Archive for September, 2009
Our quest for information is increasing at a remarkable pace. Internet technology has greatly helped in enhancing our knowledge by making information easily available via web content. Earlier people used to be content by visiting a website and reading its contents. But nowadays, a single webpage simply serves as the entry point to information on a subject. There are numerous URLs in newer websites that take you into deeper layers of information.
Why not Query Strings?
Search engines do not accept special characters
Earlier query strings would be passed for accessing information from another webpage, but nowadays query strings are seldom used because information gathering largely involves search engines which do not recognize special characters like question marks. Read the rest of this entry »
Why do what everyone’s doing on Twitter all the time? How about playing games with your friends – and beating them?! Here are some of the best Twitter games that you can really find addictive.
Twivia – It’s a simple trivia game and perfect for immediate fun. Keep tweeting back the answers to questions that you receive and keep building your score. Top scorers get freebies and sweet gifts. Can you match that level? At various other levels you can exchange your points for goodies too. Read the rest of this entry »
Search engine optimization (SEO) has always been the pivot for website visibility on the Internet. An SEO tool – keyword meta tagging – has always been used extensively by SEO experts in streamlining content. But not many people know that no longer does keyword meta tagging impact rankings as it used to in majority of the search engines! And, keyword meta tags do not effect directory rankings at all.
The Internet has evolved and so have Internet surfers. Today, Internet users have several options to look for data apart from typing keywords in search engines. Read the rest of this entry »
The Internet has made sharing and storing photo albums extremely easy. You don’t even have to buy web space to upload them either. Many photo hosting sites even offer to send you prints, gifts and other freebies if you put up your albums with them.
Most photo uploading sites are free and they also allow you to put coordinating pages with text too. This is not like blogging but sharing your photos in greater details. Several social networking sites also have photo album storage capabilities but usually sites offering exclusive photo album sharing have more features. Here are some of the top photo album hosting and sharing sites that you can use: Read the rest of this entry »
Have you been thinking that search engine optimization (SEO) is only for websites then you’re way off the mark. SEO strategies and techniques can also be applied to blogs for popularity. You may be blogging for personal expression or for a small business but SEO can make you gain mouse clicks by the hundreds almost overnight.
In fact, Firefox extension SEO Blogger is a tiny and creative tool that will sit quietly on the side in your blogger editing page and help you find the top keywords relating to your subject as you write away. Wordpress also has a SEO tool for your blog. You can try keyword research and keep optimizing your posts even as you fix up your blog and prepare to publish it.
To start with, all you need to do is download one SEO tool. It will save you plenty of time that you would have otherwise spent looking for appropriate keywords. SEO tools can be used with all kinds of blog publishing software from the simplest to the most advanced ones. It will keep you focused on your topic too as you write. Read the rest of this entry »
Facebook may have gone in for a makeover but its top-10 most popular applications have continued to attract users. Based on the most number of active users on a daily basis, here is what we’ve got:
• Gambling never fails to attract people. More than 70,000 users keep playing Slots on Facebook virtually every day. Two more games linked to this application are ‘Scratch and Win’ and ‘Pull Tabs’. Tokens won in the latter two games can be used in Slots. Read the rest of this entry »
Just putting up a business website and displaying your services and products is not enough. For attracting business and tapping the full potential of your target group, you need search engine optimization (SEO). In fact, a SEO professional can save you as much as $500 per month.
You may spend thousands on design and content but if your site is not tweaked for SEO, you won’t be making much headway in the earnings sector. But, why is SEO so important?
SEO is vital simply because of the way the Internet works and the way users try to find a particular website. Read the rest of this entry »
