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Improving your website or blog traffic with Google Webmaster tools

Google webmaster tools are very helpful in improving your website or blog presence over the Internet. For normal website statistics the best tool you could use is Google analytics as it has a rich analytic tools. In this article I will go through the steps you need to follow to add your website or blog to Google webmaster tools: Login to your Google webmaster tools On the dashboard add your website URL as shown in the photo below: Now its time to verify that this site or blog belongs to you, this can be done by copying the verification code you see after you pressed on continue, copy the code and past it as instructed to the header tag in your index page of your website or your blog template, to do this on blog: press on the blog Layout tab an on the sub tab edit HTML, then add the tag inside <head> and then save. Go back to the webmaster tools and press on verify. Now your site or blog should be verified. Its time to Index your site on sitemaps , this will advance the existence...

How to Build RSS 2.0 Feed in Coldfusion 8

In this tutorial I will show some tips on how to create an RSS Feed in coldfusion by querying a Database. This example will demonstrate how to create an RSS Feed for the quote of the day. < cfquery name="qname" datasource="dbsource" maxrows="3"> SELECT PUBDATE,DESCR,FTITLE,LINK FROM wiki.url.rssfeed order by id desc </cfquery> <!--- Note here the query returns only the last three quotes and also it is sorted based on the id which is an auto increment ID.---> <cfscript> myStruct = StructNew(); mystruct.link = "http://blog.abusalah.info"; myStruct.title = "Mustafa Abusalah Quote of the Day"; mystruct.description = "Quote of the Day Tutorial"; mystruct.pubDate = Now(); mystruct.version = "rss_2.0"; <!--- Now the Query columns must be mapped to the RSS columns this is done by creating a struct and mapping them to the struct variables. Please not that the fields must be written in capital letter...