Submitting your website to web directories can play an important part in improving your website ranking in search engines and should be an important part of your search engine optimisation strategy. Firstly, what is a web directory? A web directory is a website that lists information about other websites into categories and subcategories. The listing usually includes a description of the website and a link to the website.
Web directories often allow website owners to directly submit their website for inclusion. Unlike a search engine, a directory is managed by people called editors, who visit the submitted website and check that it meets the web directory requirements. Usually the minimum requirements of any web directory are that the website is not still under construction and that it does not promote illegal activities or provide illegal information.
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Posted by admin on 08 Apr 2008 at 3:11 am under Linking
It can seem a bit daunting when you first start to market your website and realize just how much is involved in getting your site and content out to as many people as possible. Most people find what they are looking for via search engines and placing in them can be a long and tedious task, but if you set up a plan and stick to it you can build a strong and visible standing in the world wide web. One of the most influencing factors is how many relevant and quality inbound links your site has (how popular you are.. in a manner of speaking). Here are a few of the top ways to achieve links.
1) Build relevant traffic with a pay per click campaign and get your site more visitors and exposure.
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Posted by admin on 07 Apr 2008 at 10:42 am under Internet
One of the best online file sharing website out there today is this one called Mediafire. I’m not sure if you have heard of it. If you do, glad you know it way before me, and it’s not too late to discover the gems. It is this kind of online services that make thumbdrives redundant sometimes if you have access to internet most of the times. If you are a digital camera buff and you take uncountable number of photos and you need a place to store them online, Mediafire is the best place for you. Just forget about others!
First of all, what I like about Mediafire is its ease of use and interface for lazy guys like me who simply dislikes registering for another internet account. Straightaway at the home page of Mediafire, you can upload your files, without any upload limits for the number of files! Yes, that means you can upload every files in your 100GB harddisk. The only downside is each file size is limited at 100MB which is insufficient for that DixV videoes but decent for most run-of-the-mills multimedia files.
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There are possibly hundreds of social bookmarking websites around today with many more jumping onto the bandwagon in the months ahead. Social bookmarking is truly the most successful example of a web2.0 phenomenon. To benefit from this social bookmarking craze, a blogger needs to submit his posts to as many social bookmarking sites as possible so that the blog may gain more free traffic and more backlinks. But as there are so many social bookmarking websites around, how shall a blogger go about to meander this huge social bookmarking networks efficiently?
First of all, you can submit it one by one to the social bookmarking sites you trusted. All you need to do is to register accounts at each one of them and submit your blog posts. That would be extremely time-consuming, wouldn’t it? I’m even lazy to submit manually to five of them at one go. It’s just that inefficient!
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Posted by admin on 05 Apr 2008 at 8:24 am under Adsense
The leading search engine, Google, focuses on the relevancy and quality of its abilities, particularly nowadays that Google is basically publicly owned and needs to keep both users and shareholders satisfied with the performance of its product. The incorrect use of the AdSense and alternative advertisement methods, either unintentionally or intentionally, can result in harsh penalties, like being banned or having accounts terminated. Steps against perpetrators of unsavory business methods are definitely welcomed.People can use AdSense to generate extra income. Consider strategies as well as other issues:-
Hidden texts. Advertisement pages using small and difficult to read text, questionable colors and loading pages with intentions of hiding link’s to other sites will attract penalties.
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What is bum marketing? It is a form of marketing that I highly suggest anyone who is getting started in their marketing ventures who do not have the money to spend on marketing. It does take time and effort but you will make money with AdSense through this form of marketing. The way to do bum marketing is to write articles based on what your blog or website is about; then post them to article directories and link your article to your site. This will have people visiting your site and people will most likely click on your AdSense ads. The thing with AdSense is that you have to learn how to drive traffic to your site. Without traffic it does not matter how many ads you have on your site no one will be on your site to click on the ads.
Make your articles informative you want to make sure that you give people the information that they are looking for. If you can get people to read through your whole article and give them information that will help them they are more likely to visit your site. Do not just throw up a whole bunch of useless articles in hopes of driving traffic to your site. Many people do not like to use this tactic because it does take time and effort to write out good quality articles; however if done correctly you can pretty much guarantee you will make money with AdSense. I still continue to use this because it is so powerful and has doubled my AdSense earnings.
Posted by admin on 03 Apr 2008 at 2:47 am under Codes
Formmail is a cool website tool that has helped many webmasters to set up forms to collect information and data. However, it could be daunting to layman who wishes to set it up for the first time or old timers whose experience has jaded. Today due to the upgrade of the cpanel of my office websites, I found the forms are not working suddenly. I shall not name the web hosting company though. It was a massive improvement and I understand there are many users with different configurations so it is not surprised I’ve got errors.
1. Opt out form not working. *solved by tagging it to old SSI id*
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When I was in 6th grade, track and field was all the rage. I’ve never been particularly athletic. But it was 1984 and everyone in my class was pretty fascinated with the Olympics that year. As you can imagine the school’s annual track meet turned into a mini-Olympics. So I surveyed the events and the sign-ups for each one. I decided that the long-distance running events held the most promise for glory. The 2 mile, in particular, only had 2 other girls signed up-so I was pretty much guaranteed a “medal”. That sounded pretty exciting. Maybe I could go for the gold!However, watching the other events leading up to the 2-mile, I soon learned that one of the other girls was a seasoned runner. She knew all about pacing, how many minutes she should be able to run a mile in, and all that fancy stuff. At that point, I knew that first place was pretty much done for. I barely knew how many laps around the track I had to run. I ran the race anyway and wound up coming in second-which was just fine by me.
It’s not all about winning-a place or a show can be just fine
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Posted by admin on 01 Apr 2008 at 11:18 pm under Software
Let me tell you a fact that not many people are aware of or may not know of. Whenever you use a digital camera to take a picture, information such as date, time, model of camera used, resolution and focal length are embedded to the JPG file of the photograph. This kind of information is called digital camera metadata because it is data that describes the file. If you are a person who cares about privacy, this is the kind of information you should take care of before you post them online.
If you are a Windows user, you can easily check the metadata of a digital photograph by right clicking on the file name and select “Properties”, go to “Summary” tab and click on “Advanced” button. You can see there is really a lot of metadata describing your digital photos.
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There is one technique that smart markets and webmasters use to expose their websites and online promotions to some serious unique traffic and hits. That is through press releases. Why press release? They are known to get businesses thousands of visitors and referrals because of their pure power. Do not forget the fact that each press release is itself an unique and original piece of writing and it’s no big secret to hide that search engines just love press releases.
Writing a great SEO-optimized press release is a skilful art. Not only you have to place keywords at strategic points, your press release has to look natural and of course it has to adopt the standard press release writing style which focuses on reporting the facts. Press release is not an article mind you. Read up a 400 to 500 word press writing from your newspaper and you’ll roughly know how to put together a decent press release bit by bit.
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