Website of award winning writer, editor, web designer, and former psychologist Hugo Roberts. The home page of this site contains his life story, literary award, published prose and poems. This page with webmaster and web designer tools is compiled to offer you the possibility to evaluate the quality of your site and to find out how your site is ranked by the search engines. Via the orange navigation bar you can link to his favorite books and sites: writers' resources, Hugo Roberts's Travels, (or go to flickr) for photos/images from Asia, to news, by or about him, to a complete list of his prose, his namesakes, where you can find out about your own namesakes and names, and to a contact page for questions or feedback. Also, you can click here
to go to Quick Comments or scroll down to it and post remarks or questions. Every week you may want to click here as well for new jokes. Please help the author find a lost copy of an article or request his services.
Dear visitors,
I’ll really appreciate it if you would contribute one or more items to this page. Do you have good experience with a safe (and preferably free) product or service? Do you have knowledge or experience you want to share? I can also post your item on the page along with “Contributed by anonymous” if you haven’t told me how you want to be credited. That, and nearly anything else, is OK with me. So I can also post your contribution with your name, a nickname, URL, or email address (if you tell me specifically to publish your email address).
If you let me publish your URL, you got yourself a backlink. This site's Google PageRank is 1 and most search engines are reporting over 30 backlinks, but that’ll change soon and I’ll keep you informed. One of my sites, www.hugoroberts.com, has a
PageRank of 3, so it pays to increase your site's popularity (see pagerank, back links, and SEO terms explained also SEO WORK PAYS OFF).
Thanks,
Hugo
Below is a selection of webmaster and web designer tools (sorted in alphabetical sequence by job/task name) and a couple of articles explaining things about web sites and Internet in question and answer format. Beginners may want to start with Intoduction to web sites, Internet, HTML, etc.
To add gadgets and widgets to your site (little programs that can do a lot): http://www.widgetbox.com/home/ You can find the gadgets and widgets by category or you can do a search. If you still can't find what you're looking for, go to:
where to find more gadgets and widgets to add to your site http://writerhugoroberts.blogspot.com/#gadgetswidgets In the search box under Search for programming type in the gadget or widget you need and click Search
To authenticate (verify) your site or blog. To establish ownership or authorization as the webmaster of
a site, both Google and Yahoo have a remarkably similar site verification procedure. You either add a meta tag
to your site's index (home page) or a file to its top level directory. For blogs, sitemaps, and urllists the procedure
is slightly different, please click: Yahoo sitemap - how to submit yahoo sitemap to yahoo search.
To find out if a domain name is available:http://www.urlpagerank.com/pr/pagerank.php go to the BOTTOM of the screen and type in the domain name you're curious about, as directed.
To download images to add your site visit:
How to Download a Picture From the Internet.
Make sure you bookmark the http://www.ehow.com site. They not only have useful information on how to do things on Internet, but on virtually everything. There are tips from Arts & Entertainment, Business, etc. all the way up to Travel, and Weddings.
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Then continue with:
http://www.urlpagerank.com/articles/the_easy_way_to_increase_pagerank.html
You will get a page "PAGERANK", you have to go down that page and underneath "HOW TO INCREASE PAGE RANK" you'll see tiny links. By clicking those you can read articles stored in files like:
http://www.urlpagerank.com/articles/the_easy_way_to_increase_pagerank.html
http://www.urlpagerank.com/articles/top_5_ways_to_increasing_pagerank.html
http://www.urlpagerank.com/articles/7_ways_to_increasing_pagerank.html
To find out your site's Google PageRank and backlinks, and details of Yahoo backlinks, click:
http://www.thegetpr.com/site/yourdomain.com/ In the adress bar replace yourdomain.com by the domain name of the site you want to explore. When you get the extensive report, first click Update Data. Make sure to click the icons next to
Google Backlinks:
Yahoo! Backlinks:
for even more details!
Fill in the domain name in the box to your left under View a Site Report and click View report now. If you had already downloaded the McAfee software (see: To download the SiteAdvisor software), all you have to do (when you have a site you want to check on screen) is: click the McAfee SiteAdvisor rolldown menu on your browser and click View Site Report.
To get your site approved by McAfee and get rid of those question marks (or worse) attached to not (yet) approved sites
in a balloon by most search engines: http://www.siteadvisor.com/howitworks/index.html
Fill in the domain name in the box to your left under View a Site Report and click View report now. If your verification process has not started yet, you'll be enabled to do that now.
Site verification (Google): To get your site ownership verified by Google, first click: http://www.google.com/webmasters/ to sign in or create a Google account (you can verify ownership through the Dashboard that shows all your sites that Google is aware of, if none is shown, you can add one).
Site verification (Yahoo): To get your site ownership verified by Yahoo, first click: https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/mysites/ to sign in or create a Yahoo account.
The Yahoo! Site Explorer shows a list of your sites with their status. If the site you want to add, is on the list, check its
status (should be approved). If your site is not on the list or not approved or pending, If the site is listed, click it and then click authenthication. and follow
this verification procedure. You can verify ownership by either adding a meta tag to your site's index (home page) or a file to its top level directory.
Add My Site, then choose which procedure you prefer: By uploading a verification file to my site or Download an authentication key (DO NOT change the file name or content).
After that click the Ready to Authenticate button to let Yahoo know that the authentication key is in place. Yahoo will authenticate your site within 24 hours.
If you want to submit a sitemap or urllist, make sure you have uploaded them so that after approval you're done.
How to submit your site? On practically all search pages of the search engines you’ll find a link to suggest or submit a site.
Just click the link and input the URL as required (with or without http:// and www.; for only the home page or for all your pages) and submit. There are a few exceptions. AltaVista and AllTheWeb both use Yahoo search engines and want you to submit to Yahoo. Google wants you to (I suspect after site verification) submit to:
http://www.google.com/addurl/?continue=/addurl/. Once your site is submitted, it will be indexed by the search engines that will be able to find you on the basis of your site’s content (keywords). On the basis of your domain name your site can also be found via the Domain Name System (DNS that works like a telephone book), as long as your domain is registered and hosted.
How do I get me my own web site?
There are a couple of steps to take before you have your web site up and running. Before you do anything else, ask yourself a couple of questions, like: what this site is for (is it for business or for pleasure)? About the budget and size (is it supposed to be inexpensive and small, or the opposite)? This makes it easier to answer the questions you will have to face sooner or later. In the following sentences they are often stated as "If..."
1. Think up a domain name. If you've decided that this was a funny site to entertain your family and friend, then a funny name may be appropriate. Other than that, it can be your name or anything else, as long as it is available. To find out if a name is available to use for your site, click: http://www.urlpagerank.com and type in the name as directed (usually a string of only lower case letters (and numbers), preceded by www. (WWW stands for World Wide Web, the application used for most Internet traffic). That string is called a domain name, so one of mine is www.hugoroberts.com. The .com is called TLD (TLD stands for top-level domain); there are several, the most popular ones are .com, .net, .org, and .info. Everybody can use .com and it's the most used TLD. It is customary to precede the domain name by http:// (http specifies that a browser such as Internet Explorer should use the http protocol). The final result is a URL
(a URL: Uniform Resource Locator) includes the domain name. So my URL is: http://www.hugoroberts.com. Once you've picked a domain name/URL register it at once, or somebody else may and you'll have to pay more for another TLD or even dream up another name.
2. Then you have to find a place to host the site. This is a computer that makes the site accessible to anybody who wants to visit it. There are gratis hosts (often supported by ads), but usually you may have to pay a fee. Although free hosts offer a small monetary advantage, the disadvantages are: the ads, the limited possibilities and restrictions, and the danger of the host terminating the service for one reason or the other. No matter how small a hosting fee one pays a host, it constitutes business that the host may want to retain or sell. You can look up web hosting on Internet but don't click the sites that aren't approved by McAfee SiteAdvisor; even then, be careful. One of the tools you can use to find a host is: Web Hosting Reviews Thousands of web hosting USER reviews. Don't sign-up with any web host before checking out the web's biggest web hosting reviews site first, available at WebHostingReviews.com.
3. If your site is just for you, your family, and friends, all you have to do is to upload the pages of your site (the information you want to display on the web) the way the host tells you to, and you're set. Even if your site is meant to entertain your family and friends, it has to perform. In case of a business it has to perform well to stay in business. So design an attractive and effective site and keep it up-to-date.
4. If you want people to find you through search engines such as Google, Yahoo, MSN, AltaVista, and AllTheWeb, there are a number of things you have to do for people to find you even when you use your own name. It is more difficult if you want to have people find you under, say: accountant or hairdresser, since there are millions of those on Internet. There's where the SEO work comes in (SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization; you'll have to worry about PageRank, back links, etc; read: SEO terms explained). You can already do SEO work by doing some promoting on your own, for example by asking people to link to your site.
5. If your site is meant to be accessible by the general public, you have to have it verified (see Site verification).
Then it has to be submitted to search engines (the major ones first; it can't hurt if smaller ones also know about your site). On practically all search pages of the search engines you’ll find a link to suggest or submit a site. Read more on this by clicking: Submit your site.
After your site is the hands (claws?) of these web crawlers, you can sit back, relax, and watch how your counter is tallying the visitors.
You can do all this by yourself. There are a few free courses you can take to learn about the Internet and to learn HTML (the language of the Internet). For example, About.Com (offers basic and advanced courses for free): http://webdesign.about.com/ and Writers’ Village University: http://writersvillage.com
If you don't want to go through all this, but still want to welcome visitors on your site, I'll be happy set up your site for under $100.00 (click Service for details). As a bonus I'll throw in some SEO work if you need to increase your PageRank and/or back links (otherwise, they'll be 0). I can also move, change, update, or maintain your site for a small fee. For a free price estimate or to request my services, please click here for
Help or Services.
SEO Terms Explained
What does PageRank mean? What are back links? What does SEO stands for?
There are millions of web sites on Internet all competing for the search engines (such as Yahoo and Google) to locate them. These terms have all something to do with search engines and the way they find and rate sites.
PageRank: The most important sites are given a Google PageRank of 10 (PR10), while the least important sites are given a PageRank of 0 (PR0). For explanations and a link to find out and increase the PageRank of your own site. Please click: http://www.urlpagerank.com Back links: One of the ways to increase your PageRank is to have sites link to your site. The link popularity of your site increases, as there are more links to your site. To find out the backlinks to your pages according to the major search engines Google, Yahoo, MSN, AltaVista, and AllTheWeb, to find out your Google PageRank, and lots of other useful information click:http://www.diagnosticoweb.com/webcheck/ or : http://www.diagnosticoweb.com/ SEO (Search Engine Optimization): You can read about SEO and marketing in the article “Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Content Relevancy and Link Popularity Explained.” Click http://www.seo-news.com/ By now you must have become aware that there is a lot to this business. In fact, many companies do most or all of their business via Internet. To increase their sales, they may hire consultants like me to do their SEO (Search Engine Optimization). This way their company is found quickly and they are listed first or at least on the first couple of pages when potential customers search for certain products or services. For a free price estimate or to request services, click: Do you need Hugo Roberts's help or services?
Services
Say, I want my own website. How much do you charge for your services?
We will set up a simple website for you for under $100.00 including 1 year registration and hosting. Just send us the text and images (photos, and other illustrations). You’ll have two chances to make minor changes or you can take a service contract.
I have a question. How much do you charge per question and how do I pay?
Those are two questions. That will be $100.00 to be paid in US dollar bills only. Just kidding.
Most questions on writing or web sites will be answered free. If it involves a lot of work, we’ll give you a free price estimate.
HTML, CSS, Java, PHP, etc.
Why do I have to learn HTML, etc.?
If you're going to drive a car, it's useful to know how cars and the traffic rules work. Knowing at least the basics of HTML, gives you some background information on web sites. What may be more important: even if you have that whiz kid nephew, that computer genius girlfriend, or that dedicated employee, they may appreciate your making tiny changes, like commas, yourself.
Where do I learn HTML, CSS, Java, PHP, etc.?
There are a few free courses you can take to learn about the Internet and to learn HTML (the language of the Internet). For example, About.Com (offers basic and advanced courses for free): http://webdesign.about.com/ and Writers’ Village University: http://writersvillage.com
A LINK TO WEBTOOLS ON YOUR SITE OR BLOG?
If you found useful tools and links on this page, you can link to it on your web site or blog.
This way your visitors can have the information and links at their fingertips without leaving your site or blog.
Simply copy the text from one of the boxes below and and paste it into the HTML
code of your website (or blog).
By clicking post a comment you can tell me about the link and let me know if
you want a link back. This page has a Google page rank of 1, but I can link to you from a page with a Google page rank of 2 and/or from onther page with a Google page rank of 3 with hundreds of
backlinks. This will increase the popularity of your site (see pagerank, back links, and SEO terms explained also SEO WORK PAYS OFF).
It depends on several things, such as: how many links you make, where you place the link(s) to us, etc.
Other Web Sites www.hugoroberts.com has the following features: links to writer's resources (publishers, writing contests, courses, tips, etc.) and the possibility to play the national anthems of Suriname, The Netherlands, the United States, and Nepal. There's a list of the author's work, of his namesakes (you can find out about your own names and namesakes), and a link to news by or about him. www.writerhugoroberts.com has the additional features: links to another writer's resource--some of the author's favorite books (most are on writing). Also, every week there is a page with new jokes.
Blogs http://writerhugoroberts.blogspot.com Offers an easy way to post comments/questions or discuss issues and displays a new Inspirational Quote every time you visit. You could read the latest news about computers and internet or look for a gadget, widget, or other program. http://hugoroberts.blogspot.com also offers an easy way to post comments/questions or discuss issues and daily displays a new Notable Shakespeare Quote. I post some of my essays, columns, and articles here. You’ll also find Flight Status (airport arrival, departures, etc.) Personal Travel Agent (book your own low cost flights), and Travel coupon/promo codes. There is more for travelers on the page Hugo Roberts's Travels. http://aboutnamesakes.blogspot.com/ is a blog where you will be entertained and informed about names and namesakes. You’ll find out the meaning, origin, and popularity of your name, Famous Namesakes, statistics, history, etc. The meaning of most names is given, not only of American and Anglo-saxon names, but also of African, Arabic, Chinese, French, Hindi, and Spanish names. You can post questions, comments, or articles or discuss everything about names and namesakes. Feel free to add a link to your site in all comments, essays, columns, and articles posted here or on any of my web sites or blogs. This will increase the popularity of your site (see pagerank, back links, and SEO terms explained also SEO WORK PAYS OFF).
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