Posted on Jan 15, 2008
Recently, I have seen numerous website hosts offering packages that include credit to advertising sites, such as Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, etc. For instance, Godaddy offers $20 to Google Adwords and $25 to Microsoft Adcenter if you purchase their Economy Plan.
Note that the 12 month Economy Plan only costs $43.08 ($3.59 per month), and you will receive $45 in credit for these advertising sites as part of the plan.
Sounds too good to be true right? Well there are certain conditions for each of these credits. For Google Adwords, you must apply for an account within 15 days, be a new Google Adword customer, only use the credits on the domain hosted, and pay a $5 activation fee. For Microsoft Adcenter, you must apply for an account within 90 days, be a new Microsoft Adcenter customer, limited to one per customer, only valid for USA residents, and pay a $5 activation fee. Even with these certain conditions, it is still quite a reasonable deal granted you are able to use the credit.
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Posted on Jan 14, 2008
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is an extremely complex area of web development for websites. At SEOmoz.org there are free tool available to anyone who registers, which can help with SEO. Registration only takes 30 seconds, and the tools that the website provides are quite nice. Some of the tools are unfortunately limited to premier members, although ~50% of the tools there are free to use. Term Target and Term Extractor can be used to find what keyword or keywords that your website has optimized content for search engines. Additionally, you can use the Rank Checker to see how your website, or even a specific webpage’s keyword or keywords ranking in search engines. These stats are saved in an archive and can be compared later as your website continues to develop. Page Strength, similar to Google’s Pagerank, gives a general idea of where your website stands with regards to overall popularity across the world wide web. There are a few other convenient tools that can be used to help you with SEO with regards to your website.
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Posted on Jan 11, 2008
A website is similar to the universe in many respects. All of the websites and web pages within the World Wide Web are synonymous to the stars, planets, and galaxies of the universe. A website may be quite useful with the information that it provides on a specific topic, however it takes time for this website to become recognized by the surrounding community. Everyday, new things are discovered in our universe, and we have barely touched upon the depth of our world; additionally, new websites are found and links formed. Having a great website with relevant information on a topic does not guarantee a high rank for keywords within search engines, which can help gain visitors and reputation. Advertising campaigns and spreading the word of your site (via user’s positive feedback) can help your website get recognized faster by search engines and related sites, but this process takes time. As the universe continues to expand, we learn more and more about our surroundings; likewise as the internet grows, new websites are found and brought into the light.
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