How blogs can help you with your online business

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Now, you might be wondering: How can blogs help me with my business?

The answer is plenty.

1. With a blog, you can easily brand yourself as an expert in your subject area and promote yourself all over the net. Blogs have taken a life of its own, and there are many blog directories springing to life.

Each blog directory is classified according to various topics of interest, and you can submit your blog to the major blog directories. You can then easily attract readers to your area of specialization, and slowly brand yourself as the expert from the many readers who visit these blog directories each day. The concept is similar to e-zine marketing.

2. Search engine will rank your web site higher if you have a blog on your site. This is because search engine “spider bots” like fresh content, and with a blog, you can just spend 5 – 10 minutes per day posting what you want to share for that day and that’s it.

Do that on a consistent basis, and the search engine spider bots will come back to your site more often. Having a blog on your own site is so simple my 9 year old cousin can do it.

3. Blogs allow you to build and foster a closer relationship with your visitors and readers, building trust and rapport. Blogs allow readers to post comments, and it promotes interaction. With good relationship with your readers it will be easier for you when it comes to recommending products and services because they trust you.

These are just some reasons how blogs can help you in your online business.

7 Surefire Ways To Increase Your Traffic Starting Yesterday

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Internet. Business. Profit. To fully integrate all of these words into a successful merging you will need another word. Traffic. Every article you will find about making your site or company successful would always include the importance of generating traffic.

So, we all know that in the core of it all, traffic is the most essential thing to a successful internet based business company. Aside from ensuring that you have a great product to sell, and you have your company’s internal organization well taken core of, it would be time to get to the nitty gritty of things, generating traffic.

If you already have a site and you want think that you’re not getting the traffic that you’re supposed to be getting, then its time to reconsider. If you are contending in these very competitive business, you should always be a step ahead of your competition, increasing your traffic flow should have been done starting yesterday.

Timing is essential, that’s an old adage known to everyone. But with generating traffic, you should always be on your toes and be a day ahead of everyone. Never think of today and tomorrow as a starting point for making your site traffic laden, it should always have been yesterday.

To help you out in generating more traffic for your site, here are some seven surefire ways to increase your traffic starting from yesterday.

1) Invest in good advertising with search engines

Google’s Adwords and Yahoo’s Overture provide great advertising schemes that are very truly popular and assures great traffic. Although with this surefire way to increase your traffic would cost some money. While some would shy away from spending money to increase traffic, it is imperative in this case to do so because Adwords and Overture is the top surefire way to increase your traffic.

You could see for yourself the success this search engine advertising methods have reaped rewards for so many companies. Lots of site feature these advertising system and many have signed on to reap the benefits. Do not be left behind. Every penny is worth it with using Google and Yahoo’s advertising.

2) Exchange or Trade Links with other sites

With exchanging links with other sites, both of you will benefit from the efforts both of you do to enhance your sites traffic. When one site features another sites link, they could provide one another with the traffic one site generates. The efforts are doubly beneficial because it would seem like both of you are working to generate more traffic. The more links traded with more sites the more traffic could be expected.

3) Use Viral Marketing

Viral marketing allows you to spread the word about your company and product without any costs or if ever low costs only. This is a marketing method that can be quite sneaky; you can attach your company’s name, product or link to a certain media such as a funny video, entertaining game, an interesting article or a gossip or buzz. With this method, people get infected with the creativity and entertainment of the medium that they will pass it on to many people.

4) Search and use proper keywords or keyword phrases for your sites content

Search engines look for certain keywords that they would show in their results page. In doing so, having the right keyword and keyword phrase is a high requirement in ranking in high in search engine results. You could write your own content or you could hire someone to do it for you.

5) Write Articles that can lead traffic to your site

Submit articles to sites that would contain the same subject that your site deals in. If you sell car parts write press releases and articles about cars and car parts. Attach your sites description and services at the end of the article as well as the link.

6) Join forums and form online communities

Capture a market and show your expertise and credibility. When you found a good foundation for your site, people will trust you and your site and will pass on to many people their trust. Traffic will certainly increase because they know that you can provide what they need.

7) Lastly, Offer newsletters

If many people know what you are about and your existence is shared with many others, you will find a loyal traffic that can provide you with more traffic by recommendation. If you arouse the curiosity of your customers they would be pushed to help you with your traffic.

Keeping Yourself On Track with Link Building

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As you may have already noticed, there are so many things you can do to build links on the Web, so much so that it can easily boggle the mind. The following questions should help you keep you on the right track.

  1. Are the sites that link to you in the same field/niche as you are? In other words, is your site related to the sites that are linking to it?
  2. Are the sites that link to your site also linked to by others in the same field/theme/niche?
  3. Do you have “authorities” or experts in your subject area linking to your site?
  4. Are all your site’s pages optimized for relevant keyword phrases and are they properly linked to each other?

If you answered yes to all these four questions, you’re generally out of the woods. Congratulations!

“The Halo Effect…”

This is what organic search does for you. People assume since you’re in the organic results you must be good. It’s just another perk to being there.

And what’s cool is statistics show when you’re in the organic results, you get 3 times as many clicks as paid search. Because people tend to trust organic search far more than paid.

So the key is to get lots of one way, non-reciprocal backlinks

So You’ve Moved Your Site…

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If you’ve moved your site to a different URL which necessitates you to ask the sites that have already linked to you to update your links, write them and courteously ask them to do so. And when you do, always make sure to provide them with all the necessary information to carry out the change without much of a hassle. For example, indicate your old site’s name and URL. Also, tell them where on their site your link is located. As mentioned earlier, they are doing you a favor, so be kind enough to make the change less of a chore for them to do.

What NOT to Do

Doing one or several of these can get your site banned/penalized from the major search engines.

  • Submitting your site to paid directories.
  • Posting only whenever or wherever you’re allowed to include links in your messages.
  • Repeatedly dropping your links in forums either by posting your link as part of your messages or by including your link in your signature.
  • Posting on old/outdated forum threads just to drop links to your semi-related website.
  • Signing up in forums just to do link spamming.
  • Joining various forums and saying/asking the exact same thing in all the forums on the same day.
  • Asking a question on a forum and using a different account (on the same IP address) to answer your own question.
  • Signing your blog comments with spammy keywords instead of your name.
  • Marketing your own site in all your blog comments without contributing any useful/helpful/relevant information.
  • Posting the exact same comment on all the blogs that you come across.
  • Using automated bots to leave comments on your target sites/blogs.
  • Sending out link exchange requests which focus on Page Rank instead of the potential benefits that the link exchange might lead to.
  • Sending out mechanically-written/composed requests that appear like they had been automatically generated.
  • Going to webmaster conferences just to personally advertise your site and talk people into linking to your site.
  • Sending webmasters alerts every time you post something new on your site.
  • Sending a webmaster an email everyday asking him/her to link to your site.
  • Sending references to your site to the same webmaster using various email accounts.
  • Offering webmasters money to persuade them to link to you.
  • Stealing content from other people, stripping out all attributions from it, and using/posting it as your own.
  • Participating in link popularity farms
  • Participating in programs that send out emails soliciting people to swap links.
  • Getting low-integrity web sites to link to you.
  • Getting off-topic or unrelated sites to link to you.
  • Submitting your site to free-for-all (FFA) sites.
  • Sending out identical emails to hundreds of sites asking for a reciprocal link.
  • Applying to sites that have hundreds of links on the same page.
  • Applying to sites that have reciprocal links pages buried deep in their site.
  • Setting up multiple sites on a single IP address and linking them together in the exact same way.
  • Stay out of bad neighborhoods, these are domains that have sites which have been penalized or given low page ranks by Google.
  • Applying to sites that have hundreds of links listed on a single page. If your site is not on the top ten, you’re not bound to get anything from that site.
  • Setting up ten sites on the same IP address and link them together exactly the same way. Do not copy what you’ve already done, create each of your site from scratch. And, whenever possible, set them up on several different hosting companies.
  • Ignoring dead links on your site. You should always clean your link directories and keep them free of 404s and dead links.
  • Soliciting links from sites that have nothing at all do do with your niche/business.
  • Focusing on PageRank alone. There are many other methods for building link popularity.

Boosting Your Online Sales With Digital Downloads

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You have a website with an online store, and you’re selling shippable products to customers. Or, you’re thinking of starting such an online business. Whether you have a site or are starting one, making sales will be on your mind. One way to increase revenue is to offer your customers digital downloads.

What files should you sell? The most obvious candidates are e-books. If a customer is interested in a product you sell, that same customer may very well be interested in an e-book that discusses that product. You have two routes to take to obtain e-books: buy them or write them yourself.

There are thousands of pre-written e-books on hundreds of topics, including crafts and hobbies, beauty and fashion, entertainment, health and fitness, pets, and religion and spirituality. Search for existing e-books that are related to products you sell. You can also choose to write your own e-book. You don’t have to be a professional author to write your own e-book. If you have a passion for the products you sell, then you probably possess an in-depth knowledge of the subject of your products. Consider typing up a “How To” guide, saving it as a PDF file, and selling it from your website.

Regardless of what digital downloads you decide to sell, you’ll need a means of allowing customers to purchase and download those files. If you haven’t yet created your online business, or are thinking of expanding an existing business, consider hosting your site with MadBeeTech at www.madbeetech.com. For just a few dollars per month MadBeeTech provides with your own .com website that includes a site builder, shopping cart, and a fully automated system for selling downloadable files.

In A Hurry? Building links with limited time?

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Building links with limited time can be a daunting task. When you’re in this situation, you will be able to gain more if you focus on getting the attention of people and sites whose credibility can rub off on to your business. Journalists, bloggers, industry experts, all these people can keep your business in the public eye. On the other hand, industry authorities such as associations can boost your site’s ranking. Following are some things you can do that will allow you to build links when you’re strapped on time.

If you have companies participating (in any way) on your site, let them know that you are showcasing them. You can do this by creating marketing collateral that highlights how they are benefited from participating on your site and send it to each and everyone of your partner companies. Make sure to include a “link to us” code in there and encourage them to link to your site by offering an incentive to do so. By the way, always ask for permission to use your partner companies’ brand names and/or logos on your site and in your advertising to keep yourself from getting involved in any trademark issues.

Find out if any of your partner companies sends newsletters to its customers. Offer link embedded content and/or offer to purchase the mailing lists of those that do and use them for your own promotional mailing.

Submit informative articles (related to your niche) to article directories such as eZine Articles.com, Go Articles, and Article Alley. Submitting articles to article directories not only gets you links but it can also get you traffic if your article gets featured on a big site or E-zine.

in exchange for their expert views on whatever it is that you’re trying to get across. Once someone accepts, issue a press release to announce that person’s involvement on your site. Make sure to optimize your press release for industry keywords and (of course) the name of the journalist or blogger.

Whenever applicable, create a Flickr stream and fill it with images of your products. If you’re selling other people/companies’ products and you’re thinking of using their product images, make sure to ask for their permission first before proceeding. In connection with this, Flickr allows links to be included in the description of the images. Anybody who sees your Flickr stream and gets curious enough to visit your Flickr album will be able to see and click on your link.

Create a Facebook page for your site and encourage your partners to join in it. Update regularly through Twitter with bits of useful information.

Run keyword and brand (your brand) searches on Twitter and befriend and engage with people who have tweeted about your brand, products/services, and niche. Create special offers for them in exchange for link placement. Also, use keywords in Twitter bio.

Invest in a tool that will let you automatically tweet useful information round the clock. Occasionally, tweet to ask for link placement.

Write content for all your offers (products and/or services) and add it to a resource center on your site. Issue a press release about the feature on your site and send it out to all your media and blogger contacts. Include linking information in both your press release and in your resource center pages.

Join and participate in industry associations that correspond to what you do or sell. Create detailed, graphic-rich reports from your statistics and customer feedback and offer them to the associations you’ve joined. Tell them how they can use or link to your report(s) in their own articles, blogs, and newsletters.

Make a text, audio, and video business pitch and send them to industry journalists.

Finding the Right Directories for Your Website

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Web directories are search engines of sorts which are operated and maintained by humans. On the contrary, the more popular variety of search engines are crawler-/bot-based and mostly operate without human intervention.

Web directories specialize in linking to and categorizing web sites and, as such, do not display lists of web pages based on keywords like search engines do. Instead, they list web sites by category and subcategory. Furthermore, categorization of sites is usually based on the entire site and not on individual pages or set of keywords.

There’s an abundance of Web directories online—there are general directories and there are niche directories. So how do you choose which one to submit to?

Before you go on submitting your site to directories, the most important thing to keep in mind is to STAY AWAY from “bad neighborhoods” and “bad directories”.

If your site is connected to these directories, Google will assume your website link is part of the “bad neighborhoods”.

Anyway, searching for directories is quite easy… just head on to one of the major search engines and do a search using the following operators:

“keyword phrase” + “directory” + “add url”

or

“keyword phrase” + “add site”

All you have to do next is to pick out those that appear at the top of the search results. Though, you may want to investigate a directory first before submitting to it just to make sure that it’s right for you and your site.

Some General Directories Where You Can Submit Your Site To

We’ve already mentioned Google, Bing, and Yahoo. Here are a few other directories where you can submit your site to.

Business.com - Submitting your site on Business.com is pretty simple. First, choose the best category for your site. Choose the best sub-category for your site. Click on the List Your Business Here button. Fill out the forms presented to you.

Note that Business.com is a paid-for-inclusion directory. It charges a recurring annual fee of $299 to maintain a site’s inclusion in the lisiting.

Best of the Web Directory (BOTW) - To get your site included on BOTW, all you have to do is to click on the Submit Site link located near the top right corner of the page. Click on the Get Started Now! Button. Read and understand the site’s Terms of Service and choose a payment scheme that you think is best for you.

At the bottom of the page, click on the tick box to signify that you understood and agree to all the site’s terms (make sure that you do as this is legally binding), and click on the Continue button.

Then, fill out the form(s) that you’ll be presented with. Have your credit card ready, by the way, as this is a paid-for-inclusion service.

Be Creative and Stay Visible – Legitimately Build Link Popularity

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A great way to legitimately build link popularity for your sites is to build a stand alone directory or search engine. You can find programs for this at The CGI Resource Index and the PHP Resource Index. After you’ve created one, add to it your own sites, your affiliate sites, your sites that are affiliates for others, etc. You can also create a stand-alone themed search engine and put on it a link to your own site.

Another way is by offering “awards” in the form of a .GIF image that links back to your site. If you’ve developed a reputation of being an authority on a subject or niche, people will perceive a benefit from the awards you offer (e.g., he/she gets to tell everybody that your site recognizes his site as a quality site) and this will encourage them to place your award on their site. When giving awards, just like in sending links requests, always make it a point to provide the awardees the code for the award to make it easy for the awardees to put the award on their site.

Still on awards, if you don’t have what it takes to be the giver of awards, strive to become the awardee and submit your site to as many awards sites on the Web as you can and as appropriate.

Instead of joining a banner exchange program, start one of your own. The basic concept behind this kind of service is that people will sign up with your site agreeing that they will add special links to your site and allowing you to display banner ads on their pages. In exchange, you agree to display their banners on your site and on all other sites within your banner exchange network.

Never say no to an interview, especially for an article on your related field. It is very likely that, in introducing you, interviewers/writers will list your qualifications with a link back to your site. This will add visibility and credibility to you, your site, and your online business. Likewise, if you’ve been asked by an established and respected writer to contribute to an article he/she is working on, ALWAYS say YES. This can get you published in a lot of places that you otherwise could not.

Look for good quality sites that offer “free” Web space, particularly those that are indexed by search engines, and create a small site (about 3 to 5 pages) on them with the same subject as your own site. Link that small site back to your main site and submit your small site to the search engines for indexing. This should get you some creadit for link relevance.

If you offer contests or sweepstakes on your site, you shouldn’t have much of a problem in getting free links from the numerous contest and sweepstakes directories on the web.

Give discounts or any kind of special offer to anyone who agrees to post an image (perhaps a .GIF that links to your site) on their site. Also, give discounts/special offers to those who go through that link. This will surely increase your link’s popularity.

If you’re regularly giving away free stuff on your site, try getting your site listed on sites/dirctories that list sites that give stuff away like The Free Site.

If you have a members-only site, offer site owners (most especially those who might have great interests on your site or its content) free membership in exchange for a link to your site. If you have a discussion board or forum, invite related sites to link to it.

Create/host a “Top Site” which ranks sites based on the amount of incoming traffic they send. Top Site programs can be found on and downloaded from The PHP Resource Index and the CGI Resource Index.

 Include a provision in your contracts with your business partners (resellers, partners, subcontractors, and vendors) that requires them to link to your site. Additionally, also indicate that your link must be placed on a page that is accessible to search engine crawlers. Note that most search engines index only content in the top two levels of a site.

If you have bought a product online, or bought a product of someone who has a web site, write them a testimonial (focus on the positive points), include your web site’s URL in it, and email the owner of the web site and tell him/her that you would be happy to let him/her use your testimonial on his/her site.

If you have some newsworthy thing going on at your company/business–landing a big new contract maybe, or your engagement/particpation at a prestigious conference, or launching of a new product–draft a brief press release and send it to all relevant newspapers, to the attention of the Business Editor. You can find the contact information of the newspapers in your region and/or industry at Gebbie Press.

Write letters to newspaper editors, maybe to comment on an article or something, just be careful not to say anything nasty or controversial. Since most newspapers nowadays are mirrored online, one of your letters mught just end up on their site.

You could provide special offers to members of professional organizations, such as your local Chamber of Commerce, and try to get your site’s link up on their site.

Contact your local radio and television stations and offer your expertise to them. You might just be able to get your link on their programs as well as on their website.

Put your URL on your stationeries, business cards, offline advertising materials/campaigns, invoices, T-shirts, promotional items, and whatever else you can think of.

Try getting your link on the web sites of colleges and universities. Some colleges/universities may have services or courses that relate to your business’ service. If you offer to do something free for them, perhaps a seminar or giving away free gifts to students, you may be able to get your link on that university’s site. One thing that Google and other search engines love is old domain names, especially those that indicate some kind of charitable or educational status. If you can get a link from that kind of a domain name, your site will have a very good chance at ranking well in the SERPs.

Getting People To Link To You Even Without Asking Them To

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  • Give people reasons to link to you.
  • Provide original valuable content and useful resources on your site.
  • Create useful/insightful lists. “Top 10 whatever”, “10 easy tips to achieving whatever”, those types of lists. People love them and many can’t resist linking to them.
  • Develop authority in your chosen niche/subject.
  • Provide a privacy policy and “about” section on your site to make it look trustworthy.
  • Make your content easily understood by most people. Minimize grammatical and spelling errors while you’re at it.
  • Buy relevant traffic through pay-per-click (PPC) campaigns or through intermediary sites like buysellads.com. You might just get some visitors who will link to you at the end of the day.
  • Submit articles to article directories such as Ezinearticles or GoArticles. Include your link in your signature.
  • Submit articles to industry news sites. Include your link in your signature.
  • Find out the hottest topics of the moment and post original articles on it on your site.
  • Make a compelling and newsworthy press release and email it to journalists and bloggers, as well as press release sites like PRweb and PRLeap.
  • Keep track of those who pick up your articles and press releases and offer them exclusive content.
  • Trade articles with other webmasters/sites.
  • Ask people to provide feedback on your articles/news and to reference to it if they find the information useful.
  • Do surveys and studies that make people feel important, you’d be surprised by the amount of links you’ll get.
  • Submit your site to online directories which offer free submissions
  • Submit your site to high quality paid directories.
  • Get people to tag your site on Delicious and other social bookmarking sites.
  • Depending on your offerings, Craigslist can be a cheap/free classified service.
  • Post questions or answers on Yahoo Answers and Google Groups and provide links to relevant resources.
  • Create a topical Squidoo page and link to expert documents and useful tools in your field. Also include a link to your site.
  • Always remember to include your site’s link in your signature files.

Alternative Link Building Strategy

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Step 1 – Create a links/resources page on your site and fill it with at least 50 sites that are related to yours or your niche (avoid ones that are in competition with you).

Scout for sites by doing searches on search engines using your keywords. (Note: Pick out only the first few top results.)

Step 2 – Find out and list down the sites that are linking to those in your list. Do the same for your competitor’s sites. Look for quality content and non-competitiveness. If they pass those criterion, include them in your links/resources page. Also, take note of the webmaster’s email address.

Step 3 – Get in touch with the Webmasters of the sites you have on your final list and request for a link.

Get Something That Your Competitors Can’t

Both you and your competitor may be offering the same products and services, and you’re probably both employing the same business models, but that doesn’t mean you have to be the same in all aspects of your business.

Considering that most directories are “free-for-all” as far as getting listed is concerned, directory submission is really more of a game of chance rather than a strategic move. Or, is it?

What if I tell you that there’s actually something you can do that will give you an edge over your competitors?

Think of something that makes you and/or your business different from your competitors, think of something that sets you apart. Have you come up with anything yet? If you have, then good, you’re about to learn how to use it to your advantage… to get links that your competitors cannot.

If you’re among those who have made a commitment to do something for the good of the planet and its inhabitants, you can go to Ethical Duck and get your site listed there. Ethical Duck calls itself a “Directory of Ethical Products and Services” which lists websites that are considered “in some way are of a positive value to humans, the environment, the planet.” Considering that your competitors have not yet gone “green”, you’ve just gotten one link that they will not be able to get.

It’s not only Ethical Duck, mind you. Any quality directory that editorially discriminates on your niche/location and other factors lets you do exactly that, that is to give you something that your competitors may not be able to get.

Another thing that can get you links that your competitors may not be able to is by producing great content and doing it better than your competitors.

Yet another thing is by buying a domain that matches your keywords/phrases. Unfortunately, this one comes down to who has a better budget and moves faster. If you have both then good for you.

Link Building Strategy

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Step 1 – Build a content rich site, focusing on a specific subject.

Step 2 – Contact other sites that have the same topic/scope as yours and ask for a reciprocal link. Remember, put their link on your site first before you do this.

Step 3 – Get your site listed on the major and specialty search engines, as well as on online directories. Always choose the most appropriate category whenever you’re given the option to do so.

Do the Link Request

When making your request, make sure that you highlight what your site is all about, what it has to offer, how it relates to their site, and why they should link to it. Indicate also the exact URL of their page where you think your link will be most beneficial. Let them know that you have visited their site and have studied it well for your link’s placement.

Then, provide them the HTML code for your link. This should allow them to simply cut and paste your link into their page. Providing the HTML code will also give you some control over your link’s placement and lets you include keywords in your link text.

Be very careful in writing your request. Make sure it’s well written and that it contains all the necessary information for the recipient to carry out your request should they decide to grant it. And since you’re asking the favor (forget that it’s going to be a mutually beneficial favor once its granted), be polite and respectful in your letter.

Then… Thank Them All

Whether they grant your request or not, thank them all just the same. For those who turn down your request, ask if they’d allow you to put their link on your site, it just might make them change their minds.

For those who don’t respond to your request, send them your request again (just once more). If you still don’t receive any response from them, move on.

Get Site Listed on Search Engines

Google – http://www.google.com/addurl/?continue=/addurl

Bing – http://www.bing.com/docs/submit.aspx

Step 4 – Build another content-rich site (located on a different IP address) and cross-link it with the first one.

What is Link Building?

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What Is Link Building?

In a nutshell, link building is getting links to your site/page(s) appear on someone else’s site/page. If done correctly, link building allows you to drive tremendous amounts of traffic to your site as well as lets your site rank high in the organic search results.

There are four main things to consider when building links—quantity, quality, relevance, and anchor text.

  • Quantity – It’s all about getting your links out and having them appear in as many sites/pages as possible. The more, the better of course. This, however, should be done with caution so as not to get one’s self branded as a “link spammer”.
  • Quality – One should not just go out and drop his/her link on each and every one of the sites/pages he/she finds. Serious consideration should be given to a target site’s reputation. Is the site/page a trusted site? Is it considered an authority in the subject matter? Another one is whether or not it has other reputable sites linking to it.
  • Relevance – This goes hand in hand with “quality”. Is the link relevant to the page/site it is placed on? Is it helpful/useful to the visitors of the site?
  • Anchor Text – Using “click here” as an anchor text won’t help you as much as “click here for low-priced laptops” would.

Find the Right Sites for Your Links

Run searches for your target keywords on the major search engines and take note of the pages/sites that appear in the top results. This lets you focus in on the “good” sites which are most likely among the most visited sites based on your target keywords. This should allow you to piggy-back on their popularity.

Contact the Webmasters/site owners of your targeted sites through email, fax, or phone and ask them if they would be willing to link to your site. Phoning them is the best way to go about this since this proves to them instantly that a real person is making the request and not an automated emailing/messaging system. But if a phone number cannot be obtained, emailing your request/invitation may well be your best and only choice.

When sending your request through email, make sure that your mail is well-written and personalized to distinguish it from all the spam they receive everyday.

You couldn’t and shouldn’t expect all of them to respond positively to your invitation/request, however, particularly those that are extremely competitive with you. But there will surely be those who will be more than willing to link to you, especially if your site contains original and valuable content.

So, what to do with sites/people who are very competitive with you?

Admittedly, your chances of getting your link on a competitor’s site ranges from slim to nil. But you can still put them into good use.

Visit your competitors’ sites and take note of the sites that they are linking to, as well as the sites that are linking to them, and get in touch with those instead. You can also do the same with the sites that have responded positively to your request.

If you find sites that have already linked to your pages, you can ask the sites’ Webmaster if they’d also be interested in linking to the other (relevant) pages on your site.

Before Sending Out Your Request

So, you’ve already got a list of people/sites to send your request to… but before you go on sending out your request, there are a few things you can do in advance which can increase your chances of getting a positive response.

  • Put their link on your site first. By doing so, you are basically turning the table around and asking them to return the favor to you. But, DO NOT make it appear/sound that way. Do not say something like “Hey, I’ve put your link on my site, please put mine on yours.” Be courteous and polite in making your invitation/request while emphasizing that you have already put up their links on your site. Show them where they can find their link on your site by providing them with the page’s URL. Also, mention that you are willing to remove their link from your site should they desire it (for any reason). Should they turn down your request, thank them then ask them if they’d allow you to keep their links on your site. What do you know, they might just change their mind about linking to you.
  • Provide the HTML code for your link along with your invitation/request. Remember, you’re asking someone a favor, so make it less of a chore for them to grant you that favor. Providing your link’s code will allow them to simply cut and paste your link onto their page.
  • Make sure that the sites you’re targeting have a links page or a portion dedicated to links. Sites that do not have a links page are most likely not going to grant you your request since they have no place to put your links on in the first place.
  • Provide them with as much information as you can to enable them to easily link to you. For example, if they have a big site, tell them the specific page/section of their site where your link would fit in.

12 Solid Link Building Tips

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  1. Start a blog. Fill it up with valuable content and link to other blogs from it. To get people’s attention, leave useful, insightful, and relevant comments on other people’s blog. This may eventually lead other bloggers/people to start reading your blog and/or linking to it. Also make sure to list it in a few of the best blog directories.
  2. If you’re a respected source of information or expertise in the industry, get your materials online and use them to attract and obtain links to your site.
  3. If you’re buying your products from a number of sources (particularly those who have web sites), try to get your sources to link to you. One way to do this is by offering them a genuine testimonial or an end-user feedback (with your link in it, of course).
  4. If you have higher profit margins than your competitors, give away some free stuff.
  5. If you’re requesting links from bloggers and site owners, give them one of your cheaper items along with your link request. This could significantly increase your chance of receiving a positive response.
  6. If you have great salespeople, treat them out to lunch, and teach them about SEO and link building. These people have what it takes to call people up and get the response they (or, in this case, YOU) want.
  7. If you have lots of staff who are not fully occupied, have them do some of the things you want done which you don’t have the time for. Have them email the webmaster of every rambling society in the country or find out the top 100 Dugg pages in your niche.
  8. If your site or products have won awards, post all the links related to your award(s) on your site.
  9. If you have a PR team, no matter if they’re only good at getting you in the offline press, challenge them to get you into some large online-outlets. Remember, the reason why you got them in the first place is because they are great at getting you talked about. What do you know, they might just do as good online.
  10. Focus on real traffic/people. Build links for them and not for search engines. If you keep people coming to your site, the search engines will surely take notice of that.
  11. Use a combination of hub and authority to factor link popularity into your site’s ranking algorithm. Simply put, a hub is a site with many outgoing links, while an authority is a site with many incoming links.
  12. Create a list of experts/gurus in your chosen niche/field on your site. If you can find a way to make your project look somewhat official, or if you can impress those experts/gurus well enough, they might end up linking to your site.

Understanding Online Censorship in Egypt

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This is a scenario, when you can neither publish nor access any other information already published on the internet. The government of any country can make an undertaking to restrict or forestall its people from viewing or browsing these web pages, but it actually does not succeed in doing so .This is so as the Federal government itself does not have a binding control over these sites. Absolute censoring, of press and intel is virtually not possible. But by means of ‘Deceit ‘the censoring authorities, can block particular data that they do not want should reach out to their general population. This too is achievable with the help of a counterfeit message ‘Not Found’. This message does come up on its own in genuine cases.

Why Censorship Imposed

Any Government would take required steps to impose web censorship if they feel it is any way damaging the government or the peace of the nation within.There are countries like Australia, China, Yemen, Pakistan ,Burma, Syria, Cuba, UAE, and now Egypt who have censored world wide web in more than one ways. The core aim is to guard ideas or information that ignites their public or goes against their religious, ethical, cultural or social norms. Surprisingly in a survey held in the year 2002, it was found that almost as high as 60% people permitted of this censorship. Internet Service Unit (ISU) deploys all censorships. It also tracks and checks all the gateways of Internet Service Providers of the state.

online Censorship in Egypt

On the 27th of January all internet links in Egypt were paralyzed and immobilized. An Egyptian has been questioned about what exactly actually happened on the 27th January with reference to the net. In accordance to him, their government made certain that the four local Egyptian Isp switch off their web services, for this reason no one could reach systems that has Egyptian addresses .The domain names not reachable and the net shutdown blatantly resulted in absence of Egyptian names and their contact details from the inter net. Ass per him there was one small ISP company left untouched and this one accommodates to the stock exchange, web requirements.

Impact of Censorship in Egypt

When one of the Egyptians was asked about the impact of this censorship he voiced the viewpoint of his country men. First and principal the disgust was clear in his tone and response to the complete censorship. He said this not only disconnected them from the rest of the world, it also influenced business of all those who rely on net for their work. Students, businessmen, and other individuals, there were tens of millions of them who were deprived of net connectivity and internet access. Individuals, businesses, schools, Government offices and many other international institutions based in Egypt all gone off line. As per him, the censorship imposed crippled the existence of Egypt. He was enraged at the Government for disabling and damaging the capacity of an man or women to earn his living. The Egypt economy came to a dead end.

How do Persons of Egypt See This Act of Censorship

He said that individuals of Cairo have been restless for quite some time now, with unemployment rising and the graduates unable to find jobs for themselves. Now with internet censorship, they sense that they have been completely slice off from the rest of the world. He feels that Egypt will face the adverse consequences of disconnecting its folks from the planet. The country will suffer and this is a great setback for the people of Egypt and their improvement for which they need to connect with the world. This is a severe decision to be taken and it almost amount to intrusion on the essential rights of its citizens to communicate. He mentioned this was totally unconstitutional and illegal.

How People today Get around it in Egypt?

We inquired him, if this censorship was observed by men and women of Egypt solemnly or were they able to bypass it? There was a group of other local young men and women standing who retorted with an angle of tit for tat. They said there are other international agencies who are trying their best to reduce the complete shutdown of internet in Egypt. These groups are an crucial part of global community of free speech activists. They are generating consolidated endeavors to crack through the media black out in Egypt. Their effort is, it to by pass the information blackout. These agencies work under the umbrella of group Telecomix. They are in the procedure of creating new press tools of communication to restore net online connectivity in Egypt. The Egyptians have been apprised of this new communication tool and the influx and outflow of messages has begun already. Telecomix, also came to the rescue of Tunisians, Chinese, Iranians, and also other nationals, whose Government had censored or blocked components of net in their particular countries. Many of the Egyptians use VPN solutions such as USA VPN to bypass limitations. Even if internet is censored people always find a way to bypass it.

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Websites Complete List

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Find below a list of websites we recently completed. Clicking on the links will open a new browser window.

Abbotts College

Articulated Film Logistics

Ashanti Travel Centre

Batteries Unlimited

Belmont Square Conference Centre

Benchmark Solutions

City Flag

CopyCat Communications

Faculty Training Institute

Failsafe Fire Projects

Ferobrake

Flip File

Golf Direct

Green Point House

Ground Crew Design Mechanics

H&A Guest House

Hoopenburg Guest House

ICDL International Computer Driving Licence

Imperial Cargo WC

In-Spirit African Tours

International Standard Asset Management

Kalki

Live Cape Town

Live Wire Fencing

Mantellis

Master Builders and Allied Trades’ Association

Maths & Science Marketing

Moon Bay Guest House

Momarc

On-boardads

Palazzo Rosa Fine Jewellery

Personal Trust International

Personnel Placements & Requirements

Rentware Computer Rentals

Revive – Projects

SAGRA – South African Graduate Recruiters Association

Sebezaphone

Shumani Logistics

Sondor Performance Foams

Sterling Private Wealth

Swallows Property Caretakers

Sylco Plant Hire

The Game Factory

The Recruiters

TSN

Tri-Torq Ferobrake

UCT Careers

White Lodge Constantia Guest House

Whizzygig Jukebox Co.

Tips On Writing Great Blog Content

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Having a blog is a good way for anybody to truly get their respective thoughts and ideas across to other people and an effective way utilized by businesses to advertise their respective business. Building a popular blog is a superb approach to propel additional visitors for any web site. While crafting your website, you can find a few suggestions an individual must be aware of whenever they’re composing his or her blog. We will examine several which can be crucial to creating a flourishing blog.

All the while you’re crafting your blog, craft it keeping your user in mind.  Whenever a user is on the lookout for unique information which could relate to your theory, they desire the info in a manner they might both read and connect with naturally.

In the midst of everybody’s frenzied life, nobody has time and energy to fritter away by taking a look at a humdrum website page. If you can not come up with something innovative to speak about, then make an effort to carry out an interview, or even just a story. Practically anything would do provided you aren’t publishing rubbish content. There exists impressive blogging software which enables you to robotically change to beneficial content taken from “RSS feeds” whenever you run out of views and ideas. RSS feed content never runs out, accordingly your blog is recurrently updated, lastingly keeping its search engine position and offers good beneficial content for your users. Accordingly, use RSS feeds to create blog posts, and never run out of beneficial content.

It truly is of crucial significance that you choose to proofread your written material prior to when you press that publish button. When you finally press on that publish button, that’s it, the mistake is out there and you have not a road coming back. Have a high regard for your visitor and keep your website free of blunders and unpretentious to read.

Always keep your blog postings as concise and uncomplicated as feasible as it’s human nature that folks are indeed vivacious scanners. You’ll have to convey your thought promptly, or else take the risk of losing your blog reader entirely.

Write for your audience just like you’d chat to your pal or family member. More high-spirited your blog entries, the much more intrigued your users will undeniably grow to be. Cause it to appear like you’re speaking one-on-one with them individually and only them. However make sure you convey your thought promptly. Check the Net for tips on writing blog content that should help you enhance your writing skillset.

Exploit text links as frequently as you are able to. This can enable you to build credibility and help verify you to the blog visitor as a specialist on the subject matter. You may as well build a network by linking to augmenting related blogs. Other bloggers will openly show gratitude to you.

Make use of your strategic keywords as frequently as you are able to, it’ll help you continue on task and the various search engines will definitely love it. The more keyword phrases you employ the higher your blog rankings will come to be in the search engines like google.

You must compose your blogs in a style that the typical reader would comprehend. Don’t ever attempt to put more than one view inside of a sentence since this may perplex your users. Ensure you put your commas as frequently as achievable

Be sure that your header is straightforward to understand and must have pertinent keywords relating to your blog in it.

Should you adhere to these clear-cut measures, you can have a terrific written blog very quickly as well as a whole lot of readers.

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Showing and hiding content using JavaScript-based page manipulations for tabbed interfaces, collapsible elements, and accordion widgets is a common development pattern. Learn how your choice of hiding mechanism can influence content accessibility in assistive technologies like screen readers in an excerpt from Adaptive Web Design.

More Meaningful Typography

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Designing with modular scales is one way to make more conscious, meaningful choices about measurement on the web. Modular scales work with—not against—responsive design and grids, provide a sensible alternative to basing our compositions on viewport limitations du jour, and help us achieve a visual harmony not found in compositions that use arbitrary, conventional, or easily divisible numbers. Tim Brown shows us how.

Using PowerPoint Themes for Making Presentation for Customers

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When you are advertising your goods or services, you aim to attract customer’s attention. Since presentation is mostly a visual form of information, people will pay much attention to the way the presentation looks. Even if you have put a great explanatory information into your presentation, poorly made designed of your presentation can affect impression on your presentation negatively. This is why you should care much so that your presentation has nice design and contains appropriate visual objects.

If you are going to make your presentation to introduce customers with your goods and services, you should consider several things. First of all, presentation should contain explanatory and coherent information. Customers should be able to follow the development of your idea with ease. In order to grip attention of your customer and make them wanting keep follow your presentation, you need a nice background.

Surely, if you are talking about some particular object, you should add some pictures, diagrams, etc. so that customers can visually remember the point. This is why you should think through the structure of the presentation and select come visual objects that you want to add into it.

In order to make presentation interesting and nicely looking, you may use special PowerPoint backgrounds which can be in the form of colors and themes. Depending on the information presented on a slide you may choose something appropriate. For particular slides or all of them you can use PowerPoint themes to make your presentation looking more interestingly. However, you should not overload customers’ attention with visual objects; as if you have an added visual object on the slide (e.g. pictures or diagram), placing some themes with a massive draw might have a distractive effects on the viewers.

PowerPoint templates can make a great help in making PowerPoint presentation. You can use one of them, but you may wish to change slide with other background and in this case it is better to search for an appropriate PowerPoint theme.

Using just a color as a background is also possible, but if you can use PowerPoint themes in design of your presentation you had better do so, as using in interesting themes in your presentation will help you to get a positive impression on your presentation.

Depending on what you are making your presentation about, you should choose the themes. For instance, if it is a presentation of goods and services for children, you can choose some bright and colorful themes. If you make presentation in order to advertise something related to medicine, like medication or consultations, you had better use some calming themes.

In fact, depending on the subject of the presentation, you can find a particular theme, for instance, if it is presentation of medical services, you may find the theme with image of nurse or hospitals.
Many of such great themes can be found on the Internet and all you need is just make up an idea what you want to get in the end and search for such theme. In some cases, you may even find something more interesting than you thought in the beginning.

Are you looking for interesting themes to make a great presentation in PowerPoint? Visit www.smiletemplates.com and you will find a wide collection of templates for PowerPoint application. All templates on www.smiletemplates.com are designed by professional and you can count on getting the templates of a great quality.

Using Creative PPT Templates for Making Awesome Presentation

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PowerPoint presentation helps us to demonstrate the information in the best form. Upon the way the presentation is designed depends how interesting it will be for the users to view it. Some presentations ought to be made in a pretty formal and standard way, for instance, resume. But if you make presentation about your personal life or about some business fields that require being creative, you had better use some gripping and creative PPT templates.

Creativity in presentation is not only about using bright and colorful themes and graphics, but it is also about placing the information in unconventional form. This is why using creatively made PowerPoint templates may serve you a great help. If you are creative minded, you can make something interesting and gripping in the end. However, you might also need to get some help to make up something exciting. In this case, you can go on the Internet and search for some interesting ideas, presentations and of course PPT templates.

Surely, you want your work to be the result of your creative thinking; however, it does not mean that you do not need some inspiration. Sometimes you may have a feeling the idea is somewhere in your head, but you just cannot catch it. In this case you just need a little “push.” Depending on what you are making your presentation about, you may have a look at the presentations of similar kind. For instance, if you are going to make presentation of your music written in rap style, you can find similar presentation and see if something you have found is appropriate for you.

Certainly, in order to get a great creative theme, elements, etc. for your presentation, you need to first of all dedicate the information you actually are going to present. Once you have it collected, you can split it, so that you could get separate slides you need to design. You can design each slide separately, but generally you ought to get entire presentation as an ensemble in the end.

In many cases, provided that you are going to create a creative presentation, you can use 3D graphics, which often looks really well in presentations. You do not need to use 3D graphics on every slide, but if you make the front slide or some separate element within entire presentation with 3D graphics, you may get a pretty great outcome.
Try to get the idea of what you want to get, put as much effort as you can. You can make some scheme or chart with the structure of your presentation and all elements as well as text body you want to place there. After you can try replace those elements with 3D elements.

Even if you are not sure what structure of your information ought to be, you can also use PowerPoint templates as you can, being based on some templates, change everything you think needs changing.
And of course, do not be afraid to experiment, as this is what creatively means. You may have a unique idea which makes your work really incredible.

Are you looking for templates to create a gripping presentation? A great collection of PowerPoint templates can be found on www.smiletemplates.com. PowerPoint templates designed by professionals are a great help for you to make something special. Go to www.smiletemplates.com and get the best creative templates.