Choosing keywords in search engine marketing

March 19, 2009 at 5:26 pm · Filed under The Web & Blogs

If I came up to you and said the word “Cow”. Your first thought would probably be, “Who on earth are you”, but more than likely you will think “Cow what? Milk? Cheese? Dung? Farm Animals? Mother in Law?”. Your mind will  start making word associations with the word cow and go through your mind anything to do with a cow or cows.

Well, this is exactly what Google does with their adwords and they call it “Broad Match” and it involves delivering your ad to the user based on what they think is a relative keyword or phrase, plural, synonym or variation.

The benefit to you as an advertiser is that this system helps you drive more traffic to your web site and helps you save time when creating your campaigns because you don’t have to spend time filtering lists and list of keywords.

Also, when choosing keywords for your search engine marketing, you should try and apply the principle of broad matching. Don’t just stick to the generic popular keywords, start thinking of variations of the phrase in order to capture the users looking for those associated phrases. Of course, its slightly more complex than the way I just explained it, but the principle is the same.

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Indian Fashion Tips from desitwist.com

February 18, 2009 at 9:45 am · Filed under Fashion, The Web & Blogs

Do you have a beauty secret that you just want to share with the world? Do you want to find out what the latest must haves are? What about discussing cosmetics and other beauty issues? With thousands of members throughout the world desitwist.com brings it all together under one roof with discussions ranging from Indian Fashion, Poetry, Lifestyle and Humour.

There is always something to discuss or learn within the community!

Sign up is free and simple so within minutes of joining you will have access to a whole wealth of information and very quickly you will be posting your own Fashion Tips on the web site for all to see.

Other great features of the site include a brilliant interactive photo gallery where members can post photos and manage their different galleries along with their profile, a range of music information from Indian and Pakistani artists, and a blog feature so you can blog away to your hearts content.

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Top Ecommerce Web Hosting

February 16, 2009 at 6:26 pm · Filed under Computers & Internet, The Web & Blogs

You are either starting your very first ecommerce web site or are a seasoned pro, no matter what though, the internet is still a minefield when it comes to choosing the right hosting provider for your ecommerce web site. With so many providers to choose from just how do you find the Best Web Hosting company right for your needs?

Wouldn’t it be nice if there was one place where you could find all the information you need about the Top Ecommerce Web Hosting companies? Well help is at hand in the form of mybestratedwebhosting.com which details the top providers in the industry with comparison panels and charts, ratings on customer service and reviews.

So no more scrounging around for information, mybestratedwebhosting.com gives you the raw facts and details you need in order to make an informed decision.

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Mckremie web hosting hosting for wordpress blogs

February 16, 2009 at 10:30 am · Filed under The Web & Blogs

Nowadays, wordpress is one of the standard software packages used for blogging. Its simple to use, sound and reliable, best of all open source and free. However not all web hosts support wordpress and you do need a host who has experience in providing web hosting for wordpress blogs.

One such provider is Mckremie web hosting solutions who provide a blog web hosting plan for personal or business users. Some of the many features is the installation of wordpress via the fantastico script which offers a 30 second installation of wordpress as well as over 40 different other scripts. Mckremie offer 24/7 customer support, dedicated team of professionals as well as impressive server up times so there is no fear of things going wrong.

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Make Money at Home with a Niche Blog

February 14, 2009 at 10:22 am · Filed under Money and Finance, The Web & Blogs

With technology being at the forefront of so many things today, creating a blog is a fantastic way to share a great idea with the entire world. The truly beautiful thing about a blog is how very simple they are to create.

You can develop a fantastically fabulous idea in your home in a small town in the middle of nowhere and within the time it takes to create a blog you will be able to share that idea with the world. Normally people make the choice to create a blog to share their life’s journey or to share huge moments that happen in their lives. The most popular reason for creating blogs lately is to make money. There are countless numbers of people who make their living blogging.

The big problem that many people run into is thinking that just because they have a blog means that they are going to be making money. In order to make money at home from blogs you need to be able to know what is going to make you money and what is not going to make you any money.

This way you will be laying the ground work laid for very profitable blogging. If you can create content that is going to be grabbing the attention of your readers you are going to start gaining their trust. Once you have built a trust group of readers they are going to be much more likely to make a purchase from you when you venture into affiliate marketing which is something that proves to be very popular and successful with lots of bloggers.

A great example of this is if you write a blog on an education niche of some sort then your readers are going to be out for the latest and most up to date educational information that they can get.

So, if you can prepare some type of educational e-book or report your readers will be very likely to purchase it from you as you have worked on creating trust between you and your readers. Building long term relationships between you and your readers should be the goal of every blog owner that wants to create a successful niche blog.

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The Principle’s Of Craigslist

February 13, 2009 at 1:08 pm · Filed under Computers & Internet, The Web & Blogs

Craigslist is a company founded on several principles on which it bases their entire business model.

The primary principle of Craigslist is the promise of free advertising to its users. Craigslist has never charged people for regular advertising and it will never do this. Craigslist is a company that believes that the user should have access to free and quality advertising and will do its very best to ensure this freedom.

Another key principle of Craigslist is that it is a company that gives back to the community. For example, the CEO of Craigslist drives a normal car, owns a normal house, and lives a fairly normal life. The wealth of Craigslist goes to the employees that dedicate their time to the cause and to providing a higher quality service. From its creation in 1995, Craigslist has maintained itself as a free service to any interested party.

Yet another principle of Craigslist is that they believe in a free internet. From the usage of open source server equipment to the adamant support of Net Neutrality, Craigslist is doing its best to keep the internet free for future generations of surfers.

For those interested in learning more of Craigslist mission, information is available in their FAQ section on their website or on CL HandBook.com.

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What You Shouldn’t Do While Accessing Bebo With A Proxy

February 13, 2009 at 1:06 pm · Filed under Computers & Internet, The Web & Blogs

While there is a lot of discussion on what kind of proxy you should use to access Bebo, there is less discussion on the things that you should not do while using a Bebo unblocking method. There are certain activities that you will want to prevent yourself from doing while using a Bebo proxy. Some of the reasons for doing this may seem minor, or even silly, but these tips will help you protect your Bebo account to the best of your ability.

The most important thing that you should not do is make major account changes, or even access major account settings, of your Bebo account. Some proxies monitor the content parsed through a website and, due to this fact, the proxy may pick up your private information without your consent.

Another thing that you should avoid doing while using a Bebo unblocking method is making any additional major changes. While you can get away with making comments on a proxy, you will most likely not have success trying to add audio or video to your profile. If you are having to use a proxy for Bebo, try to keep your account activities to the absolute minimum. By doing this, you will be helping to protect your account.

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Blogrush

September 18, 2007 at 5:56 am · Filed under The Web & Blogs

Blog Rush is a blog syndication network. It works around a widget that the blogger needs to put in his website, and the widget displays headlines coming from the blogs on the network.

The goal of service is straight forward: to give you more traffic and readers.

There have been many similar services in the past, but Blog Rush is introducing some interesting innovations. First of all you earn “syndication credits” every time the widget is loaded on your website (i.e., one credit for each page view). If your blog has 500 daily page views, your headlines will be displayed on other blogs using the widget 500 times daily.

Secondly, you can also earn credits by referring people. Every time the widget is displayed on the blog of your referrals you will also earn one credit. So early adopters will be rewarded – Get it now!!

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Social Network for sale on eBay

January 4, 2007 at 3:02 am · Filed under The Web & Blogs

It seems like selling your startup Web 2.0 businesses on auction sites such as eBay, is an increasing trend. This comes after another MySpace-type clone, Shout Central, is now available on eBay. The starting bid is only $100 and it seems incredibly cheap, considering the site has in excess of 1000 registered visitors. The interface also looks good and in our opinion, this should be a good buy if you pay less than $2500.

There has been 12 bids to date and the current highest bid is at $2000, so it looks like the “good-buy” at less than $2500 will not happen! So it is not bad going for an auction listing that has only been online for a day or two.

I would however like to question whether this method of selling your business is really successfull ie. do you get a better selling price through eBay compared to selling through more conventional ways? Obviously an auction place, brings a lot of buyers together, which is obviously to your benefit (and it makes finding buyers a lot easier), and it is online as well, which means that the sale is open to a global market and not just limited to the seller’s area. Although this all makes sense in theory, I’m still not convinced though…

Maybe I should stick Cool Crowd up there and see what happens? But for now anyway, check out the progress of the ShoutCentral sale here – it ends on 12 January.

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Buy your MySpace Friends

December 1, 2006 at 4:09 pm · Filed under The Web & Blogs

With this new service being launched, it just increases our ever-mounting dislike of MySpace. With Fakeyourspace you basicly buy friends who will comment on your profile every now and again. For only $.99 a month, you basicly get two comments a week from your new friend.

All of the available friends are semi-hot people with very little clothing. It is also quite evident that most of these “friends” are obvious fakes with very fake pictures. So all in all, this is just silly – although we’ll take nothing away from the creators as this could yet prove to be very profitable for them. The bottomline is that all the MySpace kiddies want to be popular and this is an easy and affordable way of doing it.

But, to us, this is also where MySpace absolutely fails in its mission (or is some’s viewpoints, where it thrives like hell). To me, the original idea of MySpace was to create personal profiles to use for interacting with real friends. If MySpace has become all about popularity, then certainly the interaction between friends has been lost? Maybe I’m being a silly little boy without my own MySpace, but this is just stupid.

Here at The Cool Crowd, you only have to read the blog to be cool (smiles)! Don’t worry about buying friends to be cool, but if you’d like you can pay friends to visit us!

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