Posts from January, 2009
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Jan0Link Building: The popularity contest
Link building is the process of getting other websites to link to yours, which generates direct traffic while increasing your search engine rankings. There are many different ways to get websites to link to yours. For example, you could encourage members and partners of your organization to link to your site from their blogs or [...]
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Jan0SEO resources
Here are a few SEO resources that I frequently use: Keyword Research YSM Keyword Inventory Tool – http://inventory.overture.com Keyword Discovery – http://www.keyworddiscovery.com Wordtracker – http://www.wordtracker.com Google Traffic Estimator – https://adwords.google.com/select/TrafficEstimatorSandbox SEO Tools Marketleap Link Popularity Check – http://www.marketleap.com/publinkpop/ Back Link Analyzer – http://tools.seobook.com/backlink-analyzer/ SEO for Firefox extension – http://tools.seobook.com/firefox/seo-for-firefox.html XML Sitemap Generator – http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/ Directory [...]
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Jan0Why Facebook and LinkedIn are Good for Your Business
Have you been hearing all of the buzz about social networking? Feeling confused? Don’t worry, you’re not alone. The great news is that it isn’t as complicated or time consuming as it may seem. Plus, it’s more than just social; it’s good for your business to get involved. The list of social networking sites is [...]
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Jan0Press Area Usability
Summary: As 3 studies of journalists show, they use the Web as a major research tool, exhibit high search dominance, and are impatient with bloated sites that don’t serve their needs or list a PR contact. Journalists often work under tight deadlines. While certainly not a novel insight, this statement leads directly to many of [...]
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Jan0Get Started With WordPress
Back when blogging was just catching on, a small PHP-based publishing system was quietly released and quickly took the blogging community by storm. WordPress, as the system was known, was an instant hit thanks to its simplicity and open-source license which allowed interested developers to extend and improve the system without hassle. Today, WordPress powers [...]
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Jan0Capital Letters in URIs – Pascal Casing
Let’s switch to regular Webmaster Speak and use Domain Names and File Names, those are the two common distinctions I see when discussing Pascal Casing. Domain Names are NOT Case Sensitive. File Names ARE Case Sensitive. Be very careful in how you interpret the information available on this page. If you don’t have the expertise [...]
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Jan0How to suggest a site to the Open Directory
The Open Directory Project is a web directory of Internet resources. A web directory is something akin to a huge reference library. The directory is hierarchically arranged by subject – from broad to specific. The ODP is maintained by community editors who evaluate sites for inclusion in the directory. They are our experts, and all [...]
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Jan07 Deadly Mistakes in Creating An Email Address
There are those who may be wondering why their email messages are not getting any reply from the recipient. Most probably the email had landed on the SPAM/Bulk Folder. We have not perfected the technology to combat Spam emails. In fact I have Google’s gmail email that hit the Spam folder of my other gmail [...]
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