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		<title>Effective Online Presence</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Dec 2009 20:58:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Online Marketing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many businesses big and small have successfully set up an internet presence that sells their identity really well. They have created, branded and personalized their business campaigns to match their online and offline identity which distinguishes them from their competition. Online marketing has been developed to prove one that is most competitive. There are millions [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Many businesses big and small have successfully set up an internet presence that sells their identity really well. They have created, branded and personalized their business campaigns to match their online and offline identity which distinguishes them from their competition.</p>
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<p>Online marketing has been developed to prove one that is most competitive. There are millions of companies and individuals alike that are consistently competing for online business and the number one way to find a business is through a search engine. Search engines often prove to bring about the most valuable traffic over banner advertising or advertising in any other offline print medium. Because the search engines are focused on producing the finest and most relevant search results for anyone searching, people often find that the results can be amazing.</p>
<p>Looking into specific methodology of advertising via search engines through paid campaigns or via organic marketing, one can determine the minutest details about their campaigns, the way they work and various other details that help to identify the way on which continued marketing efforts will be carried out.</p>
<p>Searching the internet for most people is about landing on the page that is most relative to what they are searching for and that simply why optimizing your pages for search engines and your clients is so important. They should be able to easily find what they are looking for and be able to make a request or query with the utmost ease.</p>
<p>Using search engine optimization and a mix of social media marketing with online public relations helps to further created an extended profile of loyal customers and clients.</p>
<p>Creating an effective and lucrative online presence helps to establish your brand and product online to your customers. This does take a lot of time, planning, effort as well as strategic implementation and statistic gathering, dissecting and understanding. Once you have all of this you can determine whether or not you are creating an effective online presence that will sell your product or service to the masses.</p>
<p>Geo-targeting has become an imperative form for marketing to niches and remains to stand as one of the most powerful methods that ensure you are always marketing to relevant audiences.</p>
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		<title>Just finished the new design for the Pro&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:07:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>SEO and Common Sense</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:27:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;After reading this article, I couldn&#8217;t think of a better way to explain SEO&#8221; -Editor The fact is every search engine has a different formula to accord ranking for a Web page. Keyword-rich copy that the search engines favor may not ideally form the text -especially not on the front page! Using flash animation and [...]]]></description>
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<h2><span style="color: #ff6600;">&#8220;After reading this article, I couldn&#8217;t think of a better way to explain SEO&#8221;</span></h2>
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<p>-Editor</p>
<p>The fact is every search engine has a different formula to accord ranking for a Web page. Keyword-rich copy that the search engines favor may not ideally form the text -especially not on the front page! Using flash animation and of graphics may make the site appealing, but as the search engines can not index these well, one has to inevitably use gateway pages.</p>
<p>Some business owners may argue that their sites need to be one up on the others and would want liberal use of flash animation and lots of graphics, They may be somewhat disinclined to change this attitude just to satisfy the search engines.</p>
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<p>There are many web developers who burn the midnight oil examining search engine results and trying to figure out each search engine&#8217;s methodology or algorithm for high rankings. As a matter of fact, there have been scores of software programs written over the years to unravel the algorithms to generate high-ranking pages for each engine. The problem is like a musical chair – by the time you arrive at a formula for an algorithm, the algorithm will change and the new algorithm must be cracked again. It is best this type of time-consuming method is avoided.</p>
<p>Notwithstanding the fact that search engines have slightly different algorithms which they keep changing, all search engines accord priority to the same set of things that real visitors look for in a Web site.</p>
<p>You do not need any technical expertise to know what parameters are needed for SEO. Sheer commonsense should suffice. What all search engines will uniformly expect in web pages are – an easy neatly coded design, an imaginative straightforward navigation, crisp yet well drafted copy, titles / meta tags that facilitate easy identification of relevant keyword and phrases and links that exactly describe what can be found at the site.</p>
<p>Writing Keyword-rich content does not necessarily mean one has to compromise on providing correct and appropriate information to the visitor. Good content can be written in a way that will fully drive home the benefits to the user while suitably utilizing keyword phrases. It may be seemingly difficult but possible by a competent content writer. The advice is to engage a professional content writer and not somebody obsessed with SEO.</p>
<p>It is once again an act born of common sense. Web with skillfully written keyword rich content have the potential to achieve high rankings for many years regardless of search engines changing algorithms. Still more importantly, they will also be a runaway success with the site visitors.</p>
<p>Most web developers are excessively fond of flash animation and graphics and willing to even forego appropriate content. Clients who want high rankings and lots of traffic also refuse to forfeit the avoidable graphics and flash animation. Now, it is to an extent true that some search engines have started reading the content of flash files.</p>
<p>A flash presentation on a site may appear exciting the first couple of times one views it, but thereafter it will be irksome when the visitor is not able to get the precise information he or she wants. And Why not have your cake and eat it too? &#8211; By using permissible amounts of flash in select places along with justifiable content. At the end of the day, most people are looking for exact information on the types of products or services in concise language, preferably on the main page of the site. Let us not forget that is exactly what the search engines also want to provide higher rankings.</p>
<p>The heartening fact is, as the Web matures, more and more business site owners are realizing that their fanciful sites do not fetch much traffic as the competitor&#8217;s site that provides strictly business information bereft of all ostentation. Thus there is the new trend of creating a couple of additional sites purely for SEO purposes.</p>
<p>It is said, and rightly too, that the single most important part of optimizing a site and getting it rank well in the search engines is content. Write a new page of content for your site at regular intervals and your website will climb the ranks. With irrelevant or inadequate content, the website will soon become a disaster whatever its other merits.</p>
<p>Of course, content need not be mistaken for pages of mere text. It may include a shopping cart filled with products and product descriptions as also downloadable gadgets and gimmicks. There are some imaginative developers who add jokes, anecdotes, and stories of success associated with their products. As long the written material is relevant to one’s business, website can legitimately aspire for better rankings.</p>
<p>Guided by commonsense, let us take following steps for higher rankings by search engines:</p>
<p>Provide simple straightforward and easily comprehensible information.</p>
<p>* Avoid too many technical jargons as it is not the place to display one’s expertise but to remain user-friendly.</p>
<p>* Try not to employ some clever tricks. Search engines are any day smarter than you. The whole effort will prove counter-productive as the search engines may even penalize you for these antics.</p>
<p>Make the URL for the site clear and relevant and acceptable to crawlers</p>
<p>Put yourself into the shoes of a random visitor and ask the question &#8211; is this page well-structured and offers me right and adequate information about what I am seeking?</p>
<p>* Reliability of information is of paramount importance. You will have an easier time ranking highly if your site offers established and trustworthy information ant the content is devoid of too many hollow superlatives.</p>
<p>There is no denying that it takes time to achieve SEO. Much of SEO is based on other sites that link back to your page, but then you have no direct control over that aspect. All you can do is to focus on what you have control over, which is making your page as compelling as possible.</p>
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		<title>PHP: An Insight Into The Popular Web Development Language</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 06:45:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Web is dynamic in nature, things change faster than we blink an eye. In the infancy days, internet was static, meaning it didn&#8217;t change unless the site owner/administrator changed anything in it. But these days the user generates the content. Blogs, forums, social networks, all are public generated content. All this became possible with the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Web is dynamic in nature, things change faster than we blink an eye. In the infancy days, internet was static, meaning it didn&#8217;t change unless the site owner/administrator changed anything in it. But these days the user generates the content. Blogs, forums, social networks, all are public generated content. All this became possible with the advent of the dynamic languages. HTML allowed the creation of web pages easily, but updating them required manual updating by the webmaster. Whereas dynamic websites use a database and a dynamic language which made it possible to update the website without the intervention of the webmasters.</p>
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<p>Now the dynamic languages have come a long way, they have a long history and they are now the de facto standard to run a website with even a faint possibility of user interaction. They provide endless possibilities to effectively run a website. Although there are many options available in the market, PHP stands out from the rest. PHP is installed on over 20 million websites and 1 million web servers. One doesn&#8217;t need any more convincing about PHP&#8217;s popularity. Quite clearly it&#8217;s the undisputed choice when it comes to server side languages used to run a website. So what makes PHP tick? Let&#8217;s find out.</p>
<p><strong>Open Source</strong></p>
<p>PHP is one of the most well known Open Source projects. It has been supported by the open source community and has been developed over the years into a robust language. Being free it has been adapted by the masses and is in vast use. It runs on any platform, be it Windows or Linux.</p>
<p><strong>Simplicity and easy of use</strong></p>
<p>PHP is easy to use and understand. With vast number of online resources, it&#8217;s very well supported and documented. Even if someone is having any issues, the abundance of online forums and documentation makes sure that there is a solution. It has many code libraries and references which makes it very easy to use.</p>
<p><strong>Speed and performance</strong></p>
<p>After so many years in existence, PHP has benefitted from the many years gone into its development. It runs very fast, it is complied by the PHP engine on the runtime, thus increasing the execution speed. It is very effective in working with the relational database systems. The highly optimized code means that it doesn&#8217;t strain the web server and the user&#8217;s machine doesn&#8217;t have to do much work, thus further making it easier and quicker to run the code.</p>
<p><strong>Areas of application</strong></p>
<p>Due to the huge popularity, PHP has found its place in almost every area of web application. Some areas of use include simple websites, forum systems, content management systems, blogging software and many more such places, where PHP is the most popular form of server side language. Some very popular websites such as Facebook, Wikipedia, Yahoo!, Digg, Joomla, WordPress, YouTube, Drupal and more run completely or some part of it on PHP.</p>
<p>So it doesn&#8217;t come as a surprise that what makes PHP so popular. With so many benefits and technological advancements, PHP not only helps in easy development of websites but also makes it easy and cost effective to manage it.</p>
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		<title>Google&#039;s common sense killed the SEO guru&#8230; We were stumped</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2009 21:31:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the past few years, everyone has been wondering why their Google rankings have collapsed, because as far as they knew they were some of the best at optimizing web pages (and that was often times correct). I know for a fact what has happened and why it is so much harder to succeed on [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;">For the past few years, everyone has been wondering why their Google rankings have collapsed, because as far as they knew they were some of the best at optimizing web pages (and that was often times correct).</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">I know for a fact what has happened and why it is so much harder to succeed on Google now days, and I can almost guarantee some of the things that were said at Google. I bet several executives and employees of Google said &#8220;How can we make sure that all the web sites appearing in our results are valuable resources?&#8221;. Which makes complete sense because without valuable results in their search engines; they lose their stance as the best search engine on the internet. I also bet someone came up with a simple, yet, extremely bright idea and said something like this &#8220;Why don&#8217;t we just change the algorithm so that it takes true hard work; or true popularity for people to get to the top of our search engine?&#8221;, or something of that nature.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">In essence Google saw blasted all over every Search Engine Optimization Blog world a new fad called link building; and that people were exchanging links left and right, which in all reality was creating illegitimate links (because there was no genuine interest in the web site thru this link to begin with). So I can only (once more) assume they talked to one another and said, &#8220;We should give very little value to links where web sites exchanged links in both directions&#8221;.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Then another issue that had to arise during this algorithm change was Google needed to make sure they could not be thwarted by all SEO gurus, and they did something else to help perpetuate that. In order for your hundreds of links you obtain to be most effective, your links must have unique hypertext or surrounding text to have high quality value. For example, if someone had the exact same link to their web site posted on 1,000 web sites saying &#8220;click here for quality dog food&#8221;; This would easily alert Google that this site does not have actual quality inbound links, and that someone either manually or automatically posted the same link to every related site they could find. Common sense of most every webmaster would tell them to post the a link over and over to as many place related web sites, but many didn&#8217;t consider the need for unique hypertext and descriptions to the web site. Therefore; once again, I can assume that Google decided the more unique the hypertext wording; the higher the chance that the link is authentic.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Another issue that arises is that many webmasters will create a web site that does not have any content change at all. You can have tons of great links, but I am positive that Google admires sites with fresh content. You need to update your site every few months (at least) and tweak some things regularly; you should also always add new fresh content.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Others have also realized that Google does value web sites that have been on the internet for extended periods of time. So if you are starting a new web site you need to be able to trench down for a long fight, however the rewards are great to the person that doesn&#8217;t falter and is persistent until the end.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Google isn&#8217;t prejudice, if you had as many unique links to your web site as yahoo.com Google would value you as an equal resource. Know that you are just another search optimizer against hundreds of thousands of others. How will you set yourself apart?</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">So to recap, Google decided that they needed to make sure that your web site is legitimately linked to. Unfortunately there are only a few ways to do that, and guarantee it withstands the tests of time. Here are some of my own personal ideas:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">It comes down to the simple fact that now days in order to make sure you secure a long lasting high search engine ranking, you have to actually create content that markets itself. Also you must create enough interest in your web site that people are willing to take enough time to link to you without expecting a link back. All that said, here are my ideas that will help you to gain long lasting valuable links to your web site which will help make sure your long term search optimization goals are worth while.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Let&#8217;s start by getting our web site listed in to directories related to your topic; however don&#8217;t use the same title and description for each posting &#8211; constantly switch it up. Something I do personally in my spare time to help my site is go on other peoples blog&#8217;s talking about a subject that your web site is similar to and write genuine posts with your link attached. Don&#8217;t just flood their web site with links, you won&#8217;t get far and your posts will not be accepted. Publishing of articles online is great; be creative &#8211; that is what will set you apart. You can also host or sponsor events that will be talked about online. Offer incentives for people in your field to link to you, freebies, services, etc.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">I tell you the absolute truth, whoever has a good work ethic and more creative bone in their body will succeed. This is because you will always have to find ways to create a constant flow of links to your web site without trying to manipulate a search engines perspective. Hard work is the easiest way to beat everyone else. Here is a quote I love from an unknown author: Some People Dream Of Success While Others Wake Up And Work Hard At It.</p>
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		<title>How Can CSS Benefit Website Design For Google?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 15:55:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[CSS or Cascading Style Sheets is a stylesheet language that describes the presentation of web documents. Web pages that are written in HTML and XHTML can be styled in many ways by using CSS. In fact CSS allows to separate the stylistic elements of the web page like layout, color and fonts from the content [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;">CSS or Cascading Style Sheets is a stylesheet language that describes the presentation of web documents. Web pages that are written in HTML and XHTML can be styled in many ways by using CSS. In fact CSS allows to separate the stylistic elements of the web page like layout, color and fonts from the content matter like textual paragraphs and images. This is called separation of content from presentation.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Separation of Content from Presentation</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The separation improves the accessibility of content on the web pages. Moreover, it provides flexibility and control in the specification of presentation characteristics at the same time reducing complexity and repetition in the structural content.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">CSS also allows the web page to be presented in different styles so that it suits different rendering methods. The web content is thus made available in various forms like on-screen, print, voice modes (speech-based browsers and screen readers) etc.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">While CSS offers a plethora of benefits on the Internet, a good knowledge of the same is required if you need to employ it for your website. Therefore, to really reap the benefits of CSS and make it work for your online presence, you should invest quality time in learning its nuances.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Why is CSS good for Google?</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">CSS has a considerable impact on how Google views your website. In fact, you can soar your website’s chances to rank well in the Google search results by employing CSS efficiently. CSS has many benefits with respect to Google.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">• It shrinks the file sizes on your web pages<br />
• It grants more control over the structure of the web pages<br />
• It allows for certain content information to be hidden by browsers yet be visible to Google crawlers.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Let us understand all these potential benefits in detail:</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Smaller File Sizes</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Without CSS, all the styles on your web pages require to be supported by appropriate HTML coding. And this bloats up the file size which further adds up on the load time of the website.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">CSS takes out the style from the HTML pages and puts into another separate file called the css file. This reduces the amount of code on the web pages. Lesser amount of code means smaller sizes of files and this is something Google prefers in the web pages on the Internet. Ideally, web pages should not be more that 100 kb.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Moreover, smaller file sizes also cause the pages to load quickly. This increases the accessibility and pleases your website visitors.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Increased Control over Web Pages</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">With CSS, you are able to structure the documents of your web pages as per the HTML standards at the same time retaining the look and feel of the page. Better structure with the same visual appeal is what CSS grants you.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Google prefers well structured web pages that score well on the design aspects too. And CSS allows website designers to do just the same. They can create attractive websites that not only are a treat to look at but also adheres to the standards and guidelines of the web.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Hiding Content from Browsers</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">With CSS, you can hide bits and chunks of content that you don’t want the browser to read yet want Google crawlers to take into account. For example, you may have certain content on your website that you want to appear only on vice versa. CSS makes it possible to camouflage certain text without loosing on the chances of being picked up by Google.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Kabir Bedi is a senior web consultant at LeXolution IT Services, a professioanal <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.proniit.co.za//goto/http://www.lexolutionit.com/"  target="_blank">web development company</a> that has a team of skilled Web developers India. The company offers a plethora of web services including <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.proniit.co.za//goto/http://www.lexolutionit.com/services.php"  target="_blank">web design and development services</a>.</p>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:59:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With so many marketing strategies that have worked for so many people it is difficult to get a clear understanding of which one will work for you. Technology has reached a point where it is now so easy to pin point where an on line business fails and how one can make that business a [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;">With so many marketing strategies that have worked for so many people it is difficult to get a clear understanding of which one will work for you. Technology has reached a point where it is now so easy to pin point where an on line business fails and how one can make that business a success or rather, revive it. There is such a host of important and usable information available that are literally clicks away from you and all it takes is a little bit of understanding. Technology can now be very easy to obtain and implement for any business of any size even if you do not have ANY capital. I say this because of the wealth of open source software available. I admit though, that sometimes, the open source and free packages take a little bit of extra work to tweak and to get working right. None-the-less, they are worth it especially if you are on a tight budget or have no budget to speak off.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Getting your business on line is then determined by how much you wish to put in to it and what experience you have. It may sometimes be advisable to hire a web designer or to get yourself an Search Engine Optimization and Social Media Marketing company that will market your on line presence for you. If you try hard enough and realize that the on line market and business is just as tough as any other and requires just as much work, time and dedication then you will find yourself on a path to success.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Using Social Media for marketing your on line presence is one of the quickest ways that you can generate income for your business. Having high quality content can indeed help to speed up the processes in which you generate revenue and leads/sales. It really depends on what your web site is targeted towards. If you are selling a product it is good practice to get yourself a blog in which you can fully discuss your products and information thereof that people will find useful. This is a way that you can ensure that you constantly have new information published to the web which will undoubtedly increase your traffic and lead generation. If people find your information useful they will discuss it with their friends and family and even share it over the Internet. When this happens you begin to receive more traffic. Sounds easy doesn&#8217;t it? Most of the time, if you know what you are doing, then it really is that simple.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">You should take care to ensure that your content is properly optimized for web searches and that your social networking efforts are properly categorized so that you are targeting the market that you want and so that you do not receive useless and unwanted traffic to your web site or blog.</p>
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		<title>Core Differences Between Search Engine Optimization and Search Engine Marketing</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:37:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have had a lot of people ask me about the differences between Search Engine Optimization and Search Engine Marketing. There seems to be a lot of confusion between these terms in everyday use. However, their explanations are simple, to the point and concise which makes distinguishing between one and the other very easy. Search [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;">I have had a lot of people ask me about the differences between Search Engine Optimization and Search Engine Marketing. There seems to be a lot of confusion between these terms in everyday use. However, their explanations are simple, to the point and concise which makes distinguishing between one and the other very easy.</p>
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<h1 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #ff6600;"><em>Search Engine Optimization</em></span></h1>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><em>Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of improving the volume or quality of traffic to a web site from search engines via &#8220;natural&#8221; (&#8220;organic&#8221; or &#8220;algorithmic&#8221;) search results. Typically, the earlier a site appears in the search results list, the more visitors it will receive from the search engine. SEO may target different kinds of search, including image search, local search, and industry-specific vertical search engines. This gives a web site web presence.</em></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><em>As an Internet marketing strategy, SEO considers how search engines work and what people search for. Optimizing a website primarily involves editing its content and HTML coding to both increase its relevance to specific keywords and to remove barriers to the indexing activities of search engines.</em></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><em>The acronym &#8220;SEO&#8221; can also refer to &#8220;search engine optimizers,&#8221; a term adopted by an industry of consultants who carry out optimization projects on behalf of clients, and by employees who perform SEO services in-house. Search engine optimizers may offer SEO as a stand-alone service or as a part of a broader marketing campaign. Because effective SEO may require changes to the HTML source code of a site, SEO tactics may be incorporated into web site development and design. The term &#8220;search engine friendly&#8221; may be used to describe web site designs, menus, content management systems and shopping carts that are easy to optimize.</em></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><em>Another class of techniques, known as black hat SEO or Spamdexing, use methods such as link farms and keyword stuffing that degrade both the relevance of search results and the user-experience of search engines. Search engines look for sites that employ these techniques in order to remove them from their indices.</em></p>
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<h1><em><span style="color: #ff6600;">Search Engine Marketing</span></em></h1>
<blockquote><p><em> </em> <em>Search engine marketing, or SEM, is a form of Internet marketing that seeks to promote websites by increasing their visibility in search engine result pages (SERPs) through the use of paid placement, contextual advertising, and paid inclusion. The industry peak body Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization (SEMPO), also includes search engine optimization (SEO) within its reporting, but SEO is a separate discipline with most sources, including the New York Times defining SEM as &#8216;the practice of buying paid search listings&#8217;.</em></p></blockquote>
<p>The explanations above have been taken from Wikipedia and clearly show the differences between one and the other.  So, Search Engine Optimization is about increasing visibility to search engines and to generate traffic from search results and to increase the positioning of a web site in search engines, whereas, Search Engine Marketing involves paid listings in Search Engines such as Google&#8217;s Adwords, to ensure that you will come across highly in search results.  I believe that Search Engine Optimization is more powerful and will be much more long lasting in continuing to generate quality traffic to a web site as long as quality content is kept a constant. There is no need to use paid listings although, budget permitting, it can be rather useful.</p>
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		<title>Top WordPress Plugins That We use on a Daily Basis</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 21:32:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our pick of the top fifteen WordPress Plugins that we use on a daily basis within our WordPress self-hosted sites. You may want to check compatibility with you self-hosted WordPress blog so that you will not receive any conflicts. Hopefully this is of use to our readers. If you enjoyed our list please comment below, [...]]]></description>
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<h2 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #ff6600;">Our pick of the top fifteen WordPress Plugins that we use on a daily basis within our WordPress self-hosted sites. You may want to check compatibility with you self-hosted WordPress blog so that you will not receive any conflicts.</span></h2>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Hopefully this is of use to our readers. If you enjoyed our list please comment below, we would appreciate it. Thanks! And happy blogging!</p>
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<p><strong><span style="color: #ff6600;">1. This plugin generates static html files from your dynamic WordPress blog. After an html file is generated your webserver will serve that file instead of processing the comparatively heavier and more expensive WordPress PHP scripts.</span></strong></p>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.proniit.co.za//goto/http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-super-cache/" ><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-341" title="Download Now" src="http://proniit.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/box_download.png" alt="Download Now" width="64" height="64" /><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-342" title="wordpress" src="http://proniit.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/wordpress.png" alt="wordpress" width="62" height="62" /></a></p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #ff6600;">2. Optimizes your WordPress blog for Search Engines (Search Engine Optimization)</span></strong></p>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.proniit.co.za//goto/http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/all-in-one-seo-pack/" ><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-341" title="Download Now" src="http://proniit.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/box_download.png" alt="Download Now" width="64" height="64" /><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-342" title="wordpress" src="http://proniit.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/wordpress.png" alt="wordpress" width="62" height="62" /></a></p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #ff6600;">3. cforms is a feature rich plugin for WordPress, offering convenient deployment of multiple Ajax driven contact forms throughout your blog or even on the same page.</span></strong></p>
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<p><strong><span style="color: #ff6600;">4. This plugin will create a Google sitemaps compliant XML-Sitemap of your WordPress blog. It supports all of the WordPress generated pages as well as custom ones. Everytime you edit or create a post, your sitemap is updated and all major search engines that support the sitemap protocol, like ASK.com, Google, MSN Search and YAHOO, are notified about the update.</span></strong></p>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.proniit.co.za//goto/http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-sitemap-generator/" ><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-341" title="Download Now" src="http://proniit.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/box_download.png" alt="Download Now" width="64" height="64" /><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-342" title="wordpress" src="http://proniit.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/wordpress.png" alt="wordpress" width="62" height="62" /></a></p>
<p><span style="color: #ff6600;"><strong>5. Wp-GreetBox. This plugin lets you show a different greeting message to your new visitors depending on their referrer url.</strong></span> For example, when a Digg user clicks through from Digg, they will see a message reminding them to digg your post if they like it. Another example, when a visitor clicks through from Twitter, they will see a message suggesting them to twit the post and follow you on Twitter. You can also set a default greeting message for new visitors (not matching any referrer URLs) suggesting them to subscribe to your RSS feed. Having these targeted suggestions will help your blog increase exposure, loyal readership, and reader interaction. Best of all, this plugin is compatible with WPMU and various WordPress cache plugins (so you do not have to sacrifice speed).</p>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.proniit.co.za//goto/http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-greet-box/" ><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-341" title="Download Now" src="http://proniit.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/box_download.png" alt="Download Now" width="64" height="64" /><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-342" title="wordpress" src="http://proniit.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/wordpress.png" alt="wordpress" width="62" height="62" /></a></p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #ff6600;">6. Smilies Themer allows you to use smilies (emoticons) themes (or packs) to replace the wordpress default ones.</span></strong></p>
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<p><span style="color: #ff6600;"><strong>7.  WP-SpamFree. An extremely powerful WordPress anti-spam plugin that eliminates blog comment spam, including trackback and pingback spam. Finally, you can enjoy a spam-free WordPress blog! Includes spam-free contact form feature as well.</strong></span></p>
<p>A Powerful Weapon Against Comment Spam</p>
<p>Comment spam has been a huge problem for bloggers since the inception of blogs, and it just doesn&#8217;t seem to go away. The worst kind, and most prolific, is automated spam that comes from bots. Well, finally there is an anti-spam plugin for WordPress that provides an effective solution, without CAPTCHA&#8217;s, challenge questions, or other inconvenience to site visitors. WP-SpamFree eliminates automated blog comment spam from bots, including trackback and pingback spam.</p>
<p>New Features</p>
<p>•	Now with Enhanced Comment Blacklist option! Instead of just sending comments to moderation as with WordPress&#8217;s default Comment Blacklist functionality, with this turned on, anything that matchs a string in the blacklist will be completely blocked. Also adds a link in the comment notification emails that will let you blacklist a commenter&#8217;s IP with one click.<br />
 •	See what&#8217;s been blocked! Version 2.0 adds &#8220;Blocked Comment Logging Mode&#8221;, a temporary diagnostic mode that logs blocked comments and contact form submissions for 3 days, then turns off automatically. If you want to see what&#8217;s been blocked, or verify that everything is working, turn this on and see what WP-SpamFree is protecting your blog from.<br />
 •	Added option for smaller graphic counters to display spam stats, in addition to the existing normal-sized ones.<br />
 •	Added Widget for displaying spam counter. Shows small counter #1. Now you can show stats without knowing any code.<br />
 Key Features<br />
 •	Virtually eliminates automated comment spam from bots. It works like a firewall to ensure that your commenters are in fact, human.<br />
 •	A counter on your dashboard to keep track of all the spam it&#8217;s blocking. The numbers will show how effective this plugin is.<br />
 •	No CAPTCHA&#8217;s, challenge questions or other inconvenience to site visitors &#8211; it works silently in the background.<br />
 •	Includes drop-in spam-free contact form. Easy to use &#8211; no configuration necessary.<br />
 •	No false positives, which leads to fewer frustrated readers, and less work for you.<br />
 •	You won&#8217;t have to waste valuable time sifting through a spam queue anymore, because there won&#8217;t be much there, if anything.<br />
 •	Powerful trackback and pingback spam protection.<br />
 •	Easy to install &#8211; truly plug and play. Just upload and activate. (Installation Status on the plugin admin page to let you know if plugin is installed correctly.)<br />
 •	The beauty of this plugin is the methods of blocking spam. It takes a different approach than most and stops spam at the door.<br />
 •	The code has an extremely low bandwidth overhead and won&#8217;t slow down your blog (very light database access), unlike some other anti-spam plugins.<br />
 •	Completely compatible with all cache plugins, including WP Cache and WP Super Cache. Not all anti-spam plugins can say that.<br />
 •	Display your blocked spam stats on your blog.<br />
 •	Helps keep your database slimmer and more efficient.<br />
 •	Works in WordPress MU as well.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.proniit.co.za//goto/http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-spamfree/"  title="Download Now"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-341" title="Download Now" src="http://proniit.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/box_download.png" alt="Download Now" width="64" height="64" /></a><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.proniit.co.za//goto/http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-spamfree/"  title="wordpress"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-342" title="wordpress" src="http://proniit.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/wordpress.png" alt="wordpress" width="62" height="62" /></a></p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #ff6600;">8. Sociable. This plugin automatically add links on your posts to popular social bookmarking sites. It is an enhanced version of Peter Harkins Sociable plugin. Aside from small changes to the code I added many new bookmarking services.</span></strong></p>
<p>Supported Bookmarking Services<br />
 Now 133 social bookmarking services are included! Supported services are:</p>
<p>Alltagz, Ask, BarraPunto, blinkbits, BlinkList, Bloglines, blogmarks, BlogMemes, BlogMemes Cn, BlogMemes Fr, BlogMemes Jp, BlogMemes Sp, Blogosphere News, Blogsvine, blogtercimlap, Book.mark.hu, Bumpzee, co.mments, Colivia, connotea, De.lirio.us, del.icio.us, Design Float, Digg, DotNetKicks, DZone, eKudos, email, Facebook, Fark, Faves, feedmelinks, Fleck, Folkd, Furl, Gamebuzz, Global Grind, Google Bookmarks, Gwar, Haohao, HealthRanker, Hemidemi, Hype, IndiaGram, IndianPad, Infopirat, Internetmedia, kick.ie, Kirtsy, Klickts, Laaik.it, Leonaut, Lieblnk, LinkaGoGo, Linkarchiv, Linkarena, LinkedIn, Linkter, Live-MSN, Lufee, Ma.gnolia, Maodi, Meneame, MisterWong, Mixx, muti, MyShare, Myspace, MyTagz, N4G, Netscape, Netselector, Netvouz, newskick, Newsrider, Newstube, NewsVine, NuJIJ, OKnotizie, Oneview, PlugIM, Pownce, ppnow, Print, Propeller, Ratimarks, Readster, Rec6, Reddit, Rojo, SalesMarks, Scoopeo, scuttle, seekXL, Segnalo, SEOigg, Shadows, Simpy, Slashdot, Smarking, Social-Bookmarking.dk, Socialdust, Socializer, Socialogs, SphereIt, Sphinn, Spurl, Squidoo, StumbleUpon, Taggly, TailRank, Tausendreporter, Technorati, ThisNext, TwitThis, Upnews, VoteForIt, Webbrille, Weblinkr, Webnews, Webride, Wikio, Wikio DE, Wikio ES, Wikio FR, Wikio IT, Wikio UK, Wists, Wykop, Xerpi, Yahoo Buzz, YahooMyWeb, YiGG.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.proniit.co.za//goto/http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/sociable-zyblog-edition/" ><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-341" title="Download Now" src="http://proniit.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/box_download.png" alt="Download Now" width="64" height="64" /><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-342" title="wordpress" src="http://proniit.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/wordpress.png" alt="wordpress" width="62" height="62" /></a></p>
<p><span style="color: #ff6600;"><strong>9. No Follow Tags. No Follow Tags In Posts searches for links to large websites that use the &#8216;nofollow&#8217; tags for external links, and puts the same tag on your links to those sites.</strong></span></p>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.proniit.co.za//goto/http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/nofollow-tags-in-posts/" ><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-341" title="Download Now" src="http://proniit.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/box_download.png" alt="Download Now" width="64" height="64" /><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-342" title="wordpress" src="http://proniit.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/wordpress.png" alt="wordpress" width="62" height="62" /></a></p>
<p><span style="color: #ff6600;"><strong>10. Video Player. The function of this plugin is to easily create a simple popup window.</strong></span> The reason it was spawned was to be used with the XSPF Music Player plugin to create a popup music player for band/musician web sites but you can use it however you like!</p>
<p>Version 2 now has an option for toggling scrollbars and has a widget for easily adding a link to the popup in your sidebar. Roll it!</p>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.proniit.co.za//goto/http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/simple-popup-plugin/" ><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-341" title="Download Now" src="http://proniit.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/box_download.png" alt="Download Now" width="64" height="64" /><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-342" title="wordpress" src="http://proniit.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/wordpress.png" alt="wordpress" width="62" height="62" /></a></p>
<p><span style="color: #ff6600;"><strong>11. WP-Polls. WP-Polls is extremely customizable via templates and css styles and there are tons of options for you to choose to ensure that WP-Polls runs the way you wanted.</strong></span> It now supports multiple selection of answers.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.proniit.co.za//goto/http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-polls/" ><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-341" title="Download Now" src="http://proniit.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/box_download.png" alt="Download Now" width="64" height="64" /><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-342" title="wordpress" src="http://proniit.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/wordpress.png" alt="wordpress" width="62" height="62" /></a></p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #ff6600;">12. Floatbox Plus is a plugin that implements Floatbox by Byron McGregor (a javascript similar to Lightview/Lightbox/Shadowbox/Fancybox/Thickbox). </span></strong>Floatbox Plus is used to create overlay display images/videos (only youtube/vimeo) on the webpage and to automatically add the correct overlay links to images. Floatbox Plus permits users to view larger versions of images/videos without having to leave the current page, and is also able to display simple slideshows. Floatbox Plus captures the image title for display in the overlay.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.proniit.co.za//goto/http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/floatbox-plus/" ><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-341" title="Download Now" src="http://proniit.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/box_download.png" alt="Download Now" width="64" height="64" /><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-342" title="wordpress" src="http://proniit.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/wordpress.png" alt="wordpress" width="62" height="62" /></a></p>
<p>13. <span style="color: #ff6600;"><strong>Maintenance Mode. Adds a splash page to your blog that lets visitors know your blog is down for maintenance. Logged in administrators get full access to the blog including the front-end.</strong></span><br />
 Visitors will see a message like &#8220;Maintenance Mode &#8211; SITE is currently undergoing scheduled maintenance. Please try back in 60 minutes. Sorry for the inconvenience.&#8221;</p>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.proniit.co.za//goto/http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/maintenance-mode/" ><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-341" title="Download Now" src="http://proniit.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/box_download.png" alt="Download Now" width="64" height="64" /><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-342" title="wordpress" src="http://proniit.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/wordpress.png" alt="wordpress" width="62" height="62" /></a></p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #ff6600;">14. Redirects the main feed and optionally the comments feed to Feedburner.com.</span></strong> It does this seamlessly without the need to modify templates, setup new hidden feeds, modify .htaccess files, or asking users to migrate to a new feed. All existing feeds simply become Feedburner feeds seamlessly and transparently for all users. Just tell the plugin what your Feedburner feed URL is and you&#8217;re done.<br />
 <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.proniit.co.za//goto/http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/feedburner-plugin/" ><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-341" title="Download Now" src="http://proniit.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/box_download.png" alt="Download Now" width="64" height="64" /><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-342" title="wordpress" src="http://proniit.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/wordpress.png" alt="wordpress" width="62" height="62" /></a></p>
<p><span style="color: #ff6600;"><strong>15. WordPress Automatic Upgrade allows a user to automatically upgrade the wordpress installation to the latest one provided by wordpress.org using the 5 steps provided in the wordpress upgrade instructions.</strong></span><br />
 WordPress automatic upgrade upgrades your wordpress installation by doing the following steps.<br />
 •	Backs up the files and makes available a link to download it.<br />
 •	Backs up the database and makes available a link to download it.<br />
 •	Downloads the latest files from http://wordpress.org/latest.zip and unzips it.<br />
 •	Puts the site in maintenance mode.<br />
 •	De-activates all active plugins and remembers it.<br />
 •	Upgrades wordpress files.<br />
 •	Gives you a link that will open in a new window to upgrade installation.<br />
 •	Re-activates the plugins.<br />
 The plugin can also can be run in an automated mode where in you do not have to click on any links to go to the next step.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.proniit.co.za//goto/http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-automatic-upgrade/" ><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-341" title="Download Now" src="http://proniit.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/box_download.png" alt="Download Now" width="64" height="64" /><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-342" title="wordpress" src="http://proniit.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/wordpress.png" alt="wordpress" width="62" height="62" /></a></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #ff6600;"><strong>Well, that is our list of the top 15 WordPress plugins that will surely make your life a little easier and take your blog to new heights. Some of these plugins may require that you have a little bit of technical knowledge but for the most – they are pretty much packaged to get you going immediately.<br />
Again, happy bloggin’!</strong></span></p></blockquote>
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		<description><![CDATA[There has been a great deal of change in the way that businesses view social media marketing over the years. Many businesses prefer to stick to the &#8216;old&#8217; methods and it can work very well with properly designed budgets and an awesome team to create the campaign. However, when it comes to smaller business that [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;">There has been a great deal of change in the way that businesses view social media marketing over the years. Many businesses prefer to stick to the &#8216;old&#8217; methods and it can work very well with properly designed budgets and an awesome team to create the campaign. However, when it comes to smaller business that have a small budget or no budget t speak of, the solutions can be quite simple. I say this bearing in mind that the results would not be the same as having a large budget. Using incremental marketing strategies you can accomplish a lot in a small space of time and as you begin to make a profit from these services you can then begin to save for bigger marketing.</p>
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<p><span id="more-319"></span>Using Social Sites is something that most people are already aware off.  So getting started within the social network that you currently use is a great start. Get your friends to help promote you and you will see as your traffic increases and you turn advertising into sales or make sales off your own product. As time goes you can begin expanding over other social networks and bookmarking services ensuring that all of your sites content gets book marked in the various social networks that there are. This next step should help to expand further in both your traffic and your revenue generation.</p>
<p>Once you&#8217;re here there isn&#8217;t much else you can do except write great traffic and let the process automate itself. Make sure you book mark with all of your keywords intact and that your content is usable for the visitors to your site.</p>
<p>Another nice way to keep visitors coming back for more is using an email list or RSS (Real Simple Syndication feeds) within your site. Returning visitors add a lot of value to your site.</p>
<p>The best way to make use of any of this is to ensure that it looks natural and that you, under no circumstances, SPAM the search engines or social media networks as this will definitely get you knocked out!</p>
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