business opportunity review 2
aswell as the repair business another booming niche is private investigation. Course in private investigation are quite easy to find online and teach all the essential detective agency knowledge
some of the best private detective courses even inlcude some tech gear like vehicle trackers to help get you started
Monday 4 October 2010
Everyone's looking for the real thing
Everyone's looking for the real thing when it comes to online business opportunities.
There are so many so called Gurus out there selling their "Essential" money making program
it makes your head spin! I know its difficult to believe ANYof the hype that surrounds them.
There are a few that i have looked into and can unreservedly recommend
1) learn how to repair things, people are always buying stuff that goes wrong if you can supply a repair service for gadgets such as mobile phones you could be onto a winner
There are so many so called Gurus out there selling their "Essential" money making program
it makes your head spin! I know its difficult to believe ANYof the hype that surrounds them.
There are a few that i have looked into and can unreservedly recommend
1) learn how to repair things, people are always buying stuff that goes wrong if you can supply a repair service for gadgets such as mobile phones you could be onto a winner
Saturday 2 October 2010
original content in seo
# Original content is something you create yourself, write and express yourself, and is not present in that form anywhere else on the internet
# Original content is generally rewarded by Google with fast indexing and good stable rankings usually above copies of that content.
# Popular timely content can quickly find it's way to the top of Google especially if it has been promoted well or gained traction in Google friendly social media sites like Digg or Mixx.
# Make no mistake - content is the future of SEO and it's here already and only going to get more important.
# Consider Chris Garrett's Flagship content.
Read more: What Is SEO? Google Search Engine Optimization Tutorial | Keyword Density Advice | Link building Tips | Keyword Research Tools
# Original content is generally rewarded by Google with fast indexing and good stable rankings usually above copies of that content.
# Popular timely content can quickly find it's way to the top of Google especially if it has been promoted well or gained traction in Google friendly social media sites like Digg or Mixx.
# Make no mistake - content is the future of SEO and it's here already and only going to get more important.
# Consider Chris Garrett's Flagship content.
Read more: What Is SEO? Google Search Engine Optimization Tutorial | Keyword Density Advice | Link building Tips | Keyword Research Tools
Tuesday 20 July 2010
Thursday 10 June 2010
LONG TAIL KEYWORDS ARE THE SECRET TO GREAT SEO
Long tail keyword research tools are essential for small web businesses. You must put together collections of micro niches, each identified by a long tail keyword. You need to do long tail keyword research to find those niches of low competition keywords.
You need to find a large number of keywords, the number of searches for them per day or month, and the amount of competition for the keywords. The competition, at minimum, consists of all those web pages containing the keyword. More detailed information would include the number of pages optimized for the keyword. You can get all this information for free on the web, from Google; although, there is software available that automates the process for you.
You need to find a large number of keywords, the number of searches for them per day or month, and the amount of competition for the keywords. The competition, at minimum, consists of all those web pages containing the keyword. More detailed information would include the number of pages optimized for the keyword. You can get all this information for free on the web, from Google; although, there is software available that automates the process for you.
You can use the Google keyword selector tool as a long tail keyword generator. It suggests a large number of keywords with low search volume but low competition.
When you type in a keyword into the Google keyword selector tool, it suggests related keywords and gives you a downloadable spreadsheet of their search frequencies and AdWords competition.
Sort by declining numbers of searches and delete those keywords with too few. They are not worth optimizing pages for. What's too few searches? That is up to you, but I have heard people say they set the limit somewhere between 200 and 300 searches per month (7 to 10 per day).
If you wish, you can reserve those keywords with too few searches to sprinkle into ezine articles. Keywords with low competition may bring the article to page one of a search engine's results.
Next you use the Google search page. It is not usually thought of as a long tail keywords tool, but you use it for two competition searches. Do a Google search for the keyword in quotes to find the number of pages containing those keywords as a phrase, that is, adjacent to each other. The first page of the results gives an estimate of the number of pages containing the phrase. Do not search without quotes -- that counts all pages containing all the words in the keyword phrase even if they are not close on the page.
Remove the keywords that are on too many pages from your list. Various people give the cut off at more than 30,000 other pages, give or take. Your pages will be lost in the crowd if you try to compete for them.
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Wednesday 9 June 2010
YouTube - intelligynet's Channel
YouTube - intelligynet's Channel: "WORLD CUP 2010 http://www.worldcuptvschedule.com WORLD CUP TV SCHEDULE FOR USA, WORLD CUP TV SCHEDULE FOR UK, WORLD CUP 2010 news, AND WORLD CUP 2010 VIDEOS, world cup 2010 game"
Wednesday 2 June 2010
If you own a website, you want top rankings
If you own a website, you want top rankings. With more than 8 out of 10 people using search engines to find what they need online, you are missing out if your site isn’t ranked well in the engines.
We can all agree on that! So, how do you get those coveted top rankings?
While I wish the answer was “magic fairy dust” but it’s not that simple (which is too bad because I happen to have a fresh supply of fairy dust – my niece shared it with me!).
Search Engine Optimization is the process of optimizing your site for the engines. Don’t know what SEO is? Then likely your site isn’t optimized and missing out on traffic.
Already had your site optimized in the past? That’s great and it’s a start but SEO requires on-going efforts on your site to gain and increase rankings.
Why?
Because the engines frequently make changes to their algorithms (the formula used to determine how to rank your site in the search engine results pages [SERPs]). We’ve heard rumors that Google changes their crawling/indexing or ranking algorithm as often as once a day. Sometimes these tweaks are minor and other times they are bigger and the impact is widely felt by webmasters and site owners.
Here is an explanation of what’s going on from Ex-Googler Vanessa Fox:
“Last week at Google I/O, I was on a panel with Googler Matt Cutts who said, when asked during Q&A, ”this is an algorithmic change in Google, looking for higher quality sites to surface for long tail queries. It went through vigorous testing and isn’t going to be rolled back.”
I asked Google for more specifics and they told me that it was a rankings change, not a crawling or indexing change, which seems to imply that sites getting less traffic still have their pages indexed, but some of those pages are no longer ranking as highly as before. Based on Matt’s comment, this change impacts “long tail” traffic, which generally is from longer queries that few people search for individually, but in aggregate can provide a large percentage of traffic.
This change seems to have primarily impacted very large sites with “item” pages that don’t have many individual links into them, might be several clicks from the home page, and may not have substantial unique and value-added content on them. For instance, ecommerce sites often have this structure. The individual product pages are unlikely to attract external links and the majority of the content may be imported from a manufacturer database. Of course, as with any change that results in a traffic hit for some sites, other sites experience the opposite. Based on Matt’s comment at Google I/O, the pages that are now ranking well for these long tail queries are from “higher quality” sites (or perhaps are “higher quality” pages).
What’s a site owner to do? It can be difficult to create compelling content and attract links to these types of pages. My best suggestion to those who have been hit by this is to isolate a set of queries for which the site now is getting less traffic and check out the search results to see what pages are ranking instead. What qualities do they have that make them seen as valuable? For instance, I have no way of knowing how amazon.com has faired during this update, but they’ve done a fairly good job of making individual item pages with duplicated content from manufacturer’s databases unique and compelling by the addition of content like of user reviews. They have set up a fairly robust internal linking (and anchor text) structure with things like recommended items and lists. And they attract external links with features such as the my favorites widget.
From the discussion at the Google I/O session, this is likely a long-term change so if your site has been impacted by it, you’ll likely want to do some creative thinking around how you can make these types of pages more valuable (which should increase user engagement and conversion as well).”
More notes that Fox got from Matt Cutts at Google. This update:
• has nothing to do with the “Caffeine” update (an infrastructure change that is not yet fully rolled out).
• is entirely algorithmic (and isn’t, for instance, a manual flag on individual sites).
• impacts long tail queries more than other types
• was fully tested and is not temporary
More good advice from Fox:
“Google made between 350 and 550 changes in its organic search algorithms in 2009. This is one of the reasons I recommend that site owners not get too fixated on specific ranking factors. If you tie construction of your site to any one perceived algorithm signal, you’re at the mercy of Google’s constant tweaks. These frequent changes are one reason Google itself downplays algorithm updates. Focus on what Google is trying to accomplish as it refines things (the most relevant, useful results possible for searchers) and you’ll generally avoid too much turbulence in your organic search traffic.”
The Take Away Here?
This isn’t the end of “long tail” – which is something people are spouting on Blogs and ezines the past few weeks (someone is always declaring the death of something SEO related. SEO has more lives than a cat because it’s outlived many proclaimed deaths!)
Optimization is important to get top rankings – but optimization does not mean manipulating the current “hot button” or “hot topic item” that everyone is speculating about with the algorithm.
Consistent site updates, high quality relevant content and good on-page optimization and clean code, as well as earning links because your site is a good site (and not because you play a link exchange game or belong to a link network) are the way to get top rankings.
Rankings aren’t constant and you do need to maintain them and weather some storms but the sites that don’t fall for the latest rankings ploys are the ones that do better long term.
These days most site owners realize they can’t just rely on Google alone for traffic and they are looking to Facebook, Twitter and other social media sites to help boost their exposure online.
So your action plan?
• Check your stats and see if you were in fact impacted by the Mayday update (did you lose traffic from some long tail phrases).
• Check out your linking practices and make sure you haven’t done any shady linking lately.
• Look at your link strategy and make sure you are passing link juice to your internal pages.
• Bulk up your internal pages with unique content and quality info (other than just manufacturer supplied product info)
• Make sure you have a Facebook Fan Page/Business Page
• Get going on Twitter
• Contact me for a no obligation consultation or SEO and Social Media proposal if you aren’t where you need to be!
One final thought: while it’s important to stay current and be aware of changes, it’s just as important not to freak out and start making too many changes. If you are using a strong and stable SEO strategy that covers the fundamentals, then you will be just fine for the long haul.
If you need an SEO and/or Twitter & Facebook proposal, call or email me mark@sellution.co.uk Tel 0845-2249 746
We can all agree on that! So, how do you get those coveted top rankings?
While I wish the answer was “magic fairy dust” but it’s not that simple (which is too bad because I happen to have a fresh supply of fairy dust – my niece shared it with me!).
Search Engine Optimization is the process of optimizing your site for the engines. Don’t know what SEO is? Then likely your site isn’t optimized and missing out on traffic.
Already had your site optimized in the past? That’s great and it’s a start but SEO requires on-going efforts on your site to gain and increase rankings.
Why?
Because the engines frequently make changes to their algorithms (the formula used to determine how to rank your site in the search engine results pages [SERPs]). We’ve heard rumors that Google changes their crawling/indexing or ranking algorithm as often as once a day. Sometimes these tweaks are minor and other times they are bigger and the impact is widely felt by webmasters and site owners.
Here is an explanation of what’s going on from Ex-Googler Vanessa Fox:
“Last week at Google I/O, I was on a panel with Googler Matt Cutts who said, when asked during Q&A, ”this is an algorithmic change in Google, looking for higher quality sites to surface for long tail queries. It went through vigorous testing and isn’t going to be rolled back.”
I asked Google for more specifics and they told me that it was a rankings change, not a crawling or indexing change, which seems to imply that sites getting less traffic still have their pages indexed, but some of those pages are no longer ranking as highly as before. Based on Matt’s comment, this change impacts “long tail” traffic, which generally is from longer queries that few people search for individually, but in aggregate can provide a large percentage of traffic.
This change seems to have primarily impacted very large sites with “item” pages that don’t have many individual links into them, might be several clicks from the home page, and may not have substantial unique and value-added content on them. For instance, ecommerce sites often have this structure. The individual product pages are unlikely to attract external links and the majority of the content may be imported from a manufacturer database. Of course, as with any change that results in a traffic hit for some sites, other sites experience the opposite. Based on Matt’s comment at Google I/O, the pages that are now ranking well for these long tail queries are from “higher quality” sites (or perhaps are “higher quality” pages).
What’s a site owner to do? It can be difficult to create compelling content and attract links to these types of pages. My best suggestion to those who have been hit by this is to isolate a set of queries for which the site now is getting less traffic and check out the search results to see what pages are ranking instead. What qualities do they have that make them seen as valuable? For instance, I have no way of knowing how amazon.com has faired during this update, but they’ve done a fairly good job of making individual item pages with duplicated content from manufacturer’s databases unique and compelling by the addition of content like of user reviews. They have set up a fairly robust internal linking (and anchor text) structure with things like recommended items and lists. And they attract external links with features such as the my favorites widget.
From the discussion at the Google I/O session, this is likely a long-term change so if your site has been impacted by it, you’ll likely want to do some creative thinking around how you can make these types of pages more valuable (which should increase user engagement and conversion as well).”
More notes that Fox got from Matt Cutts at Google. This update:
• has nothing to do with the “Caffeine” update (an infrastructure change that is not yet fully rolled out).
• is entirely algorithmic (and isn’t, for instance, a manual flag on individual sites).
• impacts long tail queries more than other types
• was fully tested and is not temporary
More good advice from Fox:
“Google made between 350 and 550 changes in its organic search algorithms in 2009. This is one of the reasons I recommend that site owners not get too fixated on specific ranking factors. If you tie construction of your site to any one perceived algorithm signal, you’re at the mercy of Google’s constant tweaks. These frequent changes are one reason Google itself downplays algorithm updates. Focus on what Google is trying to accomplish as it refines things (the most relevant, useful results possible for searchers) and you’ll generally avoid too much turbulence in your organic search traffic.”
The Take Away Here?
This isn’t the end of “long tail” – which is something people are spouting on Blogs and ezines the past few weeks (someone is always declaring the death of something SEO related. SEO has more lives than a cat because it’s outlived many proclaimed deaths!)
Optimization is important to get top rankings – but optimization does not mean manipulating the current “hot button” or “hot topic item” that everyone is speculating about with the algorithm.
Consistent site updates, high quality relevant content and good on-page optimization and clean code, as well as earning links because your site is a good site (and not because you play a link exchange game or belong to a link network) are the way to get top rankings.
Rankings aren’t constant and you do need to maintain them and weather some storms but the sites that don’t fall for the latest rankings ploys are the ones that do better long term.
These days most site owners realize they can’t just rely on Google alone for traffic and they are looking to Facebook, Twitter and other social media sites to help boost their exposure online.
So your action plan?
• Check your stats and see if you were in fact impacted by the Mayday update (did you lose traffic from some long tail phrases).
• Check out your linking practices and make sure you haven’t done any shady linking lately.
• Look at your link strategy and make sure you are passing link juice to your internal pages.
• Bulk up your internal pages with unique content and quality info (other than just manufacturer supplied product info)
• Make sure you have a Facebook Fan Page/Business Page
• Get going on Twitter
• Contact me for a no obligation consultation or SEO and Social Media proposal if you aren’t where you need to be!
One final thought: while it’s important to stay current and be aware of changes, it’s just as important not to freak out and start making too many changes. If you are using a strong and stable SEO strategy that covers the fundamentals, then you will be just fine for the long haul.
If you need an SEO and/or Twitter & Facebook proposal, call or email me mark@sellution.co.uk Tel 0845-2249 746
Wednesday 19 May 2010
search engine optimization tip
For this search engine optimization tip, let's talk more about content
and adding content to your web site.
You would think that when planning a new web site or a totally new version of your web site that you can sit down, make a list of web pages, create the content, and forget about it.
That is simply not the case. If you take a look at the current search results for most popular search phrases, you will see that the best web sites (the ones showing up at the top of the search results) not old, static web sites.
They are, in fact, updated on a regular basis and contain a lot of good content on their subject.
That brings me to the most important point here: you cannot expect to create a few web pages and expect that web site to rank well in the search engines (especially Google)
and adding content to your web site.
You would think that when planning a new web site or a totally new version of your web site that you can sit down, make a list of web pages, create the content, and forget about it.
That is simply not the case. If you take a look at the current search results for most popular search phrases, you will see that the best web sites (the ones showing up at the top of the search results) not old, static web sites.
They are, in fact, updated on a regular basis and contain a lot of good content on their subject.
That brings me to the most important point here: you cannot expect to create a few web pages and expect that web site to rank well in the search engines (especially Google)
Thursday 6 May 2010
3D GAMES ONLINE, 3D GAMES, ONLINE 3D GAMES, 3D GAMES ONLINE NEWS
3D GAMES ONLINE, 3D GAMES, ONLINE 3D GAMES, 3D GAMES ONLINE NEWS
Want to enjoy playing 3d games online? or playing 3d games on you nintendo or pc? well look no further for news and tips about 3d games online
Want to enjoy playing 3d games online? or playing 3d games on you nintendo or pc? well look no further for news and tips about 3d games online
Wednesday 5 May 2010
STOCKMARKET TRADING SIGNALS FOREX CURRENCY TRADING NEWS SPREAD BETTING TIPS NEWS
STOCKMARKET TRADING SIGNALS FOREX CURRENCY TRADING NEWS SPREAD BETTING TIPS NEWS
What's moving the markets today
Company Rating Target Price Potential Upside/ Downside Contributing Broker
Bayerische Motoren Buy 44 19.2% Natixis Securities
SAP AG Overweight 13.5 18.2% JPMorgan
UBS AG Market Perform 17.23 2.1% FBR Capital Markets
Company Rating Target Price Potential Upside/ Downside Contributing Broker
Hellenic Telecommunications Buy 15.5 89.0% AlphaValue
Acciona SA (Spain) Buy 137.09 84% Banesto Bolsa SA Sociedad
Banco Espirito Santo SA (Portugal) Buy 6.05 73% AlphaValue
New Rating
Company Rating Target Price Potential Upside/ Downside Contributing Broker
TNT NV (Netherlands) Outperform 27.7 20.5% Credit Suisse
What's moving the markets today
Company Rating Target Price Potential Upside/ Downside Contributing Broker
Bayerische Motoren Buy 44 19.2% Natixis Securities
SAP AG Overweight 13.5 18.2% JPMorgan
UBS AG Market Perform 17.23 2.1% FBR Capital Markets
Company Rating Target Price Potential Upside/ Downside Contributing Broker
Hellenic Telecommunications Buy 15.5 89.0% AlphaValue
Acciona SA (Spain) Buy 137.09 84% Banesto Bolsa SA Sociedad
Banco Espirito Santo SA (Portugal) Buy 6.05 73% AlphaValue
New Rating
Company Rating Target Price Potential Upside/ Downside Contributing Broker
TNT NV (Netherlands) Outperform 27.7 20.5% Credit Suisse
Wednesday 31 March 2010
Friday 26 March 2010
Saturday 20 March 2010
Monday 1 March 2010
Tuesday 9 February 2010
google buzz
Google Buzz Implications for Search, Business, and Communication
Google held a press event to announce the most "buzzed" topic of the week - Google Buzz. This is Google's new product, which is being compared to social networks like Twitter and Facebook. It is integrated with Gmail and other Google products, and appears to be one of the missing links in tying Google together as a social network,
Buzz will show a thumbnail of a YouTube video and make it easy to play in line. With photos, they will show thumbnails, but Google built a custom photo viewer, which lets you flip through pictures and see them "big and fast". If you share links, it will automatically fetch headlines and photos from the post (similar to Facebook). You can "like" and "unlike" stuff, and expand comments. It works with keyword shortcuts from Gmail.
Public/Private sharing - The post box will let you post updates publicly or privately. If it's public, it will go to your Google profile, and is indexed by Google's real-time search. You can share privately, and it will let you send to groups and custom groups.
In your in-box, you will see buzz notifications that contain real-time comments. It sits in the same in-box as your regular email, but you can move between your regular in-box and your Buzz stuff. It integrates it right into Gmail.You can also use "@" for replies like with Twitter.
While Google Buzz is presented as a Gmail feature, it goes well beyond Gmail. For one, all public updates you post will be posted to your Google profile page, (which is searchable). In addition, Google launched three new mobile products for Buzz:
1. The ability to use Buzz from www.Google.com on iPhone/Android
2. Brand new app at buzz.google.com
3. Maps Update for Nokia Symbian/ Android.
Mobile could be one of the biggest keys to the success of this product. Google says Google.com is the world's most popular mobile home page, and Buzz can be accessed from there on iPhone and Android devices. Android's popularity is growing quickly too.
Google held a press event to announce the most "buzzed" topic of the week - Google Buzz. This is Google's new product, which is being compared to social networks like Twitter and Facebook. It is integrated with Gmail and other Google products, and appears to be one of the missing links in tying Google together as a social network,
Buzz will show a thumbnail of a YouTube video and make it easy to play in line. With photos, they will show thumbnails, but Google built a custom photo viewer, which lets you flip through pictures and see them "big and fast". If you share links, it will automatically fetch headlines and photos from the post (similar to Facebook). You can "like" and "unlike" stuff, and expand comments. It works with keyword shortcuts from Gmail.
Public/Private sharing - The post box will let you post updates publicly or privately. If it's public, it will go to your Google profile, and is indexed by Google's real-time search. You can share privately, and it will let you send to groups and custom groups.
In your in-box, you will see buzz notifications that contain real-time comments. It sits in the same in-box as your regular email, but you can move between your regular in-box and your Buzz stuff. It integrates it right into Gmail.You can also use "@" for replies like with Twitter.
While Google Buzz is presented as a Gmail feature, it goes well beyond Gmail. For one, all public updates you post will be posted to your Google profile page, (which is searchable). In addition, Google launched three new mobile products for Buzz:
1. The ability to use Buzz from www.Google.com on iPhone/Android
2. Brand new app at buzz.google.com
3. Maps Update for Nokia Symbian/ Android.
Mobile could be one of the biggest keys to the success of this product. Google says Google.com is the world's most popular mobile home page, and Buzz can be accessed from there on iPhone and Android devices. Android's popularity is growing quickly too.
Thursday 28 January 2010
EBAY FEES UPDATE
Ebay DID NOT lower their fees.
This is how they FRAMED their massive Fee increase. Some sellers are going to be seeing a 141% fee increase. The majority of sellers received a 15% increase.
They sent out a wonderful little email today, and must've thought the people that sell on Ebay were to stupid to click on the links. Not this lady.
Their stock went up because Ebay found a way to make millions - by screwing over the people that sell on their site.
Expect a massive exodus from Ebay. The boards are buzzing and the sellers are IRATE!
This was the most IDIOTIC business move possible. Yes, they will make alot more money at the beginning, but once sellers realize what had happened, Ebay will LOSE in the end.
This is how they FRAMED their massive Fee increase. Some sellers are going to be seeing a 141% fee increase. The majority of sellers received a 15% increase.
They sent out a wonderful little email today, and must've thought the people that sell on Ebay were to stupid to click on the links. Not this lady.
Their stock went up because Ebay found a way to make millions - by screwing over the people that sell on their site.
Expect a massive exodus from Ebay. The boards are buzzing and the sellers are IRATE!
This was the most IDIOTIC business move possible. Yes, they will make alot more money at the beginning, but once sellers realize what had happened, Ebay will LOSE in the end.
Ebay announces cheaper fees for sellers shock! BUT THERE IS A CATCH
Option 1: "eBay Everyday" Standard Rates SEE BOTTOM OF POST FOR THE CATCH
- List up to 100 items a month Auction-style free—no Insertion Fees—when you start your Auction-style listing under $1.
- Get new, lower Insertion Fees for all other start prices.
- Either way, pay one easy Final Value Fee of 9% of the winning bid—and never more than $50—pay only if your item sells.
- List in Fixed Price for 50¢ with Final Value Fees mostly the same as today
Option 2: eBay Stores Subscription Packages
- List in Fixed Price with full search exposure for as low as 3¢ Insertion Fees with Final Value Fees for the most part the same as today
- Get FREE pictures
- Get deeply discounted fees on Auction-style listings
eBay says option one is ideal for those who sell occasionally, while option two is better for most sellers with 50 or more listings a month.
eBay's price change does represent a price increase for sellers who don't have a store
- List up to 100 items a month Auction-style free—no Insertion Fees—when you start your Auction-style listing under $1.
- Get new, lower Insertion Fees for all other start prices.
- Either way, pay one easy Final Value Fee of 9% of the winning bid—and never more than $50—pay only if your item sells.
- List in Fixed Price for 50¢ with Final Value Fees mostly the same as today
Option 2: eBay Stores Subscription Packages
- List in Fixed Price with full search exposure for as low as 3¢ Insertion Fees with Final Value Fees for the most part the same as today
- Get FREE pictures
- Get deeply discounted fees on Auction-style listings
eBay says option one is ideal for those who sell occasionally, while option two is better for most sellers with 50 or more listings a month.
eBay's price change does represent a price increase for sellers who don't have a store
Wednesday 27 January 2010
GOOGLE Fast Flip set for Huge Expansion
Google announced through its blog on Wednesday that it is expanding Google Fast Flip, a news reading service that aims to make the experience of reading newspapers and magazines online similar to reading hard copy versions. Fast Flip launched three months ago with a small handful of publications including the New York Times and Washington Post. The recent announcement adds 55 top-flight publishers to the project including newspapers such as the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune and the Miami Herald, magazines including U.S. News & World Report and leading online sites The Huffington Post, Mashable and POLITICO.
Fast Flip is designed to let Web surfers "flip" through multiple pages of content at once, theoretically making it easier to browse through a publisher's site and find interesting material. While Fast Flip is still only available in Google Labs, the service has evidentially been successful enough that publishers are interested in experimenting with it.
Newspapers are continuing to search for ways to generate revenue from online content, and Google is touting Fast Flip as a potential answer. Google has said that the "majority" of revenue generated by Fast Flip will go back to publishers but has not given specifics.
"Readers of the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Baltimore Sun and the rest of our newspaper brands operate in a multimedia universe, and our goal is to ensure our content is available on the platforms they choose," Marc Chase, president of Tribune Co.'s interactive division, told the Los Angeles Times. "We're always looking for new technologies to help us reach an even wider audience."
Fast Flip is designed to let Web surfers "flip" through multiple pages of content at once, theoretically making it easier to browse through a publisher's site and find interesting material. While Fast Flip is still only available in Google Labs, the service has evidentially been successful enough that publishers are interested in experimenting with it.
Newspapers are continuing to search for ways to generate revenue from online content, and Google is touting Fast Flip as a potential answer. Google has said that the "majority" of revenue generated by Fast Flip will go back to publishers but has not given specifics.
"Readers of the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Baltimore Sun and the rest of our newspaper brands operate in a multimedia universe, and our goal is to ensure our content is available on the platforms they choose," Marc Chase, president of Tribune Co.'s interactive division, told the Los Angeles Times. "We're always looking for new technologies to help us reach an even wider audience."
THE HSITORY OF THE INTERNET 2009 STATS
Internet 2009 in numbers
What happened with the Internet in 2009? How many websites were added? How many emails were sent? How many Internet users were there? This post will answer all of those questions and many more. Prepare for information overload, but in a good way.
We have used a wide variety of sources from around the Web. A full list of source references is available at the bottom of the post for those interested. We here at Pingdom also did some additional calculations to get even more numbers to show you.
Email
* 90 trillion - The number of emails sent on the Internet in 2009.
* 247 billion - Average number of email messages per day.
* 1.4 billion - The number of email users worldwide.
* 100 million - New email users since the year before.
* 81% - The percentage of emails that were spam.
* 92% - Peak spam levels late in the year.
* 24% - Increase in spam since last year.
* 200 billion - The number of spam emails per day (assuming 81% are spam).
Websites
* 234 million - The number of websites as of December 2009.
* 47 million - Added websites in 2009.
Web servers
* 13.9% - The growth of Apache websites in 2009.
* -22.1% - The growth of IIS websites in 2009.
* 35.0% - The growth of Google GFE websites in 2009.
* 384.4% - The growth of Nginx websites in 2009.
* -72.4% - The growth of Lighttpd websites in 2009.
Domain names
* 81.8 million - .COM domain names at the end of 2009.
* 12.3 million - .NET domain names at the end of 2009.
* 7.8 million - .ORG domain names at the end of 2009.
* 76.3 million - The number of country code top-level domains (e.g. .CN, .UK, .DE, etc.).
* 187 million - The number of domain names across all top-level domains (October 2009).
* 8% - The increase in domain names since the year before.
Internet users
* 1.73 billion - Internet users worldwide (September 2009).
* 18% - Increase in Internet users since the previous year.
* 738,257,230 - Internet users in Asia.
* 418,029,796 - Internet users in Europe.
* 252,908,000 - Internet users in North America.
* 179,031,479 - Internet users in Latin America / Caribbean.
* 67,371,700 - Internet users in Africa.
* 57,425,046 - Internet users in the Middle East.
* 20,970,490 - Internet users in Oceania / Australia.
Social media
* 126 million - The number of blogs on the Internet (as tracked by BlogPulse).
* 84% - Percent of social network sites with more women than men.
* 27.3 million - Number of tweets on Twitter per day (November, 2009)
* 57% - Percentage of Twitter's user base located in the United States.
* 4.25 million - People following @aplusk (Ashton Kutcher, Twitter's most followed user).
* 350 million - People on Facebook.
* 50% - Percentage of Facebook users that log in every day.
* 500,000 - The number of active Facebook applications
What happened with the Internet in 2009? How many websites were added? How many emails were sent? How many Internet users were there? This post will answer all of those questions and many more. Prepare for information overload, but in a good way.
We have used a wide variety of sources from around the Web. A full list of source references is available at the bottom of the post for those interested. We here at Pingdom also did some additional calculations to get even more numbers to show you.
* 90 trillion - The number of emails sent on the Internet in 2009.
* 247 billion - Average number of email messages per day.
* 1.4 billion - The number of email users worldwide.
* 100 million - New email users since the year before.
* 81% - The percentage of emails that were spam.
* 92% - Peak spam levels late in the year.
* 24% - Increase in spam since last year.
* 200 billion - The number of spam emails per day (assuming 81% are spam).
Websites
* 234 million - The number of websites as of December 2009.
* 47 million - Added websites in 2009.
Web servers
* 13.9% - The growth of Apache websites in 2009.
* -22.1% - The growth of IIS websites in 2009.
* 35.0% - The growth of Google GFE websites in 2009.
* 384.4% - The growth of Nginx websites in 2009.
* -72.4% - The growth of Lighttpd websites in 2009.
Domain names
* 81.8 million - .COM domain names at the end of 2009.
* 12.3 million - .NET domain names at the end of 2009.
* 7.8 million - .ORG domain names at the end of 2009.
* 76.3 million - The number of country code top-level domains (e.g. .CN, .UK, .DE, etc.).
* 187 million - The number of domain names across all top-level domains (October 2009).
* 8% - The increase in domain names since the year before.
Internet users
* 1.73 billion - Internet users worldwide (September 2009).
* 18% - Increase in Internet users since the previous year.
* 738,257,230 - Internet users in Asia.
* 418,029,796 - Internet users in Europe.
* 252,908,000 - Internet users in North America.
* 179,031,479 - Internet users in Latin America / Caribbean.
* 67,371,700 - Internet users in Africa.
* 57,425,046 - Internet users in the Middle East.
* 20,970,490 - Internet users in Oceania / Australia.
Social media
* 126 million - The number of blogs on the Internet (as tracked by BlogPulse).
* 84% - Percent of social network sites with more women than men.
* 27.3 million - Number of tweets on Twitter per day (November, 2009)
* 57% - Percentage of Twitter's user base located in the United States.
* 4.25 million - People following @aplusk (Ashton Kutcher, Twitter's most followed user).
* 350 million - People on Facebook.
* 50% - Percentage of Facebook users that log in every day.
* 500,000 - The number of active Facebook applications
Tuesday 26 January 2010
Bing May Become iPhone's Default Search Engine
Apple’s relationship with Google is souring, which is the perfect opening for Microsoft when it comes to the iPhone.
It’s no secret that Apple and Microsoft have one of the stranger relationships in tech. While Microsoft has produced software such as Office for the Macintosh platform, and Apple has opened its doors to Windows with its switch to Intel, they still are highly competitive with each other. But Cupertino’s relationship with Google is souring far faster, which is the perfect opening for Microsoft when it comes to the iPhone.
Apple is apparently in discussions with Microsoft to give the Bing search engine the top spot for search on iPhone, which currently belongs to Google. These talks have been underway for several weeks, BusinessWeek reports, but nothing as of yet has been finalized.
It’s no secret that Apple and Microsoft have one of the stranger relationships in tech. While Microsoft has produced software such as Office for the Macintosh platform, and Apple has opened its doors to Windows with its switch to Intel, they still are highly competitive with each other. But Cupertino’s relationship with Google is souring far faster, which is the perfect opening for Microsoft when it comes to the iPhone.
Apple is apparently in discussions with Microsoft to give the Bing search engine the top spot for search on iPhone, which currently belongs to Google. These talks have been underway for several weeks, BusinessWeek reports, but nothing as of yet has been finalized.
Google Stock value falls
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Friday 22 January 2010
Meta description and google ranking
Although Meta descriptions are no longer part of the ranking algorithm they can affect your site's positions in the personalized search results. Your Meta description is a crucial factor that determines the CTR (click-through-rate) of your site in search results. The more compelling your description is, the more searchers will click it. When they click through to your site from search results this is recorded in their Web History. Next time they search for a product or service related to your site, it may appear high up in their personalized search results.
The 7 Deadly Sins of Writing Google Ad Text and How to Resolve Them
There are a lot of folks out there doing Google Adwords that seem like they have lots of money to spend! Why do I say this? Well they write their ads so casually that there is a good chance they are getting a high percentage of clicks from people who are not really their customers. On top of this there is a good chance that they have these generic, casual ads in an ad group with too many keywords. Plus lots of them don’t take the time to direct their potential customers to the best landing page on their site.
If they could calculate over the period of a year how much they were spending on random, curiosity clicks due to these types of ads and bad ad group formation, they would definitely get a shock. What’s more is if they spring cleaned their Google Adwords account this time next year they could be heading off on an extra holiday.
So in order to write the best Google ad text the first thing to do is identify if you are committing any of the Google Ad Text 7 Deadly Sins, as listed below. Then we will discuss how not to commit these sins.
1. Are your ads broad as you feel they will capture more people? This is the first deadly sin as in reality people feel that they the need to click on these ads sometimes in case they are missing out on something good. A fair percentage of them will leave your site quickly as they will be disappointed.
Don’t commit this sin by firstly realizing that people are getting more savvy every day and what they want to see is an ad that tells them as much as possible in the small space allowed. The ad text should always include the keyword at least once and where possible include a price or a starting price.
2. Are your ads unsupported by a proper group of keywords? This is somewhat like a football player who can’t score without the support of other team members.
Avoid this sin by having smaller ad groups with a family of related keywords inside which makes it possible for the keywords to be included in the ad text. This takes more time to set up but really pays off in the end.
3. Do your ads blend in nicely with the crowd? Many ads commit this deadly sin as often the combination of the perception of it being such a small announcement and the lack of experience of working this small space gives rise to lots of sinners!
Stop sinning and start having fun with language. It is always possible to make the ad text tempting to customers and inject something different from your competitors so that it no longer blends in with the crowd but instead stands out from the crowd, in a good way.
4. Have your ad texts been written with the customer or your business in mind? If they have been written with your business in mind and not the customer you are committing the fourth deadly sin. Sadly this is a common practice as many business owners know their own business so well and forget that their potential customers don’t.
By not committing this sin you will raise your chances of sales and customer acquisitions highly. Get into the mind of your customer and if this is too difficult ask your friends or employees to help. It is what is on your customers’ minds’ that counts.
5. Have your ads gone past their sell by date? The fifth deadly sin can be seen at different times of the year when seasonal ads are well out of date. This gives a message of inefficiency to your potential customers, and it is hard for them to get excited about an ad in December 2009 which talks about the New 2009 Range.
Cleanse this sin by putting seasonal ads into their own campaign which can then be paused when the season is finished and resumed and changed for the next season. Keeping them separate like this makes them much easier to manage.
6. Do your ads have no Unique Selling Point? If your ads do not include this ask yourself would you buy from your ads? Internet customers who are checking Google Adwords ad texts most likely have no loyalty to your competitors otherwise they would not be looking at the ads. What is your unique selling point?
To avoid committing this sin is more difficult than some of the aforementioned sins. The ad text space is tight and you have to be quite skillful to get this in as well as the keywords and price when relevant. If you sell unique goods mention it, if you are cheapest mention it, find a way to include at least the flavour of your unique selling point.
7. Do your ads direct people to your homepage or some other broad page leaving potential customers to have to navigate your website? This is the serious seventh deadly sin. Less and less people are willing to spend the time having a look for the page you should have deep linked your ad to in the first place.
Don’t commit this sin, do yourself and your potential customers a big favour and deep link every single ad to the most specific page. You will save money as people will be less likely to bounce off your website.
If they could calculate over the period of a year how much they were spending on random, curiosity clicks due to these types of ads and bad ad group formation, they would definitely get a shock. What’s more is if they spring cleaned their Google Adwords account this time next year they could be heading off on an extra holiday.
So in order to write the best Google ad text the first thing to do is identify if you are committing any of the Google Ad Text 7 Deadly Sins, as listed below. Then we will discuss how not to commit these sins.
1. Are your ads broad as you feel they will capture more people? This is the first deadly sin as in reality people feel that they the need to click on these ads sometimes in case they are missing out on something good. A fair percentage of them will leave your site quickly as they will be disappointed.
Don’t commit this sin by firstly realizing that people are getting more savvy every day and what they want to see is an ad that tells them as much as possible in the small space allowed. The ad text should always include the keyword at least once and where possible include a price or a starting price.
2. Are your ads unsupported by a proper group of keywords? This is somewhat like a football player who can’t score without the support of other team members.
Avoid this sin by having smaller ad groups with a family of related keywords inside which makes it possible for the keywords to be included in the ad text. This takes more time to set up but really pays off in the end.
3. Do your ads blend in nicely with the crowd? Many ads commit this deadly sin as often the combination of the perception of it being such a small announcement and the lack of experience of working this small space gives rise to lots of sinners!
Stop sinning and start having fun with language. It is always possible to make the ad text tempting to customers and inject something different from your competitors so that it no longer blends in with the crowd but instead stands out from the crowd, in a good way.
4. Have your ad texts been written with the customer or your business in mind? If they have been written with your business in mind and not the customer you are committing the fourth deadly sin. Sadly this is a common practice as many business owners know their own business so well and forget that their potential customers don’t.
By not committing this sin you will raise your chances of sales and customer acquisitions highly. Get into the mind of your customer and if this is too difficult ask your friends or employees to help. It is what is on your customers’ minds’ that counts.
5. Have your ads gone past their sell by date? The fifth deadly sin can be seen at different times of the year when seasonal ads are well out of date. This gives a message of inefficiency to your potential customers, and it is hard for them to get excited about an ad in December 2009 which talks about the New 2009 Range.
Cleanse this sin by putting seasonal ads into their own campaign which can then be paused when the season is finished and resumed and changed for the next season. Keeping them separate like this makes them much easier to manage.
6. Do your ads have no Unique Selling Point? If your ads do not include this ask yourself would you buy from your ads? Internet customers who are checking Google Adwords ad texts most likely have no loyalty to your competitors otherwise they would not be looking at the ads. What is your unique selling point?
To avoid committing this sin is more difficult than some of the aforementioned sins. The ad text space is tight and you have to be quite skillful to get this in as well as the keywords and price when relevant. If you sell unique goods mention it, if you are cheapest mention it, find a way to include at least the flavour of your unique selling point.
7. Do your ads direct people to your homepage or some other broad page leaving potential customers to have to navigate your website? This is the serious seventh deadly sin. Less and less people are willing to spend the time having a look for the page you should have deep linked your ad to in the first place.
Don’t commit this sin, do yourself and your potential customers a big favour and deep link every single ad to the most specific page. You will save money as people will be less likely to bounce off your website.
Wednesday 13 January 2010
Importance of links in search engine indexing ( listing position )
Please keep in mind that Google may ignore your submission request for a significant period of time. Even if it happens to crawl your site, it may not actually index it if there are no links pointing to it. However, if Google finds your site by following the links from other pages that have already been indexed and are regularly re-spidered, chances are you will be included without any submission. These chances are much higher if Google finds your site by reading a directory listing, such as DMOZ (www.dmoz.org).
So submit your site and it may help, but links are the best way to get indexed.
So submit your site and it may help, but links are the best way to get indexed.
Tuesday 12 January 2010
Power of Long Tail Keywords in SEO
What are long tail keywords?
Long tail keywords are long and specific keyword phrases that generate little traffic and few conversions each.
Long tail keywords usually consist of several words and they have a low monthly search volume.
What did the study find out?
Google AdWords advertisers with monthly expenses ranking from $15K to $750K per month were analyzed in the study. All of these advertisers had well managed Google AdWords accounts.
Here are the key findings:
1. The importance of long tail keywords varies. For one company, the long tail keywords generated only 8% of the sales. Another company received 83% of its sales through long tail keywords.
2. It depends on the product. People search differently for different types of products. For one product group people might use more long tail keywords while they use fewer for another product group.
3. The importance of long tail keywords does not depend on the paid search budget.
4. Long tail keywords are most important for SKU-based commodity retailers.
5. For some Google AdWords advertisers, long tail keywords are critically important. One company in the test generated more than 71% of its revenue from long tail keywords.
Long tail keywords are important to all AdWords advertisers. Even the company that received only 8% of its sales through the long tail keywords made a significant amount of money with them.
Long tail keywords are long and specific keyword phrases that generate little traffic and few conversions each.
Long tail keywords usually consist of several words and they have a low monthly search volume.
What did the study find out?
Google AdWords advertisers with monthly expenses ranking from $15K to $750K per month were analyzed in the study. All of these advertisers had well managed Google AdWords accounts.
Here are the key findings:
1. The importance of long tail keywords varies. For one company, the long tail keywords generated only 8% of the sales. Another company received 83% of its sales through long tail keywords.
2. It depends on the product. People search differently for different types of products. For one product group people might use more long tail keywords while they use fewer for another product group.
3. The importance of long tail keywords does not depend on the paid search budget.
4. Long tail keywords are most important for SKU-based commodity retailers.
5. For some Google AdWords advertisers, long tail keywords are critically important. One company in the test generated more than 71% of its revenue from long tail keywords.
Long tail keywords are important to all AdWords advertisers. Even the company that received only 8% of its sales through the long tail keywords made a significant amount of money with them.
Monday 11 January 2010
NEW SEO SERVICES FOR 2010
Dominate Niche Marketing: Know exactly what the "money keywords" are. The keywords that BUYERS are searching for! Use these keywords to increase your sales. Nothing else will show you these.
Dominate Google Adwords: Instantly... Yes, and I said instantly, AND with very little money by seeing who is already running a profitable Adwords campaign AND then "borrow" their entire Adwords marketing strategy shown by the software for your own profitable campaign!
If you don't understand Google Adwords, it doesn't matter. The software is Fool Proof. It had to be if I was going to use it!
Dominate The Search Engines: Increase the amount of traffic to your site that you're getting now, WITHOUT paying a dime.
Dominate Google Adwords: Instantly... Yes, and I said instantly, AND with very little money by seeing who is already running a profitable Adwords campaign AND then "borrow" their entire Adwords marketing strategy shown by the software for your own profitable campaign!
If you don't understand Google Adwords, it doesn't matter. The software is Fool Proof. It had to be if I was going to use it!
Dominate The Search Engines: Increase the amount of traffic to your site that you're getting now, WITHOUT paying a dime.
Sunday 10 January 2010
SEO UK IN DEMAND
Do you know that an SEO Company can easily do your Internet Marketing that would take you months of research and implementation to pull off successfully? That's right; quite a lot of online businesses today are investing in the expertise of these SEO gurus to help them stand out from today's competition -- pulling their rankings up to help increase their online coverage and accessibility to boost traffic to their page.
All The Manpower Your Need
If you think an SEO Company is compromised of a single expert in Internet Marketing, then you're wrong. One reason why hiring them is pricey is because they employ different experts to take charge of specific SEO concepts for your website.
For example, one group will be in charge of research while others are for implementation. This includes keyword research to improve your placement in search engines, article marketing and link building strategies to propagate your existence in the virtual world, and more. This is one reason why an SEO Company can bring up your ranking in the shortest possible time to cater to your online goals.
Finding An Expert
Now finding an SEO Company to help you with is easy; all you need is to look for them online. It's not like the usual business that you can find in the local yellow pages, though some of them are listed there. Most of them, however, have their own sites on the Internet to showcase their services to the public. You can use search engines to look them up.
Finding one is easy but deciding who will get your bid is something else. Keep in mind that hiring an SEO expert entails an expense on your end. Some may come cheap while other charge outrageous fees for their service. Just understand the fact that you need to find one that can deliver their promises despite how much you pay them.
Such is the case; the only way for you to find out if an SEO Company is the right one for you is to give them a call and ask for a proposal or quote. Get their contact number, talk to their agent, and request for a proposal to be sent or faxed to you that highlights the strategies they will be implementing to help you meet your online goals, timeframe of the service, and of course, the total cost of the project. You can get multiple quotes for comparison.
SEO UK
All The Manpower Your Need
If you think an SEO Company is compromised of a single expert in Internet Marketing, then you're wrong. One reason why hiring them is pricey is because they employ different experts to take charge of specific SEO concepts for your website.
For example, one group will be in charge of research while others are for implementation. This includes keyword research to improve your placement in search engines, article marketing and link building strategies to propagate your existence in the virtual world, and more. This is one reason why an SEO Company can bring up your ranking in the shortest possible time to cater to your online goals.
Finding An Expert
Now finding an SEO Company to help you with is easy; all you need is to look for them online. It's not like the usual business that you can find in the local yellow pages, though some of them are listed there. Most of them, however, have their own sites on the Internet to showcase their services to the public. You can use search engines to look them up.
Finding one is easy but deciding who will get your bid is something else. Keep in mind that hiring an SEO expert entails an expense on your end. Some may come cheap while other charge outrageous fees for their service. Just understand the fact that you need to find one that can deliver their promises despite how much you pay them.
Such is the case; the only way for you to find out if an SEO Company is the right one for you is to give them a call and ask for a proposal or quote. Get their contact number, talk to their agent, and request for a proposal to be sent or faxed to you that highlights the strategies they will be implementing to help you meet your online goals, timeframe of the service, and of course, the total cost of the project. You can get multiple quotes for comparison.
SEO UK
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