KATAKOMBE

Web dizajn i izrada web stranica

2010-02-23T16:53:00.003+01:00

As previously announced, translation in Croatian is here! Today, we can also announce that translation in Swedish will be available very soon. We strongly believe that this will bring us much closer to our clients all over the World. Our experience from the previous time, has shown that there is a need for easier and faster communication in different languages. We hope that this will result in better flow of ideas and possibilities for improvement of our products and services.

Carbon Fiber / 2010 / Next Generation

2010-02-20T13:51:00.002+01:00

From today our website has been redesigned into a new "Carbon Fiber / 2010 / Next Generation" skin:

We've retained the most of our "old" parts, but we've also added some new pages like references, Q&A, etc.

In a few days we'll be able to offer a Croatian and Swedish translation so stay tuned!

P.S.

A new Firefox AddOn is almost finished and it will be available very soon.

Show Slow: YSlow and Page Speed

2010-02-18T19:25:00.004+01:00

On this place you can track data for YSlow and Page Speed results for our website: http://www.showslow.com/details/?url=http://www.katakombe.com

Page Speed, finally: Faster than 51% of sites!

2010-02-17T17:41:00.007+01:00

After much of work lately with Page Speed through the whole website, today this message appeared in Google Webmaster Tools:

"On average, pages in your site take 2.9 seconds to load (updated on Feb 15, 2010). This is faster than 51% of sites. These estimates are of high accuracy (more than 1000 data points)."

Yea!

Google cache in 1 minute

2010-01-09T11:53:00.002+01:00

There is no doubt that Google attaches very great attention to blogs.
There is no secret that Google wants to display the results in real time as much as possible.

Therefore, it is no wonder that my previous post has been cached in only one minute! Truly fascinating:

Link Page Creator

2010-01-09T09:46:00.024+01:00

This is a great day for all of us here at Mandomartis and Katakombe! Finally we can announce the release of the Link Page Creator!

This tool will help you solve the problem with too long sitemaps if you have more than 100 pages on your website (although there are no problems using it on a smaller number of web pages)! Link Page Creator is a powerful and fast software that will literally connect all of your pages on your website together and that will satisfy the Google webmaster guidelines > Design and content guidelines (paragraphs 1, 2 and 9), that each page should have no more than 100 links:

Google webmaster guidelines > Design and content guidelines:

1.) Make a site with a clear hierarchy and text links. Every page should be reachable from at least one static text link.

2.) Offer a site map to your users with links that point to the important parts of your site. If the site map is larger than 100 or so links, you may want to break the site map into separate pages.

9.) Keep the links on a given page to a reasonable number (fewer than 100).

Details related to the installation:

Edit header.txt and footer.txt files to suit your website design

Edit fileextensions.txt file (one file extension per line i.e. .html, .pdf, etc.)

Edit robots.txt file or replace it with your original robots.txt

Run the program

Upload your new sitemap pages

» Download the Link Page Creator!

Licence: Free Edition

Version: 1.0 / January 2010

Developed by: Mandomartis Software Company

Windows 7 and Windows XP

2009-12-24T17:07:00.003+01:00

You acquired Windows 7 and now have problems with compatibility of software and equipment that you used with Windows XP? No problem - the solution is called VMware Player! VMware Player is actually a virtual machine installed on your hard disc and on it you can continue to use all software and all the equipment you used on Windows XP. Personally, I am satisfied with more than 100% and I can honestly recommend it to all who have the same problem I had. Indeed, one of the best programs that I have installed.

KEI - Keyword Effectiveness Index

2009-12-06T11:08:00.006+01:00

Today, we have released a new SEO tool: KEI Calculator.

Before you start building your website you need to know what your customers are seeking on the Internet. There is no reason to focus on phrases that no one seeks or on phrases that you'll have a very strong competition. The key to your success is finding the ratio (KEI) between those terms which are often searched against the less number of pages where they can be found.
With this tool you can calculate which keywords are the best for you. Add, modify and delete an unlimited number of projects, completely free of charge.

The whole process consists of 3 easy steps:

1.) [Searches] - Explore relevant keywords using Google AdWords (Global Monthly Search Volume)
2.) [Results] - Check the current index of documents for each of them in Google
3.) [Keyword] - Choose the keyword that you like and press "Calculate"!

Usage Statistics - Generated by Webalizer

2009-11-13T18:09:00.007+01:00

A few years ago I was really surprised when I checked the statistics generated by Webalizer on my server - between the "Referrers" links I saw a whole series of links that led to drugs and adult websites! I just could not believe what I saw because no one ever came from the pages of such content. So from the first moment it was clear that that was some kind of obstruction.
At that time the statistics were publicly available. I realized that that thing primarily damage my reputation and secondly my pages lose PageRank! I sent one email to Google and explained that I don't know how it happened, but I will immediately investigate the whole case. Very shortly, I found that without my knowledge the server was flooded with spam. When I began to analyze more deeply I found that in fact there are a number of "infected" pages on the Internet.
Anyhow, I solved the problem, times have changed and Google has become much smarter :) If you search for Usage Statistics - Generated by Webalizer today, Google will now display only those pages that do not have active links - very clever!
Example (Attention: adult content):

sitemap.xml

2009-11-12T17:57:00.005+01:00

More complex websites with some kind of dynamically generated content (pages on the fly) should have a sitemap.xml file. Why? Suppose you have this scenario: On your website you have installed a forum script and say, for some reason you failed to link all pages. On the other side you have the daily discussions of your members, which in this case Google is not able to find and register. Solution to this problem is Google sitemap generator. For his work is necessary to enter the path to the server log file containing all active URL's. Your only task is to properly install the script and run it using CRON daily, weekly, etc. Voilà.

Search engines, traffic and spam

2009-11-11T17:10:00.010+01:00

How many times have you found on the Internet offer to register your website into hundreds or even thousands of search engines? Have you actually ever wondered if there is any sense to?
The real answer is that it is in fact a total nonsense. Why?

Today, there are only 4 search engines that generates traffic (alphabetically): Ask, Google, MSN & Yahoo!
The remaining "honest" robots only steal bandwidth - this is especially important to know if you are on a hosting plan with limited bandwidth.
The rest of the bots only spam your site and that you don't even know - see more detailed your server log files, in them you will find guaranteed all possible forms of spam.
Email spam through your registration email is not counted - you'll get that as well like an "additional award".

How to solve the problem?

- Maximally avoid such registration services - both paid and free.

- Type the following lines in your robots.txt file:

User-agent: Googlebot
Disallow:
User-agent: Slurp
Disallow:
User-agent: msnbot
Disallow:
User-agent: Teoma
Disallow:
User-agent: Jeeves
Disallow:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /

- Type the following lines in your .htaccess file:

order allow,deny
deny from env=bad_bot
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent "^libwww" bad_bot
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent "^libwww-perl" bad_bot
SetEnvIfNoCase user-agent "Indy Library" bad_bot
SetEnvIfNoCase user-agent "noxtrumbot" bad_bot
allow from all

All of the above will not solve your problems 100%, but they will be dramatically reduced.

ask.com:

google.com:

live.com:

yahoo.com:

Advertising costs per year

2009-11-09T17:46:00.002+01:00

If you are planning a PPC campaign you should consider your total annual cost based on cost per click and number of daily visitors. Find out how much you need to spend depending on the price and number of clicks:

World's most trafficked Web directories

2009-11-08T16:17:00.010+01:00

There are literally tens of thousands of Web directories out on the Internet, but beside of dmoz.org, business.com and dir.yahoo.com, so far only a few of them are indexed [and not banned in Google, PageRank = or> 1] in Google Trends.

We are very proud to announce that katakombe.com's Web directory is one of them!

World's most trafficked Web directories according to Google Trends are (alphabetically):

abilogic.com
avivadirectory.com
botw.org
dirjournal.com
ezilon.com
galaxy.com
joeant.com
katakombe.com
lii.org
massivelinks.com
mavicanet.com
romow.com
splut.com
webworldindex.com

For current statistical data check our Stats and Graphs page.

Successful SEO companies

2009-11-08T15:32:00.014+01:00

Through the years, has katakombe.com had contact with different search engine optimization companies from all over the world, especially agencies headquartered in the U.S. and UK such as (in alphabetical order):

360i.com:

apogee-search.com:

bigmouthmedia.com:

bloommedia.co.uk:

catalystsearchmarketing.com:

craftedmedia.com:

directcpv.com:

ephricon.com:

epiphanysolutions.co.uk:

hitwise.com:

icrossing.co.uk:

impactmedialtd.co.uk:

lcgrowth.com:

redsauce.com:

tidalresearch.com:

just to name a few. From personal experience we can warmly recommend all of the aforementioned.