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2008-12-10T22:41:00.000-08:00

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Web Design

20 Places to Check your website rank online

2008-12-08T13:14:00.001-08:00

20 ways to rate a website online.

There are many ways that you can determine if a website has a good presents online. I will go through some tools that help you determine this.

A list of resources that we will be using today.

1. Google http://www.google.com

2. Yahoo http://www.yahoo.com

3. MSN http://www.msn.com

4. Quarkbase http://www.quarkbase.com/

5. Alexa www.alexa.com

6. Compete http://www.compete.com

7. Quantcast http://www.quantcast.com

8. URL Trends www.urltrends.com

9. Spyfu http://www.spyfu.com

10. SEOBook http://tools.seobook.com

11. SEMRush http://www.semrush.com/

12. Domain Tools http://www.domaintools.com

13. Iwebtool http://www.iwebtool.com

14. Keywordspy http://www.keywordspy.com

15. Webmaster tools http://www.webmaster-toolkit.com/

16. Digitalpoint http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/

17. SEO Chat http://www.seochat.com/seo-tools/

18. WebConfs http://www.webconfs.com/

19. W3 http://www.w3.org/

20. Back Tags http://www.backtags.com

Design Coding - SEO Rapping

2008-07-08T12:31:00.001-07:00

Seo and web design Rap , got over 300k on youtube.

The Poetic Prophet (AKA The SEO Rapper) is back with another marketing rap. This time he describes how web standards and proper design can affect the ranking and conversion of pages on your site.

lyrics:Your site design is the first thing people see
it should be reflective of you and the industry
easy to look at with a nice navigation
when you can't find what you want it causes frustration
a clear Call to action to increase the temptation
use appealing graphics they create motivation
if you have animation
use with moderation
cause search engines can't index the information
display the logos of all your associations
highlight your contact info that's an obligation
create a clean design you can use some decoration
but to try to prevent any client hesitation
every page that they click should provide and explanation
should be easy to understand like having a conversation
when you design the style go ahead and use your imagination
but make sure you use correct color combinations
do some investigation, look at other organizations
but don't duplicate or you might face a litigation
design done, congratulations but it's time to start construction
follow these instructions when you move into production
your photoshop functions then slice that design
do your layout with divs make sure that it's aligned
please don't use tables even though they work fine
when it come to indexing they give searches a hard time
make it easy for the spiders to crawl what you provide
remove font type, font color and font size
no background colors, keep your coding real neat,
tag your look and feel on a separate style sheet
better results with xml and css
now you making progress, a lil closer to success
describe your doctype so the browser can relate
make sure you do it great or it won't validate
check in all browsers, I do it directly
gotta make sure that it renders correctly
some use IE, some others use Flock
some use AOL, I use Firefox
title everything including links and images
don't use italics, use emphasis
don't use bold, please use strong
if you use bold that's old and wrong
when you use CSS, you page will load quicker
client satisfied like they eating on a snicker
they stuck on your page like you made it with a sticker
and then they convert now that's the real kicker
make you a lil richer, your site a lil slicker
design and code right man I hope you get the picture
what I'm telling you is true man it should be a scripture
if it's built right you'll be the pick of the litter
everyone will want to follow you like twitter
competition will get bitter and you'll shine like glitter
if you trying to grow your company will get bigger
design and code right man can you get with it

Content Is King!

2008-07-08T11:37:00.001-07:00

There is a saying that everyone refers to when it comes to internet marketing. Content is king! That means that content is really important. The better information your website has about a product or service the better it will rank. But the information needs to be unique. Google will punish you if you steal content from other sites and just copy and paste it on your site. Google will also punish you and even ban your site if you scrape alittle from here and a little from there to fool the search engine. They have special rules in place that finds this automatically and blocks you. That doesnt mean that you cant quote someones article once in a while! Also I found that on blogs the rules change a bit because blogs are allways posting things that other people wrote and discussing them.

If you are like me and you dont know how to write well I suggest hiring a freelancer or a company to write content for you. They can interview you over the phone or you can send them some bullet points and they will do the rest of the work for you.

Search engines love articles. you should have as many articles about your products and services written as possible and you should do this often.

Fees for content vary greatly depending on the experiance and quality of the writter. Some writters can write really well but they dont understand keywords and the internet. You need to find a writter that know how to write keyword friendly articles. But dont overdo the keywords because you will get blocked. I suggest that each article should focus on two keywords and use them two times each at least. Also depending on how long the article is.

Here is how people and companies charge for content or copywriting. By the hour, By the job, By the word. Not allways will you get more by paying more. At the same time if you pay nothing you will get nothing.

Ill continue writing about content at a later date. Thanks for tuning in.

Tech Bubble Video - Funny!

2008-07-04T11:47:00.001-07:00

Official Windows XP Service Pack 3 Download Links

2008-04-29T12:49:00.001-07:00

The Windows XP Service Pack 3 will be released to the public tomorrow. A lot of users have already downloaded the service pack from various unofficial locations like download portals and the Bittorrent P2P network. Many users however were very cautious and decided to wait until the service pack would be available through official Microsoft channels. Tomorrow users can download the service pack by using Windows Update.

Downloads will surely be rather slow after the release and it does make sense to download the service pack 3 for Windows XP early. Cautious users will be delighted to know that the official download links of service pack 3 have been revealed and that it is as of now possible to download the Service Pack 3 directly from Microsoft servers.

Available are service pack releases for various languages. All for 32-bit systems only though. The languages that are available are English, German, Russian, French, Japanese and Simplified Chinese. All downloads are directly from Windows Updates. If you have been wary before downloading the service pack there is nothing more to fear by using this official download.

Windows XP Service Pack 3 English

Windows XP Service Pack 3 Simplified Chinese

Windows XP Service Pack 3 German

Windows XP SP3 French

Windows XP SP3 Russian

Windows XP SP3 Japanese

Download speed is fine. I’m getting about 330 Kilobyte per second currently.

Buy Feedback on ebay

2008-04-16T14:15:00.000-07:00

Buy feedback on ebay!

Now you can buy feedback on eBay. Just $1 each!

There can be many reasons why you would want to buy feedback. 1. To open a store you must have 20 feedback. To sell an item you must have 10 feedback or be id verified.

Ebay is a great place to sell anything!

Online Marketing Strategy - Internet

2008-04-13T18:45:00.001-07:00

How Google is Pushing Traffic to Social Media

2008-04-13T18:38:00.001-07:00

I typed video into google today.

First of all I want to point out that Google does not include YOUTUBE.com as an entry on this page. Insead it makes video.google.com which includes youtube.com as well.

And in the top 5 SERPs google included 2 videos.

Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us

(I really like this one... it also ranks for web 20)

And

Vote Different

What these two videos have in common is that they both have the over 5 million views on them. Both of these videos do not have the word video in the title of the video or in the tags.

Also note that google does now show the standard "Cached - Similar pages - Note this" on these results as they would on the regular results.

Just thought I would share this with you!

Want to get on youtube.com homepage?

2008-04-13T18:10:00.000-07:00

Do something cool like this

Good bye youtorrent!

2008-04-13T18:06:00.000-07:00

You torrent is going to go downhill now! as repoted on Tech Crunch they started only offering legal torrents! too bad for them...

They had over 10 million visitors per day!

Now everyone will be going to pizzatorrent....

Carminita Immelman

2008-04-13T17:56:00.000-07:00

Carminita immelman is the top trend today on google trends. What does that mean to me? Not sure but lets look a little deeper into this.

Some related searches to this trend is trevor immelman s wife, carmenita immelman, trevor immelman wife, trevor immelman, trevor immelman illness.

Golf! People love golf for some reason... And Luxury watches! Rolex made a commercial with immelman.

Rolex Golf Ad feat. Adam Scott,Luke Donald & Trevor Immelman

So why is everyone going nuts on google over this guy today?!

Cnn allways has the reason for everything! A quick turnaround, and a Masters victory for Immelman!

Here is some other aricle i found...

Walking near the 18th green Friday afternoon, on her way to join family and friends for lunch, Carminita Immelman broke stride just long enough to articulate what it means to see her husband, her childhood sweetheart, in this position at this tournament.

"It's awesome," she said. "This place is special."

It's special in the sense that magical things tend to happen here. Lesser known players occasionally turn in performances that exceed their pedigrees.

Remember when Larry Mize dunked in a 140-foot chip shot to win a playoff 21 years ago? Remember how Zach Johnson, who once accumulated giant cardboard winner's checks and plates of chicken wings while grinding his way through the Hooters Tour, slipped his arms into a green jacket and introduced himself to the world as a simple, small-town guy from Iowa?

If Trevor Immelman maintains his pace for the next two days, if his accuracy doesn't betray him and the pressure of being in front doesn't smother him, it will be even more shocking than either of those outcomes. It's not that Immelman's talent has ever been in doubt. A couple of years ago, none other than Gary Player, the three-time Masters champion and patriarch of South Africa's professional golf family, predicted Immelman would emerge from the shadows of his more storied countrymen, Ernie Els, Retief Goosen and Tim Clark, and perhaps outperform them.

Marketing, The Golden Opportunity!

2008-04-13T17:50:00.000-07:00

Marketing, The Golden Opportunity!

Its time to start marketing your products and services using social media! Its the golden time now. There is not much time left. The fact is that google yahoo and msn and starting to place ranks on social media entries like videos and blogs and they are associating many factors like age to those things! If you start now you will be ahead of the game when it takes over the entire serps.

The fact is the social media is human edited and if you are spam you will be reported and if you are good you will be liked! Google Yahoo and MSN want to show what people want to see so that people keep coming back!

Show people want they want and they will bless you!

Happy Marketing!

Want to make sure that your brand is all over the place?

2008-03-04T19:32:00.000-08:00

Make sure to sign up profiles with your brand on the following social media websites.

Enjoy

How To Add Random RSS Content To Your Site

2007-03-08T08:21:00.000-08:00

Most savvy internet marketers will know how important it is to have fresh content added to their sites on a daily basis but the problem sometimes is to find the time and/or content. Adding an RSS feed is a good way to add fresh content to a site, but the problem again is that most of them only get updated on a weekly basis.

I have been wracking my brains trying to find a semi- automated way to do this to make my life a little bit easier. The search engines are always looking for fresh content - adding random RSS feeds seemed to be the answer!

So I did so some searches on the Internet to see what is available. A search for "add random content to site" sure enough brought up a bevy of links - most of which went to sites that wanted to sell me their products for hundreds of dollars!

Having been on the Internet for quite a while I know by now that most of the information that is on sale can most times be found with just a little bit of work. So I refined my searches somewhat and I found a gem that I would like to share with you for…. You guessed it - free! It will take a bit of work from your side to tweak the script a bit, but it's worth it, right?

First you will have to head over to: http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex17/randomiframe.htm and copy the available java script. This displays a little content box 130x130. Go on, before they decide to start selling it!

Paste the script into your favourite editor and make the following changes:

To change it to display your content you will have to make the box a little bigger. To achieve that you have to change this piece of code:

width=130 height=130

I have mine set to width=500 height=800 but you should change it to fit your content. Play around with it a bit and change the width or height where necessary. If you do not want a frame around your content, change this piece of code:

frameborder="1" to frameborder="0

To display your content, you will have to create html pages for it. For now, just create a blank html page, I will show you later where to get the content for it.

As you can see, the script calls the pages like this:

randomcontent[0]="random1.htm" - change the "random" to whatever you want to call your created html page - e.g. successstory1.htm.

You can basically display unlimited pages with this script. To add more pages to display, just add:

e.g. randomcontent[4]="random5.htm", randomcontent[5]="random6.htm" etc.

You can now add the script to any page that you want to display random content on.

To get free rss content to rotate, head on over to http://www.goarticles.com They also have literally thousands of free articles that you can use for fresh content on your site. Add the code for the rss scripts to the blank html pages that you have created (or an article if you so prefer) then upload all your pages to your server.

Make sure that the page that you are calling them from (the page with the randomizer java script) and your content pages are in the same directory, otherwise you will have to change the path to the pages in the java script code!

If you would like to get more rss feeds, just do a search for "free rss feeds" on any of the search engines.

So, there you have it. Randomized rss content for your site without having to pay a cent.

Enjoy your fresh content and the increased traffic!

http://ezinearticles.com/?How-To-Add-Random-RSS-Content-To-Your-Site&id=26228

The First Post

2005-11-29T09:26:00.000-08:00

This is a test post to see how this looks on the blog...