Instant Messaging is rapidly becoming accepted in the business community as a viable communications tool and process - it’s faster than e-mail, free on the client side, even a novice user can easily grasp the interface in just a few minutes and it enables remote workers and business partners to “talk” and share files and information effortlessly using the in-place infrastructure of the internet. Its mushrooming in popularity too - according to IDC, corporate and general business users will jump from 5.5M in 2001 to close to 200M by 2004.
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August 23rd, 2006
What does RSS stand for?
RSS "Really Simple Syndication" was created in the 1999 to allow information to be published and subscribed to. RSS basically takes bits of up-to-date information from websites and provides it in concise simple text based format. RSS is commonly used for updated content, blogs, events, and news headlines.
How do I know if a site has it?
They usually have an Orange XML or RSS button on their site. If in firefox, often there is a little orange button in the lower right hand corner.
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August 23rd, 2006
Question: How to deal with ultra skeptical offline or be it Internet surfers in order to reassure them and get them to happily open up their wallets?
I like that "happily open up their wallets"! Your customer should be happy to open his/her wallet. When business is done right, everybody wins and nobody loses. You’re happy to make a sale and your customer is happy to be getting a good value for the money.
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August 23rd, 2006
The emergence of globalise trade, increase in foreign investment and cross-border transactions have put many small businesses under pressure to find innovative ways to continue to market their products and services. This is especially difficult given that they often operate on tight marketing budgets.
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August 23rd, 2006
Search Engines Optimization:
Your website must be good optimized by various SEO techniques. Before starting increasing Backlinks for your website you need to check following things must be done properly.
1. Your website must have properly designed, no broken links on your website, Internal Linking structure must be designed properly.
2.Title, description, keywords, anchor text must me properly placed.
Backlinks and PageRank:
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August 23rd, 2006
1. Not sending out another mailing
Sending another mailing (to the subscribers who haven’t bought) will often bring 50% or so of the previous response.
2. Picking the wrong mailing list
Remember the 40-40-20 rule. 40% of your response depends on the right mailing list, another 40% on the right offer and 20% on everything else.
3. Targeting visitors instead of buyers
Buyers have always been and will always be more profitable than visitors.
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August 23rd, 2006
Once your site is launched, half your battle is won. What lies ahead is the interesting and challenging part of the game. Learning the basics of HTML, creating pages etc actually gets boring for some and they leave it at that.. But once you are beyond the basics, life gets better. The next step is promoting your website. There are various ways to do it.
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August 23rd, 2006
Traffic Scams & Warnings
by: Nerd Lib Software Labs
Traffic Scams & Warnings borught to you by http://www.nerdlib.com/
What is a Traffic Scam?
A traffic scam is designed to give a false sense that you can spend any amount of money and you will magically begin to get high quality traffic. This cannot be any further from the truth. These scams are designed to bring you fake hits, popup, popunder and proxy based traffic. The worst quality you can imagine and none will ever yield a sale. Below you will see a list of the above items and what they actually are.
Popups These are ads that rudely popup into a surfers face when they are browsing or surfing the web. These were widely used in the 90’s and now have been ported into rollover or flying ads that again are very intrusive to a surfer.
Popunders These types of ads are a bit more sneakier as they do not appear until all browsers are closed and there is an advertisement sitting on your desktop, again very intrusive.
Fake hit machines Yes, these exist and most of these traffic scams use them in a massive way. They setup scripts to change the referrer of a faked hit to make it appear like it is real and coming from somewhere.
Proxy hits This is by far the dirtiest tactic of them all. Server proxy lists are put together, shared and sometimes even sold to other people to use as a mask to hide themselves while they spam, spoof hits or possibly even worse like sending a virus from an internet cafe.
How to spot one?
Spotting out these hits is really not that difficult at all. Your average visitor will stay at the page for sometime before closing it. So have a look at your logs and see how long these guys stay. Take your average user and weigh that against some of the more suspicious ones. Keep in mind that bots such as Google or Yahoo Slurp will identify themselves very clearly in your logs and might have a short visit period. The unique visitor that stays 2 seconds and seems to stay only 2 seconds visit after visit is most likely a “fake” hit.
These companies even use these fake hits to boost PR and Alexa ranking. So don’t judge these guys because they have a high ranking. It is very hard to find a really traffic provider that is not scamming to some degree.
If everyone is a scam then what is the solution?
Well not everyone is a scam but most of the “cheap hits” programs are. So we advise you stay away from all of them and just build the traffic yourself. Search engine traffic has proven time and time again to be the highest quality of traffic to a website. It is completely targeted to your audience because the user was searching for you.
The answer to building your traffic is quite simple - content is king. The idea is to build as much content as possible so that the search engines will come around spider then index your pages. Relative content will yield the results you seek. For example if you put together articles related to your “widget” and keywords appear in your article about these “wdigets” and what they do then there is a greater chance when some one searches for “super widget” that they will find your site.
There is a lot of calculation in a search engine algorithm but it has been proven that the one thing that remains the same is content out weighs all other factors.
How to I build effective pages?
We have designed our software Maximum Traffic with search engines algorithms as the primary goal. We allow you to build your pages quickly and effectively to get you the highest possible rankings in the search engines. Our 15 day trial version will even yield results in that short of a time.
Using the software once might work but to be successful for the long-term effect you need to build build build and then build some more.
Who are the scammers?
We cannot name the names of the site for legal reasons but we can say most of them are the same site moving form domain name to domain name because of getting a bad reputation. These sites saturate the market and then move the domain to a new one and claim that they are the new kid on the block with the best traffic. Don’t get duped by these guys, do a Whois on the domain, call the company up, find a physical address and call these guys out. Do not let them take your hard earned money and give you nothing in return.
Conclusion
We hope that this article has shed some light on this internet craze. The thing to remember is that search engine optimization takes time and most of all patience. Lack of patience will just have you spending money in the wrong places. We have developed a line of products for people to use that will get them results - end of story. We are in this long term and will be around for many more years to come.
Creating a successful product allows us to never have to worry about customer satisfaction or having to pickup and move our shop because of a bad reputation. We feel that if we are upfront and honest with each and every person then in the long run they will understand that we are all in this together. We all should be helping each other have successful web sites and no trying to steal each others profits.
Put yourself in the surfer’s shoes for a moment. Would you open any of those intrusive ads? So then why would anyone want to open yours or furthermore want to use your service by finding it in a popup or popunder ad?
Good luck and God bless.
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August 23rd, 2006
If you are looking for an immediate increase in your website traffic, and you don’t want to shell out a lot of money for pay-per-click search engines, I’ll let you in on a secret that has helped me make many sales and build large lists very quickly with zero cash up-front: it’s called “OPT” (Other People’s Traffic).
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It only makes sense. You have an e-commerce catalog site. You want lots of visitors to come to your site and buy. The best (and most cost-effective) way to do that is with great search engine placement. However, search engines are text machines, and most catalogs don’t have a lot of text, so herein lies the problem.
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