Wednesday 23 November 2011

Know The Possibilities of Facebook For Your Business

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Today advancement has crept in every aspect and these are making our lives easier and clearer. We all know that Facebook is a new media in the world of the web which has varieties of eyebrows raising functionalities starting from your profile that has a limit of 5,000 people and then spreading to a whole new world of new opportunities like the creation of fan pages that are limitless in the number of fans you could add.

The Power Of Viral Content

Many start on Facebook because there is uncountable number of features with positive effect, but the most powerful of all is the viral effect that is found at Facebook. The like button could spread your message like wildfire because when your page is liked, all the friends of this person will see it if in your wall and some of them will go and see this, making an snow ball effect that could make your message be seen multiple times by the same people, making it much more trustable. It is known that it is necessary to see a message at least 7 times to trust it enough and the viral capability of Facebook make it easy to happen.

Facebook has a lot of power to promote any business, so that opens a door for people that want to abuse the system. Many people use Facebook to direct traffic to their affiliate sites or to their Adsense sites, hoping to become millionaires, but it is not that easy, even if you are a spammer.

The Darker Side of Facebook

But not all is right at Facebook. You will find a lot of fake profiles just created to add friends, like a sexy model and such. These kind of profiles could collect a lot of male friends in a short period of time and then, this profile will be used to promote some scam or some con to steal people's money. You should be wary about sexy pictures with very little history.

Spam is rampant at Facebook, but they are doing a lot of good things to control spammers, so their effect is reducing more and more every day. If you add friends like crazy, be prepared to be blocked temporarily, so they could investigate if you are another spammer that wants to ruin their service.

Facebook Extensions

Facebook Clear is considered as one effective extension which creates attractive image thumbnails, can remove ads, and make the navigability easier with a brush of proper facelift in the entire picture. In the practical sense when you are working on the virtual farm this extension works in a fantastic way as this will remove all the unwanted and disturbing ads while you are looking at a fan page or working in your virtual farm. In simple words, it just makes the right panel of the Facebook pages vanish. On the other hand, it will make you check all messages like: who have recently poked you and upcoming events now are shown in the home page in the notification area. This extension gives you life without suggestions from Facebook as the right panel will immediately suggest many functionalities as you log on to your profile. You can check out the pages which become cleaner as this particular extension fix all the navigation which are there at the browser's head, you can read all the feed backs from here, checking all the notifications and messages are there. Intrusion of this reflection effect to the pictures with slight transparent effect is added as the black backdrop in the picture viewer. Not only are this but there image thumbnails which are rounded in effect similar to the iPhone icons. Facebook loads posters when the ads are blocked; there are improvement to the photo viewer which by general Facebook user opinion is just plain ugly and can win the hearts of millions of users eventually.

Popular Games

One of the most attractive things at Facebook is their games. Many people liked Facebook at the first place because of all the available games developed by Zynga, which is a company that now is going to be worth more than 100 million dollar. Farmville is one of such games and is one of the most popular at Facebook by now.

With Facebook, you could also avoid using hosting space, like the one offered by Hostmonster, but it is safer if you only do this temporarily.

How Domains Could Cause Legal Problems

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Domains are one of the most serious assets to have on the Internet because they are the foundation of all you website and they are independent enough to sell them as an isolated units and for these reasons, there are many problems you could face when manipulating domains. First of all, although this article is about the legal side of domains, I'm not a lawyer and this could not be considered as legal advice, this is only for your information.

The Legal Side of Domains

The owner of the domain is legally responsible for all the activities done with the domain. If you publish copied content and you don't have the copyright, then you could be prosecuted for copyright violation and the fines in the US are steep for this kind of action being in the range of $100,000 to $150,000 so you should be very careful about what content you publish on your own domain.

Images are one of the most common things users put on their domains and you have 3 completely legal ways to use them without copying them from other websites:

1. Create your own images.

This is very expensive and probably not worth your time.

2. Use copyright free from stock images libraries.

This is one of the best ways to make your blog or website look pretty without incurring in legal problems. One very inexpensive resources is Fotolia, which has an excellent collection of images for a very low price.

3. Use Images with Creative Commons licensing.

Although Creative Commons is a copyright, is a kind of copyright more adapted to the Internet, since it allow to use images f you tell the world where you have taken those images from. One place you could search for this kind of images is Flickr, but not all flickr images use the creative commons licensing and you should read what type of license is using the image you want to take from there.

Cyber Squatting

Cyber squatting is the act to register a domain that is a known brand name. In the United State you will have no luck with this since the owner of a brand could sue you with the ICANN (the top organization that deals with domain names) and if the judge says that your domain name corresponds to a known brand, you will lose your domain immediately. This type of activity is still used in other countries, were the legislation is not so clear. For example: several years ago, I knew about one client that paid $5,000 dollars for a domain that was taken by someone that knew in advance that this company was about to open a service using their brand name.

Other Legal Problems

You have to be careful to register domains that are not part of a brand. Some time ago, I registered the domain: ebaysellingtips.com and short after that, I received a notification from eBay that they will start legal action if I didn't let that domain expire. I learned the lesson the hard way, so don't register domains with brands in them or misspelling of a brand or you could face very disturbing troubles in the future. You don't have such problems if you are promoting affiliate programs and people do register those brand name domains because you get an advantage from Google in the search results, since Google prefer pages that have the exact match domain in the page, but I'm staying away from such tactics more and more and settling for my own brands like one domain I registered to promote the kidney stone removal report with the keyword: Kidney Stone Removal Report Review.

I also sell hosting services in Spanish and several years ago I used to register domains to my name to manage them for my client because they usually lost them because they didn't know how to manage them. One client did something illegal and all of the sudden I was involved in a legal problem that finally closed without consequences for me, but that was another hard lesson. Don't assume legal risks for other people's actions, never! That goes not only for domains, but for bank accounts, PayPal accounts and many other things related to money.

Monday 21 November 2011

Social Media Marketing Through YouTube

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In this article, we will see how Youtube and other video sharing sites, have changed the way all marketing is done on the Internet.

Social media is playing a vital role in online marketing. A few years back, online marketing was limited to email marketing, banner advertisement and PPC campaigns. In the past five years, Google established a new web standard for web developers, webmasters, web designers and Internet marketers. This standard is called web 2.0 and after the creation of Web 2.0, several companies jumped into the Internet with their innovative ideas like: social networking, video sharing, slide sharing and many others. However, the motto of the webmasters remained the same. They not only needed to promote their websites, they wanted to make their websites visible in all major search engines. Their main targets was nothing but increase sales and generate more leads, no matter whether they had a large website or a small affiliate blog.

What Is YouTube And Why We Need It?

YouTube is a video sharing site from Google. Initially it was developed by another group of people, but later on it was acquired by Google and was integrated with their other services to work under the same account. As mentioned earlier, 10 years back there was no existence of video sharing sites available in Internet and hosting videos was very expensive because bandwidth was not a cheap resource back then, also videos where very hard to produce because there was not hardware available to help users produce video easily. After the invention of the web 2.0, the concept of video sharing took its place. Youtube is not just like a simple video sharing site, in YouTube people can create his/her own channel, upload and share videos, web masters can embed Youtube videos in their websites and Blogs and viewers can post their comments on videos. Our second question is: why we need it? The main reason is because if a picture is worth thousand words, a video could be worth 1 million words and express the idea or concept easier.

Apart from the Yahoo video and MetaCafe, YouTube has its own features and user base. Usually, nearly 60% or more user traffic comes into a website from all major search engines, but what's about the rest visitors? Where they come from? Well, some of them come from article directories, bookmarking sites and many other places. But unfortunately, now a day link directories, book marking sites are losing their importance and people are more addicted to social networking platforms. That is why Internet marketers are penetrating on social media marketing and performing their promotional activities on social media platforms like Facebook, YouTube and other video sharing sites. Probably you already read some articles on the Internet that say something like - "Increase your YouTube visitors in 24 hours" or "This software can magically increase your YouTube views!" keep safe distance from those articles and malicious software! Many of these offers are scams and sometimes break YouTube rules. Using those software and black hat techniques can permanently ban you from YouTube and YouTube may remove your videos from their site. Always remember, there are no shortcuts for success. For example: If you are into affiliate marketing, you should select very carefully your market preferable using affiliate software and promote your videos like you promote your website or blog. Proper keyword, niche, short precise and informative video definitely could get large number of views.

Commercial Intent

The success of your entire video promotion depending on your viewers; i.e. how many people view your videos, their contribution/suggestion about your videos and the commercial intent of these viewers. You could get 1 million views of a video about a dancing cat, but you probably will earn nothing if you promote dog food. For example: I created a video about Hostmonster Scam and the idea was to get this video to show up in the search engine results page (SERPS) with the keyword: Hostmonter Scam and although the video has few views, it resulted in some sales, because the commercial intent is strong since people that are typing this thing on the search engines are already prepared to buy the service.

How Videos Get Popular

The increasing numbers of viewers ensures your video's popularity. If you write about something technical in your blog/website, then you can add a video for your content and you need to promote your blog to get visible in the search engines. Similarly, you also have to promote your videos in several places like - question answer sites (Yahoo answers for example), forums and other Blogs, so that other bloggers and visitors can watch the video and leave their comments. This method is also applicable for promotional videos too. If you don't have enough time to promote your videos, then you can hire a professional or buy some "views" from them. They have organic methods to generate more traffic towards your video. But to do so, you have to spend some money and make sure that those professional use only "white hat" techniques to increase your video views. If you are a starter, then it is suggested that you must take advice from experts or professionals to increase your YouTube visitors. Once you generate some YouTube video views, other viewers will notice it and watch the video and if they found it useful, then definitely they will refer other visitors to watch that YouTube video.

Monday 10 October 2011

Hostmonster Is One of The Big Ones

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Hostmonster has been in the Hosting business for the longest time of most hosting companies and the experience carried through the years have created a very solid company that offer a lot of benefits to their clients. Here you could see how to get bonuses with the purchase of Hostmonster.

15 Years of Hostmonster

There is a known saying that on the Internet time passes faster than offline and it is true. It is known that 1 year in Internet time could be equivalent to 10 normal years, so if this is true, Hostmonster has been in business for more than 150 years!, that is more time than very large and known offline brands like Coca-Cola.

In this time, Hostmonster has been able to build a very solid and reputable brand based on the idea to sell space to host websites and they offer this service in a scheme known as "shared Hosting", were one server is shared between lots of clients. The secret of offer a very good service in this type of business is to don't allow to make a single website consume a lot of all the resources of the server and this is why Hostmonster offers unlimited bandwidth and disk space, but controls the number of files you could create on your account and the percentage of all the resources you could use for all your websites.

Hostmonster allows you to host more than one website on your same account without paying more than your basic fee and you only have to pay for the domain name. This makes Hostmonster extremely inexpensive if you are trying to host more than one website in your account. This is helpful if you are trying to host many small niche sites. A year ago, I wanted to promote Psoriasis treatment products and reviews and I hosted a focused website along with another ones.

Hostmonster Support

Hostmonster is known to have one of the best staff to provide support to their clients and they have very good testimonials for this. If you know anything about Hosting, you should know that the average customer is not loyal, but this contrasts with the ability of Hostmonster to create ecstatic customers out their sales funnel.

You could get support in three ways: chat, email and telephone. Email is slow and don't recommended, but chat is the best because you will be in front of your PC and a support technician will respond to your enquiries in less than 5 minutes. Telephone support is for the technology challenged and you will be get real English speaking people, not an outsourced guy from India that even don't speak English well, so the incredible price of Hostmonster, all the aids you get and all the support along with the unlimited resources make this offer one of the best of the Internet and one that you shouldn't reject.

Conclusion

Although you will find complaints from Hostmonster, usually those were expecting unreal services for the price paid. There are also limits on CPU usage and number if files you could host on their servers, but they are very large for the average users and you probably won't find any issue with your sites.

Ultimate SEO Guide For Bloggers

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It is true that, Blogger is pretty much SEO friendly by default due to its internal architecture and Google support. However, every Blogger thinks that he/she is a master about Blogging. SEO is not magic, but all about applied knowledge and timing. So, it requires special skills. The key of unlocking SEO treasurer is nothing but few simple things that your have to perform to increase your Blog's visibility in all major search engines like - Google, Yahoo, Bing And Ask.

After googling couple of hours, every Blogger think that, he/she know all the tricks and can effectively promote his/her blog. Is this true? Make sure that, you've read a lot, but did you make a short list of the all the do's and don'ts? Reading is not enough. Promoting your blog like a pro Blogger is really difficult and it will take time and lots of experiments. Because SEO or search engine optimization or promoting your blog don't have any sure shot success methods. The entire process is intuitive, you just need to follow some guidelines and perform few tasks regularly, until you achieve a better position in most popular search engines.

Here is a small checklist for beginners, which can help you to better optimize your blog like pro Blogger -

As a beginner, try to target the long tail and avoid multiple keywords at a time. It is a good idea to focus on a single keyword and start posting. For example: if you are going to promote the guitar guide from steve krenz, you don't select the keyword "guitar" because it will be extremely competitive, but select something like: Learn And Master Guitar Review From Legacy Learning Systems. This keyphrase is likely to get a very few searches per month, but you will get extremely targetted traffic that is ready to take a serious look into the product.

While you are posting something in your blog, do not write your post like a simple article, rather try to introduce "Introduction" and "Conclusion" into your post, and finally add your target keyword into them. Adding keyword in post title, introduction and conclusion is must for maximum visibility in all search engines.

Finally, double-check your post before publishing. Make sure that, the content should be comprehensive, information used in your article is correct and the content should be coherent. In short, it must be attractive to read and must useful for readers. Because, people come into Blogger to find reliable information, and you must respect their thinking.

As mentioned earlier, Blogger has unique search engine friendly nature. That is why; Blogger is the first choice of corporate, govt. and non-govt. organizations as well as millions of people like you and me. However, the primary target of your is generating more genuine visitors for your blog; and the visitors must spend some time to go through your contents. Apart from the commercial lead generation techniques, generating traffic from search engines is more smart choice for any Blogger. The main reason of it is - it is completely free from any kind of charges, and you'll get unique and genuine visitors for your blog, Because Blogger is much visible than others in Google.

How Unique And Original Contents Helps New Blogger - before doing anything, keep in your mind that, whatever you are going to publish, the content should be unique and original. Because "Content is King" and Blogger is not beyond of that. If you copy any content from anywhere, this action can permanently damage your search engine ranking and your overall reputation. Not only that, it may cause, permanent block of your blog from Blogger.

Why New Blogger should Choose Low Competitive Keywords - being a starter Blogger, you must find the low competitive, unique and niche keyword. This is, possibly the best way to grab the traffic from the search engines. Also, remember that, do not over use the keyword in Blogger and don't make your post keyword junk. Use maximum 2-3 times the keyword in your entire post.

Meta tag settings guide for Blogger - for better search engine visibility, use Meta tag plays a vital role of whole process. The success of your blog and as a Blogger, depend on your Meta tag uses. First of all, try to find out the whole about of your blog, then pick the main word and develop your Meta tag list. You must be very specific while you are going to choose your Meta tags.

Heading tag guide for Blogger - don't confuse it with Meta tags, it is different. This heading tag comes from HTML. There are six levels of H tags available in HTML. They are - H1, H2, H3, H4, H5 and H6. You must use them to properly to get noticed by your readers or Blogger.

Understanding Back Links For Blogger - understanding linking and back linking is essential for a Blogger. If you want to use any reference, then you must acknowledge the source, i.e. the URL of the website or any other blog. This will help you to connect your blog with other Blogs. On the other hand, if you are going to post two partly divided article, then you must mention the part one and part two and make link of them. Internal page linking is also essential for a successful Blogger.

Monday 19 September 2011

Hostmonster Offer Web Hosting And The Path To The World

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What is Web Hosting? This is an important question all computer users need to be able to answer. The simple answer is web hosting is the act of publishing information across the World Wide Web. Web Hosting Providers are people who offer space and bandwidth to computer users for the purpose of publishing or making their personal or business website accessible to other computer users and Hostmonster is one of the best companies around offering this service. Free web hosting is offered by some web hosting providers while others charge a monthly or annual fee. Hostmonster chargers to host a website as little as $5.95 a month up, but others could charge you up to hundreds of dollars for some business websites.

Simply put, if you want to promote a website correctly, you will need a paid hosting. Some time ago, I was using only free hosting web sites to promote my products and services and I worked very hard to promote the keyword: order rocket Spanish, but the free hosting decided that my content was not good enough for them and deleted my site. Many hours of work were gone instantly!

Hostmonster Is A Good Option?

In most cases, the website owner actually pays for free web space by placing banners, pop-ups and other advertising information on their website. The company whose ads a website owner places on his or her website pays the web hosting provider. So, although a website owner does not pay money to the web host he/she is indirectly paying for the space by allowing their website to deliver advertisements to those who visit their website and if you are providing goods or selling stuff over the Internet, this option isn't really for you because those lost visitors could mean the end of your online venture. Hostmonster doesn't put any type of advertisement inside your website.

Some computer users do not want to publish advertisements from various companies on their website and would rather pay for web hosting services. These people choose a web host providing services for a small monthly fee. One advantage to choosing a pay for service web host is the availability of many website control tools, which are not available from a web host offering a free website. Hostmonster will bring you a lot of features for a very small price of the service.

Searching For Hosting Or Just Use Hostmonster

Computer users in search of an inexpensive website hosting provider are wise in searching for sites such as WebHosting Choice. This website search team sorts out the wheat from shaft for inexperienced computer users and provides an invaluable Guide. One of things visitors will notice at this site is the missing ads cluttering up the top, bottom and sides of the web pages. The site is an informational site and this is what inexperienced computer users need to help them learn about publishing pages on the Internet. Although you could find some good prices there, take into account that there are many scammers out there on the Internet and for this reason, it is better to choice a well known company such as Hostmonster to host your website trouble free.

Web Hosting Choice is a free hosting directory, which provides an educational area for beginners to learn about web hosting before they attempt to choose the right web host. Building a website is not difficult for many computer users in fact building the site is the easy part. It is even easier with the aid of Wordpress which you could install from the Hostmonster Panel with one click of the mouse. Choosing the right option that provides the simplest tools and the willing and knowledgeable technical people who can answer questions and help solve problems is not always easy, but with Hostmonster you have it without searching more.

Knowing about Hosting and Hostmonster

The first thing computer users should do is to find a website, which offers simple and easy to comprehend information about web hosting. The more knowledge computer users possess about web hosting the easier it will be for them to build a successful website hosted by a dependable web hosting company like Hostmonster.

If you follow this link and go to InternetHostGuide.com, you will find a lot of tutorials for free that you could get after purchasing Hostmonster. That is a lot of learning for free for using an excellent host.

Web Hosting Choice offers a free website packed with good information. When the time comes to add a personal business website to a web hosting site, the site can also be listed on the Web Hosting Choice Directory. Web Hosting Choice is a self hosted website and is not hosted by any other web hosting company and when they recommend web hosting sites the information is objective information, but always investigate the hosting company you are about to use because as been said, there is a lot of scammers on the Internet, but if you choose Hostmonster, you are going to have a pleasant Internet Journey.

So, Why We Are So Passionate About Hostmonster?

First of all, Hostmonster offers Unlimited resources like unlimited disk space and bandwidth. When something bad happens to your website, the support people will be there to assist you in all your enquiries, which is invaluable when you are not technical gifted and you will not be scammed with Hostmonster since they have more than 15 years in business, so they are definitely NOT some fly by night operation.

Just choose Hostmonster for your website and you won't regret.

Monday 28 February 2011

Why Hostmonster Coupon Is The Best Hosting Service


If you are wondering why Hostmonster Coupon is known as the best discount available in the hosting world, then you need to explore and enter deep into this writing. Let us understand it in a very simple way so that you can compare with other services and evaluate it by yourself. Hostmonster is considered as one of the hottest and the best among all hosting services because they are hosting more than 1 million domain names and have more than 15 years of experience offering hosting services to clients all over the world. With the growing need of almost all aspiring new businesses in the web world, every one is looking for some extra features for a lower price. These extra features are the key to build a very solid web presence on the Internet with very low cost.

If you are comparing the features of all the related hosting companies then you can easily realize which best points are and who is considered to be the best among the rest. Host Monster Coupon is supplying some of the best assured coupons services that are depending on the market analysis. This company is assuring some of the best features of the web world. They are ultimately becoming one of the hottest in the web world. All of there major aspects are going great with the as it is compared with the other companies.  Hostmonster Coupon is not only providing some of the vest services but they are also providing all the basic aspects of unlimited bandwidth, with unlimited email accounts and they are also an unlimited bandwidth with the unlimited email accounts.

Discount You Get With Hostmonster Coupon

After you sign up with Hostmonster, you will have a lot of resources at your disposal like: CMS packages that will let you create a solid web presence on the Internet for free, like: Wordpress, Joola, Mambo and Drupal and also you get ecommerce software like: Cubecart, OsCommerce and ZenCart. You also get advanced mailing list software like: PhpList and some support options like: Crafty Syntax Live Help, osTicket, PerlDesk and PHP Support Tickets which will allow you to create a very professional support center option instead of the more traditional email (these options are much more advanced than email because they allow you track which conversations took place with each client in a very simple interface). I found a really good discount searching at Google: "hostmonster coupon - best offer you could find", with lots of ebooks to start building my business right away in the best way.

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Hostmonster Coupon is supplying some of the best ever services that are being projected all the way to grab all the potential customers for the last fifteen successful years in the web hosting world, so take advantage of the Hostmonster Coupon above, you won't regret.