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How to Use Facebook to Boost Your Web Traffic

Seo Men — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 09:13:28 +0000

If you have a website, you certainly understand the great need to boost your traffic. The days of simply optimizing keywords and exchanging links is slowly ending. As the popularity of social networking sites increases, this changes the way that webmasters must think in regard to building a traffic base. The most interesting site in the world will do no one any good if it is sandboxed or buried on page 10 under your keywords. Let’s take a look at how to use Facebook to boost your web traffic.

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Facebook is an extremely popular social networking site. What does this mean and how does this apply to you? Your goal as a webmaster is to increase traffic to the highest extent possible. Facebook has more than 115 million people who log in every single month. It is the biggest networking site in the world. Let’s take a look at how this can help you. Many people log into Facebook to meet up with friends, make posts about what is new in their world and to search through profiles of other members, many times finding new online friends. These 115 plus people each month can help you get traffic to your site.

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Think about how to use Facebook to boost your web traffic as tapping into a huge source of potential visitors to your site. The steps of using Facebook to boost your traffic is fairly easy and we will discuss the steps that you can take with results faster than you imagined. You will first want to build a Facebook network. This will be a group of online friends, which will continually grow. If you can obtain one friend, you can have thousands and it works in the following way.

You simply need to create a profile for yourself and your website. Your profile should reflect the focus of your site. If your site is regarding gardening, make this the focus of your Facebook profile.
Now it is time to find other people who are interested in gardening. With over hundreds of millions of people, this is actually the easy part. There are countless groups and all you need to do is join groups that relate to what your site is about.

As you look at relevant groups, ask that group to add you as a friend. Try to send out twenty requests each day. If you do that, you could easily build a network of over a thousand people who are all interested in the subject of your website, within a couple of months.

Taking only perhaps a half hour per day or less, you will not want to disappear; your network needs to see that you are active. Your goal will be to do small things that create an interest in what you are doing. This is done by putting up posts. It is best if you mix these up with a bit of business and a bit of personal and fun information. For example, you can talk about the new sale that is about to start and the next day you can post a funny joke that relates to what your site is all about. The key is to make your thoughts and correlating website interesting. People will click in to read about you and this drives a percentage of them to your site. The more you post, the more traffic you gain. It really is that simple.

Best osCommerce Templates

Seo Men — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 02:08:08 +0000

Managing your on line commerce and on line store is all a part of osCommerce. This program helps in keeping all things in your business straight. It is a relatively simple program that can help you account for all your business ventures. Whether it is keeping up with stock or income versus what you have left, osCommerce will be on hand to help keep it all in a row. You will never wonder where your merchandise is or when it was sold. osCommerce will keep all your important details straight for you and keep all your records filed properly and completely.

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The whole osCommerce system has many functions in the day to day operation of an on line business. Many of these include database backup, secure transactions for customers, automatically installs on the Web, Uses different forms of currency and can convert, can handle up to one image per product, handles shipping arrangements, and calculates tax rates and different zones for each product you may have. As you can see osCommerce is a handy tool to have to keep all your business transactions current and up to date.

The osCommerce themes follow the templates which are available on line or through the distribution company of osCommerce. STS, BTS, and another one called SMARTY are available as of right now. These templates include color coding and using specific tables to withdraw information that you need specific to each person in your business or each product.

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The osCommerce system was started in Germany in 2000 by Harald Ponce de Leon. The current program MILESTONE 2.2 is very usable and customer oriented. MILESTONE 3.0 is in the works and will be a rewrite of the current program. The programmers want to include some changes in the layouts of the templates and using a password and user name system to gain access to the program.

There were some bugs to be worked out of the osCommerce system and they are trying to get them all straight in the 3.0 version of the program. Some of the problems included not being able to use certain credit cards, The product images were not able to be increased to full size, Products that were to be downloaded were not entirely safe to download, and UPS wasn’t included as a shipping option. The newer versions of osCommerce should be ridding the program of the remaining problems.

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The new version should provide a great database for all your business and personal needs. Keeping track of everyone who works for you as well as the merchandise you sell or buy can be a daunting task. The new software for osCommerce makes it easier than anything else you will ever try. Many people use other programs thinking they are so much better than most of the older ones out there. This particular program gives you a database and you can find out any information you need from it. If you need to know how many products sold for Christmas last year and what color, this program can tell you. If you want to know the highest price paid on any of your auction items, this program can arrange from highest to lowest bid. If you want a list of people that bid the most on your merchandise, you can ask for that.

Take a chance with the new program of osCommerce. It comes free from the GNU under Public License. You will be glad you did.

Vanessa Rousso is New GoDaddy Girl

Seo Men — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:47:37 +0000

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French-American beauty Vanessa Rousso. Birth Date – February 5, 1983. Birth Place – White Plains, NY.

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Residence – Las Vegas, NV. Vanessa, who holds dual citizenship in France and the U.S., speaks English, French and Spanish. While she will graduate from the University of Miami law school in 2009, she has no plans to sit for the bar. Vanessa now lives in Las Vegas with her fiancé, Chad Brown

“Vanessa is, as they say, all in with Go Daddy baby,”

says Bob Parsons, Go Daddy CEO and founder.

“She brings everything you’d want to the table too – she’s intellectually brilliant, sexy and as savvy a poker player as you’re going to meet. The icing on the cake is seeing our new Go Daddy Girl play in a major poker tournament wearing her leather Go Daddy jacket for the first time.”

Vanessa Rousso and Bob Parsons

Rousso announced on her January 4th, 2009 vblog that Sports Illustrated asked her to be a part of its Swimsuit Edition and a photo shoot took place at the 2009 EPT PCA event. Rousso confirmed on January 15th, 2009 that that she will appear in the February, 2009 issue.

OpenID Gaining Critical Mass, Yahoo Announces Support

Seo Men — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 11:00:02 +0000

OpenID is a single sign-in infrastructure that potentially alleviates the need to create new passwords and user names for every new site one joins or visits. There’s been lots of discussion about OpenID and who’s in, who’s almost in, and so on. Today, Yahoo formally joined (and fully legitimized) the effort. Microsoft Passport was originally conceived to be a similar system but failed to gain support and broad adoption. While it’s a great convenience for end users and intended to “open up” the process of signing in to sites, the strange paradox of OpenID is that it potentially reinforces a relationship between a user and his/her open ID “home.” That is, the master login that a person uses: AOL screenname, WordPress login, or, now, Yahoo login.

As Yahoo explains: When you are on a web site that supports OpenID login, simply look for a Yahoo! login button. Or if you see a text box with an OpenID icon, simply type in “yahoo.com”. You will be sent to Yahoo! to verify your Yahoo! ID and password, and then you will be able to continue on.

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OpenID is thematically related to another, broader issue: data portability. The latter is very much like the idea of a unified login/password system except that it applies to data much more broadly. In theory, “data portability” would allow interoperability among various participating sites. However, the issues surrounding data portability are much more complex than OpenID. At the heart of the debate over data portability are questions of who “owns” or controls data and user privacy.

Yahoo’s 248 million registered users globally now become part of the system. Google, LinkedIn, and Facebook have all been associated with discussions to support OpenID, though have not formally announced that support. Now, with Yahoo’s participation secured, it should just be a matter of time before other big names join (AOL and Plaxo are also currently on the list of supporting companies.)

Semantic Web and SEO

Seo Men — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 10:23:34 +0000

What is The Semantic Web?

The Semantic Web is a (currently theoretical) future state of the World Wide Web where information is machine-processable, rather than just machine-renderable for human viewing. Software will then be able to better find, organise and merge the data as it will have more “understanding” of the meaning of the data.

For example, if I go to a web page about a particular conference, my calendar software would be able to interpret the web page to extract the date, time and location of the conference. This may then allow it to show me available flights for the conference or transfer the data directly to my car’s GPS system. This is a simple example, but demonstrates the power The Semantic Web could provide.

The are many different technologies which have been proposed to describe this “meaning” to computers including: Resource Description Framework (RDF), RDF Schema (RDFS), Web Ontology Language (OWL (sic)), XML and many more. The discussion of these is beyond the scope of this article.

How could The Semantic Web effect search?

The Semantic Web will allow search engines to be much more intelligent and give answers to more general queries. For example, rather then searching for “Florida Holidays”, I may be able to search for “Sunny holiday destinations that are fun for kids in America”. Most humans would be able to give Florida as a possible answer to this query. However, for a computer to come to the same conclusion it must “understand” information much better than it currently can. A search engine needs to know that Florida is a sunny place, that is it good for kids and that it is in America. Thus, significant amounts of AI technology will also need to be developed.

How will this change SEO?

It is hard to say how The Semantic Web will change SEO, as the technology has not really developed into a useable state yet. However, if webmasters are required to label the meanings of the items on their web pages then their may be large amounts of spam annotations.

No matter how The Semantic Web changes the WWW, it likely that the fundamentals of SEO will still remain relevant for a long time. They may even become more important, because as search engines understand more about your content and the links to your content they will be better equip to judge the quality of those links.

Michael Hawthornthwaite works at Acid Computer Services