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HowTo: Generate QR code for your site

| Monday, June 27, 2011
Everyone know that one of the keys to have a great SEO for your website is making sure you keep your website updated, new and fresh. Whether you do this with a blog, or you change your homepage with new offers, coupons or new products, it serves to show Google that your site is “alive.” For many small businesses in particular, this is a real challenge.

So you already have great, fresh content on your site – what’s next? Do you know what is coming that may benefit your business?

What are QR codes?

QR codes (abbreviation for Quick Response code) are a popular type of two-dimensional barcode. They are also known as hardlinks or physical world hyperlinks. QR Codes store up to 4,296 alphanumeric characters of arbitrary text. This text can be anything, for example URL, contact information, a telephone number, even a poem! QR codes can be read by an optical device with the appropriate software. Such devices range from dedicated QR code readers to mobile phones.

QR code for your site?

There are various QR code generators available  online but, generating QR code without using generators is also very easy. We will use Google Chart APIs to generate QR code for us.
Creating QR code

Google charts API allows us to generate QR code by passing various parameters to their API. Below is the short description of each parameter-

Name Required? Description
cht=qr Yes Specifies a QR code.
chs=<width>x<height> Yes Image size. (Remember it’s English alphabet ‘x’ and not cross ’X’ )
choe=<output_encoding> No How to encode the data in the chart. Here are the available values:
UTF-8 [Default]
Shift_JIS
ISO-8859-1

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