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Google Search Wiki

2009-01-14T23:25:00.000-08:00

Google Search Wiki
Today while searching in Google I found a new feature which might change the overall concept of Google Search ranking algorithm. This feature called "Search Wiki" which means that when you search in Google users will be able to put their comments and promote or remove search result.

Comments and promotion will be visible for all other searchers.Google search wiki is available only if you signed inI think that Google is now thinking about the users in the ranking of search results, which means that search engine optimization and back links will not be your way to have a better rank in Google. what a bad news for SEOs.

Top 10 Web 2.0 Sites

2009-01-14T23:12:00.000-08:00

Thanks to Web 2.0 sites for the original list

Here you are version 2.0 of the top 100 web 2.0 sites

thanks for your comments. By commenting on this post you will help enhancing the listing and ordering .

Programming

Ajaxlines: Ajax related tutorials, articles and review, in a web 2.0 design.

ma.gnolia: Build your web site and build community online

Ajaxian: Ajax related blog

Web 2.0 Sites: web 2.0 sites directory, for all web 2.0 related services.

Video

YouTube: YouTube is a popular free video sharing Web site which lets users upload, view, and share video clips.

Meta Cafe: Metacafe - Get the best internet videos - Funny videos, Amazing clips, Rare movies

Vimeo: Share your video clips. Upload video that you shoot with your digital camera, mobile phone, or camcorder. Share video by linking to Vimeo.

Daily Motion Publish, tag, organize and share your video clips.

Imeem: imeem is a social media service where users interact with each other by watching, posting, and sharing content of all media types, including blogs, photos, audio, and video. In one sense, imeem is a media-centric social network service, and in another sense, it is also a user participation service for online content.

ClipShack: ClipShack is a community for videophiles; a destination where people can post their video for general public viewing and comment, share clips with friends and family, post video to blogs, share...

vSocial: The fastest, easiest way to upload, watch and share your favorite video clips.

Jumpcut: The best place to create, remix and share movies and slideshows online. There's nothing else like it. Jumpcut Makes Movies, Simple.

Video Bomb: Video Bomb filters up the hottest videos on the internet: people submit links to the 'Incoming!' page and you bomb the best ones. If a video gets a lot of bombs quickly, it makes it to the front...

eyeSpot: Shoot, Mix, and Share your Video. Use the eyespot Mixer to edit and combine your videos, music and photos online! Share your video and mixes with the world for Free

revver : Upload, share videos

Avidbeauty: Avid Beauty is an entertainment community for iPod users. We offer iPod downloads which are available in playlists known as Podcasts. We also offer Flickr photo, YouTube video and LiveJournal integration into your member profile.

Music

last.fm: Generate custom streaming music stations with Last.fm by searching for and tagging your favorite artists. Build your own library and search the libraries of others to find who likes the same music as you

Musicovery: Discover new music based on your mood, this free webradio let you browse music styles and epochs

read.io :Read.io converts RSS feeds into podcasts via TextToSpeech. Many languages supported.

MusicStrands: Search MusicStrands to discover new music. Listen to samples, then tag good tracks and exile the ones you don't like to get clear recommendations, either on site or with an optional iTunes plugin. Then purchase music from a variety of vendors.

PODZINGER: PODZINGER - the world's premiere audio and video search engine

Upto11: Using tags and rankings, Upto11 suggests new music for you. Create and share your recommendations, tags, and playlists via a personal user page.

Pandora: Pandora is the music discovery service that helps you find new music based on your old and current favorites

Chat

Meebo: meebo, the web messenger that lets you access IM from absolutely anywhere. meebo supports msn, yahoo, aol/aim, google talk (gtalk), jabber and icq

Joopz: Allows users to send text messages from the Web to both individuals and groups, while enabling recipients to respond directly to the originating PC or Mac. Joopz web texts can be sent from any web-enabled device worldwide to any U.S. or Canadian mobile phone.

campfire: Simple, Web-based group chat for businesses, Campfire allows real-time sharing, editing, and collaboration for team members in a secure, password-protected chat.

Goowy: is a web based application offering free web and flash email service that enables you instant messaging, email, chat and much more

Gizmo: Gizmo Project uses your internet connection (broadband or dial-up) to make calls to other computers. With the click of a mouse, you’re connected to friends, family, and colleagues anywhere on earth. It’s just that simple. You talk clearly. For as long as you want. For free.

eBuddy: web based messaging for everyone, everywhere. e-Messenger is a web application that enables you to chat with your MSN, AOL and Yahoo buddies without having to install any program or Java applet.

e-messenger: Online messaging from eBuddy is a web messenger application which supports MSN, Yahoo and AIM (AOL). When your school or office has blocked IM you can use the web version of eBuddy with any standard JavaScript enabled browser, even behind a firewall.

ILOVEIM: eBuddy is a web messenger application which supports MSN, Yahoo and AIM (AOL). When your school or office has blocked IM you can use the web version of eBuddy with any standard JavaScript enabled browser, even behind a firewall.

Images & Photos

Flickr: The best way to stor, search, sort and share your photos

Zooomr:Universally the best way to share, search, store and sort your photos online.

Slide:

zoto

23HQ:Are your photos stuck on your hard drive, instead of being shared with the people who matter to you?

Mybloop: MyBloop - sharing pictures, audio, and video for free, whithout storage limits and additional software to install

Blogs

Blogger: your easy-to-use web site, where you can quickly post thoughts, interact with people, and more

Weblogs, Inc: Creating trade weblogs across niche industries in which user participation is an essential component of the resulting product.

BlogCode: BlogCode.com is a fast, easy and intuitive source of blog recommendations based on the StoryCode.com model. It allows you to start with your favourite weblog (or perhaps even your own) and find...

blo.gs: lets you keep an eye on your favorite weblogs via the web and email. you can even put the list on your site: a blogroll that knows what is new!

BlogLines: a FREE online service for searching, subscribing, creating and sharing news feeds, blogs and rich web content.

Bookmarking

Digg: Digg is all about user powered content. Everything is submitted and voted on by the digg community. Share, discover, bookmark, and promote stuff that's important to you!

del.icio.us: A social bookmarks manager. Using bookmarklets, you can add bookmarks to your list and categorize them

Reddit: Reddit is a source for what's new and popular online. reddit learns what you like as you vote on existing links or submit your own!

StumbleUpon: StumbleUpon uses thumbs up and down ratings to form collaborative opinions on website quality. When you stumble, you will only see pages which friends and like–minded stumblers have liked

Blinklist: Real people with shared interests list the websites they care about. Rate sites you like or save them for later.

Blummy: A free tool for quick access to your favorite web services via your bookmark toolbar, Blummy lets you add and customize widgets that do practically anything: add pictures to Flickr, submit sites to del.icio.us, look up text in WIkipedia. Choose from hundreds of custom "blummlets" or create your own.

Techcrunch: TechCrunch is a blog about Web 2.0 products & companies, many of the posts written by Michael Arrington. The blog's first post was on June 11, 2005

Furl: Make your favorite web bookmarks accessible from anywhere with Furl's lightweight bookmarklet. Furl allows you to easily save, take notes on and share the links you've stored, or browse others' most popular bookmarks to find new and interesting things.

Spurl: Never lose track of a web site again with Spurl's free on-line bookmarking service and search engine. Spurl stores addresses quickly for easy access with a one-click bookmarklet and provides recommendations for new content based on your preferences

Trailfire: Bookmaking sharing software.

VOIP

Jajah: jah is a VoIP (Voice over IP) provider, founded by Austrians Roman Scharf and Daniel Mattes in 2005[1]. The Jajah headquarters are located in Mountain View, CA, USA, and Luxembourg. Jajah maintains a development centre in Israel.

skype: It’s free to download and free to call other people on Skype. Skype the number one voice over ip software

Private Phone: a free local phone number with voicemail and messages you can check online or from any phone.

Games & Sketching

Trendio: Trendio.com is an online prediction market. Users, instead of buying stock in companies with real money, buy stock in certain news subjects with fake money. Words available include those from the world of politics, sport, and entertainment. The more the word appears in the news, the higher the value of the stock. Currently, the site uses about 3,000 online internet sources to gauge the value of each word.

GameSnips: online games list, digg style. voting for each game, sort lists by latest or by votes

Pictaps: Roxik Pictaps - Draw a Character and Watch It Dance in 3D

Broadcast Game: The objective of the Broadcast game is to connect all of the terminals and cables on the grid to the central hub by fixing their orientations. All you need to do is click and rotate the cables, the terminals, or the hub.

Pikipimp.com : Ever wanted to add bling to your iomages? Pikpimp is a relly cool ajax application that allows you to drop and drag objects on your image. Save the image and add to your site!

Mainada: How aobut Comic Sketch (thanks Tiago)

Wikis

Wikipedia: The biggest multilingual free-content encyclopedia on the Internet. Over two million articles and still growing.

LittleWiki: LittleWiki is a Web site where you can create public and private wiki pages. A Wiki is a Web site where anyone can enter and edit content. That means you can post and edit information about virtually anything you wish, and you can read what others have posted too.

Wetpaint: Wetpaint powers websites that tap the power of collaborative thinking. The heart of the Wetpaint advantage is its ability to allow anyone — especially those without technical skill — to create and contribute to websites written for and by those who share a passion or interest. To do this, Wetpaint combines the best aspects of wikis, blogs, forums and social networks so anyone can click and type on the web.

JotSpot: Create and share wiki pages with a WYSIWYG editor via Jotspot's secure wiki hosting. Install various "applications" to refine your wiki content - project manager, company directory, blog, forum, poll, calendar, and more - then invite others to contribute

PBWiki: Make a free, password protected wiki as easily as a peanut butter sandwich. Easily upload HTML, link files to your pages, integrate RSS, and more.

Office Tools

Zoho Office Suite: Online Word Processor

Google Docs & Spreadsheets: With Google Docs & Spreadsheets, you can: * Use our online editor to format documents, spell-check and more. * Upload Word documents, OpenOffice, RTF, HTML or text. * Download...

Num Sum: Easy, Sharable Web Spreadsheets

Dictinary : Online dictionary

notifyr.org: Be ahead of the rest with notifyr.org. Notifyr is an easy to use tool which lets anybody easily receive instant updates on any web page around the world. Notifyr.org is ideal for those who want instant information on new stock, or new product release information. Best of all it's free - and always will be

ThinkFree Office: Have you ever wanted to edit an Excel spreadsheet on a Linux system? Have you ever wanted to show your colleagues a presentation on a computer not equipped with Powerpoint? Would you like to be able...

Numly: Numly is a web 2.0 startup offering next generation copyright and DRM licensing services for all things digital.

gOffice: Free online word processor, outpput can be pdf or html letters, allows personalization in letter templates..

RSS

FeedBurner: FeedBurner helps bloggers, podcasters and commercial publishers get more value from the content they create. Our advanced feed management technology deftly delivers subscription services for...

Feed Digest: Feed Digest is a parser, regenerator, and syndicator for, and of, RSS and Atom feeds. It lets you do things like put the content of RSS or Atom feeds on your own site(s).

Attensa: Attensa, Inc. is a venture backed software company developing RSS readers, online RSS aggregators, enterprise RSS servers and RSS infrastructure software that automatically and intelligently delivers...

Tiny Tiny RSS: Tiny Tiny RSS is a web-based news feed aggregator, designed to allow you to read news from any location, while feeling as close to a real desktop application as possible.

Feed43: This free online service converts any web page to an RSS feed on the fly.

Feed Mailer: feeds direct to your email. (thanks John)

Emails

Gmail: Gmail is an experiment in a new kind of webmail, built on the idea that you should never have to delete mail and you should always be able to find the message you want.

30 Gigs: 30Gigs.com is invite-only web-based email that offers, you guessed it, 30 gigabytes of space.

Zookoda: is an email marketing application designed specifically for bloggers. Zookoda enables you to send a daily, weekly or monthly summary of your latest blog posts directly into your visitors inbox.

Sprout: osted email management for your sales and support email. No IT department required. Mailroom can organize your email and suggest replies to save you time and keep you better in touch with your customers. There is nothing to setup and it takes only a minute to get started

Gawab: Offers a web mail service with a number of features. Supports POP/SMTP.

News

NewsGator: Read all of your favorite news, websites and blogs all in one place.

newsvine.com: Keep track of breaking news with Newsvine: read "The Wire" for a direct stream of articles from the AP and ESPN, and read "The Vine" for Newsvine user submitted content and columns. Interact with other Newsvine readers by voting for and commenting on news, and write/maintain your own Newsvine column.

Gabbr :Gabbr is a community-based social news and blogging network which allows users to save and share their favorite top news headlines and blog posts.

wired: News site and magazine, covering technology, culture, business and politics.

Clipmarks: Bite-size hiligh-lights on the web.

File Sharing

Box.Net: Free online file storage and sharing from Box.net! Our internet storage service enables you to save, browse, share, & retrieve files, photos, and documents ...

AllPeers:Unleash your online experience and discover unlimited private sharing. Share private photos worry-free. No passwords to remember, no public access. Share your videos without uploading - save on hosting costs while saving time.No cumbersome interface. No sharing restriction. Private and secure. No spyware, no adware, no annoying advertisements.

MailBigFile internet application for file sharing

Others

Live: Microsoft web 2.0 portal

LinkedIn: is like Facebook for business professionals: Build yourself a business network to give you credibility in job searches and hiring, or use LinkedIn to reconnect or keep in touch with important business connections.

BaseCamp: Simple project management with to-do lists, milestones, time tracking, file sharing, calendars, and more. Basecamp is a solution for taking charge of communication, collaboration, and organization for projects big and small.

Side Job Track: A job tracking application for independent contractors, Sidejobtrack creates and manages invoices for goods, services, and time, then produces monetary reports to track payments and income.

Kayak.com searches hundreds of travel sites to give you the widest possible choice of flights and prices. It costs nothing to search and not a cent to book because we're not a travel agency.

TravBuddy is a site for people who love to explore. You don't have to be traveling across the world to use this site. Maybe you just want to share advice about a local restaurant you enjoy, or perhaps last weekend you discovered an amazing new place to watch the sunset, right in your hometown. Whether you are exploring at home or exploring abroad, the art and joy of discovery is still the same. Something that is familiar to you might be amazing and new to someone who is visiting.

Wayfaring is an interesting new site that lets you tag and create your own routes and places on Google maps

Omnidrive: As the world's first complete storage aggregator, Omnidrive allows you to bring all your files and content together from your desktop, devices and the web onto a single space that's easily accessible from any platform.

ma.gnolia: Build your web site and build community online

Ajaxian: Ajax related blog

Web 2.0 Sites: web 2.0 sites directory, for all web 2.0 related services.

SEO Service Details

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What is search engine optimization?
SEO is the process in which your website undergoes redevelopment to more effectively communicate your keywords to search engines. Optimizing your website enables it to rank higher on major search engines. Search engines rank websites based on two major factors: unique content that contains pertinent keywords, and link popularity - the number of quality incoming links to your website. Other important factors that determine your ranking with search engines are the architecture of the site, the visibility of your content, its underlying code and how natural your site appears to the engines

Initial Consultation & Keywords
As the initial step of SEO, one of our analysts will review your website and identify which areas need optimization to make the site search engine friendly. Oftentimes, sites may have duplicate content, session ID numbers, flash content, dynamic content and other such problems which prevent webpages from being indexed. In addition, we will review your keywords and use keyword research tools to create a list of the most searched terms for your website or industry.

Content Writing
Submit Express employs professional copywriters to create content that is not only well optimized and grammatically correct, but also is appealing to your readers and potential customers. Keywords will be integrated in your content using proper SEO keyword densities. Our writers will consult with you to ensure that the essence of your website is not compromised and that you are happy with the content we create. For sites with very little content or a greater degree of industry competition, we can also write original, 300 to 600-word articles which are keyword rich and related to your products or services. The articles would then be posted on your website to increase its content.

Website Optimization
Our optimization engineers are well-experienced Web developers and programmers who have knowledge of all kinds of website technologies such as PHP, ASP, JSP, ColdFusion, etc. The optimization engineers will take care of the technical parts of your optimization and tweak the backend of your website to make it search engine friendly. This process will include creating or modifying meta tags, title tags, alt image tags, internal linking structures, site maps, duplicate content, flash content, session ID problems, dynamic content and shopping carts.

Link Development
The development of incoming links from well-established websites is one of the major variables in attaining high search engine rankings. Link development is absolutely essential to your website’s success and is a major part of the optimization service that we offer. A high quantity of quality links can be developed through a variety of means, including:• One-way links from directories and other related sites • Reciprocal link exchanges with related sites• Fee-based directory submissions We may also offer the following services on a case-by-case basis: • Article writing and submission to article directories• Blog postings and/or creation• Press release writing and submissions• Social Media Optimization (SMO) and postings

Submission
After the optimization process is complete, we will submit your website to all the major search engines and directories, including Google, Yahoo and MSN. In addition, we will submit your website to fee-based directories such as Yahoo Directory, Best of The Web, GoGuides, Business.com and others. We will also manually “hand submit” your website to 300 to 500 directories that we have researched and found to help in developing link popularity. Lastly, if your website has indexing issues, we will create and submit sitemaps to both Google and Yahoo via their respective programs.

Reporting
We provide a baseline ranking report before we start work to show you how you rank prior to optimization; additional reports are then provided on a monthly basis. Our staff will monitor your results to make sure you are on the right track. To ensure your satisfaction, our staff will periodically be in touch with you via phone or email and provide you with project updates. As an optional service, we also offer installation of Google Analytics on your website for detailed traffic reporting.

INTERNET DIAMOND SHORTCUTS

2008-12-23T03:18:00.000-08:00

INTERNET DIAMOND SHORTCUTS
e-Mail
G MAIL
ORKUT
YAHOO MAIL
HOT MAIL
Search
GOOGLE
YAHOO
REDIFF
MESSAGES
WAY2SMS.COM
ALLSMS
SENSEX
BSE
MONEY PORE
STOCKMARET
NSE
ENTERTAINMENT
MUSICMAZAA
YOUTUBE
Cine news
general
CHITRAMALA
MUSIC MIRCHI
ENGLISH
7 WONDERS
MAP
EARTH
GK INDIA
WIN ENTRANCE
NEWS PAPERS
EENADU
AANDRA JYOTI
SAKSHI
VAARTHA
HINDU
DECCAN
INDIAN EXPRESS
India Today
COMPUTERS
GAMES
MOUSEBREAKER
zapak
PUFF
ENGLISH
JOKES 1
JOKES 2
JOKES 3
SPOKEN ENGLISH
RESULTS
DISTANCE EDUCATION (B.A, B.COM, B.B.M)
P.G/B.TECH/ B.PHARMACY
NAGARJUNA UNIVERSITY
MANABADI
JNTU
BRAOU
NTRUHS
APPSC
GO’S
TEACHERS
PF ACCOUNT- GUNTUR
SENIORITY LIST (Dept. of School Education)
SENIORITY LIST
HEALTH
cureall

Keyword Performance LLC

2008-12-19T03:36:00.000-08:00

Keyword Performance LLC is an ethical Search Engine Optimization Company that builds professional search engine marketing strategies for long-term keyword placement on major search engines. Our search engine marketing strategies offer your company a logical solution for exposure to the Internet public through intense research and development to assure any company success within search engines like Google, Yahoo and MSN. Through years of experience of keyword optimization we have obtained long-term search engine placement for keyword(s) and keyword phrases that have pushed many companies to the top by utilizing our search engine optimization services for their long-term goals.

By offering ethical search engine optimization services through our internet marketing strategies will give your company a stronghold for long term search engine rankings that matter. We will also educate you or your staff on our exact process for educational purposes building your knowledge base of our SEO services as a whole. What makes our SEO Company different is we start from the ground up by analyzing your website assuring that it is search engine friendly and can be crawled properly for information exposure. We work within an extensive keyword research process to assure that all variables for our keyword optimization process is followed for multiple keyword(s) and keyword phrases for maximum exposure on the world wide web. We will build from scratch content within your existing website(s) as well as content pages for optimal visibility. Top notch reciprocal link generation for popularity building and many other search engine optimization services. Other marketing strategies include pay per click advertising and bid management for advertisement of your products and services, search engine optimization consulting by our experts and so much more.

At Keyword Performance LLC we offer a free website evaluation and consultation on how our search engine optimization company can work for you. Our SEO services are only performed in an ethical manner to assure that our keyword optimization program is effective for your marketing targets. Keyword Performance LLC takes the time out in explaining to you the exact steps we take for achieving search engine rankings on the proper keywords that attract qualified leads to maximize your ROI.

Search Engines Optimization with Keyword Performance achieves:

Maximum ROI
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Highest Web Site Traffic & Conversion rate
Multiple First Page Listings
Long Term Search Engine Placement
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Dynamic Search Engine Marketing Techniques
Let the Keyword Performance search engine optimization company build a tailored Internet marketing strategy for your company today. Please fill out the company profile form to help us better understand your needs or call us toll free today at 877-242-2224 for your free ethical search engine optimization consultation. Web Consulting available on a per hour or per project basis.

Domain Basics: What, Why, and How

2008-12-18T21:46:00.000-08:00

What’s in a domain name? A lot more than might think. Your domain name can be your first impression, your face to the outside world, and your new marketing plan. Learn more about what domain names are, why you should take the time to choose a good one for yourself, and how to go about it.

What is domain name? A domain name is an address for the internet. It helps people find your website. Just as homes and businesses have street addresses, all web sites have domain name. The Yahoo! Domain name is yahoo.com

A domain name is made up of two parts, typically preceded by WWW. Let’s use yahoo.com as an example:

The first part, yahoo, is a unique name that represents the web site.
The second part, com, is the extension, and stands for “ commercial.” There are many extensions available, though .com, .net, .biz, .info, and .us, .in, are the most popular extensions in the united states.

Why is good domain name important? A good domain name helps you in numerous ways.

For businesses
Add your domain name to your business card, email signature, and other advertisements.

Build credibility: Show your customers that you have an established business.
Improve your marketing: provide customers an easy way to remember and contact you. Protect your brand: secure the domain name that best represents your business name and keep it our of the hands of your competitors.

For consumers
Describe your site as best you can with your domain name. For example, a pair of amateur magicians might use their stage names, some combination of words including magic, or the name of their most famous trick.

Why Domain:
1) Web hosting
2) Web site design
3) Online help site
4) New marketing plan
5) Size does matter
6) Relate to your business
7) Avoid similiarities
8) .com is best.

Web solution:

The world wide web is a massive collection of web sites. All hosted an computer called web servers, clients simply upload their websites to a hared (or dedicated) web server, which the ISP maintains.

Domain name

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A domain name is also called a web address. Just as a street address helps people find you home, a domain helps people find you online. You can register your own name, your company’s name, key words to describe your business, or even a short phrase.

What ever will make your web address easy to remember for your friends or customers, both yahoo! Custom mailbox and yahoo! Business mail come with a domain name included at no extra cost.

Reaching specialized markets

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There are over 25,00 newsgroups representing every sport, hobby or interest imaginable. No matter what your niche, your customers are probably on-line. Furthermore, it has been found that some of the most successful businesses on the web are those that target niche markets. Since net access will submit your company to several different internet directories, your interest group will be able to find you certainly, they will find some of your competitors.

i) Reaching the education and youth market

If your market is education, consider books, tutoring or counseling services, study courses, youth fashion and any other items or services. These markets need to be on the web.

ii) Serving your local market.

The power to serve the world with a web site is clear. What about your local markets? In most cities today there are probably enough local customers with web access to make it beneficial to market through the web.

Test marketing new services and products

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If you demonstrate your new product on the web, you will know what your customers think in a fast, economical manner. For the cost of a page or two of web programming, you can gain insight into where to position your product or service in the marketplace.

Opening international markets

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The is a whole new high-tech world out there, populated by millions of people on all parts of the globe, and marketing on the web is the easiest way to begin doing business internationally. With a web site, you can open up dialogues in international markets as easily as with the company across the street.

Streamline information distribution to workers

2008-12-18T09:45:00.000-08:00

Web site is the fastest, most economical way to disseminate information within your organization. Instead of relying on the haphazard distribution of memos, employees can visit their company’s web site at their convenience. Net access can also password protect an employee-only web site so that sensitive information remains within the company.

i) Staying in contact in any time zone.

If you send employees abroad or have offices around the world, Having a website in an expedient way to communicate. It costs no more than a local phone call to access the site and the web in available in over almost countries for the world.

ii) Employees on the road.

Your employees on the road may need up to the minute information. A quick local phone call can keep your staff supplied with the mos detailed information, without long distance phone bills and tying up the staff at the home office. Additionally, salesmen on the road can enter orders on-line so that the company can immediately begin working on them.

Public Relations

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This is becoming an exceedingly important reason to have your company on-line. Even without creating a complex site like the federal express site, your presence on the internet is like passing our your business card to thousands, may be millions of potential clients and partners. It is virtually a worldwide announcement saying, “This is what I do. If you ever in need of my services, you can, 24 hours a day inexpensively and simply, reach me on the web.”

i) Releasing time-sensitive materials.

Information can be made available on your web site at the time you specify, with all related materials such as photographs, biographies, etc.

ii) Reaching the media

Every kind of business needs the exposure that the media can bring. With the internet hype at the eclipse of its power, an innovative web site will almost certainly get written up in one publication or another.

Reduce to costs of serving your customers

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You will find many ways to serve your customers using WWW technology. For example, you can make forms available to pre-qualify for loans. Or have your staff do a search for that classic jazz record your customer is requesting. (without typing up your staff on the phone to take down the information.) Give your clients valuable back-packing tips or

“The 10 Best ways to pay less taxes.”

All this can be done. Simply and quickly. On the web.

i) Making business information available.

You can save phone calls and your staff members’ time by just posting basic business information on your website. Posting the upgrade information on your site will save you money and keep your customers informed of every reason why they should do business with you.

ii) Answering frequently asked questions.

A lot of your staff’s time is probably spent answering the same questions over and over again. These are the questions customers and potential customers will ask before they deal with you.
Display the answers on your web site and you will have freed up a lot of time your office staff.

iii) Receiving feedback from customers

With a web site, you can ask for feedback from your customers and get it instantaneously. E-mail can be built into web pages and will give you the answers while they are fresh in your customers mind, for a fraction of the cost. Another benefit is that you can respond to your customers when you choose to and not necessarily at the exact moment that they call.

iv) Creating a 24 hour service.

If you have ever remembered too late or too early to call the opposite coast, you know the hassle. We are not all the same schedule. Business is worldwide but your office hours are not. Trying to reach America to Europe is even more frustrating. Web pages serve your customers 24 hours a day, seven days a week adding to your costs.

Getting your foot hold in cyberspace.

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Today, there are thousands of companies with web sites. You can be certain that a few of your competitors already have a presence on line. However, it is still possible to become the dominant on line influence in your industry. It’s the way to gain a decent market share of cyber shoppers. In a few years when almost every company in the world will be on line. Customers will not be able to search through all of the thousands of names that a specific query in a directory found. They will,however, keep returning to the sites that gained their popularity now.

Leveraging advertising dollars

2008-12-16T04:14:00.000-08:00

There is a limited amount of information that can be stuffed into a radio. TV or print ad. These mediums are expensive. However, include your company’s URL in a small print ad or 30 second spot and you have now directed your customers to your website which contains enough sales information to make the sale.

i) Increasing sales
Many times when you run an ad, your customers hear, see or read it and have to wait until business hours to contact your company. They might remember to contact you, or they might get busy. If your company’s web site is mentioned in your ad, customers will be able to look at your website and buy your products or learn about your services as soon as the urge hits them.

ii) Reduce the cost of printing and mailing your catalogs

Companies can save hundreds of thousands of dollars in printing and mailing coasts by putting their catalogs on the internet. In fact, with Net Access, the cost, is amazingly affordable. It is an especially good value when consider the number of people you can reach.
iii) Updating information quickly
Websites can be updated as often as you like. The Nando Times, an online newspaper, updates its sites every five minutes and gets 5.5 million hits per week. No other advertising medium is so quickly and economically changeable and the dyamic sites are that get the hits.

iv) Briging more people into your stores or offices

Your web sites is particularly helpful in this area for those running TV or radio ads. Your customers can look at your web site in order to get all of the information that they need.

v) Bringing more people into your distributors ‘ stores

Wholesalers also benefit greatly by having a web site. They can include on their site a search engine for all of their retailers. There fore, when customers see a product advertised, they can look at the wholesalers web sites to find out where they can purchase it.

vi) Making pictures, sound and film files available.

The web enables you to display photos, sound and short movie chips with less expense. Guitarist jeff smith example, gets over 200 hits a day and markets his band’s CDs on line.

Reaching millions of potential customers quickly and inexpensively.

2008-12-16T04:13:00.000-08:00

Ten of millions of people worldwide have access to the internet. A recent study found that 75 million people used the internet. And 45 million used the WWW in the preceding the survey in USA & Canada.

Generally, the population on the internet is well educated and affluent. Most own a computer, others have access to one. Internet users, like most people, are interested in convenience. Many prefer the ease of finding services or shopping and ordering directly from their computer screens. “ Net Access” advanced equipment and technology make everything faster and easier for their customers.

i) Selling products and services.

Web sites are powerful because they join your advertisement to your order or inquiry form. This is also the greatest distinction between electronic and other advertising channels. Users can have direct communication with your company as they see your ad. With the click of a mouse, they will transmit their inquiry or order directly to you. This, the entire process will be faster and cost effective.

ii) On line Publishing
On line publishing requires a fraction of the investment that conventional publishing requires…. And it works. Dawn, one of pakistan’s best know newspaper, gets thousands of hits per week.

Instant Traffic Generator

2008-12-13T03:50:00.000-08:00

We also serve the needs for getting the instant overnight web-traffic for the specified needs of our clients. This instant traffic is not the one coming from the Search Engines but from several other sources.

Though this instant traffic is not very much targeted but is excellent for brand promotion, short term promotional campaigns, election campaigning, etc. It gives more first time visitors and you can convert or retain them with your powerful promotional offers or through interesting and well presented content on your landing page or website.
Instant traffic, though is not sustainable on its own and is available only as long as our constant efforts are made for it, but it could be used to your advantage as per your wishes with some innovative deployment of your marketing strategies.
We have very limited control over the geographic and demographic attributes of this kind of web-traffic but despite this we make our best efforts to give you the the kind of traffic you are looking for. This we do by working closely with our clients requirements and understanding their business needs and concepts.

Taking it as a basis of our mandate, we work upon several in-house classification systems to focus our efforts to get the desired traffic for our clients. However we don't guarantee anything about the kind of traffic in this services but immense satisfaction levels of our existing clientele stands testimonial for our efforts. team brings along its own expertise in maintaining and managing the nitty-gritty's of a PPC campaign.

The domain of our knowledge and expertise helps you to choose the right set of keywords, geographical regions, time zones and most importantly the right bid amount to get your advertisement at the best visibility spot of the search engines or their partner sites.

PPC Campaign Management

2008-12-13T03:49:00.000-08:00

PPC Campaign Management
We provide you our specialized Pay Per Click (PPC) Campaign Management Services for effectively and economically running your Adwords, Text-Ads and Banner Advertising campaigns on Google, Yahoo and their partner sites. Clients or Organizations willing to get their PPC campaign managed by us are encouraged to open their own Google Adwords account and get their own credit card registered with it to make arrangements for their advertising liabilities towards the respective search engine.

Seo Edge

2008-12-13T03:46:00.000-08:00

SEO EDGE is the ultimate SEO service, offering regular and focused efforts for a minimum of six months at a stretch to your website by our specially qualified team led by top- notch SEO experts of our organization resulting in a major boost in your website SERPs, enhancing the overall exposure to the no. of indexed pages of your website with continually higher ranking on numerous relevant keywords.
The SEO EDGE is the only SEO service by the trafficwala which comes with a guaranteed top-ten position for your website in Google on specified keyword for yours website. We provide quality SEO services to get higher rank in all major search engines. We have successfully provided SEO services to hundreds of websites with proven results. We work as a dedicated team who has several years of experience in SEO field, with proven track record of providing high quality services to several websites & portals.
To give you an idea of what we do to your website, have a look at some of the jobs carried by our seasoned experts to give you an Edge:
On-page Optimization:

In-Depth Keyword Research & discovery service
Unlimited Keywords
Competitor Analysis
10 Competitors
Number of Keywords / Phrases targeted
Unlimited Keywords
Guaranteed number of Keywords/ Phrases in at least 10 search engines
50
Title Tag Optimization
Meta Tags Optimization
100 pages
Meta Tags/alt tags Composition & Upload
Renaming of Complete Website pages and links for creating Search engine friendly urls
Spell checking and grammatical error correction on all pages.
Robots.txt Optimization
Adding custom 404 error pages
Adding 301 permanent redirect
W3C Validation
50 pages
Code cleaning and text to code ratio
XML feed submission if you have a feed
Working on HTML Source Code
50 pages
Image & Hyperlink Optimization
500 images & links
Link Development:

Anchor Text suggestions
Manual submission to Top Country-specific, regional search engines & directories
50 pages
Article writing & submission (Monthly)
Total 5000 directories
Press Release writing & distribution (Monthly)
Total 500 websites
Directory Submission - Trade & industry specific enginesÂ & other DirectoriesÂ (Monthly)
Total 10,000 directories
Software Submissions (If your site offers free software or any webmaster related tool)
250 websites
Other Link Building Methods
Resubmissions whenever required based on ranking report
Online Ad posting
500 posts in different websites
Forum Posting & postings in several relevant Yahoo & Google groups
1000 posts in different websites
Classifieds Posting
1000 posts in different websites
Blog Postings or contextual linking
1000 blogs
Postings in Social Media like digg, facebook, myspace, etc.
500 posts
Social Bookmarking in delicious, stumbleupon, etc.
100 posts
Creation & posting of videos for youtube and similar websites
Ebay Marketing
Cafepress Marketing
Google base feeds
500 products
Other Activities:

Google Sitemap Creation
Yahoo Sitemap Submission
Site Loading speeds - Evaluation of page download time to find out it your users are waiting too long for pages to appear
Web Accessibility Evaluation to ensure browser compatibility across a range of browsers
Reports
Weekly
Post-Optimization Ranking Report
Load Time Monitoring & Reporting
Link Popularity Monitoring & Reporting
Log Analysis for Web Traffic Analysis
Google Analytics Installation
Search Engine Ranking Reports
Unlimited e-mail, chat and Telephone support

SEO BOOSTER

2008-12-13T03:42:00.000-08:00

SEO BOOSTER is the most opted SEO start up service by the budget conscious websites, recommended to new as well as existing websites who have never availed any professional SEO makeover. The SEO BOOSTER makes every page of your website easily crawlable by Search Engine bots. SEO BOOSTER is the best platform to start your friendly relationship with all major search engines & trade directories. It gives the much required initial boost to your website so that it catches the fancy of search engines.

Prominent Features:

* It will index your pages in search engines.
* It will give numerous back links to your website.
* It will boost your website position in search engine.
* Your site home page will be optimized.
* Your site will be submitted to over 100 industry specific & general directories.
* One unique article written by us containing your website link will be submitted to over 300 article directories.
* Google sitemap will be created & submitted of your website.
* Job completion report at the end.
* Post-job SEO Analysis Report with advises & suggestions for continued actions at your end.

Stop Worrying About Rankings

2008-12-09T23:32:00.001-08:00

Do you search Google for your trophy keyword every morning to see if you’re still on the first page? Do you check more than once a day? If so, you are a rankings junkie and it’s time to shake the habit. Things have changed with the search engines to the point where rankings are no longer the best indicator of SEO success. Honestly, rankings have never been the best indicator of success, but this is becoming more and more important for marketers to understand. You should be focusing on how much traffic is coming from search, which keywords are driving that traffic, and most importantly, which keywords are driving sales.

The most recent twist in the search universe was Google’s announcement this week of the launch of SearchWiki. SearchWiki gives registered Google users the opportunity to mess with the position of sites in the SERPs. Basically, it gives me as a searcher the opportunity to pick which site shows up in the top spot and get rid of all the crap that isn’t relevant for any given search. Sound incredible? Don’t get too excited, any changes I make will only be visible to me when I’m logged into my Google account. However, position adjustments and comments people make in SearchWiki can be viewed by other searchers if they click on the “See all notes for this SearchWiki” link at the bottom of the page. If this catches on, and isn’t ruined by spammers, I expect SearchWiki to gradually gain more importance in what people see when they search. The first step will be to allow the option to let people’s search results be influenced by friends’ wiki changes, and then Google could start including aggregate wiki data as part of their search algorithm for the general public.

At the recent PubCon conference, representatives from all three major search engines spoke about how each is trying to offer more than “ten blue text links.” What they mean by this is that rather than the traditional 10 text links to web pages when you search, they are starting to serve up other types of content that is relevant to your search query. We’ve been hearing about this trend for the past couple years, and it has gradually become more prominent in the search results–known as a Universal or Blended search. Any given search could yield results for images, video, shopping, blogs, local maps or news. Rather than just links to these other types of media, they are often embedded right in the search page. With this shift away from the standard “10 blue text links,” it changes the paradigm of search engine optimization. While optimizing web pages is still important, if you aren’t creating and optimizing a wide array of digital assets, you are missing out on a huge opportunity to get your brand in front of searchers.

Another major shift in the search engines that will continue to have a huge impact on search marketers is personalization of the search results. The search engines are starting to customize the search results for each individual searcher based on their search history, geographic location, or other demographic factors. This change makes it futile to focus on search engine rankings, because the ranking will vary depending on who’s searching.

Mobile search is another important area to consider. The newest smart phones like the G1 and iPhone make mobile search look a lot like regular web search, but it is still a different experience searching the web from a mobile device. It’s a much smaller screen, and people aren’t usually searching for the same reasons they would search at the office or at home. Mobile search centers more around local search–it’s about finding restaurant reviews, phone numbers, directions, stuff they need to know when they’re on the go. Often, the default Google search from a mobile phone serves up search results that are localized to the searchers location. Search tools like Google’s recently launched voice search application for the iPhone, and ChaCha, which has been around for a while, give people the option to speak their search queries, or even send them via SMS text messages.

What does all this mean? It means we need to rethink how we look at search engine optimization. We need to do all the little things to make our sites relevant for our keywords. We also need to think beyond our own websites and provide unique, valuable content in as many different formats as possible. Focus on being relevant to whatever and however people might search, and your traffic and sales numbers will tell you if you are hitting your target.

Posted by: Dave Bascom

On Site Search SEO Tip #1

2008-12-09T23:31:00.001-08:00

A major item that a lot of sites overlook and a lot of SEO’s don’t really understand is the “site search” function on a site. I’m going to give you a scenario that three of our clients have faced, with similar results.

Let’s say you own a real estate site with information being pulled from the MLS database via IDX or some other listing server. None of the content that your on-site search result displays is in any way unique from all the other real estate sites online. Which means that even if you have 20,000 pages indexed according to Yahoo, not even 1% of these pages have a great chance of showing up unless someone searches on the exact title of your listings page.

This idea also holds true for paginating issues in shopping carts and blog pages, but we won’t be delving into those two items in this post. So you have two choices basically (I’m assuming your site isn’t homes.com, realtor.com, or one of the large nationwide realty sites).

1. You can write unique titles, meta descriptions and listing descriptions for each listing, which would take you the rest of your life.

Or

2. You can exclude all your search results from the search engine spiders by adding an exclusion for your on site search results subfolder to your robots.txt file.

What if your search results get displayed using something like this: www.yoursite.com/index.php?search=action&name=something

Can you use the robots.txt file to exclude that search result, or any search result on the index.php page, without also excluding your index page from the bots? The answer in this example is no. But, if you’re going to be de indexing your search pages anyway, you can move your search results to display under a separate subfolder called /search/ or something and then using your robots.txt file, you can make all of your search listings no indexed, while still retaining one main search page, perhaps at search.html. The exclusion would look exactly like this in your robots.txt file:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /search/

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Posted by: Adam

Optimizing for Navigational Searches

2008-12-09T23:30:00.001-08:00

People search for many different reasons. These myriad reasons can be broken down into a few wide segments, informational, transactional, and navigational searches. There are millions of searches when people simply need information, but often even informational searches are just the early stages of the purchasing process. It is important to understand the different ways and reasons the people search and be sure that your site is optimized to be found at each stage.

The type of searches that SEO people rarely talk about is the navigational searches. Navigational searches are search queries where people search for your exact domain name or brand name. Basically, they know exactly what they are looking for, but they choose to search to find it instead of typing it into the browser address bar.

Don’t think navigational search is a big deal? Check out the top 10 overall searches for July 2008 from Hitwise: myspace, craigslist, ebay, myspace.com, youtube, mapquest, yahoo, facebook, www.myspace.com, craigs list

Compete data shows 17% of searches are navigational. Why are there so many searches for domain names and site names? Many people will enter the URL or site name into the search box and it magically appears as the top link and the click on it. Sure, it adds an extra click that really isn’t necessary, but that’s how they learned to find things on the web so why change if it works?

As marketers, we need to understand that this is a huge part of the way people navigate the web and we need to be sure our sites are optimized to show up when people are looking for us.

Domain Name Searches
First off, make sure your site is indexed in the search engines. Does your site show up first in a search for your domain name? Unless your site is penalized, it should show up at the top of the results when you search for the domain name. Follow SEO best practices with regards to your website architecture and content. Don’t hide your content behind javascript or Flash navigation. Include a link to your HTML sitemap in the footer of your site. Make sure your XML sitemap is updated and submitted to the search engines. Be sure you are blocking any directories and pages of your site that you don’t want indexed, but be careful to not deny the search bots from indexing the pages you want them to find. Adding a / in the wrong place in your robots.txt file can get your site removed from the search engines.

Company/Brand Name Searches
Brand name searches can be an interesting challenge. It seems like it would be so obvious to the search engines and your site would automatically show up at the top for all searches for your brand name. Sometimes that is the case, but the larger your brand is, the more competition you will have for your own name. This could come in the form of affiliates, review sites, news articles, press releases, and many other types of pages. Usually it is fine to have that stuff showing up, as long as your official site shows up at the top. To make sure it does show up, be sure to feature your brand name(s) prominently on the site in textual format, not just graphics. Most of the time you will have plenty of links to your site using your brand name as the anchor text. If your site isn’t on top, however, or if you have a newer site or brand, it might take a while to get enough link juice to move to the top for your own name.

Another issue that I’ve seen on occasion is when you run into competition from other companies or products that have the same or similar brand name. They might be in a completely different market, but if they have the same name, you could have a hard time beating them for your own name if they are more established and have more link equity than your site. Another thing to consider with name searches is misspellings or spelling variations. You usually won’t want to look stupid by misspelling your own company name in the content on your site, but a few low-profile links with the misspelled version will often do the trick. Sometimes Google figures out what they meant to type and serves up your site anyway, so you should check to see what shows up for common misspellings.

International Search Engines
If you have content catered to an international audience, you should make sure your site is showing up for brand/domain searches in that country. Google is the biggest search in most countries, except Baidu in China, Yahoo in Japan, and Yandex in Russia. Make sure your site is listed and shows up for your name in the top 3 search engines for the countries you are targeting. The easiest way to get top billing in the country-specific search engines, including pages from country searches in the localized Google search, is to have a separate, localized site on the country’s preferred TLD. You can also set up international sites on subdomains or sub directories of your main domain. Then you can specify to Google which country each subdomain or directory pertains to.

Product Name Searches
Although not exactly navigational searches per se, I wanted to mention product name searches. People might search for a product name or SKU when they know exactly what they want to buy. They might be comparing prices or just looking for the best place to purchase. Or they may be looking for reviews and feedback from other purchasers of the same item. Or it could be existing customers looking for support information or accessories for their product. Whatever the reason, you would be well served to have your product pages showing up for these keywords. The best approach will depend on how competitive your products are. If you are the only one selling the product, all it will take is to get the pages indexed. If you are competing against thousands of other resellers, it will prove more difficult and you’ll need to do some serious optimizing and link building to those specific pages. Start off with the basics of getting the pages indexed. Spend some time searching for your products and see what you find. Analyze the level of competition and put together a plan to get your pages to show up on the first page. You might not get a ton of searches on any single page, but if you sell thousands of products, the aggregate traffic and sales from those keywords will make a big impact.

PPC for Navigational Searches
You should be able to show up for all of your brand terms without having to pay for the traffic. One thing to consider however, is that if you augment your organic SEO with paid listings, you increase the chances of getting people to click through to your site. This can be especially important if you have competitors bidding on your brand or other navigational searches. You want to do everything you can to make sure they get to your site and not your competition. On the flip site, you could use the same strategy to try to capture some of the navigational search traffic to your competitors by bidding on their brand names and offering a compelling alternative product or service.

More than Just Rankings
One last thing I wanted to mention about optimizing for navigational searches. Showing up for your domain and brand names is just the first step. Your really want as many of those searchers to click through to your site, so you should pay close attention to the title and description snippet that show up in the search listings. If you have a number one ranking, but no title or description, it will be easy for searchers to skip it for the more compelling link right below.

Posted by: Dave Bascom

SEO is About Communication

2008-12-09T23:28:00.001-08:00

We’ve all heard various experts toot the horn of various elements of SEO: “Content is king!” or “It’s all about the links.” Others tout their proprietary software tools or throw out terms like latent semantic indexing. The truth is, all of these things play a part in SEO (along with a bunch of other things), but if you focus on any one of these, you’re missing the bigger picture.
Communication is defined as: a process by which information is exchanged between individuals through a common system of symbols, signs, or behavior.

The communication process involves a sender and a receiver. As long as both the sender and receiver both understand the common system of symbols, signs, or behavior, the sender’s message will be understood. Sounds simple enough, right? The challenge with any communication is that the message has to be properly encoded and then passed along through the communication medium or channel and then decoded and interpreted by the receiver of the message. With search engine optimization, we are dealing with an intermediary (the search engines) who really aren’t our intended receiver at all. We have to make sure the search engines understand the message we are sending, or the communication process breaks down and never makes it to our intended receiver. This makes for a much more complicated communication process.

Google has made it perfectly clear that they are making every possible effort to improve the quality of its search engine. This means they are doing their best to decode the meaning of web pages and other web content — at the same time they are decoding the meaning of users’ search queries — all in an attempt to match up searchers with what they are looking for. They are trying to improve the web search communication channel. Our job as communicators is to create our websites and write content that makes it clear what we are trying to say. If we send the right signals to Google through the structure and content on our site, internal and external links, and all the other “seo” tactics, Google will get the message and move our site to the top of the search heap.

Don’t forget that getting Google to properly decode and interpret our message is only part of the communication process. Google is not the final receiver of our message, remember? Ultimately you want your customers to find your site, click through and complete the desired action (lead, sale, call, whatever).

Just getting your site to the top of the search engine for your desired keywords does not mean your intended customers will get your message. If your title and description is just a bunch of mumbo jumbo, you won’t get many people clicking through. Take care to use titles and descriptions that will convey the right message regarding what you have to offer. Once they click through to your site, the real communication takes place. If they don’t immediately see what they were looking for, they will back out and look elsewhere. If your message is not persuasive enough, the customer will move along to find something more convincing. Provide enough content and enough value to satisfy the searcher’s desire to find what they are looking for. Speak the same language as your site visitors and they will be much more likely to decode your message in the way it was intended.

An important part of the communication process is feedback. Try to get feedback from your website visitors. Obviously, when you get get a sale on your website, you know your message was successfully received (at least by that person). What if you’re not getting any sales? Or what about the other 95% of the people who didn’t buy? Provide other feedback mechanisms to allow your customers to give you feedback about your message. Provide clear calls to action and give them multiple ways to contact you and provide feedback. Use your website analytics reports along with tools like ClickTale and CrazyEgg to find out your site visitors’ behavior. Spend the time to close the feedback loop so you can refine and improve your communication process.

Don’t ever forget that SEO is about communication and the search engine is merely the medium to reach your desired recipient.

Posted by: Dave Bascom

Internet Reputation Management

2008-12-09T23:25:00.000-08:00

Reputation management can be quite expensive and time consuming–especially if you’re not clear on what your objectives are. Some companies just want negative comments and sites to drop out of the top 20 Google search results. Some companies want to monitor all of the conversations taking place in the World Wide Web (er, I mean Web 2.0, or Web 3.0?)

There have been plenty of posts by industry experts on the process of online reputation management. I’m not trying to re invent the wheel. I want to give you an idea of what it’s like to actually carry out a reputation management campaign so you can decide whether it’s worth it to do it yourself or pay someone to do it for you, or a mix of both.

For starters, you need to decide if you just want to bump down negative results or just monitor the conversation.

Scenario A: Bumping Negative Results

What keyword(s) do you want to focus on that are showing the negative results?

Try and focus on just one or two main keywords to begin with. Now, go through all of the results in the top 5 pages, and see which are positive, neutral, or negative. Decide on the top 10 neutral and positive results that you want to show up for your search term. Now start linking to those articles or sites with your main keyword as the anchor text or title. Creating social media profiles and other things will come in down the road, but using sites that are already showing up will give you much quicker results. Then create your wordpress, squidoo, blogger, typepad, facebook and myspace profiles, but don’t count on them showing up too quickly for your keyword(s), especially if there are already a lot of other pages showing up. Be sure to create unique, useful content on each of these blogs/profile pages. You’re not just trying to spam the index, you’re trying to add valuable new content to increase your exposure in the SERPS.

Another of the easy way to get links is by using social bookmarking sites. Here’s a list of social bookmarking sites that are perfect for this.

Scenario B: Monitoring the Conversation

How much monitoring do you want to do?

There are at least 20 different blog/article search sites out there from which you can see what others are saying about your keyword(s). I would say Technorati and Google Blog Search are your best bets to find most of the prominent results. Just enter in your search term in the respective search boxes on those two sites, and then subscribe to the feed of the results. Another option is to sign up for a Google Alert on your name and Google will email you updates whenever your name is mentioned.

Now, once you find some good reviews or posts about your keyword, leave those alone. Or you might write an email or post a comment thanking the author for the positive review.

On the other hand, when you find a negative review or post, don’t get emotional or angry. Get smart. These posts or reviews won’t always show up near the top search results in a regular Google search, so you don’t necessarily need to worry about bumping these results. So your strategy should just be to make sure that an overall positive (or at least neutral) message is presented (which is pretty hard to do if you’re reacting instead of interacting).

Posted by: Adam