A little from everywhere about Search Engine submission

June 3rd, 2009 by dxball | No Comments | Filed in Search Engine Exposure

Before you begin to submit your website to search engines ensure your websites are thoroughly designed to the professional quality using the right key words, good graphics and pictures and the relevant content. Don’t submit websites that are incomplete. While submitting to a search engine, make sure to provide information about your website, keywords and any other information that may be pertinent, including the name and contact information of your business.

Mere submission to search engine companies does not guarantee that your site would be immediately listed and the ranking will be high. Because there are thousands of new websites coming up every day and it may take quite sometime before they take up your site for review by human editors. One important factor to remember while submitting site is to include a site map of your website which makes the crawling easy for the web robots. Search engines like ‘http://www.google.com.my’ hardly considers submissions without sitemaps.

1. Update the pages on your website frequently. Stagnant sites are dropped by some search engines. You can even put a date counter on the page to show when it was last updated.

2. Offer additional value on your website. For affiliates and partners you can place links to their sites and products and ask them to do the same for you. You can also advertise their books or videos, if these products relate to your industry and are not in competition with your own product.

3. You can allow customers to ‘opt in’ to get discounts and special offers. Place a link on your site to invite customers to ‘opt in’ to get a monthly newsletter or valuable coupons.

4. Add a link to your primary page with a script ‘Book Mark or Add this site to your Favorites’.

5. Add a link ‘Recommend this site to a Friend’ so that the visitor can email your website link, with a prewritten title, “Thought you might be interested in this”, just by clicking on it.

6. Brand your website so that visitors always know they are on your site. Use consistent colors, logos and slogans and always provide a ‘Contact Us’ link on each page.

7. Create a ‘Our Policies’ page that clearly defines your philosophy and principles in dealing with your customers. Also post your privacy policy as well so that clients know they are secure when they visit your site.

8. Create a FAQ page which addresses most of the doubts and clarifications about your product or your company that are likely to be asked. This helps to resolve most of the customers doubts in their first visit to your site.

9. Ensure that each page on your website has appropriate titles and keywords so that your customer can find their way back to your site if they lose the book mark.

10. Never spam a client, who has opted for newsletters, with unsolicited emails. Later if they decide they want to ‘opt out’ of the mailings, be sure you honor their request and take them off the mailing list. They may still come back if they like your products. But they will certainly not come back if you continue to flood their email box with mails they no longer wish to receive.

It is worth cataloguing the basic principles to be enforced to increase website traffic and search engine rankings.

* Create a site with valuable content, products or services.
* Place primary and secondary keywords within the first 25 words in your page content and spread them evenly throughout the document.
* Research and use the right keywords/phrases to attract your target customers.
* Use your keywords in the right fields and references within your web page. Like Title, META tags, Headers, etc.
* Keep your site design simple so that your customers can navigate easily between web pages, find what they want and buy products and services.
* Submit your web pages i.e. every web page and not just the home page, to the most popular search engines and directory services. Hire someone to do so, if required. Be sure this is a manual submission. Do not engage an automated submission service.
* Keep track of changes in search engine algorithms and processes and accordingly modify your web pages so your search engine ranking remains high. Use online tools and utilities to keep track of how your website is doing.
* Monitor your competitors and the top ranked websites to see what they are doing right in the way of design, navigation, content, keywords, etc.
* Use reports and logs from your web hosting company to see where your traffic is coming from. Analyze your visitor location and their incoming sources whether search engines or links from other sites and the keywords they used to find you.
* Make your customer visit easy and give them plenty of ways to remember you in the form of newsletters, free reports, reduction coupons etc.
* Demonstrate your industry and product or service expertise by writing and submitting articles for your website or for article banks so you are perceived as an expert in your field.
* When selling products online, use simple payment and shipment methods to make your customer’s experience fast and easy.
* When not sure, hire professionals. Though it may seem costly, but it is a lot less expensive than spending your money on a website which no one visits.
* Don’t look at your website as a static brochure. Treat it as a dynamic, ever-changing sales tool and location, just like your real store to which your customers with the same seriousness.

It is the search engines that finally bring your website to the notice of the prospective customers. When a topic is typed for search, nearly instantly, the search engine will sift through the millions of pages it has indexed about and present you with ones that match your topic. The searched matches are also ranked, so that the most relevant ones come first.

Remember that a prospective customer will probably only look at the first 2-3 listings in the search results. So it does matter where your website appears in the search engine ranking.

Further, they all use one of the top 6-7 search engines and these search engines attract more visitors to websites than anything else. So finally it all depends on which search engines the customers use and how they rank your site.

It is the Keywords that play an important role than any expensive online or offline advertising of your website.

It is found by surveys that a when customers want to find a website for information or to buy a product or service, they find their site in one of the following ways:

* The first option is they find their site through a search engine.
* Secondly they find their site by clicking on a link from another website or page that relates to the topic in which they are interested.
* Occasionally, they find a site by hearing about it from a friend or reading in an article.

Thus it’s obvious the most popular way to find a site, by search engine, represents more than 90% of online users. In other words, only 10% of the people looking for a website will use methods other than search engines.

All search engines employ a ranking algorithm and one of the main rules in a ranking algorithm is to check the location and frequency of keywords on a web page. Don’t forget that algorithms also give weightage to link population (number of web pages linking to your site). When performed by a qualified, experienced search engine optimization consultant, your site for high search engine rankings really does work, unless you have a lot of money and can afford to pay the expert. With better knowledge of search engines and how they work, you can also do it on your own.

Wising all well and prosper

May 27th, 2009 by dxball | No Comments | Filed in Politics

I know it’s a bit odd to wish well in all of the sudden. Well wishing is frequently done on occasion such as new year. Presenting you with the lucky coin - it read “peaceful nation thus safety citizen”. It’s applied to many countries globally. To name a few:

  • Countries at war
  • Country Internal Politic
  • Domestic Violent
  • Diseases

Peace to the Earth!

Lucky Coin

Lucky Coin

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Some Terminologies

May 15th, 2009 by dxball | No Comments | Filed in Ungrammatically Blunder

Some terminologies and names for the translated or should I said being englished?

Feng shui:

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3 Common-Sensely Classical Concepts of Feng Shui Logics

May 12th, 2009 by dxball | No Comments | Filed in FengShui

Some of the methods are easy to use; however, when it comes to the main part of it, it can take a while, like several years to get the hang of it.  Learning Feng Shui is not as easy as people may think it to be.

For this type of setting, you should always start from the beginning with the basics, then move your way up.  It makes it easy for you and others to follow along.  Then you can make gradual steps to the advances phases of Feng Shui.  To get you started, here are some things that you can implement:

  1. Air and light of good quality – You should have this in your home in order to master the Feng Shui principles.  You can benefit from having good Chi when you incorporate both of them.
    In order to operate this principle, it’s a good idea to allow natural light into your home.  The windows should be open on a frequent basis.  A good start to a good feng shui house is the house that has the balance of wind and water where the flow of water at anytime is neither too stagnant nor too gusty/fast.
  2. Get rid of clutter – You should discard everything that doesn’t mean anything to you or reminds you of bad events or feelings in your life.  If you have a lot of clutter, all of it can’t be removed overnight.
  3. BA-GUA – Draw a layout plan of your home, partition it into 9 sectors. Use a compass or a Fengshui Compass (Lo Pan) to align your layout with fengshui mountain directions and relate them to the elements of the earth such as metal, wood, water, fire and earth as well as the ba-gua reference of the occupants.

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Logical FengShui

January 17th, 2009 by dxball | Comments Off | Filed in Ungrammatically Blunder

I am not the hard-core believer nor the non-believer of fengshui that came in many disguises; fengshuilogy, art of placement, geomancy and my definition - fengshui is the art of making sense of wind-water and locate-placement.

The coincident over perception?

I drive a cheap car painted in black (hmm, black may be you can comment about the black colour and the meaning behind it). So, about the car, it “was” slightly heavy tinted in black. I live in hot country, what should I say, I need the shade. Not that I am hiding or a mafia nor VIP myself. And, at the eyes of authority the black tint on my car glasses is on the borderline of allowed and illegal.

The story was… I live in a small but cozy apartment. I, on average, out of the house at 8am and back about 9pm, regardless is a working day or not. I also not very sure what I do during weekend. I hardly cook, not that I not good at cooking but it seem impractical and a waste of resources to cook for one and washing the dishes. Imagine the energy used for the heating and the water and detergent for washing…. I know, I know it is a lame excuse. Then, that mean my wet kitchen section is very rare compound to myself in my own house.

The little foul smell was around since may be a week ago until last week that I was out of idea on where to have my dinner. I cook instant noodle using induction cooker, clean energy. I opened the the door to the wet kitchen.

To my surprise. Shit! Lucky, it was not sh

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Jack of all forex-trade

December 2nd, 2008 by dxball | No Comments | Filed in Forex

The Forex market is an ever changing, spastic environment that is a great way to get and maintain successful gains.  However, keeping some things in mind no matter how seasoned of a trader you consider yourself to be, is one of the key components to the most successful trader and training and learning new things or techniques is just as important.
The following are some of the ways that you can stay on top of your game as a trader and not lose focus, which can in turn, make you lose interest or continue to make bad trade after bad trade.
Remember, the best traders are the ones who are always training and learning.

1)  Accountability
Do not constantly blame the market or whatever thing is your favorite to lay blame on.  You are the one who chose to make the trade and close the deal, for whatever reason, so own it and move on.

2)  Learn The Lesson
- So you lost your trade, great!  This might sound absurd, but it reality it isn’t.  You can take that lost trade and examine what it is that might have cost you the trade.  Maybe there is some tweaking that needs to be done in your trading style or methods of trading.  If you have examined all avenues and still find your methods flawless, that’s okay, just move on.

3)  Patience Is A Virtue
- Especially in today’s market, when a new trader enters the arena, they sometimes can be overwhelmed by this hectic market.  Sometimes, during the periods of consolidation when there is very little liquidity, the trader with no patience will try to force a trade opportunity where there is none available.  Which, just leads to further mistakes and frustrations.  Relax, never try to rush the market.
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Start trading Forex

December 2nd, 2008 by dxball | No Comments | Filed in Forex

Keeping it simple, Forex stands for the foreign exchange market.  This article is basically for the beginners who are just getting into foreign exchange.  This business is a 1 ½ to 2 ½ trillion dollar trading business for the U.S. dollar.
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Choosing the Right Forex Broker

December 1st, 2008 by dxball | No Comments | Filed in Forex

This is one of the toughest processes to the business of trade and for most of us this happens to actually be a necessity.  If you attempt to trade within the Forex market without a broker, then you are taking a higher, more substantial risk in this market, more so than any other.  The problem is, hiring the wrong broker can really get you into some majorly financial binds and can leave you sorting through a mess all on your own.  You should be thorough in your research when you are contemplating hiring a broker or brokerage firm to keep track of your financial portfolio.

The following are some really good tips to help you in selecting the right Forex broker specifically, but you can also use these tips for any kind of prospective broker you may be considering hiring.

The best brokers are always going to be able to provide you with a list of clients that have used them and are currently still using their services.  If the broker is smart, this is one of the first things he will offer you.  After all, typically the best advertising is word of mouth.  The reason you can trust this form of reference advertising is that I can promise you that if anyone of the broker’s clients have had issues with them, you will find out about it.  No one in their right mind is going to recommend a financial broker to you if they do a poor job or injustice in some way.  I have to note that this is not the only form of information you should use when making a decision.  Remember, there are some people out there that will never be pleased, with anything but if the broker or the brokerage firm knows their stuff, they will not refer you to the people who are like this.

Here are a few e-Broker for sharing:

For trading in mini lot:

IntstaFX

LiteFX

and eToro and deposit fund thru PayPal etc.
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How to go the extra miles?

November 28th, 2008 by dxball | No Comments | Filed in Fuel Saving

What’s next?

1) Check your air filter. A clean air filter is the key to good fuel economy. A dirty air filter restricts the flow of air into the engine, which harms performance and economy. Air filters are easy to check and change; remove the filter and hold it up to the sun. If you can’t see light coming through it, you need a new one. Consider a K&N or similar “permanent” filter which is cleaned rather than changed; they are much less restrictive than throw-away paper filters, plus they’re better for the environment.

2) Check your tire pressure

Next to the air fitler, under-inflated tires are one of the most commonly ignored causes of crummy MPG. Buy a reliable tire gauge, check your tires when they are cold (driving the car warms up the tires and the air inside them, increasing the pressure), and keep them properly inflated. Use the inflation pressures shown in the owner’s manual or on the data plate in the driver’s door jamb.

3) Slow down

As speed increases, fuel economy decreases exponentially. If you one of the “ten-over on the freeway” set, try driving the speed limit for a few days. You’ll save a lot of fuel and your journey won’t take much longer. Just be sure you keep to the right, so you won’t impede the less-enlightened.
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99 Ways to HyperMiling: Techniques and Knowhows

November 26th, 2008 by dxball | No Comments | Filed in Fuel Saving

The buzzword for the fuel crisis era is hypermiling. So what is hyper-miling or how to hyper mileage?

The main idea of hyper mileage is to stretch every drop of your gasoline to the most mile or kilometer, better mpg.  So, how to achieve that?

The ultimate rules of thumb:

The non-devices ways

  1. Purchase your petrol when it’s coolest outside such as in the early morning or at night. Petrol becomes denser in cooler temperatures. Since the pumps only measure the volume of fuel - and not the density - you’ll get better overall gas mileage for your money by purchasing fuel when it’s cool outside rather than in the heat of the day.
  2. Religiously check your car’s tire pressure each month (make sure to purchase a good-quality dial-type gauge for yourself — pencil-style gauges and the ones mounted on the air hose are unreliable according to federal government surveys). Under inflated tires reduce fuel efficiency by 2% for every pound they are under inflated. Under inflation also causes premature tire wear giving your tires a shorter use life.
  3. Slow down and drive at the speed limit. Cars use about 20% more fuel driving at 160km/h they do at 90km/h. But try not to cruise at engine speed lower than 2000rpm!
  4. Avoid using air conditioning whenever possible. Air conditioning reduces fuel economy by 10% to 20%. Use the air ventilation system instead.
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