ALL-NET - Tech & Webmaster blog http://www.all-net.net Tech & Webmaster blog Thu, 11 Feb 2010 14:54:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 How to Write A Good Blog Comment http://www.all-net.net/how-to-write-a-good-blog-comment/ http://www.all-net.net/how-to-write-a-good-blog-comment/#comments Thu, 11 Feb 2010 14:54:10 +0000 admin http://www.all-net.net/?p=97 As you know many people using blog comment for build back-link and they always comment wherever they can. But does it really good and make their business growing up ? But did you think spam comment will hurt your website and return back unwanted result ?

How to write a good blog comment ?

For write a good blog comment, I have some tips to help you improve quality of your comment and it can help you keep your comment alive without delete or move to spam.

1. Determine Your Purpose

People have different reason to write blog comment. What’s yours ?

  • You trying to get back-links, drive traffic to your website ?
  • You disagree with someone and want to tell the truth to people ?
  • You appreciate and want to say thank you for his/her jobs ?

Sometime, understand your motivation will help you decide what kind of comment you will write about.

2. Understand Content of Article/Post

When I reading some comment in blog, almost of it just :

  • Thanks for share that. Great
  • Thanks. Pretty good
  • It help me so much
  • …

I know they just write for their purpose and don’t want to take much time in their comment. Just say thank you and leave, they don’t need to think about article content and what is it talking about. Mainly, comment posted and showing in comment pages.

It’s main reason to delete your comment without confused. Save your time and comment to tell something useful or just give a minutes to think and write good comment. I know you’re not professional writer, I’m not too. But I sure you can write better than others people I tell above. Right ?

3. Make Link Carefully

As I asking above, if you’re make this comment for satisfy your purpose, think carefully before put a link in your comment. Don’t confused to put your link if comment box has a place to put ” Your Website ” or ” URL “. But there are no where to put your link, final way is put link into body of comment.

Is it risky thing ?

If you’re moderator or owner of blog, you see a comment, short comment with irrelevant link , do you delete it ? I sure I’ll remove it and and report as spam for next time. Many people will doing follow my way, then beware.

4. Grammar and Spelling

Not almost comment editor include spelling checker, you should review your comment before submit. How could you tell to people something when you can spell it ?

5. Telling More Information

I know short comment is okay and almost of it will accept by site owner. You say ” thank you ” , ” love it ” or ” pretty good “. Just tell a bit more to people why you like it ? It will make more good point to your comment

]]> http://www.all-net.net/how-to-write-a-good-blog-comment/feed/ 0 Internet 2009 in numbers http://www.all-net.net/internet-2009-in-numbers/ http://www.all-net.net/internet-2009-in-numbers/#comments Thu, 28 Jan 2010 14:21:23 +0000 admin http://www.all-net.net/?p=94 What happened with the Internet in 2009? How many websites were added? How many emails were sent? How many Internet users were there? This post will answer all of those questions and many more. Prepare for information overload, but in a good way.

We have used a wide variety of sources from around the Web. A full list of source references is available at the bottom of the post for those interested. We here at Pingdom also did some additional calculations to get even more numbers to show you.

Email

* 90 trillion – The number of emails sent on the Internet in 2009.
* 247 billion – Average number of email messages per day.
* 1.4 billion – The number of email users worldwide.
* 100 million – New email users since the year before.
* 81% – The percentage of emails that were spam.
* 92% – Peak spam levels late in the year.
* 24% – Increase in spam since last year.
* 200 billion – The number of spam emails per day (assuming 81% are spam).

Websites

* 234 million – The number of websites as of December 2009.
* 47 million – Added websites in 2009.

Web servers

* 13.9% – The growth of Apache websites in 2009.
* -22.1% – The growth of IIS websites in 2009.
* 35.0% – The growth of Google GFE websites in 2009.
* 384.4% – The growth of Nginx websites in 2009.
* -72.4% – The growth of Lighttpd websites in 2009.

Domain names

* 81.8 million – .COM domain names at the end of 2009.
* 12.3 million – .NET domain names at the end of 2009.
* 7.8 million – .ORG domain names at the end of 2009.
* 76.3 million – The number of country code top-level domains (e.g. .CN, .UK, .DE, etc.).
* 187 million – The number of domain names across all top-level domains (October 2009).
* 8% – The increase in domain names since the year before.

Internet users

* 1.73 billion – Internet users worldwide (September 2009).
* 18% – Increase in Internet users since the previous year.
* 738,257,230 – Internet users in Asia.
* 418,029,796 – Internet users in Europe.
* 252,908,000 – Internet users in North America.
* 179,031,479 – Internet users in Latin America / Caribbean.
* 67,371,700 – Internet users in Africa.
* 57,425,046 – Internet users in the Middle East.
* 20,970,490 – Internet users in Oceania / Australia.

Social media

* 126 million – The number of blogs on the Internet (as tracked by BlogPulse).
* 84% – Percent of social network sites with more women than men.
* 27.3 million – Number of tweets on Twitter per day (November, 2009)
* 57% – Percentage of Twitter’s user base located in the United States.
* 4.25 million – People following @aplusk (Ashton Kutcher, Twitter’s most followed user).
* 350 million – People on Facebook.
* 50% – Percentage of Facebook users that log in every day.
* 500,000 – The number of active Facebook applications.


Images

* 4 billion – Photos hosted by Flickr (October 2009).
* 2.5 billion – Photos uploaded each month to Facebook.
* 30 billion – At the current rate, the number of photos uploaded to Facebook per year.

Videos

* 1 billion – The total number of videos YouTube serves in one day.
* 12.2 billion – Videos viewed per month on YouTube in the US (November 2009).
* 924 million – Videos viewed per month on Hulu in the US (November 2009).
* 182 – The number of online videos the average Internet user watches in a month (USA).
* 82% – Percentage of Internet users that view videos online (USA).
* 39.4% – YouTube online video market share (USA).
* 81.9% – Percentage of embedded videos on blogs that are YouTube videos.

Web browsers

* 62.7% – Internet Explorer
* 24.6% – Firefox
* 4.6% – Chrome
* 4.5% – Safari
* 2.4% – Opera
* 1.2% – Other

Malicious software

* 148,000 – New zombie computers created per day (used in botnets for sending spam, etc.)
* 2.6 million – Amount of malicious code threats at the start of 2009 (viruses, trojans, etc.)
* 921,143 – The number of new malicious code signatures added by Symantec in Q4 2009.

About the Author: Website and web server stats from Netcraft. Domain name stats from Verisign and Webhosting.info. Internet user stats from Internet World Stats. Web browser stats from Net Applications. Email stats from Radicati Group. Spam stats from McAfee. Malware stats from Symantec (and here) and McAfee. Online video stats from Comscore, Sysomos and YouTube. Photo stats from Flickr and Facebook. Social media stats from BlogPulse, Pingdom (here and here), Twittercounter, Facebook and GigaOm.

Source: http://www.entireweb.com/

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Broadcast Yourself. Thats the tag for the Youtube video sharing social network, a video upload site where people can watch, rate and comment on videos uploaded by other users.

Video upload sites have been around for a while now but they are only getting more and more popular these days and have been one of the catalyst of the new web 2.0 movement where users submit the bulk of a sites web content.

These sites are fun and in many ways informative and addictive. Youtube is among the most visited sites on the internet according to Alexa with millions of people visiting the site each day.

There are lots of other sites like Youtube, some of them standalone and some that are on social networks while others are used for a specific purpose.

Video Upload Sites

  • FunnyOrDie – Will Ferrel’s new funny video site, lol. Life’s tasty…
  • Revver Video Sharing Network – Revver – The first viral video sharing network with original webisodes, animation, comedy, vlogger, gaming videos, and more.
  • Youtube – Most popular video upload site.
  • Metacafe – Videos and Funny Movies
  • Google Video – Google’s video sharing network
  • Yahoo! Video – Yahoo’s video sharing portal
  • IFILM – Videos, Trailers, etc
  • Yommy – Video Shopping/Advertising
  • Bolt.com – Upload and Share Your Life
  • Break Video – Free videos, humor, comedy, hot chicks & pictures for guys.
  • Grouper Video
  • Daily Motion – Share your videos
  • Veoh Video Network – Online Videos
  • Singing Fool – Music Videos
  • Video Detective – Movie Preview and Trailers
  • Sharkle – Upload and Share
  • Putfile
  • JobBeam – Video Resume – Upload Your Resume.
  • Ziddio
  • Brightcove
  • LiveVideo.com – The World is Watching – LiveVideo is a video platform that allows you to host videos for free, broadcast your videos, watch funny and sexy videos.

How Video Upload Sites Work.

Video upload sites usually require you to have an account in order to have the full benefits of being a member. Without an account you are restricted to just watching and enjoying the videos although you can still share them.

Youtube Upload Video and Share to Friend and PeopleAfter you create an account you can then upload your video, which will be hosted on the video upload site, using a special form. Once the video is uploaded it will be given a special url which gives the video a special location on the network.

The user will then tag each video with special keywords which will be used for finding your video and for placing it as a related video to similar ones on the video upload site. This makes finding your video an easy task for other users since it will appear alongside other popular videos with the same tag.

Users can then comment on your video if they like it (or if they don’t) and also rate it (5 stars would be great). The can also grab the url and place it on their own website or page or if its the case of a social network like Myspace, add it to their page. Most video upload sites are also social networks.Upload Video and Share to Friend and People

Sites like Hubpages.com also integrate videos from these video upload sites so its easy to share your videos across the internet.

About Author : kpfingaz was published this article on Hubpages.com

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]]> http://www.all-net.net/how-to-create-a-blog-with-blogger/feed/ 0 The Necessity Of Search Engine Optimization http://www.all-net.net/the-necessity-of-search-engine-optimization/ http://www.all-net.net/the-necessity-of-search-engine-optimization/#comments Tue, 26 Jan 2010 06:27:19 +0000 admin http://www.all-net.net/?p=76 The majority of businesses now understand that search engine optimisation or SEO is becoming an important part of any online business strategy. Today it is only the most backward thinking companies that have dismissed the benefits of search engine optimisation, or have not even heard of it.

The emphasis of search engine optimisation is to increase web traffic to a website through the search medium. The process involves changing various elements of the website so that it is more visible to search engines and easier to operate for users.

Currently the market is saturated with so called SEO specialists who are simply jumping on a band wagon that started rolling over ten years ago. Hence it is imperative to have a detailed research process before entering into a contract with any SEO company. Ideally a company that can prove its worth, prove the success of it methods and its time in the industry should be found.

It is advisable, before employing a SEO company to gain an understanding of how the search engine process is conducted. Fortunately the internet has thousands of websites dedicated to the subject of website optimisation. While the worth of these websites is somewhat questionable, they do at least give an idea of the sorts of strategies the SEO company should be presenting.

As with the procurement of nearly any service it is important to gain a number of quotes from different companies. All firms will charge different rates for their services and hence looking at the quotes and assessing the value of the service is essential.

Remember that the cheapest company should not always be chosen. Like most things in life a cheaper price does not necessarily mean a good service, in some cases it may be worth paying that little bit extra for a better level of service.

One of the best strategies to help choose an SEO company is to simply type a related term into a search engine. For instance by taking terms such as ’search engine optimisation’ and entering this into Google it is possible to see numerous sites that offer SEO service. Understandably, by using one of the sites in the top five listings you are given a form of guarantee that they know what they are doing, after all, if a company cannot rank highly for terms related to their own industry it is doubtful they will be able to help other companies.

It is also worth avoiding companies that promise page one, or even position one rankings. Nobody outside of the Google corporation can guarantee such positions, it is doubtful even Google employees can. Search engine algorithms are extremely complex and it takes real experts to work within these algorithms to improve the rankings of a site. Any company that has the short sightedness to guarantee position one listings is probably not worth using.

It is hoped that this article has given businesses and business owners an idea of how search engine optimisation can help their company to secure more online business and trade. In terms of searching for a company the search engine method is worthwhile but also beneficial can be personal recommendations.

If another company gives you information on a company that helped them improve their online profile and profits it is likely that this reference is trustworthy and could result in further profits for your own company. With the right SEO company increased online revenue and trade is a real and attainable possibility.

]]> http://www.all-net.net/the-necessity-of-search-engine-optimization/feed/ 1 Secrets to Running a Successful Hosting Company http://www.all-net.net/secrets-to-running-a-successful-hosting-company/ http://www.all-net.net/secrets-to-running-a-successful-hosting-company/#comments Fri, 22 Jan 2010 16:00:34 +0000 admin http://www.all-net.net/?p=73 The market is good for new Web hosting companies. According to Forrester Research, there is now positive if modest growth for Web hosting and managed IT services, at both the enterprise and SMB levels.

The hosting industry is one of the few profitable sectors of the Internet. As such, large corporations such Yahoo are offering Web hosting services. You, too, can join this highly profitable business and reap the financial awards — but only if you do it right.

To build a successful Web hosting company, I offer the following two time-tested and proven rules: Focus on offering high-quality services in a tiered pricing schedule.

In addition, it is essential an automated infrastructure to create self-sufficient customers. For marketing, it is crucial to maximize intelligent marketing opportunities.

Automation will create a self-sufficient client-base and reduce your expenses down the road. In order to provide the best-possible service, you’ll want a minimum of the following processes automated: order forms (for new customer account set up or existing customer updates), billing system, administration system, end-user control panel, and technical support interface.

Order Forms

The front end of your order form should serve an minimum of these four key functions: 1) verify domain information for registration purposes, 2) validate entered results, 3) process the customer’s credit card or create an invoice, 4) enter the customer’s information into billing database for future use.

The backend of the order form must process the domain registration (if customer needs to register one) and generate the Web hosting account.

Administration System

The administration system is necessary to manage ordered accounts. You may wish to manually add or remove new domains, change passwords, etc.

End-User Control Panel

The end-user control panel is necessary for allowing your customers to manage their accounts. At the very least, customers should be able to set up their own e-mail accounts, view Website statistics, and manage their files.

Billing System

An automated billing system is an absolute must! The billing system should e-mail invoices, charge credit cards, and suspend overdue accounts. The system should also allow the you to issue credit or discounts as needed.

Technical Support Interface

By technical support interface, I’m not referring to a system that merely generates trouble tickets. An effective tech-support interface automatically generates an FAQ-interface that customers can search before submitting trouble tickets. These interfaces can reduce technical support requests by a factor of 10!

In addition, be sure that the company you go with offers the option of taking care of technical support on your behalf but branded with your brand. You can then focus your energy on your core competencies and growing your business.

Maximize intelligent marketing opportunities

You know what platform you want to use, you’ve figured out what packages to offer, and set up a tiered pricing schedule and automated systems. So how do you get the word out about your new hosting service?

Pay per Click

Pay per Click can potentially allow you to reach large numbers of customers. Although you don’t pay to list your site, you do pay when a user clicks on your listing and connects to your site. How, then, do you get your site high on the results lists? You must engage in a bidding war over how much you’re willing to pay for each person who clicks through to your site. The stakes have recently grown pretty high, so be careful about bidding too high. Just because someone clicks through to your Web hosting site, doesn’t mean they’ll convert into a new account. Also be sure to select targeted keywords not competing with everyone else for the same keywords. That is a very difficult game to win. Find your niche.

Hosting Directory Sites

There are numerous Web sites known as hosting directories — that attract Web hosting customers. These hosting directories are an excellent place to advertise, but be selective in your placement. Many offer banner placement, spotlights, search enhancements, and other forms of advertisement. As a general rule keep in mind that banner ads are better for creating brand recognition than generating new accounts, so advertise based on your budget, not on your expectation of new clientele.

Leverage Your Current Client Base

If you run an established Web design firm, information portal, or domain registration service, you can immediately begin marketing to your current clients. A simple e-mail to your customer base can instantly generate a large number of accounts.

Offer New Products and Services

Keep in mind, once you acquire a solid customer base, you can consider developing new products and services to keep your customers happy and to generate additional revenue. But always remember: Quality is key!

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DOs

Create sites which are easy to navigate and have good content.

Track your Adsense clicks and try to add content related to what your website visitors want.

DON’Ts

Never, never, never, never, never ask your visitors to click on your ads. This is a strict NO according to the Google Adsense TOS, and this is one of the main reasons that your account could be shut down.

NEVER click on ads on your own site. The Adsense team tracks for such invalid clicks and you will surely get a warning letter if they find that you are clicking on your own ads. If you still continue to do it, just bid your account goodbye.

DO NOT use automated software which promises to click on ads on your site.

Don’t build sites just for Adsense income. Some publishers try to take a short-cut by creating sites with high-paying keywords and put in the Adsense code along with some junk content or search engine results. While this could get you a couple of clicks in the beginning, it won’t help you in the long run. This is another reason your account could be terminated.

]]> http://www.all-net.net/adsense-do%e2%80%99s-and-donts/feed/ 0 Importance of ALT Tags http://www.all-net.net/importance-of-alt-tags/ http://www.all-net.net/importance-of-alt-tags/#comments Wed, 20 Jan 2010 05:27:57 +0000 admin http://www.all-net.net/?p=45 Lets first define what an alt tag is and where you can find them. Alt tags or alternative text are the small text boxes that appear when you hover your mouse over an image or button on a website. They contain descriptive information about that particular image or the destination of the button.

Look at the two examples below. On the left, the mouse is hovering over a button that links to a page described as Free SEO Tool in the alt tag.

x10media is very good at SEO

Alt tags are mainly used by people who cannot see images on your website. Im sure you remember the dial-up age when websites took what seemed like forever to open, especially the ones with a lot of images. Some browsers had an option to turn images off. This allowed websites to open much faster. In place of the images were alt tags, describing the image that was suppose to be there. Of course dial-up modems have become out-dated and a thing of the past so why are we still using alt tags?

Alt tags are also used in major search engine algorithms. Search engine robots or spiders cannot read images; however they can and do read alt tags. Alt tags help search engines learn more about your website, especially those that lack a lot of content. If used correctly it will even help your website rank higher. Good and descriptive alternative text should be placed on all images, pictures and buttons according to the Design and Content Google Guidelines.

Alt Tag are also used by Google to classify and index the images from your web sites! Of course that is more important for an Desktop Wallpapers Site like anime wallpapers where you got thousands of pics. But even with smaller sites not related to pictures, it can reprensent a good amount of visitors!

Another good reason to use alt tags is accessibility. People with physical disabilities like the blind want to access your website. The buying power of the blind is in the billions and yes, they are frequent web surfers and home Workers!. However, instead of being able to read content on your website its read to them by the computer using a simple application. They cannot see images or buttons on websites so alt tags allow them to get a good description of the image or button. In country or provinces like In Quebec, Canada, this is a requirement form the government on regarding the big web site to make the sites accessible.

So make it a priority, make sure your web design firm uses good, descriptive alt tags on all of your images. A good way to test your website is to simply rollover all your images and look for alt tags. You can also use our Free SEO Tool to determine if youre missing any alt tags.

]]> http://www.all-net.net/importance-of-alt-tags/feed/ 0 SEO Missed opportunities http://www.all-net.net/seo-missed-opportunities/ http://www.all-net.net/seo-missed-opportunities/#comments Tue, 19 Jan 2010 05:11:20 +0000 admin http://www.all-net.net/?p=34 Every day we spot missed opportunities online. Often, many of these problems are simple to remedy. Here the top five missed opportunities we come across on a regular basis:

1. Missing or duplicate meta data – Having no meta data or having it simply repeat the brand is an obvious SEO problem that is easy to fix most of the time. The same goes for duplicate meta data – sometimes the developers will repeat the same meta tags throughout the whole website, which the search engines may read as duplicate content, resulting in a failure to rank.

2. Text as images – Content is king online, so dont lock up your text in Flash or as images, no matter how cool it might look. If you dont give the search engines content to crawl you will have a hard time ranking no matter what else you do.

3. No internal linking – A solid internal linking strategy helps your users navigate through your site and it ensures that the search engines crawl and rank your website.

4. Missing or irrelevant alt tags – If you have images on your site, it is a simple matter to ensure that keywords are placed in your alt tags, and it will definitely have a positive effect on your rankings. Also, it helps users who cannot view the images for whatever reason (they are visually impaired, they have a slow connection, or they are using a substandard browser like IE6) understand the content on your site.

5. No robots.txt file – This file tells the search engines what pages of your site should be indexed and what should be ignored. Even if there are no pages on your site that you want to leave out of the search results, this file is still essential as it helps the search engine crawlers determine what to do with your sites pages.

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