What is Search Engine Optimization (SEO)?

What is Search Engine Optimization (SEO)?

SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization. SEO helps to improve and promote a website to increase the traffic or you can say number of visitors that the site gets from search engines like Google. There are many aspects to SEO, from the words on your web page to the way as other sites link to you on the web. SEO is simply a way to make sure that your site is structured like the way that search engines can easily understand.

SEO is not just about making search engine friendly websites. It's about making a website better for people too. Computer Science Prevails make sure that you can fully learn about SEO and then implement it on your website. This tutorial is designed to introduce you to all the areas of SEO.

Why SEO?

The majority of web traffic sources are the major search engines like, Google, Bing, and Yahoo!. On the other hand, the social media and some other types of traffic can add up the audience to your website but the search engines are the primary key of searching for most of the Internet users. This is a fact whether your website provides content, articles, services, products, information, entertainment or anything else.

Search engines plays a vital role and are unique because they provide targeted traffic. The people who are looking for something relevant to their needs, the Search engines are the most likely source for their help. If search engine cannot track your website, or cannot add your website's content to their databases, you miss out one of the best opportunities to increase traffic to your website.

The words that internet users type into the search box has an extraordinary value and that are called search queries. Facts and figures have shown that search engine traffic matters a lot in an organization's success. Targeted traffic to a website provides publicity, revenue, and exposure like no other way of marketing. Investment in SEO will give you an excellent rate of return as compared to other types of marketing and promotion.

What happens without SEO?

Search engines are kept updated and are smart too but they still need help to search webpages for users. The search engines are always trying to improve their technology to crawl the webpages more deeply, precisely and return better search results to the users. However, there is a boundary to how search engines can operate but the SEO can let you thousands of visitors and more attention with interest. The wrong step in SEO can hide your website deep in the search results where the users does not visit. Normally the users search their relevant data and go to the first 3 to 5 pages of the search result.
Moreover, to make your website's content available to search engines, SEO also helps to boost up the rankings of your website so that the content will be available where the users will  find it more easily i.e. on the first 2,3 pages of the search engine. The world of Internet is becoming more competitive, and those developers who perform SEO in the websites will have an advantage in increasing the company's audience and customers.

Can You Perform SEO Yourself?

Performing SEO is complex, but most people can easily understand the basic concept. A small amount of knowledge can make a big difference because its a Chinese proverb that "A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step". Your knowledge with a little practice can make you an expert. In the world of Computer Science practice is most important beside your knowledge. Becoming an expert depends on your commitment, passion to learn and the complexity of your website. First of all you must have a clear concept of SEO before performing it.
Computer Science Prevails also provides a tutorial on performing SEO correctly but first of all you must understand the basics. A tutorial on performing SEO is available, all you need is to click here.

 

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Factorial in C++

In Mathematics, the factorial of a non-negative integer is the product of all positive integers less than or equal to that non-negative integer whose factorial is being taken. The symbol of factorial is exclamation mark (!). For example:

5! = 5 x 4 x 3 x 2 x 1 = 120

12! = 12 x 11 x 10 x 9 x 8 x 7 x 6 x 5 x 4 x 3 x 2 x 1 = 479001600

In C++, finding the factorial is very easy. All you need is to firstly just understand the concept of factorial and then implement your concept in coding. Here is the simple basic code to find the factorial of any number.

#include<iostream>
using namespace std;
int main()
{

     // Variable Declaration
     int counter, num, fact = 1;

     // Get Input
     cout<<"Enter the Number to find its Factorial: ";
     cin>>num;

     //'for' Loop
    for (int counter = num; counter >= 1; counter--)
     {
         fact = fact * counter;
     }
     cout<<endl;
     cout<<"Factorial of "<<num<<" is: "<<fact<<endl;
     return 0;
 }

Explanation:

In this program I've used the for loop to find the factorial of any number given by the user. For example, the user enters a number '5'. This number will be stored in the the variable 'num' and then the 'for' loop body starts. For loop will execute the loop in reverse order from 5 to 1. It will multiply the value of counter with variable fact and the store its value in fact. e.g:

1=1*5

5=5*4

20=20*3

60=60*2

120=120*1

Finally the program will output the last value stored in the variable fact. According to the given example, the program will show 120 on the output screen because the factorial of 5 is 120. You can also see the output screen given below.

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Steve Jobs Explains the Rules for Success

Success is what everyone wants to achieve. I think everyone one knows who Steve Jobs was. Steve Jobs was the cofounder, chairman, and CEO of Apple Inc. He was one one the successful people in the history. In this video Steve Jobs explains the rules to become a successful person. Now, watch the video.

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Microsoft Windows 10 to turn tablets into PCs

Windows is highly powerful kind of thing. Microsoft Windows 10 to turn tablets into PCs. This is a video with voice of Joe Bilfiore, Corporate Vice President, Microsoft.

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Ada Augusta, the First Programmer

On December 10, 1815 (the same year that George Boole was born), a daughter Augusta Ada ByronÑ was born to Anna Isabella (Annabella) Byron and George Gordon, Lord Byron. At that time in England Byron’s fame derived not only from his poetry but also from his wild and scandalous behavior. The marriage was strained from the beginning, and Annabella left Byron
shortly after Ada’s birth. By April of 1816, the two had signed separation papers. Byron left England, never to return. Throughout the rest of his life he regretted that he was unable to see his daughter. At one point he wrote of her,

     I see thee not. I hear thee not.
     But none can be so wrapt in thee.

Before he died in Greece, at age 36, he exclaimed, 
     Oh my poor dear child! My dear Ada!
     My God, could I but have seen her!

Meanwhile, Annabella, who eventually was to become a baroness in her own right, and who was educated as both a mathematician and a poet, carried on with Ada’s upbringing and education. Annabella gave Ada her first instruction in mathematics, but it soon became clear that Ada was gifted in the subject and should receive more extensive tutoring. Ada received further training from Augustus DeMorgan, today famous for one of the basic theorems of Boolean algebra. By age eight, Ada had demonstrated an interest in mechanical devices and was building detailed model boats.

When she was 18, Ada visited the Mechanics Institute to hear Dr. Dionysius Lardner’s lectures on the “Difference Engine”, a mechanical calculating machine being built by Charles Babbage. She became so interested in the device that she arranged to be introduced to Babbage. It was said that, upon seeing Babbage’s machine, Ada was the only person in the room to understand immediately how it worked and to recognize its significance. Ada and Charles Babbage became lifelong friends. She worked with him, helping to document his designs, translating writings
about his work, and developing programs for his machines. In fact, Ada today is recognized as the first computer programmer in history.
When Babbage designed his Analytical Engine, Ada foresaw that it could go beyond arithmetic computations and become a general manipulator of symbols, and thus would have far-reaching capabilities. She even suggested that such a device eventually could be programmed with rules of harmony and composition so that it could be produce “scientific” music. In effect, Ada foresaw the field of artificial intelligence more than 150 years ago.

In 1842, Babbage gave a series of lectures in Turin, Italy, on his Analytical Engine. One of the attendees was Luigi Menabrea, who was so impressed that he wrote an account of Babbage’s lectures. At age 27, Ada decided to translate the account into English, with the intent to add a few of her own notes about the machine. In the end, her notes were twice as long as the original material, and the document, “The Sketch of the Analytical Engine,” became the definitive work on the subject.

It is obvious from Ada’s letters that her “notes” were entirely her own and that Babbage was acting as a sometimes unappreciated editor. At one point, Ada wrote to him,

     I am much annoyed at your having altered my Note. You know I am always
     willing to make any required alterations myself, but that I cannot endure
     another person to meddle with my sentences.

Ada gained the title Countess of Lovelace when she married Lord William Lovelace. The couple had three children, whose upbringing was left to Ada’s mother while Ada pursued her work in mathematics. Her husband was supportive of her work, but for a woman of that day such behavior was considered almost as scandalous as some of her father’s exploits.

Ada died in 1852, just one year before a working Difference Engine was built in Sweden from one of Babbage’s designs. Like her father, Ada lived only to age 36, and even though they led very different lives, she undoubtedly admired him and took inspiration from his unconventional and rebellious nature. In the end, Ada asked to be buried beside him at the family’s estate.

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Digital Tricks You Will Use Everyday

Your technology should work for you, not against you.

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ASCII Character Set

ASCII characters are used to represent English characters on many computers. ASCII stands for American Standard Code for Information Interchange. The ASCII character set is a subset of the Unicode character set that represents characters from most of the world’s languages.

Note: The digits at the left of the table are the left digits of the decimal equivalents (0 - 127) of the character codes, and the digits at the top of the table are the right digits of the decimal equivalents (0 - 127) of the character codes. For example, the character code for “H” is 72. 7 is the left digit taken from the digits at the left of the table and 2 is the right digit taken from the digits at the top of the table. Another example is the character code for “U” is 85.

	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
0	nul	soh	stx	etx	eot	enq	ack	bel	bs	ht
1	nl	vt	ff	cr	so	si	dle	dc1	dc2	dc3
2	dc4	nak	syn	etb	can	em	sub	esc	fs	gs
3	rs	us	sp	!	”	#	$	%	&	‘
4	(	)	*	+	,	-	.	/	0	1
5	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	:	;
6	<	=	>	?	@	A	B	C	D	E
7	F	G	H	I	J	K	L	M	N	O
8	P	Q	R	S	T	U	V	W	X	Y
9	Z	[	\	]	^	_	’	a	b	c
10	d	e	f	g	h	i	j	k	l	m
11	n	o	p	q	r	s	t	u	v	w
12	x	y	z	{	|	}	~	del

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