Yesterday I covered four great lessons we can learn about blogging from watching the movie "Julie and Julia." I promised you a total of 11. So what can you do to make your blog memorable, besides being passionate about your subject, having a goal, being reliable and finding your niche? Keep reading. Discuss (1)
What can a movie tell us about blogging? When one of the central stories revolves around a blog, quite a bit. And when that movie happens to be “Julie and Julia,” one can learn all sorts of positive lessons as the plot unfolds. Discuss (3)
Google AdWords is the biggest pay-per-click platform in the world. It made Google's founders billionaires. It has also made significant money for those who use it -- or at least, those who have used it properly. This multi-part guide can help you make the most of AdWords.
Your web server, web hosting package, and e-commerce/web publishing software can all play an important role in the execution of your search engine optimization strategy. If you want to increase traffic to your site, your choices in these areas can help -- or hurt -- your online success. Keep reading to learn which ones are your best options.
Masterseek is the largest B2B (business to business) search engine in the world, and now it’s ready to for international availability. The company has signed on with Thenberg & Kinde Fondkommission AB (based in Sweden) to finance the massive enterprise. Currently, this huge search engine offers listings for millions and millions of companies all around the world. This only leaves one last question: is the world ready for a global search engine of these proportions?
There are a number of things you can do to rank more highly on the search engine results pages. In this article we cover keywords in title, internal anchor text, the inverted pyramid concept and introduce you to conversion rate optimization basics. Discuss (1)
An XML sitemap is a type of sitemap Google suggests that you submit to them through Google Webmaster tools. This is not the kind of web sitemap you usually see when you are visiting a website. Rather, it is the kind of sitemap that helps Google crawl your site better. This article will show you how to generate one. Discuss (6)
One of the best ways to drive traffic to your site is to get other blogs to link to your content. Getting any site to do this will increase your site's traffic. Getting a high traffic site to link to your content can be one of the major ways to draw a new, and hopefully steady, readership to your site. The question on the mind of every blogger is, how do I get sites interested in linking to my content? Discuss (1)
“Return on Investment” (also called “ROI” or “Rate of Return”) is one of the most important measurements for online business success. A high return on investment means that there is substantially greater income to cover the operating cost of the website. Or in other words, it simply means that the business is profitable.
Google Optimizer is a free product from Google that allows you to run A/B and multivariate tests. All you need is a Google account and the desire to make more sales. In this article I will review Google Website Optimizer, the setup, the effects on search engine rankings and touch on the topic of cloaking (since Website Optimizer is in part a cloaker).
Advertising-based publishing is largely a crap shoot. It may end up being a wild success, but it is much more likely that it will be a very marginal success. If you want to take your site from the marginal category to the wild, then you are going to have to figure out what your readers want. After all, all of your profits in publishing will be based on how many views you get. Without readers, there can be no views. Discuss (2)
Is your blog not getting as much traffic as you'd like it to? Before you start paying money to improve the situation, you might want to consider a blog carnival. It's an excellent, free way to get your posts in front of more eyes -- and it could win you more links and more loyal followers. Intrigued? Keep reading. Discuss (1)
Is your site relatively new? Have you applied all of the best SEO advice you can find, but you're still not ranking? Do you think you may have done something wrong? It might not be anything you've done; it might be the Google sandbox. Keep reading to find out what it is, and how to get out of it. Discuss (4)
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Be the first to hear about i5/OS V6R1! Hold your calendar on January 30, 2008 for this free webcast on the new i5/OS. Rational's Enterprise Modernization products will be discussed at this webcast as they help to drive the application development environment for this new System i OS. And learn how i5/OS will take you to the next step of efficient, resilient business processing. You will hear about the new i5/OS capabilities as it will be the most significant i5/OS release in years. If you cannot join the webcast on 1/30/08 you can still use this link to listen to the replay.
IBM – Taking Web 2.0 to Work You'll get answers to many questions and more from David Barnes, Lead Evangelist for IBM Emerging Internet Technologies. David will discuss aspects of Web 2.0 that bring value to corporations, academia, and government. He'll also discuss IBM's vision around Web 2.0, including the importance of remixability and consumability. The discussion will culminate with examples of various IBM Software Group solutions you can use to get ahead of the Web 2.0 adoption curve.
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