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Wednesday, October 1, 2008

SEO Tips

I've seen this article online that you might be interested in. Because me as a blogger I really want my site to be noticed by may audience as possible. This is good for website owners who has a business online. Making your website visible online can be done in just a week or two. It will definitely need hard work and of course skills. You can't have your site visible if you seldom updating it so you really need to work hard.


1. Do your keyword research. Keyword research is the cornerstone of everything you do in search marketing. Optimizing for keyword phrases that nobody is searching for is truly a waste of time. With today's numerous keyword research tools at our disposal, there's no excuse for optimizing for the wrong keywords. Try Google's free Keyword Tool for starters; if you have multiple Web sites or product types, paid subscription tools such as KeywordDiscovery and/or Wordtracker are well worth the price.

2 Redo your Web site architecture. You'll want to ensure that the most popular areas of your site (ideally the pages you optimize) are featured in the main navigation that's on every page of the site. The search engines rightly assume that the most important stuff on your site is in your main navigation, and therefore give extra weighting to those pages in their ranking formulas.

Think of it this way — the pages contained in your main navigation are linked to from every single page of your site. That's a powerful way of building up the internal link popularity of those pages, which is a key ingredient to SEO success. Use this to your advantage by optimizing them for the most highly searched upon, competitive phrases, and save your deeper pages for the more "long-tail" type phrases.

3 Choose which keyword phrases belong on which pages. Armed with your researched keyword phrase lists, go through the key pages of your site and choose three to six phrases that apply to each page. Many people believe they should optimize each page for only one keyword phrase, but nothing reads as poorly as a page that has only one keyword phrase as its focus. Ideally, you'll want to use different sets of keywords for each page, but some overlap is fine. Avoid targeting any one keyword phrase on every page of your site — you gain no advantage in doing so. After all, the search engines will only show two pages at most from your site for any search query, so the idea is to show up for as many different phrases as possible. This works out nicely as no two people search in the same manner. You may use certain words to describe your product, but your prospects may use very different ones.

4 Use keyword-rich title tags, meta descriptions, marketing copy. Using the keyword phrases you chose for each page, write or re-write the visible marketing copy so that it uses those phrases naturally. This may sound easier said than done, but it's actually quite simple . just think more descriptively when you write. In other words, instead of using generic phrases such as "our software" or "our company," edit the copy so that you mention what type of software or company (e.g., marketing management software or project management software company). You can almost always work in keyword phrases in a natural manner when you do this. This is so powerful, in fact, that if you do nothing else after reading this article but go back to your current web site copy and make those changes, you may start gaining targeted traffic for those keyword phrases within a few weeks.

5 Measure success from targeted traffic and conversions.
SEOs have traditionally measured success by tracking the rankings in the search engines for various keyword phrases. However, due to numerous factors such as personalized search, geo-targeted search and multiple search engine datacenters, no two searches will show the same results. In fact, it's common to do a Google search using a particular phrase in the morning, then perform the same search in the afternoon and see different results. Rankings are simply not a good measure of success. All the #1 rankings in the world won't mean a thing if a) you're the only one seeing those rankings b) you're ranked for keyword phrases nobody is searching on or c) the rankings bring Web site traffic, but not from people interested in what you are selling. The fact of the matter is that rankings do not help your bottom line. Today, SEO success is measured by how much targeted traffic is delivered, and more importantly how much of that traffic converts from visitors to buyers.

Credits: webopedia

Monday, September 29, 2008

Get to an Actual Person Immediately

Calling technical support or any other service is frustrating especially if you will have to press lots of numbers just to get to someone that you can speak to. It happened to me the last time I called my internet service provider. I asked me to press this and that but it didn't helped me at all because in the end, I ended up in the wrong department. It did a great job making me more frustrated aside from the issue that I'm having which is already giving me enough headache. I found this site online which you might find interesting because they have a database which contains list of secret phone numbers and codes which will get you to an actual person immediately. All you have to do is go to gethuman.com and search for the company that you are looking for.

Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Mouse Potato's Mozzila Firefox tips

There are lots of web browsers that are out today. One of those browsers is Mozzila Firefox and it’s a popular one aside from the usual Microsoft Internet Explorer. Since I noticed that most users nowadays are using firefox, I decided to put up some tips that might help those users.
- Like in Internet explorer, you can view a window in a full screen mode by pressing the F11 key. Press the same key (F11) to return to how it was.
- A lot of internet users have sites that they usually visit. You can access the sites that you usually visit in just two clicks. All you have to do is to create a folder in your bookmarks that contains the webpages that users visit daily. Right-click that folder and click “Open in Tabs” so that you can get all your favorites in the folder opened in a new tab.
- You can quickly scroll one page at a time by pressing the space bar. Move back a page at a time by pressing the shift + spacebar key.
- You can access full configuration menu by typing "about:config" in the address bar. Opening this window can help you change a lot of different settings. Pressing Ctrl + T will help you open up a new window. Press and hold CTRL + # where # is 1-9 to be able to switch between tabs in the open window. Holding down the CTRL key while clicking on the link in an ooen page will open that link in a tab.
- You can save any media including embedded content to an alternate source. This can be done by right-clicking on a page click "view Page Info". Click the media tab, locate the media file you wish to save and click the save as button.
- Pressing the F6 key will quickly get you to the address bar.
- Press CTRL + Shift + T to undo a close tab. Pressing this more than once will undo multiple closed tabs.

Bookmark any web page form field and quickly access it from the browser address bar. Below is an example of how you could bookmark the Computer Hope search and quickly search for help anytime .
1. Right-click on the search box in the top left portion of this window.2. Click "Add a keyword for this search".3. In the Add bookmark window, type any name or leave it blank and for the keyword make it something simple and easy to remember. For example, "CH" for "Computer Hope" and click Ok.
Now in your address bar you can type: "CH " and then anything you need help with. For example typing: "CH motherbaord" would open the search results for motherboard.

Bookmark almost any search engine and have the capability of using it anywhere by following the below simple steps.
Right-click within the text box you wish to bookmark and click "Add a keyword for this Search.."
Enter a name for the bookmark and then a keyword you wish to use. For example, if you were doing this in computer hope you could type "ch" as your keyword and then click Ok to create the bookmark.
Once created in the URL bar type your keyword and what you wish to search for. For example, if you used "ch" as your keyword and wanted to search for Firefox you'd type: "ch firefox".

Sunday, September 21, 2008

Google Bought Korean Blogging Software

Google Inc bought Korean blogging software Tatter and Company. Tatter owns a blogging platform named “Textcube” which is said to be the most popular among Korean bloggers. The said deal was announced by co-chief executive Chang-Won Kim on his personal blog titled “We’ve got Googled!” Korea has the ninth-highest numbers of internet users in the world according to Internet World Stats. Blogs are sometimes referred to as online journals where bloggers/people write their opinions and other things on the net.

Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Shortcut Keys

It is really good if you can do anything easily. So I prepare some keyboard shortcut keys that you can use. I hope you may find this article helpful. J

Shortcut Keys
Alt + F - File menu options in current program.
Alt + E - Edit options in current program
F1 - Universal Help in almost every Windows program.
Ctrl + A - Select all text.
Ctrl + X - Cut selected item.
Shift + Del - Cut selected item.
Ctrl + C - Copy selected item.
Ctrl + Ins - Copy selected item
Ctrl + V - Paste
Shift + Ins - Paste
Home - Goes to beginning of current line.
Ctrl + Home - Goes to beginning of document.
End - Goes to end of current line.
Ctrl + End - Goes to end of document.
Shift + Home - Highlights from current position to beginning of line.
Shift + End - Highlights from current position to end of line.
Ctrl + Left arrow - Moves one word to the left at a time.
Ctrl + Right arrow - Moves one word to the right at a time.

Monday, September 15, 2008

Preventing Computer from Internet Vermin (Virus and Spyware)

Now that internet vermin is everywhere, it is really important that we know what a virus and spyware are. It is necessary that we know how to avoid this types of vermin and how we can minimize the risk of our computer.

Let’s talk about virus and Anti-virus programs. A virus is a piece of code that is loaded in your computer without your knowledge. All types of virus is dangerous even a simple virus because it will use all the available memory to bring the system down. Even more dangerous are the types of virus that can transmit itself across networks by bypassing security systems. You can protect your system from viruses by installing an antivirus program. It will scan your hard drives for viruses and will fix or isolate any threats that it will find.

Sypware is software that gathers the user information through internet connection without the user’s knowledge. This is something that we all should be careful because it can also gather information about the user’s email address, passwords, and credit card numbers (scary). They gather information in your system using the system’s memory resources and eating bandwith as it sends information back to the spyware’s homepage using the user’s internet connection. And to avoid this issue, use an antispyware program. Antispyware is designed searches the hard drive for traces of known spyware and delete it once found.

Maintenance Tips:
· Keep your programs and operating system up-to-date.
· Always update the virus/spyware definitions to ensure that your system is protected against latest threats.
· Of course, install antivirus/antispyware program in your computer.
· Make sure that the files that you are downloading off the internet are spyware free.
· Normally viruses are transmitted using emails, so you have to make sure that you don’t open email attachment that was sent by someone you don’t know especially with the file that has “exe” file extension.

Sunday, September 14, 2008

Hate Pop-ups?

Browsing the net is sometimes really frustrating with all those ads popping up on the screen. So here’s some information that will help you solve this kind of issues. I’ve written down list of widely used program that will help prevent pop-up, pop-under, or other types of advertising on the net.

Microsoft Internet users:
For those who are using Internet Explorer 6.0, there’s a pop-up blocker included in the browser and all you have to do is to enable it. If you wish to enable to pop-up blocker, follow these steps.
1. Open Internet Explorer
2. Click Tools
3. Click Options
4. Click the Privacy tab
5. At the bottom of the Privacy tab you should have a Pop-up Blocker section. If you wish pop-ups to be blocked check the "Block pop-ups" option. You can also set additional settings such as disabling the sound when a pop-up is blocked or disable the information bar displayed when a pop-up is blocked by clicking the Settings button.

And for those who are using the earlier versions of internet explorer, here’s what you can try. You can use a google toolbar because it includes free pop-up blocker. Or, there are lots of third party software that you can use that can help you prevent pop-ups from occurring.

PanicWare Pop-up Stopper : http://www.panicware.com/
PopUp Cop: http://www.popupcop.com/
NoAds: http://www.southbaypc.com/NoAds
Smasher: http://www.popupstop.com/

Firefox users:
Firefox includes its own pop-up blocker. If you need to block pop-ups from coming out, here’s what you have to do:
1. Open Mozilla Firefox
2. Click Tools
3. Click Options
4. Click the Web features button on the left hand side of the Options window.
5. By default this feature should be enabled if you wish to disable the feature, uncheck "Block Popup Windows." If you have allowed popups on a site you wish to now block you can also click "Allowed sites" in this window and remove any sites you wish to block any popup on.
6. Or you can disable pop-ups from any browser plu-ins. Here’s how…Open Mozilla Firefox
7. In the URL field type "about:config" and press enter.
8. This should open the Firefox config window.
9. Right-click on a black portion of the window and click "New" and then "Integer"
10. For the preference name type "privacy.popups.disable_from_plugins" and click Ok.
11. For the value type "2"

Then locate the “privacy.popups.firstTime” option and its also in about:config screen and change the value of this to “false.

Netscape users:
Netscape 7.1 or higher has the pop-up blocker enabled already by default and you can access its settings by doing the following steps.
1. Open Netscape
2. Click Tools
3. Click Popup Manager
4. Within the Popup Manager you can adjust the settings of how you want popups to be blocked.

Opera users:
Same thing with Opera, pop-up blocker is already enabled by default. To access its settings, follow these steps.
1. Open Opera
2. Click Tools
3. Click Quick preferences
4. Within the Quick preferences menu you will have options to "Open all pup-ups", "Open pop-ups in background", "Block unwanted pop-ups", and "Block all pop-ups."
So there are ways on how we can prevent those pop-ups. All you have to do is follow these easy steps. I hope that you find this article helpful.