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Promoting Your Website Successfully

2008-06-20T02:28:00.001-07:00

Anything new in the market needs to be promoted in order to gain familiarity with the masses. Once your website is created, you would definitely like it to be noticed by visitors. This is where website promotion comes into the picture. Though time consuming, website promotion helps in attracting the attention of the audience to your website. It is essential to promote your website by using correct sources. Following are the steps that can lead to successful implementation of your promotion program:

Internet Directories:

It is a good idea to start promoting your website by listing it in the popular internet directories. With major internet directories recognising it, the job becomes easier to attract a significant amount of traffic, thereby increasing your website ranking. Moreover, submitting to the internet directories is effortless. However, you cannot be assured about the acceptance of your website submission. For guidance, it is always helpful to go through the directories to understand the different ways.

Furthermore, getting started with the free Open Directory Project (ODP) can be a very wise decision, providing your website has something unique and good content to offer. It is recommended that you follow the advice offered on ODP for a perfect beginning. Identify the suitable directories and ensure your website listing. Please note that major directories like Yahoo! might charge you for their services.

Search Engines:

As soon as your website gets included in the ODP, start getting to know the search engines - like the basics of their algorithms - in order to promote your site further. By designing your website in a search engine friendly manner and identifying the SEO tactics, your promotion campaign can go a long way. Thereafter, submit your website to the popular search engines and witness huge traffic within no time.

Other Sources:

Other techniques of website promotion include banner ads (though expensive), link reciprocals (to improve link popularity), E-mail signatures, Usenet advertising and writing newsletter articles, which can also help considerably in successful promotion.
With the above information, you are now ready to promote your website successfully!

By : Angela Rogers

How to Get Free Google Pay Per Click Adwords Advertisement?

2008-06-19T03:33:00.001-07:00

Google Pay per click Advertisement is the most effective online advertisement. If you are able to manage Google Adwords campaign effectively then you can make lot of money promoting online products through Adwords. There are different techniques based on individual Pay per click Adwords advertisement experiences.

Online marketers know the effectiveness of Google Adwords Advertisement. Adwords dominate about 85% of total market share. There are different ways to get Google adwords at cheaper rates or for free.

How to get Google Adwords Pay Per Click for FREE?

For this, you should have your own website with hosting which is available for about $6 per month. Plan the type of website you want to have, it may be classified site, blog, article site, etc. Get your domain Name and Hosting depending on the type of online business you want to start. You can start Free classified site with freely available classified scripts, for this you need not want to have the designing knowledge.

Make your site online and place Google adsense ads on it. Increase the page rank of this site by submitting articles about your site with the site name at the bottom. Submit this article to High Page Rank(PR) sites, so that your site PR will also increase.

Now advertise your site with Google Adwords Pay Per Click Advertisement. Don't bid high, your content bid should not be more than $0.02 . Initially keep your daily budget not more than $10. As your page PR is more you will make more or less the same amount from Adsense(Ads which you have placed on your site). Along with Google Adsense you can also place other online affiliate products banners or links. When visitor clicks your affiliate banners and makes purchase from that affiliate site you make money. You are getting free visitors because what ever you are spending on Adwords you are getting that money back from Adsense.

Some of the other tips are mentioned in below given websites, which are very useful to get Google Adwords Pay Per Click advertisement free of cost.

By : John Lam

Telling Goole About Inbound Links to Rank Higher on Google

2008-06-19T03:32:00.001-07:00

The Internet is vast and there are billions of webpages out there all needing to be indexed by major search engines such as Yahoo, Google and MSN. Not all of these pages have yet been indexed. It takes time for search engines to crawl new pages. For instance, Google typically crawls certain websites less once it knows that these sites don't regularly update their content.

Other reasons for pages not being indexed is that the owner of a site didn't properly link certain pages. These 'orphan' pages which are not correctly linked from the rest of the main website may not be indexed by search engines. Another possibility could be that a website or domain is too new and hasn't yet been indexed.

Unfortunately for you, some of these un-indexed webpages could have links pointing to your website. You are losing valuable inbound links because search engines such as Google don't know these webpages exist. One of the key elements in ranking higher on Google is inbound links. The importance of such links cannot be stressed enough.

One way inbound links instead of reciprocal links work the best for Google. Google keeps changing it's algorithm and in it's last update tried to filter out sites with excessive reciprocal links. A reciprocal link is one in which you link to a website and that website links back to you. Google rightly or wrongly believes that reciprocal links may be manipulated to generate more inbound links. Emphasis is placed on one-way links. Sometimes you may arrange a link trade where Website A links to Website B. The owner of website B also owns Website C and uses Website C to link back to Website A. However, this attempt to trick Google may not work.

Most of us who work in or are familiar with the search engine optimization field know that inbound links are the key to ranking high on Google. Especially one-way links. The trick is to get these inbound links. Traditional methods of obtaining one-way links by leaving your website URL in a comment on blogs is dying as blogs increasingly use the "nofollow" tag in their A HREF statement. The "nofollow" tag tells search engines to not follow the link or count the link to another website.

One of the simplest ways to get links is to tell Google about third party sites which already link to you. Many of these webpages which link to your website haven't yet been indexed by Google. These are wasted links as Google doesn't know that they exist. The good news is that you have the ability to let Google know about these links.

1. Start by examining your web logs to check for referrers. Then save this file containing your referrers into a text document. Use a text editor of your choice to filter this referrer file and remove any hits from search engines.

2. Next filter out any referrer webpages which have already been indexed by Google. This second step can be time consuming and a tedious task so it can be skipped if you choose.

3. Use an html editor to make proper URLs from this list of referrers. Make hot-links of all the URLs.

4. Save the document as an html page and place this document on your website or blog. Be sure not to include more than 90 links per page. If you have more thank 90 referrer links then split the links into multiple pages, each page containing no more than 90 links.

5. Place hot links from your website, blog or other websites which you control to the webpage containing this list of referrers. If you've created more than one list of referrers then be sure to link to these additional pages as well. It's a good idea to cross-link your multiple referrer pages.

6. The last step is to wait for Google's bot to come and index your new referrer webpage. Google will follow the hot-links from your webpage to your list of referrer's and index these webpages that have not yet been indexed. You're directly helping your own website by telling Google of important inbound links. You're also helping your referrers by linking their webpage. You will be leaking PR from your webpage. That's why it's important to create new referrer webpage containing a listing of your inbound links.

By : Kyle Ware

How To Index And Maintain Your Pages In The Search Engines

2008-06-19T03:31:00.000-07:00

Who controls the Internet? Don't be surprised if we say it's the major search engine (SE) companies. While it gets more baffling to keep up with their ever-changing algorithms or whatever criteria (as and when they like it) and more convenient to label them as notorious for indexing your web pages only to see them suddenly dropped altogether, there are at least some things you can do to maintain your SE visibility in the long term.

1) Create a sitemap. This sitemap page contains all possible links to sections that make up your site's overall structure. Submit this page and you are submitting the whole site to be spidered, not just the home page.

2) Keep your site flat. As far as spider algorithm goes, it's not easy to register web pages more than 3 levels deep. Pages that are too deep are considered insignificant and submitting them can be detriment to your site's overall ranking status. Focus on building significant sections of your sites, create a sitemap pointing to these sections and let the spiders search for themselves.

3) Submit everywhere except the major SEs. There are hundreds of minor SEs you can submit your site to, but as your site gets more prolific, soon the spiders from Google, Yahoo, MSN, AllTheWeb, Hotbot, AOL, Teoma and Lycos will take notice and see it for themselves. Sites 'naturally' caught by spiders are seen as quality content, will rank highly and less likely to drop.

4) Avoid CGI-generated pages. These type of pages usually contain symbols like a question mark and ampersand to separate parameters. A typical URL would look like: http://www.sitename.com/cgi-bin/pagename.pl?cat=gardens&subcat=japanese

If you observe search results from time to time, most major engines refuse to index these pages. Wherever possible, create non-CGI pages. They give no clues that they are instantly and artificially 'churned' out which is exactly what spiders are looking for to censure. Pages employing dynamic technologies like PHP, XML etc. are just fine.

5) Cultivate your site. As long as you add in fresh content, spiders will take notice and come back just as often. Spiders seem to use a 'trained' schedule to learn that your site always stays up-to-date and come back to take a look. Update less often and the spidering frequency lessens.

6) Linking strategies. More than just one-to-one manual link exchanges, you will find every possible way to submit articles, give testimonials, comment in blogs, participate in forums etc. all for the sake of creating link-backs to your site by leaving your signature behind. To put it bluntly, hijack other people's web space to create backward links. If your pages don't show up, at least your keywords or domain name shown from other sites will.

7) Create a mini-web. Build mini-sites around an overall and similar theme and link them together interdependently. This pattern of incoming links here and there establishes and builds up each site's link popularity, and links from same-subject websites are now ranked higher in the search engines than they do if stand-alone.

By : Nelson Tan

Data Mining or Data Search - What is the Difference and Why Will it Make the Difference in the Future?

2008-06-18T02:37:00.001-07:00

Data mining or Data Search - What is the difference and why will it make the difference in the future?

Data Search or Data mining?
Today all of us do our data search on internet today with an internet search engine like www.google.com or www.yahoo.com or its likes. Anyone knows that it is not rare to get hits by the millions for one search alone. In best cases we get only a couple of 10’s of thousands of hits on our keyword we searched for. How is it possible for us to extract any knowledge from all these hits we encounter from our searches? And how do we qualify the hits we get from these as well? This is were we differentiate between the data search and data mining. Data mining goes beyond the search as it tries to find relationships as well as do investigations into unstructured or untraditional data and transform it to knowledge instead of just another information structure.

Data Mining
Data mining is a huge field of interest for many various groups of people and organizations. There is lots of literature, lectures, software available to assist us in our data mining, despite this there are lots of unsolved applied Computer Science research problems in areas such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), Computer Architecture & Engineering (ARC). Database Management Systems (DBMS), Graphics and Human-Computer Interaction (GHCI), Operating Systems & Networking (OSNT), Programming Systems (PS), Scientific Computing (SCI), Security (SEC) and finally Theory (THY).
Data Mining (DM) or at is also called Knowledge Discovery in Databases (KDD) has increased in focus as our bases of data has become larger and more complex. More and more data are found within text just as you read now. Not all data can be searched in traditional manner, such as photos. Rarely you can find what you need from headers, web content keywords and its like. You have to dig pretty much deeper in order to get what you really look for. So, Knowledge Discovery Database or Data mining is consisting of various elements. It includes data discovery, cleaning, and preparation and Visualization is a key component (and can be very problematic). It often involves a search for patterns, correlations, etc.; and automated and objective classification.
It includes data modeling and testing of the models which again depends a lot on the type of data, the study domain (science, commerce, and so on), the nature of the problem and so forth. In general the Data mining algorithms are computational embodiments of statistics

The Industry
There has developed an industry of keyword experts into the market the later years, these experts claim to give you the best hit rate on your web page by using the right key words on your web sites. This may be true, but is that all that takes to be successful on the web? Or is this that will distinguish you from the rest as an individual or as a company? I am not so sure, and I think this really is an overstated marketing hype, however should not be disregarded, but the focus has to come somewhere else to make you stand out in the personal or business market place.
Apart from the internet industry and their keen interest in keywords, we have to look into the matter of data retrieval and advanced search apart from using the internet search engines. We have to first see what kind of research are done in this area.

Data Mining Research - Background
Do we have the capacity to perform real data mining, and most important of all, do we have any research arenas for this type of activity – data mining? We also need to have an understanding of who are the main contributors to information on the internet and how objective and genuine this information is. This will assist you in transforming the information to knowledge.

Data Mining Research - Commercial Side
Yes, we have several private companies such as Clear Forest, that is doing Commercial ROI of Text-Mining, and we have Entopia, Inc. doing Social Networks Analysis and Mining and Inxight which is one of the leading provider of enterprise software solutions for information discovery from unstructured data. Then we have Array Biopharma which uses Visualization and Data Mining to Decipher Chemical and Biological Data.

Data Mining Research - Academic Side
Several universities around the world are dealing with Data Mining as a specific topic in their curriculum. However, few are really deep into this topic, and therefore lots of the research we see today, is founded by private commercial interests.
There is however one academia that we can see makes use of Data Mining as one of their branches of Computer Science, and that is California Tech in USA. Professor S. G. Djorgovski heads introduction and deepening into this subject and clearly he sees the need for education and research into this subject.

Summary
Do we understand the ramification of our data bases and how much we can retrieve from them, my answer is still no!
We do not understand as individuals nor as companies the value of all data we have and how little knowledge we extract from them in our daily use. I have touched into social networks sites on the web and their sparse use of knowledge extraction through their social network analysis tools, as well as parts of the industry like in pharmacy, patent organizations using knowledge Discovery Database or Data mining in their daily work. However given the fact that internet still is immature and still the users are immature, we struggle with the fact that we do not utilize the power we have at hand. As individuals to empower our intelligence or as said by some in the industry, Intelligence Amplifiers or as organizations or companies, to create the business advantage or create new ideas or to become real innovators within the field of interest. Also as marketing tools, the real Data miners are bound to be the winners.

Afterwords
I have some key reference resource persons for you to explore further, and to go from there. That is if you would like to explore more on this subject. Mind yourself, this is not an extensive reference library, but only intended for the purpose to get you into the subject and to understand how much data mining involves and how many angles there are to this subject.
Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro's KDNuggets
Andy Pryke's "The Data Mine”
ACM's Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery in Databases and their newsletter, "Explorations"
Andrew Moore's statistics and data mining tutorials
The Classification Society of North America (CSNA)
Weka package
David Dowe's mixture modeling
Fionn Murtagh's multivariate data analysis software
StatLib at CMU
StatCodes at PSU

By : Stig Kristoffersen

Sources of Free One Way Links for New Webmasters

2008-06-18T02:36:00.002-07:00

One of the biggest challenges facing new webmasters is acquiring backlinks for their sites.

Many new commercially orientated webmasters will have affiliate pages with zero Google Page Rank. Link exchanges will be hard to acquire as experienced webmasters will be concered about linking to bad domains. And directories often deny links to affiliate pages, especially if they're deeplinks and without Google Page Rank.

This article will therefore outline a few strategies that even new webmasters can use to create backlinks for their sites.

Article Submission

Affiliate programs often provide marketing articles for their affiliates to use. While posting these straight onto article directories is often forbidden (and bad, as it can incur duplicate content penalties), they can easily be rewritten into original pieces. If not, a dedicated webmaster should be able to write an article about almost anything after a bit of research. Once posted, other webmasters will often take these articles and place them on their own sites. Good articles can therefore be propagated over hundreds of sites. One article that I wrote last month was listed on 50 sites within a week, and I only submitted it to 5 directories.

User Profiles

User profiles on sites such as Yahoo and internet forums often contain dofollow links. So make sure that you fill in all the details.

Forum Signatures

While forums alway frown on new members posting links and spamming them, many allow users to post links in their signatures. Joining in with discussions can therefore create a few links.

Flickr

dofollow links can be placed in the text descriptions that go with each photo. This can be an excellent strategy if you have photos related to your website or pages.

Social Bookmarking

Some social bookmarking sites, such as Digg, use dofollow links. Note, however, that many do not like to be spammed. So do not abuse these sites or your account could be closed.

Site Information Pages

Sites such as whois.sc provide reports on any website. If these pages are accessed via dynamic URL's, then the user can help the search engine spiders to index these pages by pointing external links at them. I often do this via social bookmarking or blogs.

Create a Blog

Write a blog and post about anything that goes through your mind. I often just write a dream diary. Use your blog to link back to your website.

By : Jon C

Niche Marketing Equals Big Success

2008-06-18T02:36:00.001-07:00

The word "niche" comes from a French word that means to nest. Niche marketing is targeting a product or service to a small portion of a market that is not being readily served by the mainstream product or service marketers. Nearly every business fast food chains, convenience stores, even Wal-Mart was begun to fill perceived voids in the market place. However, niche marketing usually refers to small or moderate size businesses or farms that produce a specialty product or service for a limited segment of the market.

Market niches can be geographic areas, a specialty industry, ethnic or age groups, or any other particular group of people. Sometimes a niche product can be a variation of a common product that is not produced and marketed by the main marketing firms.

Niche markets may be ignored or discounted by large businesses due to what they consider to be small potential; this in turn is part of the process that makes the niche market available to smaller businesses. The key to capitalizing on a niche market is to find or develop a market niche that has customers who are accessible, that is growing fast enough, and that is not owned by one established vendor already.

Niche marketers are often reliant on the loyalty business model to maintain a profitable volume of sales. The term "niche" was first used by ecologists to describe a species' position and use of resources within its environment. When used in business the term implies a situation or an activity perfectly suited to a person or a given type of personality.

The answer for most agents is a target of 500-1,000 homes. Focusing on a niche market enables you to reach the consumers with the frequency and quality to generate the awareness required to win business. That is the power of focus. Because an agent runs a very small business in comparison to the entire real estate market, it is critical to identify a niche and serve it properly. First, there are plenty of niche markets to choose from. There are literally thousands of underserved niche markets within real estate and more developing every day.

Focusing on a niche market enables you to reach the consumers with the frequency and quality to generate the awareness required to win business. Because an agent runs a very small business in comparison to the entire real estate market, it is critical to identify a niche and serve it properly.

The alternative, attempting to market yourself to an entire geographic region, for example, is the fastest way to waste money in real estate. There are literally thousands of underserved niche markets within real estate and more developing every day. A market is underserved if its needs are not being sufficiently catered to by the currently available service providers.

Another man makes a million dollars a year selling educational material to the carpet cleaning niche market. Yet another sells reports to small businesses to the tune of $25,000 a month. Take a look around the Internet niche markets are thriving. Practically every product or service sold on the Internet is part of it's own unique niche market a specific field or area of interest. Plenty niche marketers do just that. For example, one man makes an easy six figure income from his website teaching self esteem to children through Karate.

Directories are also broken up into categories for you but there are also niche directories that focus even more on a specific niche. You can usually find niche directories by searching Google or any search engine you like for a specific keyword about your business. Some examples include: MySpace, Facebook and You Tube. Many social media sites are already broken up into niche markets.

Once you've established where you niche community is you can begin to target their needs. All three of the above alternatives to finding your niche markets have to do with getting involved.

To maintain a profitable volume of sales, niche marketers are reliant on the loyalty of customers. To increase the customer loyalty it is important to focus on the quality of the product or service provided, this will generate customer satisfaction, trust in the product or service, and consequently sales. Type in your niche market term describing your product and you will see how many searches for this term and other related terms were done in the past month.

The number of searches per month will depend on the niche market, but in general look for terms that are not higher than 20,000 a month. As a thumb rule, you should look for terms that have less than 1,000,000 searches per month for Google, 400,000 for Yahoo and 250,000 for MSN. Based on the balance between demand and supply you could reduce the number of terms and narrow down your market niche.

Examples are custom welding and hoof trimming. So, one way to recognize the potential for a niche market is to think about those goods and services you need. Many people have hobbies they enjoy, or develop special skills. Sometimes these hobbies and special skills can evolve into a niche market. It is obvious from the table that niche marketing is everywhere. Sometimes the niche served is so narrow that the product is aimed at one small group within a market.

Creating Niche web sites is currently the hottest topic on the Net today. Affiliate Marketers would do well to pay attention to this trend, this present day success system. This Niche Marketing Information Center, is rich with information and is here for you. Niche Marketing is in, as well as Affiliate Programs for Niche Markets. Internet Marketing is so competitve and saturated with thousands, even hundreds of thousands, all trying to sell information products about how to sell information products and be profitable online. Where does it end?

Research and choose your keywords carefully so you can acquire the best domain name for your site. Niche marketing most often includes maximizing the way search engines work to make sure that your web site gets listed on the first page of the SERP's from your chosen keywords.

By : Todd Ash

Choosing an SEO Consultant, the Right Keywords, Finding Keywords

2008-06-17T04:43:00.003-07:00

A good SEO consultant will not only know the tricks of the trade but also how to use them best. An SEO consultant is as much an artist as the web designer. Whereas the web designer knows all of the tricks of the trade in creating a masterpiece of the internet the SEO consultant is the promoter that makes sure people travel to see it.

When choosing an SEO consultant make sure to find one that is willing to not only work with your website designer, or you if you are doing your own website, but also understands your needs. The most important factor is to make sure that your SEO consultant can work together with your website designer as to not impede their efforts. Do what you did when you chose your web designer. Tell the SEO consultant what you need. Give them a time frame on when you need their services to work. Let them know what your future goals are and find out what they can do for you.Internet marketing and search engine optimization hinge on knowing what keyword or keywords web search surfers are searching for on the web. By doing extensive keyword analysis you can zero in on the best keyword terms to use when setting up pay per click advertising, writing keyword articles, and optimizing web pages.

There are a number of effective tools available for keyword analysis and keyword suggestion.Yahoo Search MarketingYahoo has an excellent tool for helping webmasters and Internet marketers determine what keywords people are searching for on a monthly basis. This tool, located at http://searchmarketing.yahoo.com/srch/index.phpWordtracker One of the more popular tools for doing keyword research is Wordtracker.WordTracker can be found at http://www.wordtracker.com Simply looking for a great rating among the search results of major search engines like Google, Yahoo or MSN? In any case, you must indulge in finding keywords. Yes, by finding keywords, that are apt and according to your niche market, you will certainly be able to improvise on your search engine ranking. The purpose of searching keywords is to find out the exact phrases that are requested by people in the searches carried in the major search engines. If your website has the relevant information about the most searched terms and keywords, your website would be rated higher by the major search engines. The entire process of improving search engine ranking for a website is a wide process and is called search engine optimization. . Finding keywords is one of the most important parts of search engine optimization.

To start the keyword search for your website, make a list of the keywords related to your website. You can easily find the keywords by using online keyword services. One popular keyword service provider on the web is word tracker. Using word tracker tools and services, all you have to do is to type a keyword and wait for the list to appear on the computer screen. And you will you have a direct access to hundreds of keywords related to the keyword you have typed in the box. software development company India

By : Mehul Vyas

Name Your Business Not to Dos

2008-06-17T04:43:00.001-07:00

If your business is a work at home online Internet business, or staffs several hundred in a downtown skyscraper offline, you are going to be able to increase your low cost effective marketing, promotion and company image online to succeed.

To not use online promotion and exposure, in this day and age, is almost a guarantee that your business will lose sales and important recognition and emotional credits from your customers for not having a hand on the pulse of your target market for profits.

You definitely need to come up with a good keyword type business name and a good keyword type domain name so people will know exactly what you do when they are searching in any source for your business. This is an online as well as an offline necessity.

If you show people how to work at and profit from online auctions you would not have much success with, Kathy loves flowers, as your business name, right? Something to the effect of, Online Auction Trainer School would tell people what you do when they seek help to learn about online auctions.

Take the ego out of your online and offline business names. Owner ego sells nothing. Please learn this important point first. No one wants your ego. Everyone wants your useful services. This is a mountain of difference in profit or loss.

Here are some things to avoid in naming your work at home online business prior to setting up your Internet or offline site. Please learn them well.

One of the first mistakes many new work at home online business owners, and unbelievably, experienced owners and business advisers make is to ask for too much input on Internet site and business name, from way too many people. They tend to ask family and friends what their new business name should be and what domain name it should have. The problem with this is that not all will really understand the business idea, needs or jargon involved in that business.

Friends, family and many business advisers do not know squat about naming a business, per above. Ask them how many businesses they have named that succeeded that they named and you will understand exactly what I mean real fast.

The second reason to avoid this egregious consultative process is that you can only choose one name. This means that the more people you ask the more people you are going to disappoint and even insult even though they do not know what they are doing anyway.

It is far better to begin the online and other aspects of your work at home Internet business by asking the opinion and business help of those few people who have been chosen to have an important management part of your venture. You might pull these folks together and have a brainstorming session where you all feed off the ideas of each other.

That way, when the end results in a name, each will feel like they have been a part of giving you that idea. They need to know that the name must tell what the business is quickly and as much as possible in very few words.

Another entrepreneurial business naming error is to attach an adjective together with a noun to come up with one word former with a middle of the word capital letter. Getting too complicated here. If, for example, your work at home Internet or offline business were to offer online sale of luggage at discount prices you think it correct to call it something like EconoPack. This is bad for two reasons.

No one can look at that name and know what it is you offer. Is it like a UPS store that offers shipping services? Luggage for Less would be a much clearer name. Do you see the very important difference to customers and leads?

If you think of the recent work at home Internet and offline business start ups that have grown online to become household names, you will see that they all took zingy, snappy, lively names that differentiated themselves from others and were not likely to be copied. They did not take hard to understand names that could be forgotten or worse yet, confused with other companies.

Yahoo is one example that you might be looking for. It could have been World Wide Search Engine instead. This probably would have been better for the first name identification done! Google is another. This name is appropriate. Monster is a great example of a name that is not only memorable but suggestive of high volume, strength, durability and vast reach. Monster could have been Online Job Resource. What a blah name that would have been. Customers would of found it easier to find though when they are looking for a job. See the difference? All these started out as work at home Internet business projects by unknown entrepreneurs. Their choice of business and Web site names played a large part in their ability to brand themselves and thus to succeed. Some would of started and grown faster with more appropriate names though.

By : James Lowe

How to Pick a Good and Reliable Web Host

2008-06-17T04:42:00.000-07:00

You don't need a Web host to develop and design a site. You can do it all from your personal computer. However, if you want to publish your site for the world to see, you need some Web server space. Fortunately, server space is abundant and inexpensive. This topic helps you sort through your options.

A Web host owns (or rents) the computer that serves the files of your Web site to your visitors, usually in exchange for a monthly fee. You don't have to cancel your current Internet account to hire a Web host. In fact, many Web hosts don't offer Internet service provider (ISP) service.

Those that do need to be local, or it isn't worth it for you. The great thing about your neighborhood ISP is that it's in your neighborhood, and it gives you a local dial-up number. You don't want to have to dial in to Albuquerque whenever you want to browse the Web (unless, of course, you live in Albuquerque).

There's a good chance you already have a Web host, even if you don't know it. Many standard Internet accounts come with a healthy amount of server space for personal Web pages. So, the first step in choosing a Web host is to contact your ISP. Find out how much server space comes with your account. If the answer is none, you might want to inform your customer service representative that many of their direct competitors offer this benefit to their subscribers for a lot less than you're currently paying.

I want to use my Web site for commercial purposes. Can I host my site on the personal Web space that comes with my Internet service?

Why would you want to? For one thing, your ISP usually assigns you a generic Web address, which doesn't make your business look very professional. For another, you don't need the typical lags in response time that you find on the servers of large ISPs. Plus, commercial sites are probably against your ISP's terms of service, and you don't need the hassle of them closing down your site along with your personal email account and Internet connection.

If you'd prefer not to use your personal server space for your site, just go to your favorite search engine, and look up Web hosting to begin your research. Don't be surprised if your results number in the millions.

There are many, many, many Web hosts out there. You can't possibly research them all. You need to narrow your optionsand fast. A good way to start is with the names that you recognize: Yahoo!, Earthlink, Netfirms, perhaps also your phone or cable company. If they don't have what you need or want, work your way down the list.

Every Web site is different, of course, and only you can make the choice about the right Web host for your particular site. That said, in general, here are a few qualities of good Web hosts:

1) Reasonable monthly charge. Shop around, and see what the competitors are offering. Expect to pay between $10 and $25 a month for a typical personal or small business site. Pay less, and your Web host probably makes up the difference by giving you terrible customer support or tacking advertisements onto your site. Pay more, and you're probably buying services and features that you don't need.

2) Domain name registration (preferably free). Many of the better Web hosts offer to register your Web site's domain name for you. Some even front you the yearly $35 registration service charge. Keep an eye out for these hosts. They're worth it, even if they tack on a setup charge (as long as it's less than $35).

3) Reasonable (or no) setup charge. Some Web hosts tack on a special, one-time service charge to set up your account. Others do not. Many perfectly reputable and reliable Web hosts charge setup fees. Many do not. Those that don't charge setup fees often make up their money elsewhere, so read the fine print. If you go for a fee-charging service, don't pay more than $35, or you're probably being soaked. And if you can catch a fee-charging Web host during one of its "fee waived" promotional periods, do it.

4) Upgrade plans. Your site is successful. It grows. You want your Web host to grow with you. Ideally, your host should offer several levels of service at reasonable price points. Start with the cheapest plan and work your way up.

5) Reliable customer service (preferably by phone). You need customer service. Period. And don't fall for the usual 24/7 customer-service sales pitch. Any fool with an email account can advertise 24/7 customer service. But is the fool actually reading the emailah, that's the rub. You want a toll-free phone number for customer support. If you don't have 24/7 access to a live human being by telephone, then you don't have 24/7 customer support. It's far better to go with a Web host who offers toll-free phone support during normal business hours than a host who offers 24/7 support by email.

6) Server space. Exactly how much server space do you need? You can figure this out pretty easily. Find out the combined file size of your Web site by examining the properties of its local root folder. If your site is 5 MB, then you need at least 5 MB of server space. Generally, you don't need huge amounts of server space, unless your site includes lots of heavy multimedia files, such as MP3s.

7) Bandwidth limits. Your Web host measures bandwidth, or the amount of data its computers push to the visitors of your site over a period of time. Typically, you get a monthly limit, and, if you exceed your cap, your host charges you extra. A good data-transfer baseline for a typical personal or small-business Web site is 1 GB. Roughly speaking, one gigabyte of data transfer equals 20,000 page viewsthat's one person viewing one page of your site 20,000 times, or 5,000 people viewing one page of your site four times, or 20,000 people viewing one page of your site one time. It's hard to know exactly how much bandwidth you need, so start low. If you exceed your limit regularly, consider upgrading your plan. Keep in mind: If you offer a total of 1 GB of MP3s on your site, you can exceed 1 GB of bandwidth very quickly.

8) POP3 email accounts. You may or may not want extra email accounts for your site. But if you want them, go for a Web host that provides them. Generally, you want POP3 email instead of Web-based email. POP3 email works with client software such as Microsoft Outlook and Eudora, which let you jump on the Internet quickly, download your mail, and answer it offline. Web-based email requires you to be online to write and receive messages. Many Web hosts count the amount of email that you send and receive over their servers as part of your overall transfer limit, so be sure to take this factor into account.

9) Streaming audio/video and other media. If you want to host streaming audio or video files on your site, or even if you want to display Flash animations and other common media types, your Web host needs to be set up to do this. You don't need special service to host Web images such as JPEG, GIF, and PNG.

10) FrontPage extensions. Heaven forbid, but if your Web site uses the stupid special effects that come with Microsoft FrontPage, you should find a Web host that doesn't offer FrontPage extensions. This way, the dumb things won't work, and the quality of your site will improve dramatically.

11) CGI, server-side scripting, and database access. If your site uses server-side technology to connect to a database, you need a Web host who is set up to do this. You don't have to worry about this level of service if your site sticks to the client side: HTML, JavaScript, and CSS. All the projects in this book are client-side only.

12) Site reports. You want a host that gives you access to the data that the Web server collects about the visitors to your site. You want to see where they're from, what browsers they're using, what pages they visit most often, and which sections of the site they seem to be missing. You don't want this information for evil purposes. You want it to help you improve your site. Definitely check into what kind of site reporting tools the host offers.

One feature that you definitely don't need is a shopping cart application, "free" or otherwise. Shopping carts that come with Web hosting plans are generic, overpriced, feature-poor, difficult to customize, and next to impossible to integrate into your site.

If you're serious about launching a Web-based retail storefront, you need to hire a programming team to develop a shopping cart application for you.

By : Adrien Brody

SEO and Ranking Secrets

2008-06-16T02:50:00.001-07:00

The magical e-book that have shown complete success in teaching thousands a successful SEO tactics that either brought their sites to first position in google or made them a career in SEO.

The Magical e-book with its website http://www.GoogleTopTenOptimization.com and its software Fast-Indexer was sold to Biz Tuner LLC.

That is an awesome price for a 5 page website, but actually the price was not for the domain nor for the website, but for its tutorial that shows 100% success in SEO process, with its 24 pages.

As will as its software Fast-indexer, that is used by millions to get google crawl and index their sites.

Biz Tuner LLC, shifting their current business to online marketing, they plans to dominate the online marketing. And buying www.GoogleTopTenOptimization.com was their first step in this field.

Biz Tuner LLC, next plans to www.GoogleTopTenOptimization.com tutorial is to convert the successful PDF tutorial to a video clips. And rate it from $49 to $499.

The success that this small e-book shows will really deserve the new price tag.

Well based on the report we gathered, we believe it does!.

The good news that the tutorial cost till this moment is still $49 and the use of their googe fetcher software Fast-indexer still at its old price tag that is $5. This is till the time of publishing this article.

Biz Tuner LLC, will also increase the use of their successful software Fast-indexer http://www.googletoptenoptimization.com/seo_software_tools.htm from $5 to $49. and change the limitation from one page per domain to all pages in a domain.

Eric John

CKN

By : Eric John

How To Brand Yourself In Your Network Marketing Business

2008-06-16T02:49:00.001-07:00

Network marketing is a type of business which anyone can take part in. Qualifications and skills are not required to sign up in this type of opportunity. There are probably two types of people who get involved in such an opportunity:

The Sales Representative Or Distributor Or Associate Or Executive

When you look at these words, they describe someone who is an employee of a company. It appears that network marketing companies regard their distributors as employees.

The Independent Business Owner

An independent business owner is what the term suggests, a person who runs his or her own business and who is expert at helping customers solve their problems with what he or she has to offer.

You have to decide which one you want to be. Do you want to be looked upon as an expert who people go to for help or do you want to be regarded as a sales representative representing a company.

Ideally, you will want to be looked upon as an independent business owner. If you choose to be an independent business owner, prospects will be attracted to you and your business. In order to do this, you will need to brand yourself as an expert in your field. There are simple things which you can to to achieve this:

-try and get an email address which has connations with your target market. If you are trying to attract people to your products, for example health and wellness, you should have "health wellness" or "stay healthy" or "weight loss specialist" as part of your email address. If you are trying to attract business builders i.e. other network marketers, you might have "network-marketingguide" as part of your email address.The email address must always address your target markets. Avoid using such email addresses as Yahoo and Hotmail and AOL. You should strive to have a professional edge to your business and having professional email addresses is one way of achieving this.

-try to obtain your own website and research a domain name which has something to do with your target market. If you do not know how to construct a website, you can use free blogging services such as Squidoo and Hubpages by creating free accounts at these sites. If you decide to use these free blogging services you will not have to purchase any domain names.

If you follow these simple guidelines, you will take the first step in branding yourself and this will help you be the independent business owner in your industry and company.

By : ERIK GIFFORD

A Road Map to the World Wide Web: Web Site Planning and Preparation

2008-06-16T02:48:00.000-07:00

The World Wide Web, also referred to as the Internet, offers businesses yet another media through which to educate, promote or sell their product or service, giving businesses and consumers instant access to one another 24/7. Can you believe it was once projected that the Internet would peak in the early 2000s? Today, statistics show that nearly one million new web sites are launched in the U.S. every year.

Having a web address and online presence has become as common place, and expected, as having a logo and business card. Business-to-business and business-to-consumer marketing places a great demand as well as dependence on having a domain name (web address), company email address and web site. Why? They instill consumer confidence just like a physical office or store front, mailing address, phone number and business card.

It is a mistake for any business to overlook the value and importance the Internet plays in business success, not just globally but regionally too. Free web email addresses are acceptable for personal use but using them for business undermines credibility. Many businesses can exist and be successful without a web site however few can operate without email access. It is highly advisable that all businesses purchase a domain name and set up and use a company email address. Free web mail providers such as Yahoo.com make it easy and affordable to set up an online business identity without the cost of hosting, developing a web site or buying an email program.

At some point your business will be ready to enter the World Wide Web. When it is, be aware and prepared that your web site, if used to generate traffic and sales, is like running another business. Planning and preparation are both critical in setting up your web site, maintaining it and marketing your business online. Do your homework or you will be sorry. Research web hosting providers, packages and web design firms, know the fair market rate in your area and for the type of web site you desire. If possible consult with a marketing professional to determine your goals for the web site before your purchase hosting or web design services. Acquire a basic understanding of internet marketing before your web site is designed. Both design and content are critical to your online marketing, especially in Search Engine Optimization.

If your web site is going to be heavily content managed consider purchasing a web site building software or select a hosting provider and plan that includes a free web site builder. Note, this advice is not for everyone. There is a huge learning curve and time commitment to do it yourself, many free web site builders will not allow full customization of the template or graphics, and you will need to learn how to use web administration tools. This is not a feasible option for everyone.

If you select a web design firm or freelance web designer for your web site get everything in writing, all components and details of the design services, hosting and domain name registration as well as time frame to complete the project. It is the consumer's responsibility to know and understand what services are provided by the web designer and what items you are expected to provide, such as content and graphics. Be aware that not all web designers are graphic designers, and vice versa. Do not expect the web designer to educate you on marketing your web site, including keywords and search engine optimization. These services may, however, be available through the web designer at additional cost.

Once published, your web site becomes a living, breathing entity that you will need to take care of: market, update or refresh, and maintain. If used correctly, your web site will continue to evolve as an integral part of your business, if not your sole business.

© 2006 Gabrielle Melisende. All rights reserved worldwide. Reprint rights: You may reprint this article as long as you leave all of the links active, do not edit the article in any way, give author credit and follow all of the publisher guidelines for Articlesbase.com.

By : Gabrielle Melisende

SEO Doesn't Have to Cost a Fortune

2008-06-14T20:25:00.002-07:00

Effective SEO Comes Cheap

Search engine optimization or SEO is the hottest way, fastest and only way to drive targeted traffic to your website. Maximizing the benefits of a well optimized website will yield lots of earnings for the marketer. However, optimizing your site might cost you thousands of dollars if you are not skilled in this area. This is not to say that spending a fortune on SEO implementation or hiring a professional is a waste, but because of budget or financial limitations, you might want to consider cheaper alternatives. Sometimes, the best things out there are free.

But to tell you the truth, you can essentially get information on low cost SEO anywhere in the Internet. But only several really show you how to work out an affordable search engine optimization endeavor. And those few that really inform include this article.

1. Link exchanges

One cheap SEO method that can get you best results is through link exchanges or linking to and from other web sites. Depending on the websites that you would like to exchange links with, this tool could even cost you nothing at all. Contact the author or owner of the web site you want to have a link exchange with. You will be surprised with the eventual spiking up of your page ranking using this means of getting your website optimized. Exchanging links with sites which have the same kind of keywords will improve your ranking tremendously. Be careful not to add too many outgoing links on a single page especially from crummy and spammy sites, because Google will rank that page poorly.

2. Write or acquire key word rich articles

Writing truly informative and keyword-rich articles is one surefire way to make your Internet business more visible than ever. It's either you write your own articles or you get them from article directories that allow you to post these articles on your website as long as you keep the resource box or the author's byline in tact. Just don't stuff your articles with keywords that even idiots would get bore of reading them. The readability and freshness of your articles will still be the basis of whether your writers will keep on coming back to your website or not.

3. Catchy Domain Name

What better will make your target visitors remember your website but with a very easy-to-recall domain name. Something sweet and short will prove to be very invaluable. Registering your domain name is not for free. But creativity is. Another note, is to avoid using hyphenation or numbers for long domain names that seems like a keyphrase, e.g, www.how-2-start-online-business.com keep it short, but catchy.

4. Organize your site navigation

Providing easy steps in navigating your site is one way to make your visitors become at ease with your site. This, in turn, will improve the flow of traffic to your website. Using a php include function to recall the same navigation bar for every page would be helpful.

Low cost SEO is always evolving like any other approach in information technology. There are many methods that can very well land you on the top ten rankings of Google or on any other search engines. Some may cost a lot but there are methods that can give you the same results at a low price or you can even do on your own such as those

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By : Devan Kumar

Top 10 : Web Hosting Service Providers

2008-06-14T20:25:00.001-07:00

1.Hostmonster

2.BlueHost

3.LunarPages

4.Yahoo Web Hosting

5.GoDaddy

6.IX WebHosting

7.StartLogic

8.PowWeb

9.Dot5Hosting

10.HostGator

Note - These Ratings are determined on

1.How many people use this services and how happy they are with it.

2.The Rates and Services included

3.Server up time and Maintenance Problems

4.Reviews from websites such as top10webhosting.com, web-hosting-top.com, webhostinggeeks.com, top-10-web-hosting.com

5.The past Records of the service providers counts too

6.Free services like free domain name schemes to just sell the hosting are NOT counted

We have selected / reviewed 10 best web hosting companies from some of the world top webhosting companies. All the hosting services we reviewed are reliable web hosting company supporting Apache, Python, PHP 4 or 5, MySQL 4, Microsoft FrontPage extension and email (including webmail). Most runs on Linux and Windows.

Web Hosting services is a very competitive industry, some hosts are giving very cheap web hosting rate (as low as $4.95! ), including reduced first year fee, free months, discount coupon, free fist year, rebate and etc. You can easily find a very cheap hosting from $4~$10 per month.

Listing are the best web hosting services support PHP, MySQL, Python, FrontPage web hosting and almost all of it are linux web hosting. Web hosting companies has been selected based on popularity, performance, feature, support quality and price. Higher rating hosting are usually has better feature over price ratio. All hosting plan below can host any domain name including .com, .org, .net, .co.uk, .co.jp, .tv, .ws , .com.au, .com.sg, .it and etc. and etc.

More on Top 10 Ratings of everything at Top 10 Ratings

By : Vikram Grewal

The Benefits Of Web Reviews

2008-06-14T20:24:00.000-07:00

Typically,a website is published with the purpose of being able to attract the visitors, who will read and assessed and hopefully make an impact big enough to give the visitor a reason the revisit the site or even add it to his list of favorites.

An ideal site is split into carefully crafted categories that can be navigated easily using the options provided within.

Having one's site reviewed and optimized with unique keywords, is a good way to get its homepage noticed and at the same time gather extra back links helps. Also including a thumbnail of the site in the review which is also linked to your site is an added advantage.

One should avoid getting his site reviewed from service providers which use software that collects data and publishes it. Rather, one should get the site reviewed from expert web publishers manually.

For publishing a good workable web site, one has to consider many factors,like a theme relevant and easy to memorize Domain Name. The design of the web site easy to navigate and be rich unique content. Above all, one should go in for reviews of all such services and chose the ones which are better and at the same time are cheaper. Plans that minimize your costs over a period of time are the best.

Domain Names with popular extensions (.com, .net, .biz, etc.) should be reserved to make it exclusive to your website, so that the surfers have a better choice to link to your site through multiple links. Feature-rich Advanced hosting service should be selected to host the site. One must study the terminology you might encounter when comparing hosts, Requirement of the space must be assessed so that it can handle sufficient data and the traffic. Type of Hosting (NT or Linux), server programming language (Perl,Java, PHP...) support system, uptime, backups etc.

An easy and attractive design gets listed on the search engines easily. Web Designer should not complicate the design so much that the Home Page takes years to open. Design must reflect the taste of your purpose.

Then comes the time of popularizing the website so as to attract the maximum traffic to the site. For this purpose, the website can be submitted to the Search Engine such as Google, Yahoo, Alta Vista etc. These search engine has their own process to index a website. Other ways are to submit the site through Search Engine Optimization (SEO) through free, reciprocal and paid submissions. One can opt for the sponsored listing of the Search Engines, which take prominence in SERPs

Most search engines usually display three types of results of its search listings on their SERPs (Search Engine Results Page/s) in response to a keyword query. Listings that have been indexed by the search engine's spider, listings that have been indexed into the search engine's directory manually, and the paid listings.

The results normally include the number of links listed, time taken to search those links, a list of web pages with headers, a link to the page, and a short description showing where the keywords have matched content within the page.

By : Mark Tarant

Professional Email Addresses

2008-06-13T22:14:00.003-07:00

It replicates your personality and interests and, to a great extent, your business. Several free email providers like Yahoo, Hotmail and AOL provide an easy approach to establishing a simple looking email address. But what counts is the professional look that it should generate. With these free email providers, your email address does not convey professionalism - which is a basic business enhancement ingredient.

Consider these two email addresses - john.home@aol.com and support@yourcompanyname.com. The former gives a general look which millions of people adopt, while the latter provides a professional business look with your company’s name affixed to it. Moreover, the latter allows the customers and the potential clients to get an idea about the professional services that you offer.

Structuring an email address:

a professional email address is easy. The chief advantage is that you can register a good domain name and begin using your professional looking email services, even without running your website. Furthermore, it involves extremely easy steps which are easy to track.

You can start using this unique email facility and launch a new domain for as little as £30 per year (i.e. a mere £2.50 per month). Generally, every hosting company has some sort of minimal package, designed entirely for this purpose. And the good thing about it is that the prices have drastically reduced due to the ever-increasing cut-throat competition between the hosting companies.

Subsequently, it might take some time (about 24-28 hrs Do you mean 24-48 Richard?) for the domain to function accurately, with an email from the new hosting company. This email provides the login details to manage your hosting.

Getting started:

As soon as you obtain the details, create a new email via Cpanel, Vdeck, Plesk, or any other user-face that performs the features offered by your host. In case of any difficulty, you can ask your new host to provide assistance.
Eventually, you will be equipped with an email account name and a password. Your email account name will appear like this - something@yourdomain.com, with a password of your choice. It is to be noted that the password should be secure and, if possible, changed frequently to avoid problems.

Ready for action:

Your professional email address is ready to play its role. In order to start using it, you simply need to set up your email client like Outlook, Thunderbird, or any other trusted program.

Now you possess the power to command the market, with your professional looking email address.

By : Angela Rogers

Getting Your Site Indexed Before You Launch

2008-06-13T22:14:00.001-07:00

I've noticed that most SEO articles focus on what to do after you launch your site. Those that do deal with preparing your site for launch usually discuss on-site SEO like keyword research and meta tags. What tends to be neglected is the advantage that you can gain by getting your site indexed before you launch. With a little planning and a few hours of work it's easy to be indexed by Google, Yahoo, and MSN before your site goes live.

The key to getting your site indexed in the big three is getting links pointing to it from sites that are already indexed. When the search bots crawl those sites they will inevitably find the link to your site and your site will be added to their index. Follow these five steps a month before you launch and you'll be a step ahead of the game.

1. Register your domain name. You'd be surprised how many people wait until the last minute to do this. The sooner you register your domain, the sooner you can get some quality links pointing to it and get it indexed.

2. Put up a home page. Make a "coming soon" page with your logo, information about your site, and expected launch date. You can also add a form for people to sign up for email updates about your site. This starts building your email marketing list before you even launch.

3. Start a blog and sign up for Feedburner. Put up a blog at www.yoursite.com/blog. It doesn't matter if you use WordPress, Blogger, or whatever blog platform you prefer, just make sure you host it on your site. Make a few posts about your site, what people can expect when it launches, and why your site will be unique. After your first post, sign up for a Feedburner account at http://www.feedburner.com/. Under 'Publicize' in your account make sure to sign up for 'Ping Shot'. This will notify blogging directories of your posts which hopefully will result in a few links to your site.

4. Write a few articles and submit to directories. Regardless of what your site is about, there is certainly a topic relating to your site that you could write an article about. For example, if your site is going to sell fitness equipment, you could write an article about how to build a home-gym. Or if you are going to rate and review new cars, you could write an article about how to shop for a new car. After you've written and proofread your articles, submit them to article directories like Ezine Articles (http://www.ezinearticles.com/) and iSnare (http://www.isnare.com/). Be sure to include a description of your new site and a link back to it in the resource box. Again, this should result in a few links to your site.

5. Get a link from an indexed site. Steps 3 and 4 should result in some links from indexed sites which should then ensure your site to be indexed. But it can't hurt to get a few more on your own to be certain. When I launched my last site, I linked to it from my personal blog, which I knew was indexed. If you don't have that option, you can ask someone with a blog or site related to yours to mention it. If you can't find anyone willing to do it for free, you could offer them some free advertising on your site when you launch in exchange for the link.

Getting yourself indexed before you launch gives you a head start on your SEO and will allow your site to have a more immediate impact. Why wait until you launch? Get started a month early and you'll reap the benefits when launch day rolls around.

By : Adam Mcfarland

Benefits Of Webmaster Toolkit And Resources

2008-06-13T22:13:00.001-07:00

WebmasterGrade.com - a website offering a comprehensive set of webmaster tools and techniques to manage the contents of your website effectively. There are different tools available for SEO, domain searching and HTML in addition to multiple web utilities.

Webmaster resources provides complete solution for making your website worthy of display. A lot of webmaster tools and tips are available for improving the quality of your website. All these webmaster resources are available free of cost.

Search Engine Optimization or SEO is an essential element in website marketing. All those who want to be seen in the world of successful internet marketing should not overlook the roles of SEO. The website provides many SEO techniques like keyword quality analyzer and search position detector. These facilities analyze the quality of your search keyword, and if found unsatisfactory, suggest you new keywords after researching the contents of your website and comparing it with other similar ones.

The website has helpful tool to show the number of inbounds links that are indexed by Top 3 Search Engines - Google, Yahoo & MSN. Log on to the website and type your website URL in the given space and press the option ‘grade'. You will get a detailed report on the ranking and links associated with your website. You see Alexa Ranking of your website and the number of inbound links that your site has got from other websites. And of course, there is a star which spells out your grade, prompting you for further modifications for your website, if necessary.

This site is essential for new webmasters as the tools provided here rectify their common mistakes. These tools help resolve poor keyword analysis, identical meta-data, repetition and stuffing of keywords and wrong choice of URL Anchor Text.

The Domain tools like Domain Name Checker helps you to find the domain you are looking for or can even check the details of any existing one. There are many other powerful web utilities offered by the site. IP Address Locator is one of them. You can locate any computer around the world if you know the IP address. Another utility, Cron Generator allows you to schedule a program, which you wish to be repeated at a certain interval of time. In addition, there are certain tools available in this site, which enable you to protect the files online with passwords. Besides, many other attractive webmaster techniques are there to make your website user friendly and complete.

Various techniques are used by the webmasters to develop their web pages. In case, if you have any plans to improve your web pages and give them a unique look, all you need to do is, navigate webmastergrade and be the best in your field.

By : Tulip Heaven

“don’t Panic! Follow These Tips When Building your Website”

2008-06-13T02:34:00.001-07:00

Does the idea of building a website for your Internet business plague you with endless worry and sleepless nights? Do you become overwhelmed with the whole process? Don’t panic. Building your website is not as difficult as it may seem. Follow these steps to get your website up and running in no time flat.

First you need a domain name. Your domain name is like your street address on the Internet. A recommended resource is http://www.godaddy.com. They will help you find an available domain name for as little as $10. However, don’t buy anything else from http://www.godaddy.com because they will constantly barrage you with new offers. The price can add up quickly.

The next order of business is to find a hosting account. A hosting account actually posts your website on the Internet. A recommended hosting provider is http://www.frontierpowerhosting.com.

Caution – Caution – Caution! Make sure that you have your OWN unique IP address. This way you can avoid being lumped in with spammers. For example, let’s say your website shares an IP address with another Internet business. This other Internet business is a spammer. This website (and any other websites associated with this IP address which includes your website) will be shut down by Yahoo, Earthlink, etc. So you will be out of business even though you are an honest person. Therefore, make sure you have your own unique IP address.

You have your domain name and hosting account. Now it’s time to build your website. You can build a website and write the copy by yourself even if you don’t have web creating experience. One user friendly website creation program is MS FrontPage. Microsoft has recently come out with “Expressions” which is essentially an updated version of MS FrontPage. The programs work in a very similar manner. You can download a Beta version of “Expressions” at http://www.microsoft.com.

Another option for creating website copy is to hire a direct response copy writer to pen the copy. It can cost thousands of dollars to hire a top notch direct response copy writer, but is well worth it because they have the ability to turn words into money and subscribers.

The next item on your list is to set up an Autoresponder. There are two types of Autoresponders. The first type is a regular Autoresponder that automatically sends a message to anyone that emails you. For example, Outlook has an “Out of Office” Autoresponder.

The second type of Autoresponder is labeled a “smart” Autoresponder. A smart Autoresponder holds personal information from your subscriber list such as first name, last name, email address, IP address, and a time stamp of when the subscriber sent the email. Use a smart Autoresponder.

By : Matt Bacak

World Wide Web and Web Pages

2008-06-13T02:33:00.000-07:00

One of the great technological inventions is the WWW. Really, it has revolutionized the way we live and the way we do our day to day works. Its knowledge is of even more greater magnitude. To, just see, it will look like magic but it has taken many people’s hard work and dedication in actually bringing this forth to this world. If WWW would not have existed, then we still would have not called this age modern as we call it now. Truly, it is worthy of never to be completed praises and accolades.

WWW’s full form is the World Wide Web. It is a system of hypertext, interconnected documents which can be accessed through the internet. What a user does is, he goes through the web pages which are the pages on the display that may consist images, text, videos and other multimedia and steers between them with the help of hyperlinks. Sir Tim Berners Lee who was from the United Kingdom and Robert Caillau who was from Belgium invented this World Wide Web in the year 1989. They worked together at CERN in Geneva which is in Switzerland. Ever since, Sir Tim burners Lee has managed to play an important role in directing the expansion of the web standards. One of the major web standards is the markup language. In that the web pages are composed. In recent years, he has given air to his vision of semantic web.

If you want to view a page on the web, then either you can type the URL of that page or you can follow a hypertext link or some resource to that page. Domain name system is the global distributed internet database. It is also known as DNS. It plays an important role by helping the server name part of the URL to be resolved in to an IP address. Then, at that IP address, the browser requests the link by transmitting an HTTP request. The browser first requests an HTML text and then parses it. After that, it makes the request for graphics and other files that are a major part of the page in quick succession. These additional requests of the files are critical because they give air to the difference which exists between a single page view and an associated number of server hits, thus increasing web site popularity statistics across the globe. As described by the HTML programs, CSS and other essential files incorporating the images and other resources necessary, the browser then finally provide the page. Thus, the user is able to view the on screen page, thus bringing immense satisfaction and happiness to the viewer. So, it takes a long procedure and hard work to bring out the one page that user sees. It is not that easy. HTML which is known as Hyper Text Mark Up Language is a major program which helps the text changes, image transformations, videos, songs to be played and all the other major magic like things that happen over a web page on the internet. For example, in a web page, it changes the color of the text, brings various images on the web page, and brings a song to be played on a web page and various other great things. So, it looks like magic to the viewer. Another major programming language is the JAVA. Mostly, it is made use in creating software. For example, the life changing Yahoo Messenger has been made by the help of JAVA because of which we can chat with our distant friends and even talk to them through Yahoo Messenger voice Chat. Thus, WWW is a revolution which happened.

By : andy tao

Becoming a Part of the Internet Web of Life

2008-06-13T02:32:00.000-07:00

There are currently over a billion websites on the Internet. Are you ready to join the ranks? If you answered in the affirmative, then you've got a few decisions in front of you. Ok, you've got a ton of decisions and you won't want to make the wrong ones because it can cost you money and time. In this day and age, those commodities are just too valuable, so let's look at what's in store for you about web hosting.

The first thing is your domain name. How will you choose it? It's 2006; the Internet has existed for about 10 years now as a mainstream rendezvous. That means that most of the basic words are taken. Your best bet is to combine words, use hyphens or make up your own word like google, wikipedia and half-a-million others. You can search on a web host's page to find your domain name. You can try any name you think up about 5 times per day. Some people would otherwise sit there all day, trying names and buying up anything they could think of. Then, when you come knocking on their door to buy the name you came up with, the price has doubled, tripled or worse. You should be able to get your name for free as part of a package from a web host or sometimes sites like Yahoo! offer $2.99 for a year or about $19.99 from a domain registry company.

Where Will You Live?
So you've got your name and now you need a place to park it. A web hosting company is basically like a landlord. They say, we've got this much space, these utilities are included and you can hang your sign (domain name) out front. You're probably going to have to do some research as to who has the best offers, but no matter who you decide on, the one thing that should be included is 99.99% up-time. That means your site won't crash 99.99% of the time and almost every host can match that guarantee. So if you don't see it, move along. There are some other major issues you'll need to look at in your web hosting company.

Spot Checking.
First is the refund policy. If you don't see it, look for it. If you can't find it, ask them about it, especially if you like everything else you see or if what they offer sounds too good to be true. You should have 30 days to decide.

You should also see some offer of technical support. Again, it's 2006. Consumers are more in control today than ever. They can find out the competitor's price by spending 5 minutes on the phone or 2 minutes online. So if you don't see an offer of technical support, just say 'no'. You may want to call the number or write them before you sign up and ask them a few questions. It's a great way to test their customer service.

The last basic thing you should remember to look for is that you own your domain name, not the web hosting company. Your domain name is yours. There usually isn't a problem with this, but if there is a problem, it can be a big problem. Imagine the web-hosting company saying they own your domain name. that's a mess you wouldn't want to get involved in.

All it really takes is some mild effort on your part. There are unbiased places where you can compare a few different web hosting companies. Ask them questions. Find out who treats you the best and who is an established provider. You'll save yourself a lot of headaches in the future if you put in a bit of work now. Good Luck.

By : Ricardo D Argence

Microsoft and Ethics – Get Some Google Search Share at Any Cost

2008-06-12T03:18:00.001-07:00

With the majority of the rich world now having upgraded to IE7, did Google notice the way Microsoft have stolen search share? Did WE notice? Search engine optimisation international specialists are buzzing. In IE7 there is now an embedded web search facility in the toolbar at the ‘top right’ of the browser. Whilst Google can be selected as the search provider, did we think Microsoft would give up the search currency so easily? Not the same people that knocked Netscape into a cocked hat and into the sidelines of connected world control. But with world on constant alert of the software giant’s malpractice, it can’t be too high in profile. They chose a perfect way to unethically get people to stray from Google.

How they did it

How? By not allowing the selection of a ‘regional’ Google as the search provider. Let’s take the case of a searcher in Canada. When searchers use Google.com for their searches they get a set of results. If they travelled across the border to the US, using Google.com for the same search would yield a different set of results again (some similarities, but different). Now back in Canada the user searches using Google.ca and gets different results again – this time the best optimised set of results. He’s in Canada and Google.ca is built for Canada and delivers the best results (Google.com gives results somewhere between the two because of the overwhelming recognition of .com as a first stop for many domains). The fact that for USA searchers it makes no difference at all gives Microsoft a leading time for regional users to become dissatisfied with the search leader Google before it’s flagged up as a ‘bug’. It’s a perfect mechanism to accomplish their plan of shifting some of that persisting favour Google has amongst web users.

Why don’t they just switch to local Google?

You can try it. Selecting different search providers takes you to Microsoft’s web site from where you get a choice of providers. If you need a regional Google, you have to jump through hoops which the vast majority will not do. But even if they do, the selection doesn’t persist across browser sessions. Microsoft have to allow users to select a different search provider, who knows – someone may even want to use MSN. But the selection is only available from the broad companies – MSN, Yahoo, Google, Ask, etc. These other main search engines (Yahoo, MSN and Ask) have redirects in place that provide local results just as if they were using yahoo.co.uk, yahoo.ca, etc. Google is on their own in the way they provide regional results. Perfect then. Microsoft put up with Yahoo, but bitterly hate the Google that some of their best people are defecting to. The IE7 browser upgrade doesn’t permit people to easily select Google.ca (or other region) as their search provider – and even successfully jumping through the hoops they provide doesn’t allow the selection to persist. Users aren’t going to bother – over time they’ll notice the sub-optimal results but not work out why, they won’t see this search turf issue. They’ll go elsewhere – right into the arms of the next two - Yahoo and MSN.

The solution

Who know the best way for Google to beat this? But first they need to recognise it – we doubt they even know. Effecting a solution could start the first search world war. Consider the most blood curdling solution - Google developing their own browser. Could Microsoft ‘netscape’ it? Google have nearly as much money as Microsoft and so could fight them legally equally – but what would the famous Microsoft fighting with ‘time’ produce (as with Netscape)? Other solutions? Google could skew results locally when searching through this toolbar facility, so that effectively users would be seeing the same results as the google.co.uk or google.ca they should be using. Google could show nothing, no results at all for searches originating through this IE7 toolbar. Google could do what the other engines have done - show the same results for regional uses of .com as those searched for using google.co.uk (etc.), or redirect IP ranges to their regional engine.

Microsoft have skewed the results for searches outside the USA. It may seem minor, but companies in other countries don’t show up when searched for through the Microsoft utility – a solution is needed – wake up Google – work on this one.

By : Baron Turner

Resale Rights - Getting Organized

2008-06-12T03:17:00.002-07:00

So, you're going to get into the resale rights business. Maybe you've seen just the product that you want to sell, or maybe you've decided that you're going to create your own resale rights package. Great! But where do you start? Hopefully after reading this article you'll have a pretty good idea of where to start and a decent foundation when you do.

For starters, you better be prepared to do business on the Internet. This involves a number of things.

If you're going to run a professional business you will need to have a business phone. The last thing you want is your 9 year old answering a sales call for you. If you live alone maybe you can skip this but I still recommend a business phone especially if you have a company name. It always sounds better answering the phone with "XYZ Enterprises, can I help you?" than with "hello?"

Hopefully, you plan on making money as well, lots of it. If you do, you're also going to have expenses to go along with them. Income must be reported and expenses better be reported if you want to have any prayer of getting a break on your taxes. So it would be a good idea to get some software to keep track of income and expenses. This will make tax time go a lot easier.

The next thing you are going to need is a professional email account. So many people use email accounts like Yahoo, Hotmail, etc. These are TERRIBLE! You won't get half your email because of the spam filters put on these. If you want to run a legitimate business you MUST get a professional email account. I am not going to recommend any one in particular because there are many out there. What I do suggest is you get a professional domain and hosting service that will give you an email account WITH your web hosting. This way you will have an email account like JohnDoe@mydomain.com as opposed to JohnDoe2145@yahoo.com. Many companies don't even accept registration with a Yahoo, Hotmail, or other free email account because they know you won't get their emails. So please. If you're going to run a professional service get yourself a professional email account.

If you're going to be emailing to leads you're going to want to get a couple of things. First you'll want a professional bulk emailer if you plan on emailing a large number of leads at once. Make sure these are double opt in leads. Don't spam. Spamming will ruin your reputation quicker than you can say "Bob's your uncle." Also, you're going to want to get a professional autoresponder for returning emails to your subscriber base which you will hopefully plan to build.

Finally, you're going to want to make sure that every aspect of the business itself is put in place before you do one day of promotion. That means your sales page and web site must be done. If you are just doing affiliate marketing, that's already been done for you. But if you're going to create a resale rights business from scratch then you've got a lot of work ahead of you. If you're not proficient in web design you're going to need to hire a designer. If you're going to create your own affiliate program you're going to either need to create a script yourself or buy one. Another option is to have a company like Clickbank run it for you.

One of the main reasons any resale rights business fails is because of poor planning and organization. By making a checklist of everything that needs to be done and sticking to it, you give your business the best chance of getting itself off the ground and being successful.

By : Ken Mathie

Google algorithm update Jagger

2008-06-12T03:17:00.001-07:00

Google algorithm update 'Jagger'

This week we discuss the latest Google update, how it might affect your site, and how you can recover if your site lost its position as a result of this update.

The Jagger update started over a month ago and lasted 3 weeks. The update included updating the PageRank of all spidered pages, updating the number of backlinks and most importantly, changing the way Google ranked web sites for any search query. The key features and effects of this update are highlighted below:
How do we know Google is updating its algorithm?

Most algorithm updates, whether on Google, Yahoo!, MSN or any other search engine, are characterised by sudden, drastic and often frequent changes on the search results pages for any search query. During the Jagger update, the folks at Google were kind enough to warn us a few days into the update that we were witnessing an update!
What has happened as a result of the Google Jagger update?

Underneath the superficial changes in search results, the Jagger update has had a serious effect on the way companies use search engine optimisation to influence ranks. Numerous search engine optimisation experts have theorized on these effects. The most commonly agreed upon conclusions are:

* Search engine optimisation has become more difficult than ever!
* Older sites are given more recognition
* Authority sites (e.g. BBC, NHS) are given more recognition
* Government and Educational institutions are considered more important
* Links from authority sites, government and educational institutions count
* Older, longer-term inbound links are given more importance
* Outbound links to authority sites are considered good
* Relevance of links is very important
* Sites with more pages containing useful information rank better
* Up-to-date content is valued more

How does Google now value reciprocal links?

There are two aspects to consider for reciprocal links. First, Google considers artificial link building with the aim of influencing rank to be a form of spam, and so if it detects unnatural linking patterns, such as links obtained from link farms or link exchanges between irrelevant sites, it will penalize both the sites for this. Second, inbound links are increasingly weighed in importance according to the relevance of the page and the site where the link originates from to the page it is linking to. So, a link from a gambling site to a site about corrective surgery will be considered almost useless. The only type of reciprocal link building that is encouraged is between related companies in an industry e.g. between theatres and ticket agents or between two ticket agents
How do age of site and age of links influence ranking?

Google does not want spam domains to rank high on a results page, make a quick buck out of their top position and then disappear. As a result it imposes ageing delays on domains and now even on links. Sites which have been around for a while will rank higher. What this means from a search engine optimisation point of view is that it will take longer to see results of direct optimisation and it will also take longer to see the results of any link development work. Search engine optimisation work on new sites can take as much as 9 months to start yielding results for competitive keyphrases.
Relevance... of everything!

Google's success was based on the relevance of the web sites it found for any user query. Therefore it should come as no surprise that their current algorithm goes a few steps further in rewarding relevance ... of everything - of inbound and outbound links to and from a site, titles and headings to actual page content, page content to the rest of the site and so on.
Recovering from Jagger

If your site has been affected, go through the list of features of the Jagger update, and check if your site might have been struck due to any one of those changes in the search engine ranking algorithm. Re-optimise your site for the search engines by removing any offending content and links and immerse yourself in obtaining more relevant inbound links.

If you need any further help or guidance please contact us.

Online Advertising

2008-06-11T04:08:00.003-07:00

One the best way to advertise online is to design and develop a website and promote it according to the Google guidelines. Define the relevant keywords, domain constraints. High presence can be achieved by following search engine guidelines.

The most effective way to advertise online on the internet is to first setup a website and publish the domain name in major search directories like Google, Yahoo and MSN More than 80% of users rely on these search directories to provide them with goods and services.

Your website should include generic keywords. If it does not contain the reliable, generic keywords then any one using such generic queries will not be able to locate your website.

One should consider which algorithms are used in designing of a website that are placed with proper Meta tags. The Meta tags should contain the keywords that can surely promise to achieve high search engine presence and increase internet traffic to your website. The Meta tags strategies should work with the published WebPages at Google and Yahoo.

When one design an extensive flash based website make sure to fill all the property entries like title, description and keywords. Failing to do so leaves no option for hard html or alt resource which is very necessary to be readily indexed by search engine robots. Consider the internet audience and their internet connection speed. Flash pages take time to load and dial-up users may not be able to load the page and are likely to leave the site.

On the other hand non flash based websites use text and is much easier to get indexed by search engines. Limit the use of stylized text saved as image files. Graphic files are not indexed by search engines. Avoid the use of frames as some search engines are not able to properly index the content.

The ranking or search order takes place with Search engines begins with the title Meta tag. The title tag should not consist of more than 65. The title should describe in generic terms the goods and services followed by location.

Site description should be 25 to 30 words which best describes the products and services. Keywords should be limited to 15-16 words or phrases. Avoid multiple entries of the same word; when discovered may be reported to Google. This can cause the site to be removed from the directory.

High web presence can be achieved by proper web design and placement of relevant Meta tags according to Google publication guidelines

By : David Watson

Website - a Money Making E-machine

2008-06-11T04:08:00.001-07:00

Do you have a website? If yes, how much have you made from your website? If no, why? May be you do not know how you can make money from website. I am going to reveal various ways to make money from your website even when you are sleeping.

What is a website? It is the hosting of a domain name. It can be mini website e.g. one page website or major website i.e. consist of several pages. Domain name is the host name that provides memorable name to stand for numeric Internet protocol {IP} addresses. e.g.196.168.56.10 etc. Domain names are Yahoo.com, Domainmoney.biz, Hotmail.com, Google.com, etc.

Ways to make money from your website.

• Parking Domain names.

This is putting your registered domain names in a name-server of a host parking service who has lots of advertisers sites and links. They will design and host your domains and pay you base on click through to advertisers sites. There are lots of companies that are into parking domain names for profit e.g. Parked .com, Dotzup.com, Imonetize.com, etc. Just link the monetised domain names from your website and if people reach the advertiser sites through your site you will be paid. Samples of Monetised domain names are Domainmoney.biz, Openusaccount.com, Forexinformation.org, etc. They are free to join.

• Selling your products.

You can create information products such as ezines, journals, e-books etc which can be downloadable from your website. Your information products must be concise and meet particular need(s) of people. Your subscriber will have to pay before downloading them. You can accept paypal, visa card, etc

• Company services and products.

Your can advertise your company services and products with your contact address on it for easy link.

• Pay per action.

This is joining affiliate programs i.e. selling other people's products and be paid on commission. You can put these products on your website for your visitor to buy. Paydotcom.com, Clickbank.com, Ebay.com, Amazon.com, etc are places where you can get products. Affiliate programs are free to join.

• Pay per click.

This is a partnership with advertising companies that places their clients' adverts on your website. This will be paid for. Examples of pay per click sites are Google.com/adsense, Bidvertiser.com, Clicksor.com, etc. Pay per click is free to join.

• Selling texts and banners links.

Your can earn money by linking other websites through texts and banners from your website. You can also sell or trade classified advert spaces on your sites. The payment can be monthly or weekly. For example Adbrite.com.

It is annoyed spending money to design your website, put good contents and get traffic with nothing to show for it. If the above ways are followed judiciously it will be impossible for your visitors to leave your site without dropping money.

By : Alarima Akinwumi

Don't Make These Web Hosting Mistakes

2008-06-11T04:07:00.000-07:00

Many people, especially newcomers, when they register their domain names, are convinced to sign up for a hosting account with the company that registered their domain name. That could be godaddy.com, yahoo.com or any number of other domain name registering companies. That's really unfortunate, because the hosting services those people usually get don't generally meet the needs of an online entreprenuer. Those hosting accounts just lack the functionality you really need to promote your business.

Here's what happens - the domain name registering companies will make you an offer of a low level hosting plan. Since the customers that are registering the domain names are usually beginners, they aren't aware of all the hosting choices that are readily available elsewhere. They think that just because the company they're dealing with can register domain names, they must have the best hosting too.

To make a large story short, people that buy into the hosting that's offered when they register their domains are usually disappointed once they get started with their new online business. Although they got what seemed like a low price, they'll find out later, when they compare it to other offers, that it really wasn't such a good deal.

But that's only part of the problem. As they become more and more involved in running their new online business, they discover that there may be some special software that they want to run on their website. Perhaps it's a shopping cart or maybe a content management system. When they look at the requirements of the software and compare those requirements to their hosting account, they'll see that their hosting account won't support the new software. You see, most marketing related software will use PHP or mySQL databases. If your web hosting account doesn’t support PHP and mySQL, you’re just out of luck.

Of course, these customers can go back to their hosting provider, who will explain to them that the features required for support of the new software are available to them, but they'll have to 'upgrade' their hosting account. And the upgrade isn't free, by the way. Their original hosting may have cost only $7.95 a month, but the new, upgraded hosting will cost them $25 or $30 a month. Now, all of the sudden, that great hosting deal doesn't seem so great anymore.

Don't waste your time and money with 'bargain' web hosting that won't do the job.

Another mistake is trying to run your business with free hosting. First of all, if you’re looking for free web hosting because you’re not willing to spend a small amount of money for your own web hosting account, you might as well just give up right now. If you want to do everything for free, you’re not looking for a real business, you’re looking for a hobby.

Usually, when you go with free hosting, your website URL will end up being something like "freehosting.megacities.com/18987/~parkavenue/1793" If your only interest is in having a place on the web to display your family photos, maybe the free hosting is right for you. But if you're trying to run a business, the free hosting can be a big handicap. For one thing, the URL doesn't look very professional.

And the free hosting companies tend to display their own advertising banners on the pages of your website. How does that look to your potential customers? Just imagine that if you're trying to operate a family oriented business and when prospects visit your website, banners advertising "Adult Chat Rooms" are on your pages.

Types of web hosting - Primarily, there are 2 different types of web hosting. One is Microsoft Windows based and the other is Linux/Unix based. My personal recommendation is to stay away from the Windows based hosting. I've had friends that went with Windows hosting, and then later found out that much of the software they wanted to run wasn't compatible with the Windows server. Most all web based software that is used for marketing purposes is designed to run on Linux servers, so I wouldn't recommend anything other than Linux based hosting.

As we've established the need for Linux based hosting and that you shouldn't get hosting from the same place you registered your domain, the question is - Where do you get hosting?

I'm going to let you in on a small secret - all those banner ads and email messages you probably see pitching hosting deals - IGNORE THEM. The absolute best hosting I've seen is available at dirt cheap prices on Ebay. Yes, Ebay, the online auction.

Just go to www.ebay.com and search for "web hosting reseller" By getting a reseller's hosting account, you'll get all the hosting you'll ever need. Here's how it works - A reseller's hosting account gives you the ability to sell hosting accounts to other people. One of the benefits of a reseller account is that you can usually host an unlimited number of domains.

Right now you may be thinking this isn't for you because you're not interested in selling hosting to other people. You just want hosting for your own business. That's OK, you don't need to sell hosting with the reseller's account. You can just use it for yourself. You can use it to host the new domain that you recently registered and then, later on, if you register more domain names, you can host those also - without paying any more money for hosting.

I bought a hosting reseller's account on Ebay about 3 years ago. It's full featured, reliable, and the service and support is great. I pay $139 a year and I currently have about 95 domains hosted. Do the math - that works out to a little over a dollar per year for hosting that has everything I need. I think that's a pretty good deal.

If you don't want to get a reseller's account, you can get by even cheaper. I have another hosting account I bought at Ebay that only hosts a single domain, but it only costs 75 cents a month. This 75 cent account supports PHP, mySQL, has unlimited space and bandwidth, unlimited email accounts and just about everything else you could think of.

I strongly recommend that you check out the hosting offers on Ebay before you make any other commitments. Here are the features you want to make sure your hosting has -

1) Linux based web server
2) CPANEL admin control. This is the web based admin where you can check traffic stats, setup mySQL databases, setup email accounts and a whole lot more
3) Fantastico - This is an installation aid that's really handy to have. It allows you to automatically install several high powered software applications with just a single mouse click. Want a WordPress blog? Click and you have it, ready to roll. Want an online forum - same deal, click and it's there. Catalog and shopping cart - You guessed it, click and you'll have it.

It goes without saying that you should check the the seller's feedback on Ebay before you make any commitment. See what other customers have to say about the service. You want to make sure you're dealing with someone that's reputable.

By : Carson Danfield

Is it Necessary to Delete/ Cancell/ Deactivate Email Acounts?

2008-06-09T02:52:00.001-07:00

Cyber-bullying, phishing and spamming have been proliferating; you may want to discontinue usage of some of the services that portals like Google/Yahoo provide; in such cases, you had better deactivate the services rather than staying away from them.

CYBER-BULLYING, phishing, and spamming have become the order of the day in the
internet world. Often, you avail yourself of services from Google / Yahoo. Some of the services you avail yourself of have to do with the voyeuristic streak in you and hence may have to be periodically deleted or deactivated or cancelled.

At the forefront of all services is the e-mail or the electronic mail, an introductory service that everybody availed of before entering the everywhere-anywhere world of cyber age. You may seek deletion or deactivation or cancellation of a service because you no longer like the service or the password you use to access the said service may have slipped into public domain or you may have be-come a victim of unsolicited bulk e-mail (spamming).

Many of us are inclined to believe that the best way possible to shield ourselves from such menaces is by simply staying away from (i.e. by not accessing) the account. By doing so, you are not doing any good to yourself. Anyone with your username and password will not only have a free run with your personal information and contacts but may also be involved in sending malicious mail using your identity; he / she may undertake data mining to collect email addresses; he / she may send unauthorised mail via open, third-party servers; he / she may upload, distribute or disseminate unlawful, defamatory, abusive, fraudulent, obscene, or otherwise objectionable content.

Not to mention the terrorists organizations which are prowling feverishly in the internet may get hold of your Email id and use it for their nefarious plans. It may be possible. So, before it is too late and you repent it is better to delete/ deactivate or cancel your Email account or any other services which you think has been compromised.

You must remember that the Email id is your property and you owe to it, and in this regard you are solely responsible for any content that you have created, transmitted or displayed while using the services; consequently you are liable of your actions by doing so.

You have your name in the Google/ Yahoo products. You must know how to delete/ deactivate or cancel your name and the online identity since not knowing the procedure would be like you know how to start a motorbike and you are able to ride it but you don’t know how to stop it. If this is the case you could be able to imagine what would happen to you after you started riding.

Here is the procedure to delete Yahoo Mail service:

Click My Account at the top of your Mail page, beneath your ID.
To make it sure it’s you, you have to again provide your password.
In the first section of the page that opens, click Manage My Premium Services.
In the “Service” column, locate “Yahoo! Mail Plus”. Along the same line, in the column on the far right – “Action” –click View Service Details.
Now, above the “Service Summary” box, in the upper-right area of the page, click Cancel Service.

Here’s what happens when you cancel Yahoo Mail service:

Service is terminated immediately upon cancellation request, and a pro-rated re-fund for the unused portion of the service is issued upon cancellation.

Your Yahoo! Mail account reverts to the free Mail storage size and other free features. If you cancel your Mail Plus, your account turns into a free Yahoo! Mail account that you can continue to use…minus the Mail Plus features. If you’re trying to delete your Yahoo! ID and/or Yahoo! Mail account, check out the Account Deletion page.

Here is the procedure to delete Google Mail service:

Click Settings at the top of any Gmail page.
Open the Accounts tab.
Click Google Account settings.
Click Edit next to My services on the right side.
Click Delete Gmail Service.
Once you close your Gmail account, you can’t reactivate it, and you won’t be able to retrieve any messages.

By : Rishikesh Sinha

Even a Newbie Can get a Website On the Internet Quite Simply

2008-06-09T02:51:00.001-07:00

Have you ever thought you would like to place a website on to the internet but have no idea where to start and how to finish. Well let's run through it step by step. You will soon realize that it is not that difficult.

First off, your website needs a name and address. That name is referred to as a domain name. There is a wide assortment of online sources where you can purchase your domain name. They will guide you through the whole process. They will help you to select an available domain that is not currently in use. The name you want quite possibly is already taken so they will guide you in the selection of a domain name that closely matches the one you want. At that point they will register the name with domain authority registry.

Now you need to assign that domain name to a hosting location. This is commonly referred to as pointing your domain or assigning nameservers to that domain. To accomplish this task you will need to select the hosting company where your website will be stored and displayed on the internet. Each hosting company has addresses or so called nameservers to describe the location of your domain and in turn the website that you upload to that location.

The types of website hosting packages available today vary widely and a package is available that will satisfy any need. Someone just entering the website hosting arena will likely do just fine with a shared webhosting package. These typically include every imaginable feature a newbie could want. One fine example of a monsterhost package can be found at Hostmonster Website Hosting. They are a good suggestion for newbies simply due to simplicity. They offer one package only for all customers.

This is a very good package that satisfies most requirements for everyone from newcomer to advanced and their price is quite competitive. Many other reputable hosting providers can be found as well. Most offer several levels of hosting that are more tailored to specific needs. These would include well known names such as Yahoo and Godaddy.

You may encounter a few choices with all website hosting offers. The two most common platforms, Unix and Windows are widely available and offer various options and have differing abilities. Don't let this choice confuse you. It bears no relationship to the operating system you will be using on your computer. Your choice of platform will determine the utility and type of software that you can use. Unix Hosting allows for easier use of common programming languages such as Perl, PHP, MySQL and Python.

For most basic shared hosting; the operating system should not make a big difference. UNIX and Linux are stable and more affordable than Windows. Microsoft FrontPage is supported on the Windows OS, UNIX, and Linux.

Arguably, the best way to choose between UNIX and Windows is to look at your website publishing resources. If your website publishing resources use mostly Microsoft products, such as Access, Front Page, or VBScripts, it's probably better to stick with Windows. But, if reliability, universal compatibility, and stability are a concern, UNIX would probably be the way to go.

Features of either package will be the same and in fact the features offered by most reputable hosting providers will be very similar. Competition has closed the gap on pricing as well. Most packages offered today will allow you a free domain registration and free account setup. Other typical features usually include several email accounts, the ability to host several domains within that same account.

Many offer onsite website building software. You can use their step by step tutorials and their templates to quickly produce a very nice and professional looking website. No previous website building knowledge is required.

Most of the process is quite simple but it does revolve around one issue. If you are depending heavily on your hosting provider to step you through the whole process, it is critical that they have a reputation of good support. This can not be overstated. Support is important. You are dead in the water if you have run into obstacles and can not get help from the support people.

Again, it important to select a proven reliable website hosting provider with top notch support. This may well be the most important issue in your selection.

That should be the basics you need to know to get off and running with your website. It really will not be that difficult. Start now by selecting a hosting company and deciding on a preferred domain name. I like the monsterhost for newbies. Check them out!

By : Thomas Henricks

What to Consider When Starting Your Internet / Home Business

2008-06-09T02:50:00.000-07:00

The first and most important thing about starting up a business, any business, is making it possible for customers to find you. The second and probably just as important is having a strong, solid primary business. After that the rest is advertise, explore, advertise, learn, advertise, consistency, and did I mention – advertise?!

How do you make it possible for your customers to find you? On the internet, your address is your domain name. A domain name is the part of the address that comes after the www. With the never ending growth of the internet, dot.com domains, as well as others such as dot.org, domain names continue to sell by the millions. There are currently more than 20 million dot.com domains and more than 34 million total domains registered worldwide. Experts are estimating that there will be more than 500 million domain names registered in the next ten years. Some experts are even predicting that every personal computer will eventually have its own domain name. Wow! These numbers are huge and they continue to grow at an astronomical rate!

In the late 90’s, the dot.com business was beginning to take off and so many internet companies began to appear everywhere. Most companies were focusing on the internet Content, Banner Ads, etc., while the Founders of GDI were focusing on other extensions to domain names. They ultimately decided on the domain extension dot.ws, which belongs to the tiny island nation of Samoa. With the dot.com domains being so popular and for the most part, used up, it was virtually impossible to find the name you wanted still available. Who would have thought the lack of dot.com availability would have taken GDI and it’s founders to the top? Part of their success was in branding the .ws to signify “WebSite”. Simply brilliant because everyone knows what a web site is.

GDI was launched in early 2000 and by November of 2000, they had already sold over 100,000 dot.ws registrations. Not just to business owner’s like you or myself, but to major companies like Cisco, Intel, Yahoo, Dell Computers, and other major companies in over 180 countries.

There is no limit to their future success. GDI has no competition in the network marketing industry. They are the only company that has the ability to market dot.ws domain names. There are no geographical or income limits with GDI.

Just like the toll free 800 numbers have been used up; and then came 888, 877, etc., dot.com is all but used up too. My selected name was taken at dot.com, but it was available at dot.ws, and now I own it for life! WWW.BETTERLIFESTYLE.WS.

GDI is stable and debt free! They were recently named number 37 on Inc. magazine’s list of the top 500 fastest growing companies (the “Inc500 List”) and number 5 in the state of California. The founders have also been featured on the cover of Entrepreneur magazine.

There is nowhere you can get your own Domain Name, Website, Website Builder, URL Forwarding, Hosting, Website Parking, Name Server Provisions, Customer Support, Web Mail, Email Forwarding, POP, IMAP and 10 of your very own email addresses. WOW – everything you need to start your internet business and all of this for only $10 dollars a month! What’s even greater about GDI is; when you refer others to us, they will pay you for the referral and provide you with an “Income for Life”. But…before you even spend a dime, GDI welcomes you to their site for FREE! For seven days you can visit their site, secure your domain name, build your own website with their website builder (just like my site) and explore virtually every aspect of what GDI has to offer and where they are headed.

GDI is my primary business and you can see why. They are team builders because team = success. With success backing me, I will only succeed. GDI not only covers your basic business needs, but they can provide you with an INCOME.

If you are starting your own internet and/or home business, as I stated earlier, you want a strong, solid primary business. Once that is established, branch out, explore the possibilities. With GDI you get both; the customer’s accessibility to you and their companies strength. “The Sky’s the Limit!” I almost forgot – Advertise! These are the keys to an online and/or home business.

If you missed out on the dot.com boom, be a part of what many major companies have already joined. Here are more companies you may be familiar with that are registered with dot.ws: Charles Schwab & Co. Inc., AT&T, Hormel Foods Corp., BMW, Hershey’s Food Corp., Lucent Technologies, BoseCorp., Wells Fargo, Eastman Kodak Company, Bank of America, UPS, and many more.

My road to success and financial freedom is inevitable. Join me in success! Visit my website at www.betterlifestyle.ws to find out more information about the now company of the future – GDI. Let me help you with your success. I will share my business secrets and together with GDI we will be a part of the internet growth that is exploding.

By : Kelly Oliver

Your Own .Com

2008-06-06T21:08:00.002-07:00

Before obtaining your web site you'll need to have and register a domain name for your site. Now a domain name is nothing more than the web address that potential clients and customers will use to locate your site. This is also called the URL of the website. This is what you and your customers will type into their internet browsers top window in order to go to a specific website.

Your web sites theme should be built around you domain name. So taking care to chose the right domain name is very important. You'll want your domain name to say something that describes the content or theme of your site. This can't be stressed enough.

The availability of your domain may take some trial and error. Since there are so many sites coming online every day, it stands to reason that your first choice, in all probability, will not be available. It may take many variations of your domain name of choice before you find one that is available.

However, there are services available in the internet that offers domain name search. These websites will search for similar domain names and tell you if the domain name you chose is unique or if it is unavailable before you register it.

When creating a website, thinking of a domain name for your website is the first thing you have to do. The next step would be finding out if your domain name is taken or if it is available. It can be very frustrating to find out that your chosen domain name is already being used and is unavailable. This is why it is recommended that you should think of several potential domain names for your website and try them out one by one.

To check for your domain name availability, there are websites that offer domain name search. These services usually come from websites that offer domain name registration. Your domain name can also be the same as other domain names, provided that the extension is different. An example of a domain name extension is the ".com". Today, there are different kinds of domain name extension. Here are some examples:

• .com

• .info

• .biz

• .net

• .us

Any and All of these extensions may be used for your upcoming website. If at all possible, try and stick with the .com extension.It is the most widely used and if you or a potential visitor forgets the extention. Your machine, will by default, resolve to the .com extension.

As I said before, the process of chosing your domain name may take a bit of time since there are thousands of new domains coming online every day. All needing and looking for a domain name. You'll be amazed at just how many variations of your particular domain will come back as unavailable. Don't give up. You'll eventually get the one you want.

Once you chose an available domain name for your website, the next step would be registering it. This can be done right from the source of search. If not there are numerous domain registration websites that offer this service. Domain name registration websites usually charges a fee for their domain name registration services. These websites differ in prices for domain name registration services; it is up to you to choose what domain name registration website you want to use. My choice would be Go-Daddy.com or Yahoo.com. Both have specials that offer your first years registration fee for cheap. Only to revert back to the regular $8.99 per year for the 2nd and 3rd years.

After registering your domain name, you will now be ready to create your website. Always remember that before creating a website, you will first need a domain name in order for you to put the contents of your website on the internet.

By : Art Luff

Increase Sales! Traffic! through Traffic Blazer?

2008-06-06T21:08:00.001-07:00

What is Traffic Blazer and what are its benefits?

As we know a lot of your web site traffic will come through search engines like Google, Yahoo! and MSN. You will have people visit your site through word of mouth, but an easy method to getting your name out is to be in the top 10 for specific search strings. Traffic Blazer promotes your business and web site through various methods I will describe shortly to increase your visibility on the internet and to make you more money. It will do this in a few simple steps and your site will be promoted with a few clicks and some entering of information.

Lets see how it claims to market your web site.

1) Through Blog Search Engine Submission. I have recently come across this method and have began and submitted my own blog in regards to Web Design / Domain Names. Blogs seem to be the new "it thing" to get your site out there quickly. People read your blog and from your blog you can link to your website to gain one way links to your web site. This will increase your chances of gaining a higher search engine ranking. So it naturally seems to me submitting them to blog search engines will get your blog more in the spot light and increase your traffic further.

Just be careful if you decide to create a blog, and submit to blog search engines. Don't post too often in your blogs, only 1-2 times per day, or else it may be perceived by the search engines that you are using the blog only to gain advertising. This may hurt you in the long run, such as dropping in ranking or even being completely wiped out of the search engine ranking.

2) Through actual Search Engine and Directories Submission. This is very useful as the more search engines that list you, the greater it will have your site out on the internet for people to see. If you do this by hand as I did, this is a very time consuming task and having it automated helps the process a lot. It claims to submit to over 200 search engines and directories which is good, but in reality there is about four you definately need to submit to: google, yahoo, msn and DMOZ. This may seem like this step is pointless to submit to over 200 places, but the more you get the name out there the better. Some people are dedicated to using smaller search engines and this can generate extra business you would not have otherwise.

3) Site Optimization - it says it will position your web site for top rankings with Google and other leading search engines, but I am still unclear as to how. My guess would be it suggests replacement words in your content to allow the major search engines to clearly see what the page is about. I still think your own site optimization, if you know how to optimize it for the search engines, is the best option. Otherwise, this may be a viable option for people with lesser experience on optimizing.

4) Site Analysis - It analyzes your site's strengths and potential weaknesses to help you secure crucial search engine success. This is a great tool in my opinion, as it may see something that you do not in your site that may be causing your rankings to be lower than they should be.

5) Keyword Optimization - It helps you find effective keywords for your web site. One benefit of using Traffic Blazer for this, is it shows you the words and phrases actual search engine users have searched for that are related to your site and will optimize the site for these keywords. This definately is a great asset.

6) List Checking Report / Ranking Report - it tells you where you are located in the major search engines. This is useful if you quickly want to know where you stand in the search engines for particular search phrases. Trying to find your site ranking in the search engines is tedious to by hand, and this will reduce time it takes to find this information out.

7) HTML Verification - checks your site for HTML code problems. This is a great tool and you should always make sure the HTML for your page is up to W3C standards. You can look at http://www.w3.org/ to find out about these standards, and I believe there is also an online checker there provided for free, as an alternative to using it through Traffic Blazer, but will not provide as clear results.

8) Robots.txt / Robots Meta Tag Generator - prevents incomplete or unwanted pages from being crawled and indexed by search engine spiders. You can view my other article I have written at: http://www.emenki.com/robotstxt.html to further understand what the Robots.txt file does and how it can affect search engine ranking.

9) Traffic Essentials - you receive a free guide to search engine optimization and the search engine industry. Many other places will charge as much as the cost of Traffic Blazer for similar guides, however this package is included in here. This definately will increase your awareness on what search engine optimization is and why you definately need to do it for your website to increase traffic and sales!

Overall I think this looks like a great package, and although many will agree you can do lots of this "Marketing" on your own, Traffic Blazer does allow you to complete the same in a much shorter time. The time savings you get from using this and not having to do it on your own definately makes paying the cost and purchasing Traffic Blazer something you should look into.

One thing I do not mention is the cost of Traffic Blazer and you may find it at various sources.

At Domains at Retail, the cost is only $39.95 / year. This is a great price if you have limited search engine optimization experience, and do not want to hire the services of a professional who can not even guarantee top placement.

You can view more information at Domains at Retail: Traffic Blazer site: http://www.domainsatretail.com/trafficblazer.html

Hope I have helped give insight into this product, and if it is the right product for you!

Good Luck with your Search Engine Optimization strategies and success!

Michael Kral

By : Michael Kralj

3 Secret Ways to Generate Traffic & Long Lasting One Way Link to your Website

2008-06-06T21:06:00.000-07:00

There are tons of way a webmaster could use to generate traffic to ones website or blog. Traffic is known as the bloodline which helps any website from failure due to lack of visitors. One key secret of generating long lasting traffic to any website is by keeping a link in other websites which could divert their visitors to the intended website/blog. This link could be archived even without the permission of the third party websites owners' consent. Here are the three key methods:

Google Your Competitors

This is one of the method which many webmasters or even so call “internet gurus” rarely speak about, but it is very effective. Assume you are selling handmade lamps via online website. If you are new into the selling lamp business, definitely you going to have almost no one linking to you. Therefore, no traffic from third party source. You could find your nears 10 online competitors, and Google their domain name. You may use other search engines, but Google alone should be fine.

Once you have Google their domain name, you will see the search results that many other websites which are linking to them. Some of the links could be from comments in blog, forums, community websites and etc. Visit as much as you can each one of these links and try to place your comment, you input in forums, joining the community websites and do repeat this process until you have Google all the competitors' websites. Now, you already have links from all the major sites which referring your competitors. If done properly, the link will last long and will help your traffic build up and link popularity.

Yahoo Answer – A Must To Do

If you ever visited to Yahoo Answer, you will realize many people asking questions regarding many issues. If you see the answers given, often people are pushing some kind of products or services which the asker has to purchased. Very few will give a straight answers, and this sometimes make the asker to feel frustrated. Remember, people are looking for answers and not promotional talk.

You should always visit Yahoo Answer, and provide relevant and good answers for a question asked. However, you could leave some crucial informations from the answer and ask the asker to pay a visit to your website to get the remaining of the information. Try to make it clear that you are not pushing any ebooks, but sincerely offering an answer for the question asked. When you leave a link in Yahoo Answer, always give the link straight to the page where the reader could find the information. This link will be alive for many months or years, thus giving you repeat visitors in future.

Comment In Blogs

This method of marketing is known to give good amount of visitors to a website if it is done properly and regularly. Try to get a list of 30 to 50 high traffic blogs related to your own website/blog topics. Try to make it a point to visit few of these blogs everyday, and leave constructive comments. Remember, constructive comments does not mean you have to agree every time with the blogger's view. Sometimes writing opposite views properly could excite the blog environment and cause many reader to wonder who are you, and visit your website instead from you signature. Your signature carries your website link, and unless the blog owner removes it from his blog, your link will be alive and diverting traffic to your website.

Generating traffic is very important, and always trying to leave links in other peoples' website is better compared to generating traffic from sources which does not give you a permanent link back to your website. A permanent link will be able to transfer traffic for many years, and building a chain of these links are crucial for a website to be successful.

By : Rahman Alwi

Ethical Search Engine Optimisation and SEO Spam Mass

2008-06-06T03:26:00.001-07:00

Link development & Spam mass

09 Nov 05: Four extremely intelligent Californians, Zoltan Gyongyi, Pavel Berkhin, Hector Garcia-Molina, and Jan Pedersen, released a whitepaper discussing a possible method to identify links from spam domains. Their method sheds light on some very interesting ideas on how Google might judge the quality of inbound links.

Good links Vs Bad links

Since the Jagger update, Google seems to be emphasizing link relevance and link quality a lot more. While relevance is pretty straight forward to understand, quality of an inbound link may be a foreign subject to those not involved in search engine marketing as part of their daily lives. So let's first discuss good links versus bad links. Not all links are equal. Links from popular sites carry more weight than links from virtually unknown sites.
It is a well-known fact that Google's initial success lay in their ability to find websites and rank them based on links from other websites. As Google's popularity grew, some webmasters tried to outsmart the Google algorithm by falsely inflating the importance of their website with unnatural inbound link development. Links that are developed in such a way, with the mere intention of fooling Google's algorithm to gain higher rankings are considered to be bad links.

What is Spam Mass?

The research team from California devised a term - spam mass - to denote the ratio of good links to bad links for any website. Simplisticly speaking, if 60% of the inbound links to a website originate from spam domains - domains identified to be built solely for the purpose of artifically inflating a website's popularity - then the spam mass of the site would be 60%
Ranking is not that simple, though, and variables such as PageRank, relevance, age etc creep in to complicate such a calculation. However, the idea bears a lot of potential from which further ideas can be developed.

Applying Spam Mass to Search Engine Marketing
- Why reciprocal link exchanges can pull down your site rank

When optimising a site for better search engine ranking, most webmasters and search engine optimisers will actively seek inbound links from third party websites to their site. A very simple way to get these inbound links, in the past, was to exchange links with other site owners. The problem arises when most of your inbound links are from sites whose own PageRank is also influenced by link exchanges.
Google is getting better at recognizing when search engine optimisation relies on spammy link development to improve rank. The principles Google uses to do so, are likely to be based on concepts similar to spam mass. For example the Google system can differentiate links from good domains and spam domains. If the PageRank of your site is mostly due to links from spam sites, Google will accordingly devalue your PageRank, discount any effect from inbound links from the spam domains and, in extreme cases, label your domain as a spam domain too! All of this can lead to a reduction in your site's rank on the search results.

How to avoid Google penalties for spam links

The easy answer to this is always "build your site for people, not for search engines". That doesn't mean you do not carry out the necessary search engine optimisation. It just means that you should not indulge in unnatural practices to artificially influence rank. Ideally, let your site and rank grow as if it were a natural progression.
• Do not indulge in reciprocal link exchanges with spam type domains
• Stay away from link farms
• Exchange links with your suppliers and customers
• Get links from trade bodies, governing organisations
• Exchange links with competitors, other related sites
• Provide links to relevant authority sites
• Strive to obtain as many high PageRank relevant inbound links as possible

By : Farhad Divecha

How To Build Your Own Website - More Steps

2008-06-06T03:25:00.001-07:00

To build a website, there are four methods to choose from:

FIRST METHOD:

Get a professional designer to build the site for you:

It is expensive in creation process, site maintenance and development.

SECOND METHOD:

Designing the site with free website hosting:

In this case, just sign in the website that offers this service, and start building your own website.

Free Hosting Sites:

• http://geocities.yahoo.com
• http://www.angelfire.lycos.com
• http://www.tripod.lycos.com
• http://www.freeservers.com

Disadvantages of this method (Free Web Hosting):

• Small size-Limited web page space
• Can't create interactive features (message boards, online ordering, etc.)
• Advertisements-May have banners and/or pop ads on your homepage
• Long and hard to remember web address (instead of http://yourdomain.com)
• No branded email addresses (you@yourdomain.com)
• Weak technical support-Poor help and support options
• May not be free forever
• No seriousness to the site

So it is better to choose a cheap Hosting sites with reasonable prices, you will get a better quality and a higher credibility.

THIRD METHOD:

Professional Web Hosting:

Design the site by a web page designer program (computer software) and use one of the hosting sites.

Web Page designer programs:
There is a lot of computer software available to help you build and manage your website, you may use one or more of them:

1. Microsoft FrontPage
2. Macromedia Dreamweaver/Fireworks Studio
3. Adobe GoLive/Adobe ImageStyler
4. Flash & Swish

FrontPage program is the famous and most important one.

Sites to learn Front Page:

• http://www.fgcu.edu/support/office2000/frontpage/
• http://www.bhsu.edu/university_comm/web_services/FP_tutorials.html
• http://www.electricteacher.com/tutorial2.htm
Sites for Domain Name:

• Yahoo – http://www.yahoo.com
• Godaddy – http://www.godaddy.com/gdshop/default.asp
• EV1Servers – http://ev1servers.net
• Stargate – http://stargate.com
• Actnowdomains – http://actnowdomains.com

Sites For Web Hosting:

• Yahoo – http://www.yahoo.com
• Powweb – http://powweb.com
• Ev1servers – http://ev1servers.net
• Stargate – http://stargate.com
• UCVHost – http://ucvhost.com
• Servermatrix – http://servermatrix.com
• Infinology- http://infinology.com

Because this method needs to learn a new program with the knowledge of HTML, so it is not our recommended method.

FOUTRH METHOD: (recommended method)

Build the site with SiteBuilder and choose the Hosting package:

This method is the easiest and fastest way to create a website without any previous knowledge of web site building and without any HTML experience.
You can start right now and build your website immediately.

If you can point and click with a mouse, then you can build your own website right now!

Web Hosting with Site Builder:

Yahoo! SiteBuilder – http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ps/sb/index.php

The Yahoo! SiteBuilder (as an example) opens with a Welcome Screen that provides links to built-in tutorials titled "Getting Started with Yahoo! SiteBuilder"

The Getting Started Tutorial covers subjects like:

• How to Start a New Page
• How to Add Text
• How to create tables
• How to Place Images
• How to add links
• How to use templates
• How to publish and upload web pages
• and much more!

More Site Builders:

• Actnowdomains- http://www.actnowdomains.com
• Site Build It – http://buildit.sitesell.com/main/home.html
• EasyHost – http://www.easyhost.com
• Fasthosts -http://www.fasthosts.co.uk/
• Interland – http://www.interland.com
• BlueVoda – http://www.bluevoda.com
• SiteRightNow – http://www.SiteRightNow.com
• ipowerweb – http://www.ipowerweb.com
• CoffeeCup- http://www.coffeecup.com/bigcup

Enjoy!

By : Faraj Balousha

Search Engine Optimization Breakdown Techniques: Tips and Secrets

2008-06-06T03:24:00.000-07:00

SEO breakdown: general strategies.

It is not a big secret that a best business practice includes best marketing strategies. Companies deploy all possible maneuvers in order to attract clients to the product or service. Today Internet is number one marketing device, with www.google.com being top search engine tool. Around 65 percent of all website traffic goes through such engines as google, msn, yahoo, etc. Important relevance here is that on average person spends only 2 to 3 minutes on google search if information is needed fast, making it minute on each page, visiting only 3 top links in that search.

SEO – search engine optimization – is the science to make search engine work for you. The following tips and secrets that I have recently applied to my websites that helped me achieve high ranking in 1 month. These techniques include only real results that people can achieve without paying money, though I will touch upon some techniques one can use in order to get an additional boost of traffic to a website by paying certain amounts.

SEO breakdown plan :

For instance, you are a company that wants to start a web site selling shoes for women. You have all types of shoes: designer, regular stores suppliers and orthopedic. You want to achieve one of the top spots is search engine.

How to break it down?

1) Try to google as many search results applying to you as possible. See who is on the top of the search, browse through their content and see if it makes sense in what they offer (some sites are just their to make money on advertising)

2)Think about your domain name and keywords.Your domain name, title of the page (html tag), your meta tags and your content must have keywords that reflect whatever you do. Those hot keywords will be searched for and crawled by search engine bots and crawlers.

3) If you design you page on your own – think about the web site structure.Structure is tremendously important in terms of how will you build your web pages hierarchal cascading: home page to products to shoes to orthopedic shoes (following example given above). The reason being is that as you go away from home page you can include more specific keyword pool

4) Repeat you keywords. There is no general rule of how often you must repeat your keywords, but once in 2 – 3 sentences is fine. Another thing is that try to use you keywords in phrases, which will generate a more generic search. For example try to use our cheapest and best orthopedic shoes, and then repeat these keywords in title tag and meta tag , so that crawler can relate all of the content on your website.

5) Submit your domain to google, Msn, Yahoo! and Altavista as soon as possible.It is not a secret that it takes time for search engine such as:google, yahoo, Msn to index your page, which might take quite a while (2-4 weeks). I would recommend buying your domain and submitting it as soon as possible.

6)Make you website functional as soon as possible.Build you website and make it functional adding links (inbound, outbound, backlinks ) structurally integrate the content of it within your hot keyword topic.

Find out the breakdown of above paragraphs on my website www.seobreakdown.com

By : Alexei Carpov

Who has the Best Webhosting Service?

2008-06-05T02:13:00.001-07:00

Picking a webhost is a lot like picking apples. On the outside, an apple may look delicious, but be rotten inside. Or reversely, a webhost service may look unprofessional on the outside, but be a great webhost on the inside. The key is in user experiences, and I have compiled my own and other's experiences to help determine which webhosts deliver the best services.

First, we will list the contenders who have made it into my top five: 1&1 Hosting, Yahoo Hosting, iPowerWeb, LunarPages, and DreamHost. In order to make the list, the companies had to be competitively priced, provide 24/7 support, and have atleast a 99% uptime. Any webhosting company that doesn't have those three things doesn't deserve a look. That said, this list has been significantly reduced for your convenience, highlighting five companies that I believe deserve a look for different reasons.

Our first webhost review involves 1&1 Hosting, the largest webhost by customers, and for a long time with number of domains as well. The 1&1 hosting price is what is so lucrative: $2.99 a month for webhosting is amazing then to top it off the $2.99 1&1 hosting plan offers 1 free domain name, 5 GB space with 250 GB bandwidth. For budget webhosting, 1&1 hosting is definitely the way to go.

Next up, Yahoo Hosting, a company that was conceived for the Internet is now hosting it. Yahoo has many smart features including one that will install WordPress for you! WordPress it the most famous blogging software, and Yahoo Hosting will setup the process for you. Yahoo Hosting also comes with a free Akismet license, which is an anti-spam filter for your blog. If you host with someone else you'll have to pay the $5/mo fee! That's just the tip of the iceberg, my favorite feature is the "site snapshots" which backup the changes to your website every 4 hours. You can restore back to any of the site snapshots easily.

Our third webhost, iPowerWeb, is a large small webhost. By that, we mean they haven't received quite the large publicity of the other webhosting companies, but are a relatively large in the webhosting industry, and certainly deserving of big-name recognition. iPowerweb offers one of the best domain name deals around. At $2.99 for the first year, domains have never been so inexpensive. iPowerWeb is also very personal with their customers; you will have an account executive assigned to you, who will take care of your every need, just like a good waiter.

LunarPages won my attention in 2001, with the Los Angeles blackout during which they maintained operability. While perhaps server uptime during a national disaster may not be a high priority for you; for many, including myself it's an insurance policy all into itself. That said, it speaks well for uptime when there isn't a blackout or disaster. LunarPages also has been one of the first of the support-driven smaller companies to take a price dive, from the industry standard of $7.95 to $6.95 a month.

Then finally there is DreamHost, who while lacking a competitive price makes the list because of their offering VPN service, and Ruby on Rails support. Those two services are a must for many small businesses, and the DreamHost webhosting plans are still a fraction of the normal cost for those webhost services.

Conclusion: For those on a budget 1&1 defeats all. 6-month pay cycles, free domains, and no setup fees at incredible rates, can't be beat. For VPN, DreamHost delivers a great service. For those looking for great service with powerful hosting: Yahoo, iPowerweb, and LunarPages are the way to go.

By : Jonathan Baldwin

Brand New Home Business Resources Website

2008-06-05T02:12:00.000-07:00

Press Release FAIRFIELD HEIGHTS January 23, 2008,

Vladimir Blagonic from NSW in Australia is launching his new website on the 23 January 2008. Vladimir has had great success with his home business, and decided to share his expertise with others.

Getting started online is quite difficult, as Vladimir has discovered. Some people make it sound easy, but a lot of hard work goes into a successful internet based home business. A lot of time, money, education, marketing, mentoring and coaching goes into a successful home business, and therefore it is a challenge to make it fun and not turn it into a chore.

An Internet home based business isn’t any different from a traditional business in how and what you need to do in order to succeed. On the plus side, the investment is much smaller and therefore, if something doesn’t work you can stop doing it and try something else.

As Vladimir now has a lot of expertise in what works and what doesn’t online, he decided to make it easy for others. Imagine getting started online and in stead of using your money and time to learn the ropes and make mistakes, you can learn from the mistakes of someone else, and go straight to what works best. This is the reason the website was created.

It will be a one stop shop for tools and advice on how to start a new internet business; a complete education in starting a successful home based business. Not only will members receive all the education they need, but they will also receive mentoring and coaching; in short, all the help they need to succeed.

The website will have the following resources:

Which Books to read and where to purchase them?

Training and mentoring

Website building

Auto responders and data

Marketing

Traffic

Promotion

Newsletter

E-books

Affiliates

Affiliate review

Vladimir will also show members how to work and profit from the following:

EBay, Google, Global Cash Flow Network, Profit Masters, Site Build It Global Domains, Yahoo, Amazon, Commission Junction, Western Union, Link Share, Clix Galore, Click-my-ads, Traffic System 25 and Tim Knox.

By : VLADIMIR BLAGONIC

Submit your site to search engines and open directories

2008-06-03T03:37:00.001-07:00

Before you even think to submit your site to search engines or open directories check him! Check his spelling, check the links in the site, one small mistake can effecting on your site's rank. after you check all your site from seo mistakes you can to get the submission part.

There a lot of software and sites that offer you "easy life" don't buy it! For max result you need to do it yourself, don't think that all this garbage will make your site rank better, ask yourself do you to get spam? The answer is no. search engine also don't like spam, try to avoid that. The search engine can drop your site to last place because of spam, like al the shows "don't try it in home". Take your time don't hurry, search engines will ever be in our internet. Search engines want you the do manually submission.

Why is search engine and directories?
Over 95% of the traffic on your site is from search engines and directories, do want to lose all these traffic? The major search engines can give you thousand of surfers that want to see your site, think more customers think hungriest surfers for info.

How to submit sites?
Lets take for exmpale the sites about Yahoo Domains and V7ndotcom Elursrebmem
name of the sites: the name of the links.

Description: tell in two sentences about your site, let's take V7ndotcom Elursrebmem
For example: The v7ndotcom elursrebmem contest, a new SEO contest on google search engine"

Keywords: take from you site 10-20 words that you see and you want people to search them. Let's take example from Yahoo Domains: "yahoo, buy domains, domains articles, search domains, yahoo domains, domains yahoo, domains news"

Now I will help you with the work, here is a list of search engine and directories, just click on the link and your site to them.

* AltaVista
http://addurl.altavista.com/addurl/new

* Google
Submission URL: http://www.google.com/addurl.html
* You are listed automatically

* Fast
Submission URL: http://www.alltheweb.com/add_url.php

* Abi Find R PR0 http://www.abifind.com/

* Akipus PR0 http://webresources.akipus.com/

* All Business Directory PR0 http://www.allbusinessdirectory.biz/

* America Mall PR0 http://www.1americamall.com/free-business-listing.html

* A1 Directory PR0 http://www.a1directory.be/

* Bigvertiser PR0 http://www.bigvertiser.com/

* Boogle PR0 http://www.boogle.co.uk/dir/

* Business Web Directory R PR3 http://www.businesswebdirectory.biz/

* Click 2 Directory PR0 http://click2directory.com/

* Directory Delta PR0 http://www.directorydelta.com/

* Directory Hub PR0 http://www.directoryhub.be/

* Directory On PR4 http://www.directoryon.info/

* Directory Vault PR0 http://www.directoryvault.com/

* Directoryy PR0 http://www.directoryy.com/

* Directory PR0 143 http://www.directory143.com/

* Directoy PR0 http://www.directoy.be/

* Explode Search PR0 http://www.explodesearch.com/

* Extra Dir PR0 http://www.extradir.com/

* Gten PR0 http://www.gten.net/

* Index Rated PR0 http://indexrated.com/

* Jungle Finder PR3 http://www.junglefinder.com/

* Lambs Links PR0 http://www.lambslinks.com/

* Leading Solutions PR0 http://directory.leadingsolutions.com/

* Link Hub PR0 http://linkhub.info/

* My Dig Net PR0 http://directory.mydignet.com/

* Pop-Net PR0 http://www.pop-net.org/

* SEO Links PR0 http://www.seo-links.org/

* Simple-Directory PR0 http://www.simple-directory.co.uk/

* Site Find PR0 http://www.sitefind.org/

* Submit Website PR0 http://www.submitwebsite.be/

* TBWD PR0 http://www.tbwd.org/

* Tequila PR0 http://www.tequila-stuff.com/cgi-bin/dir/

* The Free Directory PR0 http://www.the-free-directory.co.uk/

* Trout PR0 http://directory.trout.pl/

* Wazo PR0 http://wazo.us/

* Webby 101 PR0 http://www.webby101.com/

* Wujekdrut PR0 http://www.wujekdrut.com/

* Your Directory Online PR0 http://www.yourdirectoryonline.com/

* 123 Ez Search PR0 http://www.123ezsearch.com/

* Skaloosh PR3 http://www.skaloosh.com/

* The Orange Pages PR4 http://www.theorangepages.com/

* Web World Index PR6 http://www.webworldindex.com/

* Blog Listing PR0 http://www.bloglisting.net/

* Brampton Listings PR4 http://www.bramptonlistings.info/

* Fin Directory PR0 http://findirectory.org/

* Manage Your Dollars PR0 http://www.manageyourdollars.com/directory/

* Offshore Directory PR0 http://www.offshore-directory.org/

* IPB Directory PR3 http://www.ipbdirectory.com/

* phpBB Directory PR0 http://www.phpbbdirectory.com/

* vBulletin Directory PR0 http://www.vbulletindirectory.com/

* Fat Info PR0 http://www.fatinfo.com/

* Get Beauty Tips PR3 http://directory.getbeautytips.com/

* SC2 PR0 http://www.sc2.info/

* Wisdomtool PR2 http://www.wisdomtool.com/directory/

* Free Funny Humor PR3 http://www.freefunnyhumor.com/

* A Law PR0 http://www.a-law.org/

* Summer Daycamps PR5 http://www.summer-daycamps.com/

* Wedding Planning Ideas PR0 http://www.weddingplanningideas.co.uk/

* Dev Magic PR0 http://www.devmagic.com/

* Niche Travel Destinations PR0 http://www.nichetraveldestinations.com/

* The Travel Bag PR0 http://www.thetravelbag.net/

* The Travel Links PR0 http://www.thetravellinks.net/

* The Travel Root PR0 http://www.thetravelroot.com/

* Travel Bizoo PR0 http://www.travelbizoo.com/

* Travel Buss PR0 http://www.travelbuss.com/

* The Travel Choice PR0 http://www.thetravelchoice.net/

* Travel Hubs PR0 http://www.travelhubs.net/

* Travel Steam PR0 http://www.travelsteam.com/

* Travel Tuu PR0 http://www.traveltuu.com/

* Travel Zorg PR0 http://www.travelzorg.com/

* Best Sites UK PR0 http://www.best-sites.co.uk/

* Map Of London PR3 http://www.map-of-london.co.uk/directory/

* Michigan Business PR0 http://www.mbiz.us/

* NYC Talent PR0 http://www.nyctalent.com/dir/

* Great Directory Site PR0 http://www.greatdirectorysite.com/

* URL Direct PR1 http://www.urldirect.com.au/

* Voisd PR4 http://www.voisd.com/

* Webmaster Directory Biz PR3 http://www.webmasterdirectory.biz/

It is only small list, for more sites just googling "free search engine" or "free directories"

By : Or Hillel

Metamorphism of Yesterday's Small Software Enterprises Into Today's Dotcom Leaders

2008-06-03T03:36:00.001-07:00

Yahoo! Inc. is a global internet communications, commerce and media company. Its principal business activity is to provide broadcast media, communications, business, enterprise and commerce services. Today Yahoo! Inc. is a leading global internet brand and one of the most trafficked Internet destinations worldwide. Yahoo! seeks to provide online products and services essential to users' lives, and offers a full range of tools and marketing solutions for businesses to connect with Internet users around the world. Yahoo! is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.

The History of Yahoo - How It All Started...

Yahoo! began as a student hobby and evolved into a global brand that has changed the way people communicate with each other, find and access information and purchase things. The two founders of Yahoo!, David Filo and Jerry Yang, Ph.D. candidates in Electrical Engineering at Stanford University developed their Web directory in 1994 in order to keep track of their personal interests on the Internet. Before long they were spending more time on their home-brewed lists of favorite links than on their doctoral dissertations. Eventually, Jerry and David's lists became too long and unwieldy, and they broke them out into categories. When the categories became too full, they developed subcategories ... and the core concept behind Yahoo! was born.
The Web site started out as "Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web" but eventually received a new name with the help of a dictionary. The name Yahoo! is an acronym for "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle," but Filo and Yang insist they selected the name because they liked the general definition of a yahoo: "rude, unsophisticated, uncouth." Yahoo! itself first resided on Yang's student workstation, "Akebono," while the software was lodged on Filo's computer, "Konishiki" - both named after legendary sumo wrestlers.
The web site gain immense popularity within a shortest span of time. Due to the torrent of traffic and enthusiastic reception Yahoo was receiving; the founders knew they had a potential business on their hands. In March 1995, the pair incorporated the business and met with dozens of Silicon Valley venture capitalists. They eventually came across Sequoia Capital, the well-regarded firm whose most successful investments included Apple Computer, Atari, Oracle and Cisco Systems. They agreed to fund Yahoo in April 1995 with an initial investment of nearly $2 million. Realizing their new company had the potential to grow quickly, Jerry and David began to shop for a management team. They hired Tim Koogle, a veteran of Motorola and an alumnus of the Stanford engineering department, as chief executive officer and Jeffrey Mallett, founder of Novell's WordPerfect consumer division, as chief operating officer. They secured a second round of funding in 1995 from investors Reuters Ltd. and Softbank. Yahoo! launched a highly-successful IPO ($13.00 per share) in April 1996 with a total of 49 employees. Yahoo! is traded on the Nasdaq under the ticker symbol YHOO. Soon, after a month, Yahoo! Inc. and Ziff-Davis International Media formed a new venture, Yahoo! Europe. The company continued to expand, offering Yahoo! Visa cards for customers in 1998, and it finished Internet sites throughout Europe and the world. In June 2000, Yahoo! India was launched. Its global web network now has 24 sites outside the US and it is still growing. In October 2002 Yahoo! Inc even teamed up with AT&T Wireless to provide messaging services from mobile phones as well as from personal computers, and by December it acquired Inktomi Corporation, a web search provider, for a total of US$235 million.
Today, Yahoo! Inc. is a leading global Internet communications, commerce and media company that offers a comprehensive branded network of services to more than 345 million individuals each month worldwide. As the first online navigational guide to the Web, www.yahoo.com is the leading guide in terms of traffic, advertising, household and business user reach. Yahoo! is the No. 1 Internet brand globally and reaches the largest audience worldwide. The company also provides online business and enterprise services designed to enhance the productivity and Web presence of Yahoo!'s clients. The reason behind Yahoo!’s market dominance is because of its power to assimilate and cater to divergent individual, group and corporate interests in a steadfastly impeccable user friendly manner where every bits of micro considerations will be taken care of in synchronization with “big” macro assignments.
SERVICES PROVIDED BY YAHOO! INC.
Yahoo!'s top priority is to provide users with the information they want, when they want it, how they want it and on any device. Starting with its comprehensive, hand-built directory as well as the popular My Yahoo! service, Yahoo! offers a broad and deep array of communications, commerce and content services in over 100 distinct properties that lead consumers to make Yahoo! their home on the Internet and wireless devices and thus the potential users have the power to connect, communicate, create, access and share information online.
Search: Yahoo! has become one of the leading search engines on the Web. Yahoo! Search enables it’s users to find anything and everything they need on the Internet instantaneously through Yahoo! Web Search, as well as vertical search products such as Yahoo! Image, Yahoo! Video, Yahoo! Local, Yahoo! News, and Yahoo! Shopping Search. Yahoo! Search leverages the combination of an advanced set of algorithms to ensure that results are up-to-date, relevant, and comprehensive.
Connecting Life: Recognizing that the Web's future will be fueled by broadband connectivity, Yahoo! has developed successful partnerships with the world's leading broadband providers. Yahoo! provides tightly integrated and co-branded experiences with SBC, Verizon, Bellsouth, Rogers Canada and British Telecom, offering a range of free and premium Yahoo! content and services to subscribers.
Communication: As part of its ongoing commitment to enhance people's ability to connect with anyone around the world, Yahoo! offers communications services that include Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! Messenger, Yahoo! Calendar, Yahoo! Chat, Yahoo! Greetings, Yahoo! Clubs and Yahoo! Photos and in this way it tries to ensure that it’s users can stay connected with their friends, family, and colleagues any time, from anywhere in the world. As part of it’s communication services, Yahoo! has also become a pioneer of social networking, offering innovative services and user-generated content in products such as My Web, Yahoo! Personals, Yahoo! 360º, Yahoo! Photos, and Flickr, so that users can share the information that's most important to them.
Content: Yahoo! partners with hundreds of premier content providers to bring entertainment and high-quality media content to its users in popular areas of interest through products such as Yahoo! Sports, Yahoo! Finance, Yahoo! Music, Yahoo! Movies, Yahoo! News and Yahoo! Games. Yahoo! also enables it’s users to personalize content through My Yahoo!, which collects users' favorite Yahoo! features, content feeds, and information into a single page.
Mobile: Fitting the lifestyles of the mobile consumer, Yahoo! offers an increasing array of essential, personalized, localized and timely information on wireless devices, including wireless phones, two-way pagers and personal digital assistants. Committed to extending the content and services beyond the desktop, Yahoo! has the largest global mobile audience and the greatest breadth of wireless products and services of any online network or Web content provider. Yahoo! Mobile includes services for on-the-go messaging, such as email, instant messaging, and mob logging; information, such as search and alerts; and fun and games, including ring tones, mobile games, and Yahoo! Photos for camera phones.
Commerce: Yahoo! is also one of the world's largest enablers of consumer transactions on the Web, offering commerce services such as Yahoo! Shopping, Yahoo! Autos, Yahoo! Auctions and Yahoo! Travel, Yahoo! Finance which gives consumers the relevant information they need to make informed purchases online.
As the No. 1 Internet network on corporate desktops, surpassing a 70 percent reach in the U.S. workplace, Yahoo! also offers a range of services for businesses and enterprises of all sizes. Corporate Yahoo! is an information portal solution that enables companies to communicate and interact directly with their employees, customers and shareholders over a secure and scalable platform. Yahoo! Broadcast Services is the leading provider of Internet audio and video streaming solutions for corporate and consumer communications, delivering thousands of live and on-demand, corporate events including: product launches, marketing programs, training/distance learning, keynote addresses, annual shareholder meetings, and quarterly earnings calls.
Small Business: Yahoo! Small Business enables small business owners and professionals to establish and grow a business presence with services such as Yahoo! Domains, Yahoo! Web Hosting, Yahoo! Merchant Solutions, Yahoo! Business Email and Yahoo! Store. Yahoo! also offers HotJobs to help recruiters find the talent they seek.
Advertising: An industry leader in online advertising, Yahoo! provides a comprehensive and effective set of marketing solutions, offering tools for businesses of all sizes. Unique and powerful brand advertising solutions allow clients to build awareness among the world's largest engaged audience. Yahoo! helps marketers create and execute programs that both engage users to interact with their brand as well as provide valuable insights into their customer base. Yahoo!'s data driven services provide unparalleled targeting and measurement capabilities far beyond banners, clicks, and conversions. Yahoo! offers an integrated set of marketing services through Yahoo! Fusion Marketing that unite Yahoo!'s media, e-commerce, direct marketing, broadcast, and communication tools to allow clients to find any audience, connect with anyone, and sell anything. Customized to integrate clients' traditional marketing programs online, Yahoo! Fusion Marketing programs generate greater customer acquisition and retention, extended brand value, and increased sales in today's global marketplace. In addition, Yahoo! Search Marketing helps companies drive traffic to their web sites through services such as Sponsored Search, Local Advertising, and Product/Travel/Directory Submit. For online publishers and portals, Yahoo! can add new revenue sources and enhance user experience through the Yahoo! Publisher Network.
Community services: Yahoo is not only just committed to providing great products and services but it is also committed to empowering its users and employees through programs, products, and services that inspire people to make a positive impact on their communities. The mission of Yahoo! for Good, an unique community relations program, is to connect people with causes through it’s products and services, as well as through partnerships with nonprofits such as Big Brothers Big Sisters, the American Red Cross, and VolunteerMatch. Yahoo! Products for Good includes the My Yahoo! volunteer module, Yahoo! Missing Children Alerts, cause-related Yahoo! Avatars and How to Help links in Yahoo! News stories. Yahoo! also channels the generosity of its employees through the Yahoo! Employee Foundation, a grassroots philanthropic organization that brings together the talents, time, and financial resources of Yahoo! employees. The foundation has given millions of dollars in grants to organizations around the world.
Briefly it can be stated that Yahoo’s products and services fall within four core pillars. These pillars are the foundation for the next generation of the Web, providing the users the power to connect, communicate, and create, gather and share information online.
• Content: Access it, personalize it, and contribute to it.
• Search and Marketplace: Locate and display any and everything.
• Community: Empower users to express and connect, enable people and information to interact.
• Personalization: What, how, when and where users want Yahoo!

Financial Condition And Analysis

Yahoo! Inc generates its income mainly through the sale of advertisements, promotions, sponsorships, merchandising and direct marketing strategies. The acquisition of Kimo.com during 2001 and HotJobs.com in February 2002 made the company even stronger. Revenues generated from advertising accounted for 75% of the 2001 result while revenues from business services accounted for 25%.
According to Disclosure Incorporated, Yahoo! Inc’s current market value is US$10,364,298,000. On studying the income statement and balance sheet of the company from the year of 1998 to 2001 as reported by the Disclosure Incorporated, it can be stated that Yahoo was earning fast and a lot in 1999 and 2000, but was having a bit of trouble in 2001; specifically, its net income in 2000 was more than US$70 million but in 2001 it was plummeting to a deficit income of US$92 million. This is due to the reason of the sharp decline of the sales and income due to the instability of the company resulting from its drastic international expansion within a short period. However, Yahoo! Inc. is still a financially strong company as its growth rate in sales in the five year summary is 70.8%, its most recent P/E ratio is 101.111, and its total assets are US$ 2,379.35 millions, while its total liabilities are US$382.32. Its recent stock price is about $17.54; the 52 week high is $20.54 while the 52 week low is $8.94 (reported by Disclosure Incorporated on 02/11/03). Furthermore, the “Analyst Info” of NASDAQ (accessed on March 10, 2003) recommended to buy the stock rather than to sell it. In conclusion, it might seem that the company’s financial outlook is not stable but hopeful; however, more recent information indicates Yahoo! Inc. is again turned out to be a profitable concern.

CONCLUSION

Being the largest Internet portal in the world, Yahoo! Inc’s greatest strengths are revenue diversification, internet access and other related services. The company’s main opportunities are in its paid listings business, while its weaknesses and threats are international expansion, online advertising, and broadband competition .Major stockholders are Softbank America Inc., 16.2%; David Filo, 7.9%; Jerry Yang, 7.5%; and Capital Research & Management Co., 7.1% .Top competitors include Amazon.com Inc., Convergys Corporation, eBay, Microsoft Corporation and Unisys Corporation. At present the who’s who in the organizational hierarchy of Yahoo! Inc is noted as follows:
• Terry Semel, chairman and CEO, Yahoo!, Inc.
• Roy Bostock, chairman emeritus, BCom3 Group Inc
• Ron Burkle, founder and managing partner, The Yucaipa Companies
• Eric Hippeau, president and executive managing director, SOFTBANK International Ventures
• Vyomesh Joshi, executive vice president, Imaging and Printing Group, HP
• Arthur Kern, founder and chairman, American Media
• Robert Kotick, director, chairman of the board and chief executive officer, Activision, Inc
• Edward Kozel, managing partner, Open Range Ventures
• Gary L. Wilson, chairman, NWA Inc., parent of Northwest Airlines
• Jerry Yang, co-founder and Chief Yahoo, Yahoo!, Inc.

By : CHAYAN SUR

Search Engine Secrets - Get Top Listings on Google & Yahoo

2008-06-03T03:35:00.000-07:00

You have your choice of SEO Consultant to full fledged SEO Corporations all willing to take your money and optimize your site. Thatâ€™s because Google is a very sophisticated search engine and their algorithm changes constantly. Googleâ€™s algorithm has one primary goal and that is to deliver relevant content. All of this effort is to identify good websites with quality content and to weed out the sites that are "optimized" to trick the algorithm. Thereforeâ€¦ if you have a good website with quality content then â€œoptimizingâ€ your site may be counter-productive if there's even a slight chance that Google would think youâ€™re using tricks.

Google is looking for websites whose webmasters are putting their time and energy in to building and maintaining a good website with quality content not spending their time and energy trying to trick the algorithm. So, the best thing you can do is to put your time and energy in to the reason you built your website in the first place.

If search engine optimization was a major player in your marketing plan, hereâ€™s a great site to learn about other website marketing methods: http://www.wilsonweb.com/a/go.to/Ogre

When looking at the search results page, most users look for a number of specific items, at least one of which must be present to capture a click through. These items include the key phrase in the title or description, product information and trusted brand names and vendors.

Search Engine Optimization or SEO is a term widely used today by many e-commerce sites. For the past few years and the next ten years or so, search engines would be the most widely used internet tool to find the sites that they need to go to or the product or information they need.

Most people that use search engines use only the ten top search results in the first page. Making it to the first page, more so to the top three is a barometer of a sites success in search engine optimization. You will get a higher ratio of probability in being clicked on when you rank high. The more traffic for your site, the more business you rake in.

By : Mehul Vyas

Which UK Domain is the Worst for Email Deliverability?

2008-06-02T02:48:00.003-07:00

Different ISP’s have different filters meaning getting your email into the inbox at every ISP can be a nightmare and time consuming exercise. For consumer marketers whose lists could be made up almost entirely of a few ISP’s, checking these before the send is essential.

At Emailcenter we utilised our Inbox Seeding tool to test 128 different email creatives at the major ISP’s to see how many were delivered into the inbox, junk mail folder or completely rejected. We also tested the different levels of filters at each ISP.

The emails were all sent from IP addresses that were whitelisted where applicable but had sender ID records set-up.

With a number of ISP’s 100% deliverability was achieved. This suggests that the filtering is minimal at best. Surprisingly this included various filters at AOL where only the enhanced junk settings caught 4 creatives in their junk folder.

Unsurprisingly Hotmail & Yahoo were the next difficult to deliver to. The Hotmail enhanced filter is the default setting for users of their service.

What actions does this suggest we take?

Sender ID Records

Hotmail & Yahoo, the worst performers are the main users of sender authentication technologies such as Sender ID. This suggests that had Sender ID records been set-up there would have been less likelihood of the email being classified as spam.

Utilise Inbox Seeding

The survey shows the benefit of inbox seeding tests. While we can see some trends and guess which emails were going to be classified as spam, some emails that contained no obvious spammy techniques still got placed in the junk mail folder. The impact this would have had on the performance of the campaigns would have resulted in it not being worthwhile sending.

Don’t rely on Spam Assassin tests

Most email providers will let you think that running a simple spam assassin score and keeping it under 5 will save you from all junk mail filters. Nothing could be further from the truth. We also recorded the spam assassin score of every email that got tested. While on occasions emails that got classified as spam did have a high spam assassin score there was no consistent trend. Indeed even emails that scored less than 1 in spam assassin got placed in the junk mail folder.

Spam assassin is used in a number of corporate filters and is the only major spam filter that has published rules. None of the major ISP’s utilise these rules so it is irrelevant when thinking about delivering to the likes of Hotmail.

Remember the basics!

It is noticeable that many marketers are not remembering the basics about spammy techniques. Emails that got classified as junk often used a from address such as sales@domain.com, had capital letters in the subject line or phrases such as ‘Free offer” liberally throughout the email.

Limitations of the survey

While this survey provides an excellent overview of each ISP it is important to understand what other factors an ISP looks at that cannot be replicated here. These are all things that happen during the send of your campaign including:

* Bounce rates at each ISP which ISP’s use to determine how accurate your list is

* Spam complaint rates

* The amount of email being delivered at any one time

By : Rebecca Coe

SEO - Should You Go For A Long Or Short Domain Name?

2008-06-02T02:48:00.001-07:00

It is widely believed that most search engines now look at the domain name when they go to index a page. However nobody really knows if this is really true as the search engine algorithms are actually secrets, like FICO scores. Google and Yahoo also constantly morph their algorithms to avoid favoring URLS that are using black hat SEO techniques from soaring in the page rankings unfairly. However to be on the safe side you might want to consider that this is a rumor that is probably true.

Domain names can be of any length up to 67 characters. You don't have to settle for an obscure acronym for a domain name like SEOE.com when what you mean is searchengineoptimizationexpert.com.

Having said that, there appears to be some disagreement about whether a long or short domain name is better. Some argue that shorter domain names are easier for people to remember and easier for people to type in the search engine box. For instance learnSEO.com is a lot easier to remember than mastercourseforoptimation.com.Others argue that a longer domain name is usually easier on the human memory - especially if it is a catchier phrase. The catchier it is the more clients are more likely to remember the domain name and type it into the search engine box.

One reason to stay away from acronyms is that they can mean more than one thing. The acronym ACA is a good example - it stands for several things including the American Counseling Association, The Association of Canadian Archivists and the Association of Canadian Advertisers just to name a few.

It is probably a good idea to go for a shorter name as long as it is to the point and meaningful. If it is longer than two words then make sure it is memorable.

By : Chris Angus

Finding That Perfect Domain Name Is Becoming An Art Form

2008-06-02T02:47:00.001-07:00

In the distant Internet past, circa 2000, a very solid SEO strategy was to purchase a domain name with your keywords in the URL. This was said to greatly assist a web site in their rankings. While this strategy has met with limited success as of late, it is still a good marketing ploy to buy names which have your core competence terms as part of the URL. This has been made increasingly difficult as a result of cyber squatters, who buy and horde domain names for ransom, or just because they think they may someday want to use the name, but have no immediate plans to do so.

It is estimated that about 70 million domains are currently under registration from ICANN. It is further estimated that there are virtually no one and very few two-word phrases left in the English dictionary. This means that web site owners are going to either need to come up with some very creative words, which are not real words, or they are going to need to come up with very long domain names, which may be difficult to spell or have a high risk of mistyping by a user.

What does all this mean to the web site owner who is concerned with getting traffic to their new site? It may require more SEO work and less traditional advertising to get users to come to your web site. Why is this? In the past you could create a brand around one word, such as Yahoo, or Boston, and with a good marketing effort, have users simply remember your web site, type in your domain name and go to the site. This is not going to be the case with newer sites, as the domains names are going to get longer, and the extensions are not going to be limited to .com, .net and .org, but rather a plethora of domain name extensions will be needed.

So what is a web site owner to do? The marketing of sites will now fall to developing great content, getting others to link to you, making sure the web sites are defined properly and not allowing for sloppy programming. There is also the avenue of paid search, where no single keyword or keyword phrase is owned by a single person in perpetuity, but rather many companies can bid for the same term and based on a variety of bid management techniques and better copyrighting, you can purchase web site clicks.

The world is changing, and we are quickly becoming more and more a wireless web-based society. As such, TV, radio and print commercials have less of an impact on how we find the web sites we want to visit, but it seems as though the large consumption of domain names over the past decade may move us into that new medium far quicker than some of us might like. On the other hand, if you are skilled at SEO and SEM, you may be positioned to be a leader in an industry that you simply could not have bought your way into just six years ago.

By : Mike Goldstein

Before You Register a Domain Name for Your New Online Business...

2008-05-31T19:49:00.001-07:00

Recently I made a mistake that may cost a great deal of traffic to my new web site.

Let me explain...

I studied so many books about Internet marketing over the last couple of years that I decided to start a new web site, and share my knowladge and experience with other fellow Internet marketers.

Since I read lots of information about search engine optimization (SEO), I intended to optimize all of my web pages for search engines from the beginning on, expecting Google to be my number one source of traffic in the near future.

I did an extensive keyword research using WordTraker, made a blueprint for my product and article pages, and the time has come to choose a great domain name for my new project.

I went to GoDaddy, the famous domain name registar, tried this and that, and finally came up with a beautiful domain name related to Internet marketing - netmarketingstrategies.com

You probably know that Internet marketing is a very competitive niche, so I was glad that this domain name was still available. I registered it immediately.

My site was up and running in 48 hours. Now I needed some fresh web content, and to get indexed by major search engines as soon as possible.

So, I spent a week or two writing search engine optimized content for my new online business.

I usually don't submit my new web sites to search engines for indexing. I prefer when my sites are found on other web sites and get spidered automatically.

One of the easiest ways to have a link to a web site from other sites is by writing and distributing high quality articles. So, I wrote an article about two-tier affiliate programs and submited it to major article directories.

Within a couple of days I searched for my article title in Google and noticed that it did great. Publishers liked my article and they were publishing it on their web sites and newsletters.

I expected my home page to get indexed very fast.

Time went.

Each week I searched Google to see if my site has already got indexed. It didn't.

I decided to see if my domain has been spidered by other major search engines. Yes, both Yahoo and MSN got it. So, what went wrong? Why Google won't index my home page?

Here's what I think went wrong: my further investigation showed that the domain name had already been used by another webmaster and had been expired half a year ago when I registered it. It seems that the previous domain name owner was using unfair search engine optimization strategies and his web site was banned by Google.

I sent a request to Google explaining the situation and asking to lift the ban from my web site. I am not sure if they will listen and help me.

I am ready to register a new domain name in a few weeks time if I still cannot get my site indexed by Google.

So, don't make the same mistake I did... If you intend to optimize your new web site in order to receive traffic from Google and other search engines, make sure to check out if a domain name you've selected for your online business is not banned by Google before registering it.

By : Gerardas Norkus

Domain Naming Your Website

2008-05-31T19:48:00.001-07:00

What will your website be called? You may have a catchy name for it, but that doesn't mean you'll be able to get that fun name as a web address. You need to do a little domain name research.

Securing the domain name you want is not always easy. Often someone has thought of it before you, so it's already in use, or there could be a squatter sitting on it. Squatters are people who buy up website names that they think would be popular at very low prices, and then offer to sell them to you at a much higher rate if you want to use it.

There is a simple way to know if a web domain is available. Go to a company like Network Solutions and type in the name you are looking for in the 'Find a Domain' box on the front page. It will let you know if that name is available in a .com, .net, .biz, or one of a number of other website suffixes.

Before registering a domain name, you need to think about whom you are registering it with. Some of these registrars seem to change with the tide. So you want to stick with an established company that is not going to be here today and gone tomorrow, with your information.

Once you register your name, if you ever want to move it to another server not all registrars are helpful. Be cautious of going through places like Yahoo or Domain Registry of America. They like to keep a hold of your domain name once you purchase it, and you'll have to jump through a lot of hoops and do a lot of work if you ever want to move it to another server. Meanwhile, If you choose a registrar like Network Solutions or GoDaddy they are much more cooperative.

With that said, lets get a domain name. I would advise doing this yourself, unless you are having someone you really trust do this. Letting someone less than trustworthy register for you could end up with your domain name registered in their name, and you lose control. So, go through the search and select the name you want and register it in your name (at a cost of 5 to 40 dollars per year).

You will receive a lot of registration information including your login and password information to access the domain. Make sure you keep this in a safe place, so when you're ready to build out the site, you don't have a roadblock that pushes you back in the process.

Done? You're one step closer to your own independent website!

By : Dave Pasch

Choosing Domain Name for SEO

2008-05-31T19:47:00.000-07:00

How do we choose a domain name? What are the factors to consider in order to have an SEO friendly domain name? Does domain name plays a vital role in search engine rankings? These are just some of the questions many people have in mind. A domain name is like a brand name which will act as our trademark on the net. It is important that we properly select the best domain name as much as possible. Putting keywords on domain name has huge impact in search engine rankings. It has been proven for past years up to the present.

Today more than ever, all search engines do carry a lot of weight to the keywords that are present in your domain name. Ask any SEO professional that has been in this business for at least three or four years and they will tell you that the careful research and the final selection of the domain name you will use can have a tremendous positive impact in the search results pages from Google, Yahoo, MSN, Alta Vista and other search engines on the web.

The careful selection and key wording of your domain name is one of the most crucial part of the initial steps in setting up any website, old or new. It can have a drastic impact in the search engine results pages (SERPs). In some cases, and depending on the competitiveness of your business, it could almost mean the difference between success and failure of your site, as far as search engines visibility is concerned.

Once you have chosen the perfect domain name, both for your most important keywords and possibly your branding, what's left is the careful and continuous optimization of your site to ensure long term success.

Consider a business website like any other business asset. It is marketable property that can grow larger as time pass by and it should become an important tool to your business, while at the same time assist you achieve your long-term goals.

By : teamcreatives

Why El Cheapo Domains Will Cost You Money

2008-05-31T03:01:00.001-07:00

You want your own online business? Good because it's one of the most fun things you can do with your spare time and can be very profitable.

Remember that just because it's an online business doesn't mean that you should treat it with any less professionalism or seriousness than you do your daytime job.

Why? Simply because when you run an online business it's a serious business. Well it should be taken seriously if you want to make serious money.

One of the most important aspects of any online business is the domain name. This is where the vast majority of new online entrepreneurs make their first big mistake - they choose one of those free domain name providers to represent their business online. This is a critical mistake.

Let's say you're starting a computer repair business. Which one of the following domains looks better:

'www.computerfixer.com' or; 'computerfixer.freehosting.com'

The truth of the matter is that computerfixer.com is a top level domain and computerfixer.freehosting.com is a sub-domain. These free domain providers would have you believe that their cheapo subdomain is as good as a top level domain - this simply isn't so.

Online shoppers expect your online business to be located on a top level domain. If they find your website on one of these cheap or free domain services you've just lost 50% of your potential customers. They'll click back and look at the next search result in Google, Yahoo or MSN.

Free domains make you look cheap, show that you don't want to invest in your business, that you don't take your customers seriously, look terrible on business cards and make you look like an amateur. There aren't any benefits to cutting corners on your domain name.

A domain name costs, at most, $15 per year. That's 4 cents per day. If your business can't afford this then you really shouldn't be running an online business at all.

By : Niall Roche

Google Versus Yahoo!

2008-05-31T03:00:00.003-07:00

When it comes to internet search engines the top two are without a doubt Google and Yahoo!.

Although the two a fierce competitors they share more common bonds then some people might realize. Both were created by students at Stanford University. Yahoo! was created in January of 1994 by two Stanford graduate students Jerry Yang and David Filo. The pair originally called Yahoo! "Jerry's guide to the World Wide Web" but later changed the name to Yahoo!, commemorating the word the Jonathan Swift defined in his classic novel Gulliver's Travels. In the book Swift stated that the word was "rude, unsophisticated, uncouth." Four years after Yang and Filo had created Yahoo! and introduced it to the world (at this time it was a internet mogul) two different Stanford University students, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, created their own search engine, Google, as a research project, the date was September seventh 1998. Google started out as the search engine used on Stanford University's website before it went public on August 19, 2004. When 2006 ended Google was the leading internet search engine, it enjoyed over 50.8% of the market.

By the time it was a year old Yahoo! had had over a million hits, the sheer number of people who had found and were using Yahoo! prompted it creators to incorporated their creation in May of 1995. Yahoo! went public on April 12 1996 were it earned a total of 2.6 million dollars.

Google's progress was a little slower then Yahoo!s. Shortly after creating Google, Page and Brin registered it as the domain google.com on September 17, 1997 on Stanford University's website. Approximately one year after registering Google on Stanford University's website the pair decided to incorporate their research project. Finally, on August 19, 2004, Google had its very first public offering. Google is currently the favorite internet search engine.

After its meteoritic climb to glory Yahoo!'s creators and shareholders were confident that they were holding onto a gold mine. They didn't predict the burst of the dot.com bubble in the early two thousands. Yahoo! survived the crisis but the value of Yahoo! stocks dropped to $8.11, an all time low.

Yahoo! uses a combination of web crawler compiled and indexed results to rank the websites and webpage are registered on their search engine. In addition to rankings compiled by the web crawler, webmasters can, for a fee, purchase a submission to Yahoo!'s human compiled directory. The annual yearly fee is about three hundred dollars. The theory is that the listing human's provide will influence web crawlers into giving the website a higher ranking.

Google credits its success and popularity to the program it uses to search and rank webpage's, a program it calls PageRank. Because Google is worried about webmasters using abusive techniques to garner higher rankings for their search engines Google carefully keeps the hows and whys of PageRank a closely guarded secret. Google does confess that PageRank runs on a link analysis algorithm. PageRank was different from all the rest of the search engine optimization techniques because it graded each page based on the number of and quality of the links that pointed to it.

Yahoo! quickly grew fond of offering the webmasters that subscribed to its search engine the opportunity to purchase something called paid inclusion. In exchange for a fee, Yahoo! guaranteed that the webpage's would be ranked. What Yahoo! didn't guarantee was what type of ranking the webpage's would receive; they refused to promise that the webpage's would appear in the first two pages of a search.

Google uses a pay-per-click method to charge advertisers. Each time an advertisers link is clicked Google charges the account fifty cents.

By : Li Ming Wong

Creating Your Own Yahoo Small Business Web Site

2008-05-31T03:00:00.001-07:00

Your business needs a web site, but do you need a web designer? If you don't know what HTML is or how to create a yahoo web page, you may think you need to hire someone to build your site. But with Yahoo Small Business, you can get your own domain name, build your web site using a simple design tool and professionally designed templates, and host your site with a Yahoo web hosting unlimited hosting plan-and do it all for far less than you'd pay a designer.

Yahoo Small Business provides a simple, intuitive web design tool (called Yahoo Site Builder) that lets you build your own site, even if you don't know anything about web design and even if you're not sure what should go on your site. A checklist provided by Yahoo Small Business web hosting guides you through all the steps to creating your perfect web site in no time. Your pages will be stored on your Yahoo web hosting account, and all you have to do is tell the design tool what you want your pages to say. Use a professionally designed template from YSB, plug in your information, and your site will be ready to go.

Why create your own web site, when designers know so much more about creating web pages? First, because it's much less expensive to create your own site. Of course you don't want to save money and skimp on quality, but with Yahoo Small Business web design tools, you're not skimping. Professionally designed templates, including industry-specific templates, make it easy to create great-looking pages quickly.

Second, while web design professionals are experts at building web sites, you're the expert on your company. You know what information is critical to deliver to customers, and how best to present it. What you need is help with designing and uploading the pages, and Yahoo web hosting and the included web design tools take care of that.

There are hundreds, even thousands of hosting companies on the Internet. Yahoo Small Business stands out in the crowd because it focuses its services on business owners, like yourself, who need the best unlimited web hosting, design tools, and responsive technical support representatives. You can't afford to have your business web site offline, and you need the very best services you can get. Yahoo web hosting meets these needs, and does it within your budget.

Many people think that web hosting has become a commodity, and that anyone can put up a web site and do well with it. Yahoo Small Business web hosting is based on the idea that hosting is a valuable asset for your company, and that you need professional design tools to help you create the online presence for your business. Yahoo Small Business is all about making sure that your business, no matter how small it may be now, continues to grow and thrive online.

When you set up your Yahoo web hosting account, you'll pay no setup fee, and your hosting account costs as little as $8.96 a month for the first quarter. You can build your Yahoo web site quickly and easily, and be online and making money much sooner than you might expect.

By : Russell Blanc

Domain Name Registration

2008-05-30T01:44:00.002-07:00

When you are starting your very own website whether simply for personal or for business use, one of the very first steps is registering your domain name. Your website requires a name to identify and locate it in the world wide web.

It is ideal for domain names to be short and simple for easy recall. Generic domain names such as http://bags.com, http://shoes.com and the like are very much easy to remember but unfortunately most of these generic domain names are no longer available but are already taken. In fact, you will find many of such generic domain names like http://realestate.com, http://property.com, etc. You may be lucky enough to acquire a hot domain name if you are okay with country specific domain name extensions such as .jp, .ph, .ca and many others. Before registering any domain name, always check and verify if such a domain name does not in any way infringe any trademark or patent in your very own country or elsewhere.

Other from generic domain names, unique domain names like yahoo, google and even word combinations like askjeeves for example are not only unique sounding but easy to remember and recall as well. Slight distortions like shus instead of shoes can also be great and catchy domain names. Chances are unique domain names are more likely to be available and not taken.

As much as possible, your domain name should reflect your company name. Avoid long and hyphenated domain names though for this can add confusion in remembering such domain names. You can actually seek help from automated name creating tools for creating a domain name.

There are many registrars who help you with your domain name registration. They offer various services and do the registration for you. Companies that also offer services on name creation for domain names also offer domain name registration services as well. Charges per year for such services can vary.

The process involved in a domain name registration is very much simple and is very similar to the process when you perform an online purchase with the difference that the domain name is virtual and will acquire existence only when you buy it. The first step to do is to inquire if your selected domain name and its extension is available for booking. After which if it is available, you will proceed with the payment. After completing your registration you are one step finish towards building your very own website.

By : James Brown

The Creation of Global Domains International

2008-05-30T01:44:00.001-07:00

Global Domains International is rated #37 of the top 500 fastest growing privately held companies in the USA. What this means is that this company is successful. For the customer it means they can trust in this company and ensure their website is secure. Global Domains International sells domain names and hosts websites. They have capitalized on a unique idea that has moved this company quickly into the forefront of the world wide web.

A domain name is a websites address. The domain name extension is the part at the end, dot come, for example. Website addresses are used instead of IP address which are a long series of numbers that would be difficult to remember. A typical website address looks something like this: www.websitename.com or in the case of Global Domains International the website address would look something like this: www.websitename.ws.

When the internet first became largely popular everyone was using domain names ending in dot com. The founders of Global Domains International, Michael Reed and Alan Ezeir realized that finding a domain name extension other than dot com would become something valuable. They looked at the country codes assigned to each country. For example, the United States has dot us and the United Kingdom has dot uk. They focused on a small country that had yet to capitalize on their domain name extension - Samoa. Samoa is a small country in the South Pacific with a population of less than 200,000.

There domain name extension is dot ws. Mike and Alan immediately recognized the marketing potential of ‘ws' when used as an abbreviation for website.

The reason a good alternative to dot com was needed is that as more people began publishing websites the available names with the dot com extension were dwindling. That made it difficult for a business or person to register the domain name they really wanted. Eventually all the good, easy to remember and logical dot com domain names would be taken. The extension ‘ws' was perfect because it is easy to associate with the word ‘website'. This is what Michael and Alan recognized and why they set out to convince the country of Samoa that they could profit from their country code.

Michael and Alan met with leaders in Samoa and with the local technology company who had the rights to the code. They told them how they could make a profit off the dot ws and how beneficial it could be to their country. They also explained how they would sell the dot ws domain names. The leaders agreed and allowed Michael and Alan to use the dot ws extension.

Global Domains International quickly took off. The Samoa government told Michael and Alan that they would need to sell 15,000 domain names in the first three years in order for them to continue using the domain extension. This task was completed in the first month. Today Global Domains International has sold domain name registration to large companies like Yahoo! And Intel. The Samoans receive a percentage of sales and is pleased with the partnership with GDI.

GDI has been so successful because it fills a need. The dot com websites soon did become obsolete and other domain name extensions were needed. Mike and Alan have created a user friendly product and offer templates and hosting to help customers build their website. Global Domains International is at the top of its industry because of the hard work and dedication of Michael and Alan.

By : Mohammad Irfan

The Value of Domain Name Registration

2008-05-30T01:43:00.000-07:00

The domain name of your website is your company’s identity on the Internet. It is what is popularly called the website address, also known as the URL (Uniform Resource Locator). Examples of a domain name .When the domain name is typed in a browser window, it takes the web surfer to that particular website. You do not have to be a company or organization to register a domain name; any individual can do it too.

Since the domain name defines a unique identity on the Internet, your customers will remember your company by it and use it to find information on products, services etc. No two companies or individuals can have the exact web address at the same time. A short, memorable domain name can make the difference between creating a successful web presence and getting lost among the clutter on the Internet.

There are many good reasons for registering a domain name specific to your company.
o A domain name gives your business credibility. Few people would take you seriously with a URL like http://www.yahoo.com/whatever.html.
o Even if you change your web host, your domain name will remain the same. For example, regular visitors or customers who know your site name as www.something.com can still access your website with the same URL regardless of which server you host it on.
o A domain name describes your company's business or name and makes it easy for people to remember it easily.
Every domain name has an extension name or category. While the most common extension is “.com” for commercial business, there are several extensions to choose from, depending on the nature of activity, such as:
.gov - Government agencies
.edu - Educational institutions
.org - Organizations (nonprofit)
.mil - Military
.net - Network organizations

You can register a domain name through a domain name registrar. The domain name industry is regulated and overseen by Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), a nonprofit organization that is responsible for IP address space allocation and domain name system management. Only a domain name registrar is permitted to access and modify the master database of domain names maintained by Internet Network Information Center (InterNIC). InterNIC provides a list of accredited registrars.
The registrar you choose will charge a fee for registering a domain name, which is usually paid on an annual basis. You will have to provide some contact and technical information to place on record. This information is stored in a registry, which other computers can access to find information on your site. The registrar can cancel a contract and resell the domain name if it cannot contact the designated person.
There are many laws that regulate the registration of domain names. Check with your domain name registrar for the laws that affect how you can register yours. If you want to create one and are not sure if it has already been taken, check with whois a server that keeps track of all registered domain names.

By : Akhil Shahani

How To Choose A Domain Name For Your Business

2008-05-29T01:44:00.003-07:00

A website's domain name (also know as a website address or URL) is an important consideration when developing your online presence. Choosing an appropriate domain name is the first step in the process of building online credibility. Remember to choose carefully because this online address may be where your business resides for the rest of its operating life. Now, some important tips to consider before choosing your domain name:

Choosing Your Domain Extension

A domain extension or top level domain is simply the suffix of your website address: (.com, .net, .org, .ca, etc.) Most Internet users are familiar with the ".com" extension, and will generally use this extension by default when typing an address into their browser. Choosing a ".com" extension should be your fist choice in case your potential customers forget that your address is "www.mybusiness.NET", and visit your competitor at "www.mybusiness.COM" by mistake. Choosing the ".com" extension gives your website the most credibility in the eyes of your customers.

If your business only caters to the local community, then it makes sense to get a country specific domain name, such as the ".ca" extension. A country specific domain benefits you in two ways: both your customers and search engines such as Google will know that your website is registered to a Canadian and operates in Canada. Potential customers will feel more comfortable knowing that they are dealing with a Canadian company, and not a U.S. based business pretending to be a Canadian company. Also, search engines will give your website higher placement in the search results when a user is performing a Canadian specific search.

I personally recommend that my clients, if possible, register both the ".com" AND ".ca" extension. This way, your Canadian based website will benefit from using the ".ca" extension, while at the same time ensuring that they reach your website if they accidentally type the ".com" extension into their browser.

Using Your Business Name

The first choice for any domain name would be your business' name. This ensures that your customers will remember your website's address. You can't expect your potential customers to remember a phrase that just relates to your business.

Choosing Choice Keywords

Including specific keywords in your website's address will help your rankings in popular search engines such as Google or Yahoo. It is best to choose a keyword that you think your potential customers will use to search for your business. A search engine optimization (SEO) professional such as Cost Effective Design can assist you in choosing your keyword(s). These type of domain names are used in instances where the client does not want to use the business name because it is either already registered by another company, or the company name is simply too long. Any company that is serious about generating traffic through search engines should acquire a domain name with a keyword in addition to your business name.

Don't Confuse Your Customers

If possible, try not to use domain names that include: "2" for "To" or "4" for "For" or "u" for "You". These may make your domain look "cool" or "hip", but in reality they are not very practical. These domain names create a problem when directing your clients to your website verbally or over the phone. For example, if you owned http://www.UsedCars4U.com, every time you verbally directed someone to your website, you would have to specify that the URL uses the actual number 4, and letter U.

To Use, Or Not to Use Hyphens

Given that more and more businesses are registering domain names every day, getting the website address you want is becoming increasingly difficult. One or two word domain names are usually already registered, forcing new registrants to choose URLs containing three or four words. To some people, these URLs can look like a big mess of words. Using hyphens in between the words can make them visually more appealing. For example, "www.used-cars-for-you.com, looks better than "www.usedcarsforyou.com. The jury is still out on hyphenated domain names. The advantages are that they look better and search engines can easily distinguish the separate keywords for better search placements, but the disadvantages are that they are difficult to verbally communicate and type.

The best solution would be to register both the hyphenated, and the un-hyphenated version of the domain name to ensure that there is no confusion.

Domain Name Length

Even though you are allowed to use 67 characters for a domain name, the general rule of thumb is: shorter is better. Although, in some instances, the website address may be more memorable if it is more descriptive. For example a domain consisting of initials only, such as "www.waa.com", may not create a lasting impression compared to the domain name "www.windsorautoassociation.com". Therefore, it is best to choose a name that, while short, contains enough description for your customers to easily remember.

Buying an Existing Domain Name

Maybe the domain name you really want is already registered, either by a legitimate company, or by a "domain squatter" who merely registered the name to sell for a profit at a later date. You can make an offer for these types of domains, although they make cost several hundred, or even thousands of dollars. There are advantages to purchasing an existing domain name. In addition to getting the domain you want, it may also rank highly in the search engines for certain keywords and / or generate topic specific traffic that you will benefit your business.

By : Paul J Coulter

How to Register Your Domain

2008-05-29T01:44:00.001-07:00

When you launch a new website you must register a unique domain name with an authorized registrar. When the internet was first starting, all domain names and IP addresses were registered through one organization, Internic. Eventually Network Solutions took over the role as keeper of the internet domain names. Today, there are hundreds of websites where you can register your domain name but Network Solutions still maintains the main database of domain names. Some websites charge as little as $2.95 per year for your domain name while others charge as much as $35 per year for the exact same service. Some even offer one year free if you register your domain name with them and host your website on their servers. Why pay $35 when you can register your domain name for much less at another website?
So why does Network Solutions charge $35 a year if they are the keeper of the database and their resellers charge a fraction or even nothing? Who knows and who cares! Register your domain with one of the cheaper providers and you'll be fine. A word caution - be care that you choose to host your website. Getting a free year of your domain name isn't worth it if your webhost is unreliable and your website is down more than it's up.
You pay for your domain name on a yearly basis. It's a separate charge from your webhosting bill. When you register your domain name choose the autorenewal option if it's available. This way your domain name will not expire if you forget to renew it. If your domain name expires, it's free for anyone else to register so you need to stay on top of when it's expiring. Also registering your domain name for a 3 to 5 year term will often save you money. For example, godaddy.com charges $8.95 a year for your domain name but only $7.25 a year if you register for a 5 year term.
When you register your domain you can create different contact names. The three contacts are Administrator, Technical and Billing. Most of the time the same person is all 3 contacts. If you web designer registers your domain name for you, make sure you are designated as the Administrative contact. This gives you control over the domain name and you must be notified if someone is trying to make changes to your record. If you aren't one of the contacts then someone can transfer ownership of the domain name without your permission.
To see a record of your domain name, go to www.networksolutions.com and use their WHOIS utility which is located in the bottom left corner of their home page. Simply enter your domain name and click Search. You'll see the complete record of your domain name, where it's registered and where your website is hosted. For a complete video of how to use WHOIS, visit www.valiss.com/video/whois/whois.html.
When you register your domain name you'll have to the option of making it a private registration. I highly recommend paying the additional fee to make your information private. If you leave your registration public anyone can look up your domain information which includes your home or business address and your email address. Many spammers scan public domain registration records to find valid email addresses to spam.
I always use a yahoo or hotmail email account when registering my domains. This way if spammers to find my email address, I can just get a new throwaway email address and I won't receive spam at my primary email address.
Always make sure your domain record remains locked. Locking your domain name is a feature implemented a few years ago. When you want to transfer your domain name to a different registrar you must unlock it. Once it's unlocked the new registrar can pull your domain name from your current registrar. Once the transfer is complete, the domain name will be locked to prevent anyone else from pulling your domain away from you.

By : Mahender Singh

Information Highwaymen and Your Domain

2008-05-29T01:43:00.000-07:00

You go to work every day at the store you own, and one morning, your key to the door doesn't work. You look in the window, and the display items have changed. A stranger is behind the counter. But when you call the police, they can't do anything because the company papers now indicate that the store belongs to the stranger.

The above scenario isn't likely to happen with a bricks-and-mortar store. Because of insecurities in the domain registration system, however, information highwaymen could take over your online business.

As with identity theft, domain thieves steal your identity -- the identity used to register and configure your domain name. After that, your website, your email, your online business, and possibly your reputation are theirs.

Domain names at risk of theft

While theft is a risk with all domain names, domains most at risk are more valuable ones. Domains with dot com extensions have a higher resale value than domains with other extensions, and domains with high traffic or valuable keywords are also more likely to be targets.

The motive behind domain hijacking is usually monetary, but it may be personal. If anyone wants to attack you, stealing your domain name is one way to do it.

How domain theft happens

When domain hijackers steal your domain, they gain access to the domain's Whois records. They can modify the domain's nameservers so that the domain points to a different server. They can also transfer the domain to a different registrar.

Either way, site visitors will find themselves at the website of the domain hijacker instead of at your site. All domain email will go to or through the other server instead of to you. All you'll have left is a website without public access because your domain isn't pointing to it any more.

How can this happen?

Domain hijacking methods

• Domain hijackers send forged faxes to the domain registrar, impersonating the registrants.

• Domain hijackers hack into the accounts of free email addresses listed in Whois records and use those addresses to obtain domain account information.

• Domain hijackers send out fraudulent email renewal notices, and registrants unknowingly transfer their domains to the thieves.

Registrar non-action

• The gaining registrar (the registrar that the domain is transferred to) doesn't obtain approval from the domain name registrant or administrative contact as required by ICANN Inter-Registrar Transfer Policy.

• The losing registrar (that the domain is transferred from) doesn't notify the registrant of the transfer during the five-day pending transfer period. During this period, the registrant can cancel or deny approval of the domain transfer --- if the registrar notifies the registrant of it.

Registrant carelessness

• The registrant forgets to update Whois details or to renew the account.

• Someone with access to the registrant's records steals the information.

Domain name disputes

If you discover that your domain has been hijacked, contact your registrar immediately. If your registrar is unable to resolve the situation, the ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) Transfer Dispute Resolution Policy (TDRP) applies.

By going the above arbitration route, you don't have to argue your case in person. On the other hand, all you can get back in the process is your domain (and not necessarily that). For a lot more money, you can take your case to court, where you can seek compensation for damages in addition to the return of your domain. This process takes more time, however.

You may be able to proceed both ways - get your domain back via ICANN domain dispute resolution procedures and then go to court to collect damages. You can also appeal a domain arbitrator's decision in court.

How to protect your domain name

Protecting a domain name is similar to protecting a bricks-and-mortar store from burglary. With a combination of precautions in place, thieves will find it difficult or impossible to gain access.

Your domain account information

• List your name for the administrative contact, and use your full name.

• Create a complex password with letters (both upper case and lower case) and numbers. Don't use any real words or personal information in it. Make it long. Make it unique - don't use the same password for anything else. Change it periodically.

• Keep your domain login name, account number, and password in a place where only trusted people can access it.

• Use a valid contact email address that doesn't use the domain it's for. Be sure that this email account also has a complex password. If you're going to be offline for more than a few days, have someone else check the email for this account.

• Don't use a free email address such as a Hotmail or Yahoo address. Domain hijackers target domains with free email addresses in the Whois records. After they've cracked your email account password, the support you need to get your email account back will probably be slow, giving the hijackers plenty of time to take over your domain.

• Update your Whois record whenever the information in it changes.

Your domain account features

• Choose a domain registrar that sends registrants transfer pending notifications when a domain transfer is taking place.

• Consider protecting your Whois details with a registrar that offers a private domain name record. With this feature, your registrar's data appears with your Whois record rather than your data. The downside of using this feature is that your business may have less credibility because you're hiding who you are.

• Register your domain for a long time period, and set up calendar reminders to renew it before it expires.

• Set up your domain to be renewed automatically if your registrar offers this feature.

• Use the Registrar-lock mechanism if it's available through your registrar. When a domain is locked, it cannot be modified or transferred unless the registrant unlocks it or follows the domain transfer process.

Other domain security measures

• Set up a free Whois monitoring alert email service and add your domain to your monitoring list. You will receive email notifications whenever the expiration date, registrar, or status of a monitored domain changes. (Whois does not have data on all domain extensions.)

• Make sure that someone checks your website every few days, preferably daily.

By : Lois S.

Yahoo! Search Engine Optimization

2008-05-28T02:00:00.003-07:00

Jerry Yang and David Filo were graduate students at Stanford University in January of 1994 when they created a website that they called "Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web," a directory that organized other web sites into a hierarchy. Four months later Yang and Filo renamed the search engine Yahoo! after a word used by Jonathan Swift in Gulliver's Travels. Swift's definition of Yahoo! was "rude, unsophisticated, uncouth."

At the end of 1994, approximately twelve months after its creation, Yang and Filo had over one million hits on their fledgling search engine. Understanding that they had designed something that could enjoy potential business success Filo and Yang incorporated Yahoo! early in March of 1995, fourteen months after its inception. Because the name Yahoo was already the brand name of other enterprises, human propelled watercraft, barbecue sauce, and knives, Yang and Filo were forced to add the exclamation point in order to trademark the name. Yahoo! had it first public offering on April 12, 1996. Two point six million shares of Yahoo! were sold at thirteen dollars a piece, earning a total of thirty-three point eight million dollars.

By the late 1990's Yahoo! and several other internet communications company's diversified into web portals.

In the late 1990's Yahoo! also started buying out other companies such as eGroups and GeoCities. Because Yahoo! had a reputation for changing terms of service when purchasing companies most of the buy outs were wrought with controversy.

Although it stocks fell to an all time lo, Yahoo! was able to survive the dot.com bubble burst. In order to help rebuild itself, Yahoo! started forming partnerships with telecommunication companies and internet providers, these alliances led to the creation of content rich broadband services that actively competed with AOL.

With their eye on the future, the powers in charge at Yahoo! are working on creating Yahoo!Next, a concept similar to Google Labs that contains forums that provide places for Yahoo! users to leave feedback that will hopefully assist in the development of future Yahoo! enterprises and technologies.

Like most successful companies Yahoo! is constantly working to improve and expand. Yahoo! currently provides its customers with a smorgasbord of internet services that cater o most online activities. These services include Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! Groups, Yahoo! Maps and Driving Directions, and Yahoo! Messenger. While Google holds the top spot in search engines Yahoo! is standing strong in second place. Yahoo! competes against Yahoo! by offering its customers vertical search services such as, Yahoo! Image, Yahoo! Local, Yahoo! Shopping Search, Yahoo! Video, and Yahoo! News. Yahoo! is proud to boast the largest, most successful e-mail service in the world.

User generated content products such as Yahoo! Personals, Yahoo! Photos, Yahoo! 360, and Flicker offer Yahoo!'s customer's social networking services.

Yahoo! Shopping, Yahoo! Merchant Solutions, Yahoo! Store, Yahoo! Web Hosting, Yahoo! Domains, and Yahoo! Business Email are services Yahoo! provides to small business owners that allows them to develop their own online business using Yahoo!'s tools.

In March of 2004 Yahoo! launched a paid inclusion program that guaranteed commercial websites listings on Yahoo! search engines for a fee. While the paid inclusions were lucrative for Yahoo!, they where unpopular with the online marketing world. Business owners didn't want to pay the internet mogul for search engine optimization. Paid inclusion simply guaranteed that the businesses websites would be ranked; it didn't guarantee that it would be ranked in the first two pages.

By : Li Ming Wong

Utility of Domain Name

2008-05-28T02:00:00.001-07:00

Domain name plays a very important role in web business. In web business only the best domain names are taken and better are set aside. But they don’t always stay taken.

It is a fact that, Domain names often come back on top of the market. Yet earlier than they do, domain name prospectors are sifting through them to search out the gold domains from between them.

What is the reason behind the availability of domain names again?
As studies conclude, thousands of domain names expire every day and remaining domains are offered for sale. The reasons behind it are diverse and are given below:

Negligence:

There are several webmasters who forgets to renew the domain parallel to their expiry date. Due to which the email address where the domain is registered becomes invalid, and the domain name registrant doesn’t obtain the restitution notices.
The following are the possible reasons for this:

Reasons

1. Scarcity of need or funds
2. The company that had registered the domain left the business.
3. The website owner loses curiosity in or doesn’t have sufficient time for the website.
4. The website owner doesn’t have funding to prolong the website venture.
5. The domain name registrant registered abundant domains on speculation and couldn’t afford to continue renewing unexploited domains.

Revenue:

1. The domain name registrant might come to understand what domain’s worth is and choose to sell it.
2. The domain name registrant may have registered the domain because he/she came to realize its impending worth, along with putting an aim to sell it later.

Which secret forms a formerly registered domain name valuable?
There are several reasons to argue, why would anyone pay so much for e.g. $750,000 for a domain when they could register a new domain for under $10?

1. Immediate traffic

For the condition if the domain name previously was pointed to a website, search engines have already indexed that domain name. It is quite possible that, other websites probably still have links to that domain. If the domain is listed in directories, these links will further result in more traffic. The user registers the domain, and the work getting incoming links has already been accomplished for him/her.

2. Surf value

It is quite frequent or rather say occasionally that web surfers hunt by typing generic words followed by dot com (or any other extensions) inducing into their browsers, like for e.g., cats.com. The previously mentioned domain name redirects to the website for a company that involve in selling pet products and services. A domain name as mentioned above constantly brings visitors to the website without spending bucks and sweat on the purposes like advertising and marketing.

3. Simple to keep in mind

In some of the cases the user’s company name does not come in the category which can be easily remembered, but domains for e.g. cats.com or website.com are. It is inarguable that, People are more likely to return to a site or pass on the name to their friends when they can easily memorize it.

The way one can find domains pending cessation

If one has decided to join the gold rush for valuable pre-registered domains. Now here, searching expiring domains is the first step, but one also need to research domains that are about to come back on the market.

Lists of domains pending expiration

At these websites, among others, one can search for domains containing keywords he/she enters. At website like expireddomains.com, the results contain domains that are currently available, soon to expire, on hold, in the Redemption Grace Period (RGP), or for sale by their registrants. Extensions that are quite often searched are .com, .net, and .org.

The domainsbot.com database searches .com, .net, .org, .info, and .biz extensions for domains that are available, for sale, or expiring.

Domain research

One can find some incoming links to a domain by entering “link: siteURL” into Google or Yahoo. Now when one gets the links, he/she should follow them to see what types of sites link to the domain. One very important question which comes at this point is how would a user feel about having these particular sites linking to his/her site?

Also one should look into any possible problems associated with the domain. In case the previous site had controversial search engine optimization techniques employed like use of hidden text or links, search engines may ban the domain. One should check the history of the site at a domain name via the Way Back Machine. If the domain previously was pointing to a site with gambling or adult content or a lot of affiliate links, or if it employed questionable search engine optimization techniques, search engines may here ban the domain. Besides there is possibility of a domain being banned, there are also chances that one may not get incoming links from sites associated with these types of contents.

Questions related to domain:

There are several questions which arise in mind of user like:

How to register domains pending deletion?

How to maximize choices if one has already selected a domain of his/her choice and now wants it?

There are several sites like eNom.com’s Club Drop, where one can bid on expiring .com and .net domains the day before they’re available to the public. One can also be notified when domains matching his/her search criteria become available.

The NameWinner system places bids on .com, .net, .org, and .info domains for the user. The best part of it is it bids only as high as is necessary to maintain one’s high bid position up to your maximum bid.

How to avail profit from one’s domains

By selling domains

If one is having a domain that is valuable for anyone else but not for the user, in that case the user can benefit from it by selling it at auction. If one is already having a client for hiss/her domain, he/she can transfer it securely through Escrow.com.

Domain monetization

With paid domain parking programs, also called "domain monetization" or "monetize domains," one can earn pay-per-click income via targeted advertisements. The following are names of some of the sites offering such services:

- DomainSponsor
- Park Quick
- Domain Spa
- Google Adsense for domains

Thus with right knowledge, timing, and a bit of luck, one can have possibility of earning a lot by domain.

By : Web Hosting

How To Get High Rankings On Google And Yahoo Search Engines

2008-05-28T01:59:00.001-07:00

Do you ever wander how some sites get top rankings in the main search engines and others do not? Well of course you do. The reason being is that these sites adhere to a system that the search engines love and in return give these websites higher and better rankings in their listings. There are 7 key ingredients that if implemented properly will produce the desired results for you and your website marketing. They are:

Step 1: Advantages of a keyword rich domain name Does your domain name affect your search engine ranking? In my experience, the domain name has an enormous impact. However, this is certainly important if you are creating a new site and attacking a competitive market. However many of you will already have sites up and running that do not contain a keyword rich domain name so do not worry as it is more than possible to rank highly without a keyword rich domain name.

One variable that modern search engines consider when determining which of the thousands - or millions - of results should be presented in the top slots is definitely the domain name of the site. The main advantages of having keywords in your domain name are that you can legitimately include them in contact details and links to other sections of your site and the title of your site. What someone may consider a good domain name and what in reality is in most instances 2 different things. Now I will give you an example of this:

Mr. Smith is creating a site that is going to sell vacuum cleaners. His business name might be Smiths machines and logically he may have that specific domain. However it would be more advantages to have a domain name containing the term vacuum cleaners. For example vacuumcleaners4u or vacuumcleanersstore depending on what is available.

Finally I would like to add please take into consideration where you host your site. If you have a site selling predominantly to the UK or US market you should make sure that the site is hosted in that country. So if a have a site hosted in the US but you are targeting the UK it is not in your interests to have it this way as the search engines will perceive it as a US site.

Step 2: Importance of the Title & Meta Description Tags

Every page title and Meta description on your site is enormously important, from the point of view of both the search engines and your readers. Always use your top keywords in each one of your web pages - it signals to the search engines as well as your readers what that page are about.

Firstly in the title tags of your page you should use your top 2 or 3 keywords or phrases. If you are unsure what a title tag is, it is clearly visible at the top of the browser window. The title tags are incredibly important. As I said before it signals to the search engines what the page is about. In my opinion the title tags should not exceed 75-80 characters.

Secondly the Meta description tag tends to get overlooked far too much. It's one of those SEO things that usually get left to the last minute. Like the title tag a descriptive Meta tag signals to the search engines and your readers what that page is about. When someone does a search on Google they'll scan through the page titles and descriptions. Search engines, especially Google, will display the description you wrote in the Meta description if the search term being used can be found exactly in the Meta description you wrote.

If you do not do this Google will crawl your site and just take the first bit of content it finds and place it there. By thinking out the outlay and terminology you use in the Meta description tag you can boost your rankings. With regards to length I would not exceed 200 characters.

And thirdly the Meta keywords. Personally I do not believe that search engines give this area the credence it once did. In the past people would just cram this area with as many keywords that they could find related to their site but this just does not work anymore. However, this area should still not be avoided. My recommendation would be to place your keywords in this area but do not exceed 250 characters in length.

Step 3: Keyword Density, Content & Blogs

In simple words, keyword density is the ratio of the word that is being searched for against the total number of words appearing on a given web page. If your keyword occurs only 2-3 times in a page of 500 or more words, obviously it has a lower keyword density than a keyword that would occur 8-10 times in a page of similar length.

As far as search engines are concerned, if a particular keyword has a higher density on a particular web page, then the chances of that page obtaining a much better search engine ranking increases almost exponentially. Not all search engines compute or evaluate keyword density in the same way and most have their own proprietary algorithm for calculating the average density of a keyword.

The placement of keywords, in any number of locations on the page, has different results in the various search engines as well. Hence, you should try to write sentences that use your important keywords and key phrases. My recommendation if we are looking at percentages would be no more than 3% of the wording should be the same.

However in our testing this area really is not definitive as we have seen sites rank for a specific key term that only appears once on the page also sites that have a keyword far too many times on the page. What has worked for us is to keep it very much within reason and you will not go far wrong.

Secondly, Content. Content is absolutely crucial to the success of ranking and search on all search engines but especially Google. The higher quality and relevancy of the content not only will increase your rankings but also gives you a far better chance of ranking highly for what we call the "long tail search".

You may have all your main keywords and terms figured out but ultimately we have no idea what phrase someone will actually search under using these keywords. It could be for example if they are searching for "health insurance" they may well just type in "health insurance" or they may type in "health insurance in the uk for a family". If your content contains these words or phrases that are identical or related you have a much better chance of ranking highly and thus getting more qualified traffic to your site. I would say that on a new site that content should start off at no more than 10 - 20 pages and grow slowly. Google will take note of a site that appears with hundreds of pages out of nowhere and initially view at as "unnatural" so grow your content slowly and make it unique and original.

Thirdly we need to look at "blogs". This is a massively overlooked area by most people marketing on the net. The two main places you can go to set up with a blog are either at blogger or Wordpress. Personally I would recommend Wordpress. Here you can create a blog that has so much Flexibility. The choice of alternative plugins that can be placed on a wordpress blog is amazing and all designed to be SEO friendly. Also it can hosted on your own server so it becomes integrated with your own site. Search engines love blogs because of new original content being added on a regular basis. This area really is a whole topic on its own but I highly recommend that you research this and utilize it.

Step 4: Headings

The heading tags will make your headline bolder so it will stand out and will be recognized as important by the search engines. When writing your headings, include your main keywords in the headings. Be as specific as possible to increase your chances of being listed in a reasonable spot in the search engines. For Example. You have a site selling Plasma TV's. You want to explain to your reader about different brands of Plasma TV's so in the heading you could put PLASMAS TV BRANDS. This will be in bold and larger font size this signaling its importance.

Suggestions:Use keywords that relate to the page content in your heading tags Have your keywords occur early in the tags Use multiple H2 and H3 tags where appropriate

Step 5: Filenames

One of the simplest methods to improve your search engine optimization is to look at the way you name your files. Google give lots of importance to file names. You should think what are you going to put in your web page and then give it a relevant file name. How important is your filename? When you do a search in the search engines, most of them will highlight keyword(s) in your filename or your directory path. In other words Google is signaling the importance of filenames by highlighting it. For example if you have a site that sells electrical goods called electricalappliances the page that promotes washing machines should read in the file name electricalappliances/washingmachines.htm This is telling the search engine exactly what that file contains. This area is missed so many times but is a simple thing to do and helps your rankings. So please take this into serious consideration.

Step 6: Anchor text

Very simply Anchor text is the text (title) that appears within your hyperlink. Anchor text tells the search engines about the content of your web pages - what the page is about and how others perceive it. In essence, the anchor text is about the relevancy of your webpage based on a keyword. Therefore your anchor text should always be completely relevant to the landing page (destination page) and should contain your keyword or keyword phrase. For example. On a site electricalappliances the link that takes you to the washing machine page should read "washing machines". Also on the plasma TV site the link that would take you too SONY plasma TV's should have the anchor text SONY PLASMA TV.

Step 7: Quality incoming links

Inbound links are links from other web sites that point to your web site. The number and the quality of inbound links has become one of the most important ranking factors in Google, Yahoo and MSN Search. It's a simple principle: if Site a links to Site B then it is seen by the search engines as a recommendation; that Site A is 'recommending' Site B. The text that is used to link to your website is also very important (especially to Google). Try to include your keywords or phrases into the text that is linking to your site.

Now comes the most important part. Google ranks all pages on the internet by a system of page rank, commonly called PR. This ranges from 0 - 10. An incoming link from a page with higher PR counts several times more than a link from a lesser PR page. So the more links you have from higher PR pages the better is the chance of ranking highly in Google and other search engines. You build links gradually over a period of time.

This is more prevalent with a new site rather than an aged site. This is because Google prefers to see steady natural growth. Of course how quickly you can rank because of this is really down to the market and competition you are up against.

Finally SEO is crucial to the success of any business online. The great thing about the internet is that it really is a level playing field. So there is nothing stopping you from ranking highly for a given keyword or phrase against even the biggest of companies.

By : Gareth Owen

5 Killer Tips How To Optimize Your Home Internet Business Site For Google And Yahoo

2008-05-26T03:14:00.001-07:00

Despite of the fact that Google gets maybe 60 % of all searches, the challenge is: how to rank better with the same keyword at Yahoo, i.e. to kill two flies with one hit? Or is it possible?

The reason, why the results are different is, that these two engines, which gets around 70 % of all searches, follow their own rules, algorithms, when they put the sites in a certain order and when they will decide how many pages they will display on the search result pages. Okay, I asked: what are the rules to get my keyword, internet business, to the # 2 place at Yahoo too?

1.Google And Yahoo Think Differently?

This is natural, because they are competing services. We can think that they in a way complete each other by offering their own answers to the searches.

Google owns a PageRank System patent, so other engines cannot use it and that is why they have developed their own algorithms. Generally speaking Google puts more emphasis on the quality backlinks especially from other related and high Google PR web sites. The more backlinks your site has, the better placement it will get for that particular keyword, in my case: home internet business.

On the other hand Yahoo evaluates the url, meta tags and the keyword density as important optimization factors. Well, what a difference in algorithms: Google appreciates the web site popularity or connections with other related sites (off-page factors ) and Yahoo on-page factors. But if we want a high ranking in both engines, it is very easy.

2.The Url Must Include A Keyword.

To say it clearly, I will not change my url, because it works so well as a home internet business brand. And it is pretty known on the market. But the experts recommend that the url should include the related and generic keyword. Both engines see the keyword in the url to be important and Yahoo even as one of its main optimization factors.

The keyword rich url is important because some web sites put the domain as a backlink, so the keyword rich domain works as an anchor text, which is important especially for Google.

3.Put Keywords Into The Meta Tags And Into The Copy.

The meta tags are important in search engine optimization ( SEO ), despite of the fact that their importance is decreasing, but especially Yahoo appreciates them. Insert the keywords into the title, description, keyword tags and all over the copy.

4.The Keyword Density.

Every single home internet business marketer has a different opinion about the keyword density but I learnt from the experts, that the right density should be as high as 8 % but not over. The high density is important for Yahoo especially.

5. Use Sitemap On Your Home Page.

The home internet business sitemap is important for the search engine spiders, because it makes it easy to access all the important pages on your site. But it also serves the visitors, because now they see from one list if the site has topics which interest them.

By : Juhani Tontti

Optimizing for Google, Yahoo and Msn

2008-05-26T03:13:00.000-07:00

Search engine optimization is a regular process, if you want your website to be a top ranker in all the major search engine results, its mandatory to update your website according to the changing algos of search engines. To gain higher rankings in the search engine results, first we have to understand the three internet giants Google, Yahoo and MSN. These are the three biggest existing search engines available. Almost all of us use any one of these three to make searches for any kind of information we want to look for on the World Wide Web.

Although these three search engines rule the internet industry but they all have a tendency to dominate another. Google has more or less succeeded doing this. Here are some facts about the three search engines Google, Yahoo and MSN, tweaking them can help you to rank well in the SERPs:

Let’s start with Google:

Google

1. Google consider the domain age most important as compared to other major search engines.
2. Quality links obviously can attract any search engine.
3. Active websites (updated regularly at any level) are loved by Google.
4. Get Listed in The Major Directories, helps you to climb success ladder on Google.
5. To please Google your HTML markups should be up to date as well as up to the mark.
6. Google with its advanced algorithm has started indexing websites which are based on LSI. Pages on your website should be relevant to your theme.
7. Your website should not be limited only to three to four pages to be indexed by Google.
8. Hyphens in URLs with keywords will definitely work.
9. W3C Compliancy in the source code is equally important for Google.

Yahoo

1. Keyword in Title Tag work for Yahoo.
2. Keyword Density is also an important factor.
3. Lot of Links (Site wide links work in Yahoo.)
4. Getting listed in Yahoo directory helps you to climb high on Yahoo, which is paid one.
5. Domain should not be too young in order to rank in Yahoo.

MSN

1. Keyword in Title Tag
2.Keyword Density Works
3.Freshness in content, relatively young websites can rank well in MSN.
4. Lot of Links (Site wide links work for MSN.)

By : Brainpulse India

Questioning Parked Domains And Google Adnonsense

2008-05-26T03:11:00.000-07:00

Is contextual advertising helping or hurting the web? It basically started with Google Adsense even though the concept wasn't new. It had never been done on the scale that Google did it. Now we have Yahoo Publisher. MSN is building their version. We have Konterra and a whole lot of other companies scrambling to cash in on the contextual ad craze.

Initially contextual advertising seems like a good idea. Ads based on the content of your website that might benefit your readers or visitors. Ads that are related to the content you produce that will also help you make a little money for your efforts.

However greed ruins all good things. Now there are probably millions of webpages online that are built for the sole purpose of cashing in on contextual advertising. I'm not talking about people who continue to blog the way they always have or continue to maintain a website full of valuable information that just add contextual advertising to boost their revenue a little.

I'm talking about websites full of scraped content, total spam content, or no content at all that are capitalizing on contextual advertising revenue. They are putting tons of webpages up that have no real value for content to the point that now as you search the web doing research on almost any topic you can think of, you have to sift through all the garbage to find it.

I wrote an article for a client recently. The topic they asked me to research and write about was "Mancoon Cats." Take a moment from this article and go try to search for that phrase. I bet you can't find a page about it within 30 minutes. I'm talking about a page that has real content.

Of course the real name for this cat is a "Maine Coon" Cat, but many people call it by the first name above and it happens to be a popular search phrase. But all you can get on that term is pages full of garbage that link to other pages full of garbage in a complete circle-jerk.

All of those pages contain contextual advertising, mostly Google AdSense though. The theory to make money with contextual advertising is counterintuitive. While most of us build websites and create blogs that people will visit and bookmark to return to, a contextual advertising guru does just the opposite.

To make money with contextual advertising you want your content to be bad. Yes, you want it to be bad. You do not want the user to like what you have on the webpage or find what they are looking for in hopes that after not finding it, they will either do another search in your embedded Google search box or they will click one of the contextual ads on the page in hopes of finding what they came there to find.

The defenders of this type of website say they are "just another way for users to search and find what they are looking for." What a crock. If that page never existed, the user would have clicked to a relevant website in the first place.

The fact that you can easily find these garbage pages proves that Google and the others know they exist and are doing absolutely nothing to curb it even though it goes against their ToS. As long as Google and the others make money, they do not seem to care that the content on the web is becoming half garbage.

I'm not even counting the ones that are registering tons of domain names, then un-registering them before the 5 day grace period is up [discussed at http://www.circleid.com/posts/howdomainnametastingworks/ and http://www.circleid.com/posts/domaininbad_taste/]. I am including the monetized parked domains. Many will object to that association and say parked domains are legitimate. However if you registered a domain name with the sole purpose of parking it and letting Google monetize it for you, then you are adding to the garbage.

Temporarily parking a domain name while a website is being built is excusable. Never planning to build the website and registering tons of domain names for the sole purpose of parking and monetizing them adds no value to the web.

It's perfectly legal. There is no crime being committed while doing it. But to claim it is anything other than adding to the garbage on the web is just being in denial.

It also makes it more difficult for those who do wish to add value to the web to find decent domain names. But I don't blame the ones parking the domains or doing domain name kiting for that shortage. For that lays squarely on ICANN's shoulders. If they allowed the creation of more commercially viable TLDs, then there would be no shortage of good domain names.

However, that would not get rid of the contextual advertising disease that has infected the web. Google, Yahoo, and the others need to clean up their act and start policing the websites that use contextual advertising to make sure they are actually putting up content and not just googlespam.

By : Chris Mcelroy Aka Namecritic