Fun for today!

Make money online...

2011-03-26T14:33:00.000-07:00

If you watch TV regularly, and if you always come across business news, you might be wondering what it takes to be a tycoon...

You might think that the best, richest people in all the world have advanced degrees and three PhDs at the ends of their names, IQ's above 200, and a whole bunch of diplomas and certificates hanging on their walls.

You might think that you need to go to business schools to know how to make money; and that you need an A in every exam from kindergarten to college in order to put up a business.

Thankfully, it's all quite far from the truth. (Many idiots are very rich.)

In fact, the most successful people in the world are not necessarily the best schooled or the smartest. Some of them even dropped out of high school! As you can see, the business world is not idiot proof, and some of the idiots are even the ones with MBA's and a whole lot of doctorates to their name.

Success in business is all about hard work and street smarts, not books and school -- almost always.

And thankfully, the same is true online. You don't need a degree to make money, and especially not at a job that an idiot can do. In fact, you don't need to do a lot to make money online because a lot of businesses are already offering their services up for grabs! All you need to do is to be creative and street-smart!

Everybody has a Blog, So Get One!

Do you think you need brains to write a blog? All you need is a captive audience! There are many things that you can blog about - in fact, you can even blog about being an idiot online!

Offer up ten tips for idiots to survive in a coffee shop that serves ten different kinds of milk. Offer up ten tips for idiots to make money without a college degree. There are many ways to entertain the world - and you can earn money doing it.

How, you ask? All you need is an affiliate program. Apply to programs such as Google AdSense and Bidvertiser, and have them post ads on your site or blog. When your blog or site visitors visit and click on these ads, you get commissions. All you need to do is sit back and relax, and you can get money, too!

(Laugh if you want -- many "fools" are making money, right now.)

But What if I Don't Want to Blog?

There are still ways that a weak-minded idiot can get money online. Is there anything you are especially good at, like babysitting, cleaning up yards, or cleaning out houses? Ask a friend to put up a simple website for you - in fact, use any of the tools available online for simple websites!

You can get your own website in a flash, with no fancy animations, just you and your trusty trade! Advertise yourself, sign up for an affiliate program, and you can get customers on both your ads, and asking for you to work for them!

Are there things lying around the house, just being useless? You can sell them online at bidding and auction sites. Just specific your price and you're good to go. Instead of selling your things at a yard or garage sale, think about this option.

Still undecided? You can go to online forums where you will be paid to make responses!

(People will pay you to write about just about anything -- even really stupid stuff.)

So, remember, idiots can get rich. Of course the best way is to start your own business. No one can tell you you're being foolish; just go for it.

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SEO Mistakes, funny!

2011-03-25T17:00:00.000-07:00

In the world of SEO, mistakes can happen, some more funny and some more detrimental than others. Here is a selection of some of the funniest SEO mistakes, kindly submitted from fellow SEOers.

Jason Bartholme (JasonBartholme)

One mistake I made a while ago was for a client in which I paid for a batch of 1,000 directory submissions. The problem was that the domain name I gave the service provider was misspelled and didn’t realized it until I got the submission report a few weeks later. Needless to say, I proof my outgoing work a lot more these days!

John Mcelborough (Ioptimal)

I’ve seen developers forget to remove the robots file to block search engines when redesigning a very busy financial services site before. Cost about £250k if I remember rightly!

Also, an agency I worked for screwed up something on their site a few years ago and a post I wrote about it outranked them for a while, that was pretty funny!

Harvey Kane (RagePank)

There was this one client where I advised that title tags should be increased to 70 characters to get the most value from a Google listing, and meta descriptions should be 156 characters. The client padded out his titles / meta descriptions with exactly the right amount of whitespace, which wasn’t exactly what I had in mind.

Another time I was having problems with my content being scraped and it was affecting my rankings – so I set the site up to serve a noindex meta tag to all user agents except Googlebot, so when the scrapers copied the content it included a noindex tag and their copy of my content wouldn’t get indexed. That was the theory. Googlebot managed to get past the Googlebot-detection script and found the noindex tag… I think you know what happens next :)

Kev Strong (Goosh.co.uk)

When I was starting out in SEO about 6 years ago, I was a PHP web developer launching a personal website based around the idea of an Innuendo Generator. The idea was to create visual representations of innuendo’s ala Carry On/Austin Powers (Big Melons etc).

One of the SEO enhancements I built into the site was to create a simple text replacement module to generate unique Title’s, H1’s and content based on the title of the innuendo. Alongside this, I created a search function on the website that retained the searches in a database. Unfortunately for me, I had coded the search result to generate a page that resolved on its own URI, but with a 404 (Not Found) response code and with the relevant search-related query in the Title, H1 and content. I did this incorrectly and it was actually triggering a 200 (OK) response code thus creating a bonafide page that appeared fine.

To add to matters, the fifteen latest innuendo searches were shown on the homepage. This allowed all search engine bots to crawl the pages, return them as bonafide pages and index them. Little had I known I had created an auto-generated content website with some of the crudest and filthiest innuendos known to man!

The downside of this was the ability for people to create a page on my website with a Title, H1 and semi-automated content with their keywords in the website.

The upside of this was I had created a faucet for ideas and innuendos that I was previously unaware of.

Wes McDermott (SEObyhand.co.uk)

I did an SEO proposal for a company I worked with a while ago, they decided to go with another company instead of me. 6 months down the line I got a call from one of the guys at the company, he told me that my proposal was ranking ahead of their site for one of their main keywords, he asked me to take it down. He was basically suggesting I had done something under handed with his site. So I explained to him that it’s just “better” optimised than his site for that keyword. The next day I got another phone call, it was the same guy again offering me the job. Needless to say, they’re now ranking much higher than the proposal!

Jim Westergren (jimwestergren.com)

Not a mistake I had made but I had a client that paid good money for consultancy. He had his website blocked via robots.txt AND meta noindex. No wonder he didn’t rank.

Source: Blueclaw

New SEO techniques Revealed in 2011

2011-03-13T06:35:00.000-07:00

So 2010 is ending, & naturally 2011 is not different from 2010. Now what are your expectations from Search Engine Optimization in 2011? A lot has happened historically in the crazy world of internet marketing & I don't expect any changes in 2011. But before they discuss the expectations of SEO in 2011, let's have a glance back at a major speaking point in 2010...
Preview by Google - Recently released Google Instant which gives as immediate results as we type our search query in Google search engine. Since it was released, a lot of people have found it useful in terms of giving super fast results. There are many such new thing started by Google and it is still kept as a secret and only used by top internet marketers.
Now what are the new techniques in SEO?
SEO is the most effective way to fetch free traffic to your website. We need to keep us updated with search engine as they are going to make some changes in 2011. Search engines are always changing their algorithms and they constantly update their data.
As there are many newbie entered into internet marketing world - it is expected to be a busy year for search engines.
What changes are expected -
1. SEO and SMO (Social Media Optimization) are elected as a king in 2011, As many of you must have noticed that Google and other search engines loves Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn etc. So you must keep up with Social media optimization and Social media marketing.
2. As Yahoo and Bing are Google's major competitors, changes in Google ranking will be the main aim of all search engines.
3. As Facebook has now became number 2 site over the world wide web, a recent news is announced by Facebook that they are going to launch an internet directory like Google and it seems that many Facebook users will switch on to Facebook directory.
4. Still there are lot more things to come in internet marketing world. You need to be alert to get such information.

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What is Your Facebook Welcome Tab Strategy?

2011-02-24T15:01:00.000-08:00

If you read information on best practices for Facebook business pages, the creation of a custom welcome tab is usually one of the first things mentioned. A welcome tab is a special tab created to greet new visitors to your page. Welcome tabs are usually set as the default tab for people that have not Liked your page; meaning new visitors are automatically taken to the welcome tab rather than your Wall.

Once someone Likes your page, the next time they visit, they are taken to your Wall. Without a welcome tab new visitors are taken to your Wall, which is generic (all Walls look the same) and not very welcoming. A welcome tab addresses these issues. It gives you a dedicated space to communicate with new visitors. The question then becomes how will you use this space? What will be your Facebook welcome tab strategy? After viewing many welcome tabs for small and medium-sized businesses, I believe an effective welcome tab should do the following:

Welcome new visitors to the page
Explain what your company does and the value it provides
Offer reasons why someone should Like your page
Invite visitors to Like your page

How you incorporate these elements is up to you, but the key is to keep it simple. Take theBerry Network welcome tab. We use a combination of text and video to welcome new visitors, explain the value we offer, and encourage them to Like our page. The tone of the writing is relaxed and inviting. We are not trying to sell anything or trying to impress someone with corporate speak or buzz words. We don’t use gimmicks or offer rewards in return for a Like.

Unfortunately, many welcome tabs fail to use this simple approach. Many companies still dump new visitors on their wall. Others use reveal tabs that hide content that is only revealed after a person Likes the page. Why should someone have to Like a page before they can see the content? Since a Like is equal to an endorsement, how can someone endorse something they haven’t seen? You might get a few more likes because of the curiosity factor, but it won’t help with engagement. Still others welcome tabs are cluttered with so much content they leave you scratching your head wondering what they are trying to communicate.

So what is your Facebook welcome tab strategy? How do you use your welcome tab to turn visits into Likes? Please share your comments.

Source: Social Media Today

Original Article

Link Building!

2011-02-23T03:51:00.000-08:00

Link building is an essential and a widely used activity in search engine optimization (SEO). It involves the generation of links, whether through, but not limited to, blog and forum posting and directory submission. SEO services are usually sought by website owners to increase the popularity of their websites on the Internet. The establishment of several inbound links leading to your main website helps your pages rank higher in search engines, depending on the keywords you are optimizing for. One-way links are much more help in boosting your page rank than reciprocal or multi-way links.

A website's targeted traffic is a main consideration before starting link-building activities. It determines where you want to place the links leading to your website to ensure that you will fetch users that are highly interested in your products or services. The more relevant traffic you drive in, the more chances of your profit increasing.

The most effective method of link building is by establishing one-way links directing to your website, as SEO experts say. It is an inbound link pointing only to one direction and it is given the highest recognition by search engine bots in defining the relevance of your pages. One-way links could be built by sending articles related to your site to article directories and content sites, many of which could be found online. Such sites usually have a resource box, where you can type in the link pointing to the resource website.

Another method of link building is through multi-way linking, which entails the creation of several non-reciprocal links among at least three partner websites. The links only go one-way. Other ways of building links include posting videos, images, o RSS feeds on your partner sites.

A website owner could embark on a link campaign with the help of professional SEO services. Such companies offer to do your link building campaign for you at specific rates. Professional link-building services usually offer to increase the relevance of your web pages through planting relevant and permanent inbound links pointing to your website.

Their activities include submission of articles to directory listings, submission to sites with high PR links, distribution of articles to article and blog sites, and social network listing. The main goal of link building is to help you reach your marketing goals by driving your targeted traffic back to your main website and allowing them to convert or take the course of action most profitable to your business.

This means that your inbound links should be placed in sites related to yours, sites that preferably have high PR links. Most link-building services usually promise positive results for your online presence within 90 days at the most.

Website owners should, however, be warned to avoid overlinking, which means having too many hyperlinks. Search engine bots for main search engines such as Google and Yahoo re capable of recognizing whether or not certain links are relevant. They "sense" excessive links on a page and disregard them in determining your page rank.

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Want to know how Google is about to change your life?

2011-02-22T08:13:00.000-08:00

By Steven Levy
February 22, 2010 |
12:00 pm |
Wired March 2010

Want to know how Google is about to change your life? Stop by the Ouagadougou conference room on a Thursday morning. It is here, at the Mountain View, California, headquarters of the world’s most powerful Internet company, that a room filled with three dozen engineers, product managers, and executives figure out how to make their search engine even smarter. This year, Google will introduce 550 or so improvements to its fabled algorithm, and each will be determined at a gathering just like this one. The decisions made at the weekly Search Quality Launch Meeting will wind up affecting the results you get when you use Google’s search engine to look for anything — “Samsung SF-755p printer,” “Ed Hardy MySpace layouts,” or maybe even “capital Burkina Faso,” which just happens to share its name with this conference room. Udi Manber, Google’s head of search since 2006, leads the proceedings. One by one, potential modifications are introduced, along with the results of months of testing in various countries and multiple languages. A screen displays side-by-side results of sample queries before and after the change. Following one example — a search for “guitar center wah-wah” — Manber cries out, “I did that search!”

You might think that after a solid decade of search-market dominance, Google could relax. After all, it holds a commanding 65 percent market share and is still the only company whose name is synonymous with the verb search. But just as Google isn’t ready to rest on its laurels, its competitors aren’t ready to concede defeat. For years, the Silicon Valley monolith has used its mysterious, seemingly omniscient algorithm to, as its mission statement puts it, “organize the world’s information.” But over the past five years, a slew of companies have challenged Google’s central premise: that a single search engine, through technological wizardry and constant refinement, can satisfy any possible query. Facebook launched an early attack with its implication that some people would rather get information from their friends than from an anonymous formula. Twitter’s ability to parse its constant stream of updates introduced the concept of real-time search, a way of tapping into the latest chatter and conversation as it unfolds. Yelp helps people find restaurants, dry cleaners, and babysitters by crowdsourcing the ratings. None of these upstarts individually presents much of a threat, but together they hint at a wide-open, messier future of search — one that isn’t dominated by a single engine but rather incorporates a grab bag of services.

Still, the biggest threat to Google can be found 850 miles to the north: Bing. Microsoft’s revamped and rebranded search engine — with a name that evokes discovery, a famous crooner, or Tony Soprano’s strip joint — launched last June to surprisingly upbeat reviews. (The Wall Street Journal called it “more inviting than Google.”) The new look, along with a $100 million ad campaign, helped boost Microsoft’s share of the US search market from 8 percent to about 11 — a number that will more than double once regulators approve a deal to make Bing the search provider for Yahoo.

Team Bing has been focusing on unique instances where Google’s algorithms don’t always satisfy. For example, while Google does a great job of searching the public Web, it doesn’t have real-time access to the byzantine and constantly changing array of flight schedules and fares. So Microsoft purchased Farecast — a Web site that tracks airline fares over time and uses the data to predict when ticket prices will rise or fall — and incorporated its findings into Bing’s results. Microsoft made similar acquisitions in the health, reference, and shopping sectors, areas where it felt Google’s algorithm fell short.

Even the Bingers confess that, when it comes to the simple task of taking a search term and returning relevant results, Google is still miles ahead. But they also think that if they can come up with a few areas where Bing excels, people will get used to tapping a different search engine for some kinds of queries. “The algorithm is extremely important in search, but it’s not the only thing,” says Brian MacDonald, Microsoft’s VP of core search. “You buy a car for reasons beyond just the engine.”

Google’s response can be summed up in four words: mike siwek lawyer mi.

Amit Singhal types that koan into his company’s search box. Singhal, a gentle man in his forties, is a Google Fellow, an honorific bestowed upon him four years ago to reward his rewrite of the search engine in 2001. He jabs the Enter key. In a time span best measured in a hummingbird’s wing-flaps, a page of links appears. The top result connects to a listing for an attorney named Michael Siwek in Grand Rapids, Michigan. It’s a fairly innocuous search — the kind that Google’s servers handle billions of times a day — but it is deceptively complicated. Type those same words into Bing, for instance, and the first result is a page about the NFL draft that includes safety Lawyer Milloy. Several pages into the results, there’s no direct referral to Siwek.

The comparison demonstrates the power, even intelligence, of Google’s algorithm, honed over countless iterations. It possesses the seemingly magical ability to interpret searchers’ requests — no matter how awkward or misspelled. Google refers to that ability as search quality, and for years the company has closely guarded the process by which it delivers such accurate results. But now I am sitting with Singhal in the search giant’s Building 43, where the core search team works, because Google has offered to give me an unprecedented look at just how it attains search quality. The subtext is clear: You may think the algorithm is little more than an engine, but wait until you get under the hood and see what this baby can really do.

Source: wired.com

Nokia and Microsoft

2011-02-21T14:58:00.000-08:00

BY IAN POSTED ON THE 21ST OF FEBRUARY 2011 AT 2:01PM

BARCELONA, Spain – Here’s a video our colleagues on the Forum Nokia site for developers put together with Microsoft’s Matt Bencke, the General Manager for Windows Phone and Marketplace. He talks about the nature and opportunities of this developing ecosystem, for developers, small businesses and enterprises. He also addresses the specifics of what developers should do now and going forward to take best advantage of these changes.

Source: Nokia Conversations

Join Kontera, monetize your website!

2011-02-20T08:47:00.000-08:00

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You’ll receive the referral bonus for a full year that begins on the publisher’s registration date.
There’s no limit to how many referrals you can accumulate.
Affiliate referrals will be tracked through a unique URL we’ll give you. As long as the new publisher joins Kontera within 30 days of clicking on your URL, you’ll be credited with the referral.
The referral bonus will be deposited monthly into your existing Kontera Publisher account, in the same manner and time frame as other deposits.
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Google's search

2011-02-18T15:06:00.000-08:00

Co-founder Larry Page once described the “perfect search engine” as something that “understands exactly what you mean and gives you back exactly what you want.” We can’t claim that Google delivers on that vision 100 percent today, but we’re always working on new technologies aimed at bringing all of Google closer to that ideal.

Before you even enter your query in the search box, Google is continuously traversing the web in real time with software programs called crawlers, or “Googlebots”. A crawler visits a page, copies the content and follows the links from that page to the pages linked to it, repeating this process over and over until it has crawled billions of pages on the web.

Next Google processes these pages and creates an index, much like the index in the back of a book. If you think of the web as a massive book, then Google‘s index is a list of all the words on those pages and where they‘re located, as well as information about the links from those pages, and so on. The index is parceled into manageable sections and stored across a large network of computers around the world.

When you type a query into the Google search box, your query is sent to Google machines and compared with all the documents stored in our index to identify the most relevant matches. In a split second, our system prepares a list of the most relevant pages and also determines the relevant sections and bits of text, images, videos and more. What you get is a list of search results with relevant information excerpted in “snippets” (short text summary) beneath each result.

Describing the basic crawling, indexing and serving processes of a search engine is just part of the story. The other key ingredients of Google search are:

Relevance. As Larry said long ago, we want to give you back “exactly what you want.” When Google was founded, one key innovation was PageRank, a technology that determined the “importance” of a webpage by looking at what other pages link to it, as well as other data. Today we use more than 200 signals, including PageRank, to order websites, and we update these algorithms on a weekly basis. For example, we offer personalized search results based on your web history and location.
Comprehensiveness. Google launched in 1998 with just 25 million pages, which even then was a small fraction of the web. Today we index billions and billions of webpages, and our index is roughly 100 million gigabytes. We continue investing to expand the comprehensiveness of our services. In 2007 we introduced Universal Search, which made search more comprehensive by integrating images, videos, news, books and more into our main search results.
Freshness. In the early days, Googlebots crawled the web every three or four months, which meant that the information you found on Google typically was out of date. Today we’re continually crawling the web ensuring that you can find the latest news, blogs and status updates minutes or even seconds after they’re posted. With Realtime Search, we’re able to serve up breaking topics from a comprehensive set of sources just moments after events occur.
Speed. Our average query response time is roughly one-fourth of a second. In comparison, the average blink of an eye is one-tenth of a second. Speed is a major search priority, which is why in general we don’t turn on new features if they will slow our services down. Instead, search engineers are always working not just on new features, but ways to make search even faster. In addition to smart coding, on the back end we’ve developed distributed computing systems around that globe that ensure you get fast response times. With technologies like autocomplete and Google Instant, we help you find the search terms and results you’re looking for before you’re even finished typing.

Source: Google

Fun For Today Twitter Profile Widget.

2011-02-18T10:22:00.000-08:00

Nokia and Microsoft plan to form a strategic partnership!

2011-02-13T12:31:00.000-08:00

LONDON – Feb. 11, 2011 – Nokia and Microsoft today announced plans to form a broad strategic partnership that would use their complementary strengths and expertise to create a new global mobile ecosystem.

Nokia and Microsoft intend to jointly create market-leading mobile products and services designed to offer consumers, operators and developers unrivalled choice and opportunity. As each company would focus on its core competencies, the partnership would create the opportunity for rapid time to market execution. Additionally, Nokia and Microsoft plan to work together to integrate key assets and create completely new service offerings, while extending established products and services to new markets.

Under the proposed partnership:

•	Nokia would adopt Windows Phone as its principal smartphone strategy, innovating on top of the platform in areas such as imaging, where Nokia is a market leader.
•	Nokia would help drive the future of Windows Phone. Nokia would contribute its expertise on hardware design, language support, and help bring Windows Phone to a larger range of price points, market segments and geographies.
•	Nokia and Microsoft would closely collaborate on joint marketing initiatives and a shared development roadmap to align on the future evolution of mobile products.
•	Bing would power Nokia’s search services across Nokia devices and services, giving customers access to Bing’s next generation search capabilities. Microsoft adCenter would provide search advertising services on Nokia’s line of devices and services.
•	Nokia Maps would be a core part of Microsoft’s mapping services. For example, Maps would be integrated with Microsoft’s Bing search engine and adCenter advertising platform to form a unique local search and advertising experience
•	Nokia’s extensive operator billing agreements would make it easier for consumers to purchase Nokia Windows Phone services in countries where credit-card use is low.
•	Microsoft development tools would be used to create applications to run on Nokia Windows Phones, allowing developers to easily leverage the ecosystem’s global reach.
•	Nokia’s content and application store would be integrated with Microsoft Marketplace for a more compelling consumer experience.

“Today, developers, operators and consumers want compelling mobile products, which include not only the device, but the software, services, applications and customer support that make a great experience,” Stephen Elop, Nokia President and CEO, said at a joint news conference in London. “Nokia and Microsoft will combine our strengths to deliver an ecosystem with unrivalled global reach and scale. It’s now a three-horse race.”

“I am excited about this partnership with Nokia,” said Steven A. Ballmer, Microsoft CEO. “Ecosystems thrive when fueled by speed, innovation and scale.The partnership announced today provides incredible scale, vast expertise in hardware and software innovation and a proven ability to execute.”

Please visit www.nokia.com/press for press materials.

About Nokia

At Nokia, we are committed to connecting people. We combine advanced technology with personalized services that enable people to stay close to what matters to them. Every day, more than 1.3 billion people connect to one another with a Nokia device - from mobile phones to advanced smartphones and high-performance mobile computers. Today, Nokia is integrating its devices with innovative services through Ovi (www.ovi.com), including music, maps, apps, email and more. Nokia's NAVTEQ is a leader in comprehensive digital mapping and navigation services, while Nokia Siemens Networks provides equipment, services and solutions for communications networks globally.

DISCLAIMER

Nokia and Microsoft have entered into a non-binding term sheet. The planned partnership remains subject to negotiations and execution of the definitive agreements by the parties and there can be no assurances that the definitive agreements would be entered into.

FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTSIt should be noted that certain statements herein which are not historical facts are forward-looking statements, including, without limitation, those regarding: A) the intention to form a strategic partnership with Microsoft to combine complementary assets and expertise to form a global mobile ecosystem and to adopt Windows Phone as our primary smartphone platform, including the expected plans and benefits of such partnership; B) the timing and expected benefits of our new strategy, including expected operational and financial benefits and targets as well as changes in leadership and operation structure; C) the timing of the deliveries of our products and services and their combinations; D) our ability to develop, implement and commercialize new technologies, products and services and their combinations; E) expectations regarding market developments and structural changes; F) expectations and targets regarding our industry volumes, market share, prices, net sales and margins of products and services; G) expectations and targets regarding our operational priorities and results of operations; H) the outcome of pending and threatened litigation; I) expectations regarding the successful completion of acquisitions or restructurings on a timely basis and our ability to achieve the financial and operational targets set in connection with any such acquisition or restructuring; and J) statements preceded by "believe," "expect," "anticipate," "foresee," "target," "estimate," "designed," "plans," "will" or similar expressions. These statements are based on management's best assumptions and beliefs in light of the information currently available to it. Because they involve risks and uncertainties, actual results may differ materially from the results that we currently expect. Factors that could cause these differences include, but are not limited to: 1) whether definitive agreements can be entered into with Microsoft for the potential partnership in a timely manner, or at all, and on terms beneficial to us; 2) our ability to continue to innovate and maintain the vibrancy of our Symbian-based smartphones during the negotiation of the Microsoft partnership and thereafter; 3) the negotiation and implementation of the Microsoft partnership will require significant time, attention and resources of our senior management and others within the company potentially diverting their attention from other aspects of our business; 4) in choosing to negotiate a partnership with Microsoft and utilize Windows Phone as our primary smartphone platform, we may forego more competitive alternatives achieving greater acceptance and profitability in the smartphone market; 5) the Microsoft Windows Phone smartphone platform may not be preferred by application developers, content providers and other partners impairing our ability to build a sufficiently competitive ecosystem for our smartphones; 6) the Microsoft partnership may not achieve the stated goal of producing smartphones which are differentiated from those of our competitors and preferred by our customers and consumers in the expected timeframe, or at all; 7) our ability to change our business model, way of working and culture sufficiently to work effectively and efficiently with Microsoft in order to realize the stated benefits of the partnership in a timely manner, or at all; 8) our ability to effectively and smoothly implement our new leadership and operational structure and to realize the anticipated benefits in a timely manner; 9) the implementation of the Microsoft partnership and the new operational structure may cause disruption and dissatisfaction among employees potentially reducing focus and productivity in some or all areas of our business; as well as the risk factors specified on pages 11-32 of Nokia's annual report Form 20-F for the year ended December 31, 2009 under Item 3D. "Risk Factors." Other unknown or unpredictable factors or underlying assumptions subsequently proving to be incorrect could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements. Nokia does not undertake any obligation to publicly update or revise forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except to the extent legally required.

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I love Chitika's mobile ads!

2011-02-13T05:11:00.000-08:00

If you’re frequent smartphone user , there is chance that you might notice mobile optimized ads on website or application from the like of Admob. Now Chitika, contextual ads provider it used to be is going to offer Mobile Ads as well. The Mobile ads will only appear on your website if it is viewed from iPhone and Android smartphone only at the moment. If your website hasn’t configure to display any mobile ads, this is just the right time to do. More on that is available below, and don’t worry there is no affiliate link below

Hi,

We are excited to let you know that we will begin rolling out our new Mobile Ads program across your website(s) today! Now, in addition to your regular Chitika ad revenue, you will earn even more from these new ads targeted to visitors viewing your website on a mobile device*.

Here are some answers to your questions regarding our new mobile ads:

Why Do I Want Mobile Ads?
Chitika’s mobile ads are designed specifically for mobile users, and should result in more clicks and more revenue from your mobile traffic stream. The ads are designed to be noticeable on mobile devices without hurting the experience of your site.

When will these ads start to display for my account?
We are rolling these ads out slowly starting with a small portion of traffic, and then we will slowly increase this until mobile ads are live across the entire Chitika network.

What will they look like?
Here is a sample image:

Click here for a large preview of what the mobile ads looks like on an iPhone.

How often will they be displayed?
Mobile ads will be displayed similar to how our Select ads are displayed: only when there is a high chance the ad will result in revenue for you. So in other words, they will not be displayed 100% of the time.

How much revenue will I earn?
Mobile earnings will depend on your mobile traffic and will work very similar to the way you earn revenue from our regular desktop ads. There will be separate, custom reporting for mobile ads available very soon.

Do I have to make any changes for Mobile ads to be live for my site?
No. Since you already have our ad code running, Mobile ads will display automatically without any action needed on your part.

What if I don’t want mobile ads displayed on my website(s)?
You can easily disable mobile ads by logging in, and going to ‘My Account’. You can alsore-enable then later if you change your mind or you’d like to test them out.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact Chitika's Customer Support

Source: Blogjer

*Chitika mobile ads are currently displayed on the iPhone and Android only. Other devices will be added soon.

How to get web traffic using Facebook

2011-02-08T13:36:00.000-08:00

Having just passed its' 500 millionth user worldwide Facebook is one of the most important platforms you can use to generate additional web traffic to your website or page. If you target marketing and social media networking via Facebook - and it's free - you can get a significant amount of highly targeted traffic.

Within those 500+ million users, there are a significant amount of potential leads for your business, but before you plunge into marketing to everyone there are very important aspects you must take into account before you begin.

First you need to target your market, by doing your own research, and it can take quite a bit of time, but there are already many successful businesses already profiting from their Facebook marketing. Start by adding friends to your page, once added you can view their profile and gain an insight into their background, if they are associated with any groups, and if their interests connect with yours.

Bare in mind though, that Facebook is the 'social' network, when first connecting keeps your posts and updates friendly, non-sales oriented, but do offer valuable content such as tips and techniques on your relevant industry. Also add a fan (like) page and load it with quality content to warm your leads up. Once you have provided this content you can start to add links to your site and special offers to your new friends. The more relevant the content, the more likely your prospects will turn into clients.

Join various groups on Facebook - there are hundreds and hundreds, and some more than likely, will cater to your business or product. The groups can give you access to a huge amount of people who are already interested in what you have to offer. Start posting on discussion boards, post your own ideas and tips and answer other's questions, this way other members of the groups will add you as a friend.

Start off with the mindset of making friends, not clients, and eventually it will evolve into a great marketing campaign naturally.

When posting, include personal anecdotes, useful information without pitching your business - remember, very important - do NOT sell yourself immediately - but do post things that will encourage people to engage back with you. Also include a link to your blog, it's not a direct promotion but a subtle one which should include your website link - just a little way to let your friends know you do have a business too!

If you can gain respect, response and recognition on Facebook, you will soon find yourself with an ever-growing following to your fan page, home page, blog, groups, there's limitless possibilities. And go ahead and create your own group(s), encourage other group members to join yours, soon you will have a huge sphere of influence through which to grow your business and reputation.

Source:

James Hickey
Master Business Consultant

http://www.SDCCPRO.com
http://www.sd-entrepreneur.com

Best way to get traffic (free)

2011-02-08T10:58:00.000-08:00

Quite often the best ways to get traffic to your website are the free ways. You can get some serious amounts of traffic for free or very little cost. The real power in generating your own traffic is in the fact that you are in complete control of it quite often allowing you to choose more accurately who to target therefore generating higher conversion rates. People quite often overlook these methods and there are some real gems. Below I will outline the 5 best ways to get traffic to your website for FREE:-

1. People are spending more time watching video's online than doing anything else online. Video marketing is huge it's not all about YouTube although obviously YouTube by itself is massive but there are also loads of site that you can upload your videos to including Google, Myspace, Yahoo, MSN and AOL. It is not that hard to do and you can download some screen capture software for free. Although if you wish to get serious about Video marketing then some investment in software will improve the look and feel of your videos.

2. Searh Engine Optimisation (SEO)' I know its obvious but it's probably the best way of getting more traffic for your website. The three most important things to consider are:-

2.1. Choice of keywords - Most people choose keywords that there is too much competition for and do not give themselves a chance of getting to the top of the rankings.

2.2. Content - You need to have loads of relevant content that you update frequently to make sure that the search engines see your site as a current one.

2.3. Links - Not the quantity but the quality. You need one way links that are relevant and from other sites with high rankings for similar keywords. The best way to look at SEO is to try and look at it from the search engines point of view. When somebody does a search they want the best results to be displayed (if a load of irrelevant sites with no real content ie spam sites are listed then its not a very good search engine)

3. Articles and Press Releases just like the one that you are reading here are great for generating free traffic for several reasons:-

3.1. You will get high quality one way links from the article directories that you submit to right back to your site. So they are great for SEO. Imaging if you write 2 articles per week and get them published on 10 sites you will be adding roughly 80 high quality one way links to your site per month or just under a 1,000 in a year.

3.2. If you do some keyword research then your articles will very likely get good rankings in the search engines and be found that way.

3.3. People just browsing the article directories find your article and read it.

3.4. The best thing that can happen is an Ezine or magazine can choose to publish your article including the resource box with the link back to your website in it. Some magazines and Ezines have hugh readerships and your article can go out to the whole list generating massive traffic for FREE.

4. Harnessing the power of web2.0. Write a review or a short description about a page on your website that you wish to promote and then submit the review to the social sites. There are loads of the including, Digg, Furl, Stumble Upon, Reddit and Propeller to name a few. Using this method you again generate those one way links from high ranking sites so its great for SEO and people can find the link when browsing these social sites and click through on the link to have a look for themselves. The more interesting and intriguing your review is the more people will click through on your Link.

5. These are excellent ways to tap into highly targeted groups of people. You can also learn so much from other people in these groups or forums. Just go out and find a group or forum and start participating in the conversations and answering questions. You will have a signature file attached to each post that you make and this is where you have your link back to your site. Again building those one-way links and if you write a good signature file that is interesting people will click on those links. With this type of marketing it is best only to give responses if you know the Answer rather than just to get your link up there. It is easy to loose credibility and be seen as a spamer if you are not careful.

The most important thing to do now you have some knowledge is to Take Action without it you will not get any Free Traffic. It's best to focus on one way of getting traffic and get good at that before moving on to the next. So good luck and above all enjoy what you are doing.

Mike Goodchild has been Making Money Online for 7 Years and is the author of a 10 Day FREE Email course [http://www.mycashmachine.co.uk/free_traffic_tips.htm] about how to generate Traffic to your Website for Free or very little cost.

Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Michael_Goodchild

SEO Mistakes most made

2011-02-07T15:29:00.000-08:00

Targeting the wrong Keywords

This is a mistake many people make and what is worse – even experienced SEO experts make it. People choose keywords that in their mind are descriptive of their website but the average users just may not search them. For instance, if you have a relationship site, you might discover that “relationship guide” does not work for you, even though it has the “relationship” keyword, while “dating advice” works like a charm. Choosing the right keywords can make or break your SEO campaign. Even if you are very resourceful, you can't think on your own of all the great keywords but a good keyword suggestion tool, for instance, the Website Keyword Suggestion tool will help you find keywords that are good for your site.

Ignoring the Title Tag

Leaving the <title> tag empty is also very common. This is one of the most important places to have a keyword, because not only does it help you in optimization but the text in your <title> tag shows in the search results as your page title.

Flash

Flash might be attractive but not to search engines and users. If you really insist that your site is Flash-based and you want search engines to love it, provide an html version. Here are some more tips for optimizing Flash sites. Search engines don't like Flash sites for a reason – a spider can't read Flash content and therefore can't index it.

Javascripts

Using JavaScript for navigation is not bad as long as you understand that search engines do not read JavaScript and build your web pages accordingly. So if you have JavaScript menus you can't do without, you should consider build a sitemap (or putting the links in a noscript tag) so that all your links will be crawlable.

Lack of consistency and maintenance

Our friend Rob from Blackwood Productions often encounters clients, who believe that once you optimize a site, it is done forever. If you want to be successful, you need to permanently optimize your site, keep an eye on the competition and – changes in the ranking algorithms of search engines.

To much concentration on metatags

A lot of people seem to think SEO is about getting your meta keywords and description correct! In fact, meta tags are becoming (if not already) a thing of the past. You can create your meta keywords and descriptions but don't except to rank well only because of this.

Ignoring URL’s

Many people underestimate how important a good URL is. Dynamic page names are still very frequent and no keywords in the URL is more a rule than an exception. Yes, it is possible to rank high even without keywords in the URL but all being equal, if you have keywords in the URL (the domain itself, or file names, which are part of the URL), this gives you additional advantage over your competitors. Keywords in URLs are more important for MSN and Yahoo! but even with Google their relative weight is high, so there is no excuse for having keywordless URLs.

Not enough Keywords

Once you focus on your keywords, modify your content and put the keywords wherever it makes sense. It is even better to make them bold or highlight them.

Source: webconfs

Kontera and Chitika

2011-02-07T13:21:00.000-08:00

So I already have adsense and clickbank. Both have pretty disappointing results till now. Adsense does not pay a lot and Clickbank only pays out when people actually buy products. So now I started a new experiment with kontera and Chitika. Both are pay per click systems. Chitika looks a lot like Adsense and pays out by paypall. Problem is, I added it, but I can’t see ads as they should be shown. I’ll just wait a while to see what it does.

Here’s an article I found on Techknowl. It’s about Kontera.

Have you seen those double underlined text inside a blog ?? They are advertising provided by Infolinks , Kontera and other major players in In text advertising .These programs uses JavaScript to match content from a website with available advertisers in their database . Publishers are paid when user clicks on any of the advertising links generated via hover tooltip . The major advantage of in text advertising is that we don’t need any extra real estate for putting them up . They even work with Adsense or any other contextual advertising network and it’s very easy to install on blogspot . Here is my review Kontera

Review : Kontera seems to be the biggest player and current market leader in textadvertising .They provide a JavaScript that can be embedded easily into any website . Unlike the normal JavaScript placements , these tags are to be placed at the bottom portion of a template . So these placements really affects the page load time .

Good: More number of advertisers and comparatively good targeting .
Widgets and auto installers for all major blogging platforms and CMSs.
Bad: It seems Kontera really sucks when it comes to the payments . They offer support for the user to generate higher revenues but its not that working .
Payments only after 100 $ ( Via Paypal or Check ).
Statics page is not so impressive .

Websites:

Kontera

Chitika

Brilliant!!

2011-02-06T05:50:00.000-08:00

Must Watch...To funny!

The Facts About Facebook you probably didn't know....

2011-01-29T16:14:00.000-08:00

1. By summer of 2010, facebook officially passed 500 MILLION users. (That is about the entire population of the European Union)

2. “Facebook Addiction Disorder” has officially been deemed a mental health disorder by psychologists.

3. 77% of workers who have a facebook account, admit to using it at work.

4. Facebook is the most trafficked website in the world. Even more than GOOGLE.

5. The Average facebook user has 130 facebook friends.

6. There are about 30 million new photo uploads each day.

7. The Average facebook user spends 55 minutes a day on the site.

8. Facebook has an about 10,000 servers to support the infrastructure.

9. More than 30 billion pieces of content are shared on facebook every month.

10. More than 66% of facebook users have a college education. Perfect for businesses to advertise to.

11. More than 150 Million users access facebook through their mobile devices.

12. Facebook has a partnership with AMAZON to provide users with Purchase Recommendations.

13. It is estimated that facebook has doubled it's profits every year since it was founded, currently valued upwards of 20 BILLION.

14. Advertising on facebook has tripled in the last year.

15. On average, facebook consumes 4.5% of corporate bandwidth. Accounting for 7% of all outward business traffic.

16. The average user is a fan of 4 Pages.

17. People who access facebook via mobile devices are twice as active as computer users.

18. Facebook has become the business networking forum.

19. 60% of the world's top retailers have an active presence on facebook.

20. 81% of business executives state that facebook marketing boosts sales and customer relationships.

21. Over 1.5 million local businesses have active facebook Pages.

22. 63% of marketing agencies have implemented Social Media programs.

23. Almost ½ of all facebook members admit that they use it for businesses purposes.

24. Facebook provides Page owners with key demographic research of their fans.

25. 31% of consumers state that they look up retailers on their facebook page, almost doubling since last year.

Clickbank or Adsense?

2011-01-22T15:09:00.000-08:00

If you want to start making money online, and you were wondering whether you should use AdSense ads or ClickBank ads, you have came to the right place. Here are a few differences between AdSense and ClickBank.

ClickBank doesn't have a limit to how many ads you can put on a page. This is good and bad. It's good if you don't overdo it. You don't want to make your page filled with ads because it takes away from the content. Try to limit the page to a maximum of 2 blocks, or else your page just looks like a giant advertisement.

With ClickBank, you get paid immediately, but AdSense doesn't pay you until you reach a certain number of clicks. You don't get any more with either, it's just when you get paid that is difference.

ClickBank sends traffic straight to a product sales page instead of another website. This increases the chance of getting a sale because the customer doesn't have to go through a bunch of extra pages of information.

ClickBank allows you to choose your own keywords. This is one of the biggest benefits of ClickBank, because it makes the ads and the keywords relevant to each other.

If I had to give my honest opinion, I would say that neither one makes more money than the other. The amount of money you make depends on how much you work, and how efficiently you work. Choose whichever one you prefer, and find easier, and you should be successful.

Another advantage of Clickbank is that you can add the banners wherever you want on your blog. Adsense has pointed places and a maximum of 3 banners per page!

The Power of Social Media!!

2011-01-16T05:24:00.000-08:00

Let's make $143556,00 a month with my Blog and Clickbank?

2011-01-15T14:28:00.000-08:00

So here i am. Trying to find ways to earn $$ with my blog. If i google the internet you find people making hundreds of thousands of dollars with affiliate programs. So i've done some research and found out there are lots of ways to earn money with these programs. So i made some changes to this blog.

First of all i took off all the Adsense banners from my blog, replacing them by clickbank Hopads. The reason i did that is because now i'm more flexible on where i place banners and so i can target my visitors more easy. As you can see on my previous post i added a Hopad with tabs wright in the post, i targeted info on:

Top Products

Here you will find (as i understand) the top products sold on the internet to help you sell with afiliate programs.

Blogs

In this tab you will find tools to make and promote blogs on the internet

Music

No good day without music. So i Added this tap so you can easy find music, MP3's and DVD's

Now the next step is getting myself into the SEO theory. This is the key to affiliate programs. No traffic simply means no selling. So next step, cumming week will be to get more traffic to my site.

Now i don't want to keep you waiting, so I’m going to start by sharing a Youtube film i recently watched. Most of the Affiliate fims you see on Youtube have a spammy and shaky. But this guy actually seems to talks some sense and shows a few tricks on how to promote your website with free tools on the internet. So enjoy watching it. Hope it can help you to.

Using Facebook, Twitter and Digg to get traffic on my blog

2011-01-11T12:40:00.000-08:00

A few weeks ago I submitted my websites to Bing, Google and Yahoo. Whenever I search for “fun for today blogspot” you’ll find me on top of all the search results. That may look like a good thing. But, whenever i shorten my search to fun for today I drop down and you won’t find me on the first (few) pages. On Google you’ll find me, but on yahoo and Bing I can’t find the blog back. I’ll give it some more time before I start my research on this issue.

Search Results for Fun For Today Blogspot

What I want to write about today is my mix of social media I use to generate traffic on my Blog. I created a Facebook Fanpage, a Twitter account and a DIGG account. I figured if I want any traffic on my blog fast I’ll need social media to accelerate it. As you can see in the picture I called them all the same and also use them for the same purpose. You can imagine what I post on them to redirect the members to my Blog. But how do you get Followers on Twitter, Facebook and Digg.

Facebook, twitter, Digg accounts for Fun For Today

Well I started googeling how I can get followers on twitter fast and free. And what happens then is that you get all kinds of crappy, crazy, funny and most of all spammy systems that promise anything between 500 and 5000 followers in a few days. And you’ll be surprised on how much effort people put in making these spammy sites. Wel after a day or so I found Twiends.com. This site is brilliant. Let me explain to you how it works.

If you go to Twiends you have to log in with your Facebook and/or Twitter account. And then you’re ready to start. What they do is: They give you credits for every account you follow on twitter or every page you “like” on facebook. You can get credits anywhere between 1 and 10 for each follow or “like”. With the credits you earn you can pay the followers that want to follow you. It’s based on reciprocity. It works best with Twitter. Up till now i got about 2500 followers in a little less than 2 weeks. On facebook I got about 370 members on my page. You can also filter members on interests.

Twiends

The effect is pretty amazing. Not yet what I’m looking for, but it’s interesting. Every time I post my bloglink on Twitter you see the amount of page views grow. Same thing for Facebook. The last week I got an average of about 100 unique visitors daily. Which to me is impressive cause I’m just an amature trying to find out how the blogging world works.

Digg is social network I still need to focus on. But it is on my to do list. So as soon as I have more info on Digg I’ll write a post on it.

If any of you have suggestions, questions or comments on how I’m approaching my blog project please do share.

Till the next!

Fun For Today

Links:

Facebook

Twitter

Digg

Twiends

Update

2011-01-09T11:27:00.000-08:00

Hi,

Ok, I started this blog in the beginning of December 2010. As I wrote before. It’s my very first blog, and I see it as an experiment. So in the coming posts I’m going to explain to you what my goal is, what I did and where my blog stands.

Let’s start with my blog. When I first designed it looked spammy and I didn’t like the look of it. Also some people complained to me that is wasn’t a very nice blog. So I decided to do some research on templates and ways to build up my blog. Wich led me to my recent design. On my homepage I will keep you up to date on my ongoing experiment as an amature blogger. Then on the top of my blog you see the ‘taps’. This is where you will find the actual content of what this blog is all about, FUN!

I’ve made 9 taps. Those are actually separate pages I’ll give you them here:

Jokes	Chuck Norris	Google Fail
Humor	Q&A	Apple
Funny Movies	Oneliners	My Links

Most of the content that was on my previous designed was transferred to the different pages. And off course some of it didn’t make it to the new layout. Just because I didn’t like it enough to repost it.

Ok, so now I have my new and redesigned blog. Hope you will enjoy it. And keep coming back. I’ll try to post new funny content on a daily base.

Next week I will talk you through the steps I’m taking to get more traffic!

Sincerely yours,

Fun For Today! (the amateur blogger)

Fun For Today!

2011-01-05T10:50:00.000-08:00

Welcome to Fun for Today,

This is the first blog I’ve ever made. And to tell you the truth: it wasn’t easy.

I’ll give you a few reasons why I’m making this blog.

I’ve been on Facebook for the last 2 to 3 years. Most of the time I’m on it, I talk a lot of crap and share hilarious, funny and strange pictures, movies and quotes i find on the internet. I use Facebook mostly to relevate my day and get my daily dose of laughter. What bothered me the most is that a lot of the info i posted or reacted on in the past got lost. So i figured: Why not make a blog and post the funny things i find on the internet or for that same reason on Facebook, twitter and other social media.

Also i see this blog as an experiment to figure out how SEO (Search Engine Optimization) works. So here’s what i did:

designed (and already redesigned) this blog;

matataged my Blog (whatever the hell that is…:P)

made a twitter account;

made a fanpage on Facebook;

submitted my blog, Facebook Fanpage and Twitteraccount on most search engines;

added google analytics;

added google adsense;

etc….

So I hope you will enjoy my blog and have fun and laugh a bit. Just look at the tabs on the top end of the blog and you’ll find different categories I will keep up to date. Feel free to leave comments and suggestions.

Sincerely yours,

Fun For Today

Ps. If In any case I’m misusing protected content, please let me know by sending me a message and I will delete the content.