November 12th, 2009 by Mitch Larson
Someone once said, “Let information be freely available in digital form for humanity to peruse as it needs and wants,” and behold, the Internet was born. The Internet was born over the course of many months instead of seven days, but it remains a most miraculous source of information, with it being easy to search and navigate and giving millions opportunities to learn things that they may otherwise never know. The Internet, however, was not always so easy to use, and before search engines made everything really easy to find there was another method of finding information on the web. This method involved the use of something called web directories, which still exist in force today.
While there were several directories back in these good old days, there were two that stood out and became the largest and most used directories of the Internet at the time: the Yahoo Directory and the Open Directory Project. Yahoo shortly afterward released a “search engine” service, but it was another face of the same service: this “search engine” (and other engines of this time) only searched through the directory for results, so any website that had not yet been manually added to the directory didn’t exist as far as the engine was concerned
For several years directories enjoyed the status of the “go to guys” of the web. This was not to last, sadly, as some forward thinkers saw the potential limits of directories and how these would become more apparent as the Internet grew exponentially over the years. These forward thinkers happened to work at a small company called Google, and they developed what would become the most widely used search engine on the planet. Other search engines appeared following Google’s lead, and it seemed that directories would soon become a thing of the past. Directories have managed to hang on, however.
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November 8th, 2009 by Edward William
Websites can look amazing with lots of fun stuff and still be losing visitors. If your website is not holding the attention of visitors then the following 6 website design mistakes may be of help.
Of course you want your website to be successful and not only attract visitors but interest them in staying and even returning. Unfortunately, the amount of time that a visitor will spend on your website will be determined in the first few seconds of their visit. If there are one or more basic design mistakes then the visitor will leave quickly. In order to keep their attention your home page needs to build a relationship with the visitor that will keep them coming back.
The greatest design mistake is no doubt a lack of focus. When a website does not offer exactly what is promised in the keyword and title that drove the visitor there in the first place, the visitor loses interest and leaves quickly. The content must be relevant to the theme of the website and be interesting enough to encourage the visitor to look at more pages.
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June 1st, 2009 by Reginald D Macafferty
by Reginald D Macafferty
It’s probably the biggest information sharing medium in history, over 1.3 billion people use it, yes you guessed it, I’m talking of course about the Internet.
It is the ideal place to go to buy/sell things, to conduct research, to contact people and to do an endless list of other things. There are hundreds of traditional methods of doing things that are slowly being phased out by the Internet.
But could the fact that the Internet is so vast mean that its virtually impossible to get your own presence on the web without being buried under all the billions of websites that are out there?
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March 17th, 2009 by Brent Sweet
by Brent Sweet
One way links from sites with high Page Rank are the best possible links you could get when promoting your site or blog. The easy way to get these type of links is to use services like textlinkbrokers.com or linkadage.com where you pay monthly fees for one way links on sites that you choose.
Those services work very well, but what do you do if you can’t afford to buy many high PR text links.
I’m going to show you an easy way to get this type of links, and you can use this method if you don’t have a big budget or you simply want to save some money.
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February 23rd, 2009 by Jennifer Kilkamisoglu
by Jennifer Kilkamisoglu
Buying links is an integral part of online business. It is aimed at increasing your websites traffic so that you products and services are instantly available to a large number of people. Buying links raises the competition level in a given industry to a point of diminishing returns when all the folks in the top 10 are spending the bulk of their profit on retaining their rankings. Combating paid links may serve to level the playing fieldin the same way communism doesby removing competition. But despite this, many seos buy one way links for their clients.
I have no problem with buying links because you want to get people to click on those links to come to your site, and the search engines have no issue with that, either. Buying links without the REL=NOFOLLOW attribute is against Googles terms of service and can technically be considered Blackhat SEO. But does this stop people doing it?
SEO is about relevance. An irrelevant keyword does you no good at all and in some instances might be harmful because it can leave the search engine confused as to what your article is about. Many seo experts buy links for their clients.Seo is bullshit and the SEOs know it too. SEO is all about adjusting your website to optimize your opportunities to obtain first page ranking in the search results. The locally optimized website has a greater chance of landing on the first page of results than a local website competing for placement nationally.
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February 21st, 2009 by Brian Tubbs
No matter how high tech the world becomes, in regards to communication, there are still the same old problems. With email, you face the same challenge as you do with regular mail — convincing the recipient to open the message (or envelope).
Most people who receive email, end up deleting the email before they ever open them. To be successful with email marketing you need to get people to open your email, but how? The answer is: by using a good subject line.
By entering a subject line, you let the viewer get a good idea about what the email is about and whether or not it is worth it for them to open. It is like a guard, letting the receiver know whether the email should be opened. Below we are going to show you how to write the best subject lines so people actually open your emails.
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