September 25th, 2008
It must be some sort of status symbol. Why else would anyone pay the best part of $300 to get (a chance of being) listed?
I can here them now, sat somewhere in a wine bar. “Of course, one simply MUST be in Yahoo.” Everyone nodding in agreement. One poor guy shuffles his feet and stares at his shoes. “Please don’t ask me, please don’t ask me” he’s thinking to himself. “I couldn’t bare the humiliation. I’ll lie, that’s it, and I’ll say we’re in!”
Now don’t get me wrong. If you are a large company then $300 is a drop in the ocean but for the average net entrepreneur it’s a waste of money.
Why? Because of the competition. Here’s an example.
Let’s do a search at Yahoo for submission services. 335 results are showing. The person wanting this type of service looks at the first. While he’s reading their pitch, in the back of his mind he knows full well he’s spoilt for choice!
He stops reading and gives it a quick skim over then heads for the bottom line. Then he’s hitting that back button and clicking on the second in the list. He does the same again and again and again!
Now I know that most people are not going to look at all 335 but when search engine experts tell you that you must be in the top 30 to get a hit. That’s exactly what they mean, a hit! They don’t mean a sale.
I would expect a reasonable service offered at a reasonable price and showing around the 20 to 30 mark is going to be much more likely to get the sale than the sites in the first 10.
By the time the person gets to the 20’s and because they are merely skimming the pages they have probably decided that once you’ve seen one submission services website, you’ve seen them all.
They will mentally decide the next one they come across that’s within their budget will do.
Net entrepreneurs rely on impulse buying but the search engines remove that from the buyer by giving them sometimes thousands of options.
As webmasters we are constantly told traffic is king. When I meet others the first question is nearly always “so how many hits are you getting?” followed by “how much are you making?”
Surely it should be the other way around. Some months ago I received one of my favourite newsletters. In it was a small 3-line advert for some software that created e-books and allowed people to customize the book with their own links.
“That’s got potential” I thought and clicked through. The web page looked like an 11 year old had built it. It had more fonts than a ransom note! It was one long sales pitch with a click here to buy link at the bottom.
Guess what? I bought it and it’s a great piece of software. I didn’t want it until I saw the advert. I didn’t even know such a piece of software existed and even though I had my doubts when I saw the site, I acted on impulse.
Let’s say the guy who placed that add only got 100 click thru’s. All 100 were like me, excited about the product, wanting it to be what it said it was and most importantly, wanting to own it.
He may have made 20 sales from those 100 hits and if he’d have smartened his page up he might have made more! That’s a thousand dollars of business for the price of a small targeted add.
This was a real eye opener for me. Am I a Webmaster constantly striving for more hits or am I a net entrepreneur constantly striving to make money?
I decided on the latter. I stopped worrying about my rankings and I started concentrating on reaching my targeted audience with in your face, one-page sales pitches.
My audience happens to be webmasters looking to improve their traffic so instead of waiting for them to find me in the search engines I went to them.
Everyone seems to be using start page programs such as StartBlaze to get extra traffic. These work by setting a special url as your home page so that every time you open your browser you see a different site and someone, somewhere will see yours.
As the people using these programs are my targeted audience I joined in. I designed several different pages and experimented until I had one that got results.
I then devised a method that allowed me to sign up and use 4 more of these start page programs. I was soon earning enough page views that I used a rotator to add my sign-up pages to my sales letter. My down lines grew and so did my sales.
You won’t find my sales letter web page on any search engine and if you do it certainly will not have a good ranking. Yet it is now making many more sales than both of my main websites.
I went out and I found my audience; I offered them something they didn’t know they wanted until I told them different and they acted on impulse!
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September 25th, 2008
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September 24th, 2008
For those with children at home, keeping them safe and well-protected is of the utmost priority. There are so many dangers in the modern world that can harm children because they simply aren’t aware of them yet. But as parents we need to be aware of these dangers and take steps to increase the security for our children and create a safe and happy environment for them to grow up. Here are some areas where home security measures can help protect your children:
* Many homes are susceptible to fire damage, gas leaks, high carbon monoxide levels and more. Over the years many people have died right in their own homes from these kind of real dangers. In fact, the numbers of fatalities can be staggering, but you just don’t hear as much about them because they are not considered sensational enough to be in the news very often.
Very simple steps can be taken to minimize these dangers though. For instance, simply installing fire and smoke alarms throughout the home can be extremely vauable in case of a fire. Carbon monoxide and natural gas detectors are also very inexpensive pieces of equipment that can be installed throughout the home to alert you when gas levels are getting too high, and give you the time to get everyone in the home to safety. It’s a simple and affordable way to increase your peace of mind. Be sure however not only to install these detectors and monitors, but also to keep the batteries in each unit fresh and up to date as well.
* Installation of a home security system that monitors all entry and exit spots of the home can be a great way to help increase home security and prevent crimes that could potentially harm your children. You can also get wireless home security camera systems that can allow you to monitor your children even when you are away at work, or when babysitters or nannies are watching your children. With these devices in place you can help make sure that your children are not mistreated.
* Participation in neighborhood watch programs is a way to increase the security of your home and family considerably. These kind of cooperative efforts by a group of local neighbors is a red flag to criminals and others with bad intentions, that tells them that your area is not a good place to hang around if they don’t want to be caught by law enforcement. By placing signs in a prominent place in the yard of each of the members of the watch program, you can send a clear message that all outsiders are under immediate scrutiny when they enter your area, and that can have an immediate impact on the criminal activity in a neighborhood.
* If you have a swimming pool at home be sure to protect your children from drowning by installing a fence or barrier to keep them out when they are small, and perhaps even alarms that sound a loud noise when the water is disturbed in the case of someone accidentally falling in.
These are all simple, inexpensive, and yet very effective ways to help improve home security for all of your family and especially your children.
Jim Johnson is a successful author and publisher on consumer related matters. You can find out more about wireless home security and wireless home security systems by visiting our Home Security website.
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September 24th, 2008
If you want to improve search engine ranking of your web site, you need to find a large number of high quality links from other web sites. These are called inbound links. Gaining links from high ranking sites that point to yours will increase your link popularity in the search engines.
The most popular search engine Google, places great significance on the link popularity of your web site. In fact, you can even get listed in Google without submitting your site to them, by getting other sites to link to yours. Finding many high ranking sites that link to yours, will improve the search engine ranking of your own web site.
Four effective ways to increase link popularity
1. Get your site listed in the search engine directories - first submit your site to the human edited directories of ODP (Open Directory Project - dmoz.org) and Yahoo (yahoo.com). Getting listed in these directories will give your site a boost in link popularity and improve search engine ranking in other search engines.
However, this may take some time.
You can get listed much faster by getting links from niche specific directories. Find these directories by doing a search on the major search engines with the primary keywords of your web site.
2. Provide high quality content - people will naturally link to your site if you have what they want (i.e. articles, software, etc). This will save you a lot of time searching for quality links yourself.
Optimizing your content with well placed keywords, will improve your search engine ranking dramatically. Search engines love focused content.
Don’t you love it when you immediately find what you are searching for?
One way of achieving this is by writing and publishing articles. You can include a link at the end of your article. When your article gets published, you will automatically have gained a link to your site.
3. Requesting links from other sites - request links from sites that ideally have a high search engine ranking. Start by including a link from your site to theirs. Include a paragraph describing what your link is about. This helps achieve a greater number of clickthroughs to your site.
Request that they do the same when linking to your web site. If you provide this for them (with some of your primary keywords included of course), and provide quality information, you will have a greater chance of gaining a high quality link.
4. Write a testimonial - write a favorable review of someone’s product or web site. Include the benefits you received through visiting their site. If that person wishes to use your testimony on their site, make sure they include a link back to your web site.
These are some of the best strategies you should implement to increase link popularity of your web site. It will improve search engine ranking and also boost your web site traffic.
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September 24th, 2008
Simply put, a reciprocal linking strategy is just exchanging links with another website to increase both of the website’s PR rating.
In putting together a reciprocal linking strategy the first thing that you want to do is look at your list of keywords and pick out the most general, widely searched keywords that relate to your site as possible.
For example, if your site was on growing sunflowers, your keywords would probably be a little more niche specific such as “growing sunflowers”, “how to grow sunflowers”, “growing sunflowers in the USA”, and so on.
However, for the purposes of reciprocal linking and finding prospective sites you can trade links with, you’d also want to include general keywords that are related to your website such as “gardening”, or “sunflowers”.
The cumulative list of your specific and general keywords will be the keywords that you want to use to try and find potential linking partners.
If you want to see exactly how popular your keywords are (the number of times that they are searched in a month), or to get some more keyword ideas, check out the Overture Search Suggestion Tool (http://inventory.overture.com/d/searchinventory/suggestion/ ) or Wordtracker (http://www.wordtracker.com).
Both of these websites will show you how often your keywords have been searched and will also give you a few other ideas for keywords.
Now, grab your list of keywords and open up your web browser.
Head over to Google and type in “[insert your keyword here] submit link”.
Be sure to replace the [insert your keyword here] part with your keyword, and make sure you actually have quotation marks around the whole phrase you see above. Using quotation marks gives you more exact search results.
This will bring up a list of pages that are related to your keyword, where you can submit your website’s url.
Be sure to have the Google Toolbar (http://toolbar.google.com/) installed in your browser to check the site’s PR value.
Now, go ahead and click on the first few sites that come up under your search term and check the PR value that the Google Toolbar gives them.
What often happens with a search like this one, is that the pages returned by the search engine are the actual pages having a form where you can submit your url to their site.
Now submit your website’s url to these sites, then try other variations of your Google search such as “keyword submit link” without the quotation marks, or try something like “keyword submit a link”.
Once you have added your website’s url to as many sites as you can at Google, do the same thing at the other major search engines, such as Yahoo, Msn and so on.
Be sure to keep track of the different sites that you have submitted your website’s url to.
Now, while this is the cheapest way to get some backlinks, it can take up quite a bit of your time, and it doesn’t guarantee that you will be able to find sites with a high PR to submit your url to.
A much easier and more effective way that I have found to do this is to use Seo Elite (http://www.newseoelite.com) . It automates the whole process for you. You can just input your keywords into the program and it will search the web (using all of the major search engines like Google, Yahoo, MSN, AltaVista etc) for websites that you can submit your site to.
When it’s finished, it lists all of the websites by their PR, and provides a specific link to each website where you can add your url. Seo Elite (the new version) will even fill in the url submission form for you automatically.
Many of these sites will want you to provide a link to their site on your website in exchange for your url being listed on their site, so you’ll have to build a links page and add their url to it. If you have Seo Elite, it will build a links page for you, but if you don’t have Seo Elite, you’ll have to do it by hand.
So go ahead and do some research and then start putting together a linking strategy that will blow away your competitors.
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September 23rd, 2008
Keeping your home secure when you are away for work or vacation can be one of the most difficult things to do. It is easy enough to look for signs of trouble when you are home, but what about when you are thousands of miles away. Keeping the home secure while you are away is a vital part of any vacation plan.
Enlisting the help of neighbors is a good way to start. If you have a trusted neighbor, ask them to keep an eye on your home. You may want to give the neighbor your cell phone number and ask them to call in case of trouble. In addition, be sure to contact the post office and ask them to suspend mail delivery until you return. Burglars often cruise neighborhoods looking for mailboxes full of unopened mail, figuring that those homeowners are away. If you have the newspaper delivered, be sure to suspend that delivery as well.
One of the most vital parts of any home security planning is the lighting. Lighting is vital, whether you are at home or a thousand miles away. We have all seen those movies where the burglars watch all the lights in a home click on at once, and if you have every light in the house come on at the same time you may as well put up a sign asking criminals to break in to your home.
Fortunately, it is a very simple matter to put the lights on a timer, and to have them go on and off at random times throughout the day and night, just as they would when you are at home. Many of the newer homes even incorporate a “smart home” technology which is controlled by a small computer. The homeowner simply programs the lights to go on and off at different times throughout the day, giving the home the appearance of being lived in.
It is also important to have a TV or radio on when you are away, to give the appearance that the home is occupied. The homeowner can either leave the TV or radio on, with the volume turned up loud enough to be heard by someone approaching the door or window, or use timers to turn the TV and radio on and off at various times throughout the day or night.
If your trip does not require the use of all your cars, it may be a good idea to leave one of the cars in the garage, carport, or driveway as well. Even the most determined burglar may hesitate upon seeing a car in the driveway, as they will have no way of knowing whether or not someone is in the home.
Brooke Sikula is a freelance writer based in Ventura, CA and writes on a wide range of topics from home improvement to credit repair and everything in between. She is a regular contributor to http://www.home-improvement4u.com and http://www.get-home-improvement.com For more information and advice on home security, check out http://www.home-security4u.com
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September 21st, 2008
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September 13th, 2008
Has the power gone out at your house? Did you fridge break overnight? Do you have qualms about food that was in the freezer?
Not to worry - there are some simple guidelines to food safety in such a situation.
Food that thaws completely or gets as warm as room temperature should be discarded. If your food has been setting out for more than a couple of hours, it needs to be thrown out.
Largely thawed food that is still cold should be cooked immediately. Foods that have been cooked may then be consumed or refrigerated for later use.
If the food still has ice crystals on it, you may refreeze it. If you do not have a freezer available, throw it in a cooler and add dry ice. The food will need to be cooked, because it won’t last as long as with a normal freezer.
Once food starts to show off the markings of freezer burn they need to be thrown out immediately.
You can’t avoid sudden power outages caused by storms or accidents, but you can be prepared to deal with the results.
Getting a new Fridge or freezer is a great idea to save energy and replace that old worn out one, giving your kitchen a new look. If you have the space, you should certainly consider a large American Style fridge freezer. Any kitchen will be much better by having this. This site has a range of American fridge freezers from many suppliers that will server you better.
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September 12th, 2008
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September 10th, 2008
There are three main types of exercises to include in a basic exercise program:
- Range-of-motion exercises - These lessen stiffness and help with improving flexibility. “Range of motion” refers to the area within which the joints move naturally or on a daily basis. Although these range-of-motion exercises can be performed every day, it is recommended that they be done at least every other day.
- Strengthening exercises - There are two types of strengthening exercises; isometric or tightening the muscles without moving the joints, and isotonic, moving of the joints for strengthening muscle movements. It is recommended to do these sets of exercises every other day, unless you are suffering from more than mild joint pain or swelling.
- Endurance exercises - The objective of these is to increase stamina. They also help with improving your inner personal / mental strength and with improving weight control and sleep. Some of the most popular endurance exercises are stationary bike riding, walking and water exercising. And unless you are suffering from more than mild joint pain or swelling, a 20- to 30-minute workout or two to three short 10-minute bouts during the day is what is recommended, an average of three times each week. Be kind to your body, and it will be kind to you.
Let’s sum up exercise with a few tips for all:
- Establish your own unique, exercise program so that it meets you personal health needs, budget and environment. Make sure it is safe by checking with your own professional healthcare advisor and workout trainer. And take it slow and steady like Aesop’s turtle in the race.
- Be kind to yourself. Stop if something hurts. And experiment with applying heat before exercising and warming up. Then cool off afterwards with cold packs.
- Enjoy exercising by making it a real part of your life during the week. Include range-of-motion, strengthening and endurance exercises in your routines. And vary your activities; try a new class at a health club one quarter. Next time, go elsewhere or join a naturalist group for weekly hikes in local parks. Keep an active folder with pockets of gyms and health clubs near you with their schedules and up-dated classes and coupon specials. And check newspapers, local bulletin boards, postings at the gyms and clubs, etc. for healthy activities like walk-a-thons and bike-a-thons for nonprofits and evening / weekend hikes in which you can participate. You’ll meet new friends, have fun, get out more and exercise all at the same time.
Exercise activities are available all around you, too. No need to spend time and money elsewhere. You can borrow exercise videos, cassettes, DVDs and books from public libraries. You can get active by washing windows, cleaning your house, car, pet, children’s closets, your closets, anything…You can even earn money doing activities like walking and distributing flyers, local newspapers and coupons (check with companies who place these in and around your mailbox and door - they often need help).
Written by Shelley Hitz, Licensed Physical Therapist and Certified NASM Personal Trainer. If you have arthritis, she can design an online exercise program for you! Contact her today at http://www.onlinefitnesscoach.com or sign up for her FREE Exercise Advice Journal at http://www.abs-exercise-advice.com/journal.html.
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