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• SEO and Common Sense

  Business Blogger 7:27 pm on October 22, 2009 | Comments Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Basics, optimization (3), search (5), search engine optimization (13), search engine ranking (3), SEO (22), Web Development (26)

  “After reading this article, I couldn’t think of a better way to explain SEO”

  -Editor

  The fact is every search engine has a different formula to accord ranking for a Web page. Keyword-rich copy that the search engines favor may not ideally form the text -especially not on the front page! Using flash animation and of graphics may make the site appealing, but as the search engines can not index these well, one has to inevitably use gateway pages.

  Some business owners may argue that their sites need to be one up on the others and would want liberal use of flash animation and lots of graphics, They may be somewhat disinclined to change this attitude just to satisfy the search engines.

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• Blogging Your Way to Success

  Business Blogger 12:45 pm on September 28, 2009 | Comments Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Basics, beginners (16), blogger (6), Online Marketing (6)

  A diary was always considered a very personal thing. A written record of thoughts and observation, secretly kept and closely guarded from the eyes of others. Internet has changed all this.

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• Is Your Website Traffic Visiting or Hitting On You?

  Business Blogger 5:03 pm on September 8, 2009 | Comments Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Basics, beginners (16), google (3), hits, traffic (4), visitors, website (16)

  Every time someone visits or hits your website, it is recorded in the server logs. Server logs come in raw data which your hosting company will convert and provide to you in reading form – website stats. By having your websites stats in front of you, you will be able to analyze where all of your traffic is coming from and how many hits and visitors you have had.

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• How To Get More Website Traffic

  Business Blogger 1:43 pm on September 8, 2009 | Comments Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Basics, beginners (16), How To Get More Website Traffic

  It used to be that you could actually get more website traffic by simply throwing a bunch of good keyword search phrases on your pages and in the HTML “tags.” Of course search engines got better, and so the “experts” began to tell us that we just needed high-quality content. “Build it and they will come,” became the operating theory of many.

  Of course, it just wasn’t true. You still needed to optimize the pages. After all, if your page was about ultralight backpacking, how would the search engines know that if you didn’t use the phrase a few times on the page? And if you preferred to call it “fastpacking,” there was never a way for all those searchers of “ultralight backpacking” to find your page – even if it was exactly the content they wanted.

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• The Power and Potential of Social Media Marketing

  Business Blogger 10:43 pm on August 8, 2009 | Comments Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Basics, search engine optimization (13), SEO (22), social bookmarking (4), Social Media Marketing (9), Web Design (14), Web Development (26), web page optimization (11)

  This is a quick post just to point some thoughts on why I think that businesses large, medium and small should start taking Social Media Marketing very seriously.

  If you are one of those hundreds of thousands of companies that are suffering daily to make a simple sale on something that you know has value, is priced right and is something that a customer/consumer can and will use then you need to ask yourself why you haven’t yet taken into consideration the power of social media marketing.

  

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• Google's common sense killed the SEO guru... We were stumped

  Business Blogger 11:31 pm on July 18, 2009 | Comments Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Basics, google (3), search engine optimization (13), search engine ranking (3), SEO (22), SEO gurus

  For the past few years, everyone has been wondering why their Google rankings have collapsed, because as far as they knew they were some of the best at optimizing web pages (and that was often times correct).

  I know for a fact what has happened and why it is so much harder to succeed on Google now days, and I can almost guarantee some of the things that were said at Google. I bet several executives and employees of Google said “How can we make sure that all the web sites appearing in our results are valuable resources?”. Which makes complete sense because without valuable results in their search engines; they lose their stance as the best search engine on the internet. I also bet someone came up with a simple, yet, extremely bright idea and said something like this “Why don’t we just change the algorithm so that it takes true hard work; or true popularity for people to get to the top of our search engine?”, or something of that nature.

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• Website Traffic-Building - Quick and Easy Monitoring

  Business Blogger 5:47 pm on July 12, 2009 | Comments Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Basics, Google Analytics, Traffic Building, website (16)

  Every good traffic-building campaign needs to be monitored at every stage. This is something easily done with Google Analytics. Just sign up, paste the code into your web pages as instructed, and you’re ready to go. Beware–if you’re one of those personalities that monitors the daily fluctuations of the stock market, you may find Analytics just a bit addictive. If you’re a new website owner, get the Analytics program installed immediately. Down the road, you’ll realize the importance of traffic building activities and will be glad you took this initial step.

  

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• Why should we follow web standards?

  Business Blogger 10:14 pm on July 10, 2009 | Comments Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Basics, beginners (16), w3c (2), Web Development (26), web standards

  These days when 70-80% of the business is generated online, it is necessary to have a globally accessible website i.e, it should be accessible across all major browsers, operating systems and other devices like PDA, phone etc.With over 100+ combination of browser/OS, it becomes more necessary than ever to follow web standards while coding the website.

  In this article, we will discuss about the advantages of following web standards.

  

  World Wide Web Consortium

  Web standards: Web standard is a general term for the formal standard and other technical specification, established by the W3C and other standard bodies.

  W3C: The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international industry consortium dedicated to “leading the Web to its full potential”. It’s headed d by Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the Web.

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• Your Local Online Advertising Options

  Business Blogger 10:26 pm on July 9, 2009 | Comments Permalink | Reply
  Tags: advertise, advertising, Basics, marketing (6), media advertising (2), online (5)

  Are you ready to market your local business on the Internet? Well then, the first thing you need to do is spend a lot of money creating a website… not! As a matter of fact, you don’t even need a website to start. So put away that checkbook (for now) and let’s instead take a look at your online advertising options…

  

  Advertise Online | Your Options

  Internet Yellow Pages. Yes, it’s the online version of the tried and true yellow page directory. Simple enough to understand right? For example, check out YellowPages.com, SuperPages.com, and Yellowbook.com. Each of these offers a free listing for your business and you can also pay for a more prominent listing… again, just like the regular yellow pages.

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• Backlinks: 6 Important Strategies to Getting More

  Business Blogger 3:35 pm on July 7, 2009 | Comments Permalink | Reply
  Tags: backlink buliding, backlinks (2), Basics, Social Media Marketing (9), Social Network (6), web page optimization (11)

  Also referred to as IBLs or inbound links, backlinks are a necessary ingredient for high search engine page ranking. If you want your website or blog or article to rise to the top of search engine results pages, you need to have a lot of backlinks. This indicates to the search engines that your site receives a lot of traffic. The more traffic you get, the higher your ranking. You know how they say you need to have money to make money? Well, it’s true about web traffic as well. You need to have web traffic to get more web traffic.So how do you go about getting these all-important backlinks that will help you to increase your ranking?

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• Avoid mistakes of wrong Search Engine Optimization

  Business Blogger 2:50 pm on July 7, 2009 | Comments Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Basics, design (13), SEO (22), Web Development (26), web page optimization (11), website (16)

  If you need to search for any information on the Internet where shall you go for? The easiest answer is the search engines. Obviously most of the Internet users go for the search engines to satisfy their search quarries. And this is the very reason why there is a rush among the webmasters to get the topmost ranking. To be on the first list and on the top most ranking the webmasters eager to do anything. And this gives birth to the search engine optimization. Search engine optimization actually is the study of the working procedure of the search engines and to work accordingly to gain better ranking. And this process various methods are being utilized.

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• Linux or Windows - Which is it?

  Business Blogger 2:23 pm on July 7, 2009 | Comments Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Basics, linux, operating system, Software (8), unix, windows

  Computer users and programmers have become so accustomed to using Windows, even for the changing capabilities and the appearances of the graphical interface of the versions, therefore it has remained Microsoft’s product. Although, Lycoris, Red Hat, Mandrake, Suse, Knoppix, Slackware and Lindows make up some of the different versions of LINUX. These companies release their own versions of the operating systems with minor changes, and yet always with the same bottom line. The simple fact that not one of these companies are close to competing with Windows, for the most part causes the difference in market share.It sometimes seems everyone on the planet is using Windows. Many say Windows is way better than LINUX because of the simple handling of the software or hardware. There are huge differences between the number of users of LINUX and Windows. Many say LINUX is far better because it started as an Open Source software and thus is more flexible than Windows. Then what accounts for the enormous difference in market share between these two operating systems?

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• Why Do I Need a Blog For An Online Store?

  Business Blogger 10:27 pm on July 3, 2009 | Comments Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Basics, beginners (16), Web Development (26)

  The are many different ways in which you can market a business and make it viable. If you have a store that makes certain items available you can market those items to your selected niche. This is usually very costly and can prove to be a nightmare if you don’t know what you are doing. The same apply s for online stores. There is a lot of work that one has to do in order to ensure that he or she can generate enough sales from the internet. If you are selling something that can be downloaded directly off the net you have an even better chance of making sales as you are able to reach and broader audience (worldwide)

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• Repairing Javascript Errors - a Piece of Cake

  Business Blogger 12:21 pm on July 3, 2009 | Comments Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Basics, javascript (4)

  For most PC users around the world, JavaScript is a formidable term. As Brian Kemp, a 28-year-old accountant from New York, says, “I’ve been using a PC for the past 18 years and the Internet for 10 years, and in all this time, I never felt the need to acquaint myself with JavaScript.” That was until his web browsing grew increasingly fraught with JavaScript errors cropping up every now and then. “Once I began reading up on JavaScript basics, I realized that it was not the exclusively technical territory that I had taken it to be,” admits Brian.Essentially, JavaScript is a web development language that is most commonly used on websites.

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• Introduction To Javascript For Newbies

  Business Blogger 11:59 am on July 3, 2009 | Comments Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Basics, beginners (16), javascript (4), Web Development (26)

  Javascript is a client-side programming language whose processing engine is embedded in web browsers like Internet Explorer, Netscape, Firefox, etc. This enables the processing engine to read and interpret web pages that contain the javascript code when browsing.Javascript first made an appearance in 1995, although by that time it was known as Livescript. This name was later changed to javascript.Javascript was invented to add more exciting features to HTML pages. HTML on it’s on is pretty boring and it cannot do much besides display a webpage. Javascript programming, on the other hand, can provide a host of exciting features like perform calculations, allows the user to interact with webpages, perform form validations, manipulate elements on a webpage, provide excellent visual effects, enables dynamic functions and so much more.

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