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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2011 14:05:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When people want to improve their life they decide to have and run business because there are many people who have been success in running their business and can give more profits. Well, running a business also need strategies and the best supporting tools to help them running smoothly. When you run an online business, [...]<p><a href="http://fergieweb.org/hostgator-hosting/">Hostgator Hosting</a> is a post from: <a href="http://fergieweb.org">Web Hosting News and Reviews and SEO Blog - fergieweb.org</a></p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When people want to improve their life they decide to have and run business because there are many people who have been success in running their business and can give more profits. Well, running a business also need strategies and the best supporting tools to help them running smoothly. When you run an online business, you also should have the best hosting provider to help you get the best domain for your website.</p>
<p>Webhostingdeals.org provides and offers the best one for you because they are the professional one that can give the best solution for your hosting provider. <a href="http://www.webhostingdeals.org/hostgator-review" target="_blank">http://www.webhostingdeals.org/hostgator-review</a> is the best hosting provider that provides many services for your domain. They have many experiences and have been hosting many domains in the world. There are many people who like to have the hostgator for their hosting provider because of the integrity they have. With them you can easily solve your problem.</p>
<p>They also offer the unlimited storage for your domain and of course by this you can grow your business easily.</p>
<p>Furthermore, hostgator also offer and provide you the 25% discounts for you so that you can save your money in having the best hosting provider. This is the best one that also offers the guarantee.</p>
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		<title>Getting to the Top of the Search Engines</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jun 2011 17:45:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The best way to get free traffic to your website is by getting to the top of the search engines. Getting to the top of the search engines can be difficult and takes a lot of time, but it will pay off in lots of free traffic. Here are some ideas for getting to the [...]<p><a href="http://fergieweb.org/getting-to-the-top-of-the-search-engines/">Getting to the Top of the Search Engines</a> is a post from: <a href="http://fergieweb.org">Web Hosting News and Reviews and SEO Blog - fergieweb.org</a></p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The best way to get free traffic to your website is by getting to the top of the search engines. Getting to the top of the search engines can be difficult and takes a lot of time, but it will pay off in lots of free traffic. Here are some ideas for getting to the top of the search engines.</p>
<p>Use a descriptive title for each page of your website. The first words in the title should be the ones you expect customers to search for the most. The title will be highlighted in the search engines, and you want people to see what interests them.</p>
<p>Placing keywords in the right places helps in getting to the top of the search engines. Search engines look for important keywords in the headlines, subheads, and first paragraph. While you should make the first paragraph as keyword rich as you can, don&#8217;t sacrifice content to do this.</p>
<p>Search engines view hyperlinks as important, so use important keywords in hyperlinks. This works especially well when the name of the page you hyperlink to has the same keywords as in your hyperlink.</p>
<p>Write a website consisting of several pages. Each page should concentrate on one keyword or keyword phrase relating to your site.<br />
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Submit your site to the major search engines. You can do this by using the &#8220;add your URL&#8221; link found on the search engine site.</p>
<p>Links from good quality sites will help you rank well with some search engines. In addition, they are another way for people to find you. Find sites that complement yours and ask if they will consider reciprocal linking.</p>
<p><a href="http://fergieweb.org/getting-to-the-top-of-the-search-engines/">Getting to the Top of the Search Engines</a> is a post from: <a href="http://fergieweb.org">Web Hosting News and Reviews and SEO Blog - fergieweb.org</a></p>
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		<title>A Free List Of Immediately Useful Top Paying Keywords</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jun 2011 19:48:34 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Internet Marketing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Which keyword will you create content for? A $0.20 ( twenty cent) housepainting keyword or a $2.00 (two dollar) home improvement keyword. Many people will obviously go for the $2.00 keyword. A closer look however will show you are better off combining the two for a richer fuller presentation about home improvement. Additionally you can [...]<p><a href="http://fergieweb.org/a-free-list-of-immediately-useful-top-paying-keywords/">A Free List Of Immediately Useful Top Paying Keywords</a> is a post from: <a href="http://fergieweb.org">Web Hosting News and Reviews and SEO Blog - fergieweb.org</a></p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Which keyword will you create content for? A $0.20 ( twenty cent) housepainting keyword or a $2.00 (two dollar) home improvement keyword. Many people will obviously go for the $2.00 keyword. A closer look however will show you are better off combining the two for a richer fuller presentation about home improvement. Additionally you can use $0.20 (cents) to launch a pay per click Adwords campaign to drive traffic to your site which will be displaying $2.00 ads. That obviously make for a lucrative spread.</p>
<p>As internet marketers our livelihood very much depends on how well the revenue streams we set up perform and unless you have a massive flow of traffic on a consistent basis, you don&#8217;t want to mess with those $0.20 keywords. Personally I don&#8217;t think sacrificing good content for the benefit of having higher paying keywords is useful. It can be beneficial in the short term. You however want to build a more sustainable business that will serve you for many years to come and that means being able to provide quality content that is useful for your readers. People come to your site expecting that they will be informed and leave having added some value to their lives. It is not easy when you are constantly being told to write in such a manner that helps your page rank and in a way search engines will love. Whatever approach we take should have a bearing on our sites capacity to be a worthy information resource. The challenge therefore is about striking the right balance between the need to make some good income and being useful. Finding the right keyword combinations at both ends of pricing, mixed in with a meaningful content on a regular basis that ensures a spread like this is definitely the goal we all strive for.<br />
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There are many tools out there and one I find remarkably useful tracks keywords dynamically to ensure the latest values are available for your adsense/adwords campaign. Check it out for the latest free listing. It&#8217;s an eye opener. Don&#8217;t leave money on the table.</p>
<p><a href="http://fergieweb.org/a-free-list-of-immediately-useful-top-paying-keywords/">A Free List Of Immediately Useful Top Paying Keywords</a> is a post from: <a href="http://fergieweb.org">Web Hosting News and Reviews and SEO Blog - fergieweb.org</a></p>
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		<title>Getting Listed In Search Engines</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jun 2011 20:35:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What exactly is search engine optimization? Search engine optimization is designing, writing, and coding (in HTML) your entire web site so that there is a good chance that your web pages will appear at the top of search engine queries for your selected keywords and key phrases. The majority of the search engine optimization specialist&#8217;s [...]<p><a href="http://fergieweb.org/getting-listed-in-search-engines/">Getting Listed In Search Engines</a> is a post from: <a href="http://fergieweb.org">Web Hosting News and Reviews and SEO Blog - fergieweb.org</a></p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What exactly is search engine optimization? Search engine optimization is designing, writing, and coding (in HTML) your entire web site so that there is a good chance that your web pages will appear at the top of search engine queries for your selected keywords and key phrases. The majority of the search engine optimization specialist&#8217;s time should be spent targeting the search engines that will give you the most traffic. The following search engines and directories are:</p>
<p>AltaVista<br />
AOL Search<br />
Business.com<br />
FAST Search<br />
Google<br />
HotBot<br />
LookSmart<br />
Lycos<br />
MSN Search<br />
Netscape Search<br />
Open Directory<br />
Overture<br />
Yahoo</p>
<p>The best time to request search engine optimization is before you design your web site. As your web site designer creates page templates for you to approve, you can have a search engine optimization specialist take a look at them and tell you which layout is best for optimum indexing. Once you have selected the best layout for your web site, then the search engine optimization specialist can tell your designer when and where to place your keywords and key phrases within your HTML tags.</p>
<p>How can you tell a quality search engine optimization specialist from a scam artist? A search engine optimization specialist should be able to get your site indexed well for Google, Inktomi, and Yahoo. The 2 search engines and 1 directory differ in the way they index sites. Google does not use meta-tag content for relevancy. Inktomi currently uses meta-tags. And Yahoo is a directory. Ask how your site will be designed and tagged for each of these. If you don&#8217;t get 3 different answers, then you should move on to a more experienced search engine optimization professional.</p>
<p>If your web site has already been designed, a professional search engine optimization specialist will often recommend layout and design changes. He/She is not telling you that you have a bad-looking web site. He/She is telling you that the site&#8217;s layout will not get indexed well for your targeted keywords and key phrases. For example, a site that has a triple frameset (on the top and on the side) is extremely difficult to get indexed well on search engines, even with a gateway page. However, a simple frameset can get indexed well in search engines, with or without a gateway page. A search engine optimization specialist can design or tell your web site designer how to lay out a simple frameset to get the best results.<br />
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Search engine optimization and other marketing strategies (banner advertising, web copywriting, being listed in Yahoo, posting to discussion groups, etc.) are not substitutes for a web site with solid content and great layout. Search engine optimization is not a substitute for customer service, a good sales pitch, or a great product/service. It is not a substitute for a well-planned online and offline marketing plan. Search engine optimization is a means of helping your potential customers find your web site. It is a highly specialized marketing tool.</p>
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		<title>A Franchise Business Needs These Essential Ingredients</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2011 20:29:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A franchise unlike other businesses needs to have special ingredients. These include an easily duplicated business model, decent profit margins, strong brand name and future potential for growth. If these ingredients are in place then it becomes easier to recruit the ideal franchisees. A business can only be franchised if it is possible to train [...]<p><a href="http://fergieweb.org/a-franchise-business-needs-these-essential-ingredients/">A Franchise Business Needs These Essential Ingredients</a> is a post from: <a href="http://fergieweb.org">Web Hosting News and Reviews and SEO Blog - fergieweb.org</a></p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A franchise unlike other businesses needs to have special ingredients. These include an easily duplicated business model, decent profit margins, strong brand name and future potential for growth. If these ingredients are in place then it becomes easier to recruit the ideal franchisees.</p>
<p>A business can only be franchised if it is possible to train franchisees how to manage their territory successfully. If specialist skills are required then it becomes harder to franchise. As things currently stand, it is extremely difficult to recruit intelligent and hard working people without adding any extra burdens on the franchise selection team.</p>
<p>A Franchise Business generally requires larger profit margins than normal. This is because the profits have to be shared between franchisee and franchisor. The franchisors share is normally between ten and twelve percent of turnover which is a huge chunk when calculated as a percentage of profits.</p>
<p>A strong brand name is essential for success. The franchisee is not only buying into the business model but paying a franchise fee based on an easily identifiable and distinctive brand. The business name, logos, mission statements and other design characteristics that make up the franchise should be constantly marketed so that the franchisee can remain focused on managing the business.<br />
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The niche in which the business operates should have strong growth potential in the future if the franchise model is to succeed in the long term. It might take many years to roll out the franchise in designated territories and during this time it is essential that the market for the products and services is experiencing some growth.</p>
<p>Finding the ideal franchisee to manage the business is often the hardest part of franchising a business. There is huge competition in the market place and most franchisors are seeking the same type of person to buy their franchise opportunity.</p>
<p>In a nutshell the ideal characteristic of a franchisee is the ability to work without supervision. They must have strong interpersonal skills &amp; be able to communicate with customers and staff clearly and efficiently. They must possess decent knowledge of computers to be able to learn how to use and operate the new business systems of the franchisor.</p>
<p>The best age range for an ideal franchisee is between thirty and fifty years old. Any younger and their life experience is severely lacking. If they are older then fifty they usually do not possess the same drive and determination that younger people do. This obviously does not apply in all cases but does generally hold true.</p>
<p>Not all the essential ingredients apply in every business that is considering the franchise model. This article is not about dictating what franchisors should think about. Instead, it is about giving them some ideas of the factors at play and how to think about approaching the franchise model.</p>
<p><a href="http://fergieweb.org/a-franchise-business-needs-these-essential-ingredients/">A Franchise Business Needs These Essential Ingredients</a> is a post from: <a href="http://fergieweb.org">Web Hosting News and Reviews and SEO Blog - fergieweb.org</a></p>
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		<title>Getting Links To Your Site Free and Easy</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jun 2011 19:44:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Getting Links To Your Site Free and Easy by Andre Best If you&#8217;re the least bit serious about promoting your website(s) online then you have probably heard the recent cry that one&#8217;s website needs links coming into it. Lot&#8217;s of links. And without these many, many links one is the proverbial billboard in the desert [...]<p><a href="http://fergieweb.org/getting-links-to-your-site-free-and-easy/">Getting Links To Your Site Free and Easy</a> is a post from: <a href="http://fergieweb.org">Web Hosting News and Reviews and SEO Blog - fergieweb.org</a></p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Getting Links To Your Site Free and Easy<br />
by Andre Best</p>
<p>If you&#8217;re the least bit serious about promoting your website(s) online then you have probably heard the recent cry that one&#8217;s website needs links coming into it. Lot&#8217;s of links. And without these many, many links one is the proverbial billboard in the desert waiting to be seen by those thirsty for sustenance.</p>
<p>Well after these several years that I&#8217;ve been on the internet I too heard the call and have followed the many internet bandwagons that have rolled into e-town touting the next &#8216;latest and greatest&#8217; snakeoil software to get one traffic that they won&#8217;t believe.</p>
<p>You know the cry&#8230; &#8216;The traffic explosion your favorite web guru gets &#8211; and it&#8217;ll only cost you $795 to attend this three-day conference to learn how to play with the big boys (and girls) online.&#8217;</p>
<p>Sound familiar? To most owning one or several websites it will.</p>
<p>But after being dragged around the reciprocal linking millstone over the last several months in a valiant attempt to obtain many reciprocal link exchanges and closely monitoring all completed link requests I can truthfully say that that job in itself is a bugger to track and stay on top of.</p>
<p>Why?</p>
<p>Because for the most part one has to rely on one common denominator in that equation&#8230; people.</p>
<p>I finally realized that this tactic of getting traffic &#8216;for free&#8217; and having it prove itself as viable was indeed true. Link-exchanges do work. But they ARE work too.</p>
<p>But with me being the type of person who writes with my eyes closed (literally), I was told by a couple of e-friends that I should pursue &#8216;articles&#8217; more vehemently. I didn&#8217;t know what they meant so what I did was find out about a couple of the bigger article directories on the Net and I submitted a couple of my writings to them. And then I promptly forgot about this process because it was extremely labor intensive.</p>
<p>And with me being a relatively lazy fellow at times I &#8216;moved on&#8217; to other tasks that seemed more to my liking. And ease of use.</p>
<p>But after getting relatively burned out with this link-exchange stuff and dogging real live people to honor link exchange requests after I had &#8216;nicely&#8217; place an unexpected link to their site on my site, I was tired of this whole process.</p>
<p>~~~~COMMENT~~~~<br />
Yes, I know there are automated processes and software out there that will do this linking stuff for one, but again, I&#8217;ve also read how the SE&#8217;s are &#8216;onto&#8217; these tactics and reciprocal links aren&#8217;t as effective as they used to be.</p>
<p>But they are still effective, that&#8217;s why I still honor the odd link exchange request I get. I just don&#8217;t spend all my time doing this anymore.</p>
<p>But getting back on track to the actual subject of this article&#8230;<br />
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<p>Back a couple of months ago, I somehow received an email about a new software program that would do &#8216;article submissions&#8217; almost automatically.</p>
<p>But let me first digress somewhat and tell you what &#8216;article submitting&#8217; is.<br />
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Article submitting may sound kind of formal and only for &#8216;writers&#8217;, but it isn&#8217;t.</p>
<p>Essentially, anytime one writes something of extended length, even a longer webpage, they&#8217;ve written an &#8216;article&#8217;.</p>
<p>Think about it. If you have a website that you&#8217;ve personally written, then you have written articles related to the subject of your website.</p>
<p>So, if your website is all about the best way to burp babies, then you have a whole bunch of &#8216;articles&#8217; that you&#8217;ve written about parenting, specifically, burping babies.</p>
<p>What you can then do is submit these articles throughout the WWW and get yourself known as a baby burping expert.</p>
<p>But even more importantly, you can take each of the webpages you&#8217;ve written on your website and turn it into an &#8216;article&#8217; &#8211; add a link BACK to your site in the footer of the article &#8211; and voila! you have written an article and ALSO obtained a link back to your site whenever someone else uses that article.</p>
<p>And all this without having to hassle with e-chasing that non-compliant link partner to honor their link exchange with you.</p>
<p>Sound cool? It is.</p>
<p>Now, like everything else, there is a downside to all this article writing.</p>
<p>It takes time to do.</p>
<p>First you have to have written YOUR OWN articles/webpages. And then you have to personally submit them to any of several hundred article directories floating around in cyberspace.</p>
<p>And of course there is the whole idea of you having the motivation to do this submission stuff too, so let me share a little bit of motivating statistics with you.</p>
<p>Remember how I mentioned earlier about having piddled with submitting a couple of stories/webpages I had written to several of the major article directories? Well, that was about 14 months ago. And remember how I told you that I did this and then promptly forgot about all this article submission stuff?</p>
<p>Well, over those 14 months since I did this, which by the way only took about one hour to do, I now have about 300 STATIC, incoming links to my site from those two articles being posted around the Internet. Yes, 300 incoming, NOT reciprocal, links.</p>
<p>And so what I did was after I received that email from someone touting this article submission software was to do some research on this whole article submission automation software process.</p>
<p>What I came out of this research with was that as of now there are two main article submission software programs that allow one to automate most of the process of doing this sometimes laborious task.</p>
<p>And since it is so repetitive and sometimes painstaking to do manual article submissions I thought that this would be one way to get me back into this process that I think is well suited for the way I like to promote my business online. With words, that is.</p>
<p>After much mental deliberation, and financial detailing, I opted to go for an article submission software that was released during the summer of 2005. Besides it being almost one-third the price of the other main player in this article submittal software e-competition going on, it also appeared to have a lot going for it with a money-back guarantee and a manual and good developer-support.</p>
<p>So I bought it several weeks ago and have been using it everyday to promote several of my websites by submitting &#8216;articles&#8217; I&#8217;ve written to the several hundred article directories included in the automatic submissions this software does for the user.</p>
<p>And to say the least, the results, so far, are extremely impressive.</p>
<p>One little statistic. Remember those two articles I submitted 14 months ago and obtained over 300 incoming links from doing so? Well, I&#8217;ve used this software to continue submitting them to other article directories included in the software program.</p>
<p>And now that 300 incoming links number now numbers almost 700. Yes, 700 incoming links from just those two articles. An increase of approximately 400 incoming links, in just five weeks.</p>
<p>To me, those are some GOOD results. Especially without having to chase other humans to reciprocal link with me, building link webpages, tracking linking emails, checking links, buying tracking software, and all that stuff that goes along with the reciprocal linking process.</p>
<p>So, if you&#8217;re tired of buying links and chasing other website owners for reciprocal link exchanges, do consider using content you&#8217;ve written as a way to get links, and eventually traffic, into your site.</p>
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		<title>A Franchise Business Is Not The Right Opportunity For Everybody</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jun 2011 08:15:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With a franchise business, the chances of success are much higher. According to the US Department of Commerce, after completing a 7 year study, over 90% of franchises are still trading profitably. So why am I saying that a franchise business might not be right for you? A franchise is not right for you if: [...]<p><a href="http://fergieweb.org/a-franchise-business-is-not-the-right-opportunity-for-everybody/">A Franchise Business Is Not The Right Opportunity For Everybody</a> is a post from: <a href="http://fergieweb.org">Web Hosting News and Reviews and SEO Blog - fergieweb.org</a></p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>With a franchise business, the chances of success are much higher. According to the US Department of Commerce, after completing a 7 year study, over 90% of franchises are still trading profitably.</p>
<p>So why am I saying that a franchise business might not be right for you?</p>
<p>A franchise is not right for you if:<br />
1) You are the type of person who does not like following guidelines<br />
2) You believe that you know better then everybody else<br />
3) You can&#8217;t accept other people&#8217;s advice<br />
4) You want to change the look and feel of the product<br />
5) You want to do things your way<br />
6) You expect others to take responsibility<br />
7) You dont believe in hard work<br />
 <img src='http://fergieweb.org/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_cool.gif' alt='8)' class='wp-smiley' /> You are aggressive and can&#8217;t control your temper<br />
9) You are not ready for commitment<br />
10) You can&#8217;t work with people</p>
<p>The limitations to a franchise opportunity are that you will not be able to deviate from procedures. You will have to buy from predetermined suppliers and use the computer systems and software that has been chosen by the franchiser. You will also be limited to where you can operate the business as the franchiser will not allow you to endanger his reputation, in a location, where he believes that there is little chance of success.<br />
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When people choose to go it alone, 80% of business start ups fail within 5 years. This is because they are entering a market where their business knowledge is usually poor, although their product knowledge might be good. All their experience comes from trial and error, and the banks are quick to pull the plug if cash flow projections are not met.</p>
<p>Now a franchisor has been through a period of trial and error. They have found a system that works and suppliers who deliver. Why would they allow you to change this proven system?</p>
<p>Although the chances of success in a franchise opportunity are much greater then if you choose to start your own business, only you can decide if you can live within the confines that have already been determined by others.</p>
<p>Irrespective of which road you choose to go down, always take professional advice.</p>
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		<title>Getting Indexed in Google – Quick and Easy</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2011 03:43:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Google is the dominant search engine on the net, controlling more traffic than Yahoo and MSN combined. This means you need to get your entire site into Google as fast as possible. Getting Indexed in Google Quick and Easy Millions upon millions of dollars have been made by sites getting ranked highly in Google. Of [...]<p><a href="http://fergieweb.org/getting-indexed-in-google-%e2%80%93-quick-and-easy/">Getting Indexed in Google – Quick and Easy</a> is a post from: <a href="http://fergieweb.org">Web Hosting News and Reviews and SEO Blog - fergieweb.org</a></p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Google is the dominant search engine on the net, controlling more traffic than Yahoo and MSN combined. This means you need to get your entire site into Google as fast as possible.</p>
<p>Getting Indexed in Google  Quick and Easy</p>
<p>Millions upon millions of dollars have been made by sites getting ranked highly in Google. Of course, these sites are optimized to get the rankings. While optimization is critical, it is also vital that you get all the pages of your site indexed in Google.</p>
<p>The good news is it is fairly easy to get Google to suck up the pages of your site. There are a couple of different ways, but you need to do one thing before worrying about getting indexed.</p>
<p>Site maps are rarely clicked on by most visitors to a site, but they are critical nonetheless. A site map isnt vital because it helps a visitor get around the site. It is vital because it helps the search engine indexing robots find all the pages on the site. In this case, you want to create a site map for your site to make sure the Googlebot finds all the pages you have labored to put up. Google actually has an xml site maps tool, but I prefer to actually make sitemaps since I want Yahoo and MSN to index the site as well.</p>
<p>Once you have a site map, the easiest way to get the attention of Google is to create a free blog. Go to Blogger.com and open a free account. Just follow the three or four simple steps and you will be ready to go. Once the account is open, create your first blog entry. Type anything you want, but make sure to include a link to your home page and your site map in the entry. Hit the enter button and you are on your way. Why? Google owns blogger.com, so it regularly canvases the blogs and links. Within a week or two, your site should start appearing in Google.<br />
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A second way to get indexed in Google is to write an article. Create one on a subject relevant to your site. Make it about 400 words long or about a page in length. Open an account with an article directory. The account should be assigned immediately after opening the account. Login and go to your member profile. Add the domain to your site in the appropriate box and save it. Then submit your article. Make sure to include an author byline where indicated and include a link to your site. The Google indexing robot will crawl the site at least once a week, find your links and follow them to your site. Within a few weeks, you should see your site indexed in Google.</p>
<p>You can also add your domain directly to Google, but this is really a waste of your time.  So many people do it on a daily basis that it may take three months for Google to get to your site.</p>
<p>You can use any of the above techniques to get the attention of the Google indexing bot. Regardless of how you do it, keep in mind it will take a few weeks for your site to appear. There are millions of sites on the web, so the robot has a lot of ground to cover.</p>
<p><a href="http://fergieweb.org/getting-indexed-in-google-%e2%80%93-quick-and-easy/">Getting Indexed in Google  Quick and Easy</a> is a post from: <a href="http://fergieweb.org">Web Hosting News and Reviews and SEO Blog - fergieweb.org</a></p>
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		<title>A Franchise Business – To Buy Or Not To Buy</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2011 02:54:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Aspiring franchisees often find themselves-they have plenty funds, do not want to work for somebody else, but have little business skills. What exactly is a franchise? The word is used to refer to a business that utilises the logo, name and operation systems providing that they come up with the required funds and are prepared [...]<p><a href="http://fergieweb.org/a-franchise-business-to-buy-or-not-to-buy/">A Franchise Business &#8211; To Buy Or Not To Buy</a> is a post from: <a href="http://fergieweb.org">Web Hosting News and Reviews and SEO Blog - fergieweb.org</a></p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Aspiring franchisees often find themselves-they have plenty funds, do not want to work for somebody else, but have little business skills.</p>
<p>What exactly is a franchise?</p>
<p>The word is used to refer to a business that utilises the logo, name and operation systems providing that they come up with the required funds and are prepared to give the parent company a share of the profits.</p>
<p>Just like any other business there are positives and negatives the future depends on several factors.</p>
<p>A franchise enables on to hit the ground running &#8211; it removes a great deal of the work in simply getting an idea from the head to the planning board to a functioning project.</p>
<p>On the downside franchise fees are usually high &#8211; this is the burden of being spoon-fed an entire business &#8211; along with this comes the necessity to have sufficient funds laid aside. It could be argued that without sufficient funds the simple act of purchasing a franchise could well be deemed as a burden.</p>
<p>Arguing against that, a franchise has lower risks than a brand new product irrespective of how good the product is. While it is speculation as to whether or not a new business will succeed or fail, one can see the record of the parent company on which to base his/her views.</p>
<p>On the other side, one that owns a franchise must abide by the rules of the parent company-this can have the effect of stifling creative or entrepreneurial thoughts, and as such may inhibit the exploration or challenge of your creativity.<br />
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So what affects the success of a franchise?</p>
<p>The type and success of a business-it is important not to franchise from any company but to have a look at the particular success the company is having; also important is to look at the longevity of the company and its product range.</p>
<p>Some franchises require the franchisee to have special qualifications, skills or knowledge of a certain field.</p>
<p>Time and management skills are obviously needed ,thus if one is not willing to spend sufficient time managing the business then it is important to have reliable, dependable and trustworthy people to front the business-could you rely on someone to ensure that your business.</p>
<p>There are many other factors that can and do affect the future of a franchise; however it is essential to make sure that the franchise is really what one wants.</p>
<p>When one examines the possibility of a franchise it is important to take into account of essential factors such as availability of capital, the possibility of hurdles, how many hours are available to spend on the business, the back-up support available in the event of problems etc.</p>
<p>If these factors are all in place and the fundamental examinations have been taken care of then it can most certainly be a good career option.</p>
<p>Should one wish to evaluate the choice there are numerous sources available for advice and numerous articles around giving advice &#8211; I have found this to be particularly helpful and the information within excellent.</p>
<p>While it is a natural reaction to think nothing but positive thoughts about an impending venture, it is prudent to dot the &#8220;i&#8221;and stroke the &#8220;t&#8221;s.</p>
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		<title>Getting Indexed, A Little Patience?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jun 2011 21:51:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Newbie&#8217;s and Expert Internet Marketers all have one thing in common: Trying to get their websites indexed through the top three major search engines quickly. For larger websites the task is even more daunting, and there are a few small but effective techniques that can assist in the indexing process. Patience is a virtue and [...]<p><a href="http://fergieweb.org/getting-indexed-a-little-patience/">Getting Indexed, A Little Patience?</a> is a post from: <a href="http://fergieweb.org">Web Hosting News and Reviews and SEO Blog - fergieweb.org</a></p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Newbie&#8217;s and Expert Internet Marketers all have one thing in common:  Trying to get their websites indexed through the top three major search engines quickly.  For larger websites the task is even more daunting, and there are a few small but effective techniques that can assist in the indexing process.  Patience is a virtue and in today&#8217;s internet marketing world patience and planning is a key.</p>
<p>Smaller one or two page websites, also known as sales pages, are the easiest and quickest to get indexed in the three major search engines almost anyone can generally succeed by just manually submitting through each search engines submission process.  Websites with a considerable number of pages will often only immediately get their first page indexed which therefore requires small effective planning strategies and a little bit of patience to become completely indexed.</p>
<p>Effective Key Planning Strategies:</p>
<p>(1) Prior to submitting your websites to the search engines or establishing link partners which will cause the search engines to start indexing in your website.  Start planning out the basic website structure so that search engines robots can easily flow through your website and index each page.</p>
<p>(a) Have an sitemap linked from you main index page that thinks through out your website.</p>
<p>(b) If possible, ensure that each page is linked together, not just back to the main index page.  This is not possible depending on what type of website you have, the number of pages, or your website design and structure.  But this has been a successful technique in the past.<br />
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(c) Build and submit a Google Sitemap.</p>
<p>(2) Test your websites design and structure using Google Sitemap Software such as SOFTplus GSiteCrawler (Freeware) that will try and index your entire website.  If your unsuccessful building a index of your entire website, then further planning and design changes maybe in order to index your entire website.  If the software can not index your entire website, how will the search engine robots index your entire website?</p>
<p>(3) Instead of manually submitting your websites, submit your website through directories and establish link partnerships.  This will improve how often your website is crawled by the search engines and how fast your website is indexed.  Also, when establishing link partnership and directories higher the Google Page Rank, the quicker your website will be indexed and how often your website is crawled.</p>
<p>(4) Lastly, Patience.  The process the search engine will go through while indexing your website is:  First, the search engine will have to find your website (Hence, establishing partnerships with high Google Page Rank), then crawling through your website and absorbing all the information contained, then ranking each individual page and finally your website will appear in the search engine result pages (SERPs).</p>
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