Why VPs Shouldn’t Do Detailed Web Design
There’s a great little article at the Sun.com (Sun Microsystems) web design blog today — all about web design by Vice Presidents (who ought to know better…)
Submitting Your Website to Search Engines
If you have a web-based business or if a significant portion of
your business is done on the web through your website, then the
best advertising and marketing is done by submitting to a search
engine.
No amount of press release, newspaper or radio ad, banner
ad, spam email or newsletter will achieve the same results,
although, maybe effective in a small proportion.
Consider carefully before you sign up for automatic submission of your
website to hundreds of search engines. The best way to submit your website for search engine
ranking and inclusion is to do it yourself or to hire an expert
to do it manually, by contacting the search engine companies and
directories.
Before you begin to submit your website to search engines, ensure that
your websites are thoroughly designed to the professional quality
using the right key words, good graphics and pictures and the
relevant content.
Don’t submit websites that are incomplete.
While submitting to a search engine, make sure to provide
information about your website, keywords and any other
information that may be pertinent, including the name and
contact information of your business.
Mere submission to search engine companies does not guarantee
that your site would be immediately listed and the ranking will
be high. Because there are thousands of new websites coming up
every day and it may take quite sometime before they take up
your site for review by human editors.
One important factor to
remember while submitting site is to include a site map of your
website which makes the crawling easy for the web robots.
Site maps come in two basic varieties. First, there’s the web page that has links to each web page on the site. This kind of site map can be used by search engines and by real people, too. The other kind of site map is the new XML-formatted sitemap file that Google, Yahoo and MSN/Live use.
Search engines like Google may eventually spider a web site, but they get a big step forward when you feed them the map. At that point, whether they index all the pages depends on what they think of your content.
AdsenseAccelerator Update
AdsenseAccelerator was briefly open this week – it opened on Wednesday and a few lucky people got in. It filled up quickly. By Friday evening, it was closed to new members again
All you can do now is sign up for the AdsenseAccelerator waiting list…
AdwordAccelerator Update
AdwordAccelerator filled up quickly.
All you can do now is sign up for the AdwordAccelerator waiting list…
AdwordAccelerator is Open for New Members
If you sell products, you probably advertise on the web. You probably use Google’s Adwords, too, since almost everyone does…
But, did you know you can get a head start on the competition by researching keywords, prices and competing ads?
That’s the function of Adword Accelerator, the program and online database that is designed to help YOU make your Adwords spending more effective.
Normally all you can do is sign up on the waiting list, so you can join when the doors open again. They’re OPEN.
Blogging to Share and Exchange Information
WordPress is one of the most popular blog software packages and is available free for use in your own web hosting package. Or, as one of my subcribers did, you can create your blog for free at wordpress.com.
This subscribers is using his blog to share genealogical research information with other family members. That’s why he wanted to set up multiple userID’s that could post to his blog. wordpress.com allows people to sign up for an account without creating a blog — this is intended to do exactly what Sprague wants to do.
But, apparently, they’ve got a slight program glitch at wordpress.com such that, in order to post to a blog, you have to have your own blog wordpress.com blog first. That’s not too bad of a problem, since they’re free…
Normally, a blog has one or two people who post the messages; everyone else uses the Comment feature to write their response to one of the posts.
I know others who use blogs to share family photos with family members who are far away. It’s certainly a lot more interesting than emailing them, since viewers can comment on the blog entries.
What about privacy? Most blog software allows you to configure your blog so that only specific people can see it. Similarly, the software can control who (if anyone) is allowed to comment on the posts.
