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Facebook Benefitting Businesses and Creating Customers the Honest Way

2011-02-12T21:55:00.000-08:00

Set up a Facebook Page for your business, providing a forum for sharing information and engaging customers – establishing a community.

Visit the 'Create a Page' page, the layout will be simple to follow.

If you are already logged into Facebook, the page you create will be associated automatically with your Facebook profile. If you're not logged in, you will either have to log in to your account or create the page under a limited business account.

Make sure to read Facebook’s “Terms of Use” when exploring all options, to help in making the correct choice and to prevent any serious violations.

Customize your page with the standard Wall and Info tabs, or use Facebook Markup Language (FBML) to acquire that personal touch.

Users and perhaps now, customers, will be impressed by what your business has to offer. Facebook, however, isn’t through with its offer. Recently, it has implemented an upgrade to its self-serve ad system with a new ad format called, Sponsored Stories.

Now if you’ve perfected your business and Facebook skills, turning users into customers who “Like” your business, this news can be spread across the Facebook wire. In simple terms, when you like something on Facebook and someone has bought an ad for it, the story will be broadcast to your friends.

In other news, Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg's (News - Alert), personal fan page was allegedly hacked, but within a short time frame Facebook was introducing two new Internet security measures.

How App Marketing Differs From Search Engine Marketing

2011-02-12T21:48:00.000-08:00

In the world of digital media, search engine marketing is so widely adopted that I often find myself explaining to other digital marketers how app marketing compares to search engine marketing. In this post, let's compare and contrast how to think about marketing your app with an eye toward comparing it to your current search engine marketing knowledge.

Compare Implementation Time

It takes minimal effort to write your first 95 character keyword ad, design a landing page, and start your first promotion using self-service tools provided by Google.

Mobile app development and promotion can be done on a low budget, but it is definitely more complex than launching a search marketing campaign. Third-party app building tools like those from BuildAnApp allow you to build an app for free ($49 to remove banner ads). Once you build an app, there are self-service mobile ad vendors like AdMob, Millenial Media, Jumptap, and InMobi that allow you to acquire traffic quickly.

Compare Pricing Approaches

Search campaigns are priced using cost per click (CPC). App campaigns are priced using cost per install (CPI), cost per click (CPC), and cost per impression (CPM).

CPC rates are all over the board depending on how competitive the search term is and the quality score. For app campaigns, free casual games dominate the top 25 percent in performance, typically having the highest click-through and conversion rate (often two times higher than other free apps). Their conversion rates range from 3 percent to 18 percent (small banner sizes tend to perform lower).

The CPC rate, for free iOS apps in the U.S., is typically $0.05 to $0.30 per click. The cost-per-install for the top performing free games generally backs out to $0.75 to $3.00 per U.S. iOS install for CPC and CPM placements on top ad networks.

The general rule is that if you are looking to achieve any meaningful scale, you should be satisfied with purchasing free U.S. app installs any time they are performing at $1.00 or less.

All of the above figures are for non-incentivized ad placements. Incentivized ad placements are very popular as they can help achieve a higher ranking in the app store and drive meaningful, predictable installs to the app. These app campaigns are priced using cost per install with rates ranging from $0.40 to $0.75 per U.S. install.

Every digital marketer knows what you are saying when you talk about a CPC campaign. Google made cost-per-click advertising famous. Google's mobile display ad network, AdMob, is continuing what Google did in search and offers CPC pricing for most of their campaigns. This does not work as well for mobile developers. Larger advertisers are typically using CPC ad networks as backfill to the cost-per-install networks (with incentives and without incentives). The top cost-per-install ad networks will reach saturation after multiple campaigns leading to less volume available for a particular app. To maintain effective scale with each subsequent campaign an advertiser will begin to buy more installs from other sources such as CPC networks.

Compare the Landing Page

The landing page is very important in optimizing both SEM and app marketing campaigns.

In SEM, Raquel Hirsch of Wider Funnel advises that with optimization you can lift your conversion rates by as much as 277 percent.

In mobile, what users see when they get to your app store listing is crucial to whether or not they will download your app. For app store submission, prioritize and optimize in the following order for the most impact to your app ranking: icon, name, screenshots, and description. Here are several tips:

* Icon: Make it easy to recognize and tie to your game. Consistent use is also important. The small app icon and the large icon should be visually equivalent. Be careful of trademark violations. Build in a vector-based drawing app to allow for easy resizing.
* Name: Describe the utility of the game in its name. Avoid special characters. Don't use "device" in the name, like iPhone or iPad.
* Screenshots: Use common sense, take time to capture the images that best depict your app. Never use imagery of the iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad, as they will ensure automatic rejection.
* Description: The first two lines of a description are the most important. Ensure they accurately communicate the app's value. Use simple, concise words to demonstrate the features in the app. Match your tone to the app experience. Include copy to enhance your credibility. Never include pricing. Maximize the use of copy above the fold (before the "more" button). You are limited to three lines; lines are made up of 120 characters and then they word wrap. Watch out so when the line wraps, you don't lose precious real estate. In the description, try using shorter lines (less than 120 characters) and a space between them for more readability. Be aware of how word wrap works on the iPhone screen, as many apps are being installed through the iPhone. Long lines can make the text look weird. Do your research. It will pay off with higher conversions.

Compare Conversion vs. Engagement

Search performs for digital marketers because the Web is transactional in nature. It drives a conversion.

When people are sitting in front of their computer, they can easily fill in the required fields in a transaction because they can easily navigate between their keyboard and their mouse.

Keying a transaction in a mobile device is very difficult and, therefore, conversion rates on any kind of complex transaction are going to be low. Mobile apps perform best when they are created with the goal of engaging users, not for converting users to some kind of a transaction. Once the user is engaged, you will find the best transaction possible is using in-app purchases because the native payment platform simplifies the purchasing process.

Consider How Top Search Marketers Use Apps

"PriceGrabber has a family of mobile apps (for the iPhone, iPad, and Android) that allow users to search via a mobile device just as they would in front of a desktop using PriceGrabber.com," says Mindy Ferguson, senior director, application development, PriceGrabber. "For our mobile apps success is measured by ranking and number of downloads, but more importantly, from the feedback we receive from our user base as it was their word of mouth that pushed our apps to the top of the iTunes charts."

Both search engine marketing and app marketing have a place in most digital marketers' advertising mix. Those who have developed a strong expertise in search engine marketing are able to draw upon their expertise as they develop and implement their app marketing strategy.

Source: http://www.clickz.com/clickz/column/1900182/app-marketing-differs-search-engine-marketing

Google Launches Commerce Search for Online Stores

2009-11-05T20:05:00.000-08:00

Google has announced the availability of Commerce Search. It's a search engine that e-commerce sites can place on their sites, effectively leveraging Google Search for their product offerings.

Commerce Search is cloud-based, meaning that Google hosts it. This removes the burden of hosting commerce search by e-commerce companies, which can be useful to avoid problems associated with spikes of traffic - such as the holidays.

Commerce Search is not free. You must contact a sales rep to get started.

How to Update Sitemap automatic to Google, Yahoo, Bing and other leading Search Engines

2009-10-29T20:52:00.000-07:00

I hope you all are using sitemap.xml for your blog / site if you are not you must start using it because It’s a way that you can point your content to Different Search Engines. Search Engine can sniff your site content via you sitemap (Not all the time.) If you are not having sitemap.xml for your site the you probably get code from Google Code Sitemap Generator.

No we are assuming you are having your own sitemap.xml and you want to update instantly to all major Search Engine on a single click or complete atomized then what will you do ? Just follow the bellow mention steps. Here I am assuming that you have basic knowledge of Programming, Server Handling, FTP etc. I will advice you not to execute / edit wrong file if you are not having proper knowledge of Code or Server Admin. You just do it manually copy the bellow mention code (scripts) edit WWW.YOUR-SITE.COM/SITEMAP.XML to your sitemap URL then paste in browser and hit Enter Key.

This will be manual thing but if you want to make and forgot it thing then what to do? Very Simple You have to follow following steps. (Make sure you have knowledge of Server Admin)

If you are Using Linux Server

1. Download ping.php file from bellow mention link
2. Edit the file with your sitemap URL.
3. Upload that file in your sites root folder.
4. Now log on to your Control Panel.
5. Find an Option for Create Cron Job
6. Define Cron Job as per your site requirement, Daily, Weekly, Every 1 Hour etc.
7. Select ping.php as schedule file.

If you are using Windows Server then check this:

You can do this in task scheduler of windows server. Task can be created manually in the task scheduler or with @ commands and can be designated to run under a user account with privileges. There is also a software (free) called nnCron which uses the same kind of syntax that of Linux on Windows.

This is shared by Vishal Vasu, a Windows Server Management Expert. Thx Vishal.

Congregates ! You are done with auto execution of your Sitemap file.

Google Logo Changed With Bar Code Doodle

2009-10-14T20:25:00.000-07:00

Today on visiting Google, one can see Google logo changed to that of bar code. Google is actually celebrating the anniversary of bar code which got patented today in 1952. This special date coincides with announcement of joint winners of Nobel Prize who contributed in inventing Charge-coupled devices making them ready to read bar codes.

The charge coupled devices is a silicon based device which converts light energy into electronic charge making this technology achieve a higher level.

Some of the applications like digital cameras, endoscopy, desktop videoconferencing, fax machines are all due to the development of this device.
Celebrating such a great event is Google habit making people aware about such great events.

SEO Writing - How SEO Writing Could Enhance Your SEO Outcome?

2009-10-14T20:20:00.000-07:00

Google optimization boosts page rankings of the web sites. A lot of famous Google like Google, Yahoo and MSN seek for optimization attributes in the webpage prior to indexing and ranking them. There are two kinds of optimization, one is on-page and another is off-page. The key objective of the on-page optimization is to make the webpage engine favorable by adding appropriate attributes of SEO writing. The off-page optimization is connected advancing the site via link building and social media promotion. Adopting good SEO writing principles aid seriously in improving the page ranking.

What is SEO Writing?

The system of writing content for the webpage in a manner that the page could be certainly picked up by the engine from the rest of pages displayed on the net, is called SEO writing. Daily scores of guests hit the net with an objective of acquiring a production or service. These potential consumers require the right directions to the site that host the production or service which, they are seeking for. With no good directions, they are bound to get lost in the voluminous web traffic and waste their dear time. SEO writing assists the web sites in improving the page ranking, so that more and more consumers are able to admission the site in the least time. That saves dear time of the consumers and assists them to discover the right production or service they are in require of.

Affluent and Exclusive Content

Unique focus is paid on developing affluent and exclusive content that fits well in the niche of the site. Google like to read undeniable content that is exclusive of its’ kind and free of duplication. The narration should be exact, clear and understandable to anyone who views it. There should be no technical or business jargon in the matter for the reason that that will puzzle the viewers and attenuate their interest, significantly.

Adopting Fine SEO Writing Skills

In addition to fine quality of the content, care should be taken in writing sentences that are free from spelling and grammar missteps. Missteps in content writing reproduce poor professional approach and get disrepute to the web site. Short and trouble-free sentences should be favored over long and complex sentences. It is for the reason that from time to time a complex sentence may puzzle the viewers and convey incorrect information about the production or service. At the end of writing, it is essential to dual examine the content for missteps prior to submission. That seriously assists in improving the page ranking of the site.

Utilizing Right Keys

Keys are essential to SEO writing. The choice of right keys is critical in victorious optimization of the site. It’s a fine Google Optimization system to make certain that a excessive degree of appropriateness exists among keys and the content matter, for the reason that the content matter revolves around the keys, which are connected to the production or service advertised on the site. The SEO proportion should be in satisfactory limit for Google to certainly straight traffic to the site. Overuse of keys damage the ranking prospects of the site and should be exactly kept away from. As an alternative the right utilize keys in right amount will seriously aid in improving the page ranking.

Next Generation SEO Tactics

2009-10-14T20:18:00.000-07:00

Just when you believed you had all your SEO tactics figured out, the web goes and changes on you. Not just the rules of the game but it takes the whole web platform right out from under your feet and changes it. What's a poor webmaster to do? Web 2.0 changes the whole ballgame. It not only places the Internet user squarely in the middle of things, but it gives that user the means and power to create and manipulate data. Web 2.0 dramatically changes how we view and use the web. Actually, in many respects, it creates a whole new Internet. What Is Web 2.0?Just what exactly is Web 2.0? What does it mean? Is there a precise definition that all webmasters can get their heads around and understand? Not really, many believe Web 2.0 is just another one of those contrived buzzwords, signifying mostly marketing hype!However, perhaps the simple definition can be found in the word "you"! Time magazine probably summed it up best by making reference to the "you" in user generated content. Web 2.0 is basically all the platforms that give us this brave new user-powered interactive Internet, generally referred to as 'social media'.Web 2.0 can be seen or manifested in such sites as YouTube, MySpace, Del.icio.us, Digg, Squidoo... Web 2.0 uses scripting languages such as Python, Perl PHP, RSS... to construct interactive platforms that websites can use to create all this user-generated content.

Many refer to these evolving formats and scripting platforms under the name AJAX and no this does not refer to the popular cleaning agent under your kitchen sink! This AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScrípt and XML) comes from Google and takes web based interactive programs such as Google Maps, something that's usually associated with desktop applications, but is now being applied on the web. If you have used Google Earth, you will realize how powerful and revolutionary these new applications can be, not to mention, they are a whole lot of fun.
Where Did The Name Web 2.0 Come From?Many point to Tim O'Reilly, the constant innovator of many technological changes on the web. O'Reilly has been at the forefront in discussions and conferences on the nature and substance of the 'meme' open source platforms dominating the new social media.How all this new media plays out is anyone's guess, but all webmasters should optimize their sites for this new Web 2.0 and take full advantage of all the SEO possibilities presented by this brave new Internet.Here are a few SEO suggestions you can try:1. RSS/Blogging: You must place a blog and RSS feed on all your sites. This is a fairly simple procedure to do with frëe server-based programs such as Wordpress. Having a blog and RSS feed will place your site into the whole tagging process. Each category you create in your blog will be seen as a tag by such sites as Technorati. RSS stands for 'Really Simple Syndication' and your RSS feeds will get your content distributed across the web. A simple and easy way to tap into the new Web 2.0 universe.

2. Create some Google Juice!: Join as many of these highly interactive sites as you can: MySpace, YouTube, Del.icio.us, Digg, Wikipedia ... my favorite is Squidoo, where you can create Lenses on different topics that interest you. User driven content that's utilized by all the major social media sites. Of course, link back to your sites in your posts and creations in these user-created content havens and watch your PR ratings go way up.
3. Use Interactive Scrípts: Place interactive JavaScrípts and platforms on your own sites. Have membership forums, polls, blogs, feedback forms, user-contributions... to build unique content driven sites. Become the spider!

4. Tagging (Folksonomy): Be constantly aware of the tags (keywords) you're creating with your blogs and sites. This can have a very beneficial effect on your traffíc and rankings. Closely relate these tags to the content on your sites and build higher rankings in all the major search engines.
5. The Long Tail: Especially important for affilíate marketers, you need to cover special niches where there is less competition and content. These narrow niches make up a large portion of the whole vast web, creating content in these unique areas will get your site included in the search engines a lot quicker and keep them there a lot longer.6. Holistic Web 2.0: Be constantly vigilant in placing your sites in the whole 'Interactive Game', building links and partnerships with the important YouHubs: MySpace, Del.icio.us, YouTube, Digg, Squidoo... the more connections you have, the more your own sites will prosper.Be The Spider!No doubt, Web 2.0 will play an ever increasing role in the development and evolution of the web. Make sure your sites are optimized and in the 'You' game. Create blogs, RSS feeds, interactive forums, membership areas, user-generated content and truly make your sites interactive havens in their own right. Just remember to tag everything and your sites will reap the benefits of this new Web 2.0 generated SEO gold rush.

Source:http://www.ifergan.org/world-seo-news/next-generation-seo-tactics.html

Joomla title optimization

2009-10-14T20:17:00.000-07:00

The TITLE of your web page is the most important, probably the most important part of a page for ranking in search engines like Google and yahoo and should ideally be optimized for a small number of keywords or phrases (preferably just the one main phrase for that page). The exact number of keywords and their placement is dependent on a number of SEO factors including the difficulty of the phrases, the Page Rank of the page and if you have control of the links and anchor text to that page (so you can change the anchor text of the links).

Good Ranking in Yahoo & Google

2009-10-10T21:04:00.000-07:00

The king of search engine and the god of search engine "GOOGLE" is going to changing search engine searching algorithm as well as in the current scenario GOOGLE update the page rank which is giving by google to the most searchable website. In this time YAHOO also cover various large amount of traffic. A customer who has a professional website they must want his website get top position in both search engine. But it is quite may be possible as there is lots of different between Google search algorithm and yahoo search algorithm. But if you want than it can possible you will get good position both search engine in other words we can say that if you want you will get good place of first search result page which is search by specific keywords. Actually each search engine spider want regular updation in your web site so that spider regular visit with in short period. For this each and every page of your website need content update and meta update with in specific time. Lots of people add dynamic content and resent news by news site by using java script but it is not seo friendly as spider can not read this content. For this you want manually article and news section.

Source: http://www.hansindia.com/seo-update/good-ranking-yahoo-google.htm

SEO Mistakes

2009-10-10T21:03:00.000-07:00

As a professional SEO service provider Hans Cyber Technology experts regularly give important tips for SEO beginner. If you want to achieving good ranking in various search engine than must be follows these rules:
1) Don’t use hidden content for your web page.
2) Don’t use directory submission software

1) Hidden content is the content which not shows to the viewer but search engine spider can read it. Some seo experts use this concept for keywords stuffing. By using this concept it give good ranking but for short time. Various search engines does not support this concepts such as yahoo, google and msn etc.
2) Directory submission software is a web application through this application you submit your website in various website and various search engine but it is help full for very short time after that it goes down your website ranking as well as page rank.
Use meaning full as well as distractive content for your web page which is gives complete information to the viewer. Directory submission is very important process search the directory list and submits the directory manually.

Source: http://www.hansindia.com/seo-update/seoupdate4-seo-mistakes.htm

Google Updating Functionalities

2009-10-10T21:02:00.001-07:00

Various website owners are enjoying and sad by the position in google searching result pages. If your business website is loosing google search result ranking with specific keywords its reason is google updating our functionalities. How can get your ranking in search engine result pages with your targeting keywords? For this first you search where you are not follows the google policy and terms for this check your google analytic accounts and reviews all searching terms as well as reviews the webmaster accounts and check webmaster guidelines. And always alert and reviews search engine searching technology for this you can join some seo experts' community. If you are getting the cause of your website than you will definitely get good ranking in search engine. Another way for getting good position in searching result pages develop more good quality back link as well as renew your website content. For more detail you can review various search engine optimization forum which is give you latest information regarding searching strategy.

Importance of Webmaster

2009-10-10T21:01:00.001-07:00

When ever you develop a business website you must need a webmaster do you know why?

As a professional Search Engine Optimization service Provider Company of India HCT is offering a new terminology and concept of web promotion. Actually each website need a webmaster which is mange all website updating strategies as well as gives well suggestion as per your website requirements. A webmaster is the person who know the which updates are necessary in your website as well as recommended you to how you will accept this update in your website which is represent your business on web.

What is Spamming?

2009-10-10T21:00:00.000-07:00

As a professional SEO service provider company of India Hans team is offering the information about spam terms. Spam is the terms which is widely used when you develop an e commerce website. Search Engine spiders don’t like spasm website and the effect of this spam site goes down and down in the search engine ranking as well as may be banned your website. For preventing the spam of your website you must avoid these terms:

* avoid door way pages
* avoid redirection
* avoid clocking
* avoid hidden links
* avoid hidden text
* avoid keywords stuffing
* avoid page stuffed by irrelevance keywords
* avoid duplicate content
* avoid unrelated links
* avoid intentional misspelling

If you are follows these steps than you will definitely achieve good positioning in various search engine.

SEO Positive and Negative Factors

2009-10-10T20:58:00.000-07:00

SEO Positive Factors

Use Keyword in Title Tag
Anchor Text of Inbound Link
Global Link Popularity of website
Domain Age of website
Link Popularity within the Site
Developed Topical Link Weight using Internal and External Links
Use Keywords in Body Text

SEO Negative Factors

Don’t use Server for Inaccessible to Bots
Don’t use Very Similar or Duplicate Content for your website
Don’t use External Links to Low Quality sites or Spam Sites
Don’t use Overuse of Targeted Keywords
Don’t Participate in Link Schemes or Actively Selling Links

Factors Who Affect Your Search Engine Campaigns

2009-10-10T20:55:00.000-07:00

Hans the name which has expertise in developing best Search Engine Campaigns for various kinds of business website is giving some tips of selecting Search Engine Campaigns for your business website

1) Leveraging Your Business Website Assets
Search Engine optimization company must achievable optimal result. Analyzing your SEO campaign with proper manner you must check they are using their website assets to their full potential and give optimal result.
2) Interaction with Your business key People
No body can understand your business better than you and your office staff. That’s why your search engine optimization company must interact with your business key people including outside the marketing department.
3) Interaction with Your business Sales people
For selecting key phrase for your business website sales people play important role for this a search engine optimization company must collaborate with your business sales staff.
Many business firms have names for services or products that are very popular internally but very rarely used online searcher, so targeting these key phrases during your business website SEO campaign will not bring you the type of traffic that you seek. Your sale people know how your prospects speak in the real world.
4) Your Business Customers
Customer can also affect your business website SEO campaign for searching perfect and unique consumers for your business services and products interact with all country viewers with in their language.

5) Get knowledge form company experts for develop unique content for your business website
Content is very important for a business website for getting unique and best qualities content a search engine optimization company requires perfect and search engine visitors friendly content for this your business experts who is developed your business products and managing business services can gibe best details for your business website content.

Search Engine Marketing

2009-10-10T20:54:00.001-07:00

If your business is following the concept of search engine marketing to promote the service and products, you must need Search Engine Marketing Update for getting good positioning in SERP (Search Engine Result Pages).

As professional Search Engine Marketing Company Update providers in India Hans SEO experts are giving recent update in Google technique.
In current session google regularly updates its searching functionality by improving its fast searching strategy. In the current session google updates section and google enlarges its searching box so that you can search big size accurate keywords to get your related site. In second google update section is “Google Caffeine Update”.

Caffeine update means changes to improve Google indexing technology, by allowing the search engine to be more efficient and flexible in the way it collects pages and monitor your SERP (Search Engine Result Pages) positions closely. For more update you can view google searching technique related blog as well as you can wait for our next Search Engine Marketing Update.

Google News Automatically Tweeting Stories @GoogleNews

2009-10-08T21:00:00.000-07:00

The Google News Blog announced they have joined Twitter to automatically post links to top stories on Twitter via @GoogleNews. Many news sites automatically post stories to Twitter as well, but Google News recently started to do this as well. I believe Google News also powers @News_By_Robots, but I do not have official conformation on this.

The growth of Twitter is tremendous and more and more media, as well as average users, are coming to Twitter.

Google joined Twitter in February, since then, many other official Google services joined the program. We have a big list of the search engines and their employees on Twitter that we hope to keep up to date. But most recently, I spotted that @GoogleWebspam has joined Twitter. The account is currently not active, but it has been confirmed to be secured by a member of the Google Web Spam team.

Source: http://searchengineland.com/google-news-automatically-tweeting-stories-googlenews-18266

Do Follow Social Bookmarking Sites:

2009-10-05T20:28:00.002-07:00

http://www.furl.net/
http://mystuff.ask.com/
http://bookmarks.yahoo.com/
http://www.clipmarks.com/
http://www.leenks.com/
http://www.faves.com/
http://ma.gnolia.com/
http://www.blogmarks.net/
http://www.bibsonomy.org/
http://www.linkedwords.com/
http://www.connotea.org/
http://www.rawsugar.com/
http://www.clipclip.org/
http://www.trailfire.com/
http://www.connectedy.com/
http://www.bmaccess.net/
http://www.complore.com/
http://www.mylinkvault.com/
http://www.unalog.com/
http://www.backflip.com/
http://buddymarks.com/
http://www.jumptags.com/
http://www.a1-webmarks.com/
http://www.bookmarktracker.com/
http://www.oyax.com/
http://www.myvmarks.com/
http://www.tedigo.net/
http://ez4u.net/
http://www.syncone.net/
http://www.yattle.com/

Wikis:

http://www.aboutus.org/

Do Follow Forums:

2009-10-05T20:28:00.000-07:00

http://forums.digitalpoint.com
http://www.sitepoint.com/forums
http://www.webmasterforums
.com
http://www.allcoolforum.com
http://www.warriorforum.com
http://forums.webicy.com
http://thehyipforum.com
http://www.webmasterforumsonline.com
http://www.webmasters.am/forum
http://www.webmasterforums.net
http://www.devhunters.com
http://www.webmaster-forum.net
http://www.geekvillage.com/forums
http://www.zymic.com/forum
http://www.webmastershelp.com
http://www.webmasterdesk.org
http://www.webmasterground.com
http://developers.evrsoft.com/forum
http://www.websitebabble.com
http://www.talkingcity.com
http://www.australianwebmaster.com
http://www.wtricks.com
http://www.forums.webzonetalk.com
http://www.htmlforums.com
http://www.searchbliss.com/forum
http://www.webmasterize.com
http://www.webmasterserve.com
http://www.freehostforum.com
http://www.seorefugee.com/forums
http://www.cre8asiteforums.com/forums
http://forums.seo.ph
http://forums.delphiforums.com
http://www.web-mastery.net
http://www.webworkshop.net/seoforum/index.php
http://www.webproworld.com
http://www.bzimage.org
http://www.v7n.com/forums
http://www.dnforum.com
http://www.webcosmoforums.com
http://forums.webicy.com
http://forum.hittail.com/phpbb2/index.php
http://www.affiliateseeking.com/forums
http://siteownersforums.com/index.php
http://www.webmaster-forums.net
http://www.geekpoint.net
http://www.smallbusinessforums.org
http://forums.ukwebmasterworld.com
http://www.experienceadvertising.com/forum
http://opensourcephoto.net/forum
http://forums.seochat.com
http://forums.searchenginewatch.com
http://www.ihelpyou.com/forums
http://dishnews.medianetwork.co.in/yabb2/YaBB.pl
http://www.businesss-forum.com
http://www.9mb.com
http://acapella.harmony-central.com/forums
http://forums.seroundtable.com
http://www.submitexpress.com/bbs
http://www.startups.co.uk/6678842908…04/forums.html
http://www.webmaster-talk.com
http://forums.comicbookresources.com
http://www.clicks.ws/forum/index.php
http://www.acorndomains.co.uk
http://forums.onlinebookclub.org
http://www.ableton.com/forum
http://www.davidcastle.org/BB
http://www.webtalkforums.com
http://www.bloggapedia.com/forum
http://www.bloggertalk.com/forum.php
http://paymentprocessing.cc
http://www.directoryjunction.com/forums
http://www.internetmarketingforums.net
http://www.lex224.com/forums/index.php
http://forum.joomla.org
http://forum.mambo-foundation.org/index.php
http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php
http://www.namepros.com/index.php
http://loanofficerforum.com/forum
http://iq69.com/forums
http://forum.hot4s.com.au
http://forums.mysql.com
http://forums.amd.com/forum
http://softwarecommunity.intel.com/i…y/en-us/Forums
http://forums.cnet.com
http://seotalk.me
dianetwork.co.in
https://www.computerbb.org
http://forum.vbulletinsetup.com
http://www.irishwebmasterforum.com
http://www.app-developers.com
http://forums.stuffdaily.com
http://forums.seo.com
http://www.webdigity.com
http://www.inboundlinksforum.com
http://forums.gentoo.org
http://ubuntuforums.org
http://forum.textpattern.com
http://talk.iwebtool.com
http://www.frogengine.com/forum
http://www.capitaltheory.com
http://www.smsbucket.com/forums/

Do Follow Social Portal Sites:

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http://www.squidoo.com/
http://www.hubpages.com/
http://www.zimbio.com/
http://marketing.qassia.com/
http://www.insightempire.com/animation/
http://www.wetpaint.com/
http://www.listverse.com/
http://www.blog.co.uk/
http://www.work.com/
http://www.listafterlist.com/
http://www.spongefish.com/

Do Follow Article Submission Sites:

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http://www.ezinearticles.com/
http://ideamarketers.com/
http://www.articledashboard.com/
http://www.easyarticles.com/
http://selfgrowth.com/
http://articles.webraydian.com/
http://articlesfactory.com/
http://articlealley.com/
http://www.usfreeads.com/
http://www.bloglines.com/

Community-Ranked Article Submission Sites:

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http://www.digg.com/
http://www.ezinearticles.com/
http://www.slashdot.org/
http://www.propeller.com/
http://www.reddit.com/
http://goarticles.com/
http://myweb2.search.yahoo.com/
http://www.sphinn.com/
http://www.indianpad.com/
http://www.dzone.com/
http://www.killerstartups.com/
http://www.care2.com/news
http://www.activerain.com/
http://www.swik.net/
http://www.shoutwire.com/
http://www.humsurfer.com/
http://www.thoof.com/
http://www.spicypage.com/
http://www.plugim.com/
http://www.autospies.com/
http://www.sk-rt.com/
http://ballhype.com/
http://lipstick.com/
http://www.listible.com/
http://www.smallbusinessbrief.com/index.php
http://links.hubspot.com/
http://www.searchles.com/
http://www.blogmemes.net/
http://www.folkd.com/
http://www.plime.com/
http://www.bloghop.com/
http://www.socialogs.com/
http://www.kinja.com/
http://www.dotnetkicks.com/
http://www.wirefan.com/
http://www.hugg.com/
http://www.buzzflash.net/
http://www.onmylist.com/
http://www.marktd.com/
http://www.millionsofgames.com/
http://www.protolize.org/
http://www.realestatevoices.com/
http://www.pixelgroovy.com/
http://www.betamarker.com/

List of DoFollow Social Networking Sites

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1 RateItAll.com

2 CREAMaid

3 Yedda

4 Tweako

5 Xanga

6 BUMPzee! (requires RSS feed)

List of DoFollow Blog Services

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1 Wordpress.com

2 Blogspot

3 Tumblr

4 LiveJournal

5 Blogsome

6 ClearBlogs

7 Easyjournal

8 Blogetery

9 Blogster

10 BlogoWogo

11 Aeonity

12 Thoughts.com

Finding DoFollow Sites

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With all of the above being said - it is rather difficult to find sites that are rel="nofollow" "DoFollow"...however, they are out there! Listed below for your convenience are running lists of multiple categories of sites that are DoFollow, and great candidates for your next backlink!

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What is DoFollow?
DoFollow is simply an internet slang term given to web pages or sites that are not utilizing NoFollow. NoFollow is a hyperlink inclusion that tells search engines not to pass on any credibility or influence to an outbound link. Originally created to help the blogging community reduce the number of inserted links into a "comment" area of a blog page, the attribute is typically standard in blog comments. It helps overwhelmed webmasters disallow spammers from gaining any kind of advantage by inserting an unwanted link on a popular page.

As a result of the implementation of NoFollow: link building has taken a massive hit, as many sites including Wikis, social bookmarking sites, corporate and private blogs, commenting plugins and many other venues and applets across the internet began implementing NoFollow. This made effective link building difficult for both honest people and spammers alike.

By the way, there's nothing wrong with getting NoFollow links. In fact, you'll want to get an equal amount of them as well. While they don't pass on link juice, they do help associate your site with anchor text (the keyword phrase that makes up the URL pointing to your site).
How Search Engines Use NoFollow
Search engines each interpret NoFollow in their own way. Here's a list of the major search engines, and their actions when a NoFollow link is seen:

* Google follows NoFollow links but simply does not pass on credit to an outbound link that is tagged with the attribute.
* Yahoo follows NoFollow links and excludes the link from all ranking calculations.
* MSN may or may not follow a NoFollow link, but it does exclude it from ranking calculations.
* Ask.com does not adhere to NoFollow.

Finding DoFollow Sites
With all of the above being said - it is rather difficult to find sites that are "DoFollow"...however, they are out there! Listed below for your convenience are running lists of multiple categories of sites that are DoFollow, and great candidates for your next backlink!

Don't Be A Spammer - Be A Value Provider!
Spamming Dofollow resources will not give you results...not only that, it hurts the entire community, and it persuades Dofollow providers to convert their sites to Nofollow. Be sure that all of your link-building exploits are done so tastefully and honestly. If you don't cram keywords and give an honest account of what your site is about, search engines will reward you for it!

In getting links, regardless of if they're DoFollow or not, please note that Google and other search engines are rather smart these days. If you have multiple links pointing to a page from one DoFollow source, or if that source is also linking to other places that are giving you backlinks (such as your Blogspot or Wordpress account), search engines will notice and may devalue your links to the point where they become worthless. Build links naturally and over time. Provide value and they'll be quality links. Otherwise, you'll hurt your website's link building efforts in the long-run.

By the way -- when it comes to link building, only the first link pointing to a site counts. Posting more than one hyperlink on the same page to the same source won't help in any way.

How Search Engines Use NoFollow

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Search engines each interpret NoFollow in their own way. Here's a list of the major search engines, and their actions when a NoFollow link is seen:

* Google follows NoFollow links but simply does not pass on credit to an outbound link that is tagged with the attribute.
* Yahoo follows NoFollow links and excludes the link from all ranking calculations.
* MSN may or may not follow a NoFollow link, but it does exclude it from ranking calculations.
* Ask.com does not adhere to NoFollow.

What is DoFollow?

2009-10-05T20:14:00.000-07:00

DoFollow is simply an internet slang term given to web pages or sites that are not utilizing NoFollow. NoFollow is a hyperlink inclusion that tells search engines not to pass on any credibility or influence to an outbound link. Originally created to help the blogging community reduce the number of inserted links into a "comment" area of a blog page, the attribute is typically standard in blog comments. It helps overwhelmed webmasters disallow spammers from gaining any kind of advantage by inserting an unwanted link on a popular page.

As a result of the implementation of NoFollow: link building has taken a massive hit, as many sites including Wikis, social bookmarking sites, corporate and private blogs, commenting plugins and many other venues and applets across the internet began implementing NoFollow. This made effective link building difficult for both honest people and spammers alike.

By the way, there's nothing wrong with getting NoFollow links. In fact, you'll want to get an equal amount of them as well. While they don't pass on link juice, they do help associate your site with anchor text (the keyword phrase that makes up the URL pointing to your site).

Create Content to Improve Search Engine Results

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Content is one of the most important pieces on a webpage design puzzle, also a useful online marketing tool. Without it, you are just showing off a graphic composition, even if done amazingly well, you are missing the necessary information your customers need to purchase what you offer.
For online marketing reasons content helps you rank top on search engines. How? When you constantly post information on your webpage web crawlers establish that you are a constant content generator, therefore you will be visited with more frequency than pages that don´t post with the regularity you do. This way you become a more important and useful website people consult regularly.

Keywords are very important in this process, especially on titles or headlines. Also on the first paragraph of your content, keywords are added with the intention of becoming the main words on your webpage, the way you are going to be found online. So, when your potential customers enter those words on search engines, your webpage appears on the first places without having to pay for words or place bids on them, like Pay per Click campaigns. You will have a natural ranking on Google, Yahoo, Bing and other search engines depending on how frequent you add information on your website. There are many ways of having different sections on your website to post information: News, Blogs, press releases etc. also, not all information has to be written content for customers:

• Video Content
• Audio Content
• Information tools

Widgets are information codes that can be installed on any webpage for information purposes. They take the form of onscreen tools (clocks, event countdowns, auction ticketers, etc) with the intention of becoming a handy and useful tool viewers might use. Video information is also a good source to have customers enter and stay on your website for a while, view videos and be informed.
Although written content is useful for web crawlers to improve your search engine positioning, other information sources will also generate more traffic on your site. Remember, you are creating a webpage to be positioned online and a spot where people can find the products/services you offer, also a place where web surfers can find useful information and tools they search for online.

So, start thinking of useful content to post online. If you are interested in a professional company to improve your SEO strategies.

Google Chrome OS: Operating System.

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Google Chrome OS Project has been launched as will be available for consumers in the second half of 2010.

About Google Chrome OS
Google OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will be targeted at netbooks. l The open-source code, and netbooks running Google Chrome OS will be available for consumers in the second half of 2010.

Google OS Features:
Speed, simplicity and security are the key aspects of Google Chrome OS.
Chrome OS is going back to the basics and completely redesigning about security architecture of the OS so that users would not have to deal with viruses, malware and security updates.

Google Chrome OS will run on both x86 as well as ARM chips and will be in fuction with multiple OEMs.

Google Chrome running within a new windowing system on top of a Linux kernel
All application will run not only on Google Chrome OS, but also on any standards based browser on windows, mac and linux by giving developers user base of any platform.

source: googleblog

Where to submit Videos via Upload

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• Download.com and CNET TV – www.cnettv.com
o Upload your Videos to Cnet
• Youtube - www.youtube.com
o Upload your Videos to Youtube
• MetaCafe – www.metacafe.com
o Upload Videos to Metacafe
• Revver – www.revver.com
o Upload Videos to Revver
• MSN Live Video Search – http://video.msn.com/video.aspx.
o Submit Videos to MSN Live
o Upload Videos to MSN Video
• BlipTV – www.blip.tv
o When you upload to BlipTV, your videos can be syndicated to accounts you have on other Web sites such as blogs, iTunes , Yahoo Video, AOL Video, MySpace, FaceBook, and Feedburner.
o Submit and Upload Videos to Blip
• Veoh – www.veoh.com
o When you submit to Veoh, they syndicate your video to youtube, myspace, and google video.
o Upload Videos to Veoh
• AOL Video – www. http://video.aol.com/
o Upload Video To AOL
• Myspace Video -http://vids.myspace.com/
o Upload Videos to Myspace
• Break – www.break.com
o Upload to Break Video
• DivX’s Stage 6 – http://stage6.divx.com/
o Upload to Stage6
• Daily Motion – www.dailymotion.com
o Upload Videos to Daily Motion
• Vimeo – www.vimeo.com
o Upload Video to Vimeo
• Sevelload – en.sevenload.com
o Upload Videos to Sevenload
Other Ways to get your Videos On Video Search & Sharing Sites
• Miro – Miro converts any media RSS feed into a channel.
• Video Upload Pro – Software to submit your videos to multiple video sites including Atom Films, Blip.tv, BoFunk, Bolt, ClipShack, EvideoShare, Flurl, Google Video, Guba, Jumpcut, Live Video, Myspace Video, PutFile, Veoh, Vimeo, Yahoo Video, Youtube, and more….
• HeySpread – Free online tool to send videos to multiple sites
• TubeMogul
o TubeMogul is the hands down the best free tool to submit videos to multiple video sharing sites in one go. Currently supporting Metacafe, MySpace, Yahoo, Revver, AOL Video, DailyMotion, Blip, and BrightCove, TubeMogul does a great job at syndicating your videos out to these video sharing sites with full support for Titles, Tags, and Descriptions and provides analytics for you to track your video views across all of these websites. I highly recommend this free tool.
o Brett Wilson, CEO of Tube Mogul, demonstrates how his tool lets you upload and track videos to several different sites like Blip.tv and YouTube.

Where to submit Video RSS and MRSS Feeds

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* Search For Video - www.searchforvideo.com
o Submit Video RSS

* Blinkx - www.blinkx.com
o RSS Upload
o RSS Instructions

* ClipBlast - www.clipblast.com
o Submit Video RSS

* Pure Video – www.purevideo.com
o Submit Video RSS 2.0

* Truveo – www.truveo.com
o You have to sign up for a free Director account in order to submit your video feed

* AltaVista Video Search -http://www.altavista.com/video/default
o You can submit your site to AltaVista and be included in the video directory

* Yahoo Video – http://video.search.yahoo.com/
o Submit Video MRSS

* Grind TV -http://www.grindtv.com/
o Submit Video RSS 2.0

* Astrasearch – www.astrasearch.com
o Submit Video RSS Feed

Video Search Engine Optimization (Video SEO)

2009-09-20T20:25:00.000-07:00

There are 3 different scenarios for video optimization. It's worthwhile to do all three. Here are some steps relating to each scenario (note that steps common to all 3 scenarios are covered further below):

1. Video search engines that crawl your site: This is the scenario where you host the video on your own site. An example of a video search engine that will crawl your site to find videos is Truveo. While this type of search engine represents a small percentage of your total market opportunity, they are still worth pursuing. They provide a variety of optimization opportunities, including:

* The video file itself. This will usually accomodate a title, a description/summary, and some keywords / tags. Note that this is only useful for those video search sites, such as Truveo, that look at this data, which is currently a small percentage of the video universe. On the other hand, entering this data does not take very long.
* The web page on your site where the user can access, or read about, the video. This is normal HTML we are talking about, so you can customize the content to your heart's content. Title, keywords, meta description, and on page text, etc. Pay particular attention to the on page text as you can write a nice, keyword-rich and compelling description of the video.
* Keep your video files in one directory. This makes it easier for the crawler to find them all.
* Stay away from flash video players. Flash is still not search engine friendly.
* Make use of a Video Sitemap. This will make it easier for the crawlers to find your videos.

2. Video Sites that accept RSS or MRSS feeds: This is the scenario where you submit an RSS or MRSS feed to a third party site. Examples of sites that accept such feeds are: Yahoo Video and Blinkx. The basic approach to optimizing for this type of site is to enter a title, description, keywords, thumbnails, a category, and a full transcript. A full transcript is a really good way to provide good fodder for a video search site to chew on.

3. Video Upload Sites: These are video search engines that require or allow you to upload the video to them. Examples include: YouTube, AOL Video, and Yahoo Video. There are opportunities to optimize these videos as well. Use the following steps:

* For these sites, you will need to enter in the metadata again when you get there. This will include a title, keywords, and a description.
* Link back to related content and videos on your site. Make sure you are getting qualified traffic in return for your providing video.

Other Video Optimization Tips

1. Create compelling content. This is the most important tip in this entire article. If the content is not compelling, then the users will not flock to it. There is no room for gamesmanship here. To go viral, people need to love it.
2. Develop videos that reinforces the message of your brand. It's great to have a video go viral, but will it actually help you if it does?
3. Make sure you include the word video on a regular basis throughout any metadata, as many user searches include the word and it will increase your chances of showing up on those queries. Of course, don't go hog wild with it. Note that YouTube has a title tag display limit of 62 characters, so don't go beyond that.
4. Pick a preferred format, such as .mov, .avi, or .wmv. There is no real win in offering the file in multiple formats from a video SEO perspective, but it will be useful to users who want to pick a preferred format. So, just make one of the versions visible to the search engines, and offer them all to users.
5. Keep the length reasonable (5 minutes or less). If the video is too long, you will run the risk of boring the user. There are exceptions to this rule, of course, but if you exceed 5 minutes be very certain that most viewers will be able to remain engaged.
6. Give your video a keyword rich, but catchy title. The title is the biggest factor in convincing a user to view the video.
7. Make good use of the thumbnails to help users decide which video to watch. Users like to watch a quick snapshot so they can decide if they want to invest their time in the full video. Unfortunately, the way you generate thumbnails differs from site to site. But it's an important enough factor in getting people to view your video that it's worth going through the process for each site you upload to.
8. Allow Users to rate your video. Search engines will pay attention to this when ranking these videos. This is also a crucial part of "going viral", as potential viewers are very attracted to highly ranked videos.
9. Commercial content should include a «watermark» to indicate origin. This will help if your video goes viral, and is copied to multiple sites, because it will still carry your branding message and/or site information.
10. Use keywords in the filename and URL. Video search engines place a fair amount of weight on these in the world of video. Avoid using stop words in the filename, such as "the", "and", etc.
11. Use appropriate keywords in the link text for the file. Keyword rich anchor text carries a lot of weight.

Publicizing Your Video

Here are some basic tips that will assist in the promotion of your video:

1. Put your video everywhere. Exposure is king.
2. This includes publicizing your multimedia files with appropriate RSS or MRSS feeds.
3. Use social bookmarking tools that will help in the visibility of the videos. This works regardless of promotional medium. Social bookmarking sites can help your video go viral.
4. Offer the option to embed your video in other people's sites. This really encourages people to spread your video around.
5. End the video with a send to a friend option. Give them some incentive to help you spread the word.

14 Best Practices and Tips for Video Optimization SEO

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Video optimization as part of your search engine optimization efforts can be a great way for you to expose your brand to users who may have otherwise not been familar with your brand, your product(s) or your service(s). With the launch of Universal Search from Google, you can expect to see more and more video results occupying the search engine results that are served up by Google.

Marketers and site owners are continuing to experiment with video as a means of intercepting their target markets. As a result, we are seeing more video driven content surface on the Web. Just how popular is video content on the Web? Well depending on the study or data you review, the results vary.

The thing is, as is the case with a lot of the content on the Web, a lot of the video out there is useless and lacking in informative content. Don't get me wrong, there is a lot of great "How To" video's out there, but there are a lot of video footage that is really just noise and an interuption to those of use looking for useful, relevant information. According to websiteoptimization.com, the growth of online video has been quite explosive.

Site Unique Visitors (1000s)
(June 2007) Year-over-year growth
1. YouTube 51,378 162%
2. Google Video 17,759 137%
3. AOL Video 15,687 114%
4. Yahoo! Video 15,473 405%
5. vids.myspace.com 15,281 69%
6. MSN Video 11,967 8%

With this type of growth, the need for online video optimization is a must. As a result, we have compiled a few best practices that you should consider when looking to optimize your online video.

Video Optimization Best Practices and Tips

1. Make sure that your video clips are relevant and informative - For starters, ensure that your video provides useful and informative information. Videos that demonstrate step by step procedures are great, videos that express an opinion about a specific topic can be useful too. Videos that have nothing to do with your brand or service offering or are general or vague in nature will just confuse your audience. Save the viewer the trouble and don't just upload a video for the sake of uploading a video.

2. SEO Video Optimization Fundamental Tip #1: Give your video a Catchy Title - Video can be used to bring visitors to your site. One way to get users to view your video is to give it a catchy title that contains a related key phrase that is relevant to your product, service or brand.

3. Use Video as a Portal to other Content on Your Site - Upload a couple of videos to portals like YouTube and provide links back to related content and other videos on your site.

4. SEO Video Optimization Fundamental Tip #2: Optimize your video for Important Key Phrases - You might want to optimize your video for terms users are likely to be searching for. Tag your video with these terms, consider naming the file name of the video with these terms in mind.

5. Provide Transcripts of your Videos - Good old HTML content is still a favorite with the search engines. If you want your video to rank well, you need to give the search engines something to index and rank. Surround your videos with onpage copy that can be indexed by the search engines.

6. Keep Your Videos to five minutes or less - there is nothing worse than a boring video that goes on an on. If you have video content that is of long duration, consider breaking it up into smaller pieces and tag each accordingly. Not only does this make for better viewing pleasure, it also keeps the user looking for more.

7. Make use of a Video Sitemap - For video that is native to your own website, make sure that users and search engine spiders can find your video content. The easiest way to do this is through the use of a video sitemap on your site. Use important keywords in the anchor text links to your videos featured on your video sitemap.

8. SEO Video Optimization Fundamental Tip #3: Tag Your Videos - tag your videos with key phrases that are reflective of the content.

9. Brand your Video with your Logo - Video is a great tool to generate brand awareness with your prospects. Take advantage of this by incorporating your brand in your videos.

10. SEO Video Optimization Fundamental Tip #4: Remember Inbound Linking Factors - Link to videos using important keywords in anchor text.

11. Offer the Option to Embed Your Video - allow other users access to the coding that will allow them to embed your video on their website or their blog. Think viral marketing

12. SEO Video Optimization Fundamental Tip #5: Add Descriptive Meta Data - optimize your video for relevant keywords and include a keyword rich description of your video content.

13. Allow Users to Rate your Video - videos that receive higher ratings from users are the ones that users tend to favorite and save. You can bet that the search engines will pay attention to this when ranking these videos.

14. Syndicate Your Video - Submit your video to RSS.

Video optimization is becoming more important as mainstream aspect to search engine optimization. The best way to optimize your video content is to think about the user and who you want to engage with your video. Be smart about it, don't just post a video for the sake of posting a video. Consider your audience, their language and their needs.

Source From: http://www.marketing-jive.com/2007/09/14-best-practices-and-tips-for-video.html

5 Ways to Increase Website Traffic for Free

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1. Submit to Google Base (Froogle)

If you sell products or services, Google Base is fertile ground for free marketing. If you're selling widgets, for instance, you can add them to Google Base and it will then show up in the Google's product search and link directly to your website. You may also submit services listings.

Adding items is fairly simple- just prepare an Excel spreadsheet with the proper header categories- examples and templates are provided. Basic product/service info, such as title, description, price, an image, and link to your website is offered on the page. Traffic from these listings may not be high, but it's free and may potentially attract new customers to your website.

2. Add to free directories and wikis

Look for directories/wikis with the highest Google Page Rank (PR) either on the home page or on the specific page your listing will appear. Also, the more specifically targeted the directory content is to your website, the better. For example, if you sell photography, try to find and get listed in a photography directory. If promoting a massage therapy website, find and list in any health and wellness-related directories. If the directory appears overly 'spammy' then it may be better to avoid. There is no proof that search engines penalize websites for being included in these seedy sites, but it certainly is a waste of time, as there are endless amounts of these directories.

The main reason for listing in directories is not for the traffic from the directories. Hardly anyone actually uses these directories. It is more about the incoming links. The higher the PR is on the website linking to you, the more value the incoming link will give to your website. The more quality incoming links you have, the higher PR you may have on your website. The higher the PR, the higher your website will be shown in the search engine results pages, or SERPs. The higher rank your search listings are, the more search traffic you will receive. And the more traffic you receive, the more likely you are to make sales and make more money. Yes, indirectly, the goal of adding to directories is to increase your traffic and make money.

When you submit information to directories, make sure you use an alternate email address, as many will make you agree to their terms of use, which frees them to send you lots of spam and distribute your email address to other companies.

Add to this directory:

www.killerstartups.com

Add to wikis (editable content):

www.aboutus.org

en.wikipedia.org

Here are some nice lists of directory sites:

www.avivadirectory.com/strongest-directories

www.autho-rity.com/Internet/Web_Directories

www.best-web-directories.com/free-directories.htm

www.forest-cafe.org/free-directory-list.php

3. Write press releases and submit everywhere

Write press releases and send to the media these social bookmarking/news sites (the more the merrier), and submit to as many media contacts as you can find. This will help increase links to your site.

It is recommended you place the original release on your own website and make sure it is SEO friendly with a comprehensive list of your press releases.

Depending on the marketing strategy of your business, you might consider translating your releases to extend your global reach. Here are a few social news sites that seem to be gaining in popularity:

www.meneame.net - Spanish

www.yigg.de - German

Submit to any media in your industry- both for print magazines or websites. If you are not sure what media are in your industry, you can first check the Yahoo! directory. Then you can go to a bookstore, such as Barnes & Noble, and ask for a list of the magazines they carry in your industry. Borders did not provide such a list, but Barnes & Noble did- many of which are prominent magazines, but could not be found online.

Plus, send to these free PR submission websites. Note that it can be tricky to navigate through the site to avoid the fees and actually submit for free, but it actually works.

Recommend submitting press releases to:

secure.prleap.com

www.i-newswire.com/submit_free.php

www.pr.com/press-releases

www.pr-inside.com

www.pressbox.co.uk

Unfortunately, other PR submission sites require a fee, despite claiming to be free. Avoid these fee-based scam sites: prfree.com, console.prweb.com, pr-inside.com, free-press-release-center.info.

For more information on free PR sites, this person made a nice directory: www.emeraldcoastentrepreneur.com

4. Write articles and distribute them everywhere

Also, you can write articles, such as what you are reading right now. Sure, I enjoy writing and sharing valuable tips with you, but the main reason for me writing this article is to gain incoming links and drive traffic. You can do it too, and you should! It's free and an easy way to get a massive amount of incoming links.

You should also add an RSS feed to allow other websites to easily syndicate your content. Make sure you include links to your own website in any article or press release you write (not just at the end), otherwise it can be a partially wasted effort if your URL isn't included.

If you don't know how to build a SEO and RSS friendly webpages to hold your original articles, I recommend either reading an RSS tutorial such as this: (www.mnot.net/rss/tutorial ), or just use free WordPress software (www.wordpress.org). Just download it and follow the directions to install on your server. Then do a search for 'SEO Wordpress' and you can learn how to change your permalinks so you will get more return on your efforts (more traffic).

Submit articles to:

www.ezinearticles.com

www.goarticles.com

www.articlegeek.com

www.isnare.com

www.articlecity.com

There are many more, but some require absolutely original content (no other postings allowed on any other websites). It may be better to get credit for your own original article, by posting it on your own website.

Remember to post regularly to popular social news and bookmarking sites.

Submit both articles and press releases to:

www.Digg.com

www.Newsvine.com

www.Myjeeves.ask.com

www.Simpy.com

www.Reddit.com

www.Netscape.com

www.Technorati.com

www.del.icio.us

www.Stumbleupon.com

5. Post to Craigslist

Post your products and services on www.craigslist.org. It is a very high traffic website and you can post every day if you want. If you're creative, you can find an appropriate place for most anything you sell- you can even customize your listing for each location too.

www.craigslist.org

Trent Mueller is an internet marketing professional and SEO/SEM specialist; he manages various websites, including http://www.turbophoto.com and resides in Portland, Oregon, USA.

Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Trent_A_Mueller

website Promote in Orkut

2009-09-18T19:51:00.000-07:00

Orkut is a popular social site in Brazil and india. 49.83% users in Brazil and 17.51% users in India are using Orkut. It's launched in Jan 22, 2004. In 2004 Orkut has more users from United States, later US users are attracted to facebook and myspace.

We all would always wish to send something to all of our friends like messages, greetings, invitations, photos, videos, information etc. To make all this possible with a single click Orkut has released new option "Promote". It's a free tool. You will find this option below the events button ( Have a look on the following image). Currently this feature not live for all users, Probably it would be live after some time.

One of the best part of this tool is tracking. You can see clearly that how many people has viewed your message, clicked it and deleted it. It's a great feature for Promotional purposes. If you want to sale something for low price, this is the best feature to offer your friends to utilize the chance.

Just have a look on the following charts to have an idea that how orkut got popular in Brazil and India which was popular earlier in United States. (source: Wikipedia)

Tools and tips for using Google Analytics with Excel to improve business reporting

2009-09-18T19:42:00.000-07:00

I’m excited by the new opportunities to readily access and manipulate your Google Analytics data through the tools provided by Microsoft Excel gives great opportunities for creating custom dashboards or in-depth analysis. This post shows you how and highlights some of the free and paid tools to help.

But many site owners or marketers who aren’t web analytics specialists may have missed the announcement in April when Google Analytics launched an API to enable developers to access Google Analytics data and incorporate it into other web services or software.

This is significant since as Econsultancy recently reported in their Online measurement and strategy report, 80% of surveyed businesses are now using Google Analytics, so there is a great opportunity for many companies to get more from their Google Analytics installation by devising reports and analysis to it to improve and report on their online business.
I’ve been following these developments closely, since I’m the trainer on the new Econsultancy course on Optimising your site using Google Analytics and consult often on improving business reporting through Google Analytics.
By the way, I’m also repeating my breakfast briefing on Google Analytics for Econsultancy which we ran earlier in the Summer which attracted over 100 attendees. It would be good to see you along if you’re in the North or Midlands like me. This time the, details are:

* Getting the most out of Google Analytics briefing
* Date 14th October 2009 (8:30am - 10:15am)
* Venue Peter House, Manchester, United Kingdom
* Price: £75.00

About the Google Analytics API

The API has these features to query your accounts and profiles:

* Define own start and end date - good for standardising monthly or quarterly reporting
* Define dimensions (e.g. ga:pageTitle) and metrics (e.g. ga:bounces)
* Can define sort orders
* Can query using filters similar to profiles or Advanced Segmentation, e.g. restrict results to show keywords related to brand search only
* Offers an extract feed with 10,000 record

View reference for data feed API

View reference for dimensions and metrics

View Google Analytics API sample page
Benefits and disadvantages of the Google Analytics API

The benefits of using the API as I see it are:

* Can analyse larger data volumes (rows - the maximum is 10,000 rows per query - much larger GA reports)
* Can calculate derived or custom metrics - web analytics tools like Omniture or Webtrends enable this, but GA doesn’t by default
* Can produce custom reports and dashboards - there are some capabilities for this with the new custom reports feature within GA but I have personally found it lack flexibility
* Can use to archive select data - Google claims to store data for at least 25 months (may be more) - if you need historic data the API can store it
* When combined with an analysis tool like Excel options for analysis through sorting, filtering and alerts are enhanced

The disadvantages are:

* Security, security, security - risks if account username and passwords are stored in spreadsheets or could be accessed / stored by third-party data providers
* Complexity and staff training - as with all analysis the analyst has to know the right questions to ask

Business reporting and analytics in Excel using Google Analytics

In August, Google Analytics showcased some tools for creating Excel reports with Google Analytics. I’ve been experimenting with them. Here are my recommendations on how you can use them:

1. Simple Excel worksheet to configure from Mikael Thuneberg

This is a simple template you can adapt to your own needs. It has 2 functions:

* getGAauthenticationToken - to verify your account and log-in - NB There are security issues with storing GA login details in a spreadsheet - best that these are entered each time by users into a login dialog
* getGAdata - to pull data you specify

I found it easy to setup - you just enter your login details, profile number and an authentication string. Then you just need to type in the dimension and metrics for what you want to view using this reference. The example below shows how a report can be produced on brand keywords using a filter.

5 Steps to using Bit.ly to track your Online and Offline PR

2009-09-18T19:39:00.000-07:00

Bit.ly is now the defacto standard for URL shortners in Twitter and Tweetdeck, etc, but I find many marketers aren’t aware of how it can also be used for tracking the effectiveness of their content. It’s essential to check you’re staying relevant and useful through this instant feedback.

The first 4 steps to get this feedback on what your followers are interested in take just 5 minutes to setup and it’s automatic after that, so if you’re not already, get tracking!

Step 1 is to signup for a bit.ly account which will then give you access to a history of links you have tweeted about, put in your Facebook Fan Page or have included in offline media, e.g. print articles, press releases.

Step 2 is to link your bit.ly account with the desktop app you use to Tweet with. With the recent release of Tweetdeck v0.30 your URLs are automatically shortened and linked to your bit.ly account with an API Key.

Step 3 is to shorten the URL you are linking to whether it’s on your site, blog or another site you’re referencing. This happens automatically in Tweetdeck or alternatively, if you use Twitter - you can use the Bit.ly sidebar.

Step 4 review your results to see what’s interesting for your audience.

Through comparing the blue numbers - clicks on your link against the grey numbers you can readily see what you’re audience and the wider audience is interested in. The Sept 10 post to Google Internet Stats showed this is popular and that it’s worth me to continue building my new compilation of Internet Statistics for marketers.

I have around 2,000 followers, so this shows I have clickthrough rates varying from around 1 to 15%, not bad compared to email particularly since 90% of clicks within Twitter happen within a ridiculously short 5 minute period (Bit.ly will show you this too).

Tracking bit.ly through Google Analytics

This is Step 5, but unfortunately there isn’t currently a good solution for this. The difficulty is that Google Analytics won’t pick up the bit.ly referrer because of the 301 redirect used.

So you have to add standard Google Analytics campaign tracking codes. There are tools for this, but for me I don’t have time or need to apply them - it needs to be automatic - hopefully Tweetdeck or Twitter are working on that.

Tools for tracking bit.ly through GA

* Bit.ly spreadsheet for building URLs
* Google Analytics URL Builder
* Snip and Tag for Firefox Plug-in

MANUAL DIRECTORY SUBMISSION VS. AUTOMATIC DIRECTORY SUBMISSION

2009-09-18T19:32:00.001-07:00

There are many online directories available online like the yellow pages and many others. These help you access information in a better way and in a very effective manner. There are many ways of submitting relevant information in these directories. There are two types of online directory submission namely Automatic Submission and Manual submission. These two have contrasting differences. An automatic system helps you to download information and software and eventually post this information to various web sites automatically. This has many disadvantages of using as the quality of the directory submission may be poor and may get indexed. It is very unreliable. In contrast with automatic system, the manual system for directory submission is very effective. It involves some effort as you have to visit every directory one by one and then post your website. This has to be again and again which may sound tiring. But in spite of this it is much better than automatic system as it is much reliable and there is low risk of your website getting axed.

Joomla SEO Checklist - Search Engine Optimization for Joomla

2009-09-16T19:05:00.000-07:00

Joomla is the most popular Content Management Systems (CMS) in the Opensource world. It's flexible and user friendly features are contributing in it's popularity as a CMS. Packt Publishing has been awarding Joomla as the best CMS for couple of years. However, apart from awards, Joomla also became popular to many users around the world, since it is the most sophisticated CMS, a person get for free.

However, the default Joomla Template is not at all search engine friendly. Therefore, every Joomla site needs to be further optimized for the search engines.

There are many things you can do to make your Joomla site search engine friendly. In this task list/checklist, I am listing some of the major SEO tasks you can do for your Joomla site with some of the new and advance techniques in the SEO industry:

PRE-SEO

Common Search Engine Optimization tasks for every site.

* Keyword Research and Analysis
* Competitor and Related Site Analysis
* Content Analysis (Check duplicates with copyscape and check relevance)
* Page, Category Level, and Article Level Onpage SEO Analysis (through Web CEO or iBusiness Promoter)
* Current Link Architecture Analysis
* Old Link Architecture Analysis (through Archive.org's Wayback Machine)
* Onpage SEO Checklist Preparation (if you don't plan to do it yourself).

ONSITE-SEO

General Search Engine Optimization tasks that are not page specific.

* Install and Modify Search Engine Friendly (SEF) URLs (Choose among JoomSEF, SH404SEF, SEF Advance, etc.)
* Rename the htaccess.txt file to .htaccess.
* Configure or update SEF for other plugins like: VirtueMart, SOBI, etc.
* Mod Rewrite (htaccess) for SEF and old/broken links and create 301 Permanent redirect, so that no link juice spills out of your site or you miss none on other sites.
* Elliminate the duplicate URL problem with SEF. However, most SEF Components now come with the feature to redirect duplicate URLs to one URL.
* Dissolve the Pagination problem that affects the site after installing SEF with default configuration.
* After fully implementing SEF URLs, use HTTrack Website Copier to cache the SEF URLs. Because after implementing SEF, the URLs individually create 404 errors.
* Install Web Analytics Scripts (Google Analytics, Statcounter, etc.)
* Install Canonical URLs to direct all files properly to neWWW location. If you are satisfied with non-WWW URLs, then it will do you no harm. But, be consistant.
* Install Joomla Sitemaps Plugin (Joomap, LiveMap, SEF Service Map) or make one from XML-Sitemaps.com (if your site has less than 500 pages)
* Submit site and sitemap to Google Webmaster Central and verify the site,
* Optimize your RSS feeds, enable subscription, "Publicize Your Feed" with FeedBurner
* Implement multilingual capability if required.

ONPAGE-SEO

Search Engine Optimization tasks specific to pages.

Meta SEO

* Install the Joomla SEO Patch, so that you have the full freedom to tailor custom Meta Information, like - Keywords and Description Meta tags.
* Switch Title Tag Placement from "Site Name - Article Page Title" to "Article Page Title - Site Name". i.e. bring the most important keyword first. Also make sure that your title tag is the first tag after head tag.
* Ensure that each article's Short Description or Summary is the Description Meta Tag. It's not cool to auto generate the description meta.
* Install JoomSEO Metabot to generate automated keywords on the fly. However, don't automate other onpage SEO features.
* Alternatively, if you have less pages in your site, don't automate. It's always better to have hand-coded strategic keywords in the Keywords Meta
* Commonly use Robots Meta to Index and Follow (index,follow) the pages that are important for you.
* Alternatively, make sure that the duplicate contents in the site have Robots Meta saying "noindex,follow" (tell Google not to index, but to follow).
* Use noarchive, noodp, nosnippet, etc. in Robots Meta, if you are bugged by scrappers or don't like the result you see in Google. Otherwise, leave it.
* Use country, language, and encoding Meta Tags for Local Search Engines.
* Install Canonical Plugin to show Canonical Metatag in Pages. Joost De Valk has one in his Yoast blog. For Joomla 1.5, you can use the plugin by Jeremy Wilken.
* Try to avoide unnecessary Meta Information from page

SEO for Link Architecture

* Analyze Link Architecture and determine plan for relevant link structure for proper link juice flow.
* Integrate Nofollow for pages that are totally irrelevant. Strategically implement Page Rank Sculpting or Siloing and other Nofollowing techniques.
* Use various XFN Relationship Tags for links in the Joomla site that are duplicate (rel="canonical"), similar/related (rel="me"), dependents/partners (rel="friend"), external (rel="external"), irrelevant (rel="nofollow"). This is not proven that these XFN Relationships other than Nofollow will affect SEO. But, it's always worth it to be ready for the future.

Joomla Template Customization - SEO Copyediting

* Call the page title at the top and at the bottom of the page.
* Use bread-crumb or pathway to link to respective category page
* Use related page module to generate a set of links to the related pages from the article level page. e.g. for VirtueMart, you can use related products module or show products that says, "You may also be interested in these products".
* Plant H1 tag for Page Title in the Body Tag for the most important keyword placeholder.
* Configure the site with H2 and H3 Tags for other important keyword placeholders.
* Social Media Optimize (SMO) the site for greater shareability.
* Copywrite/rewrite the duplicate contents, if your site has contents copied from other sites.
* Optimize CSS for outlook and the greater freedom to use Bold and H1, H2, H3 tags.
tableless CSS.
* W3C Validate the site without any warning or errors. However, for Joomla, this can be a tough job.
* Outsource the Java Script to external files as much as you can before the /head tag.
* Clean up unnecessary Markups.
* Reduce the Code : Content Ratio as much as you can.
* Optimize the Images for the search engines.
* Create and activate a compelling 404 Error page. Remember to copy Google's 404 scripts from your Google Webmaster Central account and paste it in that page.
* Remember that Multilingual Optimization with Joomfish also needs tweaking for other components and plugin as well.

List of Ping Services

2009-09-14T21:23:00.001-07:00

Ping services allow you to automatically notify blog directories and search engines that your blog has been updated. The bigger your ping list the higher the chances of receiving traffic from those sources, so check out the list below and include it on your blog (Wordpress users can modify their ping list on the Control Panel, then Options, then Writing).

http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2
http://1470.net/api/ping
http://api.feedster.com/ping
http://api.moreover.com/RPC2
http://api.moreover.com/ping
http://api.my.yahoo.com/RPC2
http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping
http://bblog.com/ping.php
http://bitacoras.net/ping
http://blog.goo.ne.jp/XMLRPC
http://blogdb.jp/xmlrpc
http://blogmatcher.com/u.php
http://bulkfeeds.net/rpc
http://coreblog.org/ping/
http://mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatt
http://www.lasermemory.com/lsrpc/
http://ping.amagle.com/
http://ping.bitacoras.com
http://ping.blo.gs/
http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc/
http://ping.cocolog-nifty.com/xmlrpc
http://ping.blogmura.jp/rpc/
http://ping.exblog.jp/xmlrpc
http://ping.feedburner.com
http://ping.myblog.jp
http://ping.rootblog.com/rpc.php
http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php
http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php
http://ping.weblogs.se/
http://pingoat.com/goat/RPC2
http://rcs.datashed.net/RPC2/
http://rpc.blogbuzzmachine.com/RPC2
http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger/
http://rpc.icerocket.com:10080/
http://rpc.newsgator.com/
http://rpc.pingomatic.com
http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2
http://topicexchange.com/RPC2
http://trackback.bakeinu.jp/bakeping.php
http://www.a2b.cc/setloc/bp.a2b
http://www.bitacoles.net/ping.php
http://www.blogdigger.com/RPC2
http://www.blogoole.com/ping/
http://www.blogoon.net/ping/
http://www.blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates
http://www.blogroots.com/tb_populi.blog?id=1
http://www.blogshares.com/rpc.php
http://www.blogsnow.com/ping
http://www.blogstreet.com/xrbin/xmlrpc.cgi
http://www.mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatter/ping.php
http://www.newsisfree.com/RPCCloud
http://www.newsisfree.com/xmlrpctest.php
http://www.popdex.com/addsite.php
http://www.snipsnap.org/RPC2
http://www.weblogues.com/RPC/
http://xmlrpc.blogg.de
http://xping.pubsub.com/ping/

How To Make Blog Load Faster

2009-09-14T21:20:00.001-07:00

The speed at which your blog loads is critical to attracting more readers to your blog. If your blog takes a long time to load, many readers may leave your blog before they have the chance to read it. Here are a few tips and tricks that will help your blog load faster and attract more users:

Posts

Your blog's load time can be affected by the number of posts you display on your main page. You can easily edit the number of posts displayed of the main page from the Settings Formatting tab. You can then select the number of posts you want to display on the main page. We recommend displaying 10 or fewer posts on the main page.

Third Party JavaScript and Links

For optimal blog load speed, we recommend using Google/Blogger widgets, JavaScipt and links. However, if you need to use third party JavaScipt and links, your blog will load much faster if you put all JavaScript at the bottom of your blog. If you have third party JavaScript and links in your sidebar, put them in at the bottom of the sidebar.

The more images, videos and other multi-media you have on your blog the longer it will take to load. However, images and other multimedia are important to attracting users to your blog, so it is important to optimize the load speed of your images and media. Here are a few tips to increase the load speed of your media:

1. Decrease the size of your images or use thumbnails that link to the full-size image.
2. If you use third party images, consider uploading them to Picasa Web Albums via the Blogger post editor
3. If you have a large number of images to display, you can upload all your images (from a vacation or event) to a Picasa Web Album and link to the album in your post or sidebar.

Other suggestions

1. If you've added any custom CSS to your blog, make sure you put it at the top of the page.
2. The most important content of your blog that catches readers attention should load the quickest. To help you identify which items are taking the longest to load you can use Stopwatch. To use Stopwatch, enter your blog's URL into the text box and click "Start StopWatch". Stopwatch will then open your blog in a frame and will record the time it takes for everything on your blog to load, including images, videos, widgets, etc. Take note of the items that take the longest to load and modify them appropriately using our suggestions.

Web 2.0's Top 1,000 List!

2009-09-14T21:14:00.000-07:00

AUDIO 2.0

* Bebop - Compare music calendar against your iTunes catalogue. www.bebopular.com/
* Clickcaster - Record, license, publish & promote your radio show. www.clickcaster.com/
* Difm - Radio community. www.di.fm/
* Dottunes - Share your iTunes. www.dottunes.net/
* Enablr - Transcribe podcasts, Text2Snailmail, ... www.enablr.com/
* Fluctu8 - Create & share your sourcelists. fluctu8.com/
* Gcast - Podcasting tools & hosting. www.gcast.com/
* Genie lab - Explore, recommend & rate music. genielab.com/
* Itunes love - Share your music tastes. www.ituneslove.com/
* Jamendo - Review, tag, rate & share music. www.jamendo.com/en/
* Lastfm* - Profile your taste, share, personalize your radio. www.last.fm/
* Mercora - Search music & get recommendations. search.mercora.com/
* Muiso - Track your taste, get recommendations. muiso.com/
* Music mobs - Share your tastes & find music. www.musicmobs.com/
* Music strands - Tag, share & post music community. www.musicstrands.com/
* Odeo - Record & share audio. www.odeo.com
* Pandora* - Personalized radio. pandora.com/
* Plurn - List, listen to, create & share music. www.plurn.com/
* Pod bop - Listen to bands that visit your city (Eventful mash-up). podbop.org/
* Podomatic - Create, find & broadcast podcasts. www.podomatic.com/
* Poperti - Save your mp3 on a pop email account. www.poperti.com/
* Predixis - Discover, manage & enjoy music. www.predixis.com/
* Purevolume - Music community. www.poperti.com/
* Radio time - Personalize radio. myradiotime.com/
* Streaming Radio Stations - Choose a type/style/genre of tunes. www.friendlycanadian.com/mp3s/
* Streampad - List, listen & share your music (= several mash-ups). www.streampad.com/
* Upto11 - Discover & share music. upto11.net/
* Webjay - Playlist community. www.webjay.org/
* W.H.A.K. - Comedy radio stations. www.whak.com/

BLOG2POD 2.0

* Talkr - Converts blog text to podcasts. www.talkr.com/

BLOGGING 2.0

* Bitty - Embed content from Web services. bitty.com/
* Blogburst - Syndicate blogs to mainstream media sites. www.blogburst.com/
* Blog code - Start blog & find similar ones. www.blogcode.com/
* Blogger (Google) - Free easy to use blog space. www.blogger.com/
* Blogger snap - Add your webcam snapshot to any blog. www.bloggersnap.com/
* Blog goggle - Categorize & rate pro bloggers. www.bloggoggle.com/
* Bloglet - Notification2email. www.bloglet.com/
* Blogs - Notification2email. blo.gs/
* Blurb - Turn your blog into a book. www.blurb.com/
* Cocomment - Track back your commentosphere. www.cocomment.com/
* Feedblitz - Notification2email. www.feedblitz.com/
* Freevlog - Set up free video blog. www.freevlog.org/
* Lifetype - Blogging software. www.lifetype.net/
* Measure map - Blog stats. measuremap.com/
* Qumana - Edit your blog. www.qumana.com/
* Structured blogging - Create, edit & maintain all posts. structuredblogging.org/
* Textamerica - Mobile blog. www.textamerica.com/
* Xanco~ - Mobile phlog & vlog. www.xanco.com/
* Blip - Get video & podcasting on your blog. www.blip.tv/
* Blog ladder - Create & maintain your blog. www.blogladder.com/
* Blogniscient - Rank & read blog articles. www.blogniscient.com/
* Bloxor - Maintain & use your blogroll online. www.bloxor.com/

BOOKMARKING 2.0

* 9rules - Validate & share links to content. 9rules.com/
* All your words - Associate & share words with links. www.allyourwords.com/
* Blinkist - Social bookmarking. www.blinklist.com/
* Blogmarks - Social bookmarking. www.blogmarks.net/
* Blummy - Manage your bookmarks. www.blummy.com/
* Bmaccess - Social bookmarking with thumbs. www.bmaccess.net/
* Buddy marks - Social bookmarking. www.buddymarks.com/
* Butterfly~ - Bookmark & annotate. www.butterflyproject.nl/
* Chuquet* - Find buzzes. www.chuquet.com/
* Clipmarks - Social clipping. www.clipmarks.com/
* Common Times - Social bookmarking & clippings. www.commontimes.org/
* Connotea - Social bookmarking (for reseacrhers). www.connotea.org/
* Delicious* - Social bookmarking. del.icio.us/
* Digg* - Social bookmarking. www.digg.com
* Diigo - Social bookmarking on steroids. www.diigo.com/
* Dogear - Social bookmarking. www.eigology.com/dogear/
* Feed marker - Social bookmarking for news. www.feedmarker.com/
* Furl - Clip, store & share web pages. www.furl.net/
* Hyperlinkomatic - Social bookmarking. www.hyperlinkomatic.com/
* Icio - Social bookmarking & rating. www.icio.de/
* Jeteye - Clip & share (parts of) web pages. www.jeteye.com/
* Listible - Folksonomied software & code search. www.listible.com/
* List Mixer - Social bookmarking (temporary links). listmixer.com/
* Live Marks - Live update of Delicious. sandbox.sourcelabs.com/livemarks/
* Look later - Private bookmarking. www.looklater.com/
* Lookmarks - Social bookmarking. www.lookmarks.com/
* Magnolia - Social bookmarking & voting. ma.gnolia.com/
* MaxSpider - Submit links www.maxspider.com/
* Mylinkvault - Social bookmarking. www.mylinkvault.com/
* Onlywire - Social bookmarking aggregator. www.onlywire.com/
* Philoi - Social bookmarking. www.philoi.com/
* Qoosa - Social bookmarking. www.qoosa.com/
* Searchfox - Social bookmarking. www.searchfox.com/
* Shadows - Social bookmarking. shadows.com/
* Simpy - Social bookmarking, tagging & search. www.simpy.com/
* Socialmarks - Social bookmarking. www.socialmarks.com/
* Spinspy - Social bookmarking & ranking. www.spinspy.com/
* Spurl - Social - Bookmarking & search. www.spurl.net/
* Startaid - Manage & share your (thumb) bookmarks. www.startaid.com/
* Stumble Upon - Social bookmarking (random sharing). www.stumbleupon.com/
* Surftail - Share your click paths. www.surftail.com/
* Taggle - Social bookmarking, tagged (German). www.taggle.de/
* Tagtooga - Social bookmarking. www.tagtooga.com/
* Tendango - Top 10 social bookmarking. www.tendango.com/
* Thumblicio.us - Displays thumbs of most pupular del.icio.us sites. thumblicio.us/
* Yahoo Myweb2 - Social bookmarking. myweb2.search.yahoo.com/
* Yoono - Save your bookmarks and manage your feeds - www.yoono.com/

BROWSER 2.0

* Camino - Mozilla power & Mac style browser. www.caminobrowser.org/
* Flock - Lightweight browser. www.flock.com/
* BestToolbar - IE toolbar with web apps at a click of a button. www.best-toolbar.com/

CALENDAR 2.0

* 30boxes - Manage & share calendar. 30boxes.com/
* Calendar hub - Create & share calendars. www.calendarhub.com/
* Eventful - Create & share events. eventful.com/
* Eventicus - Create & share events. www.eventicus.de/
* Event sniper - Mix your event calendar with feeds. www.eventsniper.com/
* Hipcal - Manage & share calendar & to do lists. www.hipcal.com/
* Meet with approval - Arrange meetings & events online. www.meetwithapproval.com/
* Mosuki - Arrange meetings & events online. mosuki.com/
* Planzo - Arrange meetings & events online & thru sms. planzo.com/
* PhotoTricks - Upload photo to a calendar template. www.fototrix.com/
* Skobee - Arrange meetings & events online. www.skobee.com/
* Sponge cell - Arrange meetings & events online; with a.i. spongecell.com/
* Tilika - Share calendars. www.tilika.com/
* Trumba - Create& share events. www.trumba.com/
* Upcoming - Create, manage & share events. upcoming.org/

CHAT 2.0

* 3bubbles - Add a chatroom to your blog. www.3bubbles.com/
* Ajchat - Create chat rooms. www.ajchat.com/
* Campfire - Permalinked chat. www.campfirenow.com/
* ChatPhobic - Connect to any IRC server www.chatphobia.com/
* Chatsum* - Chat with & leave messages same-site-visitors. www.chatsum.com/
* Conversate - Create your own chat. www.conversate.org/
* PeekoChat - Make every site a 'place' (Firefox plug-in). peekko.com/chat/
* Zohochat - Create your own chat room. zohochat.com/
* Ekklesia - CMS for churches. www.ekklesia-systems.com/
* Loudblog - CMS inc. RSS. www.loudblog.de/
* HIVchat - HIV chatroom. www.aidschat.org/
* Pmachine - CMS. www.pmachine.com/ee/
* Tinymce - Wysiwyg editor. tinymce.moxiecode.com/

COLLABORATION 2.0

* Askeet - Ask & answer it. www.askeet.com/
* AskMeThat - Ask a question. www.askmethat.com/
* Asoboo - Find people & places in your city. asoboo.com/
* Favorville - People helping people. www.favorville.com/
* Foldera - Organize & share all work based documents. www.foldera.com/
* Hubpages - Share your genius. www.hubpages.com/
* Ifolder - Filesharing for groups. www.ifolder.com/
* Jotspot - Take one set of notes, live. www.jotlive.com/
* Lime - Help & inspire eachother. lime.com/
* Mayomi - Mind map & share. www.mayomi.com/
* People2pray - Manage & share prayer requests. www.people2pray.com/
* Qype - Find & recommend best spots in town. qype.com/
* Rally point - Share knowledge. www.rallypointhq.com/
* Redlettr - Tag & comment the bible. www.desertfather.com/micah/
* Rel8r - Tag, read, search blogs. www.rel8r.com/
* Rrove* - Save & share places. www.rrove.com/
* Say-So - Share problems & get advise. www.say-so.org/
* Socialight - Share pictures & notes with your cell phone. socialight.com/
* Standpoint - Share & evangelize convictions. www.standpoint.com/
* Study buddy - Share notecards. www.studybuddy.info/
* Tracbac - Share, comment, revise & collaborate. www.tracbac.com/
* Vizu - Create, share & vote for polls. www.vizu.com/
* Webbrush - Collaborative drawing, charting, etc. www.stanfy.com/dev/webbrush/
* What should i read next - Share your bookshelve. whatshouldireadnext.com/
* Wobblog - Rank & share blog postings. www.wobblog.com/
* Zimbra - Work & communicate together. www.zimbra.com/

COLLECT 2.0

* Librarious - Catalogue your collection. lib.rario.us/
* Librarything - Catalogue & share your library. www.librarything.com/
* Unalog - Share what you read, in groups. unalog.com/
* Web20 - Search Engine collection. www.web20searchengine.com/

COMIX 2.0

* Comics - Create & share comics. www.mainada.net/comics/
* ComicStripr - Personalize cartoon strips. www.comicstripgenerator.com/
* FotoTricks - Upload photo and add comic bubbles. www.fototrix.com/
* Quicktoons - Create & share comics. www.quicktoons.com/

COMMUNICATION 2.0

* ChatPhobi - Connect to 50,000 chat rooms. www.chatphobia.com/
* E-messenger - Ajax messengers. www.e-messenger.net/
* E-messenger - Integrates several messengers. www.e-messenger.net/
* Gtalkr - Google Talk, Flickr, YouTube, feeds. https://gtalkr.com/
* Iglance - Push-to-talk videoconf and screen-sharing. www.iglance.com/
* Imeem - Share words, files & people (on messenger). www.imeem.com/
* Imvu - 3D messenger. www.imvu.com/
* Iotum - Sorts & processes calls on relevance. www.iotum.com/
* Jabphone - Messenger2phone. www.jabphone.com/
* Jumpclaimer - Inform your relatives about your whereabouts thru sms. www.jumpclaimer.com/
* Kopete - Universal messenger. kopete.kde.org/
* Mabber - Mobile messenger. www.mabber.com/
* Meebo - Integrates several messengers. www.meebo.com/
* Skylook - Record & store all Skype communications. www.skylook.biz/
* Skype - Call, conference, messenger, file sharing. www.skype.com/
* Slawesome - Add voice to your email. www.slawesome.com/
* Soonr - Mobile 2 web & v.v. www.soonr.com/
* Stickam* - Multimedia communication tool. www.stickam.com/
* Tello - Locate & collaborate with your key contacts. www.tello.com/
* Userplane - Chat, messenger, record. www.userplane.com/
* V4s - Add voice to your email. www.orb.com/skype/
* Vyew - Web based video conferencing. vyew.com/
* Waxmail - Add voice to your email. www.waxmail.biz/
* Web2messenger - Send messages from web 2 messenger. www.web2messenger.com/

COMMUNITY 2.0

* 43people - Tag based matching & dating. www.43people.com/
* Ask Me That - Public help forums. www.askmethat.com/
* 43places - Publish & share stories about places. www.43places.com/
* Blogtronix - Blogging & corporate community software. www.blogtronix.com/
* Communitywalk - Share places & routes (map mash-up). www.communitywalk.com/
* Consumating - Tag based dating. www.consumating.com/
* Create & Participate in communities. www.towncrossing.com/
* Dodgeball - Hook in with your mobile & meet friends. www.dodgeball.com/
* Doostang - Community for professionals. www.doostang.com/
* Facebook - Student communities. www.facebook.com/
* Frappr - Put your group on the map, share photos. www.frappr.com/
* Friendster - Connect with friends. www.friendster.com/
* Groups - Create groups & share content. grou.ps/
* HIV/AIDSNetwork - www.pozitiveliving.com/
* HumanPages – Philanthropic “LinkedIn-Like” People Search. www.humanpages.com/
* Ikarma - Document & promote your reputation. ikarma.com/
* Linkedin - Manage and share your cv. www.linkedin.com/
* Livejournal - Join or create your own community. www.sixapart.com/livejournal/
* Lovento - Find friends & events. www.lovento.com/
* Mapmix. Find your friends (map mash-up). www.mapmix.com/
* Meetro - Find friends nearby (thru messenger). www.meetro.com/
* Meetup - Find common interests & organize meetings. www.meetup.com/
* Mologogo - Share where you are. www.mologogo.com/
* Mozes - Share information & people thru your mobile. mozes.com/
* MySpace - Communicate with & share content with your friends. www.myspace.com/
* OpenBC - Community for entrepreneurs & professionals. www.openbc.com
* Opinity - Manage your reputation. www.opinity.com/
* Orkut - Connect to your friends. https://www.orkut.com/
* Partysync - Meet & sms people. group.partysync.com/
* Peerprofile - Publish & share your profiles. www.peerprofile.com/
* Peertrainer - Buddy up, slim down. www.peertrainer.com/
* Phusebox - Community for sophisticated people. phusebox.net/
* Piczo - Create & share website. piczo.com/
* Placesite - Wi-fi portal & location communities. www.placesite.com/
* Plum - Collect, share, connect. www.plum.com/
* Poddater - Create vodcast & connect. www.poddater.com/
* Pooln - Schedule your car pooling. www.pooln.com/
* Rabble - Create it & share it mobile. www.rabble.com/
* Tagalag - Tag & map your contacts. www.tagalag.com/
* Theblackstripe - Upload & share photos. www.theblackstripe.com/
* Tinfinger - Search persons. www.tinfinger.com/
* Towncrossing - Find & Link to Friends. towncrossing.com/
* Twocrowds - Share & vote for predictions. www.twocrowds.com/
* Vcarious - Travel community. www.vcarious.com/
* Wallop - Phlog & interact. mywallop.com/
* Xanga - Blog rings. www.xanga.com/
* Zaadz~ - Network of inspired people. www.zaadz.com/
* Ziggs - Index of professionals. www.ziggs.com/
* Zoominfo* - Search persons; create your own page. www.zoominfo.com/

CRM 2.0

* 24sevenoffice - Web-based crm & erp. www.24sevenoffice.com/
* Helpspot - Wen nased help desk software. www.userscape.com/
* Pushcrm - Web-based crm. pushcrm.com/
* Simpleticket - Helpdesk solution. www.simpleticket.net/
* Userscape - Web based help desk portal. www.userscape.com/
* Zohocrm - Web-based crm. www.zohocrm.com/

DATABASE 2.0

* Turbodbadmin - Online dbase in Ajax. www.turboajax.com/turbodbadmin.html/

DESIGN 2.0

* BannerAds - Make 480x60 web banners. www.bannergenerator.org/
* Betterdesktop - Share usability tests. www.betterdesktop.org/
* Flickrlogomakr - Make Flickr-like logo in a second. flickr.nosv.org/ (cf. this group's logo).
* Desktop Wallpaper Creator. www.wallpapergenerator.com/
* Hide Text From Spambots. www.txt2png.com/
* Netcocktail - Share color schemes. www.netcocktail.com/
* Neurosky - Bionic interface technology. www.neurosky.com/
* OK-cancel. Collaboration on interface design. www.ok-cancel.com/
* Online Logo Designer. www.text2logo.com/
* PreviewHTML - Preview your HTML source codes. www.previewhtml.com/
* Sign Generators. www.customsigngenerator.com/
* Typetester - Compare screen type. www.typetester.maratz.com/
* Warning Label Maker. www.dangersigngenerator.com/
* Wufoo - Build & host forms. www.wufoo.com/
* Watermark Images www.signgeneratormaker.com/

DICTIONARY 2.0

* Visualthesaurus - Find & visualize synonyms. www.visualthesaurus.com/
* SeekFreak - Thesaurus, dictionary, spell checker.

ECOMMERCE 2.0

* 12 Wists - Share shopping lists. www.wists.com/
* 43deals - Find best deals. www.43deals.com/
* Adgenta - Add ads to your site, blog or rss feed. www.adgenta.com/
* Amazon* - Shop, sell, review & rank. www.amazon.com/
* Auctionmapper - Map Ebay auctions. www.auctionmapper.com/
* Bigcartel - Start, review & recommend online shops. bigcartel.com/
* Blish - Buy & sell digital things. www.blish.com/
* Broadbandgenie - Find best provider. www.broadbandgenie.co.uk/
* CafePress - Free to design, sell, buy custom products. www.cafepress.com/ (join affiliate program)
* CafePress Live JavaScript Feed. www.web20appz.com/cafepress/javascript.asp
* Carbonmade - Publish & manage your portfolio online. www.carbonmade.com/
* Clipfire - Shop search engine & community. www.clipfire.com/
* Closo - Start & advertise your online shop. www.closo.com/
* Cooqy - Find things faster on Ebay (client). www.cooqy.com/
* Coverpop - Mash-ups of everything. www.coverpop.com/
* Darmik - Sell & share profits with charities. www.darmik.com/
* Ebay* - Sell, rate & buy; auction. www.ebay.com/
* Etsy - Buy & sell handmade things. www.etsy.com/
* Flyspy - Graph all of your choices in air travel. www.flyspy.com/index.php/
* Fotogopo - Animated local route map; Google Maps & Geocoder mash-up. www.fotogopo.com/
* Froogle* - Local shopping search engine; Google Maps mash-up. www.google.com/sellonfroogle/
* Garbagescout - Find treasures on NY streets; Google Maps mash-up. www.garbagescout.com/
* Gumshoo - Auction analyzer; Ebay mash-up. www.gumshoo.com/
* Hawkee - Tagged price comparison. www.hawkee.com/
* Homethinking - Search, find, contact & review realtors. www.homethinking.com/
* Hotpads - Houses for rent. hotpads.com/
* Inods - Shopping review aggregator. inods.com/
* Insideflyer - Convert loyalty points. insideflyer.com/
* Judysbook - Review & rate your neighbourhood. www.judysbook.com/
* Kayak Buzz - Find cheap destinations; Google Maps mash-up. www.kayak.com/h/buzz/flights
* Licketyship - Home-delivery supermarket; retail & couriers co-operation. www.licketyship.com/
* Licketytrip - Last minute vacation rentals (map mash-up). www.licketytrip.com/
* Lopico - Social business directory. www.lopico.com/
* Mapeire - User generated lowest price finder; Google Maps mash-up. www.mapeire.com/
* Motionmall - Design & insert webads. www.motionmall.com/
* Paguna - Travel booking with 1 page Ajax interface. https://www.paguna.com/
* Peerflix - List & trade DVDs. www.peerflix.com/
* Pricenoia - Amazon price comparison. www.pricenoia.com/
* Qoop - Publish & sell photos & photo products. www.qoop.com/
* Redtoucan - Share photos & review products. www.redtoucan.com/
* Reevoo - Review & buy electronics. www.reevoo.com/
* Revver - Upload, share or sell your videos. www.revver.com/
* Savedsearchpro - Find Ebay deals easier. www.savedsearchpro.com/
* Shoposphere* - Create & share pick lists. shopping.yahoo.com/shoposphere/
* Site flavored Google* - Tailor adwords to your site. www.google.com/services/siteflavored.html
* Sofortpreis - Mobile shopping assistent. www.sofortpreis.de/
* Souki~ - Local shop search. www.souki.com/
* Spymedia - Publish & sell news photos. www.spymedia.com/
* Stylehive - Get recommendations fitting your product interests. www.shopify.com/
* Tenbills - Design & buy your T. www.tenbills.com/
* Thandora - Tag based search in yellow pages. www.thandora.com/tagit.do/
* Tictap - Price comparison for mobile. www.tictap.com/
* Tnook - Build, manage & trade your collections. www.tnook.com/
* Wazima - Coupon aggregator. www.wazima.com/
* Web20milliondollarhomepage - Pixel ads. www.web20milliondollarhomepage.com/
* Wists - Social shopping. www.wists.com/
* Wuraweb - Find local prices & credentials. www.wuraweb.com/
* Yelp - Find, review & discuss local restaurants etc. www.yelp.com/
* Yub - Meet, hang & get discounts in shopping mall. www.yub.com/mall/
* Zazzle - Design, sell & buy custom goods. www.zazzle.com/
* Zillow - Get your home valuated (map mash-up). www.zillow.com/
* Zipingo - Find local business based on community input. www.zipingo.com/

ECONOMY 2.0

* Aidpage - People help people. www.aidpage.com/
* Associatedcontent - Produce & publish content, get paid. www.associatedcontent.com/
* Billmonk - Manage debts. https://www.billmonk.com/
* Castingwords - Get your podcasts transcribed. castingwords.com/
* Couchsurfing* - Home swapping & holiday dating. www.couchsurfing.com/
* Daylo - Contribute to local yellow pages. daylo.com/
* Democracy2.0* - Consumers/Citizens unite! d2.stevemagruder.com/hub.php
* Donorschoose - Donate to schools. www.donorschoose.org/
* Elevatorpitch - Upload, read & rate pitches. www.yourelevatorpitch.com/
* Fundable - Pledge for funding. www.fundable.org/
* Gather - Share passions & get paid. gather.com/
* Givebobadollar - Begging. www.givebobadollar.com/
* Givemeaning - Give or take fundraising community. www.givemeaning.com/
* Givezilla - Create fundraising storefront. www.givezilla.com/
* Google answers - Get your questions answered for money. answers.google.com/answers/
* Ikarma - Document & promote your reputation. ikarma.com/
* Lendmonkey - Trade everything. www.lendmonkey.com/
* Listsomething - Share any list to buy & sell things, services. www.listsomething.com/
* Million dollar homepage* - Buy pixels to finance study. www.milliondollarhomepage.com/
* Mturk - Complete simple tasks & get paid. www.mturk.com/mturk/welcome/
* Myfreelanceauction - Buy or sell web services. myfreelanceauction.com/
* Oolsi - Share links to free things. www.oolsi.com/
* Prosper - P2P lending. www.prosper.com/
* Rawsugar - Social bookmarking directory & revenue sharing. www.rawsugar.com/
* Secondlifeboutique - Buy real things with virtuaa money. slboutique.com/
* Smarkets - Stock markets for products. www.smarkets.net/
* Smashmyviper - Buy pixels to destroy car. www.smashmyviper.com/
* Stuffopolis - Keep track of things you lend or borrow. www.stuffopolis.com/
* Swabba - Online garage sale (German). www.swabba.de/
* Zopa - P2P banking services. www.zopa.com/

E-LEARNING 2.0

* Elgg - Open source e-learning software. elgg.org/
* Nuvvo - On demand elearning. www.nuvvo.com/
* Medical Portal. www.medchecker.com/
* WebTools - Web 2.0 apps. www.web20appz.com/

EMAIL 2.0

* Dropsend - Email large files. www.dropsend.com/
* Mail2RSS - Inmail2RSS. www.mail2rss.org/
* Myemail - Check email anywhere. myemail.com/
* Newsletterarchive* - Store & share your newsletters. www.newsletterarchive.org/
* Onesens - Send teasing webmail messages. www.onesens.com/
* Quickmail - Email2RSS. quickmail.johanfitie.com/
* Sendspace - Email large files. www.sendspace.com/
* Tempinbox - Receive inmail anonymously. www.tempinbox.com/
* Trustmymail - Spam filter based on your circle of contacts. www.trustmymail.com/
* Yousendit - Email large files. www.yousendit.com/
* Irows - Web based spreadsheet. www.irows.com/
* Numbler - Excel spreadsheet online. numbler.com/
* Numsum - Collaborate online on spreadsheets. numsum.com/
* Sundera - Collaborate online on spreadsheets. www.sundera.com/

FILESHARING 2.0

* Bittorrent - Share files & bandwidth. www.bittorrent.com/
* Civilnetizen - File swapping. www.civilnetizen.com/
* Lphanr - Multi compatible P2P file sharing. www.lphant.com/

FINANCIALS 2.0

* Blinksale - Web-based invoicing. www.blinksale.com/
* Dimewise - Manage your finances. www.dimewise.com/
* Frugalbetty - Manage your spendings. frugalbetty.com/
* Ioweyou - Manage loans & shared expenses. www.ioweyou.co.uk/
* Networthiq - Track, share & compare your net worth. www.networthiq.com/
* Secondsite - Web-based invoicing. www.secondsite.biz/
* Secondssite. Finance tools. www.secondsite.biz/

FUN 2.0

* Beggr - Give me your money. www.beggr.com/
* Humor Search Engine - Comedy links. www.comedysearchengine.com/
* Sign Generators (Flash). www.signgenerator.net/
* Web2.0validator - Screen your website on 2.0-ishness. web2.0validator.com/

GAMBLING 2.0

* Poserfish - P2P betting, free. www.poserfish.com/

GAMES 2.0

* Alexadex* - Buy & sell shares in sites. Alexa mash-up. alexadex.com/ad/
* Arcaplay - Rate & share games. arcaplay.com/
* SHoot the Celebrities (celeb SHoot-out). www.famousdefaces.com/
* Averageshoveler - Game & RSS news mash-up. www.zanni.org/average.htm
* Bliss - Customize game to couple’s needs. www.gamesforloving.com/
* Bunchball - Play games with your friends. www.bunchball.com/
* Fastr - Guess game; Flickr mash-up. - randomchaos.com/games/fastr/
* Gibbity - Contribute & review games. www.gibbity.com/
* Guess-the-google - Guess game; Google mash-up. grant.robinson.name/projects/guess-the-google/
* Imstar - IM & game with your 3D avatar. imstar.com/
* Ispott - Mobile treasure hunt. www.ispott.com/
* Llor - Build your street. www.llor.nu/
* Memory - Memory + Yahoo images mash-up. bryngfors.com/index.php?page_id=10
* Millionsofgames - Review & share games. www.millionsofgames.com/
* Montage-a-google - Tag based random photo montage; Google mash-up. grant.robinson.name/projects/montage-a-google/
* Multitap - Share, rate, discuss & categorize screenshots. multitap.net/
* Naughtyamerica* - Multiplayer video sexgame. www.naughtyamericathegame.com/
* Phrasr - Add photos to phrases; Flickr mash-up. www.pimpampum.net/phrasr/
* SillyWebcam - Interactive Flash games, motion sensing VIA webcams. www.sillywebcam.com/
* Spell with Flickr - Spell names with photos; Flickr mash-up. metaatem.net/words/

HOSTING 2.0

* 30gigs - Store your data. www.30gigs.com/
* 4shared - Upload & share files. 4shared.com/
* Allmydata - Store & share your data. www.allmydata.com/
* Bolt - Watch, upload & share media. www.bolt.com/
* Box - Store & share data. www.box.net/
* Bryght - Create & maintain a community. www.bryght.com/
* Gdisk - Hosting thru Gmail. gdisk.sourceforge.net/
* Grokthis - Aplication hosting. www.grokthis.net/
* Hula - Manage calendars & email. www.hula-project.org/
* Joyent - ASP hosting of email, calendars, contacts… www.joyent.com/
* Mailbigfile - Mail large files. www.mailbigfile.com/
* Mozy - Upload & backup your files. www.mozy.com/
* Multiply - Store, share & discuss your data. multiply.com/
* Omnidrive - Store & access data. www.omnidrive.com.au/
* Openomy - Upload your files & use extra apps. www.openomy.com/
* Ourmedia - Store & share data. www.ourmedia.org/
* Pando* - Store & share data. www.pando.com/
* Putfwd - Store & exchange data. www.putfwd.com/
* Railsbase - Application hosring (Ruby-based). railsbase.com/
* Smartimagine - Store & manage your image & media files. smartimagine.com/
* Sproutit - Manage your email - www.sproutit.com/
* Store & share audio, video, clippings. www.esnips.com/
* Strongspace - Upload, store, back-up & share your files. www.strongspace.com/
* TextDrive - Hosted applications. www.textdrive.com/
* Vast – Build and Augment Your Own Services. vast.com/contact/api.htm
* Xdrive - Store & share your data. www.xdrive.com/
* Xmailharddrive - Store data thru Gmail. www.xmailharddrive.com/
* Zingee - Store & share files. www.zingee.com/

IDENTITY 2.0

* Calaimid - Manage your online identity. claimid.com/
* Myme - Create your online avatar. www.my-me.com/
* Sxip - Control personal digital identity. www.sxip.com/

IMAGES 2.0

* 23hq - Store, share & manage photos. www.23hq.com/
* BodySwitch - Put your face on another body. www.bodyswitcher.com/
* Danbooru - Upload, tage & share images. danbooru.donmai.us/
* Dropshots - Upload & share photos & video. www.dropshots.com/
* Flappr - Search pictures; Flickr mash-up. bcdef.org/flappr/
* FakeMagazine - Make fake magazine cover. www.fakemagazinecover.com/
* Flickr - Upload & share photos. www.flickr.com/
* Flickr photo finder - Find & publish photos. www.wynia.org/experiments/phpflickr/
* Flickr* - Manage & share your photos. www.flickr.com/
* Flickrfling - RSS feeds & Flickr mash-up. www.nastypixel.com/prototype/?p=80
* Flickrlicious. Share Babes on Flickr. www.flickrlicio.us/
* Flyinside - Create, publish & share virtual photo tours. www.flyinside.com/
* Fotki - Upload, share, print photos. www.fotki.com/
* Fotoflix - Upload & share photos. www.fotoflix.com/
* Fotolia* - Buy & sell images. www.fotolia.com/
* Fotolog - Create & map your phlog. www.fotolog.com/
* Groupr - Groups photos from Flickr groups. groupr.200ok.net/
* Illhostit - Host your images. www.illhostit.com/
* ImageGenerate - Customize images, 10,000 templates. www.imagegenerator.org/
* Istockphoto - Buy & sell images. www.istockphoto.com/index.php
* Jellybarn - Upload, edit, manage, share your photos. www.jellybarn.com/
* Ondergrond~ - Upload photos of public art. www.ondergrond.org/
* Phlog~ - Upload & share photos. phlog.net/
* Photobloggr - Find tags on name; Flickr mash-up. photobloggr.com/
* Photobucket - Upload, publish & share photos. www.photobucket.com/
* Photomap - Add photos to locations; multi mash-up. photomap.mozdev.org/
* Picturecloud - 360o view on your pics. www.picturecloud.com/
* Pixagogo - Upload, manage & share photos. www.pixagogo.com/
* Sharpcast - Manage your mobile photos online. sharpcast.com/
* Shutterbook - Store & share photos. www.shutterbook.com/
* Shutterfly - Store, share & print photos. www.shutterfly.com/
* Slide* - Upload & share photos. www.slide.com/
* Slidestory - Publish stories with photo slideshows. www.slidestory.com/
* Smilebox - Pimp up your photo presentation. www.smilebox.com/
* Smugmug - Store & share photos. www.smugmug.com/
* Tagworld - Store & share photos. www.tagworld.com/
* Tickr - Flickr desktop ticker. www.stuffonfire.com/2006/01/tickr_for_flickr_10_v6.html
* Zooomr. Search photos in many languages. beta.zooomr.com/home
* Zoto - Uload, phlog & share. www.zoto.com/

IMAGING 2.0

* Avatar Maker - Custom avatars for blogs/forums. www.avatargenerator.org/
* Blog Headers - Make document headers. www.headerbar.com/
* BodySwitcher - Put your face on a funny body scene. www.bodyswitcher.com/
* Colorblender - Color picker & matcher. www.colorblender.com/
* Colorcell - Find beautiful color combinations. colorcell.uneven.org/
* Colr* - Play with color photos & publish results. www.colr.org/
* Comic(de)Faces - Make cartoons from celeb photos. www.famousdefaces.com/
* Colrpickr - Color picker. krazydad.com/colrpickr/
* Epassportphoto - Upload, manipulate, download your photo. www.epassportphoto.com/
* FakeMagazines - Upload photo, add magazine templates. www.fakemagazinecover.com/
* Flashpaint - Draw & share pictures. www.flashpaint.com/
* Flowermaker - Design flowers. www.zefrank.com/flowers/
* Gliffy - Draw & share diagrams. www.gliffy.com/
* Glitterize - Glitter your text, animated. www.glitterizer.com/
* Headers - Create header title bars. www.headerbar.com/
* Imageeditor - Edit your images online. www.imageeditor.net/
* LogoMaker - Make logos online for free. www.text2logo.com/
* Photostack - Manage images (Ajax). www.photostack.org/
* Picasa - Find, edit & share photos. picasa.google.com/
* Picturecloud - 360o view on your pics. www.picturecloud.com/
* Pixelgroup - Draw anything with others. blog.outer-court.com/pixel/
* Pxn8 - Manipulate & publish your photos. www.pxn8.com/
* Rasterbator - Creates rasterized images. homokaasu.org/rasterbator/
* RSS/XML Buttons - Clean looking simple buttons. www.rssbuttons.com/
* Scrapbooker - Free digital scrapbooking onlinew. www.scrapbookgenerator.com/
* SignGenerators - Personalize the text on funny signs. www.signgenerator.org/
* SillyWebcam - Take snapshots with webcams and Flash. www.sillywebcam.com/
* Smilebox - Pimp up your photo presentation. www.smilebox.com/
* SmileyMaker - Custom smilies. www.happyfacegenerator.com/
* Textorizer - Image2Text. textorizer.whatfettle.com/
* Txt2JPG - Convert text to JPEG images online (email signatures). www.txt2jpg.com/
* TXT2PNG - Converts text to PNG images. www.txt2png.com/
* WallpaperMaker - Custom desktop pics. www.wallpapergenerator.com/
* Web 2.0 Button Maker - Rounded corners and more. www.web2.0button.com/
* Webimager - Capture screens & upload them to Flickr. phpspot.net/php/flickr/

JOBS 2.0

* Bixee - Job finder. www.bixee.com/
* Glendor - Job finder; map mash-up. www.glendor.com/
* Indeed - Finds jobs on what & where. www.indeed.com/
* Jobazaar - Tagged job offerings. www.jobazaar.com/
* Pagebites - Resume search. www.pagebites.com/
* Sidejobtrack - Job tracker. www.sidejobtrack.com/
* Simplyhired - Local job search. www.simplyhired.com/
* Simplyhired - Search biggest jobs dbase. www.simplyhired.com/
* Yorz - Join group, upload resume. www.yorz.com/

KNOWLEDGE 2.0

* Blinkbits - Share knowledge. www.blinkbits.com/
* Brainreactions - Participate in brainstorms & share ideas. www.brainreactions.net/
* Copyscape - Manage rights online. www.copyscape.com/
* Echosign - Contract management. www.echosign.com/public/compose
* Grokker - Enterprise search & knowledge management. www.grokker.com/
* Hanzoweb - Bookmark, tag & share knowledge online. hanzoweb.com/
* Jots - Information sharing. www.jots.com/
* Kaboodle - Information sharing. www.kaboodle.com/
* Oyogi - Share Q&A. www.oyogi.com/
* Postgenomic* - Share & rank life science knowledge. www.postgenomic.com/
* Pubsub - Match your interests with new info. www.pubsub.com/
* Root/vaults* - Store, manage & share knowledge online. www.root.net/vaults/
* Squidoo - Share knowledge. www.squidoo.com/
* Tractis - Negotiate & sign contract, solve disputes online. www.tractis.com/
* Wondir - Share Q&A. www.wondir.com/
* Yahooanswers - Share Q&A. answers.yahoo.com/

LISTS 2.0

* 43Things - Publish, share, find your goals. www.43things.com/
* Giftbox - List & manage gifts. www.giftboxhome.com/
* Greedyme - List & share your wishes. www.greedyme.com/
* Listible - Create a shareable list with the World! www.listible.com/
* Metawishlist - List & share your wishes. www.metawishlist.com/
* Myprogs - List & find software. myprogs.net/

MAPPING 2.0

* Bittercyclist - Bicycle accident map & community; map mash-up www.bittercyclist.com/
* Chicagocrime - Crime dbase map mash-up. www.chicagocrime.org/
* Feedmap - Map your blogs. www.feedmap.net/
* Flashearth - Global maps mash-up in flash. www.flashearth.com/
* Flickrmap - Map Flickr photos. www.flickrmap.com/
* Gchart - Check local time globally. www.gchart.com/
* Google Earth* - Global maps. earth.google.com/
* Googlemaps - Check local things globally. maps.google.com/
* Gvisit - Map your site visitors. www.gvisit.com/
* Locallive - Windows maps. local.live.com/
* Map builder - Mash-up your own maps. www.mapbuilder.net/
* Map24 - Route finder; 3D. www.nl.map24.com/
* Mapbuilder - Mash-up your own maps. www.mapbuilder.net/
* Mappr - Map Flickr photos per tag. www.mappr.com/
* Panoramio - Share mapped photos. www.panoramio.com/
* Pervwatch - Perv mash-up. www.pervwatch.org/
* Pheromonetrail - Share places & sites & persons. www.pheromonetrail.com/
* Placeopedia - Wiki + Google maps mash-up. www.placeopedia.com/
* Planiglobe - Create your own map. www.planiglobe.com/
* Platial - Co-create atlas & share places. platial.com/
* Plazes* - Share locations & discover people. www.plazes.com/
* Powermap - Next level Google maps. hobbiton.thisside.net/advmap.html/
* Publicloos - Share public toilets. paul.kedrosky.com/publicloos/
* Tagzania - Share & map places. www.tagzania.com/
* Toeat - Map & share restaurants. www.toeat.com/
* Tripmojo - Map & share hotels. www.tripmojo.com/
* Vlogmap. Map your vlog. www.vlogmap.org/
* Wayfaring - Create & share your maps. www.wayfaring.com/
* Web20map - Web 2.0 companies on map mash-up. www.fourio.com/web20map/
* Yahoo maps* - Global & local maps & search mash-ups. maps.yahoo.com/beta/

MARKETING 2.0

* Alexscoupons - Find coupon deals. www.alexscoupons.com/
* Attentiontrust - Advertising based on mutual understanding. www.attentiontrust.org/
* Cafespot - Social guide to cafes, restaurants, etc. www.cafespot.net/
* Coastr - List & share your beers and beer places. www.coastr.com/
* Dropcash - Create & manage online fundraiser. www.dropcash.com/
* Edgeio - Find classified listings, publish your own. www2.edgeio.com/
* Fruitcast - Podcast advertizing network. www.fruitcast.com/
* Jigsaw - Subscribe, buy, sell sales contacts. www.jigsaw.com/
* Kanoodle - Sponsored links services. www.kanoodle.com/
* Knowmore - Consumers unite! www.knowmore.org/
* Linklike - Link exchange. www.linklike.com/
* My-brand - Manage online advertising online. mybrand.ads-click.net/
* Podtrac - Advertise in podcasts. www.podtrac.com/
* PSFK - Share trends watched. www.psfk.com
* Rbloc - Sell, buy & meet auction market place. www.rbloc.com/
* Riffs - Review & recommendation community. www.riffs.com/
* Root* - Trading platform for realtime consumer data. www.root.net/
* Spotrunner - Recycle, recreate & air tv ads. www.spotrunner.com/
* Tagged business directory. www.tagdirectory.net
* Tagyu - Tag-based advertizing. www.tagyu.com/
* Txt2Img - Make fun graphics online. www.txt2pic.com/
* Theadcloud* - Create & tag classified listings. www.theadcloud.com/
* Thisplaceiknow - Share places. www.thisplaceiknow.com/
* Titlez - Get publishing market data from Amazon. www.titlez.com/
* Viral Tshirt Marketing. www.addictivetshirts.com/
* Web marketing 2.0 - Wiki on Marketing 2.0. www.webmarketing20.com/
* Wikicompany - Social business directory. wikicompany.org/
* Wordofblog - Spread the word for good causes. www.wordofblog.net/
* Yellowikis - Social business directory. www.yellowikis.org/
* Zoomtags - Tag cloud based affiliate network. www.zoomtags.com/

MEMO 2.0

* Bitbomb - Web2sms reminders. bitbomb.com/
* Femo - Tag & share memos online. femo.nomadscafe.jp/
* Jotcloud - Leave notes on websites. www.jotcloud.com/
* Loopnote - Notification webware. loopnote.com/
* Mystickies* - Browse, search, sort & edit notes online. www.mystickies.com/
* Pianist - Memo manager online. pianist.publicbeta.jp/app/
* Reminderfeed - Send reminders to your feed reader. www.reminderfeed.com/
* Webnote - Make & share notes. www.aypwip.org/webnote/
* Zohoplanner - Create & share memo’s & notes online. www.zohoplanner.com/

MULTIMEDIA 2.0

* 360yahoo - Blogging. Tagging. Share Photos. Social Networking: 360.yahoo.com/
* Avidbeauty - Share photos & sounds. www.avidbeauty.com/
* Broadsnatch - Share multimedia. www.broadsnatch.com/
* Bubbleshare - Phlog, share, add audio captions. www.bubbleshare.com/
* Buzznet - Share videos & photos. www.buzznet.com/
* Castpost - Upload & share your av clips. www.castpost.com/
* Comagz - Cocreate & rate content. www.comagz.com/
* Everybit - Share your media. www.everybit.com/
* Fireant - Upload & share multimedia. www.fireant.tv/
* Glide - Upload & share multimedia. glidedigital.com/
* Grouper - Upload, create & share media. www.grouper.com/
* Hackoff*** - Book published as blog & podcast. www.hackoff.com/
* Junklog - Rate, review & share media. junklog.com/
* Kaneva - Digital entertainment marketplace. www.kaneva.com/
* LifeLogger - Share audio, video & photos. www.lifelogger.com/
* Listal - List & share all your media. www.listal.com/
* Livelocker - Link to, rate & share multimedia. www.livelocker.com/
* Loomia - Folksonomied media search. www.loomia.com/
* Lulu - Publish & sell your content. www.lulu.com/
* Magnoto - Phlog & blog. www.magnoto.com/
* MediaMax - Store, manage & share media. https://mediamax.streamload.com/
* Myvideokaraoke - Sing & share your song on video. www.myvideokaraoke.com/
* Orb - Stream your media, wherever. www.orb.com/
* Phanfare - Upload & share photos & videos. www.phanfare.com/
* Picpix - Upload & share photos & videos. www.picpix.com/
* Pixpulse - Upload & share photos and videos on your mobile. www.pixpulse.com/
* Quizilla - Create & share content. quizilla.com/
* Shozu - Upload & share photos, videos & text on your mobile. www.shozu.com/
* SillyWebcam - Play with your webcam online! www.sillywebcam.com/
* Songbird - Media player & web browser. www.songbirdnest.com/
* Sonr - Track media & media users. sonr.net/beta/
* Streamdrive - Upload & share multimedia. www.streamdrive.com/
* Streamload - Store & share your media. www.sendspace.com/
* Strmz - Clip & share tv & video. strmz.jot.com/
* Swagroll - List & share all your media. swagroll.com/
* Totoexpress - Hoste, collaborate on, share & deliver content. www.totoexpress.com/
* Vidilife - Upload & share media. www.vidilife.com/
* WebcamFun - Silly web cam fun. www.sillywebcam.com/
* Yiibu - Remix, adapt, expand, share & sell content. yiibu.com/

NEWS 2.0

* 180n. Choose what's news. www.180n.com/
* Backfence - Publish & share community news. www.backfence.com/
* Bandnews - Search band news. www.bandnews.org/
* Blogniscient. Rank blog articles. blogniscient.com/
* Buzzingo - Buzz notifier (Yahoo + Feeling Lucky mash-up). www.buzzingo.com/
* Cluckoo - Publish & share local news. www.cluckoo.com/
* Crisscross - Comment on & add to news. www.crisscross.com/
* Dailymashup - Flickr + Delicious + Yahoo news mash-up. dailymashup.com/
* Dailyrotation - Share tech websites' headlines. www.dailyrotation.com/
* Diggdot - Mash-up news sources to your own taste. diggdot.us/
* Feedxs~ - Social feed reading. www.feedxs.com/
* Findory - Personalize your news. www.findory.com/
* Frankenfeed - Aggregate your feeds. www.frankenfeed.com/
* Gabbr - Share news. www.gabbr.com/
* Hypersuper - Personalize your news. www.hypersuper.com/
* Hypetracker - Popular news searches in graphs. www.hypetracker.com/
* Infocaster~ - News & other media thru RSS. www.infocaster.nl/
* Inform - Social news stories. www.inform.com/
* Knownow - Connecting data, apps & people. www.knownow.com/
* Leve1 - Share news. www.leve1.com/
* Linkedfeed - Folksonomied news. www.linkedfeed.com/
* Megite - Discover & help select news. www.megite.com/
* Memeorandum - Folksonomied news summaries. www.memeorandum.com/
* Newradio - Find & vote for news. n.ewradio.co.uk/
* Newsalloy - Discover, read & share news. www.newsalloy.com/
* Newsbump - Submit & rank news. www.newsbump.net/
* Newsgarbage - Post, moderate & controle news. www.newsgarbage.com/
* Newsvine - Read, write & discuss news. www.newsvine.com/
* Newzingo - News tag cloud; Google News mash-up. newzingo.com/
* Nowpublic - Share, submit & revenue share news content. www.nowpublic.com/
* Nulltag - News tag clouds. www.nulltag.com/
* On2go - News & alerts on your mobile. www.on2go.com/
* Pegasusnews - Neighborhood news, customized. pegasusnews.typepad.com/homepage/
* Reddit - Submit, rate & rank news. reddit.com/
* Rojo - Discover, organize, read & share content. www.rojo.com/
* Sabifoo - Read & publish news through messenger. www.sabifoo.com/
* Scoopgo - Personalized news agents. www.scoopgo.com/
* Shoutwire - Rank & share news. www.shoutwire.com/
* Slashdigg - Slashdot + Digg mash-up. www.slashdigg.com/
* Sponit - Publish & share funny news. sponit.com/
* Squeet - Receive News, Blogs, RSS or feeds in your email. www.squeet.com/
* Stockdigg - Read, submit & rank financial news. www.stockdigg.com/
* Strategicboard - Share tech news. www.strategicboard.com/
* Tailrank - Read news (ranking through algorithm). www.tailrank.com/
* Theport - Create & host your own news aggregator. www.theport.com/
* Topix - Share & discuss news. www.topix.net/
* Wordnews - News tagged in Times. www.typedown.com/external-01/news/yahoo-wordnews.php
* Yahoo Tag Soup - News tag cloud; Yahoo News mash-up. yahoo.theherrens.com/

OFFICE 2.0

* Agatra - Web-based password saving. https://www.agatra.com/
* Avvenu - Remote access to your computer. www.avvenu.com/
* Eyeos - Virtual office operating system. www.eyeos.org/
* Mywebdesktop - Personal & collaborative desktop functions. www.mywebdesktop.net/
* Thinkfree - Web based office suite. online.thinkfree.com/
* Zohovirtualoffice - Online office suite. www.zoho.com/virtual-office/

OS 2.0

* Xin - Online OS for Ajax serverapps. www.naltabyte.se

OUTLOOK 2.0

* Plaxo - Contact synchronizer. www.plaxo.com/

PERSONAL MANUFACTURING 2.0

* Ogle - Capture, re-use & 3D print 3D data. ogle.eyebeamresearch.org/

POLLS 2.0

* Contentvote - Add voting to your blog content. www.contentvote.com/
* Dpolls - Create, vote for & search polls. www.dpolls.com/
* HIVsurvey - HIV surveys. www.hivsurvey.com/
* Polloo - Polls about happiness. www.polloo.com/
* Pollplaza~ - Collective polling. www.pollplaza.nl/
* Quimble - Create, vote for & search polls. www.quimble.com/
* Rateitall - Rate & share opinions on everything. www.rateitall.com/
* Zohochallenge - Collective polling. www.zohochallenge.com/

PORTAL 2.0

* 24eyes - Personal portal. www.24eyes.com/
* Browsr - Social directory. www.bloxor.com/
* Canuckster - Canada stuff, Canadians only. www.canuckster.com/
* CompareSearch - Side by side search engine comparisons. www.13kg.com/
* Eskobo - Personal portal. www.eskobo.com/
* Favoor - Personal portal. www.favoor.com/
* Feedication - Personal portal. www.feedication.com/
* Feedpile - Store & share feeds & links. feedpile.com/
* Feedtv - Feed portal. www.feedfeeds.com/
* Fold - Personal portal. www.fold.com/
* Fyuze - Feed portal. www.fyuze.com/
* Google IG* - Personal portal. www.google.com/ig
* GoogleIG - Personal portal. www.google.com/ig
* Googlemodules - Lists modules for personal Google homepage. www.googlemodules.com/
* Goowy* - Personal portal (desktop & browser versions). webserver002.goowy.com/
* Gritwire - Personal portal. www.gritwire.com/
* Inbox - Personal portal. www.inbox.com/
* Itsastart - Personal portal. www.itsastart.com/
* Klipfolio - Personal portal. www.serence.com/
* Mobileglu - Web services to your mobile. www.mobileglu.com/
* Netvibes* - Personal portal. www.netvibes.com/
* Pageflakes - Personal portal. www.pageflakes.com/
* Pobb - Personal portal. www.pobb.net/
* Presearch - Searching start portal of portals. www.presearcher.com/
* Protopage - Personal portal. www.protopage.com/
* Pushy*~ - Personal portal; also mobile. www.pushy.com
* SpareChange? - Homeless & poverty portal. www.sparesomechange.com/
* Start - Personal portal. www.start.com/
* Superglu - Delicious/Flickr/Blogger/Etc mash-up. www.suprglu.com/
* Web20Toolbar - Toolbar packed with Web2 apps. www.best-toolbar.com/
* Web2.0Search Engine - Just search for it now! www.web20searchengine.com/
* Windowslive - Personal portal. www.live.com/
* Wrickr - Personal portal. www.wrickr.com/

POWERPOINT 2.0

* Thumbstack - Make & share presentations online. www.thumbstacks.com/

PROJECTS 2.0

* Airset - Manage & share calendars, contacts, groups. www.airset.com/
* Basecamp - Manage your projects. www.basecamphq.com/
* Centraldesktop - Group project management. www.centraldesktop.com/
* Citadel* - Communicate & share in groups. www.citadel.org/
* Dotproject - Open source project management tools. www.dotproject.net/
* Gootodo - Online to-do service gootodo.com/
* Harvest - Timesheets & reports. www.getharvest.com/
* Inventiondb - Create & share online project space. www.inventiondb.com/
* Ioutliner - Manage tasks & projects. www.ioutliner.com/
* Issuetrackerproduct - Track & manage bugs & other issues. www.issuetrackerproduct.com/
* Keepmytime - Web-based timekeeping. www.keepmytime.com/
* Near-time. Share resources & collaborate. www.near-time.net/
* Projectplace - Run & co-ordinate projects. www.projectplace.com/
* Projectspaces - Work together. www.forumone.com/section/services/projectspaces/
* Taskfreak - Task manager online. www.taskfreak.com/
* Taskspro - Group task manager. www.taskspro.com/
* Veetro - Create & share online project space. www.veetro.com/
* Webcollaborator - Collaborate online. www.webcollaborator.com/
* Zohoplanner - Create & share memo’s & notes online. www.zohoplanner.com/

PUBLISHING 2.0

* Blogprinting - Publish, print & sell it. www.blogprinting.com/
* Picaboo - Print photo book on demand. www.picaboo.com/

READ 2.0

* Chainreading - List, review & recommend books. www.chainreading.com/
* HolyBoble - www.virtualholybible.com/

RSS 2.0

* Alesti - Feed reader. www.alesti.org/
* Almondrocks - Share feeds. www.almondrocks.com/
* Beanrocket - News reader. www.beanrocket.com/
* Blogbridge - Feed reader. www.blogbridge.com/
* Blogexpress - Feed reader. www.usablelabs.com/productBlogExpress.html
* Bloglet – email syndication of RSS news feeds. www.bloglet.com/
* Bloglines - Feed reader. www.bloglines.com/
* Evolvepoint - Create, track or find feeds. www.evolvepoint.com/
* FeedBlitz – email syndication of RSS news feeds. www.feedblitz.com/
* Feedblender - Feed reader. www.feeddigest.com/
* Feedburner - Manage your rss & podcast feeds. www.feedburner.com/
* Feedbutler - Social feed reader. www.feedbutler.com/
* Feedcraft - Create, manage, deliver & track feeds. www.feedcraft.com/
* Feeddigest - Mix, filter & republish or syndicate feeds on your website. www.feeddigest.com/
* Feedfeeds - RSS reader (Ajax). www.feedfeeds.com/
* Feedlounge - Feed reader. www.feedlounge.com/
* Feedpath - Social feed reader. feedpath.com/feedreader/
* Feedping - Submit your feed to major directories. www.yoursite.com
* Feedxs~ - Create personal feeds (without website), submit thru messenger. www.feedxs.com/
* Googlereader - Feed reader. www.google.com/reader/
* Gregarius - Feed reader. gregarius.net/
* Immediat - Messenger notifications of feeds. immedi.at/
* Instantfeed - Messenger notifications of feeds. instantfeed.biggu.com/
* Newsgator - RSS aggregation platform. www.newsgator.com/
* Nooked - Manage & commercialize your feeds. www.nooked.com/
* Odiogo - Convert feeds to speech. www.odiogo.com/
* Omea - Manage & enhance your feeds. www.jetbrains.com/omea/reader/
* Peoplefeeds - Aggregate personal content. www.peoplefeeds.com/
* Podbasket - Converts audio into feeds. www.podbasket.com/
* Rapidfeeds - Publish feeds without tech know-how. www.rapidfeeds.com/
* RSS2PDF - Convert feeds to PDF. rss2pdf.com/
* RSSbandit - Feed reader. www.rssbandit.org/
* RSShut - Read & search feeds. www.rsshut.com/
* RSSmad - Feed reader & archive. www.rssmad.com/
* RSSor - Collect, read & share feeds. rssor.utblog.com/
* RSSreader - Feed reader. www.rssreader.com/
* TinytinyRSS - Feed reader. tt-rss.spb.ru/trac/

SCHEDULING 2.0

* Buddyping - Find friends & events locally (map mash-up). www.buddyping.com/
* Goovite - Invite people. www.goovite.com/
* Kiko - Onlin calendar. www.kiko.com/
* Meetwithapproval - Organize & manage meetings. www.meetwithapproval.com/
* Zvents - Organize & manage events. www.zvents.com/

SEARCH 2.0

* 1000tags - Tag cloud based search. 1000tags.com/
* 911search - Disaster search portal. www.crisissearch.com/
* Ajaxwhois - Results while you type. www.ajaxwhois.com/
* Alexa - Contribute to ranked search & stats while you surf. www.alexa.com/
* Ambedo - Bookmark, tag & search. www.ambedo.com/
* Audioclipping - Search content of audio & video streams. www.audioclipping.de/
* Bashr - Wikipedia, Flickr & Delicious mash-up. www.bashr.com/
* Blogdigger - Search blogs. www.blogdigger.com/
* Blogpulse - Search blogs. www.blogpulse.com/
* Blue - Find & share. https://www.blue.us/
* Browster - Search & browse instantly. www.browster.com/
* CanadianSearch - Canada links dbase. www.canuckster.com/
* Clusty - Cluster results in folders. clusty.com/
* Collaborativerank - Search & rank. collabrank.org/
* Dhoondo - Search all content on the web. www.dhoondho.com/
* Digitalmediasearch - Search media. www.moworks.ca/search.aspx
* Dipsie - Deep search. www.dipsie.com/
* Ditto - Search images. ditto.com/
* Domainsbot - Domain searcg & suggestions. www.domainsbot.com/
* Doubletrust - Google + Yahoo mash-up. sushil01.securesites.net/~ashish/doubletrust/
* Egosurf - Search yourself, get ranking. www.egosurf.org/
* Exalead - Unified search technology. www.exalead.com/
* Factbites - Search results in sensible sentences. www.factbites.com/
* Feedster - Search for feeds. www.feedster.com/
* Filangy - Current search. www.filangy.com/
* Gadabe* - RSS metasearch. www.gada.be/
* Gahooyoogle - Google + Yahoo mash-up. www.gahooyoogle.com/
* Geourl - Location 2 URL directory. geourl.org/
* Google* - Search & adwords. www.google.com
* Googleblogsearch - Search blogs. www.google.com/blogsearch
* Gravee - Searches sites & blogs; fair rev share on ads. www.gravee.com/
* Hakia - Meaningful results. www.hakia.com/
* Healthline - Contextual search for health information. www.healthline.com/
* HolyBible - Search and compare Bible translations. www.virtualholybible.com/
* Iamsearched - Are you googled-notification service. www.iamsearched.com/
* Ibegin - Local search. ibegin.com/
* Icerocket - Search blogs & web. www.icerocket.com/
* Instantdomainsearch - Ajax domain search + suggestions. instantdomainsearch.com/
* Jookster - Search, rank & share. www.jookster.com/
* Kinja - Search blogs. www.kinja.com/
* Kosmix - Verticle search. www.kosmix.com/
* Kratia - Search, vote & rank results. www.kratia.com/
* Lexxe - Meaningful search. www.lexxe.com/
* Linkput - Results with suer input. www.linkput.com/
* Liveplasma* - Search & find other things to your taste. www.liveplasma.com/
* Lumrix - Ajax wiki search. wiki.lumrix.net/
* Makidi - Search for people (?). www.makidi.com/
* MaxSpider - Instant URL submission, cached page searching. www.maxspider.com/
* MedChecker - Medical & health links. www.medchecker.com/
* Musicmap - Search & find other things to your taste. www.dimvision.com/musicmap/
* Mybigriver - Find while you type; Amazon mash-up. - www.mybigriver.com/
* Nextaris - Social search. www.nextaris.com/
* Omgili - Search discussion forums. www.omgili.com/
* OPMLsearch - Dedicated OPML search. www.opmlsearch.com/
* Podzinger - Search podcasts. www.opmlsearch.com/
* PowerSearch - Helps search over 100 major search engines. www.13kg.com/
* PovertyPortal - Ex-homeless owned and operated. www.sparesomechange.com/
* Prase us - Page rank based search. www.prase.us/
* Prefound - Search what people already found. www.prefound.com/
* Previewseek*** - Byebye Google? beta.previewseek.com/
* Pubsub - Search + profiled alerts. www.pubsub.com/
* Qtsaver - Micro content search; Google & Yahoo mash-ups qtsaver.com/
* Qtsearch - Search for content in Yahoo & Google. www.qtsaver.com/
* Qube - Search engine aggregator (client). qube.qelix.com/
* Quintura - Search engine with visualized context terms (client). qube.qelix.com/
* Qwerky - Search strange site names. qwerky.stellify.net/
* Qwika - Search wikis. www.qwika.com/
* Releton - Google + Yahoo + maps & routes. www.releton.com/
* Retrievr* - Search images by sketching. labs.systemone.at/retrievr/
* Riya* - Face recognition based photo search. riya.com/
* Rollyo* - Create search agents. rollyo.com/
* SeekFreak - Some advanced searching tools. www.seekfreak.com/
* Seekum - User ranked search results. www.seekum.com/
* Suckingfish - Save, collaborate on & publish search results. suckingfish.com/
* Surfwax - Multisource search. www.surfwax.com/
* Swicki - Search with user input. www.swicki.eurekster.com/
* Tagnautica - Search Flickr. www.quasimondo.com/tagnautica.php
* Talkdigger - Search & discuss results from blogs & web. www.talkdigger.com/
* Technorati* - Find what people are saying. www.technorati.com/
* Watvindenwijover~ - Find & vote for information. watvindenwijover.nl/
* Web20Search - Submit or search for Web 2.0 tools. www.web20searchengine.com/
* Who-isit - Whois, ping, check link popularity whois-it.com/
* Whonu - Discover/search content (more) intuitively. www.whonu.com/
* Wikimatrix - Find & compare your wikis. www.wikimatrix.org/
* Wink - Folksonomied search. www.wink.com/
* Yellowbook - Yellow pages aggregator. www.yellowbook.com/
* Yoono - Search, exchange & share information. www.yoono.com/
* Yubnub* - Search & share search commands. www.yubnub.org/
* Zigtag - Search, save & share results. www.zigtag.com/

SOFTWARE 2.0

* 301url - Shorten your url. www.301url.com/
* 37signals* - Basecamp, Backpack, Writeboard, Ta-da List. www.37signals.com/
* Abaqueinside - Catalogue ware. www.abaqueinside.com/
* Ajax - Mozilla developer community. developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/AJAX
* Ajaxpaterns - Ajax developers portal. ajaxpatterns.org/
* Ajaxshowcase - Aggregates Ajax applications. www.ajaxshowcase.com/
* Ataja - Shorten your url. www.ataja.es/
* B2evolution - Open source blog engine. www.b2evolution.net/
* Backbase* - Ajax applications. www.backbase.com/
* BestToolbar - The best IE toolabr around. www.best-toolbar.com/
* Bluepulse - Internet 2 cell phone. bluepulse.com/
* Codase - Search for & share code. www.codase.com/
* Cordance - Dataweb technologies. www.cordance.net/
* Cyberdummy - Share code. www.cyberdummy.co.uk/
* Django - Python apps. www.djangoproject.com/
* Dojo - Share JS tools. www.dojotoolkit.org/
* Easyutil - Api for recommendations. www.easyutil.com/
* Elfurl - Make long url's short. elfurl.com/
* FloppyApps - Freeware tools, portable, fit on floppy. www.floppyapps.com/
* Krugle - Search open source software. www.krugle.com/
* Mendix*~ - Semantic application development www.mendix.com
* Meta - Forum software inc. tags & ranking. www.blursoft.com/meta/
* Mochikit - Suite of JS libraries. www.mochikit.com/
* Montastic - Monitor your website. www.montastic.com/
* Mozilla - Browser add-ons & mash-ups. https://addons.mozilla.org/
* Ning - Create social apps. www.ning.com/
* Notlong - Shorten your url. notlong.com/
* Openrico - Open source Java library. www.openrico.org/
* Oszone - Share code. oszone.org/
* Plogger - Open source photo gallery system. www.plogger.org/
* Processing - Share code for imaging, animations, sound. www.processing.org/
* Projectip - Recognizes anything on your computer. projectip.com/
* Qooxdoo - javascript GUI toolkit. qooxdoo.oss.schlund.de/
* Radrails - Develop Ruby on Rails apps. www.radrails.org/
* Rubyonrails* - Web development framework. www.rubyonrails.com/
* Scriptacilous - Javascript libraries 2.0 style. script.aculo.us/
* Sitevista - Test your website. www.sitevista.com/
* Swik - Search for open source software. swik.net/
* Textsnippets - Share code. www.textsnippets.com/
* Urlx - Shorten your URL. www.urlx.org/
* Visualcomplexity - Visualize complexity. www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/about.html
* Vivox - Solutions for communities, communications, games. www.vivox.com/
* Weborb - Build, deploy & host rich client apps. www.themidnightcoders.com/
* Webripper - Rip files from sites. webripper.dnsalias.com/
* Wordcast - Host, manage, measure & monetize podcasting. wordcast.audible.com/wordcast/
* Wsfinder - Search APIs and web services. wsfinder.jot.com/
* Yahoo developer network - Javascript developer center. developer.yahoo.net/javascript/
* Zoho creator - Create & share applications. www.zoho.com/

STATS 2.0

* Blogbeat - Blog analytics software. www.blogbeat.net/
* Crazy egg - Improve effectiveness of your site. crazyegg.com/
* Delineate - Folksonomied visitor stats. www.delineateit.com/
* Google Analytics - Site analytics software. www.delineateit.com/
* Mapstats - Map blog traffic. mapstats.blogflux.com/
* Mint - Site analytics software. www.haveamint.com/
* My blog log - Blog analytics. www.mybloglog.com/

TAGGING 2.0

* 30daytags - Fresh tagclouds. www.30daytags.com/
* Cloudalicious - Follow site's tags over time. cloudalicio.us/
* Groopus - Visualize your social context based on tags. groop.us/
* Neato -Tagging plug-in for Wordpress. www.neato.co.nz/
* Tag cloud - Folksonomied, personalized tag clouds. www.tagcloud.com/
* Tagfacts - Tag & share your notes. www.tagfacts.com/
* Tagsy - Social bookmarking & feed management. www.tagsy.com/
* Zoom clouds - Make & publish tag clouds. www.zoomclouds.com/

TASK MANAGER 2.0

* 9Remember the milk - Manage tasks, together. www.rememberthemilk.com/
* My tickler file - Manage your and others' tasks. www.myticklerfile.com/
* Sproutliner - Manage your tasks. sproutliner.com/
* Time tracker - Keep track of time. www.formassembly.com/time-tracker/
* Tracks life - Manage & share your to do-lists. www.trackslife.com/

TEXT 2.0

* TXT2PIC - Make free graphics with text. www.txt2pic.com/
* Bbbuddy - Organize, store, edit & share your texts. www.bbbuddy.com/
* Bibli - Publish & share texts. www.bibli.ca/
* Citeulike - Store, share, manage academic papers. www.citeulike.org/
* Cluebacca - Storing & organizing text clips. www.cluebacca.com/
* Glypho - Read & write books together. www.glypho.com/
* Ilovetravelstories - Publish or bookmark & rank travel stories. www.ilovetravelstories.com/
* Livejournal - Blogging solution & social software. www.livejournal.com/
* Reader2 - Share reading lists. reader2.com/
* Readitswapit - Swap books. www.readitswapit.co.uk/
* Sharingpoint - Publish, link to & share health information. www.sharingpoint.net/
* Text To Picture - Add text into various image templates (makes images). www.txt2pic.com/
* Wikipedia* - Read & co-edit encyclopedia. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
* Wikitravel - Read & co-edit travel guide. wikitravel.org/en/
* Wisdomark - Collaborate on publishing & sharing stories. wisdomark.com/
* World66 - Read & co-edit travel guide. www.world66.com/

TEXT2SPEECH 2.0

* Ask Merlin - Ask a question, get an answer. www.comicstripgenerator.com/tools/
* Canada Talking Search Engine. www.friendlycanadian.com/
* Quit Smoking - This talking nagger will help you kick cigarettes. web20appz.com/tools/quit-smoking.asp
* Readspeaker - Text2speech app. www.readspeaker.com/
* Springdoo - Add your voice to your email. www.springdoo.com/
* Time Aloud - Reads the time out loud, TTS. seekfreak.com/time/
* Text To Speech - Enter your phrase and have Merlin speak it. www.friendlycanadian.com/text2speech/

TIME MANAGEMENT 2.0

* TikTrac - Time management. tiktrac.com/

TRACK & TRACE 2.0

* Packagemapper - Track your package on a map. packagemapper.com/

VIDEO 2.0

* SillyWebcam - Take instant photos and play with neat effects VIA webcam. www.sillywebcam.com/
* Adultswim - Episode previews, games, community. www.adultswim.com/
* Ajaxilicious - Share your movies thru RSS. movies.ajaxilicious.be/
* Blinkx - Personalized epg. searchus.blinkx.com
* Broadbandsports - Upload & share sports videos. www.broadbandsports.com/
* Clipshack - Upload & send video. www.clipshack.com/
* Dailymotion - Upload & share videos. www.dailymotion.com/
* Evoketv - Localized epg (ajax). www.evoketv.com/
* Getdemocracy - Watch or make tv. www.getdemocracy.com/
* Mefeedia - Videoblog search. www.mefeedia.com/
* Mightyv - Web based tv search & epg (UK). www.mightyv.com/
* Openvlog - Upload & record video. www.openvlog.com/
* Pooxi - Upload & (revenue) share video. www.pooxi.com/
* Silly Webcam - Flash video using webcam. www.sillywebcam.com/
* Theunseenvideo - Video & weather mash-up animation. www.theunseenvideo.com/
* Truveo - Ranked video search. www.truveo.com/
* Turnhere - Upload & share video (local). www.turnhere.com/
* Veoh - Upload & share videos. www.veoh.com/
* Videobomb - Submit & vote for video links. videobomb.com/
* Videoegg - Capture, edit & publish video. www.videoegg.com/
* Vimeo - Upload & share video. www.vimeo.com/
* Vsocial - Upload, rank & share video. www.vsocial.com/
* Woomu - Submit, vote for & rank videos. www.woomu.com/
* Yashi - Upload & share video. www.yashi.com/
* Youtube* - Upload & share video. www.youtube.com/
* Zippyvideos - Upload & share video. www.zippyvideos.com/

VOICE2MAIL 2.0

* Spinvox - From voice to text to mobile or email. www.spinvox.com/

VOICEMAIL 2.0

* Yackpack - Group voicemail. www.yackpack.com/

WEB2FEED 2.0

* Feed43 - Web page & blog 2 rss. feed43.com/
* Feedtier - Web page & blog 2 rss. feedtier.somee.com/

WI-FI 2.0

* Fon - Share, buy, sell wi-fi connections. www.fon.com

WIKIS 2.0

* Epictrip - Multimedia travel wiki. www.epictrip.com/
* Foopad - Create your own wiki. www.foopad.com/
* Schtuff - Wiki service. www.schtuff.com/
* Serversidewiki - Mini-wiki. www.serversidewiki.com/
* Socialtext - Enterprise wiki solutions. www.socialtext.com/
* Stikipad - Wiki solution. www.stikipad.com/
* Wikispaces - Collaborative content & editing. www.wikispaces.org/

WISHLIST 2.0

* 8by1 - Share your wish. www.8by1.com/
* Giftornot - Get ideas for gifts (Amazon mash-up). www.giftornot.com/

WORD 2.0

* Barewiki - Make a wiki in seconds. barewiki.com/
* Fckeditor - Web based word processor. www.fckeditor.net/
* Formassembly - Create, host & manage forms. www.formassembly.com/
* Goffice - Web based word processing. www.goffice.com/
* Ijot - Write, manage, publcish share text files. www.ijot.net/
* Inetword - Web based word processing. www.inetword.com/
* Jotform - Make your Ajax webforms. www.jotform.com/
* Litespellchecker - Check spelling as you type. me.eae.net/stuff/litespellchecker/litedemo.html
* Nativetext - Translates rss in foreign languages. www.nativetext.com/
* Orangoo - Spelling checker. www.orangoo.com/spell/
* Pbwiki - Make a wiki. pbwiki.com/
* Synchroedit - Group editor. www.synchroedit.com/
* Wideword - Collaborative word processing. https://www.wideword.net/
* Wideword - Create & share documents online. https://wideword.net/
* Writeboard* - Write, share, revise & compare documents. writeboard.com/
* Writely - Store, edit & share documents. www.writely.com
* Zohowriter - Online word processor. www.zohowriter.com

WRITE 2.0

* Bigoven - Publish & share recipes. www.bigoven.com/
* Extratasty - publish & share drink recipes. www.extratasty.com/
* Travbuddy - Submit & share travel stories. www.travbuddy.com/

Why SEO is important for your web site

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What is SEO? It is an abbreviation for Search Engine Optimization. What exactly does SEO do? It is the method of analyzing and constructing individual web pages, as well as entire sites, so that they can be discovered, analyzed, and then indexed by various search engines.

SEO can make the content of your web pages more relevant, more attractive, and more easily read by search engines and their crawling and indexing software.

Why would this be of great importance to you? Would it be important to you if customers were unable to find your telephone number or find the address of your business? I do not think that many businesses could survive for very long in this situation.

This situation could apply to a web site. Can potential customers locate your current web site easily? Traffic to your web site could be extremely low. Potential customers might not even know that your site exists.

"Wait a minute!" you say. "We have a beautiful web site, and we include the web site address in all advertising campaigns. Why would people be unable to find our site?"

Of course, your current customers and persons already acquainted with your business would be likely to find your web site without difficulty. Wouldn’t they?

Are you absolutely sure that your advertising has reached enough potential customers? Did you consider that some people simply do not read the newspapers? How about people who didn’t get the issue of the magazine where you placed an expensive ad?

Did these people hear the WABC radio broadcast when your commercial aired? Were they watching channel 44 during the news hour? Were they on the direct mail list for which you paid thousands of dollars?

So how about those search engines that everyone uses? Potential customers will type a word or two into the box, hit ’Enter’, and immediately find a listing for your company’s web site. One more click and you have another visitor. Search engines sure are great, aren’t they?

Yes, they certainly are great, and the ’type-and-click’ scenario above does happen. More often than not, however, it doesn’t happen without a little work. Search Engine Optimization is that work.

Advantages of PPC

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• Generate instant qualified traffic:
The results of PPC campaigns are instant. The ads go live immediately and can be modified, added or deleted at any time.
• Easy implementation:
PPC advertisement is an effective model and is easily implemented. PPC ads don’t require any modifications on the website and hence are an effective search engine marketing model for sites which are architecturally difficult to modify for SEO.
• You can take an advantage over your competitors.
• Prototype ideas to track demand before you invest into a new business model:
You can run a PPC campaign before setting up a business to judge its performance.
• Quickly gather feedback on market conditions:
• High quality traffic:
Users who click PPC ads tend to be very motivated to buy.
• Split test to a live audience and gather results in real time:
With PPC, you can get literally millions of eye balls looking at your ads within a day or so.
• PPC Ads will quickly generate online visibility for your websites:
• Pay per Click: You only have to pay when somebody click on your ads with intense to visit your website.
• Advertisers have full control over keyword selection, language selection, location selection and timings in which their ads should be displayed.

Press Release Directory List

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www.prndirect.prnewswire.com
www.i-newswire.com
www.betanews.com
www.npr.org
www.usnewswire.com
www.console.prweb.com
www.24-7pressrelease.com
www.clickpress.com
www.efytimes.com
www.free-news-release.com
www.free-press-release.com
www.freshnews.com
www.nanotech-now.com
www.openpr.com
www.powerhomebiz.com
www.programmersheaven.com
www.pr.com
www.prleap.com
www.express-press-release.com
www.1888pressrelease.com
www.directionsmag.com
www.downloadjunction.com
www.fibre2fashion.com
www.media-press-release.com
www.nationalhomelandsecurityknowledgebase.com
www.newswiretoday.com
www.pr9.net
www.pressbox.co.uk
www.pressmethod.com
www.pressreleasespider.com
www.przoom.com
www.theopenpress.com
www.prfree.com
www.sbwire.com
www.addpr.com
www.afreego.com
www.bizeurope.com
www.epressreleases.org
www.malebits.com
www.pocketpcwire.com
www.press411.com
www.pressblaster.net
www.prnuke.com
www.afly.com
www.geek.com
www.baygo.com
www.fastpitchnetworking.com
www.press-base.com
www.press-library.com
www.press-world.com
http://www.prweb.com/evangelist.php?e=148886&d=0
http://i-newswire.com/
http://www.pressbox.co.uk/
http://www.free-press-release.com/
http://www.pressreleasespider.com/
http://www.openpr.com/
http://express-press-release.net/
1888PressRelease.com
24-7 Press Release
AddPR.com
BizEurope.com
eCommWire.com
Express-Press-Release.com
Free-News-Release.com
Free-Press-Release.com
Free-Press-Release-Center.info
FreePressIndex.com
FreePressRelease.co.cc
FreePressReleases.co.uk
i-Newswire.com
IndiaPRWire.com
MediaSyndicate.com
MyFreePR.com
NewswireToday.com
PageRelease.com
PR.com
PR9.net
PR-Inside.com
PRCompass.com
PRlog.com
PRurgent.com
PRzoom.com
PressAbout.com
PressBox.co.uk
PressFlow.co.uk
PressMethod.com
PressRelease.com
PressReleasePoint.com
TechPRSpider.com
TheOpenPress.com

Directory List with Page Rank 5 and above

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http://www.scirus.com/srsapp/
http://yahooligans.yahoo.com/
http://www.boingboing.net/
http://www.femina.com/
http://www.seznam.cz/
http://www.accoona.com/
http://www.ananzi.co.za/
http://www.anybrowser.com/directory/
http://www.aviva-directory.com/
http://www.best.sk/pridat.asp?k=&p=In%Atit%FAcie
http://www.bezvaportal.cz/
http://www.bloggapedia.com/
http://www.canadaone.com/
http://kat-reg.centrum.cz/reg.php
http://www.ehealthdirectory.eu/
http://www.ezilon.com/
http://www.globeofblogs.com/
http://www.kormidlo.cz/aaa/modules/links/
http://www.lanic.utexas.edu/
http://www.maven.co.il/
http://www.mxdu.com/
http://www.mygreencorner.com/
http://www.nzs.com/
http://www.payvand.com/yp/
http://www.planning-directory.com/
http://www.poweredbywp.com/
http://www.scrubtheweb.com/
http://www.searchwords.com/
http://www.searchzone.com.au/
http://www.stopdog.com/
http://www.szm.sk/
http://www.thefreewebsite.net/
http://www.uncoverchina.com/
http://www.wezp.com/
http://www.worldhot.com/
http://www.zoznam.sk/
www.pandia.com/plus
http://www.thelivinglink.net/
http://www.mygreencorner.com
http://jayde.com
http://www.directory.ldmstudio.com
http://www.theshoppings.com
http://www.niche-listings.com
http://www.linkslive.info/
http://www.re-quest.net/
. http://www.kcindex.com/
http://www.webworldindex.com/
http://www.re-quest.net/
http://www.psychnet-uk.com/
http://www.clickey.com/
http://www.cantufind.com/
http://www.elib.org/
http://www.lsblogs.com/
http://www.starblogs.com/
http://a-website-hosting-directory.com/
http://www.abilogic.com/
http://www.adventuretraveltips.com/
http://alik.idnes.cz/
http://www.anoox.com/
http://az.ezilon.com/
http://www.azet.sk/
http://www.blogannounce.info/
http://www.bloghints.com/
http://www.brightsidexdr.com/
http://www.builder.cz/
http://directory.candomultimedia.com/
http://www.canlinks.net/
http://www.caramba.cz/
http://directory.classifieds.com/
http://www.clickfire.com/directory/
http://www.csdir.org/
http://www.czlist.cz/
http://www.tcpls.net/
http://www.microbicides.org/
http://www.diroot.com/
http://www.discoverireland.net/
http://websitespromotiondirectory.com/
http://alfa.elchron.cz/
http://www.em-design.cz/shop/pages-links/index.html
http://search.ezilon.com/
http://uk.ezilon.com/
http://www.freewebsitedirectory.com/
http://www.gainweb.org/
http://www.geniusfind.com/
http://www.globalgateway.com/
http://www.gmapsdirectory.com/
http://www.hladat.sk/
http://www.hotelbeam.com/
http://www.imegamall.com/
http://www.indiecoffeehouse.com/
http://www.information.com/
http://www.infotiger.com/
http://www.internetoveobchody.cz/lin...id=&idcat=
http://www.isoctv.org/
http://www.jamjaa.com/
http://www.katalog.sk/
http://www.la-toile.com/des_toiles/submit_proposer.html
http://www.luxpoint.lu/
http://www.marketingpatch.com/
http://www.mobilemost.com/site_ekle.php
http://directory.mrgoodfox.com/
http://msn.katalog.atlas.cz/
http://www.najdes.sk/index.php?act=
http://www.nationmultimedia.com/webdir

How to search engine optimize your Joomla website in 10 easy steps.

2009-09-11T19:49:00.000-07:00

It’s been awhile since I have done much blogging about Joomla SEO, almost a year in fact. I thought I would do some research and see how the collective wisdom of the industry has changed with what matter to get a page search engine optimized (SEO). This isn't exhaustive, for that you should check out my Complete guide to Joomla SEO or Alledia's SEO guide. Use this top ten list if you already have a site ranked and want to see what you can implement to get your ranking higher. Much of the information here is based on two 2007 studies about ranking in Google from SEOmoz.org and Sistrix.
1. Keyword Use in Title Tag
and appear in the blue bar of your browser. The number one factor in ranking a page on search engines is the title tag. These are the words in the source of a page in
Choose the title of an article very carefully. Joomla will use the title of the article in the title tag (what appears in the blue bar). It will also be the text used in any insite links (see #5 and 6)
2. Anchor Text of Inbound Link
Anchor text is the text that appear underlined and in blue (unless it's been styled) for a link from one webpage to another.
Try to get some inbound links to your article using the keywords you want to be ranked for. Two ways are to do this are through online press services such as PRweb.com or simply by networking.
3. Global Link Popularity of Site (PageRank)
How many pages are linking to your page is called link popularity, or in Google, PageRank.
The more sites link to you, the better. Joomla is a CMS that helps you add content quickly. Create one quality content page per day. Quality content is the most important factor to getting bound links. For a site that will perform well, you eventually need 200 odd pages of content. This is the important point. QUICK SEO IS DEAD. The only way to perform well in SEO now is to have a rich content site.
4. Age of Site
When was the domain of the site registered?
Nothing you can do about this, but there is evidence that suggests that how long you have your domain registered for makes a difference (spam sites are not registered for long). Go and extend your domain registration for a couple of years.
5. Link Popularity within the Site
This is the number of links to the page from inside your own domain.
Because of #2, it’s critical that you link to articles from within your site using the right anchor text. Make sure that you:
• Use the linked titles setting
• Make good used of the Most Read, Related Items and Latest News modules.
• Have a sitemap component linked to right from your homepage
6. Topical Relevance of Inbound Links and Popularity of Linking Site
It’s important that you get quality inbound links. This means they have to be from a site that is topically related to your, and one that has a high PageRank.
• It’s worth submitting once to directories (then forget about it).
• Type related:www.yoursite.com into google and contact the top 20 returns for links.Link Popularity of Site in Topic Community
• Make sure you have a blog on your site, and network with others in your topical community. Make sure you frequently link to other blogs in your topical community.
7. Keyword Use in Body Text
The keyword density of the phrase you are optimizing for in the content of the page. Still important, the German study from Sistrix identified some interesting results.
• Targeted keywords in the first and last paragraphs. There is a simple trick here, write your quality content, and then use the tool of your choice to find the keyword density. THEN, take the top three words and add them to the meta keywords in the parameters part of the page (in Joomla admin). This is somewhat backwards for some maybe, it optimizes a page for what you actually wrote, rather than trying to write a page optimized for certain words (which I always find difficult).
• Keywords in H2-H6 headline tags seem to have an influence on the rankings while keywords in H1 headline tags seem to be getting less valuable. Modify the output of the core content component through a template override file.
• Using keywords in bold or strong tags - slight effect, same with img alt tags and filenames.
Additional notes:
A couple of other factors at the bottom of measured/estimated influence
8. File Size
The file size doesn’t seem to influence the ranking of a web page on Google although smaller sites tend to have slightly higher rankings. Optimize those images!
9. Clean URL (Joomla SEF)
Although Keywords in the file name (URL) don’t seem to have a positive effect (based on the German study), a URL with few parameters (?id=123, etc.) is important. Turn on Joomla SEF but don’t get anal about it.
Other Notes
10. Utilize Your Error Pages.
Too often companies forget about error pages (such as 404 errors). Error pages should always re-direct "lost" users to valuable, text-based pages. Placing text links to major site pages is an excellent practice. Visit www.cnet.com/error for an example of a well-utilized error page. To make the error page fit with the rest of the theme of your site, create an uncategorized article and then copy the source as viewed on a webpage, and put that into the 404 file.
What’s not here?
You’ll see much of the discussion about SEO revolving around various SEF components. These components allow for advanced manipulation of URLs and meta tags. Neither of these was identified as a major factor in either SEO analysis. Turn on the default Joomla SEF, but I am not sure there is much evidence that its very influential after that.

Google Analytics Hack For Export All Your Keywords

2009-09-10T20:07:00.000-07:00

Now Problem with Google Analytics is that you can export only 500 Results once. So I have to export Keywords in group of 500 many times to export all keywords and that is bit time consuming.

After Searching Google Analytics Help Forums and Groups; Finally I had learn how to export all keywords together.

Steps for export up to 50,000 Keywords from Google Analytic:

1. Log into Google Analytics Account.
2. Select the domain you wish to check.
3. On the left click on Traffic Sources, then Keywords.
4. Add the words “&limit=50000″ to end of URL in browser address bar and hit return.
5. Click the “Export” button and then choose CSV.
6. Open in Excel and have fun.

Google Analytics has a hard maximum built-in limit of 50,000 for each and every data type, including URL’s under Top Content, Keywords under Traffic Sources, etc. If you want to export more than 50,000 Results than following is tricky steps.
Steps for Export more than 50,000 Keywords from Google Analytics:

1. On the left click on Traffic Sources, then Keywords.
2. Insert “49990″ at in “Go to” field at right bottom of Google Analytics page and press Enter; then GA would show you the page.
3. Add the words “&limit=50000″ to end of URL in browser address bar and hit return. Now you get the next 50,000.
4. Click the “Export” button and then choose CSV.

101 FREE Ways To Increase Your Blog Traffic

2009-09-10T20:02:00.000-07:00

Here goes, 101 ways to get traffic to your blog:

1. Join MyBlogLog, add friends, and join communities.
2. Sign up for Technorati and ping it when your blog content changes.
3. Use a ping service like pingomatic to ping RSS aggregators.
4. Submit your blog to all of the directories on Robin Good’s list of RSS directories.
5. Use trackbacks.
6. Leave comments on blogs in related niches.
7. Tell your friends about your blog and specific posts.
8. Put your blog URL in your forum signatures.
9. Create link bait.
10. Tell Your newsletter subscribers about your blog.
11. Write press releases for your blog.
12. Link liberally to other blogs in your posts (many bloggers check who links to them).
13. Tag your posts using Technorati tags or a tag plug-in.
14. Submit your posts to multiple social bookmarking sites using OnlyWire.
15. Use Stumbleupon to stumble your posts.
16. Answer questions on Yahoo answers with the answers on your blog.
17. Answer questions on forums related to your niche with a link to one of your blog posts that answers the question.
18. Set up a feed on MyYahoo so that Yahoo keeps better track of your blog.
19. Make lists (My Top 5…, Ten Things…, etc.). Many of the most popular blog posts are lists like this one.
20. Use pictures. Most of the top trafficed blogs use pictures in their posts.
21. Use video on your blog.
22. Find out what people want to learn about in your blog’s niche and write about it.
23. Be the first to break a news story.
24. Use keyword research to find good keywords to use in your posts.
25. Write controversial posts.
26. Strongly Agree or strongly disagree with other bloggers and write about it with a link to their post.
27. Make it easy for your readers to sign up for your RSS feed.
28. Make it easy for your readers to Digg your posts.
29. Ask your readers to submit your posts to social bookmarking sites (Digg, Reddit, etc.).
30. Interview well known people in your industry (it’s working well for me).
31. Give credit to the blogs that inspire your posts.
32. Don’t be boring.
33. Write for beginners.
34. Participate in group writing projects.
35. Participate in blog memes.
36. Create a blog meme and tag your friends.
37. Participate in blog carnivals.
38. Post at different times of the day.
39. Submit your best posts to article directories.
40. Write Killer Content .
41. Start a group blog. These tend to get more traffic, because more people are creating conent and more people are promoting it.
42. Have guest posters.
43. Create a blog meme and tag an A-list blogger who you like.
44. Submit your blog to regular web directories (like DMOZ, etc.).
45. Join SpicyPage and promote your blog on it.
46. Join a blog webring.
47. Sign up for BlogWoods and promote your blog on it.
48. Join LinkAndBlog and do link and blog challenges.
49. Submit your best posts to Netscape.
50. Exchange Ads (not blogroll links) with complementary blogs.
51. Trade blog roll links with related blogs.
52. Sign up for Rojo. Subscribe to your feed and click “add mojo” on your better articles.
53. Add a plug-in to notify users of new comments (I REALLY need to do this).
54. Make it easy for your visitors to submit your post to ALL social bookmarking sites (not just Digg).
55. Add a tell-a-friend script or plug-in to your posts.
56. Make it easy for your visitors to bookmark your page in their browser.
57. Make it easy for people to link to your blog.
58. Use easy to read fonts.
59. Use a professional looking blog design.
60. Make your blog easy to navigate.
61. Highlight your most popular posts.
62. Write posts that ask provocative questions.
63. Use questions for the title of your blog posts (you knew that was coming).
64. Use good keywords in your post titles.
65. Reply to every question you get through email.
66. Reply to every question you get on your blog.
67. E-mail other bloggers about your really good post(s) (breaking news posts).
68. Offer free stuff related to your niche (tools, ebooks, etc).
69. Run a contest.
70. Publish videos on YouTube with the URL for your site at the beginning and end of the video.
71. Install a translation plug-in or use a translation service to translate your blog into foreign languages.
72. Put Your URL on everything that goes out of your house (business cards, stationary, mailing labels, etc.).
73. Go through listible.com’s list of web 2.0 sites and promote your blog on all web 2.0 sites that apply.
74. Search for Wikis related to your niche to submit your blog to. For example, for this blog the search phrase would be “make money online wiki” or “internet marketing wiki”.
75. Give regular polls (use a poll plug-in like democracy for this).
76. Add trivia quiz pages.
77. Add ecard pages.
78. Add a forum for your visitors to discuss more on your niche.
79. Add a wiki to your blog .
80. Join Hubpages and post links to your blog from articles you write.
81. Join Blink List and make a list of blogs with your blog in it.
82. Join 43 Things and write a list of 43 things you want to achieve (include your blog url in the list).
83. Join Blogger Party (and/or other free blog systems). Then write posts that link back to your blog.
84. Make a Squidoo lens (or more than one) with a link to your blog.
85. Provide Wikipedia articles with links to your blog where it makes sense.
86. Tell people you will link back to them if they review your blog (like John Chow).
87. Join Blog Catalog (kind of like MyBlogLog).
88. Create a MySpace Page. Put your blog on it, and get some friends.
89. Use SEO (Search Engine Optimization).
90. Use good grammar. People will be happy with your writing.
91. Submit your blog to directories in your niche.
92. Email or Instant message your friends to Digg, stumbelupon, etc. your post.
93. Link to your blog from other websites and blogs you own.
94. Write a post about the top x bloggers in your niche or state or country, etc. Then tell them about, so they will want to link back to you.
95. Promote your posts on related newsgroups.
96. Post frequently.
97. Submit your site to free website review sites like coolsiteoftheday.
98. Search for .edu sites with link pages, forums, directories, and wikis to submit your link to.
99. Give out blogging awards and tell the bloggers you are giving the awards to about it.
100. Pray. (That’s just always good advice)...
101. Make a 101 list.

BONUS:
102. Think outside the box.

CREATE BACK LINKS FROM DIRECTORY SUBMISSION

2009-09-10T20:01:00.000-07:00

Submitting your website in the online directories can be done by manual or automatic directory submission. However, when you submit your respective website on these directories, it should attached with a back link which follows to your own website and explains every thing about it in detail. It should be done properly and efficiently as it’s important for the viewer to know where it has been originated from. Link building is an important method to make back links and help them work more effectively. It also helps you generate more money while you own a website. There are many methods of creating links and building links which are popular all over the globe. Article submission, forum posting and RSS submission are some important ways by which you can post a back link on the web site. Using directory submission software is a really effective method for creating good back links.

How to Move from Blogger to WordPress Using Your Own Domain Name

2009-09-09T21:20:00.000-07:00

You may have started out with a Blogger blog, but now you feel as if you've outgrown it. You want to give your readers more. You've heard that WordPress offers lots of options, and that it's easier to optimize it for the search engines, so you'll have an easier time increasing your readership. If you own your own domain, it's easy to move your Blogger blog and make it into a WordPress blog. This three-part series takes you step by step through the process.Almost every new person starts a blog with Blogger (www.blogger.com), a free blogging service owned by Google. This seems to be a practical solution at first for the following reasons:
• It is free; users do not need to spend money on registering domain names and hosting services.
• It is very easy to use and does not need an in-depth knowledge of web programming, unlike building entire web sites with PHP and ASP.
However, as time goes by, your knowledge of building websites will increase; so will your desire (and demand) for more website features to improve your users' experiences. Currently Blogger cannot support a lot of website features vital for building a stable and professional website.
This is when people starting wanting to use WordPress (wordpress.org), an open source blog publishing platform. Using WordPress offers an entirely different experience from using Blogger because it can handle two very important things:
• Website templates (using the PHP programming language).
• MySQL databases.
I will assume this doesn't scare you because of your experience in that field, but you need to be aware of one serious problem that can surely affect the profitability of your website. Moving from Blogger to WordPress means that you risk losing TRAFFIC and SEARCH ENGINE rankings.
This is particularly true if you have a great blog hosted before with Blogger and if you REALLY need to move to WordPress. In that case, keep reading this article.

10 Common SEO Mistakes

2009-08-25T01:33:00.000-07:00

1. Not Starting Early Enough
Even organizations that are aware of SEO's importance have a tendency to start the process too late. People in these organizations may think that SEO is about keyword selection and copywriting, but not realize that SEO also plays a critical role in technical implementation decisions. The key to remember here: it's easier to do it right the first time than to do it over.

2. Picking a Poor Content Management System
Unfortunately, many CMSs lack even basic SEO features, such as the ability to select title tags, headings, and anchor text. Other CMSs may allow these basics, but aren't crawler-friendly or create massive duplicate content.

3. Use Crawler Unfriendly Development Methods
Sometimes a senior marketing manager insists on using Flash for the whole site. Search engines are doing a better job at understanding the content within Flash files, but they still don't deal with it as well as plain HTML text. There are ways to completely block search engine spiders too, such as implementing links in JavaScript that can't be parsed by the crawler.

4. Duplicate Content Pages
There are many ways to implement duplicate content, such as creating print pages or referring to pages on the site with more than one URL (example: www.example.com and www.example.com/index.html.

5. No Canonical Redirect
Many Web sites allow http://example.com and http://www.example.com to co-exist without 301 redirecting one version of the URL to the other. This is actually a duplicate content problem, but it's so common that it deserves its own mention. A somewhat rarer cousin to this is where http://www.example.com and https://www.example.com are allowed to co-exist.

6. Pseudo Duplicate Content
One example of this is an e-commerce catalog that offers alternate sort orders for its products (e.g., a shoe catalog that allows you to sort on price, color, or size). To a user, the content on all these pages is different; to a search engine, they aren't because all the same elements of text are on the page.

7. Thin Content Pages
Many sites implement pages that have too little content per page. These can even be pages that the user sees as content rich, such as a page with images showing a product, and basic product information such as price. However, if the only text on the page that differs from other product pages is the title and heading tags and the price, the page will either be seen as a low quality page, or a duplicate.

8. Poor Use of Internal Anchor Text
A surprising number of sites still use "click here" or "more" as the anchor text on many links. This is a loss of a golden opportunity to help search engines understand what the page being linked to is about.

9. Over-Optimized Pages
Sometimes people go off the deep end after learning about SEO. They start creating overly keyword-rich pages in an effort to move their rankings upwards. This can quickly make for a poor user experience, resulting in a decrease in conversion rates and/or the site being less attractive for others to link to.
One warning signal of this is when you hear people talk about "SEO copywriting." This is a flag that the content author is thinking about search engines and not users, and that will get you into trouble. You're almost always better off having the writer focus on creating quality content, but controlling the title of the article so you can make sure that the keyword is in it.

10. Not Investing in Site Promotion
Many organizations think that the process is complete once a site is launched. They don't realize that the Web site needs to be promoted much like any other product or service. Inbound links (and in the future other references to your Web site, company, or products on the Web) are the primary voting mechanism that search engines use to tell them which are the most important sites related to a particular search query.

Free seo tools:

2009-08-21T19:30:00.000-07:00

http://www.seochat.com/seo-tools/

http://www.seobook.com/

http://www.seomoz.org/

http://www.ibusinesspromoter.com/download/

http://www.bestsoftware4download.com

http://www.link-assistant.com/

The top 100 most dangerous websites for your PC enlisted

2009-08-21T19:27:00.000-07:00

Melbourne, Aug 20 (ANI): Internet security company Norton Symantec has come up with a list of Top 100 Dirtiest sites, which could infect your computer with malware.

Malware is a software that can damage or compromise a computer system without the owner's consent.

Natalie Connor, spokeswoman of the anti-virus company, said that even visiting any of the named websites could expose a computer to infection and put the personal information into the hands of unwanted people.

"What people don't realise is when you type in a website, you're bringing down information on a page and with it could be malware," News.com.au quoted her as saying.

The list was compiled with the help of global data collected on Norton Safe Web, a site that analysed websites' security risks.

The infected sites had on average 18,000 threats and 40 per cent of the sites had more than 20,000 threats, while 75 per cent of websites on the list were found to be spreading malware for over six months.

According to Connor, most websites in the list had adult content with unprintable names, suggesting they contained hardcore pornography.

Some others sites include those on ice skating, deer hunting, catering and legal services.

Hackers can apparently obtain personal information using keystroke-logging software from both PCs and Mac computers.he reps said that hackers are a force to reckon with as cyber crime is increasing rapidly.

She added: "The last thing we want to do is scare people, we want to educate them so they know how to protect themselves.

"It's not about the fame any more of creating viruses and getting in the media. They're making money."

Norton released a sample of the dirtiest websites:

17ebook.com

aladel.net

bpwhamburgorchardpark.org

clicnews.com

dfwdiesel.net

divineenterprises.net

fantasticfilms.ru

gardensrestaurantandcatering.com

ginedis.com

gncr.org

hdvideoforums.org

hihanin.com

kingfamilyphotoalbum.com

likaraoke.com

mactep.org

magic4you.nu

marbling.pe.kr

nacjalneg.info

pronline.ru

purplehoodie.com

qsng.cn

seksburada.net

sportsmansclub.net

stock888.cn

tathli.com

teamclouds.com

texaswhitetailfever.com

wadefamilytree.org

xnescat.info

yt118.com (ANI)

101 ways to drive traffic to your website

2009-08-21T19:25:00.000-07:00

1. Join MyBlogLog, add friends, and join communities.
2. Sign up for Technorati and ping it when your blog content changes.
3. Use a ping service like pingomatic to ping RSS aggregators.
4. Submit your blog to all of the directories on Robin Good’s list of RSS directories.
5. Use trackbacks.
6. Leave comments on blogs in related niches.
7. Tell your friends about your blog and specific posts.
8. Put your blog URL in your forum signatures.
9. Create link bait.
10. Tell Your newsletter subscribers about your blog.
11. Write press releases for your blog.
12. Link liberally to other blogs in your posts (many bloggers check who links to them).
13. Tag your posts using Technorati tags or a tag plug-in.
14. Submit your posts to multiple social bookmarking sites using OnlyWire.
15. Use Stumbleupon to stumble your posts.
16. Answer questions on Yahoo answers with the answers on your blog.
17. Answer questions on forums related to your niche with a link to one of your blog posts that answers the question.
18. Set up a feed on MyYahoo so that Yahoo keeps better track of your blog.
19. Make lists (My Top 5…, Ten Things…, etc.). Many of the most popular blog posts are lists like this one.
20. Use pictures. Most of the top trafficed blogs use pictures in their posts.
21. Use video on your blog.
22. Find out what people want to learn about in your blog’s niche and write about it.
23. Be the first to break a news story.
24. Use keyword research to find good keywords to use in your posts.
25. Write controversial posts.
26. Strongly Agree or strongly disagree with other bloggers and write about it with a link to their post.
27. Make it easy for your readers to sign up for your RSS feed.
28. Make it easy for your readers to Digg your posts.
29. Ask your readers to submit your posts to social bookmarking sites (Digg, Reddit, etc.).
30. Interview well known people in your industry (it’s working well for me).
31. Give credit to the blogs that inspire your posts.
32. Don’t be boring.
33. Write for beginners.
34. Participate in group writing projects.
35. Participate in blog memes.
36. Create a blog meme and tag your friends.
37. Participate in blog carnivals.
38. Post at different times of the day.
39. Submit your best posts to article directories.
40. Write Killer Content.
41. Start a group blog. These tend to get more traffic, because more people are creating conent and more people are promoting it.
42. Have guest posters.
43. Create a blog meme and tag an A-list blogger who you like.
44. Submit your blog to regular web directories (like DMOZ, etc.).
45. Join SpicyPage and promote your blog on it.
46. Join a blog webring.
47. Sign up for BlogWoods and promote your blog on it.
48. Join LinkAndBlog and do link and blog challenges.
49. Submit your best posts to Netscape.
50. Exchange Ads (not blogroll links) with complementary blogs.
51. Trade blog roll links with related blogs.
52. Sign up for Rojo. Subscribe to your feed and click “add mojo” on your better articles.
53. Add a plug-in to notify users of new comments (I REALLY need to do this).
54. Make it easy for your visitors to submit your post to ALL social bookmarking sites (not just Digg).
55. Add a tell-a-friend script or plug-in to your posts.
56. Make it easy for your visitors to bookmark your page in their browser.
57. Make it easy for people to link to your blog.
58. Use easy to read fonts.
59. Use a professional looking blog design.
60. Make your blog easy to navigate.
61. Highlight your most popular posts.
62. Write posts that ask provocative questions.
63. Use questions for the title of your blog posts (you knew that was coming).
64. Use good keywords in your post titles.
65. Reply to every question you get through email.
66. Reply to every question you get on your blog.
67. E-mail other bloggers about your really good post(s) (breaking news posts).
68. Offer free stuff related to your niche (tools, ebooks, etc).
69. Run a contest.
70. Publish videos on YouTube with the URL for your site at the beginning and end of the video.
71. Install a translation plug-in or use a translation service to translate your blog into foreign languages.
72. Put Your URL on everything that goes out of your house (business cards, stationary, mailing labels, etc.).
73. Go through listible.com’s list of web 2.0 sites and promote your blog on all web 2.0 sites that apply.
74. Search for Wikis related to your niche to submit your blog to. For example, for this blog the search phrase would be “make money online wiki” or “internet marketing wiki”.
75. Give regular polls (use a poll plug-in like democracy for this).
76. Add trivia quiz pages.
77. Add ecard pages.
78. Add a forum for your visitors to discuss more on your niche.
79. Add a wiki to your blog .
80. Join Hubpages and post links to your blog from articles you write.
81. Join Blink List and make a list of blogs with your blog in it.
82. Join 43 Things and write a list of 43 things you want to achieve (include your blog url in the list).
83. Join Blogger Party (and/or other free blog systems). Then write posts that link back to your blog.
84. Make a Squidoo lens (or more than one) with a link to your blog.
85. Provide Wikipedia articles with links to your blog where it makes sense.
86. Tell people you will link back to them if they review your blog (like John Chow).
87. Join Blog Catalog (kind of like MyBlogLog).
88. Create a MySpace Page. Put your blog on it, and get some friends.
89. Use SEO (Search Engine Optimization).
90. Use good grammar. People will be happy with your writing.
91. Submit your blog to directories in your niche.
92. Email or Instant message your friends to Digg, stumbelupon, etc. your post.
93. Link to your blog from other websites and blogs you own.
94. Write a post about the top x bloggers in your niche or state or country, etc. Then tell them about, so they will want to link back to you.
95. Promote your posts on related newsgroups.
96. Post frequently.
97. Submit your site to free website review sites like coolsiteoftheday.
98. Search for .edu sites with link pages, forums, directories, and wikis to submit your link to.
99. Give out blogging awards and tell the bloggers you are giving the awards to about it.
100. Pray. (That’s just always good advice)...
101. Make a 101 list.

AdSense Tips

2009-02-19T02:12:00.000-08:00

Making AdSense fit your forum site

When you run a forum site, ad placement and formats are key to designing ads that will be successful but not intrusive to your regular users.
Map

Placement: Display your ad units where repeat users will notice them

* Because forum regulars tend to skip the header and go straight to the meat of the thread, placing your ad unit above or below the first post can be more effective than ads next to the logo.

* Place a leaderboard immediately after the last post. This provides users who make it to the end of a thread with a 'next step' when the content ends. Try to avoid placing it after the footer, though, as your readers will likely move to the next thread without seeing the ad.

Formats: Adapting your design for multiple ad units and limited space.

* Using multiple ad units, you can use a variety of formats to fill ad space throughout your site. Placing a skyscraper above the fold on the left side of your forum seems to produce slightly better performance than other positioning. However, when using multiple ad units throughout the page our horizontal bias still favors the leaderboard. Our heat map provides more details.

* Use horizontal link units, which are small enough to fit near the top of your forum just below the header. For the regular forum visitor, link units offer a wider range of relevant topics to browse.

However you choose to implement your ads, keep in mind that forums are highly interactive sites with regular users. Be sure to blend the ads nicely, so they don't appear overly intrusive - but don't blend them so well they mislead your users! Every forum site is different and you know your community best, so as always use your own judgment to create the most positive experience for your users.

Tip for making the most of revenue opportunities: Like most sites, forums can benefit from opting in to image ads. Supporting image ads increases the pool of ads - particularly cost-per-thousand-impression (CPM) ads - bidding to display on your site. Since forums tend to have lower clickthrough rates than other types of sites, CPM ads can improve revenue without the need for clicks. Keep in mind, however, that CPM ads come in both text and image formats

SEO Service Provider - Ahmedabad

2009-02-10T23:51:00.000-08:00

People are working out new ways to grow their business and at the same time cut the marketing costs, and the best way is to lower the advertising costs. Advertising is quite expensive if you release the advertisement on the television. Moreover, very few people read magazines and newspapers this days. With the advent of internet, people have realized the the power of internet and having online business. However, this is effective if you manage your business with the right resources. SEO service provider, can answer your requirements.

SEO service provider can fulfill your SEO requirements with effective link building strategies and other techniques of website marketing. The SEO servicing will not only reduce advertising costs but also you will get your target market enhanced with interaction via process of internet.

But anyways, here are some ways of moving ahead towards the first page of Google.

1. RSS Feeds
2. Blogs
3. Social Bookmark
4. Forums
5. Article

This is something you should learn as fast as possible. Get publicity for yourself. You have to work on this. When you get an opportunity to perform, then see that you accept it and perform well. Also, work on PR at social networking websites on the internet. The more publicity you can get, the more successful you will be. Good luck.

Many SEO services are available online. Select the right one by studying their profiles carefully and make sure that they have the expertise in SEO servicing. With all things going online with the internet, why you should be left out? Have SEO service provider as your business partner.

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Wikis

2009-02-10T23:45:00.000-08:00

A wiki is a type of web site that allows users to easily create, edit, and organize web pages. Many wikis allow anyone to create and edit any page of the wiki. Wikis can be used for a large variety of tasks, from personal note-taking to collaborating online, creating an internal knowledge base, assembling an online community, and managing a traditional website. The possibilities might make wikis seem like a daunting system, but commitment to simplicity makes wiki tools a breeze.

Good Things about Wikis:

• Wikis Simplify Editing Your Website
• Wikis Use Simple Markup
• Creating New Pages Is Simple With Wikis
• Wikis Simplify Site Organization
• Wikis Keep Track of All Your Stuff

RSS Feeds

2009-02-10T23:43:00.000-08:00

RSS is short for Rich Site Summary or Real Simple Syndication. To put it plainly, it is a way of distributing content information in an XML format. RSS delivers information as an XML file, and this XML file is called an RSS feed. This feed contains information as designated by the site's owner. So back on topic, RSS is used to distribute content to whoever wants it. By requesting the appropriate RSS feed, an end user can quickly find out the latest information posted on a website.

An aggregator (also known as a feed reader) accumulates RSS feeds for you, and distributes that information to you as you want. Some require a program to be uploaded, some do daily emails, and others integrate right into your browser. RSS is about distributing content quickly and easily. It also increases efficiency - instead of having to visit a site every day, by using RSS, you can automate the process and be notified when an update occurs.

How RSS works:

Example 1:
Your name is Mr. Joe, and you are a fan of five different blogs. You also end up wasting a lot of time visiting these blogs. So you turn to an RSS feed aggregator, and add their RSS feeds. Now, once a day (or however often you want), the reader will check the RSS feeds for each site, and notify you when there is an update.

Example 2:
Your name is Mr. Joe, and you live in Britain. You have a little website, and would like to have the latest sporting news on your website. You of course do not have time, so you turn to BBC, and use their sports RSS feed to incorporate sports news into your website.

Hence you can give RSS Feeds on your site to make the task easy for the users. Also RRS Feed can be optimized & used for increasing rankings of your website.

Article & Story Submission

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Article writing and posting is an effective way to promote your website. By submitting articles to article directory websites not only get one-way link, but also helps in pulling traffic to your website from the targeted market. Article plays an important role in search engine optimization (SEO) - it is all about pulling traffic to your website and for this, crawlers need to be directed for fresh and original contents. That means if your article is fresh and rich with keywords, then you will get a good page rank in major search engines.

To get a good page rank in search engines, publish lots of articles to article directory websites and blogs for free to get a good number of URL links back to your website. It helps in many easy:

• If your article is nicely written and is original, chances are high that other editors will republish it in their respected portals. The more people use your articles, the more links to your websites. Ranking with search engines is determined by the number of quality links to your website.

• Major search engines like Google, Yahoo rely on keyword rich articles. For that, you have to include well-linked keywords in the title of the article.

• Submit your articles in article directory websites with high page rank. This way you can pull their traffic to your website.

• Add photos and pictures with articles for a greater visibility and to make your article more attractive.

Blogging

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A blog (the same as "weblog") is a type of website that is usually arranged in chronological order from the most recent ‘post’ (or entry) at the top of the main page to the older entries towards the bottom. Blogs are web site content management systems with additional functionality such as comments, trackbacks and RSS. Blogs are really no different than web sites.

Why start your own blog when you can simply use a website? The reason for it is one of the most effective means of Internet-based communication & is relatively easy and requires little time & investment. Again, it can be an additional advantage to your website.

Blogs are a great way to spread information that is difficult to find. Even though the Internet has vast amounts of information, it is not easy to locate that information. By creating a blog, users can contribute hard-to-find information as matter of eliminating the hassle of searching hours on end to find all of that information in a centralized location.
Not only do blogs provide information, but they allow others to comment on topics and provide further insight. In this respect, blogs act as a social network, a community of users forms. With more and more people participating in blogs, they have become a very useful to finding information fast and easy.

Social Bookmarking

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Social bookmarking is a method for Internet users to store, organize, search, and manage bookmarks of web pages on the Internet with the help of metadata.

In a social bookmarking system, users save links to web pages that they want to remember and/or share. These bookmarks are usually public, and can be saved privately, shared only with specified people or groups, shared only inside certain networks, or another combination of public and private domains. The allowed people can usually view these bookmarks chronologically, by category or tags, or via a search engine.

Social bookmarking will help your web content travel across the internet in an effort to achieve true presence on the Internet. You can keep the social bookmarking at your site so that visitors can bookmark that site and access that site from anywhere so it will create great traffic of old visitors.

Image Optimization

2009-02-09T00:30:00.000-08:00

If your site has lot of images, you need to optimize them too as they can’t be read by the search engines. It’s very easy for a human reader to interpret the image into its meaning. However for a Web crawler the whole interpreting process is completely different. Search Engine spiders can only read text but not images. So you need to use some special tags for your images in order to give them some meaning.

Important points to be kept in mind while image optimization:

• Alt text: ALT text or Alternate Text is the text to describe your image when your mouse moves over an image on your web page. The text should be meaningful but short. You can use your targeted keywords as ALT text. If your browser can’t display the image for some reason, the alt text is used in place of that particular image.

• File name: Always use meaningful file name for your images, use names like “apple-iphone-cover.jpg” instead of meaningless “DSC24045.jpg”. Keep image file name same or similar to the ALT text.

• Image Linking: Whenever you want to link to your image, use the image keywords in your link text. Example: use “view an Apple iPhone”, instead of “Click here to view” as the anchor text.

Link Optimization

2009-02-04T04:34:00.000-08:00

It is important to optimize your internal & external outbound links for search engines as well as to give your visitors a better navigation.

Important points to be kept in mind while link optimization:
• Try to use text links in your website so that the search engines can visit those pages.
• Try using good Anchor Text when you are linking to other people. Include the appropriate keyword in the anchor text which gives the outbound link a ‘proper meaning’ and value.
• A good & clean Internal Link Structure with proper use of anchor text will definitely help.

Keyword Optimization

2009-02-04T04:32:00.000-08:00

The content of your website needs to be optimized in such a way that it can suit both search engines & your readers. Stuffing your site with too many keywords can make your site unreadable. So you will need to have some sort of balance between your keywords & your content.

Important points to be kept in mind while including keywords in your content:
• Research: Do a proper research before you decide on your keywords. There are plenty of free tools out there that can help you to do keyword research as mentioned earlier.

• Keyword Density: Try to have a moderate keyword density so that it can help the search engine to determine that your page is indeed related & relevant to the keyword that you are targeting.

• Synonyms & Related Keywords: Try to use synonyms instead of having a high keyword density. This helps to make my content sound natural but still helps in SEO.

• Long Tail Keywords: It’s often good to target some long tail keywords as they are comparatively easier to rank for. During your keyword research you should be able to gather some good long tail keywords that you can optimize your site for. But you can also come up with your own long tail keywords; for example try adding some common words like – ‘best’, ‘free’, ‘cheap’, ‘top’ etc. along with your actual keyword and you might eventually get some good long tail keywords.

Important HTML Tags

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It is necessary for you to highlight certain parts of your website that you want your readers to look at. There are several tags in html which allows you to do so. For example – the headings [h1] [h2] [h3], Bold [strong], Italic [em] etc. The text inside your header tags (e.g. [h1]) is given very high importance by the search engine. Usually you can use them to define the page/post titles or the important sections of your website.

• Header Elements:
Header 1: Header 1 should be used to define the most important section of your page. Usually Header 1 is used for Site’s title or header text.

Header 2 & 3: Header 2 and 3 can be used for Page/Post titles or important sections of your pages. Separating your content with headers is a good practice as it makes your site more readable and easy to navigate.

• Text Styles:

Bold: You can bold (e.g. [strong]) certain words which are of high importance. Sometimes it’s good to bold your keywords where appropriate. However overdoing this may get you penalized.

Italic: You can use the [em] tag to emphasize certain words which will appear in italic.

Quote: This is very useful when you are quoting from someone.

On Page Optimization

2009-02-04T04:22:00.000-08:00

Introduction:

On-page optimization (on-page SEO) is what can be done on the pages of a website to maximise its performance in the search engines for target keywords. On-Page Optimization factors are related directly to the content and structure of the website. Truly speaking, if you can do proper on-page optimization for your website you can not only rank well in a search engine but also can increase the overall readability of your website for your visitors. The most important On Page optimization techniques include the Title - tag optimization, Meta - tags optimization, Content optimization, Important HTML tags, Keyword optimization, Link optimization and Image optimization.

Title - Tag Optimization

A site’s title tag is by far the most important on-page optimization element. This should be the first tag in the Head section of the page. There is evidence that search engines give more weight to factors higher up the page. A title tag should be short but descriptive enough for your visitors to identify you and your business. Title tag is the first thing that is shown & indexed by the search engines. So naturally it is given a very high importance – out of thousands results that a searcher sees, your site’s title has to be appealing enough for him to want to find out more information. On the other hand, your title has to be appealing enough to the search engine in order to rank you above thousands of other similar websites like yours.

Important points to be kept in mind while writing the Title for your website:

• The Title should not be more than 70 to 75 characters (with spaces), because search engines will not be able to read it & display the whole.
• Your Name/ Business Name / Site Name: This is very important for breading propose. If you feel that your customers may search you by your brand name than it’s also useful to put it somewhere in your title.
• Keywords: Keeping your targeted keywords in the Title is always of a great importance because search engines value the title more & if it contains your keyword then there is a definite chance to rank high. Don’t staff too many keywords in your title. Write a title which is readable to humans & also good for the search engine.

Meta - Tags Optimization

META-Tags are not as important any more as they used to be. Basically because people started using them to spam search engines, especially the keyword-tag was heavily used for that. Nevertheless there are still some important META-Tags that you should use and they are “Description” & “Keywords”. A site’s Meta description should contain a brief description of your website focusing on the areas and services that your business is specialized in. This small piece of text can be considered as a selling snippet, if a searcher finds it appealing he is likely to click and go inside your page to find out more information.

Important points to be kept in mind while writing the Meta tags for your website:

• The Description should not be more than 265 characters (with spaces) and Keywords up to 40 to 500 characters (with spaces) maximum.
• Include your Selling Point– Tell your customers what they want to hear through your site’s Meta Description, and you will definitely get some advantage over others in the SERP (Search Engine Result Page).
• Keywords – Including some of your keywords will give you some advantage in Google’s relevancy algorithm.

Content Optimization:

There is a good line for content in SEO: “Content is The King”. In fact, one of the most valuable things you’ll get out of developing a keyword strategy is a sense of what kind of content your visitors need. The most important thing about creating content for your site is to avoid creating duplicate content. The three main things you should be targeting while writing your content are:
1. Unique and well-written. The search engine spiders are looking for unique content and your visitors are looking for well-written content.
2. With articles come links.
3. With quality content comes even more links.

A unique and well written content carries a great importance. This is the backbone and purpose of your website's existence and if it takes more time to be created then give it, because it deserves it. When you are considering what content you want on your site you should keep this in mind:

Give your Audience Want they Want?

Create a solid, compelling content that will both grab your visitor's attention and at the same time, make them want what you have to offer. This is not the same as selling to them when you have the opportunity to speak to them face-to-face. You are working without the benefit of watching their expressions, speaking to them about their objections, or even understanding whether they are looking for information for a friend or if it is they themselves who require your services. This leaves you with a lot of room for content. In the online environment you have to deal with every question before they ask it, and make every person feel that you can help them even though you've never met.

If you have discussion forums, or blog then keep a link of it on your site, take user reviews, etc. you are actually creating a lot of content. Not only is this great for the user experience, it creates a great deal of keyword rich content. Content that you can use to bring links into your site, send anchor text to your other pages, and which may even bring visitors in from search results.

Yet another benefit that derives from having a website with great content is that, with time, your website itself will become a resource. If you provide great information that other people will find useful people will link to it naturally. Build a good site with quality content, keep it easily navigated and create sections for specific areas and you will find that people will link to your site.

Search engines always want new content, so feed them! Not only your website will grow automatically if you always add something to it, but also search engines tend to spider your website more often if they always find something new.

Site Structure & Link Text

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Introduction:
Developing the structure of your website is a very important step in its overall optimization. The site structure will dictate how the spiders read your site, what information they gather, what content holds the most weight, how much useless code they must weed through and more. You must structure your website to appeal to the visitor and the spiders.

There are four main points to be kept in mind while structuring a web site:

• Improving the user experience is your first goal, because this leads to higher conversion rates, happy customers, etc. If there is a comparison between creating a good user experience and an SEO objective, then site visitors will surely be of a great importance..

• Improving the “crawlability” of the site and channeling “link juice” (PageRank at Google, other search engines have their own formulas) into the most important pages – the ones that you’re trying to get ranked in search results. The method we use for this is called dynamic linking.

• Increasing the ranking of individual web pages within the site, and “broadening the profile” of our most important pages. By using the “anchor text” of our own internal links, and adding the right links in strategic places, we can boost our own search engine rankings.

• Getting more pages into the search engines’ index, also known as “index penetration.” Every additional page that gets indexed adds to our ability to improve our rankings, and in fact makes it easier to increase index penetration.

When developing your website you want to be sure not to create useless code that can confuse spiders and take away from the content of your site. When developing a site many people make the graphical layout with photoshop, create slices for the push-buttons and then they generate HTML. This is a mistake, you should maximize the use of HTML & minimize the use of above things and for that, Dreamweaver is a great option. The objective here is to keep the code as clean as possible! Remember the more code you have the more the spiders must weed through to get to your content, where you want them to be. A great way to cut down on extra code as well is to use style sheets. You can use style sheets in ways as simple as defining fonts or as advanced as creating tableless designs. There are many ways to use style sheets and the biggest perk to using them is to cut back on the code on any given individual page.

SEO - Some Important Points

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Here are some important points to be kept in mind while including the keywords in the above parts of the website. Let’s see some important terms:

Keyword Frequency: It is how often a keyword appears on a page and in specific areas on a page.

Keyword Proximity: Describes how close keywords are to one another. This is one of many measurements search engines use to gauge a web site's relevance.

Keyword density: The number of times any keyword is repeated within a web page, expressed as a percentage of the total number of textual words on the page.

Keyword Stuffing: Keyword stuffing is the needless repetition of a keyword or keyword phrase in order to get higher ranking on search engines.

Looking on the above terms it would be clear that one should take a great care while using keywords in their website because search engines take into consideration all the above factors while deciding the relevance of your website. Don’t stuff keyword phrases together – spread them out throughout the text of your website. Bold or strong some keywords in the text as appropriate. Also put keywords into alt text and link text. Spiders prefer low keyword density, use keywords as they naturally make sense in text. The keyword density should be from 3% to 5%. If spiders feel that there is some keyword stuffing in the website then they may decrease your relevance your even penalize you.

Search Engine Optimization Process?

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As such there is no fix procedure or fix steps for Search Engine Optimization (SEO) of a website. Some say follow these 7 steps while some say these are the best 10 steps, but the main point is that all the parameters should be included. According to the work done by me in Shrushti Web Solutions (SWS), I will say that SEO process can be classified into these 7 steps:

1. Keyword Research & Competition Analysis.
2. Website Design, Structure & Link Text.
3. On Page Optimization.
4. Off Page Optimization.
5. Social Media Optimization (SMO).
6. Pay Per Click Campaign (PPC).
7. Statistics Analysis.

Why can't the search engines figure out my site without SEO help?

2009-02-03T02:09:00.000-08:00

Search engines are always working towards improving their technology to crawl the web more deeply and return increasingly relevant results to users. However, there is and will always be a limit to how search engines can operate. Whereas the right moves can net you thousands of visitors and attention, the wrong moves can hide or bury your site deep in the search results where visibility is minimal. In addition to making content available to search engines, SEO can also help boost rankings, so that content that has been found will be placed where searchers will more readily see it. The online environment is becoming increasingly competitive and those companies who perform SEO will have a decided advantage in visitors and customers.

Why SEO is required?

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Above data shows that the majority of web traffic is driven by the major commercial search engines like Google, Yahoo!, MSN, AskJeeves & AOL. If your site cannot be found by search engines or your content cannot be put into their databases, you miss out on the incredible opportunities available to websites provided via search - people who want what you have visiting your site. Whether your site provides content, services, products or information, search engines are a primary method of navigation for almost all Internet users.

Here are some truths about the popularity & usage of Search Engines:
• 90% of all users don’t look past the first 30 results (most only view top 10).
• 85% of all traffic on the internet is referred from a search engine.
• Many websites aren’t even indexed, most are poorly optimized and get very little
traffic from the search engines.
• Cost-effective advertising.
• Clear and measurable Return On Investment (ROI).
• Operates under this assumption:
More (relevant) traffic + Good Conversion Rate = More Sales/Leads

Search queries, the words that user’s type into the search box which contain terms and phrases best suited to your site carry extraordinary value. Experience has shown that search engine traffic can make (or break) an organization's success. Targeted visitors to a website can provide publicity, revenue and exposure like no other. Investing in SEO, whether through time or finances, can have an exceptional rate of return.

Why did I choose Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Process?

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In Shrushti Web Solutions, we were not given only one kind of work or nor we had to work on a single website or subject. The work changed continuously & according to the requirement. We had to learn all the aspects of e-marketing and practically in our day to day work. We had to learn and implement basics of e-marketing, link building, developing, maintaining the sites, brainstorming for new ideas, find new methods or sites for e-marketing, keywords research, Pay Per Click (PPC), SEO & SMO etc.

As we were exposed to such an environment on Internet & to such a responsible working environment, new ideas & teaching given all the time, I wanted to show all this in my report. Also my personal interest from the beginning was in Search Engine Optimization. I was given the task to build a web site & to do SEO of it & I worked very hard for that site & learned complete SEO procedure & brought the site in the google rankings. So I choose SEO process as my project report topic as it covers many aspects of e-marketing & I will also be able to explain it in a better way as I have practically done this.

Social Media Optimization (SMO)

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Social media optimization (SMO) is a set of methods for generating publicity through social media, online communities and community websites. Social media optimization is related to search engine marketing, but differs in several ways, primarily the focus on driving traffic from sources other than search engines, though improved search ranking is also a benefit of successful SMO. Social media optimization is in many ways connected as a technique to viral marketing where word of mouth is created not through friends or family but through the use of networking in social bookmarking sites. SMO includes various fields like RSS Feeds, content base sites, bookmarking & link submission, story & article submission, audio & video submission etc.

SMO can be categorized in following parts:
Content based sites:
There are certain kinds of content that just naturally spread socially. It does not matter what industry you are in and what boring products you sell, there is always some kind of content that can be created that will work. Whether it is creating widgets, making people laugh, or writing a whitepaper, it can be done. Know what type of content can work for you and create it. Help your content travel through RSS, email subscriptions, newsletters, embeds, mashups and e-books. Content bases sites include Squidoo, Kaboodle, Ning, Wetpaint, Newsvine, Newscloud, Likinn, Truemors etc.

Bookmarking & Link Submission Sites:
Everyone's doing it, sharing their bookmarks with the world. Not only is it convent to have all your bookmarks available in one spot, but it also gives your site more exposure. Adding content features like quick buttons to "add to del.icio.us" are one way to make the process of tagging pages easier, but we go beyond this, making sure pages include a list of relevant tags, suggested notes for a link (which come up automatically when you go to tag a site), and making sure to tag our pages first on popular social bookmarking sites (including more than just the homepage). Bookmark your way to better business with sites like del.icio.us, which invite users to organize and publicize interesting items through tagging and networking. Bookmarking sites include del.icio.us, StumbleUpon, Furl, Magnolia etc.

Story & Article Submission:
Upload stories and articles to drive traffic to your site or blog. Submit items often so that you'll gain a more loyal following and increase your presence on the site. Visitors can submit story and articles and browse articles in categories like technology, business, entertainment, sports and more. Share your favorite sites on the Web with potential clients and business partners by commenting on, uploading and ranking different newsworthy stories and articles. You can also create a member profile that directs traffic back to your company's Web site. Reddit, Digg, and Hugg etc are examples of story and article submission sites.

Photo, Audio & Video Submission:
Media can be an extremely powerful tool in marketing your website. People submit their photos, audio and video that are in a great demand now a days for may be getting popularity, or just for fun, or for money or may be they are promoting something. Videos are in a huge demand now a days specifically for getting reviews on some products. Various companies put out videos of the product that they have reviewed and get popularity & even a brand name. You will also probably be getting a photo or a video in first few pages of google search for something that you might be searching. Youtube, Flickr, Podcastalley etc are examples of such sites.

Social Networking Sites
Social media is an umbrella term that defines the various activities that integrate technology, social interaction, and the construction of words, pictures, videos and audio. This interaction, and the manner in which information is presented, depends on the varied perspectives and "building" of shared meaning among communities, as people share their stories, and understandings. The social-media sites provide excellent opportunities for businesses to advertise, promote specials, events or services, and feature published, knowledgeable employees. You will surely be aware of the famous word used now a days in india “Orkuting”, and you will surely be aware of various communities on it. This is the way social networking is used to promote business. Facebook , Orkut, MySpace etc are examples of this.

Web 2.0

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Web 2.0 is simply a phase in the evolution of the World Wide Web. The overarching characteristic of this phase is that the Web is no longer simply about information, it is now about interaction. There are new and existing technologies associated with Web 2.0 which enables consumers to interact with your company and other consumers, participate in and influence discussions, and control their experience. Social Networking and User-Generated Content are changing the way that consumers live on the Web. From Facebook to LinkedIn to MySpace, from blogging to photo-sharing to YouTube, smart marketers are looking for new, conversational forms of advertising that work well in a world where users are in charge.

Winning in a Web 2.0 world means that you need to measure and value engagement with your consumers. It is no longer about conversion at a point in time. It is now about the nature of the relationship over time, and the many ways that an individual can add value to your business.

Web 2.0 technologies serve three key functions:
• Enabling users to develop content.
• Providing new means to reach a target audience.
• Providing richer, more interactive applications that give visitors more control.

A number of Web 2.0 technologies enable visitors to contribute content on your site. These include user reviews, blogs, wikis and forums. The Internet, and especially new Web 2.0 technologies, has extended “word of mouth” into “word of mouse,” whereby a single individual can reach a much larger number of people, including people they do not personally know.

RSS (Rich Site Summary or Real Simple Syndication)

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RSS is a way of distributing content information (usually blog/news headlines) as XML format. RSS is also referred to as RDF (Resource Description Framework). Now what‘s XML? It is a flexible text format. This XML file is called an RSS feed. This feed contains information as designated by the site's owner. RSS is used to distribute content to whoever wants it. By requesting the appropriate RSS feed, an end user can quickly find out the latest information posted on a website. An aggregator accumulates RSS feeds for you, and distributes that information to you as you want.
In the end, RSS is about distributing content quickly and easily. It also increases efficiency - instead of having to visit a site every day, by using RSS, you can automate the process and be notified when an update occurs.

How RSS works?

Example 1:

Your name is Mr. Joe, and you are a fan of five different blogs. You also end up wasting a lot of time visiting these blogs. So you turn to an RSS feed aggregator, and add their RSS feeds. Now, once a day (or however often you want), the reader will check the RSS feeds for each site, and notify you when there is an update.

Example 2:

Your name is Mr. Joe, and you live in Britain. You have a little website, and would like to have the latest sporting news on your website. You of course do not have time, so you turn to BBC, and use their sports RSS feed to incorporate sports news into your website.
In order to make life easier for you, each blog entry includes quick links to RSS subscriptions for the most popular tools. This way, while browsing our directory, you can simply click and easily subscribe to a feed.

Affiliate Programs

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Advertisers selling goods online can develop networks of ‘affiliates’ that put up banner advertisements or other links on their own websites in return for a proportion of the business generated for each sale, lead, action, or visitor generated. The merchants can offer commission to the affiliates based on each purchase that is made through the affiliates site, or on every visitors that visits merchant’s the site through the affiliate’s site. This is a great way to limit the risk of advertising by only paying for successful sales. One of the name in Affiliate marketing is Amazon which is one of the most successful affiliate program on the internet.

Blogs

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A blog is a type of website that is usually arranged in chronological order from the most recent ‘post’ (or entry) at the top of the main page to the older entries towards the bottom. Many blogs provide commentary or news on a particular subject; others function as more personal online diaries. A typical blog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, web pages, and other media related to its topic. The ability for readers to leave comments in an interactive format is an important part of many blogs.

Pay Per Click(PPC)

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Pay per click (PPC) is an advertising model used on search engines, advertising networks, and content websites/blogs, where advertisers only pay when a user actually clicks on an ad to visit the advertiser's website. Its generally use to get instant traffic though your site does not have organic ranking. Advertisers bid on keywords they predict their target market will use as search terms when they are looking for a product or service. When a user types a keyword query matching the advertiser's keyword list, or views a page with relevant content, the advertiser's ad may be shown. These ads are called a "Sponsored link" or "sponsored ads" and appear next to or above the "natural" or organic results on search engine results pages, or anywhere a webmaster/blogger chooses on a content page.

Pay per click ads may also appear on content network websites. In this case, ad networks such as Google AdSense and Yahoo Search Marketing attempt to provide ads that are relevant to the content of the page where they appear, and no search function is involved. PPC engines can be categorized into two major categories "Keyword" or “sponsored match” and "Content Match". Sponsored match displays your listing on the search engine itself whereas content match features ads on publisher sites and in newsletters and emails.

Email Marketing (Permission based)

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Email marketing is a form of direct marketing which uses electronic mail as a means of communicating commercial or fundraising messages to an audience specifically to target audience. Email marketing consists of sending mails, email newsletters or sales letters to specific & targeted customers or prospects.

Email marketing can be done in two ways. The first is to place advertising or a message in someone else’s email newsletter. For example, when you receive a newsletter from The Age online, it will contain advertiser messages and usually a small display banner advertisement. This is a great way to neatly target your audience. All you have to do is find a newsletter that is sent to a target market similar to yours and you can market to that group very effectively!

The second form of email marketing is by actually publishing an email marketing communication or newsletter yourself to your customers. This is a great way to keep top of mind with your customers. When undertaking this type of eMarketing, be careful not to just push products and specials. It is also good to provide information about your products so your customers can make a more informed decision about their purchases.

Disadvantages of E-Marketing

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Along with this much benefits, there are some disadvantages of e-marketing also.

• Internet Usage: The Internet usage has not spread more in India as compared to other countries.

• Security & Trust: This is another main reason for lack of usage of Internet.

• Browsers: The browser compatibility has to be checked every time.

• Screen Resolution: People work in different resolutions & hence resolution compatibility has to be checked every time.

Advantages of E-Marketing

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Marketing over the Internet poses some benefits some of which include low costs in distributing information and media to a global audience. The Internet has brought many unique benefits to marketing, one of which being lower costs for the distribution of information and media to a global audience. The interactive nature of Internet marketing, both in terms of providing instant response and eliciting response, is a unique quality of the medium.

The World Wide Web has provided a great vehicle for marketing for many companies. More and more, businesses are taking advantage of web’s speed, efficiency and cost effectiveness to deliver return on investment from advertising and promotional campaigns not available to traditional media. E-Marketing encompasses many forms of interactive activity and it can contribute to an organization’s overall marketing mix by driving more users to a website, the online shop front and lead to increased website visitation and sales.

The key advantage e-Marketing has over various other forms of marketing is that the activity you undertake such as email, advertising banners and search engine marketing is in the same medium as where the user will find and or buy your product – online! E-Marketing has a number of other benefits including:

• Branding: An organisation’s products, services, offers and logos can be displayed visually and sometimes with streaming video and audio, on the Internet.

• Direct Response: e-Marketing is very fast; users can respond to marketing instantly. This allows business to receive more immediate results from promotional and advertising efforts via the Internet.

• Targeting: Technologies – such as personalisation and geo-coding where users are visiting from - can help marketers target very niche audiences, quite often speaking to a very hard to reach group. This allows businesses to tailor different promotional and advertising messages and offers to each group.

• Tracking: The strongest element of e-Marketing is that everything is track-able and results can be seen almost instantly. This means if something is not working, you can stop it. If it is working, you can do more of it!

• Return on Investment: Because tracking e-Marketing is so strong, you can ensure that you can always stay on top of your return on investment. Being able to determine how many people clicked on a banner advertisement or email link allows business owners to calculate their return on investment quite easily and provide accountability often not associated with other forms of marketing.

• Inexpensive: e-Marketing, particularly email and buying keywords on Internet search engines can be very inexpensive. Email costs are usually incorporated into the connection fee to an Internet Service Provider by including unlimited emails as part of the service whereas purchasing keywords on a search engine such as Google or Yahoo can cost as little as 1 cent per word per click.

• Works 24/7: As the Internet is always available, the only thing you need is a computer & a Internet connection, so one can have access to the products at any time.

• Comparison of Products: Large number of products can be displayed at one place & facility of comparison can also be given.

Introduction to E-Marketing

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The World Wide Web has provided a great vehicle for marketing for many companies. More and more, businesses are taking advantage of web’s speed, efficiency and cost effectiveness to deliver return on investment from advertising and promotional campaigns not available to traditional media. E-Marketing encompasses many forms of interactive activity and it can contribute to an organization’s overall marketing mix by driving more users to a website, the online shop front and lead to increased website visitation and sales.

Internet Marketing has many names like it is also referred to as e-marketing (or electronic marketing) or online marketing or web marketing. It refers to the strategies that are used to promote a product or service over the Internet. There are some methods to do this like website design & development, its content, link building & reciprocal link exchange, search engine optimization, social media optimization, banners & pop-ups, email marketing, paid inclusions, pay per click, use of blogs, RSS feeds, affiliate marketing etc.

E-marketing does not simply entail building or promoting a website, nor does it mean placing a banner ad on another website. Effective e- marketing requires a comprehensive strategy that synergizes a given company's business model and sales goals with its website function and appearance, focusing on its target market through proper choice of advertising type, media, and design. E-marketing also refers to the placement of media along different stages of the customer engagement cycle through search engine marketing (SEM), search engine optimization (SEO), banner ads on specific websites, email marketing and Web 2.0 strategies.

Mission Manager

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What is the Mission Manager?

The Mission Manager is designed to help you quickly manage and switch between all of your WebPosition missions and Web pages. By viewing one screen you can see all of the WebPosition mission files and Web pages located in a given folder. At a glance you can see what kind of missions files are available, when they were last modified, or even if a mission is scheduled to run! Even better, you can right click on any mission to run it, schedule it, or just view its last results. For more information see “Using the Mission Manager”.

Using the Mission Manager

1. Missions

The main Mission Manager window displays all of the WebPosition missions in a given folder. The following information is displayed for each mission:

File Name
Domain Name
Scheduled Status
Last Modified
Last Run
Title

Double-click any mission file to open it.

Click the appropriate button to use any of the following functions:

New: Create a new mission file of the same type. You can also double-click New Mission in the main Mission Manager window to access the Create New Mission screen.

Open: Open the selected mission.

Delete: Delete the selected mission and all associated results.

Run: Run the selected mission.

Select Folder: Select a different folder and the Mission Manager will display its contents.

Folder Selection Window
Click the Select Folder button to specify a folder that contains WebPosition mission files. Only folders local to your computer or network can be selected. Folders residing on your Web site can't be selected.

Tip: Click the drop down arrow to access a list of all recently selected folders. This can allow you to switch from folder to folder with ease.

Filter
Click on the drop down arrow to choose a specific mission file type. The Mission Manager will then only display files of that type. For example, choose Reporter Missions from the filter list and only Reporter Missions will be displayed in the Mission Manager window.

Sort By
Click a column heading to choose a sorting option. The Mission Manager will then rearrange the displayed files to reflect the sorting option you chose. For example, to sort by "Last Run," click the heading of the Last Run column. The Mission Manager Window will rearrange the files shown based on when each mission was last run.

Tip: You can also sort files in the Mission Manager window by clicking the top of each column where its name is displayed. For example to sort by Domain Name click at the top of the domain name column where it says, "Domain Name."

2. Web Pages

When tab 2 is selected the main Mission Manager window displays all of the Web pages in a given folder. The following information for each mission will be displayed:

File Name
Size
Last Modified

Double-click any file to open it.

Right-click on any file to access the following menu of options:

Open: Open the selected file.

Open With: Select the program you want to use to open the selected file.

Browse: Loads the selected file in a browser.

Delete: Deletes the selected file.

Critic Analysis: Use Page Critic to analyze the selected file.

Link Check: Use Link Defender to test the selected file for broken links (Professional Edition only)

Folder Selection Window
Click the Select Folder button to specify a folder that contains Web pages. Only folders local to your computer or network can be selected. Folders residing on your Web site can't be selected.

Tip: Click the drop down arrow to access a list of all recently selected folders. This can allow you to switch from folder to folder with ease.

Sort By
Click a column heading to choose a sorting option. The Mission Manager will then rearrange the displayed files to reflect the sorting option you chose. For example, to sort by file name, click the heading of the File Name column. The Mission Manager Window will rearrange the files shown based on their names.

Tip: You can also sort files in the Mission Manager window by clicking the top of each column where its name is displayed. For example, to sort by size, click the heading of the Size column.

Risks of Outsourcing

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The overriding risk of outsourcing data entry is loss of control over the process. The burden falls upon the customer to ensure that delivered data is accurate, security is not compromised, and above all, that no violations of government and industry regulations occur. Without sufficient controls, quality issues, significant fines and expensive mistakes could wipe out any cost savings realized by outsourcing.

1. Accuracy: If inaccurate data is delivered, there may be expensive consequences, such as paying incorrect invoices or health claims, or degradation in productivity as problems are located and fixed internally. Even if an organization contracts with an outsourcer for triple-pass data entry, where each document is entered more than once, there’s no way to guarantee accuracy, short of frequent site visits.

2. Government Compliance:
Even more important is maintaining compliance with government regulations, such as the Health Information Privacy and Accessibility Act of 1996 (HIPAA), Sarbanes–Oxley (SOX), and the U.S. Patriot Act.

Choosing An Outsource Partner

When selecting an outsourcing vendor, there are common-sense guidelines for setting expectations, building in controls, managing the relationship, and evaluating results. Outsourcing veterans, like Chocko Valliappa of Vee Technologies, providing outsourcing since 1982, maintain that success begins and ends with good communication. “The services customer has to be very clear about their process, their expectations and continually voice their thoughts along the way.”

Outsourcing Benefits

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The motivation to outsource data entry operations is fueled primarily by cost. Domestic service bureaus can offer low cost data entry services by taking advantage of economies of scale, inexpensive labor, and image-enabled, document processing technology that automates data entry and document indexing.

1. Reduced Capital Costs :
Outsourcing offers two types of savings:
Capital Expenditures - Companies can save 100 percent of their intended capital expenditure (land, facilities, hardware, etc.) by working with an outsourcing firm. If the company’s workload increases, outsourcing obviates the need to invest in additional capital or ramp up capacity. Similarly, a company may find that the service bureau’s capacity offers a competitive advantage, particularly when operating in a price-sensitive market. If facilities already exist, they can be sold or used for other purposes.
Revenue Expenditures - Organizations can save 50 percent or more over manual data entry, plus operational and administrative expenses.

2. Converting Fixed Costs to Variable
Most service bureaus operate on a ‘per item of work’ basis, which means that by outsourcing, a company can eliminate key operator salaries that represent the major fixed cost of data entry. The practice of paying only when the work is done has a major impact on the bottom line, especially when income levels or volumes are down.

3. Savings on Healthcare and Legal Costs
Other incentives to outsource data entry do not involve labor savings, but instead entail savings on legal and medical costs. These include complications due to repetitive strain injuries (RSI), which are especially common among the population of users who have little or no training in typing. Emil F. Pascarelli, in Repetitive Strain Injury: A Computer User's Guide, reports that the number of RSI incidents has increased dramatically since the first PC was released in 1981, when only 18% of all illnesses reported were RSIs. In 2000, an estimated 70% of all occupational illnesses reported to OSHA were RSIs. Such injuries cost companies $20 billion a year in legal and medical costs.

4. Cost-Effective Solution to Seasonal or One-Time Work: It is not unusual for catalog retailers, tax processors and subscription houses to experience peak loads of 80 percent over normal volumes. By outsourcing, companies don’t have to maintain peak level staffing throughout the year. Outsourcing also allows companies to augment the skills of their in-house staff so they don’t have to turn away business that their regular staff can’t handle.

5. Disaster Recovery : In a post-9/11 world, an offsite service bureau provides a U.S. company with additional backup protection in the event of a catastrophe, by warehousing data at a separate storage facility.

Evolution of Outsourcing

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The outsourcing of operations and services, including data entry, is a long-standing tradition in America, going back to the early fifties, when back-file conversion dominated the first wave of data entry tasks.

A second outsourcing trend emerged in the 1980s, when the manufacturing industry had to adjust to foreign companies providing automobiles, electronic equipment and components at lower prices. To compete, U.S. manufacturers began contracting operations to offshore companies that could provide labor at significantly lower costs.

What is Outsourcing?

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• Outsourcing is the delegation of tasks or jobs from internal production to an external entity (such as a subcontractor). Most recently, it has come to mean the elimination of native staff to staff overseas, where salaries are markedly lower. This is despite the fact that the majority of outsourcing that occurs today still occurs within country boundaries, especially in North America. It became a popular buzzword in business and management in the 1990s.

• Where functions previously performed by an organization are supplied under contract from a third party.

• Buying goods or services instead of producing or providing them in-house.

• While outsourcing is not exactly a new innovation, the shifts that have occurred recently in this space are worth noting. As the need for e-learning moves higher up on the IT and corporate training agendas, organizations are wont to take on the IT management burden of implementing a learning management system (LMS).

• The transfer of components or large segments of an organization's internal IT infrastructure, staff, processes or applications to an external resource such as an Application Service Provider.

A Service Bureau is a specialized firm that offers scanning and/or data entry services, usually based on a per document price. Service Bureaus are located within the United States (“Onshore”), in Canada, Mexico, or the Caribbean (“Near shore”), or overseas, in Europe, South America, Asia-Pacific and India.

What is Business Process Outsourcing (BPO)?

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BPO is the act of transferring some of an organization's repeated non-core and core business processes to an outside provider to achieve cost reductions while improving service quality. Because the processes are repeated and a long-term contract is used, outsourcing goes far beyond the use of consultants. If done well, BPO results in increasing shareholder value. The main difference between BPO and more traditional IT outsourcing is that BPO offers companies a way of achieving transformational outcomes much more quickly. In a typical BPO contract, a service provider takes over a specific corporate function. Effective BPO encompasses much more than just changing who is responsible for performing the process. In BPO, the outside provider not only takes on the responsibility to manage the function or business process, but also re-engineers the way the process has been traditionally done.

Benefits of off shoring

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The most obvious benefit of offshoring is the low cost. Compared to a U.S. call center, offshoring can save companies up to 50% in operational expenses. But there is more to why people are shipping call centers to countries such as India besides cost. Benefits such as an educated, English-speaking labor pool, low employee turnover, and complimentary time zones all make offshoring attractive.
Let's look at India. India is home to the largest educated English-speaking population in the world. Other than language, the geographical location of India lends itself well to a 24x7 operation. The time zone difference between the United States and India is about 12 hours. This means that a job submitted at 6 p.m. Pacific Standard Time (PST) reaches India at 6 a.m. and is completed by 6 a.m. PST the following morning. Another positive feature of India is the country's highly motivated workforce. U.S. call centers often experience low morale and very high turnover, usually 40%-70% annually. Considering the time and costs associated with training new agents, it becomes difficult to maintain quality service at a low cost. Currently, Indian call centers have an average turnover rate of 5%. We expect that this number will go up.
As offshoring grows, the cost of labor in India is also rising. Many of the same phenomena that the United States experienced in the early 2000s during the dot-com explosion are happening now in India. The competition for talent is heating up, and salaries are beginning to skyrocket. Employees are constantly looking to increase their salaries and are switching jobs quickly. Increasing salaries, competition for talent, turnover rate - all of these factors will affect the benefits of offshoring.

What do you mean by off shoring?

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No commonly accepted definition of "off shoring" exists, and the term has been used to include various international trade and foreign investment activities. Services that U.S.-based organizations purchase from abroad are considered imports. They may also be linked to U.S. firms' investments overseas -- for example, U.S. firms may invest in overseas affiliates as a replacement for, or as an alternative to, domestic production. In recent years, services offshoring has been facilitated by factors, such as the Internet, infrastructure growth in developing countries, and decreasing data transmission costs. Organizations' decisions to offshore services are influenced by potential benefits such as the availability of cheaper skilled labor and access to foreign markets, and by risks, such as geopolitical issues and infrastructure instability in countries that supply the services.'Offshoring' of services generally refers to an organization's purchase from other countries of services that it previously produced or purchased domestically.

Monitor Your Website Traffic

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An online business website that depends on promotion and sales needs a good search engine marketing strategy to be successful and profitable. Generating targeted traffic to the website is the main function of a search engine marketing strategy. However, it has been observed that active traffic has seldom proved effective to the concerned websites.

A variety of different traffic building methods and techniques can be used to attract traffic to a particular website. One such widely used methods of search engine marketing that is used by online businesses to generate traffic is “pay per click”. Pay per click is an acceptable method used to attract traffic to your websites, however it is important to monitor it frequently to determine its efficacy in generating traffic that is beneficial to the project.

There are many businesses find paid campaigns prohibitively expensive and a drain on their already scarce resources. Such companies can opt for free campaigns that work on targeted marketing. SEO or search engine optimization is a free traffic generating campaign that is a part of search engine marketing. However, it too requires a lot of research and constant monitoring to produce the desired results. The keywords selected for SEO need to be relevant to the website concerned and also to the users queries. For search engine optimization to be effective in attracting traffic the websites should be listed in the first few pages.

Installing link exchange system is also recommended. In this system you have non-competitive websites link to your websites. This way you generate more traffic to your website from partner websites. Having professionally written articles related to your business also helps, the articles pose problems to visitors and offer your company's name as a solution thereby increasing the traffic. Updating articles on a weekly basis makes your website rich with content encouraging visitors to come back again and again and also visitors are more likely to recommend your sites to their friends and associates, thus increasing the traffic to your website. Distributing your articles throughout the net helps as more and more people are aware of your company's product and thus increasing traffic to your website.

More SEO Tools

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No-Follow Finder
Scan a website to find no-follow links to various other sites.

Reciprocal Link Checker
Check multiple sites to see if they are really linking back to you.

Search Engine Position Checker
Check the position of a single site with a single keyword on various search engines.

Site Spider Viewer
Find various SEO statistics and spider information about your site.

Alexa Traffic Rank Checker
View and compare Alexa Ranking graphs.

Meta Tag Extractor
Extract meta-tags information from a web page.

Site Rank Checker
Check PageRank and Alexa Rank for a site.

Domain Whois Retriever
Find out the WHOIS details for your domain.

Browser Details Tool
View your IP address and your browser details.

Source Code Viewer
View the source code of a website.

Search Engine Saturation Checker
Check the number of pages search engines have listed from your website.

Why You Need a Paid Web Hosting

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What is Web Hosting?

The service of hosting a site on the Internet making it viewable for other users on the net.

Lots of web hosting service providers are offering identical packages today. And hence it will be difficult for you to choose the right web hosting service for your web site. Choosing the best suited web hosting plan is very important for a smooth running web site. Due to unsuitability in the web hosting plan, one can face losses by decreasing sales, or even losing customers. There are some important factors that have to be considered before buying a web hosting solution.

Web hosting plans that are available on the Internet differ in their pricing. There are some free web hosting plans too. While free hosting plans are meant for personal, non commercial web sites, the paid ones will be good for business web sites. Free web hosting solutions always have certain kinds of restrictions, most unacceptable to any respectable business.

Disk Space or Storage Space Restrictions

As one’s web site is a collection of files being offered on the Internet for viewing, it is necessary to store them somewhere for retrieval. These files are stored in the web servers offered by the web hosting service provider. Most of the free web hosting solutions offer a little storage space (say) 500 Mb or even less than that. This space will not be adequate for a business web site. Even a personal web site with many video and music files cannot be accommodated in so little space. Paid web hosting will let you get the desired server space for your files. If you need more space for storing files you can expand by paying a little extra.

Web Traffic restrictions

Business promotions can cause large amount of traffic flowing to a website. And that’s what the business websites are meant for. However, the free hosting service providers allow only limited traffic to your website. Most of the free web hosts allow 5 GB (max) of traffic to your website. Once the traffic to your website crosses the limit, your website won’t be visible to the public. The paid web hosts allow much greater traffic which is indispensable for business website.

No Tools and Applications

Paid web hosting packages include tools and applications that are needed to tweak or modify a website. The applications will be ready-made and can be used in a website with ease. The tools include virus protection, privacy tools, etc. None of these tools or applications will be available with the free hosting packages.

This is why you need paid hosting for creating a good web site.

SEO Tools

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Fake Rank Checker
Check to see if a website is illegally faking their Google PageRank.

Google Banned Checker
Check to see if a website is banned from Google.

Keyword Density Checker
Check the density of different keywords at the site of your choice.

Keyword Suggestion Generator
Check a keyword to see the number of results from various search engines as well as get ideas for other keywords to use which relate to the original.

Link Popularity Checker
Check the number of links pointing to the website of your choice.

Link Suggestion Generator
Generate links that relate to the keyword/topic of your choosing.

Multiple Keyword Search Engine Position
Check a website's search engine position with multiple keywords.

Multiple Website Search Engine Position
Check multiple websites' search engine position with a single keyword.

Multi-Rank Checker (PageRank and Alexa)
Check multiple websites' PageRank and Alexa rank.

WHY SEO (Search Engine Optimizer)?

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What is SEO?
Search Engine Optimization. The art of making your website relevant and important so that it ranks high in the search results for a particular word.

SEO can make the content of your web pages more relevant, more attractive, and more easily read by search engines and their crawling and indexing software.

Why would this be of great importance to you? Would it be important to you if customers were unable to find your telephone number or find the address of your business? I do not think that many businesses could survive for very long in this situation.

Of course, your current customers and persons already acquainted with your business would be likely to find your web site without difficulty. Wouldn't they?

Are you absolutely sure that your advertising has reached enough potential customers? Did you consider that some people simply do not read the newspapers? How about people who didn't get the issue of the magazine where you placed an expensive ad?

So, what about the search engines? Those people could just enter a few words into a text box, click a button, There is a link to your web site. Aren't search engines wonderful?
Yes, search engines can be wonderful, and the scenario above can happen, but not without some work. This is where SEO comes in.

what is SEO?

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SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization. It is the art of making your website relevant and important to the search engines so that it ranks high in their results.
The two main weapons in your arsenal are:

Onsite Optimization : optimizing factors on the website that help getting a better search engine ranking

Offsite Optimization : optimizing factors off the website that contribute to a better search engine ranking

What is Google Page Rank?

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• Google Page Rank is simply Google's way of displaying how important a webpage is. Google assumes that when 1 webpage links to another webpage, it's actually "casting a vote" for the webpage. The more votes you have for your webpage, the more important your webpage will be.

• Google also takes into account the importance of other website's pages linking to your own webpage. If many webpages link to the website's webpage linking to you (i.e. They have a lot of "votes") then their vote will be of more importance and will increase your Page Rank more.See images below for a visual representation of what I mean...

Benefits of Search Engine Optimization

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Search engines generate nearly 90% of Internet traffic and are responsible for 55% of e-commerce transactions. Search Engine Promotion has shown to deliver the highest ROI, compared to any other type of marketing, both online and offline. Search engines bring motivated buyers to you and hence contribute to increased sales conversions.

Search Engine Optimization offers an affordable entry point for marketing your website and an effective way to promote your business online. SEO makes for a long-term solution, is your access to sustained free traffic and a source of building brand name and company reputation.

Why Search Engine Optimization?

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Search engine optimization is the process of increasing the amount of visitors to a Web site by ranking high in the search results of a search engine. The higher a Web site ranks in the results of a search, the greater the chance that site will be visited by a user. It is common practice for Internet users to not click through pages and pages of search results, so where a site ranks in a search is essential for directing more traffic toward the site.

So search engine optimization focuses on techniques such as making sure that each web page has appropriate title tags and meta tags, and that the keyword or key phrases for the page are distributed throughout the content in a way that the particular search engine will like.