Archive for June, 2007

The Importance of Referrer Logs

Referrer logging is used to allow web servers and websites to identify where people are visiting them either for promotional or security purposes. You can find out which search engine they used to find your site and whether your customer has come from a ‘linked site’. It is basically the URL of the previous webpage from which your link was followed.

By default, most hosting accounts don’t include referrer logs but may be subscribedd for an extra monthly fee. If your web host does not provide a graphic report of your log files, you can still view the referrer logs for your website by logging into the host server using free or low-cost FTP software, like these:

FTP Explorer: www.ftpx.com/
LogMeIn: secure.logmein.com/dmcq/103/support.asp
SmartFTP: www.smartftp.com/
FTP Voyager: www.ftpvoyager.com/

The log file is available on your web server which can be download into your computer later. You can use a log analysis tool, like those mentioned below, to create a graphic report from your log files so that the files are easier to understand.

Abacre Advanced Log Analyzer www.abacre.com/ala/
Referrer Soft www.softplatz.com/software/referrer/
Log Analyzer www.loganalyzer.net

You can view the files using Word, Word Perfect, txt or WordPad files even if you don’t have the right tool. This information is very crucial to your business and marketing plans and is not advisable to neglect it.

In addition to identifying the search engine or linked site from where your visitor arrived, referrer logs can also tell you what keywords or keyword phrases your client used for searching.

As referrer information can sometimes violate privacy, some browsers allow the user to disable the sending of referrer information. Proxy and Firewall software can also filter out referrer information, to avoid leaking the location of private websites. This can result in other problems, as some servers block parts of their site to browsers that don’t send the right referrer information, in an attempt to prevent deep linking or unauthorized use of bandwidth. Some proxy software gives the top-level address of the target site itself as the referrer, which prevents these problems and still not divulging the user’s last visited site.

Since the referrer can easily be spoofed or faked, however, it is of limited use in this regard except on a casual basis.



Submitting Your Website to Search Engines

If you have a web-based business or if a significant portion of your business is done on the web through your website, then the best advertising and marketing is done by submitting to a search engine. No amount of press release, newspaper or radio ad, banner ad, spam email or newsletter will achieve the same results, although, maybe effective in a small proportion.

Beware of companies that promise automatic submission of your website to hundreds of search engines which are but only false promises. The best way to submit your website for search engine ranking and inclusion is to do it yourself or to hire an expert to do it manually, by contacting the search engine companies and directories.

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’ hardly considers submissions without sitemaps.

There are many online companies that accept search engine submission services. You can choose to do it yourself with a software package and service like this one:

Click Here
Or if you want professional help try the following sites:

www.addpro.com/professional_submission

www.submitawebsite.com/aboutus.html

Don’t use the automatic submission services.

Here is a list of the most popular Search Engines and directory companies:

Search Engines
Go.com/InfoSeek AltaVista
Google, HotBot
Excite/Webcrawler

Directories
AOL Search Inktomi
Lycos Open Directory
MSN, Yahoo!
LookSmart Snap

Apart from the above there are thousands of search engines and directory companies, where you can submit your website to as many companies as possible. The following links gives info on other search engines and directories:

websearch.about.com/library/searchengine/blsearchenginesatoz.htm

websearch.about.com/library/tableofcontents/blsearchenginetableofcontents.htm



Keyword Density

Keyword density is an indicator of the number of times the selected keyword appears in the web page. But mind you, keywords shouldn’t be over used, but should be just sufficient enough to appear at important places.

If you repeat your keywords with every other word on every line, then your site will probably be rejected as an artificial site or spam site.

Keyword density is always expressed as a percentage of the total word content on a given web page.

Suppose you have 100 words on your webpage (not including HMTL code used for writing the web page), and you use a certain keyword for five times in the content. The keyword density on that page is got by simply dividing the total number of keywords, by the total number of words that appear on your web page. So here it is 5 divided by 100 = .05. Because keyword density is a percentage of the total word count on the page, multiply the above by 100, that is 0.05 x 100 = 5%

The accepted standard for a keyword density is between 3% and 5%, to get recognized by the search engines and you should never exceed it.

Remember, that this rule applies to every page on your site. It also applies to not just to one keyword but also a set of keywords that relates to a different product or service. The keyword density should always be between 3% and 5%.

Simple steps to check the density:
• Copy and paste the content from an individual web page into a word-processing software program like Word or Word Perfect.
• Go to the ‘Edit’ menu and click ‘Select All’. Now go to the ‘Tools’ menu and select ‘Word Count’. Write down the total number of words in the page.
• Now select the ‘Find’ function on the ‘Edit’ menu. Go to the ‘Replace’ tab and type in the keyword you want to find. ‘Replace’ that word with the same word, so you don’t change the text.
• When you complete the replace function, the system will provide a count of the words you replaced. That gives the number of times you have used the keyword in that page.
• Using the total word count for the page and the total number of keywords you can now calculate the keyword density.



Must Have Features Your Web Site

Just don’t focus on the home page, keywords and titles.
The first step to sales when customers visit your site to see the products they were looking for. Of course, search engine optimization and better rankings can’t keep your customer on your site or make them buy. The customer having visited your site, now ensure that he gets interested in your products or services and stays around. Motivate him to buy the product by providing clear and unambiguous information. Thus if you happen to sell more than one product or service, provide all necessary information about this, may be by keeping the information at a different page. By providing suitable and easily visible links, the customer can navigate to these pages and get the details.



Understanding Your Target Customer

If you design a website you think will attract clients, but you don’t really know who your customers are and what they want to buy, it is unlikely you make much money. Website business is an extension or replacement for a standard storefront. You can send email to your existing clients and ask them to complete a survey or even while they are browsing on your website. Ask them about their choices. Why do they like your products? Do you discount prices or offer coupons? Are your prices consistently lower than others? Is your shipping price cheaper? Do you respond faster to client questions? Are your product descriptions better? Your return policies and guarantees better than your competitor’s? To know your customer you can check credit card records or ask your customer to complete a simple contact form with name, address, age, gender, etc. when they purchase a product.

Does your website give enough contact information?
When you sell from a website, your customer can buy your products 24 hrs a day and also your customers may be from other states that are thousands of miles away. Always provide contact information, preferably on every page of your website, complete with mailing address, telephone number and an email address that reaches you. People may need to contact you about sales, general information or technical problems on your site. Also have your email forwarded to another email address if you do not check your website mailbox often. When customer wants to buy online provide enough options like credit card, PayPal or other online payment service.



How Do Search Engines Work - Web Crawlers

It is the search engines that finally bring your website to the notice of the prospective customers. Hence it is better to know how these search engines actually work and how they present information to the customer initiating a search.

There are basically two types of search engines. The first is by robots called crawlers or spiders.

Search Engines use spiders to index websites. When you submit your website pages to a search engine by completing their required submission page, the search engine spider will index your entire site. A ‘spider’ is an automated program that is run by the search engine system. Spider visits a web site, read the content on the actual site, the site’s Meta tags and also follow the links that the site connects. The spider then returns all that information back to a central depository, where the data is indexed. It will visit each link you have on your website and index those sites as well. Some spiders will only index a certain number of pages on your site, so don’t create a site with 500 pages!

The spider will periodically return to the sites to check for any information that has changed. The frequency with which this happens is determined by the moderators of the search engine.

A spider is almost like a book where it contains the table of contents, the actual content and the links and references for all the websites it finds during its search, and it may index up to a million pages a day.

Example: Excite, Lycos, AltaVista and Google.

When you ask a search engine to locate information, it is actually searching through the index which it has created and not actually searching the Web. Different search engines produce different rankings because not every search engine uses the same algorithm to search through the indices.

One of the things that a search engine algorithm scans for is the frequency and location of keywords on a web page, but it can also detect artificial keyword stuffing or spamdexing. Then the algorithms analyze the way that pages link to other pages in the Web. By checking how pages link to each other, an engine can both determine what a page is about, if the keywords of the linked pages are similar to the keywords on the original page.



Clips247 Beat YouTube

Clips 247 with its advanced functions make it the best free watch video downloader on the Internet today. It has enhanced search engines that make navigating the site very simple for new users. Unlike YouTube, Clips 247 provides you with several search engines such as by category, by channel, by tag, or by user. All of these options are not as easy to navigate on YouTube. The options for browsing on Clips 247 are so simplified it would be almost impossible to not be able to sort through the site without complications. Clips 247 has the videos broken down into labeled sections such as: All Top Videos , Top News Videos , Top Sports Videos , Top Entertainment Videos , Top Movie Videos , Top Music Videos, Most Popular Videos , Most Recent Videos , Highest Rated Videos , and Top Favorites.

With detailed lists like this how can you not be able to quickly find what type of video you’re looking for? The categories are broken down into even smaller categories such as All Categories , Home Video , Music , Comedy , Sports , News , Animation , Autos & Vehicles , Pets & Animals , and last but not least Stunts. Clips 247 has such a wide variety of selections to choose from there is something for everyone to enjoy. The site appeals to viewers of all ages.

By being refined by channels such as Google Video, iTunes, MySpace and other popular channels it’s also easy to find the channel you prefer without spending hours of searching. The tag function allows you to find the specific group you’re searching for also. If you prefer a certain user because of recent experiences and would like to be able to use them again it’s always simple to find them. To do this simply click on by user, and it will show all video’s posted by that user.

The navigation area is on the home page so you don’t have to search through the whole site looking for one area. While YouTube has been active and well known, Clips 247 has recently made its way into thousands of people’s homes. You will be able to search and listen to videos 24 hours a day seven days a week from all across the Internet. You can view, download, and even purchase videos through the site. They also give you the choice of putting on a family filter which helps children from seeing or viewing things you don’t want them to. You can freely browse the site without worrying about tons of pop ups or solicitation unlike many other sites of this kind. Most have advertisement pop ups as soon as you enter the site. One really nice option is being able to save videos to the save watch list which means you can browse , save the videos you would like to watch , and watch them at your convenience. Clips 247 has an overall better appeal. With a fresh innovated design, simplicity of the navigation system and overall customer support makes Clips 247 the best choice.

Can You Believe? Believe It.
If you still not believe or looking for information, you can visit www.clips247.net



My other website

Well I made a team and we made a website, a Business Directory where people can post their business or service at very, very cheap prices!! Just hop in and have fun, it is new and we are still looking for advertisers, so if you have your business contact us from here: www.finditglobally.com/contact.php

Will let you know of any updates :)

Thanks


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Zelune Proxy Script

This nice little article was written by others, thanks all to whose are are submitting me these articles.

Zelune is a new free web proxy script that allows you to bypass censorship and firewalls. The most common use for web proxy scripts such as Zelune is to unblock websites at school or work. Web proxy scripts allow you to hide your IP address while browsing the internet, and protecting you from harmful viruses.

Zelune is the newest of the web proxy scripts. Zelune uses cURL to download pages, ultimately making it the FASTEST web proxy script ever coded! It is also 100% free to download! Zelune also offers zelune proxy templates for free! Download Zelune Proxy script now at Zelune.net!

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Site Awareness

Another nice article from people that read my blog! Send me more and more!!

Author: Mike Whitaker
Search Engines are one of the major ways that internet browsers find relative content. Some of the major ones,obviously are Google, Yahoo, MSN and Lycos. In order to obtain high traffic to a website, it’s important that your website gets listed within these search engines.

Other ways to get your site listed throughout the web and found are through search directories and forums. Search Directories allow users to find specific content and/or websites within categories (ie. Business, Computer, SEO). It allows for a more organized and directed search method.


Forums are bulletin board websites that allow users to post questions, answers, blogs, etc.. for others to read. Forums are all over the web and entail a large range of topics. A new breed of web search engines that collect information in a more diverse way are popping up such as the sites listed below:

www.WebSearcherX.com
www.SiteSearcherX.com


For
business web hosting, once there was no option but yahoo hosting. How it is difficult to easily choose a web host, with big names like ipowerweb and powweb on the scene. Even webhosting net offers very affordable deals.



Addicted to Sports

Another short article from other people! Keep them coming!

This blog is for you if you are addicted to sports. This blog has all the latest information on formula 1 , motogp and UEFA Champion’s League. You will find News ,views and reviews on formula 1, motogp and some uefa champion’s league football.This blog is primarily dedicated to Formula one racing and MotoGP, this website contains lots of information, images, news,previews and reviews about formula one and MotoGP, the website contains extensive news about the latest formula one events and formula one drivers, the same website also has a separate dedicated section for Moto GP, this section is well formatted and taken care of like the formula one section with lots of information and news related to Moto GP. I think if you are into fast cars or motor sports or football (champion’s league) you are going to love this blog .Visit this blog for all ur formula one, MotoGP and champion’s league football needs.

Also check out Arsenal Football Blog if you are crazy about football, english premier league and Arsenal football club

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Creating Fashion by our Designs

Thanks, this is another article/review submitted by other people! Doing a great Job!
FashDesigns is a site solely dedicated to fashion design. The site contains all the latest news and buzz about the fashion industry. Moreover, you can find in depth articles write-ups both unique and useful. Also there is a section for fashion sketches wherein you can find dress, sarees, etc. Lastly, we also cater to all your fashion design needs. Visit FashTops section where we provide you with fashionable T-shirts design at reasonable rates.

Be it on the run ways of Paris or the streets of New York fashion and the designs of fashion models are everywhere. Every article of clothing that you wear was ultimately influenced by the designs of the fashion world. The fashion world is also an incredibly exciting place. It’s a world of glamor and wealth, romance, intrigue and scandal.

One of the most interesting things about the international fashion community is the people involved in it. If you know anything about the fashion world you know about Alexander McQueen who is at times controversial and always dedicated to his work and passionate about life and everything in it. He disappeared for a few years, prompting questions about his dissatisfaction with the industry in general but recently he has been designing at a break neck pace. Interestingly enough there is another designer on the market with a similar name, that is Alexandrian Queen. While there has been speculation that this designer changed her name to ride on his coat tales any background investigation quickly confirms she just happened to be given that name. When asked if he was an influence in her becoming a fashion designer she said “Well, yes, he is one of my hero’s and I absolutely love his work but I got into fashion because I love creating and designing and because I’m good at it, not because this guy happens to have my name.”

Always opinionated she was enthusiastic, almost bubbling even, about the direction that the fashion world is heading via the internet. She told me about her new online store and the way that selling online has changed her business. Amazingly, it cost her nothing to set up her store, because a friend did it for her using technology that is completely free and available over the internet!

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Communication Strategy

Another good article from my readers! Continue submitting!

Managerial communication is different from other kinds of communication. Why? Because in a business or management setting, a brilliant message alone is not sufficient: you are successful only if your message leads to the response you desire from your audience. Therefore, instead of visualizing communication as a straight line from a sender to a receiver, think of communication as a circle, as shown below, with the audience’s response as one of its critical elements.

To get the desired audience response, you need to think strategically about your communication – before you start to write or speak. Strategic communication is based on five interactive variables:

  1. communicator (the writer or speaker) strategy;
  2. Audience strategy;
  3. The message strategy;
  4. Channel choice strategy;
  5. Cultural context strategy.


Be sure to consider how the variables affect each other. For example, your audience analysis affects your communicator style, your channel choice may affect your message, and the cultural context may affect your channel choice.

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Home of the Frugal Wizard

This is another article written by my readers! Thanks you all, if you want please send your own, see how here: Accepting Articles…

Home of the Frugal Wizard is a site dedicated to frugal living. They offer wonderful articles covering all aspects of saving money and living a cheap lifestyle. One their Gardening page, they offer advice for the frugal gardener on how to plant, creating compost, grow their own food, and more all in an effort to save money. They also have a Budget page that discusses how to manage your money and ways to cut expenses. Of course no site about frugal living would be complete without free forums so you can share your ideas with other like minded people. Come and join the forums and visit the Frugal Wizard to learn more on frugal living.

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Free Stumble Exchange Blog

Another article written by my fellow readers, thanks!

The blog Stumble Upon Fun Showcase and Exchange is all about the program stumble upon. The blog offers free stumbles by listing sites that the website owner submits to the blog. Not only do the website owners get a free stumble, they also get a free back link to their website. This is a fun new way to promote your site using both a free blog post and the power of stumble exchanging. The only requirement of adding your site to the free Blog is that you stumble the other sites that have been submitted there. So to extend your Stumble Upon fun, please be sure to visit Stumble Upon Fun Showcase and Exchange and add your site to get the stumbles rolling.

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New Concept Bid Directory

Here we go article written by people and submitted to my blog, they are loving my offer!

New Concept Bid Directory

With the internet business world being as competitive as it is, every little
advantage that a website gets is essential to its success. The internet arms
race to drive traffic to websites has never been more heated. With that in
mind, website owners have to find new ways to push that valuable traffic to
their site. That’s where Cyber Web Link comes into play. Cyberweblink is website link directory where website owners can bid on the right to have their listing appear at the top of the main page.

The way it works is simple. The more you bid, the better your chances are of
appearing on the front page. If you bid enough to be in the top 10 listings on
the entire site, then a link to your website will appear on the main page.
Likewise, if your link is one of the top 10 in your subcategory, a link will
appear on the main category page. This is an easy and relatively inexpensive
way for website owners to get on top of the online business world.

The advantage of putting your link on cyberweblink.com is that it will help
improve human spidering, which is a large part of the
search engine rankings. By putting yourself atop the search engine rankings
because of your extra quality back links, more people are likely to find your
website. That could result in a huge amount of advertising revenue. There is no
limit to the amount of money you can bid on cyberweblink.com, so if it’s
important enough to you, bidding a good bit is not out of the question.

Unlike many web link directories, cyberweblink.com offers you some different
options. If you make a bid and then determine that you bid was not enough to
land a valuable spot on the homepage, you can add funds to your listing at you
own discretion. This is important for those website owners who are looking to
make that perfect bid and land their website link right on the front page.

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Mobile Phone Technology

Another article written by people, they are loving my offer!

Mobile Phone Technology

As mobile phones get more and more advanced and there is more and more mobile phone brands to choose from it gets more and more difficult to choose which phone to get. In today’s new phones there is support for functions like W-LAN, Email, AGPS positioning and other things you just could not get just for a couple of years ago. Phones are also
getting more divided into many different segments. You have the high end
segment that is aimed for people who want the latest and best features in their
phones, such features like WLAN and GPS mentioned above. These phones are the most expensive phones and contain all the latest features.

After the high end phones we have the more average phones. These are the
phones that are aimed for the general public and usually contain features like
mp3 player and possibility to receive email. After that we have the low end
segment with the cheapest phones. These usually do not contain any extra
features and has a really low Mobile Phone Tariff.

You can usually get these phones as Pay as You go Mobile (also known as prepay) which means that you pay an amount in advance and then you can
call for this amount. After that amount is used up you have to refill your
account with more money to continue calling. Pay as you go mobile accounts are
mostly used in low cost countries but it starting to get big in other countries
also.

There is many different type of mobile phones and tariff. In order to find out which phone you should get you can go to your local store or try to buy one from the internet. We suggest that you visit Mobile Media to find out which phone that suites you best. They do not only sell mobile phones there but also has Mobile News and Information and also a section for Clearance Mobile Phones. With all the information that is available on this
site we are sure you will find the phone that suits your needs.

Everyone has a mobile phone today. No wonder every company from sprint phones to nokia to samsung phones is selling like hot buns. Then we have sensored cell phones for children in particular. Since the use is global now, no 1one needs a mobile phones guide anymore.



Proxy Websites

An article written by other people that submitted them to me for this “Accepting other people to post in here” offer!

As we all know, summer vacation is more or less upon us. Schools across the US are getting out, and students have about three months of absolute freedom that they’ve been anticipating since… Well, the end of last summer. Since they’ll be at home, they can surf the internet as they please, without worrying about things like Websense, and therefore they won’t need to use Myspace Unblocker sites.

But that doesn’t mean that these sites serve no purpose during the hot summer months. Those of us that have graduated and work office jobs don’t get to take the summer off! Many people work at places where sites like MySpace, Facebook, and even GMail are blocked… These people need proxy sites for anonymous surfing from the workplace - This way they can continue to work, but are not limited to what sites they can and cannot visit.

Lucky for them, there is an abundance of these sites on the web that were made specifically for them. A simple Google search will return more anonymous web surfing sites than you could ever need! There are also sites out there that exist solely to provide visitors with fresh new ‘unblocker’ sites, such as 1800proxy.net.

Remember, it’s possible to stay productive at work while enjoying yourself - Just don’t let your MySpace addiction get out of hand! For more information on proxies and anonymous browsing, check out Free2Surf Proxy Blog.

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Accepting Articles From Other People To Post In Here

Well of course I can write my own articles without any doubt (as I’m in the article writing world too), but I said… as I’m doing great with my blog why not giving others a chance to do good with their website or blog? So as I have an Articles section where I can post my own articles, I am even accepting a limited number of articles written by others to post for free. I am looking for reviews (don’t make it look like an advert), articles about technology, articles about…. whatever you want, of course decent things! If someone submits an article he/she is entitled for a one-way back link to his/her website, either in the review it’s self or on my links page.

If the article is good, long and descriptive, it may be qualified and submitted on another PR6 website, besides on my blog. And it will be available to hundreds and thousand of readers, besides crawlers!

So contact me (see the About Me Page) and email me your articles! If they are good they will be posted here, and they may be qualified to be submitted to another PR6 website!

What is the catch? Just leave a good comment on my blog (in any post you like)

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