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How to Freak People Out On Facebook

2011-06-08T04:47:00.000-07:00

How to Protect Iphone From Scratch-Invisible Sheild

2009-08-14T16:48:00.000-07:00

The Apple's iPhone 3G features a beautiful 3.5-inch widescreen display with touch screen to watch movies, browse web, check email and lots and lot. To access the features of the iPhone, you need to use the revolutionary muli-touch interface which will be susceptible to scratches. Having a scratch on your screen can have a negative impact next time you sit down to watch your favorite movie or tv program. To avoid this, the best and a must iPhone accessory investment you can make will be an iPhone screen protector. Protecting your screen isn't as simple as purchasing an iPhone case. Each time you pull out your iPhone and touch the screen, there is a potential for scratches. Here comes the solution "Invisible Shield"

What is InvisibleSHIELD?

InvisibleSHIELD is a transparent, super-strong film which capable to protects your iPhone and other sensitive gadgets from scratches. InvisibleSHIELD is originally used by the military to protect the leading edges of helicopter blades from wear and tear. With this military-grade film, I’m pretty sure you can imagine how tough it is – it will never scratch!

Invisible Shield Film

Zagg's Invisible Shield

iPhone + Invisible Shield

Benefits Of Invisible sheild

Scratch-proof your device with the exclusive, patented film
Exceptionally clear and virtually indestructible, you can show off your gadget and use it without fear of scratching
The ultra-thin film is only 0.2 mm thick and will not add bulk to your device, so you can easily slip it into everything from charging docks to pockets and purses
The Invisible Shield gives your device increased grip, making it less likely to slide out of your hands and be dropped
Its very easy to install
The Lifetime Replacement Warranty means you only need to buy once - if the Invisible Shield ever becomes damaged, ZAGG will replace it for the life of your device (Customers can register their ZAGG warranty card online, by fax or by mail)

Apple iphone hidden secrets

2009-08-14T16:40:00.000-07:00

To get 11 home screens in your iphone 3.0

Now you can have 11 home screens instead of 9 Home screens in IPHONE3.0.You surpass the previous limit i.e 9 Home screens.
This trick is can create more than 11 home screens.

Let's know how to do this trick

You first need to have 11 pages of iPhone apps to try this trick and then need to follow these simple steps:

Move some of the default iphone apps like Weather,stocks,music, YouTube, Voice Memos etc. to the last home screen (I couldn't figure out the significance of moving default iPhone apps to the last home screen).

Now take one icon from the 10th home screen and drag it over to the 11th home screen. This will force the last icon to disappear from that home screen.

You can download an iPhone app to fill the empty space created on the 10th home screen.

Magically you will see the 12th home screen which will have all the iPhone apps that were not visible.

Here is how the trick works

Download Files Faster Using Firefox

2009-08-14T10:19:00.000-07:00

Everybody’s favorite open-source browser, Firefox, is great right out of the box. And by adding some of the awesome extensions available out there, the browser just gets better and better.

But look under the hood, and there are a bunch of hidden (and some not-so-secret) tips and tricks available that will crank Firefox up and pimp your browser. Make it faster, cooler, more efficient.

Originally skeptical when I first tried this out, I have been completely blown away by how effective this software is. DownloadThemAll is a free extension which acts as a download manager (meaning you can pause and resume downloads), and download files faster by having them simultaneously download. This is quite possibly my favorite extension out of all five.
So there you have it, 5 speedy tips which will helpfully make your browsing on Firefox an even faster, more powerful experience.

18 Tips For Faster Browsing In Firefox

2009-08-14T10:16:00.000-07:00

If you’ve ever used Firefox you’ll appreciate the fact that it’s incredibly easy to use and intuitive right out of the box. This is perhaps one of the key reasons why it now owns 21.5% of the worldwide browser market share, and Internet Explorer is having its worst month yet.

Frankly speaking, as Internet speeds continue to increase, the loading times of webpages are becoming increasingly less of an issue. The time saved simply by having a better, more user friendly and clear interface outweighs most gains garnered from a browser which simply loads faster.

Excellent tips to make browsing even smoother and faster on Firefox.
1) More screen space. Make your icons small.

Go to View – Toolbars – Customize and check the “Use small icons” box.

2) smart keywords.If there’s a search you use a lot (let’s say blogspot.com’s people search), this is an awesome tool that not many people use. Right-click on the search box, select “Add a Keyword for this search”, give the keyword a name and an easy-to-type and easy-to-remember
3) Keyboard shortcuts. This is where you become a real Jedi. It just takes a little while to learn these, but once you do, your browsing will be super fast. Here are some of the most common (and my personal favs):
Spacebar (page down)
Shift-Spacebar (page up)
Ctrl+F (find)
Alt-N (find next)
Ctrl+D (bookmark page)
Ctrl+T (new tab)
Ctrl+K (go to search box)
Ctrl+L (go to address bar)
Ctrl+= (increase text size)
Ctrl+- (decrease text size)
Ctrl-W (close tab)
F5 (reload)
Alt-Home (go to home page)
4.

How to save time by automatically loading the next page

Autopager is a Firefox extension which automatically loads up the next page of a series of web pages and displays it at the bottom of the screen, when you scroll to the end of the page.
For example, if you were to load up a Google Search, and you were unhappy with the page one results, you previously had to click on a link to take you to page 2 of the results. With Autopager, all you do is scroll down – saving you the extra click. Google’s page 2 results would now be appended at the bottom of the page 1 results. Keep scrolling downwards and you’d see page 3, 4 and so on.
By default AutoPager works with a ton of sites, including the New York Times, Digg, and, of course, Google. If you want to add your own custom autopaging to unsupported sites, the site wizard feature makes it easy to so. This extension is a true time saver.
5 Auto-complete. This is another keyboard shortcut, but it’s not commonly known and very useful. Go to the address bar (Control-L) and type the name of the site without the “www” or the “.com”. Let’s say “google”. Then press Control-Enter, and it will automatically fill in the “www” and the “.com” and take you there – like magic! For .net addresses, press Shift-Enter, and for .org addresses, press Control-Shift-Enter.

6 Tab navigation. Instead of using the mouse to select different tabs that you have open, use the keyboard. Here are the shortcuts:
Ctrl+Tab (rotate forward among tabs)
Ctrl+Shft+Tab (rotate to the previous tab)
Ctrl+1-9 (choose a number to jump to a specific tab)
7 Mouse shortcuts. Sometimes you’re already using your mouse and it’s easier to use a mouse shortcut than to go back to the keyboard. Master these cool ones:
Middle click on link (opens in new tab)
Shift-scroll down (previous page)
Shift-scroll up (next page)
Ctrl-scroll up (decrease text size)
Ctrl-scroll down (increase text size)
Middle click on a tab (closes tab)
8 Delete items from address bar history. Firefox’s ability to automatically show previous URLs you’ve visited, as you type, in the address bar’s drop-down history menu is very cool. But sometimes you just don’t want those URLs to show up (I won’t ask why). Go to the address bar (Ctrl-L), start typing an address, and the drop-down menu will appear with the URLs of pages you’ve visited with those letters in them. Use the down-arrow to go down to an address you want to delete, and press the Delete key to make it disappear. User chrome. If you really want to trick out your Firefox, you’ll want to create a UserChrome.css file and customize your browser. It’s a bit complicated to get into here, but check out this tutorial.

10 Create a user.js file. Another way to customize Firefox, creating a user.js file can really speed up your browsing. You’ll need to create a text file named user.js in your profile folder (see this to find out where the profile folder is) and see this example user.js file that you can modify. Created by techlifeweb.com, this example explains some of the things you can do in its comments.

11 about:config. The true power user’s tool, about.config isn’t something to mess with if you don’t know what a setting does. You can get to the main configuration screen by putting about:config in the browser’s address bar. See Mozillazine’s about:config tips and screenshots.

12 Add a keyword for a bookmark. Go to your bookmarks much faster by giving them keywords. Right-click the bookmark and then select Properties. Put a short keyword in the keyword field, save it, and now you can type that keyword in the address bar and it will go to that bookmark.

13 Speed up Firefox. If you have a broadband connection (and most of us do), you can use pipelining to speed up your page loads. This allows Firefox to load multiple things on a page at once, instead of one at a time (by default, it’s optimized for dialup connections). Here’s how:
Type “about:config” into the address bar and hit return. Type “network.http” in the filter field, and change the following settings (double-click on them to change them):
Set “network.http.pipelining” to “true”
Set “network.http.proxy.pipelining” to “true”
Set “network.http.pipelining.maxrequests” to a number like 30. This will allow it to make 30 requests at once.
Also, right-click anywhere and select New-> Integer. Name it “nglayout.initialpaint.delay” and set its value to “0″. This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it receives.

14 Limit RAM usage. If Firefox takes up too much memory on your computer, you can limit the amount of RAM it is allowed to us. Again, go to about:config, filter “browser.cache” and select “browser.cache.disk.capacity”. It’s set to 50000, but you can lower it, depending on how much memory you have. Try 15000 if you have between 512MB and 1GB ram.

15 Reduce RAM usage further for when Firefox is minimized. This setting will move Firefox to your hard drive when you minimize it, taking up much less memory. And there is no noticeable difference in speed when you restore Firefox, so it’s definitely worth a go. Again, go to about:config, right-click anywhere and select New-> Boolean. Name it “config.trim_on_minimize” and set it to TRUE. You have to restart Firefox for these settings to take effect.
16 Move or remove the close tab button. Do you accidentally click on the close button of Firefox’s tabs? You can move them or remove them, again through about:config. Edit the preference for “browser.tabs.closeButtons”. Here are the meanings of each value:
0: Display a close button on the active tab only
1:(Default) Display close buttons on all tabs
2:Don’t display any close buttons
3:Display a single close button at the end of the tab bar (Firefox 1.x behavior)
17.

How to load up web pages faster

Fasterfox is an extension which dips under the hood to tweak many network and rendering settings such as simultaneous connections, pipelining, cache, DNS cache, and initial paint delay.
Previously, these were tweaks which you had to manually adjust – but now they work right out of the box once you use this handy extension.

Get Traffic To your Blog

2009-08-14T00:52:00.000-07:00

The top Most basic things to get traffic to your .Infact good ways to get traffic to your blog.

1)Submit you site to search engines

Submitting your sites to search engines like Google , Yahoo , MSN etc will feature your site in the search results . But remember , getting your site listed on top of search results is not an easy job , it requires some knowledge of Search Engine Optimization .

2)Content

For blogs one thing i have come to know is that content is the king . If your content is good , people will revisit your site and will become regular readers . Always post content that is useful and unique , do not copy and paste , posting Tutorials and How To’s help a lot . The more unique the content , the more appealing it will be and dont forget to link to the original post if required.

3)Submit your site to free directories

Submit your blog to directories like BlogTopSites , TopBlogSites , Blogarama etc . Though they might not bring a huge traffic to your site , it will make your blog more visible and easier to find
There are a lot of traffic exchange sites like BlogMad , BlogExplosion etc .All you have to do this is to sign up on the site , visit other members blogs and earn credits …the more blogs you view , the more credits you earn and the more credits you earn , the more traffic you get . But i dont recommend this thing . Basically people will visit your site for the sake of earning credits and will stay there for 30 sec ..so dont expect much regular traffic . But still it might get your blog noticed .

4)Link Exchange

Back Links are key to getting traffic to your blog . If you write a good article , people will link to it from there blog and this will get you traffic and exposure . One way is to link exchange with other bloggers . Place a link to there site on your blog and request them to do the same . This might also help you getting a good Google Pagerank .

5)Comment on other blogs

Do Comment on other people blogs ..this will make them visit your blog to see who commented on there blog . And by comments i mean genuine comments which relate to the topic . Try to start up a conversation . This way you will also make a lot of friends .

iPhone Tricks You Might Not Have Known

2009-08-13T22:24:00.000-07:00

Scroll to Top of Page -

In any application, Safari included, you can automatically scroll to the top of the page by tapping on the "top bar", which has the time, service bars, and battery. In Safari, this not only brings you to the top of the page, but also brings up the URL bar.

2. Domain Resolution -

When typing a URL in Safari, you don't have to type the "www" or the ".com".For instance, for www.cnn.com just type "cnn" in the URL box. Note: Your search engine must be set to Google, not Yahoo.

3. Domain Suffix - [On firmware 2.0 only]

Hold down the ".com" key for ".net, .edu, .org" keys. Note: Slide your finger from .com to .net/.edu/.org, rather than lifting and pressing.

4. Press & Hold For Alternate Characters -

Hold a letter for a popup of various versions of the character (i.e. to type España with the "ñ" simply hold "n" and simply slide/release to the appropriate character).

5. Click & Hold URL's -

In Safari, hold a link to see the URL and site name.

6. Soft Reset -

Press and hold the Home button and the Sleep button to restart your iPhone. A white light will flash, the screen will shut off and then turn back on. Keep holding until the screen turns back on.

7. Take a Screenshot -

To take a screenshot, hold the home button and click the sleep button. The screen will flash white and the screenshot will be stored in your camera roll.

8. Set Parental Controls -

You can enable certain restrictions or parental controls on your iPhone. You can block explicit lyrics, Safari, YouTube, iTunes, or the App Store. Just go to Settings, General, Restrictions.

Inrease page rank by viral icons-simple way and effective

2008-09-22T06:18:00.000-07:00

This will be the simple way to increase your page rank.-simple and effective

Viral link building is a technique to increase to your site at an exponential rate thus increasing your blog Page Rank. This will increase your traffic to your blog.

the thing is that use alt tags inside the image links to increase page rank relevanceThe keywords placed inside image links in ALT tags increase the value of the link due to the weightage given to these tags by search engine spiders.

when optimizing a web page for Google, remember that this attribute is taken into great consideration by Googlebot when spidering and indexing your pages. Thus, the ALT tag of an hyperlinked image tag has the same importance of a text link.

———Copy and paste the VIRAL-ICONS and instructions below this line———

Instructions:

1.) Copy and paste the matrix of “Viral Icons” below courtesy of Ilker Yoldas from The Thinking Blog. TIP : Easy way to do this : When viewing this page in browser go to View----->Page Source (CTRL+U) in Firefox and View------>Source in Internet Explorer. This page source will open in notepad file. Just copy all between the lines "———Copy and paste the VIRAL-ICONS and instructions below/above this line———".
Then paste it in Edit Html tab of post editor when creating your post.

2.)make a favicon blog

3.) Upload your non-animated favicon (GIF image of size 16x16 pixels)to any google pagesor to your own sever provided by your hosting service if you have one. Then copy down it's link : LINK OF YOUR FAVICON.

4.) Substitute the Host Icon and one of the “Viral Icons” in the matrix with your ALT text of choice and your blog’s URL. Maximum of 3 specific keywords for the ALT text are best for it to be effective.

Here is an example:

*"http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?
blogID=3230289727440183379&
postID=526685527268767135"
alt="YOUR
KEYWORDS HERE' src=" com=""
20favicon="" />*

Replace the CAPS in the above code with actual values.

5.) When you get a ping back from someone that has your icon in one of their “Viral Icons”, practice good karma by copying his/her Host Icon’s code (automatically the associated ALT tag will also be copied) and paste it over one of your “Viral Icons” below.

6.) Invite your readers to do the same and soon this can grow virally.

Horizontal MenuBar in Minima Template

2008-09-21T23:43:00.000-07:00

1. Backup your template

2. Login to blogger > Layout > Edit HTML
Open Expand Widget Templates box

3. Find and Put the following coding (Green) between

a img {
border-width:0;
}

[ Menu CSS Here ]

/* Header
-----------------------------------------------
*/
#header-wrapper {
width:660px;
margin:0 auto 10px;
border:1px solid $bordercolor;
}

So, structure should be like this and
make changes (green) to header-wrapper coding as well

a img {
border-width:0;
}

#stylefour{top:3px;position:relative;display:block;height:39px;font-size:11px;
font-weight:bold;background:transparent url(http://chanmyasoe84.googlepages.com/bgOFF.gif) repeat-x top left;
font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvitica,sans-serif;border-top:4px solid #B30000;}
#stylefour ul{margin:0;padding:0;list-style-type:none;width:auto;}
#stylefour ul li{display:block;float:left;margin:0;}
#stylefour ul li a{display:block;float:left;color:#666;text-decoration:none;
padding:11px 20px 0 20px;height:23px;
background:transparent url(http://chanmyasoe84.googlepages.com/bgDIVIDER.gif) no-repeat top right;}
#stylefour ul li a:hover,#stylefour ul li a.current{color:#B30000;
background:#fff url(http://chanmyasoe84.googlepages.com/bgON.gif) no-repeat top left;}

/* Header
-----------------------------------------------
*/
#header-wrapper {
width:660px;
margin:0 auto 10px;
border-top:1px solid $bordercolor;
border-left:1px solid $bordercolor;
border-right:1px solid $bordercolor;
}

4. Find and Put the following menu coding (green) under this lines

Home

About Us

Services

Our Work

Contact Us

Now you got menu under header :)

Color ေတြကိုေတာ့ Custom စိတ္ႀကိဳက္ ခ်ိန္ယူပါ။ Menu bar အေပၚက Color ကိုေတာ့ ႀကိဳက္တဲ့ Color Code ထည့္သြင္းပါ။ မထည့္ခ်င္ဘူးဆိုေတာ့ Transparent သတ္မွတ္ေပးလိုက္ပါ။

Color Tip:

#B30000 << style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">transparent;

Code ေတြကို ျပင္ဖို႔ ဒါမွမဟုတ္ ထည့္ဖို႔ လုိက္ရွာတဲ့အခါမွ Scroll Bar ကိုသံုးၿပီး လိုက္ရွာေနတာထက္ Search (Ctrl+F) ကိုသံုးၿပီး လုိက္ရွာတာ ပိုျမန္ပါတယ္။ Firefox user ေတြအတြက္ဆိုရင္ေတာ့ ပိုၿပီး ျပင္ရတာ လြယ္ကူပါလိမ့္မယ္။

RSS related directions

2008-09-21T10:14:00.000-07:00

Some of the bloggers have got in touch with us concerning BlogUpp! not recognizing their blog's RSS. Thanks for the feedback.
That was mostly due to the fact that the blogs weren't linked properly to the RSS feeds.

Normally, blog platforms automatically include in the header of blogs the <meta> tag referring the feeds. However, still there are blogs that don't have it.
In that case readers can't subscribe to keeping updated on your posting, neither BlogUpp! could share your articles and promote your blog.

In order to sort that out, for those that are to face this issue, please consider including the following line in the <header> of blog's html:

changing in it title and href attributes to the actual ones.

A simple way to check whether it was done correctly, is just to open you weblog in your web browser, and see if the RSS icon is enabled, meaning that it has detected your feeds.

Please note as well that empty RSS titles prevent BlogUpp! from building a blog's snapshot. If that is your case, please consider adjusting them before submitting.

Additional information on what RSS is, can also be found here

Add Your Blog to Yahoo Search | Increase Your Traffic

2008-09-21T10:04:00.000-07:00

Getting errors while adding meta tag to your site.
just follow the steps below and increase your traffic.

Hey i am here with a cool way of increase your traffic..
Have u added your web site | blog and Feeds to the Yahoo Search Enginer..
Yahoo is the Second largest Search Enginer behind Google..
So here is a complete guide on how you submit your blog to the yahoo.

By the Same Way you can add your Feeds to the yahoo..
Just Copy your Feed URL and add it to the yahoo by same 5 steps

Step # 1 :
Point your Browser to

https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com
You Will se page Like This one Below

Step # 2

Sing In to your Yahoo Account To Continue..

Step # 3
Now You WIll see Page Like This One
Write your Blog | Site in the Given Field and Click on " Add My Site"

Step # 4 Authenticate your blog..
Yahoo Need to know whether u are a real user of this site or just a fake one..
You Have to Auntenticate your Blog So click on the Authenticate Button

U were being represted by three way to aunthenticate your blog..
The best and easy one is that you add meta tag right in your Blog
Just Copy the Meta Tag ...
Step # 5
ANd now Just Point Your Browser to the HTML code of your Blog..
In Blogger from your DashBoard goto Layout > Edit HTML..
You were being represted with WYSIWYG editor

Just Paste That Meta Tag Right After The Tag..

Tip : Are u getting error after saving ??
just add "/" without quotes at the end the tag ..
ex:
<meta content='your code' name='y_key'/>

Now Back to the Yahoo Page

And Click on Ready To Aunthenticate Button

if aal things go well..
Your site will be submitted with in one Day or one Hour..

Do u like this post ???If u wanna Support Me ... Ah Why would you.. Any way if u wanna be then Stumble and Digg my Post Atleast This One... So i get some Cool nd Nice peoples right on My Blog..
Nd Make some good/bad comments too.. Good Bye

Get more links

2008-09-21T03:24:00.000-07:00

CommentLuv, surely you’ve heard of it. It takes your last post from your blog, and posts it with your comment, thus giving you a free link. It’s a genius idea, and it encourages people to comment on your posts. As you may have noticed, I just added it to this blog and so now it gives you a free link every time you comment.

Now, not only is this a nice reason to comment, it also is an easy way to generate quick links. You may have heard from people that the best way to get traffic is to comment on sites, well this way you kill two birds with one stone. You get the traffic from the comment, and also a link.

The easy way to generate links, is to find the blogs with CommentLuv, and comment on them. It’s that simple and you get a free back link. If you click this link, you can find lots of lists of blogs in google, that people have collected for your use. Just go down the list and comment on them. However, make sure you leave a link to your site in the comment. And this is good for one link, per comment, but what about getting two, is it possible?

I figured out a successful way of getting two backlinks per comment, on blogs with CommentLuv. First, you add CommentLuv to your site using this link here. Second, on google, you find the blogs that have lists, here. Third you go back a couple pages, to the smaller blogs with lists, (what your looking for is lists of like 15-30 sites, on not very popular blogs.) Fourth, you leave a comment saying, Great List! and on my blog I just added CommentLuv to, could you please add my blog to your list? Most of the time, they’ll be very happy to add you and then, Viola! Two free links, one comment, and at least one guaranteed visit to your blog from the owner of that blog.

It's worked for me, I've gotten several links back from it. But the key is, only do this on small blogs. There're a lot of big blogs, with high ranking posts, on the first through third page. They have lists of 100-500 sites, but though you still should try and have them add your blog, they probably are to busy to care, and have too many comments to read sot hey won't even see yours. However with smaller blogs, with smaller lists, they'll definately notice your comment, and will be happy to add your blog to the list. Try it, it works.

Earning more by cheating AdSense or Yahoo! Publisher?

2008-09-21T03:19:00.000-07:00

donot cheat adsense-get fooled.

First keep in mind you can't cheat google adsenese.

First I ask: why do people keep asking me how to cheat an advertising program to earn more?

This night I received an e-mail from a Chinese IP. I have nothing at all with any people, if you are from this country please don’t feel offended. But that’s the truth, period.
Basically, the sender wanted to hire me to write a script, in a language chosen by me, which can fool AdSense.

The beginnings

Take John Doe, a randomly chosen guy from the street of any city. He just started to explore the internet. The other day he found an article which describes how cool and awesome the AdSense program is. He rapidly types in the Google search bar: “apply for an adsense account”, clicks the top result, fills in the registration form, then waits for approval. In the approval e-mail the Google AdSense team clearly ask the new publisher to read the AdSense TOS, which is ignored by most of the publishers. This is the situation with Mr. Doe, too.
He accesses his account, and in the bottom of the page he sees a link to the AdSense blog, where he learns one two things about how to start earning money with AdSense, then he finds a post: an Australian man’s success with AdSense. “WOW”, he thinks.
He is one step away to receive some fat checks, what he only needs is a website. Which is not a problem nowadays. He rapidly creates a Blogger account and starts creating, adding AdSense ads to the content, adding an AdSense search bar and publishing, and publishing, and publishing until it hurts.

The waiting

Mr. John Doe, our new friend, published 20 articles in a matter of a few hours. He is very satisfied with his performance and he thinks about the wealth AdSense will bring him.
He checks his AdSense earning every 30 minutes. But the report shows no earning yet.
The next day he checks his account again, but still no luck. And this goes this way for days. After a few weeks he gets very disappointed, he thinks he was fooled and the whole AdSense program is not good for anything.

The Idea

He rapidly realizes that there is no earning because no user clicked the ads yet. So why not help a bit? He decides to click some of the ads on his own site. 3 clicks only, just to see if it functions.
After a few hours he checks his account and even though he sees some clicks, they list no earning. “Oops”, he thinks.
But as a good webmaster, he doesn’t give up! He thinks about new methods.
A quick check in his messenger results an extremely good idea: he asks his friends to click the ads on his blog. Everybody reports back the click, there were friends who clicked more than once, what are the friends for if not to help each other?

A few hours later, he checks his Adsense account and realizes that the ice has been broken: 100 click in the matter of the few minutes made him $10.
The next day he asks again his friends, the next day again, and again, and this goes this way for a week.
After that week, in the morning he opens up his mail client and there’s a mail whom the AdSense team:

Hello John Doe,

It has come to our attention that invalid clicks have been generated on the Google ads on your site(s). We have therefore disabled your Google AdSense account. Please understand that this step was taken in an effort to protect the interest of the AdWords advertisers.

A publisher’s site may not have invalid clicks on any ad(s), including but not limited to clicks generated by:

- a publisher on his own web pages
- a publisher encouraging others to click on his ads
- automated clicking programs or any other deceptive software
- a publisher altering any portion of the ad code or changing the layout, behavior, targeting, or delivery of ads for any reason

Practices such as these are in violation of the Google AdSense Terms and Conditions and program polices, which can be viewed at:

https://www.google.com/adsense/localized-terms?hl=en_US
https://www.google.com/adsense/policies?hl=en_US

Publishers disabled for invalid click activity are not allowed further participation in AdSense and do not receive any further payment. The earnings on your account will be properly returned to the affected advertisers.

Sincerely,

The Google AdSense Team

The final word

There is a very good reason Google wrote the adsense program policies and the reason is not that they wanted to bore the hell out of the publishers.
Google AdSense can exist because AdWords exist. Basically, when you see an AdSense ad, that’s an AdWords advertiser’s ad, and if somebody clicks on an ad, the AdWord advertiser will have to pay for that ad.
If you are involved in a fraudulent click, basically you stolen money from an advertiser. Robbing others is not acceptable in any society.

Google tries to improve its services. For them a better service means more money. If they disabled an AdSense account, they did so for a very good reason. The easiest practices to earn the most with AdSense was covered in many articles and the basic idea behind them is to have good and a lot of text content. If a website or a blog has a lot of quality content, it will have visitors too, it’s just a matter of time this happens and when happens, the AdSense account will not show only zeros.

How to Submit Your Site Map to Google for bloggers

2008-09-20T07:43:00.000-07:00

Though you can easily redirect blogger feeds to FeedBurner now, this has a side effect - you will see some warnings when you submit the Sitemaps file like this

(xxx.blogspot.com/atom.xml?max-results=500&start-index=1) to Google Webmaster Tools.

The following Sitemap warning messages are shown in the Google WebMaster Tools control when using Blogger feeds with FeedBurner:

Line: 2 Invalid XML: too many tags - Too many tags describing this tag.
Line: 2 Incorrect namespace - Your Sitemap or Sitemap index file doesn't properly declare the namespace.

It's like a catch 22 situation - you submit the blogger generated atom.xml file to Google Sitemaps but it's redirected to the FeedBurner feed and that causes invalid XML errors.

Fortunately there's a simple fix - just delete the existing sitemap and submit a new web sitemap that has the following URL:

http://xxx.blogspot.com/atom.xml??max-results=500&start-index=1 [replace xxx with your blog name]

The secret redirect parameter in blogger feeds will offer you the best of both worlds. You XML Feeds will still be redirected to FeedBurner but for Google Sitemaps, the redirection won't happen at all.

Here's the webmaster console with the new sitemap URL - no warnings anymore though the feed foramt as changed from RSS to ATOM (that should not bother you).

these other other foramts that u can use for a site

xxx.blogspot.com/atom.xml.

if u get error for this use below ones

if you get a error for above:

xxx.blogspot.com/atom.xml?max-results=500&start-index=1

xxx.blogspot.com/atom.xml?max-results=500&start-index=500

where xxx indicates your blog name.

Filename	Format	Last Downloaded	Status	URLs submitted
	atom.xml?max-results=500&start-index=1	Atom Feed	26 minutes ago	OK	14	Details
					1

atom.xml?max-results=500&start-index=1

Atom Feed

26 minutes ago

Details

i think u will not be getting errors.

this completes u r site map submission

please leave your comments

3 Free Ways Of Marketing An Online Business:

2008-09-08T09:40:00.000-07:00

1. Articles. Writing and submitting keyword rich articles to one or more of the many article directories, with the goal of having readers click on the link in your resource box, is a very hot marketing strategy. And for good reason. Articles give you the opportunity to create traffic two different ways: by showing up in the search engine results, and by having an article picked up by a mailing list owner or content site webmaster. The more articles you have published, the more traffic you'll get. Another benefit of articles is that their marketing lives are long. Articles can bring traffic years after being published.

2. Forum signatures. Find a forum or discussion board related to the niche that your online business belongs to. Register to be a member and then include a link back your website in your signature file. Start threads that are relevant to the forum. Post responses that add value to the current discussion. Do not spam the forums. The more posts that you leave, the greater the chance of being seen as an "expert" in the field (which will also increase the amount of people clicking on your forum signature link).

3. Blog comments. There are blogs on just about every topic. And the cool thing for marketers is that most of them allow you to post comments (and include links back to your online business). Do a search for a high traffic blog in the niche that you are targeting. As with forum marketing, avoid spamming techniques at all costs. Just post a serious question or respond in a professional and helpful manner, and you will make the blog owner happy, and generate traffic from others reading the blog. You're basically piggy-backing on that established blog's readers.

The beauty of the internet is that it gives you many ways of marketing an online business without ever having to spend a dime on it (although you will have to invest some time and effort). Publishing articles, actively participating in forums, and becoming involved in blog discussions are time-tested techniques used to generate traffic for today's marketer. Besides the website visitors that you will get from these strategies, you will also be creating backlinks for your online business. This will result in a higher search engine ranking, and more organic traffic to your site.

7 Easy Tips to Boost Your PPC Performance

2008-09-08T09:34:00.000-07:00

PPC is one of the easiest and most accessible forms of web marketing. It's an excellent way to promote your business, gather some quick market research, or get quick presence on the search engine rankings pages while you wait for a new site to appear naturally in search results. Paid search advertising is also an easy place to spend a lot of money without results if you go into it unprepared. Here are our seven most important pointers to get the most out of your PPC advertising budget:

1. Be Specific
It pays to come up with long lists of more specific keywords and organize them into ad groups. Plurals, geographic modifiers, and common misspellings are all things you might want to consider including in your lists. Not only will you save money, but you'll get a better idea of what terms people are using to find your products and services.

The more general the term, the more competitive the ad space, and the more you pay for good placement. The more specific the term, the less competitive the ad space will be, and you'll pay less for prominent placement.

2. Think Like a Customer
If you were shopping for what your company sells, what words and phrases would you use? Would you add modifiers like "discount", "sale", or "best"? If your target audience is looking for information rather than a product, "white papers", "reviews", and "information" are things you might want to include.

3. Stay on Target
Make sure to set your campaign targeting for the languages and geographical regions you want to reach. No sense paying for your ads to run in Europe if you only cater to Atlanta or San Diego. The people you want to reach will be able to find you, and you won't pay for wasted clicks from potential customers who can't shop with you because of geographical distances. Within your ad groups for a targeted region, you can use the broader terms, like "homes for sale," and not just "San Diego homes for sale." Lots of people don't understand how search really works, so they don't include locality.

4. Motivate Customers to Click
Free shipping? 20% off? Having a sale? Mention whatever special offers you have going in the ad copy. Then make sure that the same offer is clearly displayed on the page customers land on when they click the ad. People are looking for a bargain when they shop online, so be sure to let them know when you're offering one they won't want to pass up!

5. Take Control of Your Spending
You set the daily budget and cost per click in your campaigns. Figure out how much you can spend, then figure out which ad groups are the most profitable and allocate more money to them. You can also set up day parting to make sure that a smaller budget doesn't get spent all on the east coast while the west coast is still on their first cup of coffee.

Turn off content matching. Most people are unwilling to click on content ads, and there's no sense paying for impressions that won't deliver. You might try running it for a week if your product appeals to a broad audience and you have a compelling offer in the ad copy. You can always turn it off if your money isn't being put to good use.

6. Point Them in the Right Direction
Think about where you want your ads to put people on your site. If you have an ad group all about the swimsuits that are on sale, people want to see swimsuits immediately after clicking on your ad. Make them navigate the site to find them, and most people are going to hit the back button on their browser and buy elsewhere. Nobody likes to feel like someone's pulling a bait-and-switch on them, which is what it looks like if your ads point to the wrong place on the website.

If you need customers to take a specific action as the goal of your PPC campaign (like submitting their email address), landing pages are in order. The fewer choices you give people, the more likely they are to take the path you want them to take.

7. Testing, Testing
Write more than one ad per ad group, then toss the ones that don't convert and refine the ones that do. It's a great way to see which offers and wording are better motivators and converters. Make sure to use keywords in your ad copy!

Internet Marketing Time Management

2008-09-08T09:33:00.000-07:00

"Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money but you cannot get more time." - Jim Rohn.
Earning an income on the internet is a process that in broad terms involves three stages:

1. Getting your product (acquisition)

2. Developing your product presentation

3. Promoting the product

In this article, "product" means any tangible product, digital products (ebooks and software) and services such as membership sites, web design and development, hosting, "print on demand" for ebooks, fulfillment for orders and so on.

By necessity you will spend time in each of these stages. Each stage will involve a learning phase and an action phase. It's important to identify clearly what stage of development you are currently working on and to focus on completing that stage.
1. Getting your product (acquisition).

Choose between your own product and an affiliate product.

This will involve identifying a demand using for example surveys or the popularity of search terms.

Key Point: Once you have your product you can stop spending time looking at other product possibilities for the time being.
2. Developing your product presentation.

Once you have chosen your product you will need to develop a presentation.

This will include your website primarily and can also include autoresponder sequences and a newsletter.

Key Points: Once your website and presentation process is completed you can move on to the promotion. You can always improve the presentation but once your presentation is "presentable" you should move on to promotion. Don't get caught up trying to make things perfect. Good, yes; perfect, no. The reality is things can always be changes. It does not matter if you have the best product in your niche and the best presentation if nobody knows about it. Give your presentation your best shot and then start promoting.
3. Promoting the product.

No matter now good your product and presentation are, you must get your presentation in front of your intended audience or nothing happens.

"We have to become better at promoting what we do than doing what we do."

This is where it is also important to be clear about what stage you are in. Remember, time is limited, so if you have already chosen your product and developed your presentation it is not productive to keep looking for products or spending a great deal of time "tweaking" your presentation.

Time can always be spent tweaking sales copy, images, layout, web presentation, upgrading or trying new software, investigating new product opportunities (before the current one is complete), improving design skills, keeping up with the changing web "standards"... The list can seem endless.

Key Point: Time is better spent developing a clear promotional strategy and putting it into action. Only when you are seeing results from your promotional activities should you consider altering your presentation (such as modifying headlines and sales copy) to assess how that affects conversion of prospects to customers.

Here are some examples:

- Write two newsletters each month - Run a solo ad each week - Purchase 500 double-optin subscribers each month - Conduct a Pay Per Click campaign with $x budget each week/month - Make three new blog entries each week - Create ten new web pages each week

Here are a few tips to keep you on track:

1. Name your project

You may name your project as a final name of the product or you may just give it a code name that means something to you.

2. Understand what part of the three step process you are in: Acquisition, presentation or promotion.

Here is a simple question to ask yourself to check if you are on track with your time budget, "What is this activity designed to do?" or perhaps, "What is the outcome of this activity?"

This will help you to identify if you are spending time in the wrong area at the wrong time.

3. Set up check lists to make sure everything is covered. Focus on completion.

4. Promotion: Clearly define your action steps.

5. Track the results or your promotional campaign in terms of traffic, click through rates, subscribers and purchasers. Include costs of conducting your campaign and compare that to your sales to determine your return on investment. It is only by tracking the results of the promotion that you will know how to effectively change the presentation for further testing.

A spreadsheet is an invaluable tool as a template for specifying your promotional campaign and also for tracking results, costs and return on investment. Adding in columns for each day of the week allows you to allocate your time so that all your promotions are covered in a time effective manner. This becomes your business gauge by which you assess the effectiveness of your promotional campaign.

Understanding the three stages of the business process and the stage you are in, using checklists and tracking your results using business gauges are the proven ways to maximize your time, your effectiveness and your profits.

About The Author:

Not long ago, Ryan Ginster didn't know ANYTHING about Internet marketing... However, within just 2 weeks, he launched his own website AND learned how to profit from an opt-in list, pull in sales with ezines, make money with Google Adwords and setup his own BLOG! Here's how: http://www.PlugInProfitSite.com/main-10193 http://www.ginsterprofits.com

Focus on: Google MSN & Yahoo for Site Rankings!

2008-09-08T09:26:00.000-07:00

To maximize your website traffic through the search engines you need to focus on the Big 3 !

What or who are the Big3? They are Google. MSN and Yahoo search. This article will take you through these three search engines and what you can expect from them in terms of achieving results both in a short term, as well as a long term basis.

As a search engine, Google still continues to dominate, with Yahoo and MSN the next two choices for people utilizing the search market. While in general Google is a clear leader as first preference for internet users when trying to find something of interest on the internet, this is not necessarily in all categories. In some categories you will find the website traffic coming from MSN and Yahoo search is considerably more than Google.

So it is important when optimizing your website to target not just Google but all of the Big3 (Google, MSN, and Yahoo).

Some of our websites have achieved top 10 rankings and first place positions for main keywords in MSN whereas Google can take up to 3 times as long by comparison.

While the Googlebot will pick up a new website quickly, usually only a business name will achieve high ranking quickly, not your main keywords. Often new websites listed in Google's search results will not achieve high rankings for many months, and for very competitive key words six months plus. In saying that Google loves unique content; so for websites that are not in such a competitive market and providing something new and different, top 10 rankings can be achieved within a month or two.

Due to the amount of time it takes to achieve these ranking it is important that your website is always monitored and keywords are tracked on a regular basis to ensure you are keeping ahead of your competitors. Continual optimization of your website may be necessary to ensure that not only do you achieve top rankings in the first place, but that you maintain them. Note: Using a professional search engine marketing company like Quantum Web Solutions will benefit you considerably towards achieving these rankings. We also know various techniques that help drive traffic to your website much sooner.

The BIG 3.

Google Search : For those that monitor their website statistics (which is highly recommended if you want to ensure your website is doing well) you will notice that the Google spider can visit your website within as soon as a day of your website being launched for the first time. However, unless your website provides something new or unique, at this current time* it is highly unlikely you will achieve high rankings for anything other than your business name in a short period of time.

It is also possible there may be keywords that attain higher rankings, but if they are competitive keywords in a competitive market then this will be very unlikely. If you are offering a service or product that is new and/or unique, then you will certainly have more opportunity to achieve these high rankings as Google loves new content.

For very competitive markets you can look at up to six months plus to see your keywords bringing in the desired search engine traffic you are looking for. In these instances if you need to bring in traffic quickly, we suggest setting up a pay-per-click campaign. There are also other sources that can help bring in traffic to your site
sooner than this, which we are able to provide as part of our services.

For new and/or unique website offerings, Google will give high rankings faster for a couple of reasons:

1. It is the opportunity to provide something new to the WWW.

2. There is less competition so there are not as many search results to compete against; therefore if your website is properly optimized achieving high rankings will be much easier and faster.

MSN Search : MSN is generally much faster in not only picking up a new website and listing it, but also if your website is properly optimized it is possible to achieve high rankings in the MSN search results in less than a month, even in markets that are relatively competitive. This is by no means guaranteed, but I have seen this happen on many occasions.

So while generally MSN search will not always bring you the same volume of traffic that Google search will; it does have the advantage over Google that in the short term it will drive more visitors to your website.

Yahoo Search : While Yahoo Search can bring a steady flow of traffic into your website; the challenge lies in being listed in the first place with them. I have seen websites picked up by the yahoo spider and listed within a month, but these are rare occasions. Normally it can take at least three months if not more for Yahoo to visit your website in the first place, no matter what techniques are used. Once Yahoo search picks a website up however, it does not take very long for a website to achieve good rankings and to start driving traffic to a website.

There are many different search engines out there, but many of them feed their results directly from one of the Big3. By focusing most of your search engine marketing efforts around these three, you are highly likely to see website traffic coming in from other search engines.

For anyone that is new to search engine marketing, the process of achieving high listings for your business may seem daunting. However with the right approach and focus it won't be long before you see string results coming not just from the Big3 search engines, but many other sources on the web.

- As the Search Engine market is constantly evolving, so too are the way search engines list websites in their results.

About The Author:

Bill Naugle has been writing articles, press releases and ebooks to help Webmasters achieve success in search engine rankings. He has written on many subjects. He started writing on the internet in 2001.
http://www.websiterankingtop.com/

Internet Marketing: Paid Search Branding and Tools

2008-09-06T07:51:00.000-07:00

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Paid Search Branding and Tools

2008-09-05T06:28:00.000-07:00

In the ongoing effort to maximize advertising spending on paid search campaigns, companies are continuously looking for ways to improve efficiency and ROI performance. Vendors develop tools to help automate the labor intensive task of managing large paid search campaigns, but Dana Todd, CEO of Sitelab says, "Automation has not met up with reality."

The "Paid Search and Keyword Optimization for Gurus" session covered a variety of topics dealing with paid search ranging from optimizing best practices to case studies of using paid search for branding.

First up was Dana Todd, who described her ideal, all in one, do it all, wish list for a bid management tool. She pointed out that tools that optimize against a return sound great, but are not always realistic.

Trends in optimizing search ranged from better understanding and mapping external and online events to the issue of whether to build or buy bid management tools or dashboards.

The current trend in keywords is "more is better" but that doesn't work for all businesses. Companies with smaller budgets will simply dilute their effectiveness by chasing the tail. Todd recommends paid search campaigns with more modest budgets focus on the highest converting keywords.
Optimizing best practices takeaways:

* Long tail keywords aren't always cheap. There's always a cost - set up, bidding, writing creative and management.
* Bid on branded terms. People are increasingly using search as a navigation method so it makes sense to bid on your brand phrases.
* If more keywords is appropriate, use tools ranging from provided keyword suggestion tools to concatenation of phrases, thesaurus and log file mining to uncover additional phrases to bid on.
* What to do with keyword "losers"
o change landing pages
o change price points
o change the creative. change the creative again
o change your expectation - not everything can be measured in terms of leads generated

An interesting case study from Todd illustrated how a spa manufacturer offered prospective customers a free branded software tool for designing decks enabled their client to uncover a whole new group of keywords. The campaign resulted in impressive increases in site interaction and conversions.

Next up was Cheryle Pingle, Founder of Range Online Media, who discussed the branding benefits of paid search.

With 85% of advertisers planning to increase online ad budgets it makes sense to discuss the benefits of paid search outside of direct lead generation and sales.
Reasons to maximize search for branding:

* Impressions are free
* Targeting audience to lift sales online and offline
* Adds credibility to brand because users associate top ranking with credibility

Pingle offered her own case study involving a laptop manufacturer that wanted to dominate search visibility on laptop related phrases to create brand awareness. Results were impressive with a lower overall CPC and an increased average order size of over 20%.

Also discussed were bidding tools ranging from black box bidding tools that use artificial intelligence to rules based interface bidding tools.
Things that can affect your bid tool performance:

* Seasonality
* Merchant sales
* Offline media promotions
* Volatile price fluctuations
* Post click activity hard to account for

The perfect tool does not yet exist, but both Todd and Pingle are optimistic about future tool development. In the meantime keep in mind that current bidding automation tools will most likely not reduce your staff costs but increase them due to tool complexity and inability to quickly respond to changes.

During the Q and A one attendee asked whether it's better to have one agency to both PPC and organic or is better to go with a specialist for each. Pingle replied that Range had recently acquired a SEO firm, so in their case one agency for both would be fine.

Ending the session out, Todd offered the following percentages in regard to the PPC and Organic keyword mix: For organic SEO, focus 70% on high volume keywords and 30% on long tail phrases. For PPC, focus 70% on long tail keywords and 30% on high volume phrases.

Is Your Business Podcasting?

2008-09-05T06:26:00.000-07:00

It has been said that podcasting is where Blogs and radio intersect.

It is my belief that podcasting is quickly emerging as a media that stands completely on its own. Podcasting is nothing like radio in the traditional sense. It is only similar in the fact that you can listen to audio. That is where the similarities end.

Podcasting will not be anything like Blogging in the very near future.

It already is only slightly related to Blogging from the perspective that anyone can create and publish, and the fact that some Blogs can produce an RSS Feed output. That is where the similarities truly end.

The potential business uses of podcasting are limited only by a smart marketers imagination.

Marketing managers and advertising executives should embrace this technology as a media tool that can deliver results to achieve goals in your companys marketing plan.

Corporate Podcasting:

There are many valid reasons why corporations may want to embrace and leverage podcasting. Corporations can set up internal or public facing podcasts.

Corporations and businesses (both large and small) have an opportunity to create a loyal listener audience that can extend their brand and communicate to the target audience.

Podcasting for Business Communication

Businesses can also use this technology both externally & internally as a communication medium to keep local, virtual and world wide groups of clients or employees informed. This could be used for sales meetings for companies that have employees in worldwide locations. It is also an effective medium for distance learning, or in helping to get the entire team on messageon any specific topic.

Examples of Podcasting Marketing

Example: Consultants could use podcasting to interview clients, convey success stories, interview other thought leaders, expose business trends, and become a trusted advisor and source of valuable information. This can produce additional clients, increased reputation within a specific community, and extend your valuable brand perception with customers and prospects.

Creating the actual podcast is only a very small part of the success equation. If you need more information about how you can design and execute a proper and fully leveraged podcasting strategy you should work with a qualified consultant that has experience in this media format from a technology, best practices, strategy planning, marketing, and execution perspective.

You can get a free copy of the Podcasting Whitepaper to learn more about this technology and how you can leverage this new media technology for your business. This whitepaper also includes 13 podcasting best practices. Get on the podcasting train soon, it is filling up fast.

Internet Marketing Time Management

2008-09-05T06:24:00.000-07:00

Why Your First Online Business Should Be Google Adsense

2008-09-05T06:20:00.000-07:00

Since its launch in 2003, the Google Adsense program has revolutionized web publishing, translating visitors' clicks into money, turning blogs and websites into money making machines for millions of website owners.

The Adsense program is a big revenue generator for Google, too. The company earned some $2.7 billion in Adsense revenues last year. If you're thinking of making money online here are some reasons why your first online business should be Google Adsense :

Google Adsense is FREE and EASY

You first need to apply to join the Adsense program via an online form. Once you've been accepted into the program, you will be given a snippet of code containing your unique ID to paste into your website to enable the ads to appear. It's that simple to start making money with Adsense.

With Google Adsense Everybody can make money

With Google Adsense, it doesn't matter if your website is big or small. The amount of money you make is generally proportional to the traffic that your website attracts. No site is too small to make money. Even if you could make an extra ten dollars a day (which is really very achievable) by just pasting a snippet of code into your web pages, I'd call that a great way to make money!

No worries about finding advertisers

Finding the right advertisers and the right place to advertise can be a tricky business for both publishers and advertisers.Google, by their sheer size is a magnet that attracts advertisers and publishers for all sorts of products and services. They become the broker between publishers and advertisers. All you need to do is concentrate on your website.

Great for beginners

The majority of newbies who try to make money on the Internet call it quits within twelve months, not because they want to, but because they get lost in the jungle of online money-making. This leads to frustration and disappointment and eventually, defeat. Google Adsense cuts a clear and simple path for everyone to follow – join the program, paste the code, improve your website content and get paid when people click on the ads.

Google is great

Google is on the cutting edge of search engine and pay-per-click technology. Even as Adsense became the spectacular success that it is today, Google never stopped developing and refining ways to help regular people with regular websites monetize their traffic. They have some of the best brains working for them.

Making money while you sleep

I can honestly say that I make money while I sleep. Round the clock, every click earns me anywhere from 5 cents to a couple of dollars. Since joining the Adsense program, my day starts off bright and cheery with a visit to my reports page that tells me how much I earned while sleeping!

Earnings grow with your website.

While Adsense does generate more income on certain types of websies than other less popular niche sites, the general consensus is that as long as you continue to build on your website's popularity and add good, useful content, your Adsense income WILL continue to grow. More traffic logically equals more clicks and more money.

Small change for some, BIG money for others

Perhaps the ones who are reaping the greatest benefit from the Adsense program are the publishers from the developing world. While a US100 dollar check may not mean very much to a webmaster in New York, it can mean a couple months salary to someone in Africa. Stories abound in Adsense-related websites and forums of how this program has changed the lives of thousands of people. Many have been able to make a comfortable living solely on the income derived from the Adsense program.

Earning money with Google Adsense gives new website owners hope and a clear sense of direction. Even if you earn 50 cents a day at first, it opens your eyes to the possibilities that Google Adsense presents. It's a straightforward way to make money compared to the often complex path of affiliate marketing. There's every reason to believe that Google Adsense can only get bigger and better, so it makes perfect sense that every newcomer to online money making should give the Adsense program a try.

7 Strategies to Choosing an Effective Domain Name

2008-09-05T06:13:00.000-07:00

These are seven effective ways for chossing a domain name
1.What's the purpose of the domain name?

Are you planning on using this name as the main website for your company, as a one page sales letter site, or squeeze page site? If the domain name will be your primary company website, try and find the closest version to your company name that you can. If you're just starting out, choose your business name and domain name with care. When I started my virtual assistant practice, I chose the name SOHO Business Solutions, as I thought everyone knew that SOHO stood for Small Office, Home Office. I think I've run into 2 people in my 7 years in business who knew what that acronym stood for. If I had it to do over again for this business, I would choose a business name and domain name with virtual assistant in the title, like InternetMarketingVirtualAssistant.com, a name I just recently purchased.

If the purpose of a domain is for a one-page sales letter site or a squeeze page, think ahead as to how you might promote this site. Because content is king in today's internet marketing world, there's little chance that either of these types of sites would be picked up by the search engines on key words. Therefore, your best promotion strategy is PPC, or "pay per click", where you're buying keywords for placement in search engines. If you're buying keywords from Google, for example, the paid listings appear at the top of a search in a blue box, or down the right-hand side of your screen. You want to be sure that the info displayed there is compelling enough to get someone to click and visit your site. So, for example, I've created a squeeze page, GetMoreClientsOnline.com, which has a compelling solution to a common problem that my clients have, as a side door gateway to my OnlineBizCoachingCompany.com coaching website.

2. Brainstorm a list of ideas of the problem you're trying to solve or the solution that you have.

A domain name that clearly indicates what you do, or a problem that you solve, or a solution that you have to a problem will give a visitor a fairly clear picture of what s/he'll find on your website. What I typically do is go to my domain registrar, www.UltraNetDomains.com, and just start plugging in the names I'm brainstorming until I come up with 3 or 4 that are available. If the domain name that you type in isn't available, the service will come up with 10 or so alternates for you to consider. I found this alternate listing quite helpful recently in picking the name of an article directory site that I want to create.

3. For SEO (Search Engine Optimization) purposes, it helps to have your keywords in your domain name.

Marla Regan, who's a professional organizer, has put two keywords in her domain name, OrganizedTime.com. Retirement Coach Lin Schreiber has her keyword niche in her domain, RevolutionizeRetirement.com. Consultant John Reddish has the desired outcome keywords in his domain, GetResults.com. I own a domain that I haven't yet developed for house sitters, BecomeAHouseSitter.com. Before buying your domain, make a list of keywords that someone might use to find you online. This list could include your industry, your target market or niche, a problem your target market has, or a solution that you can offer.

4. Shorter is better, if it's to be your primary domain.

I haven't always followed my own rules here, as I tend to have business names that are quite lengthy. If the domain name is going to be your primary domain where your primary email address will be housed, you want your domain name to be as short, catchy, and memorable as possible. After a few times of spelling out your lengthy email address, you'll come to appreciate the beauty of a short domain name. Your domain name can contain up to 67 letters and numbers, although I would encourage you not to have one of this length, and can contain no special characters other than hyphens.

5. Purchase your your given name as a domain name.

I typically tell my clients not to try and brand their given name as their business name, as that takes many years, much money, and lots of hard work to have the name recognition of Oprah, for example. However, it still pays to purchase your given name as a domain name, as well as any common misspellings of your name. Many people think my name is Donna Gunther, with an "h" in the last name, but I've been unable to register that common misspelling of my name, as a photographer in Venice, CA, has owned in since 2000. Once you've purchased your name as a domain, you can redirect it to your primary website. This means that when someone types in a domain, they land at the website to which you pointed that domain. So, currently DonnaGunter.com redirects to OnlineBizCoachingCompany.com because I don't want to use my name as a website, although that might change in the future.

6. Buy the .COM version of the name if it is available.

When people hear a domain name, they "hear" .COM whether it's .NET or .BIZ or .ORG or whatever. So, it pays to find a domain name that you like that is part of the .COM family. If you just can't get the name you want, try a hyphenated version of the .COM name. For example, when I was seeking a domain name for my Self-Employment Coaching Gym, I really wanted SelfEmploymentSuccess.com, but it wasn't available. However, Self-Employment-Success.com was available, so I grabbed that. Many SEO specialists state that search engines like hyphenated names, and many online business owners use hyphenated keywords in their domain names to be more attractive to search engines. I don't have a clear answer as to the validity of this theory, so I just advocate going this route before having to resort to the .NET or .BIZ of the name you desire. Some domain name holders may be willing to sell you the domain name that you want. You can find out who owns a domain name by checking the WhoIs Registry at Internic, http://www.internic.net/whois.html. For info about country codes (two-letter) top-level domains (.UK or .CA, for example) visit http://www.uwhois.com/cgi/domains.cgi?User=NoAds

7. Consider owning other versions of your primary domain name.

If you are registering the .COM version of a domain for your business, you may also want to secure variations of the name, alternate spellings, common misspellings, and the .NET and .ORG versions of your domain and repoint them to your main site to keep them out of the hands of your competitors. You can also go broke very quickly by purchasing all of these variations, so exercise some restraint in your purchases and don't go crazy with purchasing every single variation of your domain name. For my coaching company site, I own both the OnlineBizCoachingCompany.com and OnlineBusinessCoachingCompany.com and decided that was good enough.

Your domain name is the beginning of the establishment of your presence online, Take some time and put some thought into the process so that the domain name serves you well in the years to come, and is an effective tool for helping you get more clients online.

Marketing Your Business On The Internet

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How can a business that is already successful in reaching their local market extend their marketing reach online? The good news is that the traditional offline marketing that has always worked so well will still work at least as effectively to promote your online presence. The other side of the coin is that to promote your business online, the old traditions need some updating to keep up with online marketing best practices.

Any business should already have a marketing plan and objectives from their offline initiatives, so let's jump straight into the technology aspects of online marketing. I generally look at the following things first, because they can be done at very low or no initial cost, and also because subsequent specialist marketing won't be as successful without these things in place. Of course there is a huge amount more to online marketing, the extent of which could easily be justified as a full-time university course. This is the pre-school notes, to help get your site to a starting point on a low budget if you can't quite afford to be calling in the big guns to market your site for you professionally just yet.

1. Site optimization

This is always the place to start, because the effectiveness of everything which follows is often dependent on this being done up front. When I say this, I include great content and intuitive navigation as the basis for everything. Only once your site has been optimized for intelligent visitors should you tweak it for search engines, but never at the expense of the former.

Search engines look at things like keyword density and how specifically a page matches a specific search term. Of course this is extremely over simplistic, but nevertheless a worthwhile starting point. By identifying 10-20 key terms you would like search engines to pick up on, and creating specialised pages with relevant information which utilises those terms in the right way, you will start getting much better results once your site has been indexed.

You will find that it is best to use specialised keyword phrases, for example "precision-engineered bolts" is likely to get better placement than a generic term like "engineering parts". You should also work to create a single page for every key phrase you want picked up on, and include the key phrase in the title, meta tags and use all the words in the body of the page at a high density relative to other words. You should also preferably include the key phrase in the page title, as well as the URL of the page, for example, "http://www.mysite.com/precision_engineered_bolts/". Each page should use a different title, specifically based on the key phrase utilised in that page's content.

Your site should really be developed using XHTML and CSS these days, table-based design has numerous technical problems associated with it, and it results in a lower keyword density than the current standards.

Ideally you should use a content management system which incorporates and facilitates all of the above quickly and effortlessly, such as that provided standard with RealmSurfer sites. This will allow you to manage your own content optimization, with a bit of trial-and-error.

2. Linking and indexing

The next step is to get search engines to start to notice and index your site. Google, for example, won't even look at your site until it has been linked to by at least one other indexed site. Paid inclusion (paying the search engines to index your site on a priority schedule) can be appropriate at this phase if you need to urgently accelerate this process, however it is not always necessary.

Especially useful at this stage can be participating in forums serving your primary target market. This has the dual benefit of creating awareness of your business within communities you would like to reach, and at the same time can help create incoming links to your site, something that search engines pay particular attention to. Ensure that your site details are included as a link in the footer of your posts.
Never use a forum to spam members or submit unsolicited advertising posts -- that just has the opposite effect of destroying your business' credibility. Some forums have a separate advertising section in which it may be appropriate to professionally post information about your services and products. Always make sure that your presence represents a valuable contribution to the community. Stay on topic and be professional, helpful and constructive.

Search engines take many factors into consideration when ranking a site. New sites, for example, don't initially fare well, however you will find they will allocate some credibility weighting to you the longer your site is up and running. The biggest factor though, external to the site itself, is the number of inbound (preferably non-reciprocal) links from other sites, and the context and wording of the referring link, as well as the ranking of the referring page, and referring site. The popularity of those sites plays a big role, as well as how high up in the site's own hierarchy the link is. By way of example, a link from www.news.com.au counts for much more than a link from a very deeply embedded page like www.somesitesomewhere.com/subdirectory/theattic/someoldforgottenpage .

3. Implement online marketing partnerships with high-profile online businesses

This is where you can really benefit if implemented successfully. When I was previously running the e-commerce business unit for a large company, rather than pay high-traffic websites to advertise on their sites, which can be very much untargeted, we offered them a percentage of sales. In other words, we provided them with the banners to promote the service, and implemented simple tracking of where our visitors were coming from, and then paid a percentage of the total revenue to the referrer. This resulted in very low marketing costs to us, and the referring sites started placing more and more emphasis on their side to ensure that we got top placement whenever they were low on paid inventory.

Another effective medium-term strategy is to provide content of value to sites which serve your target market. They benefit from your topical content, you benefit from the exposure and links.

4. Dabble in paid keyword advertising

Only at this point should you actually be starting to pay for online advertising. These forms of advertising, however, allow you to specifically target certain people, which means you get a much better return on investment than simply advertising to everyone. This can take some trial and error to find what works best, but the amount you pay should be less than the amount of business you generate, and should normally include full measurement and reports on a reasonably regular basis, preferably online.

For this purpose, I often suggest starting with Google. They are by far the most popular search engine globally, they have a very good reputation, provide reporting online, and are probably the most likely to produce results initially. Yahoo and MSN also have excellent paid link systems, and they keep getting better all the time. The latest offerings from all three are now also starting to allow targeting to specific demographics, a trend that is likely to become the preferred way to target online audiences once the capabilities for this type of targeting matures.

5. Involve an internet marketing specialist

At this point, you should be starting to see some results, and be in a good position to ask some intelligent questions. Preferably deal only with a business that has a good reputation (ask for client contact details so you can find out how effective they are), and has preferably has been around for at least a few years. They should also provide very detailed reports (ask for examples of these up front), and be able to explain in detail how they go about promoting your site, on which sites they do so, the number of views and clickthroughs per site per day, and how effective each promotion was relative to the next. They should also meet with you at least once a month to review successes and failures and involve you in the decision-making process of where next to promote your business. At least monthly, you should be in a position to evaluate your cost per sale for various promotions, and to change your focus accordingly.

Especially be wary of businesses who claim unrealistically quick results, or base their business mainly only on search engine submission, or use deceptive practices to try and "trick" search engines into ranking you higher. These usually at best produce no value, and can in some cases lead to your site being removed or ranked very low by search engines.