How To Tame GoogleBot

11 September 2008

A Google Groups thread has a detailed discussion around the topic of Google spider, GoogleBot, crawling too much. Sometimes servers can be overwhelmed by all the traffic it gets and automated crawlers, such as GoogleBot, can add a tremendous amount of stress to a server that is already stressing. Most webmasters are not in the [...]

Yahoo Announces oneConnect iPhone App

11 September 2008

Messaging, email, and social networks galore The average iPhone has a lot of applications on it.  Some are free, some aren’t, and regardless, they make a bit of a mess taken all together.  Now Yahoo’s seeking to cut through the clutter - and carve out a place of importance in the U.S. mobile market - with [...]

Tips: Keep your website clean

11 September 2008

When designing your website, remember one thing: Less is more. Some people make the mistake of filling up every pixel on their web page with a different image or graphic or piece of text. Not only does this usually look bad, but it greatly diminishes the chance that the visitor will be able to find [...]

12 Steps to Creating a Professional Web Design

11 September 2008

Before we share some of the necessary steps used to create a professional web design and website, the following question must be addressed: What constitutes a “professional web design”? More often than not, a web designer or web design company claims to offer professional web design services for their clients. However, should they be promoting [...]

Immutable Laws of Marketing and online Branding

11 September 2008

The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing and the second one is The 11 Immutable Laws of Internet Branding. I have just given those laws, But in the book they are dealt in detail. The  Immutable Laws of Marketing:   1. It is better to be first than it is to be better.   2. If you can’t be first [...]

Is Google’s new Chrome browser any good?

11 September 2008

Google is looking to plug the gaps in its cloud computing universe with its new browser, Chrome, which many believe could be a serious competitor to Microsoft’s IE and Mozilla’s Firefox. The browser is now available for free download , in beta form, and after a couple of hours’ use, it looks to be a decent [...]

Google’s Chrome browser is an attack on Microsoft

11 September 2008

Google Chrome, the company’s entry into the browser market, will leave their competitors, particularly Microsoft, anxious. If Mozilla can achieve almost a 20 per cent share of the browser market with Firefox, what can Google, with its enormous online presence, reach? Microsoft, which has a 75 per cent share of the market, has never faced [...]

Copywriting seven ways to trigger emotions

11 September 2008

You absolutely must trigger an emotional reaction with your copy if you intend to get response – whether you’re looking for a lead or a sale. It doesn’t matter who you’re marketing to, either: Business to business sales are still decided by human beings, just like consumer sales. And all human beings buy on emotion. With [...]

Blogging helps you getting a Higher Page Rank

11 September 2008

Most people who are experienced with search engine optimization would know the basic procedure on how to attain a higher Google Page Rank for a website. With most SEO strategies, one can be sure about an increase of about two or three ranks within three months or so, but it doesn’t hurt to gun for [...]

Important Factors You Must Know About SEO

11 September 2008

Anyone who has an online business may be quick to jump into several SEO techniques, thinking that these will be a quick opportunity for internet success. If you think however that SEO can be accomplished in a jiffy, you’re bound to be disappointed. There are important factors you must know about search engine optimization. This [...]

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Small Business Website Tips

 Small Business Website TipsA website can be an easy thing to manage, but without the proper approach, it can also be a hassle-generating failure. So Jon Friedman lists eight points for making your site is attractive to consumers and generally successful.

Since Friedman’s ideas are intended for magazines, we’ll skip and combine a few of them here. His first, however - “have an attitude” - is important for everyone. ”If you have a good time presenting the content on the Web, your audience will likely enjoy reading and using it,” he writes.

A later recommendation - “maintain an identity” - is necessary to keep in mind while having fun. ”Your site should stand for something and reflect the tone of your magazine. If your magazine is sarcastic, your site should be sarcastic. If you intend to come across as highly intellectual on newsstands, do the same on the Web,” Friedman suggests.

Interactivity is important, too. A website with some sort of tool or game can draw a user dozens of times; one with straightforward information might never get visited again after the data gets saved to a hard drive or printed. And don’t forget about usability while dealing with all these other matters.

Magazines are often forced out of the print market, so for them, these pieces of advice represent survival tips. Hopefully they’ll lift you well above that into prosperity.

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Design & Development

Tips: Keep your website clean

Posted on 11 September 2008

When designing your website, remember one thing: Less is more. Some people make the mistake of filling up every pixel on their web page with a different image or graphic or piece of text. Not only does this usually look bad, but it greatly diminishes the chance that the visitor will be able to find [...]

Content Management

How To Make A Website In 8 Steps

Posted on 16 August 2008

Step 1 - Why do you want a website?
Is it a hobby, small business, large business, personal, wedding? All these sites would be addressed differently and have different structures, look over three sites from other people in your interest area and see what pages they have on their site.
Step 2 - Develop a Sitemap, Develop [...]

Programming

End of Days for PHP 4

Posted on 16 August 2008

A few days ago an announcement was made by the developers of PHP at http://php.net concerning the discontinuation of of PHP 4:
Today it is exactly three years ago since PHP 5 has been released. In those three years it has seen many improvements over PHP 4. PHP 5 is fast, stable & production-ready and as [...]

Directories

People Who Can’t Link, And A Vague Argument For Google Analytics

Posted on 01 June 2008

We work in an industry where everyone can link. It’s very tough to find one SEO, or one person who’s interested in SEO, who doesn’t have a website of some sort. Many of us have more than one: a work-related domain and a personal or hobby site. None of us lacks the ability to link.
Thus, [...]

Domain

A Domain Is What Makes The Website

Posted on 16 August 2008

To host a website on the Internet, you will have to first register the domain. This use to be a very costly affair, it is very cheap now. It can be done for reasonable prices, and almost anyone can afford to register their sites.
It can also be called a host name, as this is what [...]

Google

Adwords keyword tool censoring adult content?

Posted on 11 September 2008

I’m just trying to setup an Adwords campaign for an adult website. And I noticed the Adwords keyword suggestion tool is refusing to give me keyword data on the adult searches.
I’m pretty sure this is a recent change - I remember using the very same tool a couple of months back when doing the organic [...]

AdSense

How to boost your AdSense revenue ?

Posted on 11 September 2008

AdSense often easier than affiliate programs

Google’s AdSense is a superb revenue generating opportunity for small, medium and large web sites.
Some webmasters are designing brand new sites specifically for serving AdSense text ads. (It’s against the AdSense rules to design a site purely for AdSense, so you’ll want to include a few affiliate links or sell [...]

Page Rank

How To Tame GoogleBot

Posted on 11 September 2008

A Google Groups thread has a detailed discussion around the topic of Google spider, GoogleBot, crawling too much. Sometimes servers can be overwhelmed by all the traffic it gets and automated crawlers, such as GoogleBot, can add a tremendous amount of stress to a server that is already stressing. Most webmasters are not in the [...]

Sitemaps

Designing a Sitemap

Posted on 16 August 2008

An effectively designed sitemap increases the likelihood that your site is indexed by search engines. A well-built sitemap displays the inner framework and organization of your Web site’s content to the search engines. A sitemap should reflect the entire navigational framework of your Web site so that search-engine spiders can find and index all your [...]

Live & MSN

Google’s Chrome browser is an attack on Microsoft

Posted on 11 September 2008

Google Chrome, the company’s entry into the browser market, will leave their competitors, particularly Microsoft, anxious. If Mozilla can achieve almost a 20 per cent share of the browser market with Firefox, what can Google, with its enormous online presence, reach? Microsoft, which has a 75 per cent share of the market, has never faced [...]

Online Advertising

Immutable Laws of Marketing and online Branding

Posted on 11 September 2008

The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing and the second one is The 11 Immutable Laws of Internet Branding.
I have just given those laws, But in the book they are dealt in detail.
The  Immutable Laws of Marketing:
  1. It is better to be first than it is to be better.
  2. If you can’t be first [...]

SEO

Top Google in Record Time in 2 Simple Steps

Posted on 04 June 2008

I got into search engine optimization back in 1998. It sure has changed a lot since then. Back in the day you could use invisible text, load keywords to the point of overflowing and fill META tags with anything even close to what you had on your page. And you could do well on Google, [...]

SEO News Blog

Blogging helps you getting a Higher Page Rank

Posted on 11 September 2008

Most people who are experienced with search engine optimization would know the basic procedure on how to attain a higher Google Page Rank for a website. With most SEO strategies, one can be sure about an increase of about two or three ranks within three months or so, but it doesn’t hurt to gun for [...]

SEO Tools

Google’s Chrome Browser

Posted on 11 September 2008

SPEED
Chrome is based on the open-source rendering engine WebKit–the same engine used by Apple’s Safari browser and Google’s own Android mobile platform. WebKit is known for its speed, responsiveness and smart memory management. And Chrome will undoubtedtly use it to render the full-blown applications we so often encounter on the Web these days with ease. [...]

SEO Website Design

Important Factors You Must Know About SEO

Posted on 11 September 2008

Anyone who has an online business may be quick to jump into several SEO techniques, thinking that these will be a quick opportunity for internet success. If you think however that SEO can be accomplished in a jiffy, you’re bound to be disappointed. There are important factors you must know about search engine optimization. This [...]

Web Hosting

Reseller Hosting vs Shared Web Hosting

Posted on 16 August 2008

Shared and Reseller web hosting have many similarities, many web hosts offer both shared and reseller hosting. The main difference between the two are…

Shared Web Hosting: You are sharing resources on a server and there are
other shared web site hosting clients on the same server.
Reseller Hosting: Similar to shared web hosting in the sense that [...]

Webmaster Resources

The worst mistakes Affect SEO ranking.

Posted on 11 September 2008

Seemingly innocuous SEO mistakes can sometimes give rise to disastrous results. Here I’m listing the  worst SEO mistakes the webmasters commit.
1] Not having a unique title for every page
This mistake occurs at lots of websites, and even big companies commit this SEO blunder. A web page title is a great way of telling your human [...]

Yahoo

Yahoo Announces oneConnect iPhone App

Posted on 11 September 2008

Messaging, email, and social networks galore

The average iPhone has a lot of applications on it.  Some are free, some aren’t, and regardless, they make a bit of a mess taken all together.  Now Yahoo’s seeking to cut through the clutter - and carve out a place of importance in the U.S. mobile market - with [...]

Yahoo APIs

Yahoo Opens Up Browser Plus Web Software.

Posted on 01 June 2008

After being in stealth mode for a year now, Yahoo suddenly offered the public a chance to take a “sneak peak” at its new software, Yahoo!BrowserPlus. From what we can gather, BrowserPlus is being touted as a tool for “extending the web” via a simple-to-execute web applications development processes.
If released for public use and abuse, [...]

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