Continue Reading June 3rd, 2010
Television, radio and computer games were considered good entertainment a few years ago. However, change occurred with the foundation of the Net. Washington’s service provider WildBlue fetches fresh media directly to your screen with super fast file transfer speeds of up to 30 times faster than dial-up. Actual speeds may vary.
Continue Reading May 27th, 2010
It is well known that Alfresco web site content management systems - WCM - have drastically altered the way companies co-exist with the Internet, online properties, and other relevant data. Modern WCM systems are compatible with most other computer programs . Nevertheless, to compete with the market leaders in your circle, the foremost WCM system has to satisfy 5 key criteria…
Continue Reading May 23rd, 2010
In the past, TV sets, radio sets, and game consoles were what made for acceptable home entertainment. All that transformed with the creation of the net. ISP Wild Blue in Mississippi sports a file transfer speed which, although the actual rate may vary, is up to thirty times faster than dial-up. This has added an eye-popping aspect to entertainment and brought it directly to your screen.
Continue Reading May 17th, 2010
Spoiling even the best digital catalog is all too easy, even if you’ve put all your effort into it, if you have a low grade of electronic catalog package. In point of fact, picking a software supplier is the key part of producing an online publication. This isn’t about just formatting your newsletter prettily - indeed this decision is serious because it can mean success or failure for your overall venture.
December 16th, 2009
Microsoft Gold Certified Partner Enterhost, a global leader in providing Windows only web and managed hosting, announced this week that it has renewed its partnership with SmarterTools. This deal means that both will continue providing business communication software for its clients.
Kevin Valadez, Enterhost President, said that the company’s relationship with SmarterTools has made it possible to continue providing the customers with a stronger collaboration and email platform. Entering the fifth year of this lucrative partnership means that the business has been favorable for both parties. He added that they continue to show great confidence on SmarterTools’ ability to meet the requirements set by the clients.
The software provided includes SmarterMail 6.X, an award-winning mail server, SmarterStats 4.X, an analytics application and SmarterTrack 4.X, a helpdesk application that has been designed solely for customer service departments.
Clients can now purchase a dedicated server from Enterhost for about $500 but will get three applications at once and will own a 50-user permanent software license under their name.
SmarterMail 6.X boasts of spam protection and antispam measures that can block up to 97 percent of spam. SmartStats 4.X gives the clients the comprehensive Web log analytics in a new online interface while SmarterTrack 4.X is a powerful helpdesk application that’s been built for managing, tracking and reporting on customer communication and service.
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November 30th, 2009
Would you want to be in a movie that is watched all around the world? Some people would be willing to pay for the privilege. And some people do it just for the love of adventure and a good story. In the science fiction and fantasy community many people make fan films and upload them to the Internet. While this activity does not normally merit much comment, one movie is generating quite a buzz across the Web.
Launched as an all-volunteer effort in 2006, “Born of Hope” is set in the same cinematic universe as Peter Jackson’s “Lord of the Rings” movies. That is, the film-makers decided that “Born of Hope” should be compatible with, and resemble as much as possible, Jackson’s movie trilogy, which was based on J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings.
Ever since the Tolkien forum Web first learned about the project fans have been excited about seeing another movie set in (or paying homage to) Peter Jackson’s Middle-earth. The only movies that have been sanctioned for inclusion in the Jackson canon are Guillermo del Toro’s Hobbit movies, which are scheduled for release in 2011 and 2012. But fans are willing to make an exception for rare high quality fan films.
More information has been posted at bornofhope.com, the official home site of the fan film production. The movie is scheduled for general release on the Internet on December 1, 2009. Admission is free.
May 16th, 2008
Keyword marketing In the Field of SEO-Search engine optimization
choosing keywords is one of the most important tasks. You should
choose keyword wisely. Choosing keyword is not a guessing Game
but it is an art. Why to choose keywords?
As you probably aware of search engine traffic. Search engine
traffic is very very important for success of any website. It is
estimated that approximately 65 to 85% of traffic (average)
coming from search engine (however is depends on how you promote
your website).search engine is only way to create highly
targeted traffic. You can improve visitor to sales ratio of your
website if you successfully receive traffic from search engine.
Or improve your revenue by attracting more visitors.
If you are selling Music CDs online. If your website is on top
for key Phrase like “Music CD” on all Major search engines then
just think how many people will search for Music CD in a day?? I
think lots of. Now. This is the way you are getting visitor
searching for Music CDs. However there will be lots of search in
a day for term CD like [1] Software CDs [2] E-Book CDs [3] Video
CDs [4] Game CDs etc… But traffic coming form these terms is
Meaningless for you to create sales. So your page should be
relevant only for Key phrases like music CDs, audio CDs etc …
so it will be better to choose Keywords related to your business
rather than selecting randomly or blindly. I hope you will now
able to understand importance of choosing better keywords
How to choose keywords?
There are lots of tools for choosing better Keywords like
Nichebot, overture keyword suggestion tool, Wordtracker
etc…First decide “what is your target market?” and then use
these tools. Example you are selling E-books related to website
design. Than you should first research how many people every day
search for ‘Web Design E-books” go to Nichebot.com for that and
simply search Web Design E-books. Nichebot will provide you
count of last 60 days for this Key Phrase. We can see that Count
for this key phrase is………..Or Go to Wordtracker.com site
and search for this keyword Phrase and you will see related
information on specific key phrase and you will be able to get
information related to this keyword. Phrase. They will provide
you all related keywords
Example: For “Directory submission” you will see following
related or nearly related Keywords. (This can also help to
receive ONLY targeted traffic…)
Related term-count(average search in two month) Directory
submission-3978 Search engine directory submission-679 Search
engine submission software directory-266 directory internet
submission-163 directory website submission-159 directory engine
search submission-133 directory submission services-129
Follow this Url to know more>>
http://www.nichebot.com/kd/?term=directory+submission
Please follow one of the following tool for keyword research.
[1] wordtracker.com [2] Nichebot.com [3] inventory.overture.com/
Now you have to decide which Keyword is less competitive for
your website and you can easily reach on top. Based on that you
should place these Keywords on your site..
Where and How to place these Keywords?
You are now familiar with keyword/key phrases. Now Question is
‘where to Put these keywords?” here are some places where you
can place these keywords [1] Meta tags [2] Title Tags [3]
Through out the Description on the page
Meta tags:-
Meta tags are invisible for Visitor and as you might know search
engines like Yahoo, Google, MSN are Not providing weight to them
to rank your page. But still you can place your keywords in Meta
title, keywords and description section.
Title Tags:-
This is very important place where you should place your keyword
for better ranking in search engine. The main Keywords must be
here for which you are optimizing your site. Try to include its
synonyms Key phrases / keywords also to receive traffic of
related keywords. Example you can create your title like this
way Buy Music CDs online: The shop for buying audio CDs online
You are including your two targeted keywords here.
Description:
After title tags this is also one of the most important section
where you can place your keywords. But don’t go over bound
.density of keywords/ phrases should be 7-10%. Otherwise search
engines will consider it as keyword stuffing and your rank will
go down rather than improving
Other places where you can place these keywords:
Images: -
you can choose name of images like music_cds.gif audio_cds.jpg
etc rather than 0545.gif and image.jpg! This will improve
relevancy of your page for related keyword Name of domain, Sub
directory and sub domain:- Before you choose any domain name,
directory or sub directory you should consider your keywords/
key phrases and also choose them according to your target market.
Example:
Just look at my site. I selected sub domain for my site like
http://directory-submission.inetzeal.com/ and
http://link-building.inetzeal.com/ for targeting my keywords.
Now see source code of Page
http://directory-submission.inetzeal.com/ you will find that to
improve relevancy of my page related to keywords I also kept
name of my logo like this
directory_submission_and_link_building.png .then I placed title
like Directory submission service. And placed this keyword
phrase in whole description.now my page is relevant for keyword
phrase “directory submission”, “directory submission service”.
Or ‘web directory submission” etc…
I have chosen every sub domain according to this to improve
relevancy for specific keywords I strongly recommend you to
choose your sub domain or sub directory wisely. if you are
creating just a page then you can select like this
…./directory-submission.html because search engines text
matching will match this keyword and will rank your site on top
with your competitor..
I Strongly recommend you to visit this page to find list of top
keyword research tools>>
http://www.seo-resources.inetzeal.com/top-free-seo-tools.htm
So, like this article? It took two days to write. Ant feed back
good or bad are always appreciated. You can contact me at
info[at]inetzeal[dot]com
May 7th, 2008
More websites are starting to offer RSS feeds, and more users
are making use of RSS readers instead of visiting every website
they want to read individually. But what is RSS, why is it
getting popular, and - most importantly -what can it do for you?
Read on.
What is RSS?
RSS stands for ‘really simple syndication’, and it does exactly
what it says on the tin. Invented by Dave Winer, one of the
first webloggers, the format aims to provide a standardised way
to obtain a website’s content, instead of forcing people to try
to pick it out of masses of HTML. It is a simple XML (strictly,
RDF) language designed to make it easy to describe content.
Information RSS gives you about content includes its title, the
dates when it was created and last updated, and its URL. There
is also a space for content, which can either be used to provide
a summary of the content at the URL or just to provide the
content itself.
Which Version?
There is a bit of a controversy about the versions of RSS, for
the simple reason that one is wildly different to the others.
While RSS 0.9 and 2.0 are broadly similar, RSS 1.0 is widely
considered to be a disaster - little software understands or
uses it, as it’s just too complicated. For most purposes, then,
you should stick to RSS 0.9 if what you’re doing is relatively
simple, and offer RSS 2.0 if you want to give more detail to
some of your users.
How is RSS Produced?
While you could write a script of your own to turn your content
into RSS (it wouldn’t be that difficult if you store your
articles in a database), almost all CMSes and blog software
packages now do it for you automatically - if you’re looking for
it, keep an eye out for a small orange button that says ‘XML’ or
‘RSS’ on it. All you have to do is give some prominence to the
RSS feed, with instructions to your visitors on what it’s for
and how to use it.
With most software, then, the RSS should be produced either when
you update your content or, alternatively, every time someone
asks for the RSS. It’s important to understand that RSS isn’t a
‘push’ mechanism: updating it doesn’t send changes to anyone
until their software asks for them to be sent. This often means
a window of five to ten minutes between something going in the
RSS feed and people seeing it.
How Do RSS Readers Work?
RSS readers work by allowing a user to ’subscribe’ to a feed,
either by entering the URL of an RSS feed manually or by
clicking on a link that starts with feed://. The reader then
works something like an email program, retrieving new entries as
they are added to the RSS and alerting the user - indeed, they
are similar enough that many email programs now include a
built-in RSS reader.
When the user opens the new RSS entry, they will see what you
put in the content area, usually with a link to open that page
of your website in their web browser. You have to realise,
though, that they won’t see any of your ads or graphics in the
RSS feed, so it’s best to give them some kind of incentive to
click through.
What Else is RSS Used For?
RSS readers might be the most common use of RSS, but the format
was designed to be used for almost anything. There’s nothing to
stop you, for example, from taking an RSS feed from another
website and publishing it on yours - you can even be an
‘aggregator’, mixing relevant content from the RSS feeds of lots
of different websites to create a new, more useful website.
That’s where the word ’syndication’ in RSS’ name comes from: it
lets you virtually syndicate other people’s content on your
site, and it lets people syndicate your content on theirs. It
benefits everyone, since the one doing the aggregating gets more
content for their website, while the one being linked to gets
more links to theirs. If you want to do well on the web, you
should make sure you’ve got an RSS fede
May 4th, 2008
Do you use third-party services to track the links on your Web
site? What about for processing your online credit card
payments? If so, you are probably losing sales that you don’t
even know about. Sorry, but it’s a fact.
Third-Party Services Defined.
Let me explain what I mean by “third-party” services. These are
the “link tracking” type of services that one can purchase from
various online companies. People use the special html link codes
that these services provide to keep track of how visitors move
around their Web sites. In return for a monthly fee, the user
gets online access to a Web site that stores their link tracking
information on a database, and gives them access to tracking
statistics. This allows users to quickly and easily find out
such things as which links visitors to their Web sites click on,
and how often.
But, it’s not just link tracking services I’m talking about
here. Payment processing gateways is another type of third-
party service that many of us are dependent upon.
These third-party services are great in theory, and when they’re
working well they’re also great in practice. BUT there can be a
definite downside to them. That downside is this. If that
service company’s servers or and/or network go down for any
reason, you go down with them!
A Case In Point.
After a few bad experiences over the past year, I have made it a
habit to check all of my Web sites every morning. I quickly open
each of the home pages and click on a few key links and make
sure they are working as they’re supposed to. Of course, I don’t
have the time to check each and every link, but I do test the
key ones I know my visitors tend to click on most often on their
way to making a purchase. And, I definitely check the main
“order” links on each page.
If I find that these links are not working for some reason, as I
have on numerous occasions, it is about the worst thing that
could happen. In fact, it could ruin one’s whole day, because it
means lost sales! Last week while doing one of these routine
checks I discovered that a number of links were not working on
one of my sites. I did some further checking and realized that
these links had not been working for more than 12 hours! What
this meant was that visitors to my site had been/were clicking
on these links and getting a blank page full of gibberish that
indicated that my service provider’s data base was corrupted. In
effect, this problem was crippling my site.
You know what that meant to me of course - lost visitors AND
lost sales!
Long story, short. It took more than 24 hours from my initial
call until the problem was fully resolved. This was during a
prime sales period in the middle of the week. Consequently, I
estimate that during the 36-hour period that my site was
intermittently “out-of-action” due to this problem, I lost
somewhere between 6 and 8 sales. Ouch! I can’t afford that. Can
you?
Here are a couple of other quick examples of similar occurrences
that some of you might be able to identify with.
Lost Weekend. Lost Sales.
One Friday night a few months ago I discovered that the links on
two of my sites were not functioning properly. These links were
being tracked by one of the “big name” services that is widely
marketed across the Net. Believe it or not, I spent that whole
weekend checking my links regularly and then trying to get in
touch with this so-called “service” provider (I use the term
“service” advisedly here).
Well, my links didn’t work for that entire weekend. At the time,
I did some research through my ISP that put me in touch with the
gateway site for my service provider. When I contacted the
gateway company by telephone, they advised me that my service
provider’s servers were dropping all connections and nobody
there was responding!
It just so happens that that particular service provider
prominently advertises “24/7″ support service in all of their
marketing copy! Well, I’m sad to report that not once that
weekend did anyone at that company ever respond to one of my
many e-mails or phone calls. It appears they all took the
weekend off and crossed their fingers that problems wouldn’t
occur. Unfortunately for their customers, problems did occur.
So, effectively, my two sites were shut down for an entire long
weekend because of that problem. There went another 5 to 10
sales!
To add insult to injury, these people never once contacted me
the following week to apologize for the inconvenience and loss
of business they might have caused me (as well as to thousands
of others, presumably).
Lost Weekdays. Lost Sales.
A couple of months ago, the links to my “big name” payment
processing company stopped working for an extended period of
time. I found out later that they had experienced a major power
outage that shut down their entire network. They were out of
commission for somewhere between 12 and 20 hours. Apparently,
they did not (do not?) have a backup power source in case of
such an interruption! Duhhh, this is the year 2002 isn’t it?
This is a major online payment processor I’m talking about here
folks. Shouldn’t such back-up be standard for a major payment
processor? The implications of this for the small online
business person were enormous of course: during that period,
literally tens of thousands of dollars in sales were lost by
thousands of that service provider’s customers!
At least three more examples of such shoddy third party service
provider incidents that occurred over the past year come to mind
as a write this. But alas, I’m out of space.
Bottom Line. Don’t Accept It.
If you use third party services for anything like link tracking
or payment processing, don’t assume that things are always
running along smoothly on “automatic pilot” as some of the
Internet gurus would lead you to believe.
Be constantly vigilant, and when you discover a problem, sound
the alarm right away, and don’t let your “service” provider off
the hook until the problem is fixed.
If you get any kind of “run-around” at all, head for the major
message boards and discussion forums. That should get them to
take you a bit more seriously in a hurry.
Finally, whatever you do, DO NOT accept the type of third party
service breakdowns that I describe above. They wouldn’t be
acceptable in offline business, so why should we accept them
online?
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