Archive for January, 2010

In the next few days I am posting a brand new website that will primarly feature photography of a particular Canadian province. I am also planning to publish at least one photography poster featuring my work. With these elements in mind, is there a particular SEO tool that I really should work with(?) or is there a set of tools that are considered the absolute best and most valuable?

Sprank was too harsh regarding SEO.

Well SEO is one of the best and cost effective things which you can do with your business and gain lots & lots of popularity.

First step you should do is to look out for keywords using the following tool: https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal

Search for keywords and you will also find some similar words related to your keywords. Decide on keywords which are most related to your business and do the following activities:

Social Bookmarking - It means bookmarking your website on various Social Bookmarking websites like digg.com, delicious.com, jamespot.com, fanpop.com etc.

Question & Answers websites. Answers questions related to your business and get visitors to visit your website. There are many Q & A websites like Yahoo Answers, Blurtit.com, answerbag.com. yedda.com etc.

Above two will help you get referral traffic and some dofollow links from bookmarking websites will also help you in increasing website popularity.

Hi all, I received traffic tickets in California. As I was recently shifted to California, I don’t no what type of online course to be taken to dismiss the traffic tickets. Can anyone help me regarding..

California has been one of the leaders in integrating the use of technology for many Californians’ regular activities. A good example of this is the use of online traffic schools for routine traffic tickets and citations………

When deciding which online traffic school to enroll in, make sure that it is not only approved for California, but also for the county issuing the ticket.

Improv Comedy Traffic School

Voted the best online traffic school in California by Gayot Publications, the famous Improv Comedy Club sponsors an online traffic school in California (http://www.myimprov.com).

Not only is their program approved throughout California, their lessons are fun and entertaining and are presented by comedians.

Students have 24/7 access to the website and lessons. Plus, upon completion of the program, students are sent a free Certificate of Completion that is processed within 24 hours of finishing the final exam.

As an added bonus, enrolled students receive four VIP passes to the Improv Comedy Club…………….

I have started running a fish keeping forum and we have a great friendly, knowledgable member base but we require more members.

http://www.fish-keeper.net

What is the best way to increase traffic to the site?

increasing traffic for the fish keeping forum or any other site would be pretty much the same.

*you can visit other related forums, signup there, and post using your signature link.

*you can try to find related blogs and make comments on related blogpost.

*find as many social bookmarking sites as you can and bookmark your site there. socialmarker.com has a list of bookmarking sites where you can bookmark.

*you can write articles and submit them to article directories.

*use any other link building methods to build backlinks to your forum. use anchor text when building links so that you can get your site ranked high on search engines for your selected terms. if you are not sure what link building is and what are the link building methods, then you can read the article below. good luck

Is anyone a master at getting website traffic. Its so time consuming and I would love to promote my website but also work a full time job and was wondering the most effective ways to do it. There are so many things to be done. Or if you want to do it i would compensate.

Im not a master or anything but i have used this site for a long time and it has worked out for me.
http://www.slymarketing.com-good way to start promoting your business

Social networking sites can INCREASE your site’s traffic… Why on earth would you think that "blocking" them would help you get traffic?

Social networking in general can help to build up traffic to your site, but do VERY little to help your site’s rankings in the search engines UNLESS 1) you have a huge following and some of your followers begin linking to your site from their web sites or 2) you have something that goes viral on because of social networking and people begin linking to your site.

It’s LINKS that you get through social media that cause your pages to rank better in the search engines’ organic rankings.

As I understand it, in order to create a website you must first register a domain name and buy a web space.

Having a registered domain name allows you to have a simple url you choose, like www.example.com, instead of something like www.geocities.com/example.

The web space is where you store your html, css, etc files.

If this isn’t a correct understanding please correct me.

So my first questions: If you register your own domain name, but want to use free web hosting, can you make your url direct the user to the files saved on the free webhosting? In this case, after accessing the website will your registerred domain name still be in the address bar, or will the webhosting address be visible?

Second: Can you recommend any good web hosting sites that don’t have banner ads?

Third: If you answered positively to the last 3 questions, is there any concievable reason why someone like me, creating a small low traffic site, would regret paying to register a domain name and not paying for commercial web space?

Thanks for your help

Q.1
to make a domain name redirect you need to have DNS control some domain registrars offer this in the price others charge so check before you buy.
the address bar will have the domain name you purchase once redirected.

Q.2
000webhost.com offer free good web hosting that doesn’t have banner ads?

Q.3
if you keep back-ups of your site you should have no problems, you should do this with paid hosting as well

i dnt mind if i have to pay for advertising, i just need the traffic to be targeted. it’s a site that sells laptops. ive tried forums, and listed on search engines. anything else i can do?

There are many ways that would help you increase your google page ranking and increase traffic to your website:

1st try to get more back links to your website and the easiest way to do that is by submitting your website to free web directories such as:

http://www.lii.org
http://www.dmoz.org
http://www.surformation.com

2nd Try promoting your website on social networking websites such as twitter

3rd and most importantly, provide quality content, this is an indirect way to get back links by genuinely driving people to link to your website,

I have recently set up my own online dating website invitemeforcoffee.co.uk which to be fair is doing ok with over 2000 hits since it went live on the 23rd December 2009, but I want to increase traffic as much as possible for free and im looking for the best tips on doing this.

Increasing traffic will cost money. It’s called advertising. No one will give that away free, unless it’s worth nothing to start with.

1. A lawyer bills her clients $250 per hour of service. If a client’s case requires 47 hours to complete, use proportion to calculate how much the client will owe the lawyer (excluding tax)?

2. A new virus is released on the internet; the administrator of a department’s Local Area Network ( LAN) is given five minutes by a manager to estimate the impact. The administrator samples 12 of the PCs connected to the LAN, and finds that 7 are infected; use proportion to estimate the number of infected PCs if there are a total of 117 PCs connected to the LAN.

3. An administrator of a popular web site is told that a new server can handle 11,000 "hits" (users accessing the site) per second. The web site currently experiences a peak demand of about 85,000 hits per second; but every month, the peak demand increases by 3500 hits per second. Use a proportion equation to determine how many new servers the administrator should buy to address expected traffic for the next 18 months.

1} 250/1=x/47
x=11750

2} 12/7=117/y
12y=819
y=68.25
round to 69

3} (85000+3500*18)=148000
148000/11000=13.45
round to 14

Hi Folks

Where can i find good web designer/developer/company that can give assurance the that once the keyword is keyed. The website will guranteed be in the top search list.

I heard it is call SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION.

no one can guarantee top search list results and it would cost you a fortune if it was possible and they always change the algorhythms anyway - you won’t stay on top for long without continued expensive payments to the search engine