Archive for June 1st, 2006
Weblogs or Blogs as they are more commonly referred to, have become extremely popular in the last several years. So popular in fact that many large businesses are letting some employees post Blogs on their corporate websites. While many businesses are jumping on the Blog bandwagon for use as a creative marketing technique; a few businesses have fired employees for what they posted on a Blog. These businesses accuse the employees of allegedly disclosing trade secrets, proprietary information, and making statements that showed the employer in a bad light.
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June 1st, 2006
Link popularity has been written about ad nauseum, but most articles address the subject from a perspective circa 2001. The available information usually focuses on topics such as reciprocal linking or the current price of a PR6 link. But following outdated link building advice is more likely to get your Web site penalized than it is to help you gain top rankings.
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June 1st, 2006
As an authorative hub a link from a DMOZ directory category to your website will give your site a boost in PageRank? and may assist in getting search engine spiders to crawl your site faster and more often. Google also uses DMOZ data for its Google directory.
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June 1st, 2006
Internet is a terrific resource containing billions of web pages dedicated to thousands of topics. Since the amount of information available on the Internet is so vast and mind baffling you may feel lost.
Your expectations from "The Information Superhighway" will crash if you proceed with the general view that exaggerates the ease of Internet usage. What is required is a moderate, balanced approach keeping one’s head on shoulders. Approaching the net should be similar to any other research endeavor i.e. by adopting a formal strategy to maximize results. "Motivation" is the key word here. If you do not have a serious research goal, you cannot dig far.
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June 1st, 2006
First impressions affect your relationship with someone for life. In the pay-per-click world, your business depends on first impressions. By using effective power words, you can turn a lackluster advertisement into a click machine.
Power words create emotional responses. When we learn language, we learn to associate emotions with words. Effectively matching power words to the emotions you intend for your reader can create a huge difference in the responses to your ads.
One Word Impact
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June 1st, 2006
Yes, apparently - websites are supposed to make money! Somebody came up with the strange idea that it’s really not enough to spend thousands on your site, hundreds of hours creating the content and then sitting back to admire you, and your developer’s work. No - apparently it is now ‘cool’ to have a web site that actually makes it onto a sales column in your chart of accounts.. ‘Return on in investment’ is a good phrase that’s being thrown around - what are you actually making from your web site in cash terms? Ever thought about that?
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June 1st, 2006
Learning to write more effective e-mail is a valuable skill when you are trying to build an online business. Here are a few tips to get you started.
SUBJECT LINE
Capitalize The First Letter of each word in your subject line NOT EVERY LETTER. writing in all lower case should also be avoided. You may be trying to make sure your e-mail gets read when using all caps, but it will be deleted most of the time, without ever being read.
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June 1st, 2006
A xanga is something akin to a blog. It all began in 1999 and the xanga community is 2.5 million members world wide.
Once you get you xanga membership, users often want to modify their look and feel to give their xanga more panache.
A great way to make a cool xanga, is to download one of the xanga skins, which you can get from blogring.net. You can also get some great xanga scripts to jazz it up even more.
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June 1st, 2006