It is worth cataloging the basic principles to be enforced to increase website traffic and search engine rankings.

• Create a site with valuable content, products or services.
• Place primary and secondary keywords within the first 25 words in your page content and spread them evenly throughout the document.
• Research and use the right keywords/phrases to attract your target customers.
• Use your keywords in the right fields and references within your web page. Like Title, META tags, Headers, etc.
• Keep your site design simple so that your customers can navigate easily between web pages, find what they want and buy products and services.
• Submit your web pages i.e. every web page and not just the home page, to the most popular search engines and directory services. Hire someone to do so, if required. Be sure this is a manual submission. Do not engage an automated submission service.
• Keep track of changes in search engine algorithms and processes and accordingly modify your web pages so your search engine ranking remains high. Use online tools and utilities to keep track of how your website is doing.
• Monitor your competitors and the top ranked websites to see what they are doing right in the way of design, navigation, content, keywords, etc.
• Use reports and logs from your web hosting company to see where your traffic is coming from. Analyze your visitor location and their incoming sources whether search engines or links from other sites and the keywords they used to find you.
• Make your customer visit easy and give them plenty of ways to remember you in the form of newsletters, free reports, reduction coupons etc.
• Demonstrate your industry and product or service expertise by writing and submitting articles for your website or for article banks so you are perceived as an expert in your field.
• When selling products online, use simple payment and shipment methods to make your customer’s experience fast and easy.
• When not sure, hire professionals. Though it may seem costly, but it is a lot less expensive than spending your money on a website which no one visits.
• Don’t look at your website as a static brochure. Treat it as a dynamic, ever-changing sales tool and location, just like your real store to which your customers with the same seriousness.

I did a little poking, and tweaking, and came up with a new look. I also updated all my affilliate links and all the links to generate traffic. It just so happens that the free business cards that I got from the printers matches that header pretty good.

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When monetizing your blog, there are many things you need to be concerned with. Page rank in the different search engines, keywords, backlinks..etc. I came across a site that has all this information in one spot

http://www.xinureturns.com/

Printing is just about take a whole new meaning. Imagine downloading plans for a toy, maybe even something like a StarWars figure to your computer, pressing ‘print’ and instead of a sheet of paper with a picture coming out, an object will be created!

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211mph, 0-60 in 3.4 seconds, and just damn cool. All this for only 1.6 million.

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Google Analitics is a free service offered by Google that generates detailed statistics about the visitors to a website. Its main highlight is that a webmaster can optimize his/her AdWords advertisement and marketing campaigns through the use of GA’s analysis of where the visitors came from, how long they stayed on the website and their geographical position.

I signed the site up on GA just to check it out. Its free to sign up. It takes about 24 hours or so for the GA site to gather information about your website and provide it to you in a wide range of formats. At first, I pretty much thought that the GA site didnt really offer anything that my host didn’t already offer. I was wrong.

Google Analytics has a truckload of useful information about your site, your visitors, and your content. What does this do for you? Well, the GA site gets down to specifics about your users. What browser they are using, when they surf through, and interestingly enough, exactly what country as well as city that your audience is coming from. This is extremely useful if you are using google adwords so you can fine tune your advertising campaign.

Is this a good tool for you? Some host’s provide similar services, though I doubt that it has the same depth. I would say that its a good service and very useful tool for any webmaster…especially since its free

Site: http://www.google.com/analytics/
Blog: http://analytics.blogspot.com/

     If you are new to blogging, or have been just blogging in your own little world, you may not have heard of blog carnivals.  But if you have been blogging more than a few days, you probably have figured out that in the grand scheme of the blog-o-sphere, you are but a tiny grain of sand on a very large beach. So how do you get people to read your inner most thoughts, the outpouring of your very soul, or just what pissed you off this morning on the way to work? The answer could very well be a blog carnival.

What is a Blog Carnival?
From Wikipedia:
“A blog carnival is a type of blog event. It is similar to a magazine, in that it is dedicated to a particular topic, and is published on a regular schedule, often weekly or monthly. Each edition of a blog carnival is in the form of a blog article that contains permalinks links to other blog articles on the particular topic.

There are many variations, but typically, someone who wants to organize a carnival posts details of the theme or topic to their blog, and asks readers to submit relevant articles for inclusion in an upcoming edition. The host then collects links to these submissions, edits and annotates them (often in very creative ways), and publishes the resulting round-up to his or her blog.”

     Basically a blog carnival is almost like a e-zine with blog articles for content. You can post your relevant articles to like oriented blog carnivals so that your post will be presented to people who are already looking for content similar to yours. You can also host blog carnivals yourself, so that your site is the  host for all those relevant articles on different blogs in one post. As you can imagine, there are crosslinks-a-plenty in a blog carnival, which generates traffic and crosslinks that make your site more attractive to search engine bots and spiders. Plus its nice to see that you’re not the only one that is totally pissed off by people on cellphones in their cars on your way to work.

Many carnivals have a home page or principal organizer, who lines up guest bloggers to host each edition. This means that the carnival travels, appearing on a different blog each time.

Communities of blog readers, writers, and edition hosts form around specific carnivals. The carnivals provide a nice aggregation of recent posts by the community on a given topic, and the host provides a level of editing and annotation that helps readers find posts they are interested in. Writers who submit their articles to blog carnivals are rewarded with traffic (if the host decides to give them a link and, perhaps, a positive review).

A recent variant is Synchronised Blogging, or synchroblog, where a group of bloggers agree to post on their own blogs on the same broad topic on the same day. The titles are circulated a day or two beforehand, and each blogger includes links to the other blogs

Check out Blog Carnival to get involved in the blogging party

      Ok, after seeing the sea of technerds camped out…for a cell phone. And seeing $600 pricetags…for a cell phone. And hearing people going on and on…about a cellphone. I’m just about over the Iphone. I dont want one, couldn’t care less who has one, and if I get one more text message from friends who think its so fantastic that they just spent the rent or a phone, I’m going to have to hurt someone.

But the video below will give you great information of all the fantabulous things you can do with your IPhone. Like set it on fire.

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has decided to abandon net neutrality and allow telecoms companies to charge websites for access.

The FTC said in a report that, despite popular support for net neutrality, it was minded to let the market sort out the issue.

This means that the organisation will not stand in the way of companies using differential pricing to make sure that some websites can be viewed more quickly than others. The report also counsels against net neutrality legislation.

“This report recommends that policy makers proceed with caution in the evolving dynamic industry of broadband internet access, which is generally moving towards more, not less, competition,” FTC chairman Deborah Platt Majoras wrote.

“In the absence of significant market failure, or demonstrated consumer harm, policy makers should be particularly hesitant to enact new regulation in this area.”

The report has caused outrage in the online community. Many are worried that any abandonment of net neutrality will harm competition, since it will allow big companies to outspend start-ups.

“Mostly the FTC suggests ways that the telephone and cable companies could have new ways to make money from content and applications providers,” said Art Brodsky, of internet advocacy group Public Knowledge.

“Or lower-income subscribers could be charged lower prices, subsidised by ‘prioritization revenues’ much as supported email services now provide free email accounts. Nowhere is there discussion of what the consumer gets out of the deal.”

      Now, if you havent been paying attention, Net Neutrality was/is an issue about access. With Net Neutrality in place, everyone has equal access to the Internet and the information on the Internet. With the FTC dropping its support of Net Neutrality, now the ‘big wheels’ on the internet, such as Google, Yahoo, AOL, will have the opportunity to basically pay so that their content gets to you faster than the average mom and pop website. The heavy hitters will have the ability to pay to make sure that their content is given priority through your ISP to get to you. So your gaming, your bit-torrents, your file downloads will have their bandwith somewhat throttled back so that you can get those fresh new ads from AOL, or so your Yahoo Toolbar will be able to make its oh so important conections back to their content servers to bring you all those bright and shiny buttons on your toolbar that you probably dont use anyway, if you even have it installed at all.

     In short, this is not a good thing for the consumer. Be prepared for a ruckus on the Internet, when people realize that their Internet enjoyment is now being choked down so that the admakers of the world can have better access to shove their shit down your throat, people will not be happy. I hope that people DO wake up and not just stick their head back in WoW and hope it all goes away or that someone else does the work for them.

If you need to do a little reading to catch up, here ya go:
Wikipedia on Net Neturality
Hands Off

Seo Tutorial     This ebook is made for people who want to investigate how rankings can help their site and also how to get their site to climb in the rankings of search engines. While it is created for experienced webmasters, purely because experienced webmasters seem to be more interested in the topic of SEO, beginner webmasters will benefit from this one as well.