Google’s Webmaster Central team has posted a video Matt Cutts that answers the question: “Will Google consider Yahoo! Directory and BOTW as source of paid links? If no, why is this different from another site that sell links.
this is a very important answer for all of us. Look at it!
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. (more…)
Now this happens many times, especially with the newbie webmasters. They go for the “Hosting + Domain Registration” combo package from a local company at considerably high price for inadequate services. And when they check out the price and services offered by other reputable Hosting companies/ Domain Registrars, they want to change their Host/ Registrar.
Changing host, is comparatively easy..but what can be more difficult is Registrar shifting. So lets start with the Registrar Shifting process.
First of all choose a suitable Domain Registrar, depending upon your needs. You must always check for the promotional offers available with various big Domain Registrars. Keep in mind “Domain Transfer” is not a free process. The registrar will charge some fee, approx. to 1 yr. “.com” registration fee – i.e. $7-8. Many registrars give 1 yr. registration free with transfer.
Now, once you’ve chosen your new registrar, go to your old Registrar’s domain manager and look for the security code. If you have locked the domain, first step will be to unlock it. Once you got the security code. Go to new Registrar, check for “Domain Transfer” option and enter that code.
If you have entered the code correctly, there will be one notification on the email address associated with that domain. When you rceeive that email, you need to do nothing. Just wait for the estimated days, usually upto 7 days, and you can see your domain in new Registrar’s Domain List.
Thats it, you have transferred your domain successfully to your new Registrar.
Most successful sites rely on returning visitors for the main part of their traffic. The more return visitor you have, the easier for them to turn into paying customers because they’re confidence with your website. There are many techniques to get visitors to your website and keep them coming. I’ll shortlist 5 of the most important:
1) Add and Start a Forum Section, Shout Box or Chat Room
The first thing you need to do is to get your website alive by adding a forum section, shout box, section, add comment to post or picture. By this way, your visitor will have a place to voice their opinion, thought and as well interact with you or other visitors. The more fascinating conversation topics you put, the more visitors will have the feel of community and they will coming back to your website almost every day. Also, if your visitors found something that interesting, they will keep refer the others to come to your web site.
2) Start a web log (Blog)
Write an online journal, article or tips or more typically better known as a blog, keep post the latest news about your website or yourself, and write an interesting article. You will as well improve the website (or yourself) credibility because your visitor will know that your website is alive and they will realize that the web site have a real life individual behind it.
3) Encourage your visitor to take polls or surveys
You can also add some interesting polls or surveys where visitor can voice their opinion and thought and this will encourage them to be active in your website. This is extra method for user and web site interaction and make sure the polls or surveys topics are strongly related to your website niche. This will also keep your visitors coming to your website as human beings are curious creatures and they are fascinated to know about the final result of polls or surveys.
4) Add Videos, Music’s, Games, Puzzles or Quizzes to Your Website
Sometimes people will feel bored and they always searching something that exciting or entertainment. You can put some latest or top music or videos and ask your visitors to put some comment for it. Imagine that if you put some funny video in your blog post, how much visitors and comments you will get? Besides that, you can also put some flash games, quizzes or puzzles in your web site. This way, you also as well hold the competitions for your visitors to get the high score for specified game and your visitors will keep trying continuously to win the game.
5) Update frequently with fresh articles
To keep your visitor coming back, you must update your website often so your visitor will have something to read on your web site. This is the most effective technique to pull visitors coming to your website. As the matter of fact, no one will surf a web site that looks the same for over the years.
As for conclusion, the tips I listed above is the most common ways to get your visitor coming back. I agree that these tips is only for suitable niche such as community sites or personal web sites.
With so many web hosting companies in market, choosing a right web host for any webmaster can be quite difficult. To help with this there are many web hosting review websites in the market providing you with the reviews and ratings for different web hosting companies. But not all these review sites are as reliable as they claim.
Most of the times these review sites are nothing but the mere advertising sites created by that particular host itself. Others may be affiliated to that particular web host. So, they rate their web hosting as the best and way ahead of other competitors. You can imagine what will be standard of any web hosting company resorting to such practice. But there are a few honest and reliable web hosting review sites, which provide you with an honest review for any web hosting company. (more…)
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.
* 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. (more…)