The best news this week and it’s only Tuesday! Microsoft announced that Internet Explorer 8 will render pages via the super standards mode by default. By doing this, Microsoft listens to the critique that has fallen over the company in the past few weeks, when it announced that Internet Explorer 8 would render in the Internet Explorer 7-way by default.

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Via a special HTML-tag in the sourcecode of HTML pages, developers are able to switch between the rendering-modes the new browser houses. Microsoft implemented this function in order to make old files, not written by standards, renderable in the new browser.

But why should we adapt our browser, to people who are unable to write HTML following the standards? Thanks to Microsoft, we don’t have to. Hopefully the new ’super standards mode’ will actually follow the standards and I’m no longer shouting at people who are still using Internet Explorer, instead of Firefox or Opera to test their HTML pages!

Anchor texts or link lables have always been a subject within webdevelopment, that doesn’t get all the attention it deserves. In short the anchor texts can determine the ranking search engines will award to the page that’s linked to.

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Links connect all the pages on the internet with each other. It’s important that people link properly, for both visitors and search engines. Anchor texts are the visible, clickable texts of hyperlinks. But why is it so important to use quality anchor texts and what exactly are quality anchor texts? Read more »

SEONoobs.com is one of the blogs that got popular instantly once it was launched. Lots of big and well known weblogs linked to the new kid on the block and this gave the weblog a head start. The content of the weblog is great, they write informative articles that cover a lot of SEO-topics. But the text itself isn’t the problem, it’s the way the markup has been done.

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Some content on SEONoobs.com looks like a crowded marketplace. You see a lot, but you can’t decide where to start reading. Take the post about the importance of keywords in domain names as example. This post has zero headings (besides the title) and there is no other way scanning readers can tell what a paragraph will contain. Read more »