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• Writing Content For Websites

  Writing Content For WebsitesSuddenly, everybody wants to write content - write good content - for better search engine ranking. Not just content you must update your websites regularly. Because Google says so! For the sake of AdSense, everybody is busy in content development. But how to write content and where from to get content?Has anyone ever bothered to check what the millions of those web pages waiting behind the top five or ten (if one has patience to go that far) contain? I am certainly not surprised if I find a page 'under construction' on the first page of search results. Not because the search keyword is 'construction' but because a synonym or a co-occurrence term like 'building' is the keyword. No matter what you do with the content, there are going to be millions and millions of web pages for any search term and the count is bound to increase further. If your web page is to be visible among the top few search results, there is no other option but to rely on 'niche' keywords or key phrases or the so-called 'long-tail keywords'.With the increase in the number of keywords put in the search box, web traffic comes down. If your website does not appear in the top three results where almost 70 % of the total traffic is believed to be hidden, matters could be worse. The serious ones decide to write and write like nobody's business. Thus, you have articles like 'Why I love bananas?' and also 'Why I do not hate bananas?' from the same writer. And writing has increased - tremendously so. Because we are told by the SEO gurus that one of the ways to get traffic to your website is not only by writing a blog but also keeping it updated with links pointing to your website. But how to get traffic to the blog? So you have to write even more and submit to ezines. The same article is submitted to hundreds of article directories to get back-links and some traffic too.The wiser ones prefer to avoid this free method because it involves a lot of time and time is money. Instead they spend money in the form of pay per click (PPC) advertising to be visible. In this circus, ultimately, someone else walks away with the booty! This, I believe, defeats the very objective of content development. Come what may, search engines are never going to find good content. No page can ever be checked by a human, nor it is possible when you deal with megatons of pages. My apologies to the semantic indexing experts your endeavors are remarkable, but you can only find related pages not good content. Good content becomes known by reference. Moreover, it is not content but 'information' that people search for on the internet. And if the searcher comes across the information he was digging for, he is blessed. For me, content is just filler in the 'form' and pure rubbish. Unfortunately, most people have given up serious study of books and journals. Most of our information now comes from the internet itself. Crazy it may sound but information breeds information nay, content - to expand the search results. If any information exists, it is to be purchased. I believe it is hidden till you buy but our search engines seem to discover it too and place these pages on the top page of search results. The spiders and crawlers are worth an award for being mercilessly exploited and abused. Writing content, surely, is a thankless job! Download a FREE copy of my ebook on Writing Resources Online. - 3 months ago

• Top money-making secrets revealed

  Top money-making secrets revealed Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 <!-- /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; mso-header-margin:.5in; mso-footer-margin:.5in; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} /* List Definitions */ @list l0 {mso-list-id:682324435; mso-list-type:hybrid; mso-list-template-ids:670069596 67698703 67698713 67698715 67698703 67698713 67698715 67698703 67698713 67698715;} @list l0:level1 {mso-level-tab-stop:.5in; mso-level-number-position:left; text-indent:-.25in;} ol {margin-bottom:0in;} ul {margin-bottom:0in;} --> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} Your online home based business can certainly get a bigboost if someone were to dish out a free website, free hosting and also provide you with affiliate products on display! You would only have to keep promoting the website! There areover 300 social book marking sites, plenty of forums, thousands of directories,ezines and what not. You leave your signature (that is, your website url) at all these places with yourdecent profile, intro and some non-spam inter-action with other members. If you can't take up all these, then you have to find some other money making path (and reveal it to me too!).Online home based business can simply not happen with dropping your deja vu comments on other's blogs. You need your own blog. Rediffiland is one very good alternative to start with. Its simple and free to join. You get friendly people of various hues. Except for a very few unfriendly ones who would like to live in their own shells forgetting the basic idea of networking, this is the right choice for anybody wishing to be noticed by visitors. You can spin your own web of hobbies, interests, thoughts, ideas, products and services. When I had started making lenses on Squidoo, people had suggested blogsites like Blogger, WordPress etc. but when I had casually visited Rediff, I was pleasantly surprised to find a blog platform and my blogging journey started from here. I must say I have had good number of visitors - targeted - to my lens on home based business.Ok, what about Top Money-Making Secrets? Well, I came acrossthis FREE website thing. You simply have to join this website and you get afree website. You don't have to program anything. Add your ClickBank code andget your own website to promote. There are a number of CB sites alreadyengraved. So if someone makes a buy, you get your commission to your PayPal account. In brief: Open your account with PayPal.Com (Free)Join ClickBank.Com (Free)Join Free Websites (Free)Promote your free websiteStart making money!Caution: It's not so simple as it's made out to be, that is, the last item - start making money! You need to slog to promote. Just check my Learn Online Home Business for details about site promotion. Have a nice journey! Technorati Profile - 4 months ago

• How to market a product effectively on the internet?It would appear to a lay surfer as if the internet was meant only for marketing. Considering the ease with which one can advertise a product to the whole world from a webpage, a number of companies have adopted the beaten track of 'internet marketing'. It has cut down costs and time, crossing international boundaries like never before.Now you have 'salesmen' working for you whose faces you have never seen before. If they are fortunate to make a sale, you are equally fortunate. You can simply show all models under your portfolio in nice-looking graphics and the buyer has to simply 'add to the cart' and make a credit card payment. You are awake, you make money. You are asleep, you make money. Not all are so lucky! Even some are not lucky all the time. If you care to distinguish between 'selling' and 'marketing' as well as if you follow 'live and let live' policy, you may succeed. Right from Peter Drucker to Philip Kotler, the secret of success in business is said to be - 'innovation'. This involves a deep study of the current market and a yet deeper study of consumer psyche. Filling a void is one thing but always finding a void somewhere is a genius' mind. In this sense, marketing has to be a continuum. You are a seller when the consumer, not finding an option, approaches you. The moment he has other economic and quality options, you have to go to the consumer to market your product. Now, those who go straight with a product to the consumer invariably fail or spend a great amount of time to make a sale often in distress. It is quite common to find some enterprising marketers being shooed away by their 'prospective' consumers. On the other hand, the impatient young and intelligent marketer tries to show off his oratorical skills on simpletons, ultimately scaring them about their depth of ignorance. What I really cannot fathom is the advertising of certain commonplace products on the internet. People prefer to buy some products at shops. Different shades of, say, 'lipstick' cannot be identified from the description or from the graphics howsoever the photographic skills may be. To a brand known is one thing and selling it is another. It is always better to give enough product information and declare your services to the customers. References from customers do not count much except to the naïve because people strongly believe everything can be 'managed'. It is no longer a cost plus formula or penetration policy that can vouch for a sale. You may not come face to face with your consumer. You may not know why he does not come back for another buy. You just do not have competition only from peers you have it from website owners. You have to advertise, advertise and advertise. You have to follow paid advertising route, start email campaigns, bother about Alexa rankings, please Google's search engine and what not. Gifts and discounts can come later. First, you have to be visible and on the first page! You may not know the nuances of your products but you have to know what search engine optimization is. Meet Me On Technorati - 11 months ago

• Does Page Rank Have Any Use?

  Any newbie in home business is keen to get a Page Rank (PR) for his/her website or blog. Google gives PR based on the value of the webpage. Does it promise anything? Does it make your webpage rank higher in the search results? Do a search on Google for any keyword or key phrase and chances are that a zero PR website may come on top of the search results.PR and Search Rank (SR) are two different things. May be, the original intention was to show search results based on PR only. But our genius SEO gurus will leave no stone unturned to manipulate any process. So, Google bosses had to come up with different and constantly changing algorithms to make any SEO manipulations redundant. But SEO experts will not sleep so easily as to give up their efforts. Astonishingly, we talk of transparency and what not in governmental administration but when it comes to private enterprise, everything is a secret!It appears the originator of this conundrum was Jon Kleinberg who fathered the so-called web-link analysis at IBM. Later, Eugene Garfield of the University of Pennsylvania developed 'citation analysis' in 1950s. In 1995, Larry Page and Sergey Brin started work on the Google search engine which has now more than 78% share globally by mid-July 2008. PageRank takes its name after Larry Page and is not patented by Google but by Stanford University.According to the definition given by Google , " PageRank relies on the uniquely democratic nature of the web by using its vast link structure as an indicator of an individual page's value. In essence, Google interprets a link from page A to page B as a vote, by page A, for page B. But, Google looks at more than the sheer volume of votes, or links a page receives; it also analyzes the page that casts the vote. Votes cast by pages that are themselves "important" weigh more heavily and help to make other pages "important"."Without going into the detailed mathematical theories like Markov chain, probability theory etc., PR is directly proportional to a webpage's sum of the products of incoming links' weightage and their respective PRs and inversely proportional to the sum of the products of outgoing links' weightage and their respective PRs. Now weightage reduces according to the number of outward links! That is the whole rigmarole. If a webpage does not have outgoing links (i.e., hyperlinks), the denominator would be zero! So, the PR will be infinite because division by zero gives an infinite value. Such redundancies are cleverly avoided in programming logic because the PR is on a scale of 0 to 10 like the Richter scale and supposedly, logarithmic in nature.Likewise, even if the denominator is not zero, but if the numerator is zero i.e., the webpage has all worthless incoming links, the PR would be zero. Now I would place some outward links having PR 6 or more on my webpage but there is no guarantee those outward links would maintain that status for long! So, whether I like it or not I have to choose Google, Yahoo or similar strong sites which can be presumed to exist till the deluge. So also, my incoming links should be strong at least, some. But I cannot expect Google or Yahoo to place a link on their pages to my webpage. So, our genius SEO gurus would suggest stable sites, forums, social networking sites like MySpace, FaceBook etc. where I can leave comments or start discussions without spamming to get some good incoming links via my signature.All this takes a great effort and time. Links should be built over a period of time gradually. But whether all this effort is useful or not depends on whether one gets traffic to one's webpage or not. Then one starts depending upon Pay Per Click advertising and spends a fortune if not wise enough to drop the cards at the right time. After this, one concludes only organic traffic is the key to everything. So, enter SEO gurus. Have a honeymoon for sometime with SEO independently or otherwise. The best thing is to be found! - 12 months ago

• Why Others Are Making Money Your Online Business Is A Failure?

  Online business is one exciting opportunity on the internet.Yet, it could be quite frustrating for many.Reasons:• Bad advices• Scams• Wastage of time• Poor marketing• Competition• Ignorance• Ill-conceived ideas• Lack of discipline• Poor commitment• Mob mentality• Lack of finance• Impatience• Illegal practicesThere may be many more to add to the list! What drives people to home based internet businesses is the attraction towards tall claims made by many marketers most of whom are pure charlatans. Some Jack would try to surprise us with claims of ' How I made $ 4000 in a week!' and goes on to tempt you with a free ebook only to discover no substance but only links to affiliates. Now-a-days, you have these Jacks turning out videos day in and day out like nobody's business! Some have started showing how they had taken up 'live challenges'.My advice would be to follow these simple steps:1. Collect free information as much as possible2. Make notes in a systematic fashion 3. Note references or tag them in Delicious in your browser4. Go to Squidoo and learn it's free!If you can succeed with a lens of your own ( and it's easy!), you will start making money soon.My best wishes. - 15 months ago