Posted this story on Facebook.
Wondering if blogger will link back.
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
20100309 Dominating Google, Html tags, Favorites Icon, English, Facebook
Hello Business Website Customers, Associates and Friends,
See www.EnglishCentral.com to check your pronunciation. This website helps non-native English speakers check their accent. I tried
it and got 58 out of 100. Sad. The website lets you practice and you can improve your score.
Saw this quote on a travel website. "According to nearly all marketing experts, consumers need to see marketing/advertising 7-10
times before they buy something. Plan your campaign from all angles accordingly and follow up with interested people and watch the
excitement build."
There is a lot of talk that Facebook is bigger than Google, or will be. I do not know if this is true, but Facebook is big, with
100s of millions of views daily. You need to make Facebook part of your marketing plans.
Here is an interesting article on the other side of the active marketing coin. This guy says you need to make a great product and
people will tell each other. The product will market itself. Based on my experience with www.JewishNetwork.com, you need to do both.
People do tell each other and marketing does work.
www.fastcompany.com/articles/2008/05/interview-bjfogg-on-facebook.html
When you post online, sometimes it is good to know some html. The WYSIWYG editors are not always reliable. Sometimes you need to go
into the html source. See the article on html tags.
When you go to a website, in the address bar, next to the website name is an icon. You can customize that icon for your website and
make it look as pretty as anyone else makes theirs. You have a 16 by 16 square with which to work. See this article for details.
http://www.programmer.bz/Articles/tabid/159/asp_net_sql/132/How-to-Create-a-Favorites-Icon-and-Put-on-Your-Website.aspx
Be Happy, Healthy and Prosperous,
Andrew
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In This Email:
Article: Html common tags in posting editors
Article: Dominating Google for search keyword terms
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Quotes:
- I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business. - Michael J.
Fox
- As an engineer, if you want to advance something, you have to keep your eyes open, because what you are taught in textbooks has
limitations. When you have an open mind, you will discover there are more things out there than what has been understood so far. ~
Wolfgang Sigmund, Professor of Materials Sceince and Engineering, University of Florida, on research team discovering water proof
material based on spider hairs
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Article: Html common tags in posting editors
When you post online, the editor usually has an option that lets you view the html source. If you are having trouble with the
WYSIWYG editor, try viewing the html source.
Here are some html tags that are good to know if you view the html source. Feel free to edit the source.
To be safe and not waste your work, open up Wordpad on your computer and copy the original source to your Wordpad file. Make another
copy and make your changes in Wordpad. Then copy your changes back to the online editor. That way, if anything goes wrong you still
have your work.
If you are cutting and pasting from other documents, paste into Wordpad and then save the file as plain text. Then load another
document and reload the document you just saved to clear out all the formatting. This is the cleanest and fastest way I know to
clean out the formatting. You can use this keyboard short cut to do this in a second.
Alt-f a enter - to save file without the formatting
Alt-f 2 - to load whatever was the last file you had in Wordpad
Alt-f 2 - again to reload the file you were working on without the formatting
Html useful tags
<a href="url"></a> - link to another page
<br /> - break to a new line
<div></div> - division of your page, sometimes used in place of p tag
<h1></h1> - heading level 1, also for levels 2-6
<img src="url" /> - images
<li></li> - list items between the ol and ul tags
<ol></ol> - ordered list
<p></p> - paragraph
<table></table> - table
<tr></tr> - table row, between the table tags
<td></td> - table cells between the table row tags
<ul></ul> - unordered list
There is often a lot of junk the editors put in that you can delete, such as these tags.
#160; - non-breaking space
- another version of a non-breaking space
<font></font> - to create a different style within another tag. Generally you can delete this. It is usually mistaken formatting.
<span></span> - to create a different style within another tag. Generally you can delete this. It is usually mistaken formatting.
Attributes - with the tag you can specify attributes appropriate for that tag. These are the two attributes you use to specify
styles.
class="stylename" - add this to any tag to specify a style name
style="font-size:120%; margin-right:.5em;" - use the style attribute to specify the style characteristics. In this example the
margin-right:.5em means to set the right margin to half the width of the letter "m".
This article is online here
www.internethandholding.com/Articles/tabid/153/Internet_Marketing/154/Html-common-tags-in-posting-editors.aspx
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Article: Dominating Google for search keyword terms
If you go to google and search for "Israeli partner dancing", the first three entries and eight of the top ten are mine, out of 2
million plus hits. Number one is my website www.IsraeliPartnerDancing.com
I am preparing to publish a book about Israeli partner dancing and have been laying the groundwork to market the book.
Can you dominate for your keywords?
Chances are you can. Maybe not to this degree, but you could get listings on the first, second and third pages.
Search on google for your keywords and check your competition. Look at the bottom of the page. Those are the people you need to beat
out to get on page one.
How can you dominate google for your keywords?
First, pick your keywords. If you have a local business, include the various areas you service.
If you go to google and search for just "partner dancing", I have a couple of entries on the first three pages. This is good, but
not dominating. You have to do more to dominate more competitive keywords. I have no competition when adding the keyword "Israeli",
but for just "partner dancing" there is competition. Will report back to you on that when I target those keywords.
To get to the first page and stay on the first page you must do much more than you have been doing. The amount is doable without
killing yourself, but you do have to keep at it.
You need multiple places on the Internet to post information about your keywords. How many places are enough? Keep posting in new
places until you are on page one and stay there. The number of pages depends on your competition.
Create blogs on blogger. Post entries on Facebook and make sure they are publicly visible. Join groups and post links. Submit
articles.
See the links on the left side of this page for a huge number of places to post to.
www.internethandholding.com/Member/LinkWebsiteTrafficviaLinkBuilding.aspx
Be relentless. Keep posting every chance you get. Will send you posting tips on how to do this efficiently.
For now, the idea you should take with you is to never miss a chance to post a link to your pages. Cross link. Link to the pages
that link to your website. Make it messy. This is what search engines like.
Take this article as an example.
It is posted on my website www.InternetHandholding.com here
www.internethandholding.com/Articles/tabid/153/Internet_Marketing/153/Dominating-Google-for-Search-Keyword-Terms.aspx
It is posted on one of my blogs here
http://internethandholding.blogspot.com
A link is posted on one of my Facebook accounts.
If you look back through this article, you will see links to other pages of mine.
Get to posting.
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Tuesday, March 2, 2010
20100303 Search Engine Tasks for Your Website
Hello Business Website Customers, Associates and Friends,
The article in this issue introduces you to some of google's tools to help you get a handle on your website.
Be Happy, Healthy and Prosperous,
Andrew
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In This Email:
Article: Basic Search Engine Tasks for Your Website Using Google Webmasters Tools
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Quotes:
- If you're going to do something tonight that you'll be sorry for tomorrow, sleep late. ~ Henny Youngman
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Article: Basic Search Engine Tasks for Your Website Using Google Webmasters Tools
Here are some basic search engine optimization and webmaster tasks you need to do for your website.
1. Go to Google's business center and register your business and address.
- Go to http://maps.google.com
- Click the link Add A Site.
- Register your business.
2. Track your visitors.
- Go to http://www.google.com/analytics
- Regsiter your website.
- Get your analytic tracking code and add to your website.
- If you are using DotNetNuke go to Admin, Google Analytics to enter.
- Otherwise, follow google's instructions for adding to your website
3. See how google sees your website.
You will need to register in google webmaster tools first.
Google has a lot of different places to register.
- Go to http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools
- Register your website.
- Go to verify your website and follow the instructions.
- Go to Site Configuraton, SiteMaps and submit your site.
- If you are using DotNetNuke your sitemap file is: SiteMap.aspx
- Otherwise you will need a sitemap for your website.
After google indexes your website you can check to see how google sees your website. You may have to check back after some time.
- Go to http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools
- Go to Your Site on the Web, Keywords
You can also go to www.Bing.com and www.Yahoo.com and use their webmaster tools.
4. Change your website to maximize your keywords
It is eye opening to see how google views your keywords. You will likely see a bunch of useless keywords at the top of your rankings
and you will know where they come from.
Change the wording on your website to maximize your keywords for what people search for. When you see how google sees your website,
you will know what to change.
1. Think keywords, keywords, keywords. Keywords are things people search for. Anything that is not a keyword in a title hurts you.
2. Remove "Us" from your menu items and titles in things like About Us and Contact Us.
3. Put your menu items in alphabetical order, not the order you want people to click on. The brain likes order, alphabetical order.
This is for people, not search engines.
If you have a book or online course, then put things in the order they are to be seen. Otherwise, alphabetize.
4. Your submenu items can be long and filled with keywords.
5. Post Pages, Articles and Forum items on your website.
Fill the titles of your entries with keywords only. In the body of the items, include your keywords as much as possible. Any word
that is not a keyword hurts you instead of helping you.
Pages are formal.
Articles are semi-formal.
Forum entries are informal.
Generally, multiple short items are better than one long item. Both people and search engines can get lost as to what exactly is the
topic.
Space out your items over time. You must continually update your website to keep search engines coming back.
You can find this article online here
www.internethandholding.com/Articles/tabid/153/Internet_Marketing/145/Search-Engine-Optimization-SEO-Basic-Tasks-for-Your-Website-Us
ing-Google-Webmasters-Tools.aspx
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Friday, February 5, 2010
20100205 Internet Handholding Newsletter DotNetNuke Store Survey Twitter Aweber Email
www.internethandholding.com/Articles/tabid/153/Internet_Marketing/138/DotNetNuke-Store-and-Survey.aspx
New Internet Handholding newsletter posted at above link.
DotNetNuke Store
DotNetNuke Survey
Twitter
Aweber Email
20100204 Internet Handholding, Local Search, Twitter, Store, Survey, Aweber
Hello Andrew, and other Business Website Customers, Associates and Friends,
Two short articles to keep you up-to-date.
Bill Gates talks Twitter with Jon Stewart, short and funny.
http://ccinsider.comedycentral.com/2010/01/26/jon-stewart-talks-twitter-with-bill-gates
This is a twitter photo feed. Has to be seen to be believed.
www.PicFog.com
Post your photos for use with Twitter.
www.TwitPic.com
Be Happy, Healthy and Prosperous,
Andrew
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In This Email:
1. Local Search Maps.Google.Com
2. Twitter Signup
3. DotNetNuke Store and Survey
4. Aweber Email Marketing List
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Quotes:
- Avoid conflict by minimizing confrontations.
~ Shlomo Ressler
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1. Local Search Maps.Google.Com
If you do business in your local market, you want to make sure your business shows up in local search results.
For example, go to Google and search for: Gainesville Dance
Near the top of the search results on the left side is a listing of local dance businesses.
To get your business listed here, you need to let Google know where your business is located.
Go to http://maps.google.com
On the left side, click the link to add your business and follow the instructions.
That will get you in the game, at least.
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2. Twitter Signup
You probably have heard of Twitter, but you may not be using Twitter yet.
Twitter lets you send messages of 140 characters.
This is not much, but it is enough to post a link.
Twitter is called a micro blogging service and there are plenty of copycats.
You might wonder what good is Twitter? Well people are finding all kinds of uses for it. See this page for some websites.
www.internethandholding.com/Member/LinksWebsitesReference/LinksTwitter.aspx
I do not know what you are going to use Twitter for, but I suggest you get a good account name (while you still can) and start checking it out.
While you are at it, follow Internet Handholding by going to this link and clicking the follow icon.
www.twitter.com/internethandhol
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3. DotNetNuke Store and Survey
DotNetNuke comes with both Store and Survey modules. I installed them on a couple of customers and they look good.
Take a look at the DotNetNuke Survey here. This customer created the survey himself with no help from me.
www.dgaffney.com/Home/Survey.aspx
You can see the DotNetNuke Store here. I set this up for the customer, but it was easy enough for anyone to add products.
www.verajoffe.com/Store/tabid/479/CategoryID/1/Default.aspx
Also take a look at here Articles page. She posted these herself. Somehow she figured out how to get the images in there also. Congratulations. You can she is already getting visitors without any other publicity.
www.verajoffe.com/Articles.aspx
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4. Aweber Email Marketing List
I have switched my email service to Aweber and like it a lot.
They have a nice wizard for setting up Subscribe Forms. This has a lot of uses, but too technical for this article.
You can set up a series of messages to automatically go to new subscribers. These are called autoresponders.
If you subscribe to this Internet Handholding newsletter, you will automatically receive one short tip every week or so in addition to the newsletter. This is a great way to catch people up who missed earlier newsletters.
Click here to check out Aweber.
Constant Contact is also good, but does not have autoresponders.
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Friday, January 29, 2010
How to Add an Aweber Form to DotNeNuke and Asp.Net Pages
Wrote an article on how to add an Aweber.com form to DotNetNuke and Asp.net web pages.
How to Break out of an IFRAME from a FORM in a SCRIPT
Wrote an article about how to break out of an IFRAME when using a script from someone else.
This gives you the javascript code to add the target="_blank" tag to the FORM in the other websites code.
Useful for DotNetNuke and Asp.net in particular.
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