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SEO - Why Submitting to the Big Indexes is Good SEO Search Engine Optimizer, who will work with you as you build your website at a reasonable price. Hard to find, but I will give a plug to the one I use. She will work with you as you build and optimize you and monitor your site after it is built at a really good price. If you go to Google Page Creator you can get hosting and website tools and templates and a quick publisher for free. Then you most certainly can afford her. All my clues are in a little website I made for you. The URL is at the end of this article.The big indexes such as Yahoo, Open Directory and About.com are the best places for people to find you. However applying to be listed in them can be a bit of a federal case. Still despite all the red tape, proper submission to these indexes is crucial because there is a pronounced trend towards using "human-edited" indexes in search results. In particular, many of the major search engines are starting to use Open Directory index listings in their search results, making it the second most important place to list your site, right behind Yahoo's directory.Another thing to consider is that more and more search engines are using link-popularity as a ranking method (Google is the originator of this technique). Under this system the ranking of your site depends on how many other pages link to yours, and how essential the search engine thinks these links are. That means that a secondary benefit of getting a link on major indexes is that it can improve your ranking on some really big search engines. For example, getting your site listed in Yahoo! And in the Open Dir Site builder companies and hosting companies sometimes write their own reviews and articles about themselves. So keep a sharp eye or you will get fooled. At the foot of this article will be a website name that will take you to a website that has the lady I mentioned. I also have a link there to take you to the Free Google site I built for this occasion. It is a Beta site meaning it is in the B phase of testing. When it is finished in a year or so it will no longer be free. Also I want you to click on a few of my websites to see what my choice of a site builder with perfect support can do. Do not feel stupid if it does not go right. There is one hard rule I follow. Geeks cannot write good instructions. Technical people feel like you should understand most of what they know. Often well intentioned support folks will tell you how to fix your problem but you cannot understand their answer. Do not let that intimidate you. Write back "WHAT?". They need to learn to speak like the rest of us. You are the customer and you are wanted, so do not get intimidated or scared. It all can be fixed. Do not be afraid to complain. It helps as some have an improved builder coming and want your co Cheap Sourcing - New Purchasing Game in Town or Most Ancient Practice on Earth My last search, three months ago, was for a great site builder, easy on the brain, no code required, low priced and excellent support. It took me two months and I tried many free trials. By the way be careful on those free trials. Some places will start charging you at the end of the free trial even if there has been no activity. Look carefully. I did not check my credit card for a while and got hit twice from two free trials. Stupid me.I was invited to participate in a round table discussion along with senior colleagues from the largest procurement organisations in Europe. The moderator of the forum asked a question to all the attendees:” what are your views on the latest thinking in procurement organisations – Cheap Sourcing”. People started answering while highlighting their experiences and the advances they have made into this new trend in Procurement.I felt a bit strange at the question and being a Chief Procurement Officer myself, I felt a bit embarrassed that I have never really given this “new” the importance it deserves or even though about it much. I must be totally incompetent as a procurement officer since in such an important forum a question like this is being put forward to the participants, or am I outdated and not keeping up with the latest trends and technologies in procurement?While the others were answering the question each in his own way, I scratched my head thinking to myself, well I do make good deals for my company, and in fact our deals are one of the best If you stop and read the forums that pop up once in a while during your search you will get more confused. You will read Dream-weaver is the best, however most costly and a big learning curve. You will hear about site makers that are called WizzyWig, or WYSIWYG. Which most of you know is What You See Is What You Get, which is true. You see what you are going to publish, but what you get can be a builder that is hard to learn. All WYSIWYG's are not equal. The day is coming however when site builders can match or exceed the performance of hand coded sites. Even hand a coded tune up will become only a luxury. What is happening is the Search Engine Optimization (SEO) companies true task is changing regularly. Key words are not as vital as they were. They are still a big item however. Loading speed is not as important as touted. Irregular code is being read by smarter spiders so true hand worked code is not as necessary. Right now incoming links are the major thing and as soon as everyone finds a way to find those with a gimmick something else will pop up. To grow big takes big money or sometimes a great niche or a fine new idea. There still is no thrill like making your own website and publishing it for the first time. Then comes the sometimes boring job of tuning up and updating and finding incoming links. This is why a site builder that you enjoy is truly key. In this article I am assuming you are not buying software and finding a host. There is nothing wrong with that except most of software support is a forum by the other buyers of the same software who belong to the same forum. The not so blind former purchasers leading the new blind purchaser. Forget it. I pass on anyone offering a forum and bragging about it. A forum is a cheap way to keep from hiring a staff but trying to sound good. I have never found a reason for a forum if you have good support. If you have weak support or limited support and are a cheap host you offer a forum. There are rare exceptions but it is not worth your time to find out. Do not depend on forums as an addition to or substitute for support. Go for hosting companies that offer a package with a site builder in the price. When you see one that interests you, send them an email inquiry. That is the best way to test the support. Slow response, poor support. Keep looking. If they answer make sure it is a real persone talking. Then shoot back another question until you get the feel. I would suggest you keep going an narrow it down unless one just grabs you and you love it. Be prepared to be disappointed. I don't know how many mistakes I have made over the years. Do not buy a domain name from the host unless you are positive you have the right place. Otherwise that good name is not available for your next move for sixty days and a lot of trouble. You can buy a domain from Go Daddy or any other cheap place and forward. That way you are sure you will not lose a domain name if the new host and builder do not work out. I always look for free trials. I don't care if it is seven days or thirty days. I can tell in one day if it is a fit. Then if it is not say goodbye with an email to bookkeeping if you can. Get an acknowledgement. If the host does not offer free trials then pass. If they promise a refund if you don't like them in 30 days, that may be OK, I don't like it though unless there is an excellent demo. Free trials without any string attached leaves me with a feeling the host has confidence in his choice of builder you are about to try. Some hosts will not give you the name of the builder (software designer) seller. If you can, get the name of the seller and go direct using their name for the actual seller website. Many hosts buy the builder from one company and re-name it to match their hosting company name. But that same site builder may be on a hundred hosted websites at varying prices under various names. So if you can get the "factory name" so to speak then you can search for it on various websites and check the service and prices. Let's say the Host is calling his Best Builder, but you find it was purchased from the seller who has a factory name of Hi Speed Builder. So then you do a search on Hi Speed Builder and find many hosting companies using it. Or the factory (software designer) may have all his customers listed on his website. My personal preference is WYSIWYG with CSS which cuts down on bloated code. Now don't get too concerned with what you read that coding by a program is worse than coding by hand. Loading speed is not the problem it is made out to be. There are lots of high speed users out there that imperfect code would not slow down a whit. I have Net Zero Hi Speed and if my PC is properly optimized the speed is really fast. I check it regularly. If I have confused some of you by repeated use of "code" let me explain. Code is another word for program-speak called HTML. People who know how to do HTML usually look down on the rest of us. They say it is easy to learn. If you like to learn new stuff and are a borderline tekki, then go for it. I do just fine without learning code and never intend to. Support, support support. That is so important until you learn all the little wrinkles in your new site builder. Someone that gets right back to you and can put up with your ignorance. Hard to find, but it is out there. I search for full justification. I do not like ragged right hand edges. It makes the presentation less professional. You should have even right hand margins, like a book, gives you a professional look. When you search, in the search bar put -flash (minus flash) at the end of the search words. This means don't show me anything with flash. You don't need flash and it can really slow you down. Try to get a builder that lets the text wrap the image at least at the border. So my advice is to go for WYSIWYG with full justification and text wrap at the border. Look for color options. You need a full spectrum but like me, if you cannot get it all, support is the vital thing. Watch out for same old same old templates that have very little change between them and some take as much as one third of the page as a header. You are not into picture entertainment. Repeat customer will get tired of your header anyway and quit looking at it. A nice simple design and lots of text will serve you well and optimize better. If you can, find a SEO, Search Engine Optimizer, who will work with you as you build your website at a reasonable price. Hard to find, but I will give a plug to the one I use. She will work with you as you build and optimize you and monitor your site after it is built at a really good price. If you go to Google Page Creator you can get hosting and website tools and templates and a quick publisher for free. Then you most certainly can afford her. All my clues are in a little website I made for you. The URL is at the end of this article. Site builder companies and hosting companies sometimes write their own reviews and articles about themselves. So keep a sharp eye or you will get fooled. At the foot of this article will be a website name that will take you to a website that has the lady I mentioned. I also have a link there to take you to the Free Google site I built for this occasion. It is a Beta site meaning it is in the B phase of testing. When it is finished in a year or so it will no longer be free. Also I want you to click on a few of my websites to see what my choice of a site builder with perfect support can do. Do not feel stupid if it does not go right. There is one hard rule I follow. Geeks cannot write good instructions. Technical people feel like you should understand most of what they know. Often well intentioned support folks will tell you how to fix your problem but you cannot understand their answer. Do not let that intimidate you. Write back "WHAT?". They need to learn to speak like the rest of us. You are the customer and you are wanted, so do not get intimidated or scared. It all can be fixed. Do not be afraid to complain. It helps as some have an improved builder coming and want your com Make Your Cold Calling Sales Prospecting Work Better of tuning up and updating and finding incoming links. This is why a site builder that you enjoy is truly key.I know most of us hate cold calling. But for many businesses it can be a cost-effective way to generate quality leads.If cold calling is accepted in your industry then you should consider making it a prospecting tool. A benefit is that you connect directly with people who are likely to need or want what you offer. And, because cold calling is an active form of prospecting you can use it to fill holes in your pipeline when other lead generating methods are falling short.So, if you decide to make cold calling part of your lead generating system, here are some ideas to do it as productively as possible.Have a Goal for Your Cold Calling ProgramBefore you even start your calling, know what your goal is. Is it to obtain or confirm information? To further qualify them? To schedule a meeting? To close a sale? Whatever your specific goals are, they should include moving your leads through your sales cycle.Have a Lot of LeadsJeff Mayer (www.succeedinginbusiness.com) mentions this in his book, Overcoming the Fear of Cold Calling and In this article I am assuming you are not buying software and finding a host. There is nothing wrong with that except most of software support is a forum by the other buyers of the same software who belong to the same forum. The not so blind former purchasers leading the new blind purchaser. Forget it. I pass on anyone offering a forum and bragging about it. A forum is a cheap way to keep from hiring a staff but trying to sound good. I have never found a reason for a forum if you have good support. If you have weak support or limited support and are a cheap host you offer a forum. There are rare exceptions but it is not worth your time to find out. Do not depend on forums as an addition to or substitute for support. Go for hosting companies that offer a package with a site builder in the price. When you see one that interests you, send them an email inquiry. That is the best way to test the support. Slow response, poor support. Keep looking. If they answer make sure it is a real persone talking. Then shoot back another question until you get the feel. I would suggest you keep going an narrow it down unless one just grabs you and you love it. Be prepared to be disappointed. I don't know how many mistakes I have made over the years. Do not buy a domain name from the host unless you are positive you have the right place. Otherwise that good name is not available for your next move for sixty days and a lot of trouble. You can buy a domain from Go Daddy or any other cheap place and forward. That way you are sure you will not lose a domain name if the new host and builder do not work out. I always look for free trials. I don't care if it is seven days or thirty days. I can tell in one day if it is a fit. Then if it is not say goodbye with an email to bookkeeping if you can. Get an acknowledgement. If the host does not offer free trials then pass. If they promise a refund if you don't like them in 30 days, that may be OK, I don't like it though unless there is an excellent demo. Free trials without any string attached leaves me with a feeling the host has confidence in his choice of builder you are about to try. Some hosts will not give you the name of the builder (software designer) seller. If you can, get the name of the seller and go direct using their name for the actual seller website. Many hosts buy the builder from one company and re-name it to match their hosting company name. But that same site builder may be on a hundred hosted websites at varying prices under various names. So if you can get the "factory name" so to speak then you can search for it on various websites and check the service and prices. Let's say the Host is calling his Best Builder, but you find it was purchased from the seller who has a factory name of Hi Speed Builder. So then you do a search on Hi Speed Builder and find many hosting companies using it. Or the factory (software designer) may have all his customers listed on his website. My personal preference is WYSIWYG with CSS which cuts down on bloated code. Now don't get too concerned with what you read that coding by a program is worse than coding by hand. Loading speed is not the problem it is made out to be. There are lots of high speed users out there that imperfect code would not slow down a whit. I have Net Zero Hi Speed and if my PC is properly optimized the speed is really fast. I check it regularly. If I have confused some of you by repeated use of "code" let me explain. Code is another word for program-speak called HTML. People who know how to do HTML usually look down on the rest of us. They say it is easy to learn. If you like to learn new stuff and are a borderline tekki, then go for it. I do just fine without learning code and never intend to. Support, support support. That is so important until you learn all the little wrinkles in your new site builder. Someone that gets right back to you and can put up with your ignorance. Hard to find, but it is out there. I search for full justification. I do not like ragged right hand edges. It makes the presentation less professional. You should have even right hand margins, like a book, gives you a professional look. When you search, in the search bar put -flash (minus flash) at the end of the search words. This means don't show me anything with flash. You don't need flash and it can really slow you down. Try to get a builder that lets the text wrap the image at least at the border. So my advice is to go for WYSIWYG with full justification and text wrap at the border. Look for color options. You need a full spectrum but like me, if you cannot get it all, support is the vital thing. Watch out for same old same old templates that have very little change between them and some take as much as one third of the page as a header. You are not into picture entertainment. Repeat customer will get tired of your header anyway and quit looking at it. A nice simple design and lots of text will serve you well and optimize better. If you can, find a SEO, Search Engine Optimizer, who will work with you as you build your website at a reasonable price. Hard to find, but I will give a plug to the one I use. She will work with you as you build and optimize you and monitor your site after it is built at a really good price. If you go to Google Page Creator you can get hosting and website tools and templates and a quick publisher for free. Then you most certainly can afford her. All my clues are in a little website I made for you. The URL is at the end of this article. Site builder companies and hosting companies sometimes write their own reviews and articles about themselves. So keep a sharp eye or you will get fooled. At the foot of this article will be a website name that will take you to a website that has the lady I mentioned. I also have a link there to take you to the Free Google site I built for this occasion. It is a Beta site meaning it is in the B phase of testing. When it is finished in a year or so it will no longer be free. Also I want you to click on a few of my websites to see what my choice of a site builder with perfect support can do. Do not feel stupid if it does not go right. There is one hard rule I follow. Geeks cannot write good instructions. Technical people feel like you should understand most of what they know. Often well intentioned support folks will tell you how to fix your problem but you cannot understand their answer. Do not let that intimidate you. Write back "WHAT?". They need to learn to speak like the rest of us. You are the customer and you are wanted, so do not get intimidated or scared. It all can be fixed. Do not be afraid to complain. It helps as some have an improved builder coming and want your co Marketing Idea For Small Business not work out.While running a small business is hectic enough, marketing is also another important task. What I found running my businesses is that if there is not a business marketing campaign scheduled your business will not grow. So how does one go about finding time to market their small business and which way is the most effective route. Internet Marketing for Small business is a creative technique, by using online internet advertising you will have a small business marketing campaign be automatically maximizing your ads and company. Through years of specializing in internet marketing for small business and mid size businesses there is one thing all small businesses must do when competing against the bigger corporate companies. That is think creatively.How can you be creative in internet marketing for small business?First in advertising your business and web site you must be clear who is your customers. Develop a niche for a specific group of your customers and build from there. Internet marketing has become the I always look for free trials. I don't care if it is seven days or thirty days. I can tell in one day if it is a fit. Then if it is not say goodbye with an email to bookkeeping if you can. Get an acknowledgement. If the host does not offer free trials then pass. If they promise a refund if you don't like them in 30 days, that may be OK, I don't like it though unless there is an excellent demo. Free trials without any string attached leaves me with a feeling the host has confidence in his choice of builder you are about to try. Some hosts will not give you the name of the builder (software designer) seller. If you can, get the name of the seller and go direct using their name for the actual seller website. Many hosts buy the builder from one company and re-name it to match their hosting company name. But that same site builder may be on a hundred hosted websites at varying prices under various names. So if you can get the "factory name" so to speak then you can search for it on various websites and check the service and prices. Let's say the Host is calling his Best Builder, but you find it was purchased from the seller who has a factory name of Hi Speed Builder. So then you do a search on Hi Speed Builder and find many hosting companies using it. Or the factory (software designer) may have all his customers listed on his website. My personal preference is WYSIWYG with CSS which cuts down on bloated code. Now don't get too concerned with what you read that coding by a program is worse than coding by hand. Loading speed is not the problem it is made out to be. There are lots of high speed users out there that imperfect code would not slow down a whit. I have Net Zero Hi Speed and if my PC is properly optimized the speed is really fast. I check it regularly. If I have confused some of you by repeated use of "code" let me explain. Code is another word for program-speak called HTML. People who know how to do HTML usually look down on the rest of us. They say it is easy to learn. If you like to learn new stuff and are a borderline tekki, then go for it. I do just fine without learning code and never intend to. Support, support support. That is so important until you learn all the little wrinkles in your new site builder. Someone that gets right back to you and can put up with your ignorance. Hard to find, but it is out there. I search for full justification. I do not like ragged right hand edges. It makes the presentation less professional. You should have even right hand margins, like a book, gives you a professional look. When you search, in the search bar put -flash (minus flash) at the end of the search words. This means don't show me anything with flash. You don't need flash and it can really slow you down. Try to get a builder that lets the text wrap the image at least at the border. So my advice is to go for WYSIWYG with full justification and text wrap at the border. Look for color options. You need a full spectrum but like me, if you cannot get it all, support is the vital thing. Watch out for same old same old templates that have very little change between them and some take as much as one third of the page as a header. You are not into picture entertainment. Repeat customer will get tired of your header anyway and quit looking at it. A nice simple design and lots of text will serve you well and optimize better. If you can, find a SEO, Search Engine Optimizer, who will work with you as you build your website at a reasonable price. Hard to find, but I will give a plug to the one I use. She will work with you as you build and optimize you and monitor your site after it is built at a really good price. If you go to Google Page Creator you can get hosting and website tools and templates and a quick publisher for free. Then you most certainly can afford her. All my clues are in a little website I made for you. The URL is at the end of this article. Site builder companies and hosting companies sometimes write their own reviews and articles about themselves. So keep a sharp eye or you will get fooled. At the foot of this article will be a website name that will take you to a website that has the lady I mentioned. I also have a link there to take you to the Free Google site I built for this occasion. It is a Beta site meaning it is in the B phase of testing. When it is finished in a year or so it will no longer be free. Also I want you to click on a few of my websites to see what my choice of a site builder with perfect support can do. Do not feel stupid if it does not go right. There is one hard rule I follow. Geeks cannot write good instructions. Technical people feel like you should understand most of what they know. Often well intentioned support folks will tell you how to fix your problem but you cannot understand their answer. Do not let that intimidate you. Write back "WHAT?". They need to learn to speak like the rest of us. You are the customer and you are wanted, so do not get intimidated or scared. It all can be fixed. Do not be afraid to complain. It helps as some have an improved builder coming and want your co Overcoming Job Search Road Blocks i Speed and if my PC is properly optimized the speed is really fast. I check it regularly. If I have confused some of you by repeated use of "code" let me explain. Code is another word for program-speak called HTML. People who know how to do HTML usually look down on the rest of us. They say it is easy to learn. If you like to learn new stuff and are a borderline tekki, then go for it. I do just fine without learning code and never intend to.Have you stalled out on the job search highway? Have the molehills on the road begun to look like Mount Everest? The truth is everyone stalls out from time to time; everyone takes a misstep once in awhile. The trick is to realize sooner rather than later that what you are doing isn’t working and take steps to get back on track. Below are three common obstacles job hunters encounter and easy-to implement steps for getting around them.BLACK HOLE R?SUM?SWhen your r?sum? goes out and seems never again to see the light of day, check whether it is under whelming or even repelling potential employers.Problem: The r?sum? doesn’t sell you at the correct level. More often than not, it undersells your capabilities and doesn’t highlight the value you would add to an organization.Solution: Review your r?sum? for accomplishments. Does it include at least three, and preferably more, specific examples of ways you have contributed to the success of previous organizations? If not, include examples of what you have done to improve service, increase sales, Support, support support. That is so important until you learn all the little wrinkles in your new site builder. Someone that gets right back to you and can put up with your ignorance. Hard to find, but it is out there. I search for full justification. I do not like ragged right hand edges. It makes the presentation less professional. You should have even right hand margins, like a book, gives you a professional look. When you search, in the search bar put -flash (minus flash) at the end of the search words. This means don't show me anything with flash. You don't need flash and it can really slow you down. Try to get a builder that lets the text wrap the image at least at the border. So my advice is to go for WYSIWYG with full justification and text wrap at the border. Look for color options. You need a full spectrum but like me, if you cannot get it all, support is the vital thing. Watch out for same old same old templates that have very little change between them and some take as much as one third of the page as a header. You are not into picture entertainment. Repeat customer will get tired of your header anyway and quit looking at it. A nice simple design and lots of text will serve you well and optimize better. If you can, find a SEO, Search Engine Optimizer, who will work with you as you build your website at a reasonable price. Hard to find, but I will give a plug to the one I use. She will work with you as you build and optimize you and monitor your site after it is built at a really good price. If you go to Google Page Creator you can get hosting and website tools and templates and a quick publisher for free. Then you most certainly can afford her. All my clues are in a little website I made for you. The URL is at the end of this article. Site builder companies and hosting companies sometimes write their own reviews and articles about themselves. So keep a sharp eye or you will get fooled. At the foot of this article will be a website name that will take you to a website that has the lady I mentioned. I also have a link there to take you to the Free Google site I built for this occasion. It is a Beta site meaning it is in the B phase of testing. When it is finished in a year or so it will no longer be free. Also I want you to click on a few of my websites to see what my choice of a site builder with perfect support can do. Do not feel stupid if it does not go right. There is one hard rule I follow. Geeks cannot write good instructions. Technical people feel like you should understand most of what they know. Often well intentioned support folks will tell you how to fix your problem but you cannot understand their answer. Do not let that intimidate you. Write back "WHAT?". They need to learn to speak like the rest of us. You are the customer and you are wanted, so do not get intimidated or scared. It all can be fixed. Do not be afraid to complain. It helps as some have an improved builder coming and want your co Affiliate Activity Reports Search Engine Optimizer, who will work with you as you build your website at a reasonable price. Hard to find, but I will give a plug to the one I use. She will work with you as you build and optimize you and monitor your site after it is built at a really good price. If you go to Google Page Creator you can get hosting and website tools and templates and a quick publisher for free. Then you most certainly can afford her. All my clues are in a little website I made for you. The URL is at the end of this article.When you, as an advertiser or affiliate join affiliate networks such as Commission Junction or LinkShare, you have the ability to run reports of the sales that show you the sales made on merchant sites as a result of click-thru’s by visitors to your site. There’s almost no variation of report you can’t generate. (The same is possible also for the merchant.) If you have negotiated individual programs with merchants, they also will provide reports that will tell you the number of click-thru’s, the page on your site, location on the page, dollars spent, commissions earned, and payouts to you. You can slice and dice this many ways, but do you?The successful affiliate makes time to eye these reports like a hawk. The unsuccessful (or very lucky!) affiliate knows they’re available, but is busy with the content focus of the site, cashes the checks, and vaguely sees that they’re getting smaller and smaller. Unless you’ve won the lottery and are running your site purely for fun and feedback, you need to carve out a portion of your weekly schedule for the review Site builder companies and hosting companies sometimes write their own reviews and articles about themselves. So keep a sharp eye or you will get fooled. At the foot of this article will be a website name that will take you to a website that has the lady I mentioned. I also have a link there to take you to the Free Google site I built for this occasion. It is a Beta site meaning it is in the B phase of testing. When it is finished in a year or so it will no longer be free. Also I want you to click on a few of my websites to see what my choice of a site builder with perfect support can do. Do not feel stupid if it does not go right. There is one hard rule I follow. Geeks cannot write good instructions. Technical people feel like you should understand most of what they know. Often well intentioned support folks will tell you how to fix your problem but you cannot understand their answer. Do not let that intimidate you. Write back "WHAT?". They need to learn to speak like the rest of us. You are the customer and you are wanted, so do not get intimidated or scared. It all can be fixed. Do not be afraid to complain. It helps as some have an improved builder coming and want your complaints.
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