Finding a good SEO company can be pretty difficult, most will call you and make promises they can’t keep like they will get you on the front page of Google in a week for a term nobody will search for. There are a lot of cowboys just like any industry.
That’s why it’s good to do some research in your online marketing company.
- Ask to see success stories of recent clients.
- Take a look at the work they do, make sure you can see what you are actually paying for.
- Don’t sign up for a long term contract unless they can perform in the short term.
- Ask what they can do that other companies can’t
- Ask for face to face meetings and regular updates on targets
Lastly make sure they have good impartial reviews. Recently topseos.com did a comprehensive list of the top SEO companies in the UK. theEword was ranked 9th in the top SEO companies list which is great as it proves all the hard work is paying off.
Javascript has evolved into a great web programming language over the last few years with its compatibility getting much greater then it was and with the versatility of the script.
This week I came back to a script I wrote some time ago using a frame work. The script basically allowed the visitor to click next or previous and scroll through a list element. Although dynamic HTML is pretty awesome it can be hard to maintain.
Due to requirements the scroll er has had to be automated as well as respond to a users click which it wasn’t built for, At first it may need to be re written from scratch but then I came across the click() method.
Click() basically simulates a users click on a button in javascript. Unfortunately it only works with form button elements and not with elements such as hyperlinks.
If you need to simulate the click of another type of element I would suggest making a button and giving it the style display:none;
example usage
getElementByID(‘someid’).click();
Just like the Google Charts API the Twitter API can be super simple. Twitter uses a few different XML feeds to send and receive data from a given user, some feeds require a user name and password supplied through Curl but a few are publicly available to all.
This example will use the built in SimpleXML functions which come with PHP5, this is a much faster and easier way to using alternative readers such as simplePie or anything else you might come across. As far as it goes I don’t think SimpleXML gets enough coverage so I am happy to put it to some use for this example.
Keeping it basic
$user = ‘adi182′;
echo ‘<a href=”http://www.twitter.com/’.$user.’”>Follow ‘.$user.’</a><br />’;
$xml = simplexml_load_file(“http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=from:”.$user.”&rpp=5″);
foreach($xml->entry as $tweet)
{
echo $tweet->title. “<br />”;
}
?>
So there you have it, the super simple example on putting a Twiter feed on your website.
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