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Growing up, I learned many card game, the game according to us. One of my favorite card game is black jack or as we called it here, the '21' card game. It does help a bit in my Math subject especially the addition topic. So, who say playing black jack is a bad thing.
Well, maybe if you are addicted to gambling especially black jack, it may some how affect you as a whole person. Whole person here means that you can control your self in everything that you do. But if you are interested to learn this game of black jack, you may want to visit this black jack instruction. All these links are in German, so if you cannot understand it, you may check out the English website for this online casino. Playing black jack require a lot of luck and 'six sense' especially when you are playing online. If you are playing on the real table, with real people, at least you can look at them to see their reaction but when you are playing online, it is you against the computer. So, wish that lady luck is on you side and may you become one of the winner.
PASIF bermakna anda tidak perlu membuat penajaan atau memperkenalkan sesiapa. Anda hanya tunggu dividen atau pemberian keuntungan (antara 4% - 6%) setiap minggu, bergantung kepada jumlah keuntungan syarikat. Dividen akan dimasukkan ke dalam e-wallet anda. Untuk melihat jumlah wang anda dalam e-wallet, anda hanya perlu log-in ke member area (laman web syarikat) menggunakan username dan password anda. Lihat contoh di bawah (berdasarkan pemberian keuntungan 5% seminggu: MODAL PULANGAN MINGGUAN RM55 (EURO 10) EURO 0.50 (RM2.25) RM550 (EURO 100) EURO 5.00 (RM22.50) RM1650 (EURO 300) EURO 15.00 (RM67.50) RM5,500 (EURO 1000) EURO 50.00 (RM225.00) Kadar pertukaran: 1bwp – Euro 4.5 Setelah mendaftar, anda akan diberi sebuah laman web replika (tercatit username anda sendiri). Web replika ini diberi PERCUMA!. Anda hanya perlu hebahkan dan promosikan peluang ini kepada rakan-rakan. Apabila mereka menyertai BW dengan membuat bayaran, anda berpeluang menerima pendapatan lumayan, melalui Plan pemasaran yang LUAR BIASA. Join sekarang! If you feel that you want to join us, just click on this LINK or email me, nimrodjo@gmail.com. I will register you immediately! Hi, Friends!
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Interested? Click the title or HERE for more info. It's been ages since I updated this blog. Well, I'm kinda busy with...LIFE. No need to elaborate more on that. I just want to say that my online business have come to a new level whereby I'm now trading online using the all-time-favorite-site, ebay.com.my (note the my because I'm from Malaysia) and the best local auction site, lelong.com.my under the ID: yeyuku.
So, just search for my items. I don't sell many but I do buy a lot from that sites. Currently, I already sell 2 items. Both are mobile phones. I don't know what I'm going to sell in the future but let the future tell it own story. By then, I encourage all of you to trade with ebay.com (International) and lelong.com.my (if you are a Malaysian). Until next time (I don't know when), all the best to our venture in online businesses.  I was searching for song today online and I stumbled upon (but not through SU) a site called 4Shared.com. It is an awesome site where you can download mp3 and video, in one simple click. Of course the files are from users, thus came the name 4shared.com. If you notice, I already put up their site banner on my sidebar. Back to the topic at hand, the tagline for this website is Free File Sharing meaning it is a free online storage. They have 5 kinds of account for you to choose from. Free, Silver, Gold, Platinum, SBE Solution and Enterprise Solution. You can download the pdf file for the package comparison HERE. Most surfer would opt for the FREE account which gives you 5 GB of free space to upload you files. The only setback for the free account is you can only upload maximum 100 MB for the files. If you want to know more before signing up, you can go to the Quick Tour section to find out more. Or if you have questions in your head, just head to their FAQ page. If you have made up you mind, Join 4Shared Now!! Well, this going to be short. I get my online income mainly from doing PP. I do PP mostly from my personal blog (you can click the title to jump to my personal blog). Even if the god of the SE (Mr. G), doesn't approve but that is the only thing that I'm good at. Rely on adsense? I haven't reached my first payment amount yet. The other affiliate programs? Nope. Maybe because I'm not so good at advertising other people products or maybe my blog isn't getting enough traffic.
Well, I do register in the Social Networking site (esp. for blog) and other traffic resources (link submitting directory) but still no changes in the traffic-depended income. So, I will continue blogging without thinking much of the income. I may start as a blogger making money online but I end up as a blogger who blog for fun and according to my heart. See you next time (not that I'm leaving town...) In today's online world search engine rankings can make your business succeed, and while rankings in Yahoo and MSN are very valuable, their combined market value is still less than that of Google. This makes achieving top rankings in Google that much more important.
In this three-part series on How to Optimize for Google we will touch on a number of important aspects for top Google rankings including website optimization, links, Google Webmaster tools, and a number of other considerations. The focus of Part 1 will be with on page website optimization. THE RIGHT KEYWORDS: This article is not about keyword research so I will not spend too much time on this topic, however, I felt it was important to at least brush on this slightly. If you are interested in reading more, please see Keyword Research for Organic SEO. Make sure that your targets are achievable. If you select the wrong keywords, it can make your entire optimization experience essentially a waste. Choose keywords that are attainable but yet still provide a reasonable search frequency for your industry. Your phrase selection should also be targeted to bring qualified traffic to your site. Using the hotel industry as an example, targeting the word "hotel" would make very little sense but by narrowing it down to "Victoria BC hotel" you now have less competition, and a more qualified audience. Keep your targets in perspective and go after the obtainable rankings. WEBSITE OPTIMIZATION: Here are many on-site factors that play a role in your search engine rankings. Here are a number of those factors and what you can do to increase your chances of success. 1. Title Tag - The title tag plays one of the most important roles in search results at Google, and is almost always the heading Google chooses for each of its listings. Placement of your target phrase is best used near the start of the tag and repeated again in the middle or near the end. Three uses of your target phrase may be helpful in some instances, as long as it is not too overwhelming. For best results each page on your site should have a totally unique title tag. It is also important to remember that because Google will use this title as the main heading for your listing, you will want to keep it attractive to potential searchers. Try to also add a call to action, or other wording to help make your listing appear attractive to searchers. To help illustrate the fact Google takes this tag into consideration, simply do a search for your target phrase and take a look at the titles of the top 10. I tried a search for a rather broad term "hotel" and saw that all 10/10 listings had it in the title tag, and 6/10 had it as the very first word. A quick scan showed that the entire top 30 either had the word hotel, or hotels in their title tags. If you do only one thing to your website, make sure that all your title tags are relevant, unique, and contain your target phrase for each page. 2. Meta Description Tag - The Meta Description tag is still occasionally used by Google as the description which appears in the search results themselves. While this used to be a more common practice Google tends to use it most often on sites with very limited content, or those which are flash based. I have seen it still used for content rich sites, however this is less common. The Meta Description tag still has an impact on search rankings. Your best bet when using this tag is to keep it short and sweet with your target phrase close to the start and not repeated more than 3 times. Like the title tag, each page on your site should have its own unique description tag. 3. Meta Keyword Tag - When it comes to Google this tag is useless, and won't influence your rankings. There is some speculation as to whether a spammy keyword tag can however, have a negative effect on Google rankings. As a result, if you do utilize a keyword Meta tag for the smaller engines, it is best to keep it clean and play it safe. 4. Keyword Density - Keyword density plays a role in overall rankings; however, it is not as cut and dry as it once was. Once upon a time there was a magic number that when used could almost guarantee top rankings. This is no longer the case. Today the ideal density varies from industry to industry, phrase to phrase. To find out what density you should aim for, take the top 10 or 20 search results and see what percentage those sites are using. In most cases you will find that the majority of these sites have a very similar density to one another, and this average density is a good estimation of what you should aim for. 5. Body Text and Keyword Placement - The location of relevant text on your site will help establish the overall importance of your target phrase. While you do not want to overwhelm the engines and site visitors with a bombardment of target phrases at the top of the page, try to sprinkle in some instances as close to the top of the page as possible. 6. Synonyms - Be sure to include various synonyms for your target phrases within your body text on your site. Google will use these synonyms to tie in the overall relevance of the page for your main target phrases, which in turn can improve your odds. To find possible synonyms you can use a thesaurus, but the best way is to search Google itself and see exactly what they consider to be similar. Simply search in Google for your target phrase preceded with a tilde, such as "~hotels". Next scan through the search results for any text Google has bolded. These are all words that Google considers to be related. Using the "~hotels" example Google brings up phrases such as 'travel', 'tourism', 'accommodation', as well as various hotel chain names such as 'Hilton Hotels'. 7. Keywords in Domain - There is still some speculation if having a target phrase as part of your top level domain (TLD) is of use to search rankings. From my experience, yes, there is value here, although, nothing like it was several years ago. If you are starting off in the online world and are contemplating which domain to go for, consider one that uses your target phrase, assuming that it is both relevant to your business name, and uses no more than a single hyphen. While multiple hyphens in a domain can be successful, they are very common with highly spammy websites, so it is best to not take that route if possible. While having a keyword located within your domain can provide some ranking juice, I would not suggest heading out and doing a domain swap. In most cases you would be better off working on your existing site than starting from scratch with a new domain. 8. Keywords in page specific URL - Using keywords for specific page URL's can also help add a little bit of value to your site, providing you use them responsibly. Consider using a keyword as a directory name and as part of a file name where it naturally makes sense to do so. If you have a website that focuses on tourism and includes local hotel listings, you may want to consider the following structure for your page on the Hilton: MyTourismSite.com/Victoria/Accommodations/Hotels/Hilton.html 9. Heading Tags - Placement of target phrases within heading tags helps to establish the importance of those given phrases. That said do not over do it, or abuse it. Only place target phrases within a heading tag if it makes sense to do so, and don't flood a page with numerous tags. Heading tags are not as critical as they once were, but still a good contribution to a well optimized page. 10. Link Anchor text - This is the actual text you clíck on as part of a link. When full or partial target phrases are used within your text links they help pass on some value to the linked page for those phrases. This is also true when considering surrounding text. When the content around the link is also relevant, the link holds slightly more value. While a link that simply states "clíck here" or "http://www.domainname.com/" does have its place, they provide considerably less value than a link that would use "discount hotels" as its anchor. 11. Image Alt Text - While image alt text still plays a minor role, its biggest part is within the use of image based navigation. If you have an image linked to another page, the alt text will be attributed much the same way as standard link anchor text is. Image Alt text should always be short and to the point and should accurately describe either the image itself, or the page the image is linking to. Do not use alt tags as a place to stuff keywords. 12. Inline Links - These are links that are found mid sentence or mid paragraph as opposed to a simple listing of links as found in a menu or possibly on a sitemap. Links found mid paragraph tend to pass on a little more value from the surrounding text and can provide more relevance to the linked page. 13. Site Navigation - It is absolutely imperative that your website be fully spiderable by the search engines. This may seem obvious, but often webmasters overlook Google's ability to crawl a website. Google has become very advanced in what links it can follow and how it can spider a website, but there are still some things that can cause significant roadblocks. - Flash: One of the most commonly made mistakes is the use of flash. If flash is used as a sole means of site navigation then you can count on Google not viewing your internal pages, and having a significant disadvantage in terms of site rankings. - Java Script / DHTML: These days most Java Script and even DHTML menus can be spidered by Google, however, this is not always the case. If your site utilizes any kind of fancy navigation and you are wondering why Google has not indexed your internal pages, check out Google's Cached Text version of your page. If you do not see any text links, then your navigation may be invisible to Google. - Images: Image based navigation has been safe for many years now, but if your site uses this form of navigation it is essential to have brief, relevant alt text on all your buttons. This alt text will act much like standard anchor text for text based links. This is not only for the purpose of search ranking value, but take a look at Google's cached text version of your page. If you have image based links that do not have alt text, those links do not appear. This doesn't mean Google won't follow them, but for anyone viewing your site on a text based browser, your links will be invisible to them. 14. URL Structure - Avoid long elaborate URL's with extraneous characters. While Google has reached a point where they can index massive URL strings, it is best to avoid them if at all possible. For dynamic sites consider utilizing mod rewrites to significantly clean up the URL to not only make it more search engine friendly, but more user friendly as well. MyTourismSite.com/?locid="victoria"&catid="accommodations"&type="hotel"&comp="hilton" stands a better chance if cleaned up to read: MyTourismSite.com/victoria/accommodations/hotels/hilton.htm SUMMARY: Basic website optimization is a critical component for successful placement in Google but is only part of the overall picture. Stay tuned for "How to Optimize for Google - Part 2 of 3" where we will discuss Links and Google Webmaster Tools. About The Author Scott Van Achte is the Senior SEO at StepForth Web Marketing Inc., based in Victoria, BC, Canada and founded in 1997. You can read more of Scott's articles and those of the StepForth team at news.stepforth.com or contact us at StepForth.com, Tel - 250-385-1190, TollFree - 877-385-5526, Fax - 250-385-1198 Another article about RSS but we musn't get tired of this thing because we never know that we may learn a few new tricks. Enjoy reading..
What is RSS? You probably have seen this three-letter acronym in the course of your internet surfing. RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication or Rich Site Summary; syndicating means republishing an article that comes from another source such as a website. A RSS feed is a means of publicizing updates about websites. It may or may not include a summary and photos of the latest posting. But those that provide summaries (thus Rich Site Summary) allow users to skim through the article so that they can decide later on if they want to access the website source. The RSS feed usually contains the title of the update originating from the website. It is also usually the link to the website source. What are the Benefits of RSS? RSS provides benefits to both readers (users) and web publishers. 1. It gives you the latest updates. Whether it is about the weather, new music, software upgrade, local news, or a new posting from a rarely-updated site, you can learn about the latest as soon as it comes out. 2. It saves on surfing time. Since an RSS feed provides a summary of the related article, it saves the user's time by helping s/he decide on which items to prioritize when reading or browsing the net. 3. It gives the power of subscription to the user. Users are given a free-hand on which websites to subscribe to in their RSS aggregators which they can change at any time they decide differently. 4. It lessens the clutter in your inbox. Although your email address will be required to enjoy the services of online RSS aggregators, RSS does not use your email address to send the updates. 5. It is sp@m free. Unlike email subscriptions, RSS does not make use of your email address to send updates thus your privacy is kept safe from sp@m mails. 6. Unsubscribing is hassle-free. Unlike email subscriptions where the user is asked questions on why s/he is unsubscribing and then the user is asked to confirm unsubscribing, all you have to do is to delete the RSS feed from your aggregator. 7. It can be used as an advertising or marketing tool. Users who subscribe to or syndicate product websites receive the latest news on products and services without the website sending sp@m mail. This is advantageous to both the web user and the website owner since advertising becomes targeted; those who are actually interested in their products are kept posted. What are the Drawbacks of RSS? The disadvantages of RSS stem from user-preference concerns and the fact that it is a new technology. 1. Some users prefer receiving email updates over an RSS feed. 2. Graphics and photos do not appear in all RSS feeds. For conciseness and ease of publication, RSS feeds do not display the photos from the original site in announcing the update except for some web-based aggregators. 3. The identity of the source website can be confusing. Since RSS feeds do not display the actual URL or name of the website, it can sometimes get confusing on what feed a user is actually reading. 4. Publishers cannot determine how many users are subscribed to their feed and the frequency of their visits. Moreover, they do not know the reasons why users unsubscribe which could be important in improving their advertising. 5. RSS feeds create higher traffic and demands on the server. Most readers still prefer the whole update over a brief summary of the entry, thus they still access the site. 6. Since it is a new technology, many sites still do not support RSS. How Do I Start Using RSS? There are two things needed: an RSS feed and an RSS aggregator or reader. The RSS feed comes from an RSS-supported website. There are also websites that provide a directory of RSS feeds from different websites. An RSS aggregator is used to read the RSS feed from the source website. It scans and collects data on the latest RSS feeds from the worldwide web. An aggregator comes in two forms: a downloadable program, also known as a desktop aggregator, and an online or web-based aggregator. Downloadable aggregators may require payment before they can be acquired, while internet-based aggregators are usually free. All you need to do is to register an account and you are ready to use their services. Both versions allow you to customize, or choose, which RSS feeds to enter. Paid aggregators are usually chosen by more experienced users and they usually allow more freedom in customizing feeds. About The Author Werner Schamberger is CEO of Homework Online and Best Articles Online. He is an entrepreneur and author. Now, this is an interesting article to be read by IMers out there. Can we really be a successful IMer if we don't rely on Search Engine as a part of our business tool? Read on...
Believe me or not, a business can survive and thrive on the Internet without good search engine placement. That does not mean that a Webmaster should not strive to get good rankings in the search engines, but it does mean that a Webmaster should not throw his or her entire advertising budget towards search engine optimization (SEO). The SEO guys are rolling in their Ferrari's as you read this. I would have said that the SEO guys are rolling their graves, but they are not dead, yet. There Can Be Only Ten How many web pages will be listed on page one of the search results at Google? How about on Yahoo or MSN? That is right; there can be only ten web pages listed on page one of the search results. According to the Internet Archive (http://www.archive.org), there are currently 85 billion web pages on the Internet. But, if you have ever used the Wayback Machine at the Internet Archive, then you know as I know that they have not archived everything that is out there, so that 85-billion number is actually smaller than the real number of existing web pages. With only ten listings on page one of the search results, there are going to be a lot of disappointed people in the world. They cannot all be on page one of the search results. First Things First Search engine optimization is an expensive undertaking, so it shouldn't be taken lightly. I talk to people everyday who are building their first website for the very first time. These folks, bless their hearts, know just enough about Internet marketing to blow their savings on a website that may or may not deliver a profít to them. There are steps that people should take when they start their website, and SEO is not one of those first steps. Here is a checklist of steps that the new Webmaster should use in the development of his or her website: Step One: Select the products or services that the website will sell. Step Two: Determine if there is a market for what will be sold. Step Three: Analyze the competition and determine the competition's weaknesses. Competition is about building a better mousetrap or reaching customers that another might be under serving. Step Four: Build the website to sell the chosen products or services. Sales conversion is the most important element in any successful business model. Step Five: Run test advertising to figure out what will generate traffic to your website, and more importantly, to figure out what one needs to do in order to sell goods and services. Testing And Tracking Advertising Results Is Essential I once sold advertising in my newsletter to a guy who paid a nice fee to have his advertisement run in my newsletter, but he did not invest any money in writing or testing his ad first. The advertisement itself was written very badly. I asked him if he would like to tweak his advertisement before I ran it in my newsletter. He said he did not care what the ad looked like. He just needed me to run his ad. I offered to rewrite his ad for him to enhance his chances of getting traffic from my newsletter. He agreed and I did. As the newsletters I subscribed to began rolling in the following week, I noticed his bad advertisement ran in dozens of those newsletters. I asked him later about his results, and he said he had spent $10,000 running that advertisement and closed four sales at $25 each. He spent $10,000 to make one hundred dollars. Needless to say, his website closed down just a couple months later. The problem was clearly his ad, but his website may have contributed to his lack of sales conversion. * OpenTracker.net Another two-dozen web analytics applications are reviewed at Cumbrowski.com . About The Author Bill Platt has been writing reprint articles for the promotíon of his websites since 1999, and now he has written an ebook to share what he has learned. His book is called, "Article Marketing For Traffic, Sales and Profit". Included in the book are many examples and the Five Essential Elements Of Creating A Successful Article. To learn more about Bill's business, visit thePhantomWriters.com . Hi everybody. Once again apologize for not updating this blog as frequent as it should be but I'm caught with busyness and I can only manage one blog at the moment, which is nimrodjo.com. I present to you yet another interesting article that I found. This stat tools will be an alternative to Google Analytics.
In this article I am going to explain logfiles and their importance in website analytics from my perspective as a ClickTracks user. Before I begin, however, I want you to know that although I provide essential analytic consulting, I am a certified ClickTracks Analytics Professional and have dabbled in books on analytics, I don't consider myself to be an analytics expert. In fact, I constantly find myself humbled by how much more there is to know. That said, I do know more than the average site owner and I hope that this article can shine a little light on this often confusing subject and save you some future headaches. As many of you may know I am a huge fan of the logfile version of ClickTracks Professional, a website analytics package that I find indispensable for myself and my clientele. ClickTracks can do a lot to determine what is or is not working on a website; much more than expected in most cases. The one thing, however, that ClickTracks or any other logfile-based analytics tool cannot do is interpret information in your logfiles if it is not recorded. Unfortunately this is a common occurrence and many site owners have no idea that their hosting company is not saving information that could help them now or later when they find they need it.
Once this data is collected it is saved on the server in a logfile for later use and over time it is often overwritten with new data so the files do not get too large; they bulk up very quickly especially on high-traffic websites.
So What's the Issue? If you have no interest in website analytics you may find this whole scenario to be a non-issue. I completely understand, however, put yourself a year or even a month down the road when your website is taking off and you need to know more about the visitors to your website. You just might find yourself in this same frustrating scenario and it will seem absolutely insane how hard you have to push to get this data properly collected. If you are unsure of the answer or you need to set this up then please review the settings that need to be enabled on Apache servers or Microsoft Internet Information Servers; these pages include instructions if you need them. About The Author Hi friends, Google is like the Holy Grail of marketing on the web. Rank well in Google and your profits are pretty much set. But there is SO MUCH bogus information out there, often coming from the "gurus" themselves. On January 9th, 2008, Jonathan Leger is releasing a new free report that completely obliterates the following myths about Google (and then goes on to show you what DOES work): Myth #1: Google Knows All and Sees All Myth #2: Google Will Not Rank Duplicate Content Myth #3: You Must Get Links From Related Subject Sites to Rank Myth #4: Your Site Must Focus On One Subject To Rank Myth #5: High PageRank Means Good Rankings Myth #6: To Maintain Good Rankings, You Must Add New Content ..and.. MYTH #7: THE BIGGEST MYTH: Ranking In Google Is Hard! The site is in pre-launch now, but if you sign up early you will get a sample chapter full of proof and details. And did I mention he'll pay you for referring other people to this powerful f.ree report? And that he'll pay you for anyone THEY refer as well (even while it's in pre-launch)? Find out more about that when you download your sample chapter from: http://searchenginemythsexposed.com/ Home Based Product P/S: Earnings are paid on the 1st and 15th day of each month starting after the launch on January 9th. ALL SIGNUPS ARE PAID SIGNUPS, EVEN IN PRE-LAUNCH, but the first payments won't go out until January 15th. Minimum payout amount is $5. This article is written by Jerry Bader (c) 2007. If you are into advertising and online business, this article is a compulsory for you.
If you had to guess the single most important word in advertising what would it be: free, special, discount, sale, new, improved, bígger, better? So many words have lost their meaning or been corrupted by misuse or abuse that it is not an obvious choice. The words luxury, exclusive, and world class have been rendered meaningless after being applied to everything from eight hundred square foot condos to restaurants that serve microwave frozen dinners. We can't even rely on light, diet, or low carb to actually describe what's inside a package. What advertisers have done is create a hyper cynical marketplace, where the audience for whatever you sell has lost faith in what is being said. The Web with its emphasis on content gives advertisers a chance to redeem themselves and to deliver meaningful information to its audience. All Content Is Advertising, All Advertising Isn't Some may cringe at the thought, but in the final analysis all content is a form of advertising. Content is rarely if ever neutral, even if it doesn't overtly promote a product or service; content always has a point to make, or an idea, concept, or position to advance. If content doesn't provide some perspective, some meaningful knowledge, then does it really qualify as content? The same can be said for advertising, if it doesn't explain, enlighten or engage, it is just noise. What Is Advertising's Most Important Word? My vote goes to the simple innocuous word "like": a nondescript word that carries with it all the conceptualization power you need to create a business identity, to form a brand personality, and to position your product or service in the mind of your audience. A previous article of mine "A Website Without Video Is Like..." uses the power of metaphor to illustrate how this little four-letter word can crystallize an idea in the mind of an audience. Metaphor + Analogy + Stories: The Adman's Best Friends A metaphor explains complex concepts and hard to comprehend processes by comparing them to common everyday knowledge. We use metaphors everyday without even realizing we're doing it. We 'race' to the office. We work like 'dogs." And we all know, it's a 'jungle' out there. Metaphors are critical to the way we communicate with each other and to the success of our marketing communication and advertising. Metaphors can be extended into analogies, and analogies into stories, and stories into campaigns; and campaigns developed in this manner have a higher probability of achieving the elusive status of meaningful content that embeds your message in your audience's collective consciousness. There is no better way to overcome a client's objection than to put that objection into perspective with an appropriate allegorical story. Overcoming Objections: How Long Is Too Long? We've all heard the constant bellyaching from impatient Web users about how long they have to wait for everything on the Web. Every time I hear this from somebody, I am reminded of the story (perhaps apocryphal) of the early introduction of the Polaroid Land camera. Before the days of one-hour photo shops, digital photography, and immediate video feedback, people had to wait up to a week for their pictures to be developed by the local pharmacy or camera shop. When Polaroid came out with a camera that delivered a finished photograph in sixty seconds, people were amazed; the era of ínstant gratification had begun. So the story goes, a group of adventurers traveled deep into the Brazilian Rainforest to learn about the indigenous people. When they came across a tribe who hadn't seen outsiders before, they befriended them and took pictures of them with the Polaroid cameras they brought along. The natives loved the pictures since they hadn't seen anything like this before, but they did have one complaint, 'why did it take so long for the pictures to develop?' The problem is not technology; the problem is one of perception. Like the natives who perceived the sixty second developing of photographs to be slow, so to do many Web-users perceive the Internet to be slow when in fact it is an incredible technological achievement where anyone with a computer and Internet connection can access information from all over the world in seconds or, heaven forbid, minutes. The Better The Story, The Better The Communication The solution to the problem is better communication, making yourself and your message instantly understood. People who are truly interested in what you have to say will wait for your Web page or video to load. What gets them frustrated is when they wait, and instead of getting a meaningful message, they get a bunch of nonsense that is irrelevant, self-congratulatory or completely incomprehensible. A video or audio message on your website is more easily grasped than a page full of densely written text or cryptic bulleted points. But you will loose your audience quickly no matter what the form of your message if it's confusing, muddled, overly complex, or buried in b-school platitudes and industry jargon. You need your message to be understandable, engaging, and memorable and one of the best ways to convey that message is to compare it to something your audience can relate to. It's like teaching your kids a life lesson by reading them one of Aesop's Fables. Finding Your Metaphor Some people have a knack for expressing things in a way that an audience will instantly grasp and more importantly remember. For those of us in the communication, marketing, advertising, and creative development businesses it is a necessary skill learned over the years. But for those in the day-to-day grind of business's nitty-gritty it is rarely an ability that ever gets developed. Creating a Web video campaign that your audience is going to watch, remember, and pass on to colleagues requires a commitment of time and funds, and you want to make sure it communicates your message effectively. Rather than using your traditional approach concentrating on features and facts, try something different; try developing a campaign based on a metaphor that delivers your brand's personality and emotional value-add. Where to begin? You need to set yourself free from the concrete, and concentrate on the conceptual. If this seems like a difficult thing to wrap your head around, then start with baby steps. Concentrate On The Conceptual Any effective marketing campaign whether it's a series of Web videos, direct emails, magazine display ads, banner ads, outdoor billboards, television and radio spots, or any combination there of, will only work if it focuses on a single message. At the heart of all advertising is the promise you commit to delivering to your clients. No matter how clever or memorable your marketing, if you fail to deliver on that promise, you will fail. Learn a lesson from the politicians. The general publics' opinion of politicians is about on a par with having a prostate exam. Politicians can't help themselves, they promise the electorate what the electorate wants to hear, and then fail to deliver on promises that can't be kept. Consequently, people become cynical and distrust everything politicians say. Failure to deliver on your promise to be the cheapest, the best, or the guy with the most features, is like a politician promising no new taxes. Read my lips! Those kinds of promises are a prescription for marketing disaster. Taking the conceptual approach requires a certain degree of confidence and an understanding that you are going to have to give something up to get something in return. If you present your identity as the Timex of widgets, inexpensive and ubiquitous; then you are giving up the audience looking for the Rolex of widgets, expensive and exclusive. Audience Resonance: It's All About Striking A Nerve One of the most memorable commercials ever to appear on television was the 1985 introduction of the Apple Macintosh computer. The anti-big brother message said nothing of bits or bytes, or anything else computer related, but it did establish Apple's character and personality with its allegorical message, a message that is still valid today. If your marketing message lacks this kind of power and personality; if your advertising is getting lost, or drowned-out by the competition, try finding a metaphor that instantly tells your audience who you are and why they should care. About The Author Jerry Bader is Senior Partner at MRPwebmedia, a website design firm that specializes in Web-audio and Web-video. Visit www.mrpwebmedia.com/ads, www.136words.com and www.sonicpersonality.com. Contact at info@mrpwebmedia.com or telephone (905) 764-1246. This blog was created by me to provide any information about web home business that I think worth the time of my blog visitors. I do slip in a few articles or rambling from me. I don't know which level am I, in Internet Marketing but I do involve in some kind of online business or affiliates (the term they used). I think this offer that I'm going to reveal is suitable for all kind of surfer but there are many opportunities involving those who loves videos. 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So, what kind of Christmas Tree are you? A traditional one or a Scrooge like me or a Grinch? Since I got tagged by kljs, I am play along anyways. I will use my name of N for Nimrod. Simple instructions : Use the first letter of your name to answer each question. Must be places, names … nothing made up. You can’t use your own name for the boy/girl’s name question. If you get stuck, skip to the next one. Famous Singer: Norah Jones Sentencing the next crimi…eh, bloggers Do if you want to. Don’t do if you don’t feel to make meme. Memes T forTak Feng & Li Li This yet another great article that I found a MUST read for all. As long as you are in the website categry, SEM tools are compulsory for YOU.
Anyone working in Search Engine Marketing knows that this industry travels at warp speed. If you're trying to market your web site or the web sites of your clients via search engines, chances are your time is limited - severely limited. To squeeze as much into my schedule as possible without resorting to self-cloning, my daily routine involves the use of a range of time-saving tools and software. I use such tools on a daily basis and I truly don't know how I'd function without them. I'm not the only one. I've talked to other SEM experts and they also rely on various tools to help them through their hectic schedules. Here is a líst of 20 must-have tools used by busy SEM professionals: 1. Freshbooks Invoicing and Timesheets Freshbooks is an online estimating, invoicing, project management and time tracking service that gives your business a professional image, no matter how small. I use it to invoice all my clients online and it can even be set up to automatically bill and debit the credít cards of recurring clients every month. It also has built in staff timesheets and project management tools for online collaboration. Price: Free for 3 clients or less 2. XML Sitemaps Generator The XML Sitemap Generator trawls through all levels of your site to generate an XML sitemap. It also gives you a running count of pages, provides a text-based URL líst and a HTML sitemap you can import straight into your site. The online version of the generator is free for sites of less than 500 pages, but there's also a low-cost script-based version for large sites that can be set up to automatically index your site, upload an updated XML file to your server and ping Google and Yahoo when done. Price: Free for sites of 500 pages or less 3. Proposal Kit ProposalKit takes the chore out of creating and tailoring client estimates and proposal contracts. With over 200 pre-designed self-guiding templates ready to fill in the blanks with your company, project/product/service and client information, ProposalKit has already half completed your proposal for you. Price: From USD 47.00 4. ClickTracks As far as site analytics goes, the depth and accuracy of data provided by ClickTracks just can't be beaten, in my opinion. The visual analysis ClickTracks provides is probably its best known feature, with statistical data overlaying actual screenshots of your web site pages. The ability to flag individual visitors or groups of visitors based on unique identifiers (such as all persons who visited page x or all persons who bought product d) provides a level of analysis that other analytical packages can't compete with. Price: From USD 79.00 per month 5. AWeber AWeber is a multiple auto responder and mailing líst management service rolled into one. Members can send an unlimited number of campaigns, follow up messages, and newsletters to an unlimited number of approved opt-ín lists. For newsletter purposes, a wide range of templates are provided, as are free training guides and videos to help you create campaigns. Price: From USD 19.95 per month 6. JROX JROX Affilíate Manager software (JAM) is a super powerful affilíate program that includes follow up email tools, email broadcasting, custom URLs and the ability to create up to 10 affilíate downlink levels. It offers affiliates groovy 3d Flash-based graphs and charts displaying their referrals and commissions and an organized marketing tools area for storage of banners, links and promotional materials. Price: Free for 50 affiliates or less 7. Keyword Discovery Keyword Discovery is an advanced keyword research and search term suggestion tool produced by Trellian. Price: From USD 69.95 per month 8. Google Analytics Google Analytics is free web-based site metrics / analytics software hosted by Google. After you include tracking code on all selected pages of your site, Google collects data regarding visitor activity and then you are able to log into an Analytics interface and view site activity and produce reports. Price: $0 9) Backlinkwatch.com Type your URL into Backlink Watch and get complete detailed information about the quality and quantity of backward links pointing to your website. It will show you anchor text, Google Toolbar PageRank, total outbound links on that page and nofollow flag for each of your inbound links available. Price: $0 10) Jim Boykin's tools A collection of 17 free SEO tools developed by Jim Boykin and his staff, including a cache analyzer, Backlink checker, keyword density tool and multiple inbound and outbound link checking tools. Price: $0 11) Google Webmaster Central Google Webmaster Central is Google's one-stop shop for webmaster resources. It contains answers to common questíons about Google crawling and indexing and guidelines for webmasters to follow when publishing their content. It also provides statistics, diagnostics and management of Google's indexing of your website, including Sitemap submission and reporting. Price: $0 12) Yahoo! Site Explorer Yahoo! Site Explorer is Yahoo's version of Google Webmaster Tools. It allows you to explore all the web pages indexed by Yahoo! Search, view the most popular pages from any site, view a comprehensive site map and find pages that link to that site or any page. Price: $0 13) Ranks.nl Ranks.nl is a keyword density and page prominence indicator. Type in a URL and target keywords to determine the page density and prominence for certain keywords within the page text and/or HTML tags. Price: $0 14) Rex Swain's Tools Rex Swain is an independent software developer who has uploaded a range of his custom server tools and demos to his web site. Tools include an RGB color sampler, HTTP Cookie Demo, a HTML sampler and an email form demo. Price: $0 15) SearchStatus for Firefox SearchStatus is a toolbar extension for Firefox and Mozilla that allows you to see how any and every website in the world is performing in the search engines. Price: $0 16) Microsoft Excel Microsoft Excel is probably the world's most popular spreadsheet application. Apart from its powerful formulas for financial reporting, Excel charts and spreadsheets are great for site analytics analysis and sharing, sitemap creation, SEO/PPC campaign reporting and tracking link building campaigns. Price: Bundled with MS Office from USD 180.00 17) Google Reader Google Reader is a RSS and XML feed reader that constantly checks your favorite news sites and blogs for new content and presents them to you in one interface. It also allows you to share sites/pages of interest with others. Price: $0 18) Blogger Blogger is a popular online blog provider and templating service owned by Google, where you can quickly set up a blog of your own to post thoughts, interact with people, and more. Price: $0 19) The Lynx Viewer The Lynx Viewer developed by YellowPipe allows webmasters to see what their pages will look like when viewed with Lynx, a text-mode web browser. This view is very similar to how search engine robots see your site. Price: $0 20) Basecamp Basecamp is an online collaboration and project management service designed for staff and clients to manage internal and client projects from multiple locations. Price: Free for 1 project So there you have it - 20 of the most popular time-saving tools to help you with your search engine marketing efforts. About The Author Article by Kalena Jordan, one of the first search engine optimization experts in Australia, who is well known and respected in the industry, particularly in the U.S. As well as running her own SEO business, Kalena is Director of Studies at Search Engine College - an online training institution offering instructor-led short courses and downloadable self-study courses in Search Engine Optimization and other Search Engine Marketing subjects. This article id done by Frederick Townes. You can read more about him below. Enjoy reading this article.
As a site owner, it's important to devote what link building time you have to creating connections that count – really count – as far as search engine spiders are concerned. In fact, there's a range of site link types – links diversity. Some are more valuable than others. Spend your time and resources building the highest quality links and you'll quickly see the value of these efforts. Hosted Content Hosted content, also sometimes called pre-sell pages, makes your site look very good. The problem is, there are usually costs involved. Here's how it works. You, the content expert, write an article. It should be longer than 600 words but no longer than 1200 words. It should be well-written, completely researched, edited, re-edited and finally proofed so that it's letter perfect. Okay, now you have host-worthy content. Hosted content is content that's placed on another site for a fee. In other words, you rent a page on another site to display your work. Now, what do you get for your money? First, position your article on a site that's (1) related to the topicality of your site and (2) has a tons of one-way links to content that's "deep" in the site (in other words sub-pages that rank well in SERPs based on their title tags, for example). These two factors are the best way to measure and quantify the strength your page has in the target site, and ultimately, the link love it creates passes to your site. As you already know hosted content creates editorial inbound links, also known as pure gold. Second, because it's your article and you're paying for the space, you can embed text links directly to specific pages of your site. This does a couple of things. First, you spread your web net further. Links to your site now appear on other sites – some several incarnations removed from your own site. This, ultimately, increases your site traffíc as people read your interesting commentary and click on those embedded links to see what else is on your mind. That's good. More hits. More page views. Higher conversion ratios. Third, if you spread your words across the web, you start to develop some name recognition within your niche. Unless you're Dan Kennedy or Skip McGrath, it's tough building name recognition. However, by crafting numerous, informative articles you'll start to be recognized. And wait until you Google your name and find 15 SERPs because your articles appear on dozens and dozens of sites. The downside is the cost. Site owners charge you for the use of their space. If you're well capitalized, no problem. Spend the money to spread your words. If money is a problem, choose your host sites carefully. Use Google Analytics or ClickTracks data to determine not only number of unique visitors you create from these pages of hosted content, but quality of traffíc as well. Look for sites that match the two criteria above. Very important. Article Submission Okay, money is a problem. You don't have a lot. You can still get your name and your opinions out there through various article submission sites. Once again, site owners need great content and many rely on article submission sites to pick up fresh content for free. Here's the deal. You write an article and go through the same steps of researching, editing and proofing until the piece is pristine and makes you sound like a savant. Perfect. Now you place that piece on sites like www.goarticles.com or www.ezinearticles.com for free use by other sites. The plus side is, if the content is solid, you'll get picked up by literally hundreds (even thousands) of sites. And in return for the free use of your written brilliance, the sites that display your content are obliged to include a link back to your web site. So, you put out 10 articles on topics related to your business, each one gets picked up and used by 20 other sites and you've got 200 non-reciprocal inbound links. Well done. But isn't this the same model as hosted content except it's free? No. There are two key points to consider. First, with articles you syndicate it's much more difficult to embed editorial links to your targeted web site. Instead, you take advantage of the target link and anchor text in your bio box that appears at the end of the article. What does this mean? Ultimately syndicated articles are not unique content like hosted content is, and ultimately it's more challenging to place links to your own site editorially without appearing to be hyping your goods or services. So there's a tradeoff when you go the article syndication route. The key, just as with hosted content, is to have killer, useful information in order to entice webmasters to repurpose the article for their communities and give you credít, a bio and a back link. But, it doesn't cost you anything but your time, assuming you can string words together into cogent sentences, or at least your brother-in-law can. If you're good at syndicated content or article submission, you control the anchor text – the actual links readers click on. You can also embed editorial links in syndicated content. Now, these aren't links directly back to your site, but they will take the readers to a target page that you want them to read, so if you're building links for other sites in your portfolio, this approach has a proven track record. Reciprocal Links Sites still exchange links. The concept isn't moribund, but it certainly doesn't have the impact a non-reciprocal link has. Reciprocal linking is simply an exchange of links. You link to my site; I'll link to yours. And since spiders follow links, it's not a bad arrangement. A couple of warnings, however. Any site with which you exchange links should be related to the topic of your site. If you're selling baby clothes on your site and you've got a link to a transmission fix-it site, you'll get nicked by the search engine. Remember, the whole purpose of a search engine is to provide useful, relevant content to users so any links you exchange should be considered from the point of view of the site visitor. Is that link going to further the search of the site visitor or is it a dead end? If a site appears to have a significant number of back links, and better yet, ranks well in the SERPs, it's a likely candidate for a link exchange even if it's a PR 2. Look for quality sites, or at least quality characteristics. One-Way Link Building This comes in several forms. First, there's the ever-popular 'link begging' where you contact a site owner (you can find that information in Whois, if it's not on the contact page) and basically plead your case to have that site owner accept your link. This is a tough sell because, naturally, the site owner wants to know what's in it for him or her. Custom written, tailored emails tend to do better than form letter emails, obviously, and there's definitely nothing wrong with a telephone call provided you make it abundantly clear what you have to offer. There are paid links programs. For example, www.textlinkads.com lists web sites willing to sell links to your site. You can bid on the cost of the link, agree to the length of time the link will appear and where it will appear. There are other programs that will hook up sites – usually with decent PRs – with site owners looking for good deals on paid links. Again, don't forget to buy links with relevance to your site. You can pay to advertise on another site with banner ads, though this has been shown to deliver lukewarm results unless you know your market very well. Do a competitive analysis and see what's working for the competition. The click-thru rate on banners is less than 3% but they aren't usually too expensive. Finally, you can post your thoughts and opinions on forums and blogs related to your site. Each post will create a back link, but one that spiders will recognize as a blog back link – not a bad thing, just not a gangbusters way to build site credibility, especially considering that most links have a nofollow added and forums capable of giving any link love tend to moderate (and eliminate link sp@m) quite heavily. Don't be fooled though, links even with a nofollow attached still have some magic – even on Google. From hosted content to blog posts, anybody can get a little recognition on the web. And if you've actually got marketing capital, you can pay for hosted content and watch your site grow quickly. Very quickly. About The Author Frederick Townes is the the owner of W3 EDGE Web Design. W3 EDGE is a Boston web design company that provides extensive conversion optimization, SEO-friendly web designs and Internet Marketing services. W3 EDGE is also pleased to provide their clients reliable professional web hostíng solutions with tons of features and extremely fast servers. Here comes a new product. At first, when I came across these words, I thought it is a new kind of film but actually it is talking about window tinting. So, I then Google the word tint and found this site called SnapTint.com, which specialize in Window Film DIY (Do-It-Yourself) installation.
They even have their own installation videos, so that you can easily DIY at your home. This company also provide DIY car tint Kit, pre-cut for easy installation and came with lifetime warranty. Their car and home window tinting kits are made for easy installation, and are pre-cut to the precise measurements you need. Window film comes in many colors and varieties. It can not only enhances the look of a car or home, but also provide many practical benefits like: * Glare reduction * UV protection * Heat rejection So, be sure to purchase your DIY Home/Car Tint Kit from SnapTint.com Blog readability is simply pointing to the level of education required by the reader in oder to understand the blog. I came across this Blog Readability Test at Kenny's blog, and decided to put this blog to the test. To my surprise,
my blog require a blog reader that graduated from college. I think this is due to my recent inclusion of articles from other authors that seems to use very complex words because I never use many sophisticated in my normal post or even, my paid review (shhh...Google is listening. So, here is the result:  Stupendous eh...I never thought my blog will be so hard to understand...I hope everybody can understand this post though...LOL It is been a while since I wrote a very personal note on this blog and it been 5 days since I last blogged. I've not been in the mood to blog because my other blog is somehow mysteriously gone blank. I'm actually have a lot of time to blog since it is a school holidays in Malaysia. Today, I just remember that I do have other blog to take care of, and it is this blog. This blog was my first ever blog creation but since I got my own hosted blog, I spend a lot of my time there. I do come back to this blog to post some great article and do my PPP post, including one successful PPP Direct post. So, if anybody want my honest review for your blog or website, my fee (if I can call it like that) is only $5. How can you pass such a low price?
I do get some traffic to this blog through MyBlogLog and BlogCatalog. So, your money will be worth it if you want an honest review of your site. Ok, moving on to the next topic. I just have to thank a few person that supported my blogging effort. Firstly, to PapaJoneh as my inspiration to blog and for his attempt for trying to revive my other blog. Secondly, to Kenny and GeminiGeek for answering my help request in Malaysian Blogger Forum. Thirdly, special thanks to Diana and Ben for their moral support when I faced some sort of problem. So, in the future when my other blog is down or something, you guys can always find me here, at Home Based Product. When is the last time you stumble upon a new SEO Company? It is my great pleasure to introduce this new SEO Company to all of you. On top of your browser, you will see the title for this site is 'ROI Focused International Search Engine Marketing..'. When I read it, my first thought is 'what is ROI?'
I googled the word and found out the meaning. Then, I realize that it was stated in the second paragraph of their homepage. What can I say about this website? Firstly, I like it when I open a website especially company website and immediately can read about the company background. That's exactly what you can get from this website. In the 1st paragraph, you directly have the overall idea of this company, a search engine marketing firm. The next thing that I like about this site is they offer a FREE SEM evaluation. Now, who can top that? (Tell me..tell me...if there is any..) but you need to wait for their reply. You need to fill in a form and give your basic detail. The web design is neat and easy to navigate. The only thing to do is a simple but creative logo. That should be a bonus for this website. So, if you have time, give this new SEO Company a visit. This is an article for those websites that really need a makeover. Read this author statement. Designing your first website i | ||||||||||||||||
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