Search Engine Optimization or SEO can be tricky at some points or a real nightmare at others. These quick tips will help you optimize your site and each will only take a few seconds.

Step 1 - Choosing the Right Keywords
Before starting any optimization you need to define your keywords, this will greatly improve the process and make things easier for you.

Step 2 - Fix that Title
Each page should have it's own title and should contain your the keyword(s) that you are targeting on that page. Watch out for stop words such as and or or these can cause search engines to stop reading the title. Instead use the pipe character ( | ).

Step 3 - Use your Head, well Headers
Header tags are very important during optimization, try to get your keyword into one of these tags. The H1 tag is the most important, the H2 - H6 tags are also important.

Step 4 - Strengthen your Keyword
Make your keywords pop with the bold and strong tags.

Step 5 - Use Alt Text
All images on your page should have the alt attribute set, use your keywords here when possible and help boost your site.

Step 6 - Use Titles
Links have an attribute called title which you should set, the title appears when hovering over a link and can also help your optimization. Use your keywords here when possible and help boost your site.

Step 7 - Use Titles
Links have an attribute called title which you should set, the title appears when hovering over a link and can also help your optimization. Use your keywords here when possible and help boost your site.

There are so many more tips and tricks for SEO and these are just a start.

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If you've ever used Norton you know the woes of subscription, whenever we see someone having to subscribe to these types of services we always recommend AVG Antivirus from Grisoft.

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April marked the month of the newest release of Ubuntu: Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn. Read the following review to see how stable the system is and how easy upgrading from the extremely stable Dapper Drake release is.



Our Setup:
For our setup we have 3 year old computer running on the following specs.

PC Specs
Ubuntu Dapper Drake
Abit IC-7G Motherboard
Intel Celereon 2.6 GHz Processor
512MB DDR SDRAM
160GB Western Digital Harddrive
LG DVD-ROM Drive
LG CD-RW Drive
nVidia MX440 Graphics Card

Other Hardware:
HP Photosmart Printer
Logitech LX710 Laser Mouse and Keyboard
USB Thumbdrives

Programs We'll Use:
Envy

Overview and Upgrade:
This review is going to be over upgrading my main computer, i've been working on a replacement but since thats noot finished and Dapper is over a year old i decided id test the upgrade. Edgy had given really bad issues with this pc before and a total reinstall became necessary back then, so i was a little on edge about the upgrade.

Before i began the process i made sure i had backups of everything i would need incase of data loss and then fired off the first command:


Sure enough i was able to click and begin the upgrade to Feisty. After several screens i got a few errors about broken packages and the installer stopped from here i edited my /etc/apt/sources.list and changed all my dapper entries to feisty and ran the following:


I had to do this several times to get it working right, finally after a restart i had a new kernel and some new errors, seemed like my system had hit edgy then feisty and one of my new kernels wasnt working properly. After fixing my sources.list, running the above commands a few more times, installing the nVidia drivers using envy, and changing to the new usplash(the custom one i had wasnt working) i had most of my applications working.

Problems:
Other than some boot up errors that were fixed by removing a flash drive on booting, i only have a few complaints, but also a few congrats as well.

My thumbdrive always automounted as usbdisk, in feisty this gets changed to disk. If you try and change the mount point, the drive no longer automounts and you then have to manually mount it, remove the custom mount point, and then unmount it, and replug it in. Apparently if you change the label the drive will mount with that name though.

Something nice but irritating is that Feisty tries to repair or add broken menu items. I had to manually make a kasablanca menu item in the past, when i upgraded, Feisty threw in its own instead of replacing the one that was there. There are both postive and negative sides that could be argued, but hey its just a heads up.

The overall Experience:
The actual upgrade wasn't as bad as it seemed, no life threating errors, no bricked system(the new .20 gave me a scare though), and completely stable in the end. There are several nice new features in feisty. The ability to add desktop effects is nice, my systems kind of buggy with it, but its nice that its there. Theres also a tomboy sticky note replacement that is nice, as well as several new programs.

All in all the new release is extremely stable and extremely great, its also very fault tolerant as i found out. Thumbs up to the Ubuntu team for a great and timely release!

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We usually don't blog about our finished websites, but i think it's time we started. I'm really proud of the way the final website turned out.

History behind the Site:
The Guaranteed Painting website marks a sectioning off of the original Guaranteed Resurfacing website. The website has a lot of colors and a few new features such as a image gallery with easy uploading capabilities, a different style of counter, and is built to allow easy upgrades. We've also added a blog system and integrated it into the website.

If you're looking for a great paint job, or need your kitchen or bathroom refinished, check out Guaranteed Painting and Resurfacing.

Guaranteed Painting Co.
Guaranteed Resurfacing Co.

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There are just those times when a PHP programmer has to use ASP, wether for work, or for those anal clients of yours. I've compiled a basic list of common replacements in ASP for our most used PHP functions.

The download contains an excel spreadsheet with the purpose of the code, the PHP version, and the ASP version, here is a screenshot of part of the spreadsheet:


Hope this helps guys, let me know if you see something that needs adding.

Download it Here!

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A video about the contreversial life story of Jaun Mann


Have a happy Thanksgiving this year, and be thankful for all the freedoms we share, and for those who we can share it with.

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Welcome to the Fast Track Sites Blog! We will try to update it whenever we have new information or just want to share some random information with everyone.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us at sales_(at)_fasttracksites.com.

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