Psychological Marketing Business Tactics: Big And Small Business Ideas -... Web Promo Links My Favorite Links Promoting your site with SelfPromotion.com is only your first step in proper web promotion. There are many sites that can help you improve your web presence. Categories: My Favorite SitesThese are the sites that I find most useful - the absolute cream-of-the-crop when it comes to web promotion. Advice from Bruce Clay Bruce does web promotion for a living, and his step-by-step instructions on how to go about the job are excellent. Make Your Site Sell! A great (and inexpensive, about $20) web-marketing course that concentrates not just on getting more people to your site, but on properly selling to them once they arrive. RobotsTxt.org Interesting pages on Web Robots, how they work, how to identify them, and how to create a proper "robots.txt" file, which allows you to control how Search Engines index your site. Meta Robots Tag 101 A useful article with lots of google/yahoo-specific additional options for the meta robots tag. Search Engine Help Search Engine Watch Traffick Web-Stat
10 Search Engines to Explore the Invisible Web - StumbleUpon Not everything on the web will show up in a list of search results on Google or Bing; there are lots of places that their web crawlers cannot access. To explore the invisible web, you need to use specialist search engines. Here are our top 12 services to perform a deep internet search. What Is the Invisible Web? Before we begin, let's establish what does the term "invisible web" refer to? Simply, it's a catch-all term for online content that will not appear in search results or web directories. There are no official data available, but most experts agree that the invisible web is several times larger than the visible web. The content on the invisible web can be roughly divided into the deep web and the dark web. The Deep Web The deep web made up of content that typically needs some form of accreditation to access. If you have the correct details, you can access the content through a regular web browser. The Dark Web The dark web is a sub-section of the deep web. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
15 Must-Know Facts on How People View Websites Do you know what is the first thing that your eye is drawn to on a website? And in what pattern do people scan your website? There have been many eyetracking tests on this subject and I’ll give you 15 most useful facts you should know. The picture below shows 3 different websites and where people look on them. Red indicates the area, where people looked the most, yellow areas got a bit less eye-action, blue areas got the least views and the gray areas, well, people didn’t focus on them at all. As you can see, the more people scroll down, the more they lose focus and start mainly scanning your website. Here are the 15 facts you should know on how people view websites. Text attracts more attention than pictures. There you go. Sources: BBC News | directcreative | GoogleBlog
High Dynamic Range (HDR) Photography in Photoshop High dynamic range (HDR) images enable photographers to record a greater range of tonal detail than a camera could capture in a single photo. This opens up a whole new set of lighting possibilities which one might have previously avoided — for purely technical reasons. The new "merge to HDR" feature of Photoshop accomplishes this by combining a series of bracketed exposures into a single image, which encompasses the tonal detail of the entire series. Single Photo without HDR After High Dynamic Range Technique Image above courtesy of Kyle Kruchock (albeit in a heavily modified form). There is no free lunch however; trying to broaden the tonal range will inevitably come at the expense of decreased contrast in some tones. As digital sensors attain progressively higher resolutions, and thereby successively smaller pixel sizes, the one quality of an image which does not benefit is its dynamic range. Brightness Distribution Underexposure Overexposure *As measured by a digital camera. Reference
50 Rules for Dad's of Daughters I was in tears as I read through this list, as I’m sure many grown daughters will be. Mothers – bookmark this list of rules and encourage your daughter’s daddy to read them, memorize them, and put them in to action. And, to all you Dads out there – be sure you pay close attention and heed these wise words. About Michael Michael Mitchell is an (almost) thirty-something dad who blogs daily tips and life lessons for dads of daughters at lifetoheryears.com. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. Photo Credit :: Danielle Rocke Toews 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 50. Photo Credits can be found at the bottom of Michael’s original post. **9/15/11**This post has resonated so well with daughters and fathers, mothers and grandfathers, and has received many beautiful and heartfelt comments.
Free Privacy Policy Generator Aaron Dignan: How to Use Games to Excel at Life and Work :: Videos :: The 99 Percent Play is nature’s learning engine, says games researcher and author Aaron Dignan. In other words, we’re hardwired to enjoy games – they’re addictive, skill-building, and satisfying. So the question is: How can we integrate game concepts into our work lives to help us push ideas forward? Aaron Dignan dressed up like a superhero for 180 straight days of the first grade, which marked the beginning of his life as an iconoclast, observer, theorist, and performer. www.gameframers.com www.undercurrent.com @aarondignan
How To Build / Increase Web Traffic Part 1 - Long Tail Keyword Strategy When people talking about keyword research, they will go directly to Google keyword tool and start picking the most traffic keyword with rather high SEO competition, that's the main reason for failure! When picking the right keyword, we have to consider 3 factors: 1. Keyword search volume 2. 3. a) Research keyword - Least valuable, they present an introduction of a topic, something we start to learn about a topic. b) Problem / Solution keyword - When there are not many free solutions out there, the problem & solution keyword will become a valuable opt-in keyword. c) Buying keyword - This include the product name, solution or cure for a particular problem, people are ready to buy at this stage, this is the gold mine of all keywords! When we build a website, we want to start with the Problem / Solution & Buying keywords, research keywords are a waste of time! Ok, let's take a look at what I mean: First, we expand the keyword from the topic - "Weight Loss". This is not a buying keyword [/b]
DEMO Wrap Up: 7 New Social Startups to Watch The DEMO Spring 2011 conference wrapped up yesterday in Palm Springs, and echoing the current climate in the Valley, day two of the conference belonged to startups focused on social technologies. From social CRM platforms, photo sharing, and social networks to aggregation and reader engagement tools to video and group chat, the day’s startups showed that the interest in the “social” Web only continues to blossom. Here, in no particular order, is a look at seven new interesting startups worth keeping an eye on: Marginize: Marginize is a browser add-on that allows you to annotate Websites and to leave comments, adding a social layer to every site you visit. The user can add or join an existing “margin” layer to browse and discover what others have said about the site you’re visiting. You can leave a comment or browse those left by others.
7 Super Snacks That Heal If some doctors had their way today, Americans would be more medicated than industrial feedlot cattle. But what most people don’t realize is that the first line of defense against stress, fatigue, depression, and so many other maladies is found in supermarket aisles, not in the drug store. Research shows that the vitamins, minerals, and active compounds specific to certain fruits, vegetables, and even chocolate and red wine have an immediate and lasting impact on your mood, your health, your fitness — even your sex life. Whether you have a big presentation at work, or the need to burn a few hundred extra calories a day (and who doesn’t want to do that?), why not put food to work for you? 1. Eat This: 1 Cup of Low-Fat Yogurt or 2 Tbsp of Mixed Nuts Scientists in Slovakia gave people 3 grams each of two amino acids — lysine and arginine — or a placebo and asked them to deliver a speech. Not That! 2. Drink This:Green Tea Not That! 3. Eat This: A Handful of Trail Mix Not That! 4. Not That! 5.
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