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Publicize Your Website Online for Free

September 17th, 2008

You may be under the impression that you must spend loads of money to advertise your blog or business website online — Not exactly true.. Have you heard of the Million Dollar HomePage (www.milliondollarhomepage.com)? Do you remember the unbelievable publicity it had? Well, all of that publicity was absolutely free of charge and was driven by individuals and social media websites.

Yes, you can advertise your website for free! This article has some useful tips, more will come so keep an eye on this category.

The following are how you can publicize your website online for free: Read more…

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Website Page Rank 101

April 18th, 2008

The term Page Rank is well known amongst savvy website owners. Page Rank, PageRank, or PR all refer to the same thing and are usually associated with the Google search engine. Google is not the only search engine that utilizes Page Rank algorithms. However, the term ‘PageRank’ is a Google trademark.

So what’s PR exactly? Simply put, PageRank is an estimation of the relative importance of a certain web page. This estimate is derived from complex measurement algorithms that analyze links found on websites and then assign a numerical weight to each web page giving it a measured importance within the context of the rest of the all the WWW web sites.

To put this differently, a PageRank is similar to a popularity contest or a ballot result. This ballot is amongst every page on the internet and every hyperlink to your page counts as one vote of support in this ballot. More inbound links to a web page indicate more support for that page online, and in this case support indicates popularity.

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Online Marketing, Search Engines

Find Your Perfect Niche - Free Wordtracker and GTrends Mashup

April 3rd, 2008

A Mashup is a newer term, usually associated with web 2.0 that basically refers to the action of combining data from 2 or more sources into one web application. Google API makes it easy to mashup Google maps and other services into your website.

Wordtracker, a commonly used keyword tool that helps marketers find keywords related to you niches, has come up with a Wordtracker/Gtrends Mashup! I think this service is awesome, did I mention it was FREE?

Wordtracker / GTrends mashup looks just like the free version of Wordtracker but has an additional icon next to each keyword that takes you to the Google Trends data for that keyword.

It also displays a line graph of the search volume over time. If the graph line is green this indicates this keywords has a Google Competition of <30,000 and Actual Visitors from Google/day >100.

Enjoy.

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Get Back Links Every Time You Post A Blog Article

April 2nd, 2008

Sometimes I spent 3 hours writing and researching for a blog article. The least time it takes me to write an article is 20 minutes, and I probably have gone 3+ hours on some articles. How much time do you spend? Wouldn’t it be a shame to not have anyone read your article because they didn’t know it existed?

Regardless of what you wrote or how long it took you. Unless you are a famous website I’m betting you were holding your breath and waiting for readers anxiously. As a blogger it may be worth it to make it a habit to spend a few minutes after your article is published to gain a few links to your article.

The secret to gaining these back links is to utilize social bookmarking web sites. My previous article explains what social bookmarking is and links you to the top 30 social bookmarking sites, if you haven’t had a chance to read it why not take a look now.

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Top 30 Social Bookmarking Web Sites - Publicize Your Blog Easily

April 2nd, 2008

As we all know, online bookmarking services allow you to store, organize and bookmark your favorite website and easily access them from anywhere. Social bookmarking opens up your favorite links to the public, now you and everyone else can see these links, in essence you share your bookmarks with others.

Social bookmarking allows you and others to view your bookmarks chronologically, by category or by tags; it also allows search engines to see and index these bookmarks.

Social bookmarking websites rely heavily on user defined tags, and in some cases generate tag clouds. Many social bookmarking websites also provide feeds of their bookmarks, including lists organized by tags. This allows readers to spot new bookmarks very quickly, right after they are saved, shared, and tagged by other users.

The future of social bookmarking is promising. Now, most social bookmarking sites offer extra features such as comments, ratings, avatars, and browser integration.

It makes a lot of sense that you subscribe to these social bookmarking services and submit your blog articles to them for others to find.

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