Blog FAQs and Answers
Q: Can you get married by blog? A: Now that I've got your attention! Actually you can, at least Eric and Kathleen consider they did, thanks to an obscure law in Texas regarding 'informal marriage.' All you have to do, they say, is declare your spouse-itude publicly to other residents of the state. Read about it on her blog - http://www.fashion-incubator.com/mt/ , August 5th entry. There's a proliferation of articles on the Internet about blogging matched only by the proliferation of blogs ...Read the rest of this post »
March 26, 2012
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Run a Profitable Google Adwords Pay Per Click Campaign
Google has leveraged their market share as the internet's top search engine to deliver their version of the pay per click advertising model dubbed Google Adwords. Google and Yahoo-Overture control over 90% of the PPC market and as such you should seriously consider using them if you want the maximum possible exposure to targeted web traffic through PPC advertising. Sign up for the Adwords program is free but they require a $5 USD deposit before they will start to display your ad copy. Google ...Read the rest of this post »
March 25, 2012
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Possibly The Biggest Misconception About Ranking Well In The
"Possibly The Biggest Misconception About Ranking Well In The Search Engines..." Which is more important? Onpage optimization or Offpage optimization? If you are serious about getting your website to the top of the search engines, you MUST know the answer to this question... Quick Review Onpage search engine optimization are things that you can change ON your webpage. * Title tag * Header tags * Bolding, Italicizing, Underlining * Alt image tags * Meta Tags * Etc. Offpage search engine ...Read the rest of this post »
March 24, 2012
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7 Questions To Ask Yourself BEFORE Starting A Business Blog
Copyright © 2005 Priya Shah http://www.priyashah.com Blogging is the latest buzzword in online marketing and PR. But with so many marketers jumping on the blogging bandwagon, few people are giving a thought to whether blogs are really up their alley, or taking the time to consider the best ways of going about it. If you are planning to start a business blog, ask yourself these questions before you take the final plunge. 1. Do you really need a blog? Writing and maintaining a blog takes a ...Read the rest of this post »
March 23, 2012
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The 6 Top Reasons Marketers Should Blog
If there is a downside to blogging, I have yet to find it. The more you learn about blogging, the more there is to like. In fact, here are 6 mouth-watering reasons why every marketer should be blogging: 1- Fast Search Engine Spidering and Indexing of Your Site: Did you know that Google owns the most popular blogging platform on the planet? Blogger at http://www.blogger.com is used to produce thousands of blogs. Even a complete internet newbie can set up a blog in about 5 minutes at Blogger. And ...Read the rest of this post »
March 22, 2012
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Linking Strategies for beginners
Developing a linking strategy and building a logical structure and design for your linking directory is a bit difficult and time consuming. Sure, you know linking is important, but how to start? In the following article I will try to give some tips and advise. Let's suppose you have a brand new website up and running. You have the original content, your structure is ok, your have optimized your site for some interesting keywords, you are confident that there are no irritating html errors and ...Read the rest of this post »
March 21, 2012
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How To Put Your Small Business Website On The Search Engines
How to Put Your Small Business Website on The Search Engines by Mario Sanchez One of the most frequent questions small business owners ask me is: I've designed my website, now, how do I get it on the search engines? Actually, having your site indexed by a search engine is not that difficult. However, making it rank high and appear in the first results page is. Let's start with a brief explanation of how a search engine works: Search engines store billions of pages in an archive called index. ...Read the rest of this post »
March 20, 2012
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Keywords
Title : Keywords: The first step to recognition Article URL: http://www.ezypost.com/website_design_articles/keywords_planning. htm Open Wordtracker [ http://www.wordtracker.com/ ] and you'll see following proclamation by Brent Winters, President, FirstPlace Software, Inc., the makers of award-winning web promotion software, WebPosition Gold [ http://www.webposition.com/ ]: "Target the wrong keywords and all your efforts will be in vain." Why are keywords so important? And what indeed is a ...Read the rest of this post »
March 19, 2012
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How Search Engines Connect Sellers and Buyers
Maggie knows how to find what she wants. She lets her fingers do the walking ' not in the Yellow Pages, but at Google.com. She wants to learn about bread baking, and you have just written Bread Baking Made Simple, and you sell some great baking tools. The good news is the Google and other search engines exist for one simple reason: to help Maggie find your website. Google will show Maggie 534,000 resources on "bread baking". Unless she fails to find what she wants on the first page, or top 10 ...Read the rest of this post »
March 18, 2012
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Surviving the LookSmart Carnage
While many have whined and cried over the recent changes at LookSmart, I've decided on a different approach. Don't get me wrong; I dislike the changes just as much as the next guy. Simply put, I sincerely question the value of a LookSmart listing with the exception of being listed in MSN. With that said, let's evaluate the situation and take a look at the stats. Quite possibly it's not as bad as you might think knowing that there are other good engines and directories out there. I'll have to ...Read the rest of this post »
March 17, 2012
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