Archive for March, 2008

03.30.08

Search Engine Spiders

Posted in Methods at 12:05 am by webmaster

Search Engines have a little program they send out to websites to “crawl” or “spider” each site picking up information to index in their Search Results. You optimize your website pages with keywords that, through your research, you feel will bring in traffic. Next, you put the keywords throughout your text on the page without making your content difficult for a person to read. Your main goal, after all, is still good, solid content for your readers

Your chosen keywords or keyword phrases should be mentioned in the title of your page, and in the first paragraph, then sprinkled throughout the rest of the page.

The search engines will pick out your keywords using their robots, bring them back to their computers, index you and give you a rank based on a number of factors.

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03.10.08

Doing Research

Posted in Business Tips at 5:55 pm by webmaster

Google is one of the best places online to do research. Try typing “+forum+(topic) and you will find out what consumers are saying about various topics.
Note: replace the brackets and the word “topic” with the name of the topic you would like to find information about.

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03.08.08

Youtube

Posted in Business Tips, Social Media at 5:37 pm by webmaster

Why would a business person want to use youtube? Isn’t it full of videos by teenagers.

Yes, but a number of business owners have realized the power of video. For instance, an enterprising artist who was having trouble selling her paintings. So she started taking videos showing her creating it and discussing how she got her ideas.

Then every week, on the same day and time, she posts the video on youtube with a link under it to the eBay sales page where she is selling the painting. Every week she gets more viewers and her paintings sell for more.

How’s that for thinking out of the box!

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