approved Google Adsense account in one day sounds funny but it really works. Here is a trick I have tried with my friend and we succeed. But power trick of Google Adsense Account approved will not work for everyone in one day. So please do it at your own we just provide the information about this trick.

Blogger.com is first choice of every newbie to get an advertisement account but many few new bloggers are known to Docstoc.com. This is place where one can easily share documents with the world. This site is designed well for search, preview and download the documents. According to site they have 13 million documents that are share by the public. And this is a revenue sharing site.

Please visit at http://www.docstoc.com/doccash/join/

On that page you will be asked that if you have a Google adsense account or not. So follow the all the instructions there and If luck gives a push to your dream than your will easily Get an Approved Google Adsense Account. Don’t forget to share your experience with this trick.

Add Images or Icons to Sidebar links

2011-11-07T00:02:00.000-08:00

Sidebars are sometimes crowded with lots of text. There are many ways to make some of the items stand out. In my case, I decided that I will add icons next to the links, to differentiate links from normal text. I will also draw a thin line after each link. To be consistent, the color of these lines shall be the border color.

Note: This is the style we used for our Minima template. Since each type of template has its unique margin, padding and style settings, this guide may not apply to these other templates. You can try to adapt this to your template. Preview the change, and adjust the margins and paddings. Often, a bit of experiment with these values will do the trick. If they still don't look satisfactory, do not save the template.

First, scout around for a picture that you would like to use. In this site, I have used an arrow image. You can use any photo editing software to reduce the image size to about 9px x 9px; I used Google's Photo Editing Software Picasa.

After having an image, upload it onto a free server. You can read about using free hosts like Google Page Creator and Google Groups. We also have a rather comprehensive list of free Image Hosts and File Hosting Services in our article on Manage Blogger Image Storage Space. Check out those sites and choose one that is fast, reliable and enables hotlinking to the uploaded files. Take note of the URL of the Image file.

Go back to “Template” tab and click “Edit HTML”. Scroll to look for the following lines:-

.sidebar ul {
list-style:none;
margin:0 0 0;
padding:0 0 0;
}
.sidebar li {
margin:0;
padding:0 0 .25em 15px;
text-indent:-15px;
line-height:1.5em;
}

Replace them with this:-

.sidebar ul {
list-style:none;
margin:0 0 1.25em;
padding:0 0px;
}

.sidebar ul li {
background:url("URL OF IMAGE FILE") no-repeat 2px .25em;
margin:0;
padding:0 0 3px 16px;
margin-bottom:3px;
border-bottom:1px dotted $bordercolor;
line-height:1.4em;
}

Remember to insert the URL OF IMAGE FILE into the code.

If you don't want the line at the bottom of every item, delete the border-bottom code (shown in green) or change the value to 0px.

Preview to see if you like the layout. If it is fine with you, Save the Template.

Increase Website Traffic By SEO Services

2011-11-06T23:52:00.000-08:00

How To Increase Website Traffic By Professional SEO Services

For bloggers, traffic is important for improving online profits. WE mainly aim to generate organic traffic because our posts index on Google whenever we publish them. Well, there are a number of ways in which you can increase website traffic like article submission, press release submission, link exchange and a host of others SEO techniques. All these techniques are part of various professional SEO services. If you don’t use professional SEO services you are providing an advantage to your competitors. When you use a professional SEO service you can even compete with some of the big names in your market. Online businesses have gained popularity over the years and traffic is generated through the major search engines. When people search for information online they rarely browse beyond the first two pages of search results. You should aim to reach the top of search engine rankings to get traffic to your site and earn profit online. You need to hire a SEO professional to achieve high search engine rankings and get traffic to your website.

There are a number of professional services available but very few which actually deliver great results. Most SEO companies promise overnight results which is almost impossible and so these companies are scam. Most SEO experts will tell you that SEO is an ongoing process which requires time and effort. Yes, you can achieve high search engine rankings with SEO services but it can’t be achieved in a couple of days. It takes time for search engines to find the positive changes in your site and rank them higher so hire the most reputed professional SEO services to achieve best results.

Here are a few techniques that best professional SEO services employ to help website owners achieve high search engine rankings:

1) Keyword Research and Analysis

Keyword research and analysis is vital for your website’s success and high search engine rankings. If you want to get more traffic to your site you should use keyword phrases that people are typing into search engines like Google to search for information online. When you hire a professional SEO service they optimize your website with various keywords and also track the progress of your competitor. If your website achieves higher ranking on some popular keywords your traffic stats are certain to rise.

2) Link Building

Link building is another vital aspect of proper search engine optimization. If you have a number of quality links to your site you can receive loads of traffic as such sites are preferred by search engines.

3) Article and Press Release Submission

This is another powerful SEO technique to boost your site’s search engine rankings and improve traffic stats for your site. With this process professional SEO services seek to get quality backlinks for your site with article submission and press release submission. This can help improve your site’s search engine rankings.

MSN Seo Optimization

2011-11-03T07:07:00.001-07:00

Google and Yahoo , the most popular search engines uses almost same algorithm to display search result. Micorosoft search
engine uses different algorithm to display search result. To optimize for MSN search engine, note the following points :

1) Regularly update your website using fresh content.
2) Check the tags used in the webpages. The tag should properly enclosed.
3) Check all the links added on the pages. All links properly work.
4) Avoid keyword stuffing. Also donot include irrelevant keyword to target the page.
5) Alt tag must be relevant name to the image and no keyword stuffing in alt.
6) No hidden links or text. Links or text should visible to users.
7) Donot purchase links from link farms. Directory submission or article distribution are beneficial to increase links.
8) If possible include 1-2 lines text at the top of all the important pages. Add relevent keyword phrases.
9) Use links of some internal pages in the bottom of the page related to the page. These links will work as keyword for the
page and help to increase keyword density of the page.
10) Include the text in title and description used in heading tag.
11) Choose relevant name for the pages. If the page contains the information on rates of hotels then file name should be
"hotels-rate.html" not "sample.html" or "5674.html".

You cannot impress MSN to collect lots of inbound links. You must have fresh and unique content including target keyword
inside the content.

Read the MSN guidelines here :
http://search.msn.com/docs/siteowner.aspx?t=SEARCH_WEBMASTER_REF_GuidelinesforOptimizingSite.html

Optimize Website for its Geo

2011-11-03T07:06:00.001-07:00

Suppose you are selling some local products in the city of UK then your aim should be optimize your website for that geographic location. Optimize your website to attract more visitors from that city because you are not doing business in other location. So optimize your website for geographic location and increase the traffic from the target location and it will help in your business. Some of the useful tips are mentioned below. These tips will be helpful when optimizing your website for geographic location :

a) In the title of the pages, include location name( e.g. Product Name Hampshire UK) if you are selling your products in Hampshire else include the city name)
b) It is better if you add the physical address in the footer of all the pages. You can include it in the contact us page. The address should contain Street Address, City Name, State, Zip Code of the city, and the Country.
c) Google webmaster central allow you to set the geographical location of your website. Set your geographical location here.
d) Include your website in Google local business centre. Open the url http://www.google.com/local/add/ in the browser and you can directly reach to the google local business center.
e) Yahoo also provides local business option. So add your website in Yahoo local business. The url is http://local.yahoo.com/
f) Search local classified directories and post the ads of your website in these directories. (Classified directories will not increase the backlinks of your website because these directories not directly link to your website. Yes but you can receive the enquiry of the interested personal via classified directories)

These tips will increase the ranking of your website in the particular geographic location .

Image SEO Optimization

2011-11-03T07:05:00.001-07:00

It is not possible for search engines to read the images. The images are very important part of your website. It can improve the design of your website. In SEO, it is very necessary to optimize the images of your website. You know which image is useful and which image is not. The traffic will increased on your website through image search. So always put ALT attributes in image tag. The ALT define the name of the image. Here is the example :

Suppose I have a website name http://www.xyzexample.com/ and it contains some pictures also. Suppose I am going to insert a picture of cat. Then tag which I will use :
image src=/images/cat.jpg height="define height" width="define width" ALT="cat"

Must remember some of the important point when using images :

a) If you are using small image(s) as a text or logo in website then keep its color not more than 256 and save it as .gif or .png. Using .jpeg is not an ideal choice because it will slow your website's page dowloading and the visitors will wait a long time.

b) If you are using photographs then use the jpeg images because these type of pictures need good quality and only jpeg will provides you good quality.

If you are interested in banner exchange, must add ALT attribute with your keywords. Suppose you ask to the webmaster of other website for the link exchange then give him/her code of your website with ALT tag. Example :
http://www.xyzexample.com/">""<" img src="example.gif"">"
alt="put keyword of your site here"">""<" /a">"

Social Media Optimization (SMO)

2011-11-03T07:04:00.001-07:00

The term Social Media Optimization(SMO) is very hot word in search marketing. It is another traffic alternative to google. It gives option to increase more traffic and business through social media applications.

Definition : SMO is easy to link method using social media sources like social networking, blogs, social bookmarking, and media sharing websites. It is the best traffic alternative to google, yahoo and other popular search engines.

The main goal of marketing is to increase more and more business by exposing their products to the interested buyers. The social networks are very popular now and millions of visitors have joined it. The community or group inside the social networks attracts interested members to join it and through community we can attract visitors and let them know about our products.
It is also very easy as compare to search engine optimization. No need of on-page and off-page optimization. Only few related tags, a very attractive title with description and good content on the page that force members to visit the page. If the content is very good, really you will get more benefits here. You have to build community or join community and invite friends to come and join your community to make community more crowdy and visible.

It also gives traffic without spending money and also if your website is new or has no good ranked in search engines then you have still chance to get traffic on your website through social networks. Social Media Optimization(SMO)

Do Follow And Adsense Revenue Share Forums List

2011-11-03T07:03:00.000-07:00

What is Forum?

Definition : A forum is the place of discussion on the topic. The topic is depend on the forum owner.
These days the popular forums are related to webmaster, seo, programming, business, etc. The people join the forum to discuss the problem here and also get the best solution.
The forums allow signature link. Most of them allow to add 3-4 signature links. The dofollow forums are useful to increase more relevant links and increase traffic. Getting links from relevant and High authority sites will definately help in getting good page rank and the link from relevant place increase the ranking in search engines.

Do Follow or Adsense Revenue Share Forums List :

http://www.sitepoint.com/forums
http://forums.digitalpoint.com (Adsense Revenue Sharing Forum)
http://www.webmaster-talk.com (Adsense Revenue Sharing Forums)
http://www.webcosmoforums.com (Adsense Revenue Sharing Forums)
http://www.webmaster-forums.net
http://v7n.com/forums/
http://forums.seochat.com
http://www.seo-guy.com/forum/
http://talk.iwebtool.com (Adsense Revenue Sharing Forum)
http://www.seoproject.com/forum/
http://forums.seoroundtable.com/
http://www.submit-express.com/bbs/
http://www.webtalkforums.com/ (Adsense Revenue Sharing Forums)
http://www.webmasters.org/ (Adsense Revenue Sharing Forums)
http://www.httppoint.com/ (Adsense Revenue Sharing Forums)
http://www.seomeeting.com/ (Adsense Revenue Sharing Forums)
http://www.internetmarketingforums.net/ (Adsense Revenue Sharing Forums)
http://www.allcoolforum.com/
http://www.searchbliss.com/forum
http://www.freehostforum.com
http://www.webmastershelp.com
http://www.devhunters.com
http://www.webmasters.am/forum
http://www.websitebabble.com
http://www.webmasterize.com
http://www.talkingcity.com
http://www.forums.webzonetalk.com
http://forums.delphiforums.com
http://www.htmlforums.com
http://www.webmasterdesk.org
http://www.affiliateseeking.com/forums
http://thehyipforum.com
http://forums.webicy.com
http://www.webworkshop.net/seoforum/index.php
http://www.webmasterforumsonline.com
http://forums.searchenginewatch.com

Increase Your Traffic from Digg

2011-11-03T07:02:00.000-07:00

Digg is a great social bookmarking site and can drive truck loads of traffic to your site and of course on everyone's mind is the big ten million dollar question. 'How do we get more traffic from Digg?'. Here are a few ways in which you can give your traffic ratings a boost and also by getting on to Digg in the first place you get greater search engine rankings.

1. Register on Digg and download the Digg toolbar onto your browser as this helps the Digging process and saves you a lot of precious time.

2. Always choose eye catching titles for your articles or blog posts as this will increase your chances of becoming more popular on Digg. A good title with at least one good keyword will do more for you than what you could ever imagine.

3. Write good content as this is the back bone and basis for any successful endeavor with a social bookmarking site, especially with a site of great caliber like Digg.

4. Start Digging other people's sites and posts and try to make friends with other Diggers who share the same interests as you and who have similar sites to yours. If you have a political blog for example try to find others who also have blogs on the same subject as this will induce them to come and visit your site more often too.

5. Send regular shouts to friends on Digg and offer to Digg their posts in return as reciprocal Digging helps to boost your Digg profile and gets the numbers up.

6. Make sure you put plenty of good information and a couple of nice pictures on your Digg profile as it is nice for others to get to know you a little bit and helps break the ice in general. This also makes you more approachable and you may see that others also will want to be your reciprocal friends on Digg.

7. Set a time each day for digging tasks and try to stick to it as much as possible as this will gradually increase your standing on Digg and eventually will also boost your traffic and Search Engine Rankings which in turn will lead to even more traffic coming to your site. It is a win situation for all.

Increase Your Traffic from Delicious

2011-11-03T07:01:00.000-07:00

The social media websites are the source of alternate traffic that helps us to increase traffic and business. A social bookmarking website allow us to save our favorite news and share useful and interesting information with other users. Building a large network and participating regularly will give you lots of traffic with similar interests. Some of the popular social bookmarking websites from where you can recieve hundred and more traffic depending on the topic. Some of the social media websites with lots of users are delicious, digg, stumbleupon, reddit, propeller, etc. I want to share some tips helpful if you want traffic from delicious. For this, you must spend few minutes and participate in delicious. Below are the useful tips mentioned :

Make Friends Regularly : Regularly add few friends in your network. Login in your account and click "See more Popular bookmarks" to see the popular stories. Watch the profile of the person submitted the news or link in the delicious, you will find lots of people added in his network. You can add friends from his network.
Spending Sometimes Will be Beneficial : Regularly spend 30-40 minutes here and soon you will have a good network of friends with hundred or more bookmarks. Try to add two, three or friends and 4-5 links to your favorite sites. Now calculate, if you add 4 friends and 4 favorite links then within a month then you will have 120 friends and 120 favorite links.

Bookmark Daily : You should be active regularly else people will not add you in the network and even not vote your link. It is important to get traffic daily. If you bookmark something regularly, you will be active and people will notice your regular activity and they will add you in his network.

Bookmark Others Links : Add the links of others in your favorites if it is interesting and helpful to the others. This is the best way to attract the others and these members regularly visit your profile.

Bookmarklet Save Time : Add the one-click add on to your browser to save bookmark in just one click and it is the time saver and no need to login again and again. This option is provided by social media websites and it is time saving option.

Tags are Helpful : Don't forget to add tags relevant to the link you have added. The more tags means better to increase traffic but should not be unrelevant. Suppose if you want to submit seo tips for the beginners then your tag should be seo, internet marketing, seo tips, beginners seo tips, best seo tips, seo techinques, etc.

You can also use look up a URL option to check how many people save the page you entered in the box. If you want to save your favorite pages, click on "Save a new bookmark" and enter the URL including title and description and save it in your favorite list.

I hope this article will be helpful for the beginners. Delicious is very popular social bookmarking website and it can be a very beneficial tool for you to increase more and more traffic.

Top 5 Mistakes done by Bloggers

2011-11-03T07:00:00.000-07:00

1. Make sure your English, grammar and spelling, is up to par and can be understood by International Readers as colloquial language that is used in your local area may not be understood by some one else a few thousand miles away. Also don't use a crappy title for your blog. An eye catchy title can work miracles and is like fish bait.

2. Do not show that you are trying too hard to sell your services, products or even blogging information. Make your site look natural, organic and as easy going as you can, despite the effort you are making. No one likes a hard sell and you have to sell your wares in the most subtle way possible.

3. Do not stray from the topics in hand and wonder off into some other realm as that may bore your readers to tears. Always make sure content is both informative and relevant to what you want to put across to your readers. No one likes a blog that waffles on about all and sundry and is full of useless and tacky information.

4. If you are creating a new blog do not use the default templates that your blogging platform provides. Even if it takes you several days or even a week to find the write blogging template to express your opinion in then you better take your time as an attractive blog is one way of getting some instant traffic to your site. No one likes a tacky blog that looks dull and boring even if it has great content. The blog has to look good as well as BE good just like other aspects of our lives. Your blog is like your store front or a window to your soul and it has to look clean and fresh and most of all inviting.

5. Do not be only introspective without involving others as this will not attract lots of traffic to your blog. Involve and engage with other bloggers. Leave feed back and comments on other people's blogs that share a common goal with you or are writing in the same niche. If you don't get involved in the blogging community how do you expect others to come and be part of what you represent? The Blogging Game is a two way street so only then you can succeed as a blogger.

Articles and Keywords Role in Search Engine Optimization

2011-11-03T06:58:00.001-07:00

As I already mentioned about the role of backlink these days. It is difficult to get one-way link these days. But blog services and article directories make it easy. Use of article directories and blogs to increase the backlinks of the website. There are many directories where you can publish your articles.

Please keep few points in mind during article writing for your website :

a) Must check the spelling and grammer. Some article directories provides online spelling check else use ms-word or other free spelling checker tools.

b) Article should be simple and use heading for each section.

c) Donot advertise your product in article. Write the quality, advantages, etc of your product.

d) Write article between 300-700. Some article directories mention the word limit. Article should not be short. Try to explain the product or business your are writing about in meaningfull way.

Here is the list of some free articles directory. Publish your article here. I hope you will get more traffic and it helps to increase the backlinks of your website also :

http://www.articlesisland.com/
http://www.articlesworldonline.com/
http://www.allthebestarticles.com/
http://freearticles101.info/
http://www.thenichearticles.com/
http://www.articlegold.com/
http://www.bigarticle.com/
http://www.goarticles.com/
http://www.easyarticles.com/
http://www.digital-web.com/
http://www.articlecity.com/
http://www.ezinearticles.com/
http://www.articledashboard.com/
http://www.articlebots.com/
http://www.articles-book.com/
http://www.articles4free.com/
http://www.articlesbeyondbetter.com/
http://www.articlesexpress.com/
http://www.article-content-king.com/
http://www.hotlib.com/
http://www.thewhir.com/
http://www.whatsay.com/
http://www.articledestination.com/
http://www.article-treasure.com/
http://www.goarticle.net/

I will update more article directories in future and also blog sites.

Helpful Tips to Make Money through Blogging.

2011-11-03T06:56:00.000-07:00

Internet is the best way to generate income through blog or website. Blogs are the easy way to make money without having to work too much and its easy to setup.

What is a blog?
A blog is online dairy that displays data/content in chronological order. It displays the content in descending order with date and time. A blog is easily picked and crawled fastly by the search engines. So it is a good way to direct traffic to the desired websites. Regular updation and little seo work will increase the ranking of the blog in search engines and it can play and important role in selling the products or inform the users about the new products added on the website.

Write Unique Content for Your Blog
We all know that content is king. So if you are selling your products or add new product, write some unique lines about the product and direct the traffic to the product page of your website. Donot copy the content from your website and paste on your blog. Unique content will increase traffic on your website. So always update the post with unique content.

Blogging Daily
If a blog is not updated on regular basis, it becomes useless for you. So always try to blog about the products and services offered by your company. A content write can be hired if you have lack of time to update your blog.

Blog About Products
To direct more traffic to your website and earn, always blog about your products. Write it review. Also compare it with the other products. Comparing will provide option to your visitors to select the best one. If do not sell any products, join affiliate program and write posts on the products of the manufacturer. When a visitor purchase any product through your affiliate link, you get the commission.

Earn from Google Adsense
Google adsense is the best way to make money online for the publisher. It shows the relevant ads on the content pages. You will earn when a visitor clicks on google ads displayed on your blog. It easy to setup. Fill the form offered by Google to apply for google adsense account.

There is no need to invest money in hosting and domain registration for blogging. The Blogger and Wordpress are the most popular platforms for blogging. Create your account and start blogging. Wordpress is very user-friendly and most popular but you cannot earn money from google adsense here. The free version of wordpress will not allow you to add the google adsense code anywhere in your blog.

Upload text and picture direct from Your Pc In Blogger

2011-11-03T06:30:00.000-07:00

There are bloggers who want to be able to prepare their posts including text and photos in their computer and upload it direct to Blogger. Some have tried using copy-paste from microsoft word which obviously will not work.

Here is a solution - Windows Live Writer. To add a photo while in Windows Live Writer, either click the photo icon or use the INSERT drop-down menu as shown in the screen shot below:

If you wish, you can also add an album. Click PHOTO ALBUM. For this, you will have to have a Window Live ID and be logged in. Once logged in, click ADD PHOTO and browse to the photo in your computer you want to add to the album. Then click OPEN and the photo will be added to the album.

I have tested this at Test uploading photo from Windows Live Writer and found that it works well.

Increase Blog Traffic with Traffic Exchange Networks

2011-11-03T06:26:00.000-07:00

One of the biggest problems and struggles with blogging, is the ability to keep growing in size and getting people to actually find your blog. One way that entertainment and news based blogs are bringing in a lot of new and free traffic, is through traffic exchange networks. The ways these networks work is that you place a line of code on your web site, select what categories are relevant to your blog, then start serving their links and images on your web site or blog. Nearly all of the traffic exchange networks listed below will send you a 100-300% increase in traffic that you send them.

You can see some stats from the past few months of the type of free traffic you can receive from using traffic exchange networks. The stats below are from a small entertainment web site that I run, but you can clearly see all of the incoming new traffic that is a result of using these trade networks. As you can see from the stats, I’ve had the best success with Wahoha by far.

The majority of these networks drive nearly all of their traffic from entertainment based web sites. Entertainment based blogs will perform best, but I have also seen many tech/news/photography based blogs do extremely well with the traffic exchange networks listed below. Keep in mind, the results for your blog traffic will vary depending on it’s niche, but the use of attractive images and headlines will also play a big part in getting users to click on your links.

All of the networks are free to join, and offer paid advertising services if you are looking for even more traffic.

Wahoha

Zaparena

2Leep

MGID

Scribol

There are plenty of other traffic exchange networks out there, as there seems to be a never ending supply of web sites and traffic to go around. I have personally been using the ones listed above, and they are also the major players in the traffic trade space.

Difference Between HTML and XHTML

2011-11-03T06:24:00.000-07:00

When inserting codes into the Blogger template, page element, or blog post, you may have seen error messages that the code could not be parsed, was not well-formed, was broken, or that the elements were not closed properly. These errors can be corrected if you understand the rules that must be adhered to in XHTML documents. Blogger templates use the XHTML 1.0 Strict Document Type. In this article, we shall explain some of the XHTML syntax or rules, so that you may troubleshoot and resolve the problems if these error messages should occur.

XML, HTML and XHTML

We shall keep this short. Just so as you understand what we said about document type, view the Page Source or Source of your Blogger blog. You should see this document type declaration at the very top:-

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">

The terms – XML, HTML and XHTML - refer to the markup language used to write the web pages. Many of us would have heard of HTML (Hypertext Markup Language), invented by Tim Berners-Lee, and used since the early days of internet. XML (Extensible Markup Language) is a meta-language, used to create other markup languages. The traditional HTML was later recast to use the rules of XML and that resulted in a new XML application, called XHTML (Extensible Hypertext Markup Language). Because XHTML rules are strict and unforgiving, not conforming to them when attempting to modify the template would result in error messages. So, what are these rules that Bloggers like us should take note of?

Basic Rules of XHTML

1. Codes to be in lowercase

Since XML is case sensitive, all the element keywords and attribute names used in XHTML should be in the lowercase. For example, the template code is not this:-

<TITLE>Tips for New Bloggers</TITLE>

but this:-

<title>Tips for New Bloggers</title>

If you have noticed, the elements and attribute names between the lesser than (<) and greater than (>) signs have to be in the lowercase. However, the value, which in this case is “Tips for New Bloggers”, can be in the uppercase, lowercase, or mixed case.

2. Attribute values to be in quotation marks

All the attribute values have to be enclosed either in single or double quotation marks. The following examples are not accepted by XHTML:-

<div id=header-wrapper> <a href=http://tips-for-new-bloggers.blogspot.com>Text Link</a> <img src=photo.jpg/> <table width=200 border=0 cellpadding=2>

Instead, they should be written as such:-

<div id='header-wrapper'> <a href="http://tips-for-new-bloggers.blogspot.com">Text Link</a> <img src="photo.jpg"/> <table width="200" border="0" cellpadding="2">

3. Container elements must have closing tags

This is not correct:-

<p>A paragraph.

In XHTML, there must be a closing tag with a forward slash (/) at the end:-

<p>A paragraph.</p>

Examples of the many non-empty elements that have opening and corresponding closing tags are:-

<ul> ... </ul> <li> ... </li> <table> ... </table> <h2> ... </h2> <div> ... </div> <span> ... </span> <dt> ... </dt> <dd> ... </dd> <a href> ... </a>

4. Standalone elements to be closed

Some of the elements are empty or standalone. They do not have associated closing tags. Common examples are:-

<br> <img> <input> <frame> <hr> <meta> <link>

Nonetheless, in XHTML, these elements must be terminated or closed. There are two ways to do that. One way to terminate the element is to put a forward slash (/) at the end like this:-

<br/> <img/> <input/> <frame/> <hr/> <meta/> <link/>

The second way is to add a corresponding closing tag like this:-

<br> ... </br> <img> ... </img> <input> ... </input> <frame> ... </frame> <hr> ... </hr> <meta> ... </meta> <link> ... </link>

5. Elements to be properly nested

This means that elements must be closed in the reverse order. For example, this code is not accepted in XHTML:-

<form><table> ... </form></table>

It is improperly nested because the form was created first followed by the table. To close them in the proper order, the table must be closed before the form, like this:-

<form><table> ... </table></form>

6. Document to have only one root element

In the XHTML document, you will see that except for the document type declaration, all the codes are nested between <html> and </html>. This is the root element and all other elements or sub elements are in between. The document structure will look like this:-

<html> <head> ... </head> <body> ... </body> </html>

7. Attribute minimization is not allowed

In XHTML, all attributes should be in the form name="value". Even if the value is the same as the name, it cannot be minimized to one word. Hence, in our Add Text Box and Textarea article, the textarea code is not this:-

<textarea readonly>Hyperlink Code</textarea>

but this:-

<textarea readonly="readonly">Hyperlink Code</textarea>

XHTML Character Entities

Quite a number of readers had asked why they were unable to display HTML codes in their blog posts or why their codes were not well-parsed when inserted into the template. If you have noticed by now, the codes are wrapped in the lesser than (<) and greater than (>) signs. The moment these are posted, they will be interpreted as codes and will trigger an action by the browser. Should you want to display these as part of the text, use their character entities instead.

"	"
&	&
<	<
>	>

The next time you see an error message to the effect that the code is not well formed, not well parsed, not properly closed, etc., take a look at this guide, troubleshoot the problem and try out the possible solutions.