Advanced Search Engine Optimisation

Valid html and Google plus One

2011-06-10T15:02:00.000-07:00

It has been a while since I posted here as have been busy elsewhere, but this is something I feel I should share and hopefully receive some feedback on.

Google has recently introduced the plus one button but the standard code does not validate, even though Matt Cutts says valid html is not essential I like to use it where I can.

Here is my suggestion for a valid plus one button:

<script src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
function renderPlusone(){gapi.plusone.render("g-plusone", {"size": "tall", "count": "true"});}
renderPlusone();
</script>
<div id="g-plusone"></div>

eg: http://www.tubal-reversal.net/dr-bergers-credentials.htm

Virtual Tour of Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center @ Yahoo! Video

2009-06-19T18:28:00.000-07:00

Virtual Tour of Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center @ Yahoo! Video

Blogging to reach potential patients

2009-06-09T16:39:00.000-07:00

At Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center it is part of our work to inform women that tubal ligation can be reversed in most cases.

One way of "spreading the word" is to publish articles and blogs that explain Tubal Reversal.

Of great help has been Debby Verville in this article on beliefnet.com she asks "Many times life will throw a curveball at us. One day we are happily married and the next we are finding ourselves in another relationship not realizing just how god life can be. For many women this is exactly the reason they are considering tubal ligation reversal surgery."

"Twitter Tools" and "TwitThis" added to the Tubal Reversal Website

2009-04-30T14:45:00.000-07:00

We have installed the wordpress plugin "Twitter Tools" that creates an integration between your blog and your Twitter account. It allows you automatically create new "tweets" when you publish blog posts.

All of our blogs

Now "tweet" new posts to

http://twitter.com/chtrc

We have also added "TwitThis" to all pages on Tubal Reversal Net This post shows how to add "TwitThis" to blogger

1. On your Blogger Dashboard, click the Layout link for the blog you want to add the button to.

2. At the top of the Layout page, click the link for Edit HTML.

3. Where it says "Backup/Restore Template", click the link that says "Download Full Template" and save the .xml file to your hard drive. This file will help you restore your template, in case anything goes wrong.

4. In the "Edit Template" section, check the box at the top right that says "Expand Widget Templates".

5. Use your browser's search function to find this line:

<div class='post-footer'> Note this may have changed I placed it above the footer wrap div

6. Find the 2 lines in your template that look like this:

7. Copy and paste the following code between those 2 lines:

<div>
<p><span id='footer-buttons'>

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "item"'>

</b:if>
</span></p>
</div>

8. Click the button at the bottom of the page that says "Save Template".

If you get any red errors, leave a comment stating the specific error message, and I will try to help you out. If you get any errors beginning with "bX-", just try again tomorrow. Sometimes Blogger has issues with itself and waiting a bit can resolve them.

9. Look at your blog. If you have done this correctly, the button should appear on post pages only, and not the main page. Test the button by clicking it on a post and sharing one of your posts on Twitter.

10. If you would like to add other buttons to the footer of your posts, the comments in the code will help you decide where to put your button codes. One place will show on all pages, and the other will only show on post pages.

I have also used this code to place it in the side bar below the digg button.

Gary S. Berger, MD on Business Exchange

2008-12-25T15:08:00.000-08:00

Dr. Berger's Business Exchange Profile
http://bx.businessweek.com profile links are good for SEO as they do not include the nofollow attribute.

Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center is the only medical facility exclusively for tubal ligation reversal. I am the Medical Director and widely known as the tubal reversal doctor with the most experience reversing tied tubes.

I graduated college with honors from Harvard University and from the University of Rochester Medical School. Following medical internship at Duke University Medical Center, I began residency in obstetrics and gynecology at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. I served in the US Public Health Service at the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) as an Epidemic Intelligence Service officer in the Family Planning Evaluation Program.

I completed my residency in obstetrics and gynecology and simultaneously obtained a Master's degree in Maternal and Child Health at the University of North Carolina School of Public Health at Chapel Hill. During my appointment as Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the UNC School of Medicine, I trained abroad in tubal microsurgery techniques and initiated the tubal microsurgery program at the UNC Medical Center. I then entered private practice specializing in tubal reconstructive surgery.

I developed the outpatient technique for tubal ligation reversal and have performed more than 7000 of these procedures and with 30 years of clinical practice have acquired the greatest experience with this operation of any reproductive surgeon worldwide.

Gary Berger MD
Medical Director
Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center

Work Experience
Education

Wordpress Search plug-in

2008-11-01T15:49:00.000-07:00

The Wordpress Search plug-in 'Search Unleashed' extends the standard WordPress search and provides a full text search with wildcards, logical operations, and highlighting across posts, pages, comments, titles, URLs, and meta-data. In addition to this, the plugin ensures that a search is performed across what a web browser sees, not what is contained within the database. For example, a lot of plugins will insert data into posts when they are displayed. Because this data is inserted run-time it is not included in any search results - the data is invisible. Search Unleashed performs searches across all data, including that added by plugins.

In this example we search Dr. Berger's blog for untying tubes

Google Profiles Offer Link Opportunity

2008-11-01T15:28:00.000-07:00

Dr. Berger's Google Profile

Recently Google removed from their robots.txt file the indexing block they had on Google Profiles. This means that Profiles are now being indexed by all search engines (including Google) and that links within the Profiles are (so far) passing PageRank.

It's impossible to say if or when Google might decide to nofollow these links but, for now, you can get an “authoritative link” to your site directly from Google themselves!

Remember though, for a Profile to accrue PageRank, it must be linked from other pages. So, be sure to add a link to your profile page from places where it might make sense to do so. Examples would include social media or forum profiles—pages you control on sites like Squidoo, Google Knol, and your About page on any one of your own sites.

http://www.google.com/s2/profiles/me to create or edit your Google Profile. From there you fill in the blanks and especially the Links section where you can Add custom links to your Profile. Take note that you can also use whatever anchor text you choose for your link. Bear in mind this link-opportunity probably won't last. So, we suggest you grab that authoritative Google link today, while you can!

Dr. Berger Featured on TechWeb Media

2008-09-04T17:17:00.000-07:00

TechWeb Media provide services to improve the volume and quality of traffic to websites from search engines through natural (organic) search results for popular keywords. We are honored to be a featured client Featured Client:

Dr. Gary S. Berger- Medical Director of Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center. It is pleasure to work with CHTRC team and doctor Gary S. Berger. We are happy to provide our services for medical center which gives hope and happiness to thousands families.

Thank you!

http://www.techwebmedia.com/navigation/our-clients/

YouTube Videos about Tubal Reversal

2008-09-04T17:08:00.000-07:00

Putting videos on YouTube helps spread the word. Here are a few videos about tubal ligation reversal surgery and why it is best performed by the tubal reversal doctors at Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center.

Tubal Ligation Reversal "The Operation"

Dr. Berger's outpatient tubal reversal procedure has been broadcast on many television programs including Discovery, The Learning Channel, and the CBS Early Show. In this video, he explains how he performs tubal ligation reversal during an actual operation. To receive a free 1 hour video of the entire operation, go to the Free Tubal Reversal Video page on our website.

Is Tubal Reversal Right For You?

Jennifer Okun, RN - Patient Care Coordinator - answers important questions that will help you decide if tubal reversal at Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center is right for you. To find out if tubal ligation reversal is the best option for you, watch this video that discusses what questions you should ask before choosing tubal reversal surgery. To find out more information about having your tubes untied or to schedule your surgery today, contact Jennifer at JenniferO@tubal-reversal.net.

Why Tubal Reversal?

Patients often have asked Dr. Berger what made him decide to specialize as a tubal reversal doctor. In this short video, Dr. Berger talks about his thoughts regarding tubal reversal surgery to help families have children and why he limits his practice to this operative procedure. During his years as an infertility specialist, Dr. Berger found that tubal reversal surgery was the most successful of all of the treatments available.

Meet Our Staff

Staff members at Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center introduce themselves. We want you to know who we are and what we do to give you the best medical care you have ever had. Our nurses and anesthesia staff are specially trained in caring for patients having their tubes untied. With only four or five patients to take care of each day, we provide the most concentrated and personalized care. You can read more about us and the testimonials that patients send us about their experiences at Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center.

Virtual Tour Tubal Reversal Center

Take a virtual tour of Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center. This is a nice way to see where you will be when you come to the most comfortable, private, yet low cost tubal reversal center that exists - in fact, it is the only tubal reversal center anywhere! This is where you will find the best tubal reversal doctors.

New web site about Dr. Berger

2008-05-15T17:23:00.000-07:00

Dr. Berger Tubal Reversal Surgeon
This new website http://drbergertubal.com presents summaries and links to articles and discussions written by or about Dr. Berger's tubal reversal patients. Dr. Berger is a Dr. Berger who limits his practice to tubal ligation reversal. He is the Medical Director of Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center, a medical facility exclusively for tubal reversal procedures.

drbergertubal.com is powered by wordpress

WordPress, straight out of the box, comes ready to embrace search engines. Its features and functions guide a search engine through the posts, pages, and categories to help the search engine crawl your site and gather the information it needs to include your site within its database.

WordPress comes with several built in search optimization tools, including the ability to use .htaccess to create apparently static URLs called permalinks, blogrolling, and pinging. There are also a number of third party plugins and hacks which can be used for search engine optimization (SEO).

However, once you start using various WordPress Themes and customizing WordPress to meet your own needs, you may break some of those useful search engine friendly features. To maintain your WordPress site's optimal friendliness towards search engine spiders and crawlers, here are a few tips:

Good, Clean Code

Make sure your site's code validates. Errors in your code may prevent a search engine from moving through the site successfully.

Content Talks

Search engines can't "see" a site. They can only "read" a site. Pretty does not talk to a search engine. What "talks" to a search engine are the words, the content, the material in your site that explains, shares, informs, educates, and babbles. Make sure you have quality word content for a search engine to examine and compare with all the parts and pieces to give you a good "score".

Write Your Content with Searchers in Mind

How do you find information on the Internet? If you are writing something that you want to be "found" on the Internet, think about the words and phrases someone would use to find your information. Use them more than once as you write, but not in every sentence. Learn how search engines scan your content, evaluate it, and categorize it so you can help yourself get in good favor with search engines.

Content First

A search engine enters your site and, for the most part, ignores the styles and CSS. It just plows through the site gathering content and information. Most WordPress Themes are designed with the content as close to the top of the unstyled page as possible, keeping sidebars and footers towards the bottom. Few search engines scan more than the first third of the page before moving on. Make sure your Theme puts the content near the top.

Keywords, Links, and Titles Meet Content

Search engines do not evaluate your site on how pretty it is, but they do evaluate the words and put them through a sifter, giving credit to certain words and combinations of words. Words found within your meta tag keywords listings and within your document are compared to words found within your links and titles. The more that match, the better your "score."

Content in Links and Images

Your site may not have much text, mostly photographs and links, but you have places in which to add textual content. Search engines look for alt and title in link and image tags. While these have a bigger purpose of making your site more accessible, having good descriptions and words in these attributes helps provide more content for search engines to digest.

Link Popularity

It is not how good your site is, it is how good the sites are that link to you. This still holds weight with search engine favoritism. It's about who links to you. Blogrolls, pingbacks, and trackbacks are all built into WordPress. These help you link to other people, which gives them credit, but it also helps them link to you, connecting the "links." The number of incoming links your site has that have been recognized by Google can be checked by typing link:www.yoursite.com into Google (other search engines have similar functions). Other ways to generate incomming links to your site include:

Add your site's url to your signature on forum posts on other sites.
Submit your site to directories (see below).
Note: Leaving comments on blogs will not help with this, since all modern blogging tools use the rel="nofollow" attribute. Don't be a comment spammer.

Good Navigation Links: A search engine crawls through your site, moving from page to page. Good navigational links to the categories, archives, and various pages on your site will invite a search engine to move gracefully from one page to another, following the connecting links and visiting most of your site.

Search Engine Site Submissions

There are many resources that will "help" you submit your site to search engines. Some are free, some for a fee. Or you can manually submit your site to search engines yourself. Whatever method you choose to use, once your site has been checked for errors and is ready to go, search engines will welcome your WordPress site.

Here are some tips for successful site submissions:

Make sure you have content for search engines to scan. In general, have more than 10 posts on your site to give the search engines something to examine and evaluate.
Do not submit your site to the same search engine more than once a month or longer, depending upon their criteria, not your anxiousness to be listed.
Have ready to type, or copy and paste, a description of your site that is less than 200 words long, the title of the site, and the categories your site may belong to in a search engine directory.
Have a list of your website's various "addresses/URLs" ready. You can submit your root directory as well as specific categories and feeds to search engines, expanding your search engine coverage.
Keep a list of the various search engines and directories you submit to so you do not accidentally resubmit too soon, and you can keep track of how they include you among their pages and results.

Directory Sites

It is also useful for traffic generation and search optimization purposes to submit your site to directories. Both comprehensive directory sites and those specific to the subject or localisation of your site can be used.

DMOZ.org this is the most important directory - it's content is licensed in an open fashion allowing it to be syndicated through out the web -- its content is also used directly in some fashion by almost all of the major search engines.

Search Engine Optimization Resources

While WordPress comes ready for search engines, the following are more resources and information you may want to know about preparing and maintaining your site for search engines' robots and crawlers.

Meta Tags

Meta Tags contain information that describes your site's purpose, description, and keywords used within your site. The meta tags are stored within the head of your header.php template file. By default, they are not included in WordPress, but you can manually include them and the article on Meta Tags in WordPress takes you through the process of adding meta tags to your WordPress site.

The WordPress custom fields option can also be used to include keywords and descriptions for posts and Pages. There are also several WordPress Plugins that can also help you to add meta tags and keyword descriptions to your site found within the Official WordPress Plugin Directory.

Robots.txt Optimization

Search Engines read a yourserver.com/robots.txt file to get information on what they should and shouldn't be looking for, and where.

Specifying where search engines should look for content in high-quality directories or files you can increase the ranking of your site, and is recommended by Google and all the search engines.

An example WordPress robots.txt file:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /cgi-bin
Disallow: /wp-admin
Disallow: /wp-includes
Disallow: /wp-content/plugins
Disallow: /wp-content/cache
Disallow: /wp-content/themes
Disallow: /trackback
Disallow: /feed
Disallow: /comments
Disallow: /category/*/*
Disallow: */trackback
Disallow: */feed
Disallow: */comments
Disallow: /*?*
Disallow: /*?
Allow: /wp-content/uploads

# Google Image
User-agent: Googlebot-Image
Disallow:
Allow: /*

# Google AdSense
User-agent: Mediapartners-Google*
Disallow:
Allow: /*

# Internet Archiver Wayback Machine
User-agent: ia_archiver
Disallow: /

# digg mirror
User-agent: duggmirror
Disallow: /

Sitemap: http://www.askapache.com/sitemap.xml

Feed Submissions

WordPress comes built-in with various feeds, allowing your site to be viewed by various feed readers. Many search engines are now accepting feed submissions, and there are many site which specialize in directories of feeds and feed services.

To submit your site's feeds, you need to know the link to the various feeds your site provides. The article WordPress Feeds lists the various links of the feeds that come built into WordPress.

For information on customizing these links, see the article on Customizing Feeds.

Technorati Tags

Technorati is a "real-time search engine that keeps track of what is going on in the blogosphere — the world of weblogs." According to the site, "Technorati tracks the number of links, and the perceived relevance of blogs, as well as the real-time nature of blogging. Because Technorati automatically receives notification from weblogs as soon as they are updated, it can track the thousands of updates per hour that occur in the blogosphere, and monitor the communities (who's linking to whom) underlying these conversations."

Technorati tags are used to categorize the different topics and information used by blogs. Technorati uses WordPress categories as tags automatically. You can add more tags by adding a rel="tag" to any link on your site. For example:

WordPress
Codex

There are also several WordPress plugins for maximizing Technorati tags on the Plugins - Technorati list.

Note: In WordPress v1.5.x, Technorati will automatically recognize your category names as tags. For more info, see: WordPress Categories, Technorati Tags and Search Engine Optimisation

Note: For optimal Technorati listing, you should include the Atom feed in the header of your theme. For this you may use the following code, which you can add somewhere between the and tags:

Without adding the Atom feed to your header, your posts in Technorati will most likely be displayed wrongly. Which can result in the post content on Technorati duplicating the post title and listing other (meta) information, which is displayed between the post title and the real post content on your weblog.

Permalinks

Permalinks are enhancements to your existing URLs which can improve search engine optimization by presenting your post, page, and archive URLs as something like http://example.com/2003/05/23/my-cheese-sandwich/ rather than http://example.com/index.php?p=423. See Using Permalinks for more information.

As search engines use links and the title as part of their information gathering, links to posts and articles within your site gain importance with Permalinks.

Sitemaps

A sitemap or "site map" is a single page listing of all the posts on your website. It is intended for your visitors to get a good overview on what your site is about and to find a blog post quickly but it also has great benefits in the search engines as a good link is always pointing to all your blog posts. By having a link to your sitemap on all your sites pages both visitors and search engines will easily get to it and find all your posts.

Here is a tutorial with three different examples of sitemaps with demos and how to set them up:

Tutorial: Automatic Sitemap for WordPress

Google Sitemaps

As of June 2005, Google is now accepting sitemaps of your site as part of their website submissions. Google needs to have this sitemap formatted in a special way using XML. You can find more information about Google's Sitemap Submissions from Google, and the discussion on the WordPress Forum about WordPress and Google Site maps.

Some utilities have been created to help the WordPress user to create a Google site map of their site for submission to Google. For more information on these and Google sitemaps:

Link Relationships

There is some debate over whether listing the link relations actually effect search engine ranking however it is simple to implement.

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Tubal Ligation Reversal News Now Available At Zimbo

2008-04-18T17:21:00.000-07:00

You may now read the Tubal Ligation Reversal News at Zimbo the "Online Magazines Specialists".

Tag Cloulds and Popular Searches

2008-03-24T17:54:00.000-07:00

It was suggested to us that we build a "tag cloud" for our web site so here is my first attempt, this reads from our wordpress search results.

Note: The search engine friendly urls in the links below, even though they use dynamic php they do not contain a question mark e.g.
http://www.tubal-reversal.net/blogs-search.php?term=dr+berger
is coded as http://www.tubal-reversal.net/search-term-dr+berger.htm

Dr. Berger
Dr. Monteith
IVF
News
Nutrition
Post Tubal Ligation Syndrome
Pregnancy
Pregnancy Reports
Testimonials
Tubal Ligation
Tubal Reversal Cost
Tubal Reversal Insurance
Tubal Reversal Procedure

Social Media Optimization

2008-02-08T15:25:00.000-08:00

Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center has employed Sergey Rusak of TechWeb Media. Sergey is a web developer and marketing specialist helping us to reach our targeted customers, and increase web site traffic.

Sergey has employed social networks to raise the profile of tubal-reversal.net, these google results show some of the links he has created for us:

http://www.google.com/search?q=tubal+reversal+%22sergey%22

Thanks Sergey and keep up the good work!

Social Media Optimization by Sergey Rusak

Building backlinks and targeting keywords to rank high on search engines is not enough to build traffic for a website. With newest web technologies, search engine marketing and general search engine optimization services became less productive than it used to be. Using Web 2.0 social services, content publisher can spread information within a seconds reaching only targeted audience. Today it doesn’t matter how long it takes for search engine to find and index new document.

Posting information online, every publisher are interested to spread the world with idea, share information, provide service, sell product etc… There are several features and services which can deliver your information to audience instantly:

* RSS feeds, XML syndication will deliver your news to subscribers, social networks, feed readers, news sites. General users of Web 2.0 social networks with certain interests create groups where they share information, subscribe to feeds, bookmark, receive e-mails from each other with lates news updates.
* Trackback - automatic service which inform website owners that you made quote, wrote, gave feedback to their resource. Almost immediately another webmaster or partner know that you featured his online resource.
* Tagging. Helps social networks and search engines what your site / blog. Through networks like Technorati people pick tags they interested and subscribe for new information which appear. Information about your site could be delivered through user accounts or e-mail notifications.
* Social bookmarking. 10 years ago only media companies collecting statistic was interested what people bookmark. Today regular people bookmark links through social networks and after this share and exchange this links with others. Page with quality content could reach hundreds and even millions people with interest in certain field. Through “word of mouth” product, service, or idea could reach every person who are interested in this service.

There are still many sceptics who belive that active usage of social media are profitable only for rock bands, movie makers, and companies who sell supplies for iPod accessories. Not true, if you log in on FaceBook or MySpace and make search of people who are older than 25, 40, or even 80 years old you will be quite surprised. There are hundered millions active users of social networks with different education, hobbies, interests.

Benefit of social optimization:

* Fastest way to spread information, press release, idea.
* Easy way to reach targeted audience.
* Ability to turn on “word of mouth”.
* Benefit for traffic and web recognition.
* Independence from search engine rankings.

source: http://www.techwebmedia.com/2007/11/28/social-media-optimization/

Dr Berger's Blog.

2007-11-24T16:49:00.000-08:00

Introducing Dr Berger's Blog powered by a state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. What a mouthful, more simply, Our new blog uses WordPress a great blogging script, both free and priceless at the same time.

What is a "blog"?

"Blog" is an abbreviated version of "weblog," which is a term used to describe web sites that maintain an ongoing chronicle of information. A blog is a frequently updated, personal website featuring diary-type commentary and links to articles on other Web sites.

Tubal Ligation Reversal by Dr. Berger

Dr. Berger's blog is to share his observations, experiences, and thoughts about tubal ligation reversal developed over the 30 years he has have been performing tubal surgery. Others are welcome to contribute their own ideas, opinions, and questions.

Subdomains

2007-11-08T17:06:00.000-08:00

Subdomains often appear in search results as a separate site in their own right. The advantage of subdomains is that more of your site's results can be displayed when a user enters a query. e.g.
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Chapel+Hill+Tubal+Reversal+Center%22

A standard domain looks as follows: http://www.mydomain.com/. A sub domain would be http://prefix.mydomain.com/. Subdomains do not take on the "WWW". All subs start with http://subdomain/maindomain.com.

The subdomains we have created for http://www.tubal-reversal.net/ are

http://news.tubal-reversal.net/
RSS news feeds and news links about tubal reversal and Post Tubal Ligation Syndrome (PTLS).

http://forums.tubal-reversal.net/
Tubal reversal message board provide discussion forums on tubal ligation reversal.

http://testimonials.tubal-reversal.net/
Patient testimonials about babies and pregnancy after tubal reversal procedures performed by Dr. Berger at Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center.

http://pregnancy.tubal-reversal.net/
Details about the pregnancies reported by Dr. Berger's tubal reversal patients

http://press.tubal-reversal.net/
News articles and publications about outpatient tubal ligation reversal by Dr. Gary Berger.

http://video.tubal-reversal.net/
Dr. Berger explains outpatient tubal ligation reversal in this free video

2007-09-28T17:39:00.000-07:00

We have added a "digg link" to this page.

Digg is a social bookmarking site where others can see what you have "dugg" and also you see their favorites. As a member of Digg, you can share, discover, bookmark, and promote stuff that's important to you.

Whenever you see a page you like, you can “digg” it.

Here is where you can sign up for a free account -
http://digg.com/register

These are my diggs –
http://digg.com/users/chtrcwebmaster

if you like them, please give them a boost by “digging” them!

to install this on blogspot, add a new HTML/JavaScript module and the code to add is

<div align="center">
<script type="text/javascript">
digg_title = ''+document.title+'';
digg_topic = 'programming';
</script>
<script src="http://digg.com/tools/diggthis.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
</div>

Google Website Optimizer can improve the performance of your landing pages

2007-09-10T14:33:00.000-07:00

The Google Website Optimizer tool can improve the performance of your landing pages. By creating a system for organized multivariate testing, this tool allows visitors to choose the best combination of factors for your site.

The Google Website Optimizer Tools experiment for Tubal Reversal - Is It Right For You? on Dr. Berger’s Tubal Reversal Web Site.

The goal of the Tubal Reversal Web Site is to have people opt-in to receive an educational white paper, since the site is informational and not e-commerce.

After intensive research, ROI Revolution designed a Google Website Optimizer experiment that tested 3 different headlines, 3 different images, and 4 different button text versions.

• • • •

The best combination of the test variables resulted in an improvement of 221% over his original page.

• • • •

Now the pay-per-click advertising to drive traffic to that landing page is 221% more effective than it was on the old landing page without any additional cost for that increase.

Don't Be Too Smart

2007-08-05T07:37:00.000-07:00

Beware a Header Status of 200 – on "smart 404" pages. I have been told Googlebot requests a url that it knows doesn’t exists. And if your server returns a page with status 200, the Googlebot brands your site a ‘liar’ and will tell you so, too!

I seem to be safe as w3c says
Sorry! This document can not be checked. I got the following unexpected response when trying to retrieve <http://www.tubal-reversal.net/404>: 404 Not Found

A Smart 404 error

2007-08-02T16:47:00.000-07:00

No more broken links, relevant content served up to all requests.

I created a smart error page script that will search our database and return results instead of 404.

The page: www.tubal-reversal.net/tr
does not exist until someone calls it!

if you want the code here it is:
<?php
$search_term = preg_replace("#/$#","",$REQUEST_URI);
ereg("([^\\/]*)$", $search_term, $regs);
$search_term = $regs[1];
/* there must be a better way of stripping file extensions please let me know */
$search_term = ereg_replace(".htm", "", $search_term);
$search_term = ereg_replace(".html", "", $search_term);
$search_term = ereg_replace(".php", "", $search_term);
$search_url = 'http://your-site.com/search.php?q=';
/* or google: $search_url = 'http://www.google.com/search?sitesearch=your-site.com&q='; */
$full_search_url = $search_url . $search_term;
$file = file_get_contents ($full_search_url);
Echo $file;
?>

Tubal reversal surgery blog listed on topblogarea.com

2007-07-04T16:55:00.000-07:00

http://www.topblogarea.com/sitedetails_5011.html

Owner: Tubal-reversal-surgery
URL: http://tubal-reversal-surgery.blogspot.com/
Join Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2007 11:49:51 -0500
Site Description:
Tubal reversal surgery blog and news about an outpatient procedure that restores fertility after a tubal ligation. Dr. Berger at Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center is the tubal reversal doctor with the most experience worldwide with this procedure.

Tubal Ligation Reversal on Wordpress

2007-06-30T15:59:00.000-07:00

We have today begun a blog on wordpress:
Tubal Ligation Reversal on Wordpress

WordPress.com is by the open source blogging software available at WordPress.org. WordPress has been incredibly successful and is the most-used blog tool in its category.

Squidoo

2007-06-03T16:34:00.000-07:00

Squidoo is a great way to advertise your web content:
Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center on Squidoo

• Share the knowledge: When you know a lot about something, it feels good to share. Help other people discover what you found out the hard way.
• Increase your profile: A popular lens gives credibility to the Lensmaster. A popular lens reinforces your role as an "everyday expert." And a popular lens makes you the go-to authority for those looking for help.
• Increase your traffic: Your lens points (if you want it to) to your blog and to your website. Lenses have huge credibility with search engines, so your lens can help your other sites rise to the top of Google searches.
• Earn a royalty for you, your organization, or your favorite charity. Think of the royalty as a bonus--and don't quit your day job yet! A single lens might not earn a lot, but if you imagine hundreds of lenses working to your favor, or fundraising for a charity, it can really start to add up.

XML Sitemaps and specifying their location in your robots.txt file

2007-05-05T15:04:00.000-07:00

Sitemaps are an easy way for webmasters to inform search engines about pages on their sites that are available for crawling. Robots usually discover pages from links within the site and from other sites. Sitemaps supplement this data to allow crawlers that support Sitemaps to pick up all URLs in the Sitemap. Using the Sitemap protocol does not guarantee that web pages are included in search engines, but provides hints for googlebot and her like to do a better job of crawling your site.

Specifying the Sitemap location in your robots.txt file

You can specify the location of the Sitemap using a robots.txt file. Simply add the following line:
Sitemap: http://www.example.com/sitemap.xml
The should be the complete URL to the Sitemap, e.g:
http://www.tubal-reversal.net/robots.txt
reads:
User-agent: *
Disallow:
Sitemap: http://www.tubal-reversal.net/sitemap.xml

NOODP - meta tag

2007-04-22T03:35:00.000-07:00

update: It worked! Google now displays our meta description not our DMOZ description (May 3 2007)

Google results show our DMOZ description

Tubal Ligation Reversal by Dr. BergerInformation on outpatient tubal ligation reversal with quick recovery, low cost, and high success.
www.tubal-reversal.net/ - 12k - 20 Apr 2007

We wish it to display our meta description instead,

meta name="Description" content="Complete and accurate information about tubal ligation reversal from the tubal reversal doctor with the most experience."/

I'm introducing the meta tag NOODP - No Open Directory Project now.

"Google's creation of sites' titles and descriptions (or "snippets") is completely automated and takes into account both the content of a page as well as references to it that appear on the web. While we're unable to manually change titles or snippets for individual sites, please be assured that we're always working to make them as relevant as possible.

One source we use to generate snippets is the Open Directory Project. You can direct us not to use this as a source by adding a meta tag to your pages.

To prevent all search engines (that support the meta tag) from using this information for the page's description, use the following:
META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOODP"

To specifically prevent Google from using this information for a page's description, use the following:
META NAME="GOOGLEBOT" CONTENT="NOODP"

If you use the robots meta tag for other directives, you can combine those. For instance:
META NAME="GOOGLEBOT" CONTENT="NOODP, NOFOLLOW"

source:http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=35264

I changed:
http://www.tubal-reversal.net/
from
meta name="robots" content="index,follow"/
to
meta name="robots" content="NOODP, index, follow"/

Advanced Search Engine Optimisation

Valid html and Google plus One

Virtual Tour of Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center @ Yahoo! Video

Blogging to reach potential patients

"Twitter Tools" and "TwitThis" added to the Tubal Reversal Website

Gary S. Berger, MD on Business Exchange

Wordpress Search plug-in

Google Profiles Offer Link Opportunity

Dr. Berger Featured on TechWeb Media

YouTube Videos about Tubal Reversal

Tubal Ligation Reversal "The Operation"

Is Tubal Reversal Right For You?

Why Tubal Reversal?

Meet Our Staff

Virtual Tour Tubal Reversal Center

New web site about Dr. Berger

Search Engine Site Submissions

Search Engine Optimization Resources

Meta Tags

Robots.txt Optimization

See also:

Feed Submissions

Technorati Tags

Permalinks

Sitemaps

Google Sitemaps

Link Relationships

More Resources and Tutorials

Translations

Tubal Ligation Reversal News Now Available At Zimbo

Tag Cloulds and Popular Searches

Social Media Optimization

Dr Berger's Blog.

Subdomains

Google Website Optimizer can improve the performance of your landing pages

Don't Be Too Smart

A Smart 404 error

Tubal reversal surgery blog listed on topblogarea.com

Tubal Ligation Reversal on Wordpress

Squidoo

XML Sitemaps and specifying their location in your robots.txt file

NOODP - meta tag