Smart Apple iPod tips and techniques
August 29, 2005
Are you thinking of buying an Apple iPod? Or have you bought one?
Almost everyone and anyone that I know seems to have bought an iPod or at least is thinking of getting an ipod for themselves or their loved ones. The iPod is just so alluring! However, do you know what you should do after buying the iPod?
Most people don’t. Yet, market analysts estimate that the average iPod owner spend as much as 30% of the original iPod price on additional accessories! That’s a whopping US$60-US$90 on iPod accessories that each iPod owner will spend!
Is My Search Engine Optimization Working?
August 26, 2005
You’ve just built a website and can’t wait to start popping up in the top listings of search engines. After all, you’ve paid this company even more money to create “optimized, search engine friendly pages, start building links and add lots of fresh content.” If it takes weeks and months for the search engines to notice me, do I have to wait that long to see if the money was worth it?
Do Not Ever Link To A Site Without Doing This First! - Part 2
Writing Links
In the first part of this article we learned some techniques to build a solid potential link partner list for your website. Those sites aren’t any good to you if you don’t use a strategy for writing the textual content of those links. Yes. I mean those few little words that are underlined in blue. In the right order they give the key to your website door to the world. In the wrong order, they don’t budge the cylinders in the lock.
Do Not Ever Link To A Site Without Doing This First!
Links are a crucial part of attaining high search rankings, but you must be very careful about to whom you link. I’m going to help you develop a simple link strategy for your website that will help you decide which sites to link to so you’re making your way up the search engine rankings and not accidentally hurling yourself backwards.
So the natural questions are:
Should I link to everyone I can find?
Should I allow everyone to link to me?
Should I get one of those “link to 2,000 site for $10″ things?
What To Say When The Media Calls
Nothing makes sales take off like media saying good things about you. Thousands, even millions, of people hear a media source they know and trust explain why your business is good.
You never know when media are going to call. The customer who just left delighted with your product may happen to live next door to a newspaper reporter looking for a story. When some people feel gratitude, they automatically think of sending a note or making a quick call to their favorite columnist or broadcast personality. These tips often result in stories.