Google’s Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide

Welcome to Google’s Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide. This document first began as an
effort to help teams within Google, but we thought it’d be just as useful to webmasters that are new to
the topic of search engine optimization and wish to improve their sites’ interaction with both users and
search engines. Although this guide won’t tell you any secrets that’ll automatically rank your site first
for queries in Google (sorry!), following the best practices outlined below will make it easier for search
engines to both crawl and index your content.

Search engine optimization is often about making small modifications to parts of your website. When
viewed individually, these changes might seem like incremental improvements, but when combined
with other optimizations, they could have a noticeable impact on your site’s user experience and
performance in organic search results.

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Blogging Etiquettes

1. Don’t Make Posts frequently ( Post between the gap of 2 or 3 days).
2. Be Patient. Many new Bloggers do hard work for overnight successes, but if you look back in their archives, they’ve been creating content for a long time.
3. Be yourself. Just be yourself, don’t pretend to be anyone you’re not, and people will love you for it. I promise.
4. Take action every day. Just get one important thing done every day and eventually you’ll start getting traffic.
5. Find people with blogs at a similar level to yours and help each other out.
6. Be consistent. You don’t need to blog every day but try to stick to at least some sort of schedule.
7. Make your Blog easy to navigate.
8. Think Different , Do Different – Write what other Bloggers missed to write.
9. Avoid too many outbound external links.
10. Make your Text font attractive and readable.
11. Learn about your Competitor Blogs and Improve yourself.
12. Start a Post Series (which contain at least 5 or more posts).
13. Help & Guide other Blogs in your niche.
14. Don’t do copy of other Blogs. Do something unique.
15. Use Post excerpt in your homepage other than displaying whole post content

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Daily I face clients who are looking for instant results in this space. If it was this easy, every Tom, Dick and Harry would have been Internet millionare.

SEO is not a short-term strategy, It is surely not a one time deal. It’s on-going efforts that drives users and success to your site.

Social bookmarking and article submission should drive some traffic to your site. both of them are great source of traffic with article submission converting more than bookmarking. however, this traffic will be instant and short lived. for long term traffic, you will need to continue your link building. just one time article submisison and social bookmarking will not rank any site well for competitive terms. do some of the link building yourself and keep building links as much as you can. most people fail or give up because they dont stick with it. SEO is a long term game and you need to have patience if you want to see some result

Let’s re-visit how to get backlinks?
-web directories
-do follow forum signature
-article directories
-squidoo and hub pages
-blogger
-wordpress.com
-blog posting/commenting
-reciprocal linking
-paid links

Do all these for well rounded results

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Healers of Depression

The world economy is at its worse, since the great depression of the 20th century. Nations around the world can feel this impending crisis that could result to a catastrophic world disorder. History has taught us that in times of depression, even the mighty nations crumble, with its might brought down unto their knees. The great depression had been a lesson that whenever economic imbalances occur, it affects the world economy, and gravely inflicts unto every nation an intolerable suffering that results to chaos and disorder.

What the world needs now are entrepreneurs, individuals with the ability to come up and determine the proper combination of the resources available in his environment transforming this into an output of either goods or services obtaining a fair profit at the price he fore sees. He uses several factors :factors brought about by his education, his keen observation and interaction with his social and natural environment; turning his ideas into profitable products or service for the good of humanity.

Why Entrepreneurs?
* Entrepreneurs turn problems into something positive, analyzing them and turns them into something profitable. He discards the problem, creating a demand that had not existed before. Recycling of solid waste into something profitable such as waste to energy and recycling plants transforming waste materials into something profitable; Entrepreneurial on renewable energy such as solar, wind and water are good examples of this entrepreneurial virtue. Thus saving the planet from the threat of global warming, minimizing its effect and in turn generate mass employment deterring recession.

* Entrepreneurs are people with creative ideas, innovators, change advocates that deals with social problems, converting them into profitable ventures uplifting society’s way of living leading to productivity and progress. Outreach to poor communities using the essence of Social Entrepreneurship. Train individuals to rely on their own skills and resources. Government and non government entities should promoting their products and service with Global 8 nations giving support to Global 20 developing counterparts..

* Entrepreneurs apply total quality management on all his works, he ensures to have something done right the first time. He organizes, manage and combine all the factors of production, marketing, finance and human resources into one solid synergistic enterprise.

* Entrepreneurs are risk takers. He carefully calculates risk and is willing to invest his resources in an idea he formulated, confident that his idea – brought about by an intensive research and development- would help uplift human living conditions. Making the impossible possible. Being an optimist and always rely on in his instinct through intensive research and risk analysis.

* Entrepreneurs desire to make profit and makes use of additional resources for expansion and diversifying into other endeavors. An entrepreneur does not rely only on a single business. He vertically and horizontally grow his ventures.

* Entrepreneurs are business administrators, team players, opportunity seekers, creative individuals, who are independent, self confident, and with ethical values that understand every human ethical standards, discarding discrimination on religion, race or social status.

* Entrepreneurs generate employment, they eradicate poverty, hunger and ensure social balance. With the help of foreign investors and loaning institutions, entrepreneurs within G20 developing nations can overcome depression, Global 7 nations should spearhead such an endeavor.

* Entrepreneurs are visionaries, they believe in what they do. Entrepreneurs brainstorms alongside its manpower, from the top level management down to the lowest company utility man. He includes everybody within the organization. Respecting their suggestions, and implement whatever positive outputs brought about by an intensive brainstorming within the organizational human structure.

What the world need right now are people with entrepreneurial mindsets It needs builders of society, creators and innovators of modern culture and science. Let us learn from what history have taught us about the great depression. Let us not let this menace happen again. The world economy is sick, and it needs immediate attention. We must act fast and avoid doing the same blunders And entrepreneurs can help solve this crisis.

Source:
PinoyCrusader| Entrepreneurship|

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Blogging Tools Blogging is hot and so are the blogging platforms.

Wordpress is definitely on top of my list and I’m a bit biased for them.
Great themes , easy to use, easy to install and configure, Plug-ins are great.

Next on my list is Blogger: Should I say anything more? Google loves this baby! create a blog on blogger and watch it get indexed in less than a day.

Tumblr : Tumblr is the rapidly growing tool. It is basically focused on Sharing contents. It provides a subdomain name like you.tumblr.com and you can add your own domain to your blog, like the custom domain name feature of Blogger.

You can share Texts, Links, Images, Videos etc. or you can compose conventional blog posts.

Moreover, Tumblr supports Adsense, and hence you can place your ads to earn some revenue from your tlog – i.e. Tumblr Blog.

Yahoo! 360 : This is the blogging tool by Yahoo!. Yahoo! is world’s most popular site and it has largest user base. If you are a Yahoo! User then Yahoo! 360 is like a boon for you as it is integrated with your Yahoo! account and can be easily share with other friends and networks at Yahoo!

HyperWebEnable : HWE is not any blogging plateform. This service actually helps you in developing your blog or site. This uses WordPress and offers all things FREE including a free domain name (not a subdomain like others). The service is not avail to all and they select bloggers depending upon the potential of your Idea or content.

You can create your blog with all essential and advance features and you don’t need to spend even a penny. It is the best way to have self-hosted WordPess Blog. They allow Adsense and all other earning ways.

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Here are some interesting discussions from my UOP Management class.
what would you consider to be the top five communication skills managers and their employees need to communicate effectively in a virtual environment?

1) Professional writing skills & etiquette.
2) Able to communicate effectively and concisely
3) Able to analyze and interpret messages accurately to avoid miss-communication.
4) Technical & computer skills for general navigation and functionality.
5) Patience. Lots of patience.

I have found it better to get ones point across by keeping messages simple in email form and open with who, what, where, why and close with a time frame of response time back. That way in the event that the message was misunderstood a clarification can be provided verbally and within a reasonable amount of time. When attaching files it is helpful to mention it somewhere in the body of the letter as not all look for them as a rule of thumb. Follow ups are essential in conducting business in the virtual world as it is a fast pace society with limited room for confusion.

Here is another issue:
“many people read emails too quickly”. Working in the employee communications department-I can tell you, this is absolutely true. The majority of employees that read an entire email is quite low. We all tend to be “skimmers” looking for the “what is in it for me” or “do I need to change my behavior”. For most large program or initiatives I develop a communication plan. This plan includes what I am going to communicate, when, to who and how I will reach them. We spend countless hours perfecting messaging-that most employees claim they never saw.

So, tell me, how many of you are guilty of not reading messages that you receive from your corporate office?

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Here are some interesting discussions from my UOP Management class.
What are the customer satisfaction expectations of business-to-business e commerce?

I am not sure who developed the acronym K.I.S.S. (Keep It Simple Silly), but that suits this question perfectly! If the saying, “time is money” is accurate than most businesses must realize that other businesses are responsible to conserve time to maximize profitability. When a website or customer service becomes overly complex or cumbersome, it can be a definite distraction.

I recall going onto another business’s website to research some information for the company that I worked for and the website was overwhelming. There were entirely too many links and tabs that said the same thing, but did not say anything. The contact us section felt as if I was filing my taxes. And most importantly, most of the products were out of stock or not available. Of course, I took our business to another company, however, I began to think how this company’s business is being hindered because the presentation that they are offering is sub-standard. Most people in the business world want the direct approach when they are in need of a product or service. To cause they to have to go through a labyrinth just causes the other company to move on.

These are some of the expectations that I have for vendors that I work with and sites that I develop:

* Prompt response to requests
* Competitive pricing
* Timely order processing
* Communication regarding availability of items / inventory levels
* Accurate invoicing
* Timely payments
* Polite and informative sales and support representatives
* Consistency when it comes to policies and procedures
* Easy to navigate website (for ordering or checking availability)

What communications techniques may e-commerce businesses use to satisfy these expectations?
The communication techniques that e-commerce businesses can use to satisfy these customer expectations are; build a web-site developed for customers to easily get through the ordering process, hire well qualified customer service representatives to handle phone calls and answer customer questions and complaints, produce pricing catalogs that describes price issues and how the change in market effects the change in price, and establish surveys that rate how effective the process was between businesses and any changes that could be made in order to be more productive.

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Most online generators just run a spider and follow the links. You would need to find a generator built into the CMS that looks at the database for all the pages the site has. You could also do it manually by looking at the tables and building the URLs. If you want a simple sitemap that does not have priority or frequency then have a look at site map builder . net. It’s a .net application that runs locally and totally free.

You can also read How do we create Google Sitemap in Magento?

You can also use Extended Sitemap Magento Extension – The one and comprehensive solution for Magento!
Extended Sitemap allows you to display all of your existing Catalog Categories, Products, CMS Pages and additional configurable links with a hierarchical structure SEO optimized for web spiders on a single Site Map page available through your store footer link, e.g. http://www.example.com/sitemap/

In addition it replaces the default Magento Google Sitemap functionality for auto generation of XML Site Map files with a more optimized and advanced functionality which eases user experience.

http://www.magentocommerce.com/extension/1977/extended-sitemap

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