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  1. <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:blogger='http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005" xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-506274170016531704</id><updated>2024-11-06T10:03:55.663+07:00</updated><category term="Blog"/><category term="PPC"/><category term="RSS"/><category term="Strategics"/><title type='text'>Computer &amp; Business</title><subtitle type='html'>Achieve profit from this blog and successful</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://computer-business-internet.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/506274170016531704/posts/default?redirect=false'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://computer-business-internet.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>aris3star</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15076346211743588921</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjehECsAALhE2Bad-H8KZo8fa_rovXE-9z6R0I2RvgWWj0YTYOnPPuTjVjohYpRxTQi18OWD9_I7r3bcUuwpCM7_2EtxmRuuqyxaYXutKwUc5_5dYeTQtU0HcxBboOW8g/s1600/*'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>23</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-506274170016531704.post-1404953640820309727</id><published>2009-02-14T20:18:00.001+07:00</published><updated>2009-02-14T20:22:25.953+07:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="RSS"/><title type='text'>Learning the Basics of RSS</title><content type='html'>What is RSS?&lt;br /&gt;You probably have seen this three-letter acronym in the course of your internet surfing. RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication or Rich Site Summary; syndicating means republishing an article that comes from another source such as a website.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;An RSS is a means of publicizing updates about websites. It may or may not include a summary and photos of the latest posting. But those that provide summaries (thus Rich Site Summary) allow users to skim through the article so that they could decide later on if they want to access the website source. The RSS feed usually contains the title of the update originating from the website. It is also usually the link to the website source.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What are the benefits of RSS?&lt;br /&gt;RSS gives benefits to both readers (users) and web publishers.&lt;br /&gt;1.    It gives you the latest updates.&lt;br /&gt;Whether it is about the weather, new music, software upgrade, local news, or a new posting from a rarely-updates site learn about the latest as soon as it comes out.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2.    It saves on surfing time.&lt;br /&gt;Since an RSS feed provides a summary of the related article, it saves the user’s time by helping s/he decide on which items to prioritize when reading or browsing the net.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3.    It gives the power of subscription to the user.&lt;br /&gt;Users are given a free-hand on which websites to subscribe in their RSS aggregators which they can change at any time they decide differently.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4.    It lessens the clutter in your inbox.&lt;br /&gt;Although your email address will be required to enjoy the services of online RSS aggregators, RSS does not use your email address to send the updates.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5.    It is spam free.&lt;br /&gt;Unlike email subscriptions, RSS does not make use of your email address to send updates thus your privacy is kept safe from spam mails.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;6.    Unsubscribing is hassle-free.&lt;br /&gt;Unlike email subscriptions where the user is asked questions on why s/he is unsubscribing and then the user would be asked to confirm unsubscribing, all you have to do is to delete the RSS feed from your aggregator.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;7.    It can be used as an advertising or marketing tool.&lt;br /&gt;Users who subscribe or syndicate product websites receive the latest news on products and services without the website sending spam mail. This is advantageous to both the web user and the website owner since advertising becomes targeted; those who are actually interested in their products are kept posted.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What are the drawbacks of RSS?&lt;br /&gt;The disadvantages of RSS use are brought about by its being a new technology and some user-preference concerns.&lt;br /&gt;1.    Some users prefer receiving email updates over an RSS feed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2.    Graphics and photos do not appear in all RSS feeds.&lt;br /&gt;For conciseness and ease of publication, RSS feeds do not display the photos from the original site in announcing the update except for some web-based aggregators&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3.    The identity of the source website can be confusing.&lt;br /&gt;Since RSS feeds do not display the actual URL or name of the website, it can sometimes get confusing on what feed a user is actually reading.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4.    Publishers cannot determine how many users are subscribed to their feed and the frequency of their visits. Moreover, they would not know the reasons why users unsubscribe which could be important in improving their advertising.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5.    RSS feeds create higher traffic and demands on the server.&lt;br /&gt;Most readers still prefer the whole update over a brief summary of the entry, thus they still access the site.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;6.    Since it is a new technology, many sites still do not support RSS.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How do I start using RSS?&lt;br /&gt;There are two things needed: an RSS feed and an RSS aggregator or reader. The RSS feed comes from an RSS-supported website. There are also websites that provide a list of RSS feeds of different websites. An RSS aggregator is used to read the RSS feed from the source website. It scans and collects data on latest RSS feeds from the worldwide web.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;An aggregator comes in two forms: a downloadable program also known as desktop aggregator and an online or web-based aggregator. Downloadable aggregators may require payment before they can be acquired, while internet-based aggregators are usually free of charge. All you need to do is to register an account then you are ready to use their services. Both versions allow you to customize or choose which RSS feeds to enter. Paid aggregators are usually chosen by more experienced users and they usually allow more freedom in customizing feeds.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1.    Choose an RSS aggregator to use. For beginners, web-based aggregators are recommended since they are usually user-friendly&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2.    Scan the homepage of your target website for the RSS or XML button. It contains the RSS code you need to enter in the aggregator. Copy this code. Syndic8 provides a directory of websites that support RSS.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3.    Paste the code (which contains the URL of the website) in your aggregator. There is a space provided for pasting the code.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After you have done these three easy steps, you can start reading the RSS feeds coming from the website. New postings appear as they are published real time at the source website.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;RSS and Internet Marketing&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The original idea of RSS came from Netscape, where their intention is to provide a means for users to customize their personal homepage to contain links to websites that interest them, similar to bookmarking websites.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The application of RSS to internet marketing was an unforeseen development to RSS technology developers. Since users are given the freedom to add RSS feeds to their aggregators, those who are interested in particular products and services available in the internet can now be notified real time. Marketing becomes more specific to interested people and not a hit-and-miss operation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Those who intend to use RSS for marketing their products and services should consider linking up with email account providers, (e.g. Yahoo, MSN, Google mail); networking websites (e.g. Friendster, Multiply, My Space, Hi5); websites of newspapers and television network websites (e.g. New York Times, CNN) for medium to big-scale companies. Small-time industries can also look into networking websites as well as personal blog websites (e.g. Blogspot) and websites of clubs and organizations that would probably make use of their products or services e.g. a fishing supplies store can look for the website of their local fishing club for possible RSS marketing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Clearly, RSS is an innovation in information management in the worldwide web as well as online marketing. We can expect better RSS technology in the not-so-distant future as its popularity increases among users and website owners alike.&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;By Aris3star&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://computer-business-internet.blogspot.com/feeds/1404953640820309727/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=506274170016531704&amp;postID=1404953640820309727' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/506274170016531704/posts/default/1404953640820309727'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/506274170016531704/posts/default/1404953640820309727'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://computer-business-internet.blogspot.com/2009/02/learning-basics-of-rss.html' title='Learning the Basics of RSS'/><author><name>aris3star</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15076346211743588921</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjehECsAALhE2Bad-H8KZo8fa_rovXE-9z6R0I2RvgWWj0YTYOnPPuTjVjohYpRxTQi18OWD9_I7r3bcUuwpCM7_2EtxmRuuqyxaYXutKwUc5_5dYeTQtU0HcxBboOW8g/s1600/*'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-506274170016531704.post-2225565879542080224</id><published>2009-02-14T20:17:00.003+07:00</published><updated>2009-02-14T20:22:25.953+07:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="RSS"/><title type='text'>A Guide to RSS Aggregators</title><content type='html'>One of the most popular features of Internet portals, websites, pages and even emails is a frame that features an organized list of news headlines and periodic updates from other web sources.  Really Simple Syndication, formerly “Rich Site Summary” or simply, RSS makes this possible. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Most users visit a lot of websites whose content continually change, such as news sites, community organization or professional association information pages, medical websites, product support pages, and blogs.  As Internet surfing became an intrinsic part of business and leisure, it became important to get rid of the very tedious task of repeatedly returning to each website to see updated content.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;RSS easily distributes information from different websites to a wider number of Internet users.  RSS aggregators are programs that use RSS to source these updates, and then organize those lists of headlines, content and notices for easy reading.  It allows computers to automatically retrieve and read the content that users want, then track changes and personalize lists of headlines that interests them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The specially made computer programs called “RSS aggregators” were created to automatically find and retrieve the RSS feeds of pre-selected internet sites on behalf of the user and organize the results accordingly. (RSS feeds and aggregators are also sometimes referred to as &quot;RSS Channels&quot; and &quot;RSS Readers&quot;.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The RSS aggregator is like a web browser for RSS content.  HTML presents information directly to users, and RSS automatically lets computers communicate with one another.  While users use browsers to surf the web then load and view each page of interest, RSS aggregators keeps track of changes to many websites.  The titles or descriptions are links themselves and can be used to load the web page the user wants.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;RSS starts with an original Web site that has content made available by the administrator.  The website creates an RSS document and registers this content with an RSS publisher that will allow other websites to syndicate the documents.  The Web site also produces an RSS feed, or channel, which is available together with all other resources or documents on the particular Web server.  The website will register the feed as an RSS document, with a listed directory of appropriate RSS publishers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;An RSS feed is composed of website content listed from newest to oldest.  Each item usually consists of a simple title describing the item along with a more complete description and a link to a web page with the actual content being described.  In some instances, the short description or title line is the all the updated information that a user wants to read (for example, final games scores in sports, weblogs post, or stock updates).   Therefore, it is not even necessary to have a web page associated with the content or update items listed -- sometimes all the needed information that users need would be in the titles and short summaries themselves.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The RSS content is located in a single file on a webpage in a manner not very different from typical web pages.  The difference is that the information is written in the XML computer code for use by an RSS aggregator and not by a web user like a normal HTML page.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are 2 main parts that are involved in RSS syndication, namely:  the source end and the client end.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The client end of RSS publishing makes up part of the system that gathers and uses the RSS feed.  For example, Mozilla FireFox browser is typically at the client end of the RSS transaction.  A user’s desktop RSS aggregator program also belongs to the client end.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Once the URL of an RSS feed is known, a user can give that address to an RSS aggregator program and have the aggregator monitor the RSS feed for changes.  Numerous RSS aggregators are already preconfigured with a ready list of RSS feed URLs for popular news or information websites that a user can simply choose from.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are many RSS aggregators that can be used by all Internet users.  Some can be accessed through the Internet, some are already incorporated into email applications, and others run as a standalone program inside the personal computer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;RSS feeds have evolved into many uses.  Some uses gaining popularity are:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;·For online store or retail establishments:  Notification of new product arrivals&lt;br /&gt;·For organization or association newsletters:  title listings and notification of new issues, including email newsletters&lt;br /&gt;·Weather Updates and other alerts of changing geographic conditions&lt;br /&gt;·Database management:  Notification of new items added, or new registered members to a club or interest group.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The uses of feeds will continue to grow, because RSS aggregators make access to any information that individual users like more convenient and fun.&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;By Aris3star&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://computer-business-internet.blogspot.com/feeds/2225565879542080224/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=506274170016531704&amp;postID=2225565879542080224' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/506274170016531704/posts/default/2225565879542080224'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/506274170016531704/posts/default/2225565879542080224'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://computer-business-internet.blogspot.com/2009/02/guide-to-rss-aggregators.html' title='A Guide to RSS Aggregators'/><author><name>aris3star</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15076346211743588921</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjehECsAALhE2Bad-H8KZo8fa_rovXE-9z6R0I2RvgWWj0YTYOnPPuTjVjohYpRxTQi18OWD9_I7r3bcUuwpCM7_2EtxmRuuqyxaYXutKwUc5_5dYeTQtU0HcxBboOW8g/s1600/*'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-506274170016531704.post-2900801650434728771</id><published>2008-11-12T12:05:00.002+07:00</published><updated>2008-11-12T12:08:21.300+07:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="RSS"/><title type='text'>Entertainment RSS Delivered Straight Into Your Homes</title><content type='html'>RSS which stands for really simple syndication is a format that is associated with the XML family of file formatting. It functions by continuously running through the websites to scan for updates. It then sends these updates to all of the people who are subscribed to these websites using a feed. This is used most often in web syndication.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To be able to use an RSS feed, you need to have an aggregator, also known as a feed reader. These aggregators are available widely online, so it won&#39;t be that hard to scour the net to find the one that you&#39;re looking for. There are a variety of aggregators to choose from. Best of all is that you can download them for free.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;RSS feeds are often used in blogs, news, and entertainment websites. Anything that relays information to subscribers, and is often updated. These updates are then sent to all of the subscribers of these sites that carry RRS feeds. The updates are summarized, so you&#39;d have an idea what stories they are referring to. If you are interested in the information it&#39;s relaying, you can then click on the text to get the longer version of the text.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The great thing about RSS feeds, is that you can also read them through your cell phones, and they come in PDAs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Most entertainment websites carry RSS feeds such as BBC, Reuters, Boston Globe, CNN, etc. Music reviews, game news, interviews, movie stories, are also put into RSS feeds. This makes it a lot easier for fans to follow stories about their favorite movie stars, sports heroes, latest gaming news, etc. It is offered to you unadulterated, and free from annoying spam that clutters your emails.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A lot of businesses also use RSS feeds to reach their customers. This allows them to directly relay information, uncorrupted, and instantaneously. As soon as you download an RSS feed, you receive the information right away.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Entertainment RSS is an all in one stop. You don&#39;t have to click from website to website to get the news that you&#39;re after.  Entertainment websites that carry RSS  offer you the news that you need, automatically as soon as they&#39;re updated. This saves you the time and the trouble of having to scour the net for the information that you&#39;re looking for.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is easy to subscribe to entertainment RSS feed, just click the button that indicates the RSS feed. You usually have to copy the URL into your aggregator, but some RSS feeds automatically download into your reader. You can unsubscribe to an RSS feed anytime.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are some search engines that allow you to search information contained through RSS feeds. There are also feed directories that categorize RSS feeds by order of interest. This makes it easier for people to locate all of the information contained in RSS on any available topics online.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Local news can also be found via RSS. So now instead of tuning into your TV sets to get the latest headlines, updates, and sporting news, you can subscribe to an RSS feed. This way, you get all of your news at once. This allows you to control the way you receive information, and enables you to receive news at your own free time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The great thing about this is that readers can read the headlines and summary, and then can choose which stories they want to follow. This gives the reader control over the content of the information they are receiving. This way, they are not bombarded by numerous advertisements and countless useless information that they don&#39;t have any use for.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Individuals who have blogs with syndicated content can submit the syndicated versions of their blogs to RSS feed directories. This way, blog enthusiasts can have access to their RSS feeds.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Feedster is one of the most popular search engines. You can use this search engine to find numerous entertainment articles, stories, reviews, using an RSS feed. The great thing about RSS feeds, is that you&#39;re always updated with the latest news and happenings.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;RSS feeds is revolutionizing the way information consumers get their content. Instead of being bombarded with a plethora of useless information, the consumers now can select &amp;amp; reject the material that goes into their consciousness.&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;By Aris3star&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://computer-business-internet.blogspot.com/feeds/2900801650434728771/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=506274170016531704&amp;postID=2900801650434728771' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/506274170016531704/posts/default/2900801650434728771'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/506274170016531704/posts/default/2900801650434728771'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://computer-business-internet.blogspot.com/2008/11/entertainment-rss-delivered-straight.html' title='Entertainment RSS Delivered Straight Into Your Homes'/><author><name>aris3star</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15076346211743588921</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjehECsAALhE2Bad-H8KZo8fa_rovXE-9z6R0I2RvgWWj0YTYOnPPuTjVjohYpRxTQi18OWD9_I7r3bcUuwpCM7_2EtxmRuuqyxaYXutKwUc5_5dYeTQtU0HcxBboOW8g/s1600/*'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-506274170016531704.post-1279274905643526406</id><published>2008-11-12T12:02:00.001+07:00</published><updated>2008-11-12T12:08:21.300+07:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="RSS"/><title type='text'>Blog RSS</title><content type='html'>Really Simple Syndication (RSS) is a tool useful for saving or retaining updated information on websites that you frequently visit or websites that are your favorite. RSS utilizes an XML code which scans continuously the content or subject matter of a certain website in search for new informations then transmits the information updates by way of feeding the information to subscribers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;RSS feeds are generally being utilized in blogs or news sites, though any website wanting to broadcast and publish information can use them. Once new information is sent, it will contain a headline, a little bit of text, and either a rundown or a brief review of the news or story. A link is needed be clicked upon to read further.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So as to accept RSS feeds, a feed reader is needed, called an aggregator.  Aggregators are widely and freely available online, and all that is needed is a bit of searching, you will be able to locate a certain interface that best interest you. What’s more, RSS feeds can likewise be read and retrieved from cell phones and on PDAs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Once you encounter upon a website that you want to add or insert to the aggregator, the process can be done in two ways. Almost all sites offering an RSS feed displays an “RSS” or “XML” button in their homepage and with one click, it promptly add that particular feed to one’s aggregator. Some aggregator however, requires the need to copy and then paste the URL of the feed unto the program.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Whatever the method used, you can be certain that the feed will be accessible soon as you have inserted it, likewise, in just seconds, the next update can arrive. In the event that you do not anymore would want to accept or take in updates, you may simply delete or erase the feed from the aggregator.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Through e-mail subscriptions, you can receive newsletters. RSS feeds on the other hand, can be more convenient in keeping up with newsletter updates since they are prompt and available in an instant; you no longer have to wait for a scheduled time or day to obtain a news summary, plus, these news will never be  detained through a spam filter.&lt;br /&gt;RSS feeds are widely used everyday by individuals who understand and appreciate the accessibility of fast reports and news that can be readily read and only read certain updates that appeals to them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Aggregators&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Aggregators are popular use of feeds, having several kinds. Web aggregators or portals as they are sometimes called, create this view which is then made available in a Web page. Also, Aggregators have been incorporated into e-mail patrons, users of desktops, or dedicated and standalone software.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Offering a collection of special features, such as combining more than a few related feeds in just a single view, hiding certain entries or statements that has been already viewed, and classifying entries and feeds, the aggregator is a versatile component.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why make a feed available?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You will have more viewers, since now, your viewers can conveniently see your site without even going out and looking for that certain site. While at first, it may seem corrupt, it will in fact enhance the visibility of your site; this is so because users can easily keep up or keep tract with your site, to allow them to view in a way that they want to; it’s more probable that guests are aware should something that is in their interest is available or accessible on your site.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For instance, every month your website broadcasts a new feature. Having no feed, your viewers will always have to keep in mind to go to your site in a certain time to see if they discover something new; that is, if they can remember, and if they still have the time. However, if you supply a feed for your viewers, they can just point to their aggregator and it will instantly provide them a link along with a description of happenings or events at your site immediately.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What format to choose?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Syndication is very confusing as it uses a lot of formats that can usually be come across in the web.  However, this can easily be solved as in general, syndicated libraries are used by aggregators which conceptualize a particular format that a feed is in, in order that they can utilize a certain syndication feed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With this, whatever format to pick is just a matter of personal preference. RSS 1.0 is far reaching, and practical should it be integrated into Semantic Web systems. RSS 2.0 is very easy and simple create by hand. And atom is an IETF Standard, does it brings constancy, stability and a natural and accepted community to support its usage.&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;By Aris3star&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://computer-business-internet.blogspot.com/feeds/1279274905643526406/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=506274170016531704&amp;postID=1279274905643526406' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/506274170016531704/posts/default/1279274905643526406'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/506274170016531704/posts/default/1279274905643526406'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://computer-business-internet.blogspot.com/2008/11/blog-rss.html' title='Blog RSS'/><author><name>aris3star</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15076346211743588921</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjehECsAALhE2Bad-H8KZo8fa_rovXE-9z6R0I2RvgWWj0YTYOnPPuTjVjohYpRxTQi18OWD9_I7r3bcUuwpCM7_2EtxmRuuqyxaYXutKwUc5_5dYeTQtU0HcxBboOW8g/s1600/*'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-506274170016531704.post-3964099460852965545</id><published>2008-10-15T13:22:00.002+07:00</published><updated>2008-11-12T12:09:35.756+07:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Blog"/><title type='text'>Problogging: Making Money from Blogs</title><content type='html'>A weblog (or simply blog) is a website that &#39;publishes&#39; or features articles (which are called &#39;blog posts&#39;, &#39;posts&#39;, or &#39;entries&#39;), written by an individual or a group that make use of any or a combination of the following:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;·    Straight texts&lt;br /&gt;·    Photographs or images (photoblog)&lt;br /&gt;·    Video (videoblog)&lt;br /&gt;·    Audio files (audioblog)&lt;br /&gt;·    Hyperlinks&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Usually presented and arranged in reverse chronological order, blogs are essentially used for the following purposes:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;·    Online journal or a web diary&lt;br /&gt;·    Content managament system&lt;br /&gt;·    Online publishing platform&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A typical blog has the following components:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;·    Post date -the date and time of the blog entry&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;·    Category - the category that the blog belongs to&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;·    Title - the title of the blog&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;·    Main body - the main content of the blog&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;·    RSS and trackback - links the blog back from other sites&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;·    Comments - commentaries that are added by readers&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;·    Permalinks - the URL of the full article&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;·    Other optional items - calendar, archives, blogrolls, and add-ons or plug-ins&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A blog can also have a footer, usually found at the bottom of the blog, that shows the post date, the author, the category, and the &#39;stats&#39; (the nubmer of comments or trackbacks).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are numerous types of blogs. Some of them are the following:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. Political blog - on news, politics, activism, and other issue based blogs (such as campaigning).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. Personal blog - also known as online diary that may include an individual&#39;s day-to-day experience, complaints, poems, and illicit thoughts, and communications between friends.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. Topical blog - with focus either on a particular niche (function or position) that is usually technical in nature or a local information.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4. Health blog - on specific health issues. Medical blog is a major category of health blog that features medical news from health care professionals and/or actual patient cases.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5. Literary blog - also known as litblog.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;6. Travel blog - with focus on a traveler&#39;s stories on a particular journey.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;7. Research blog - on academic issues such as research notes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;8. Legal blog - on law (technical areas) and legal affairs; also known as &#39;blawgs&#39;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;9. Media blog - focus on falsehoods or inconsistencies in mass media; usually exclusive for a newspaper or a television network.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;10. Religious blog - on religious topics&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;11. Educational blog - on educational applications, usually written by students and teachers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;12. Collaborative or collective blog - a specific topic written by a group of people.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;13. Directory blog - contains a collection of numerous web sites.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;14. Business blog - used by entrepreneurs and corporate employees to promote their businesses or talk about their work.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;15. Personification blog - focus on non-human being or objects (such as dogs).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;16. Spam blogs - used for promoting affiliated websites; also known as &#39;splogs&#39;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Blogging is typically done on a regular (almost daily) basis. The term &quot;blogging&quot; refers to the act of authoring, maintaining, or adding an article to an existing blog, while the term &quot;blogger&quot; refers to a person or a group who keeps a blog.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today, more than 3 million blogs can be found in the Internet. This figure is continuously growing, as the availability of various blog software, tools, and other applications make it easier for just about anyone to update or maintain the blog (even those with little or no technical background). Because of this trend, bloggers can now be categorized into 4 main types:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;·    Personal bloggers - people who focus on a diary or on any topic that an individual feels strongly about.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;·    Business bloggers - people who focus on promoting products and services.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;·    Organizational bloggers - people who focus on internal or external communication in an organization or a community.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;·    Professional bloggers - people who are hired or paid to do blogging.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Problogging (professional blogging) refers to blogging for a profit. Probloggers (professional bloggers) are people who make money from blogging (as an individual blog publisher or a hired blogger).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Below are just some of the many money-making opportunities for probloggers:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;·    Advertising programs&lt;br /&gt;·    RSS advertising&lt;br /&gt;·    Sponsorship&lt;br /&gt;·    Affiliate Programs&lt;br /&gt;·    Digital assets&lt;br /&gt;·    Blog network writing gigs&lt;br /&gt;·    Business blog writing gigs&lt;br /&gt;·    Non blogging writing gigs&lt;br /&gt;·    Donations&lt;br /&gt;·    Flipping blogs&lt;br /&gt;·    Merchandising&lt;br /&gt;·    Consulting and speaking&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The following are a few things that you need to consider if you want to be successful in problogging:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. Be patient. Problogging requires a lot of time and effort, not to mention a long-term vision.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. Know your audience. Targeting a specific audience or group is a key to building a readership.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. Be an &#39;expert&#39;. Focus on a specific niche topic and strive to be the &quot;go-to&quot; blogger on that topic.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4. Diversify. Experiment with various add and affiliate programs that enable you to make money online (aside from blogging).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5. Do not bore your readers. Focus on the layout. White spaces, line spacings, and bigger fonts make a blog welcoming to read.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Certainly, it is possible to earn money from blogs. One just needs to take risks, the passion, and the right attitude in order to be a successful problogger.&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;By Aris3star&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://computer-business-internet.blogspot.com/feeds/3964099460852965545/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=506274170016531704&amp;postID=3964099460852965545' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/506274170016531704/posts/default/3964099460852965545'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/506274170016531704/posts/default/3964099460852965545'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://computer-business-internet.blogspot.com/2008/10/problogging-making-money-from-blogs.html' title='Problogging: Making Money from Blogs'/><author><name>aris3star</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15076346211743588921</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjehECsAALhE2Bad-H8KZo8fa_rovXE-9z6R0I2RvgWWj0YTYOnPPuTjVjohYpRxTQi18OWD9_I7r3bcUuwpCM7_2EtxmRuuqyxaYXutKwUc5_5dYeTQtU0HcxBboOW8g/s1600/*'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-506274170016531704.post-8319957407320272043</id><published>2008-10-15T13:19:00.002+07:00</published><updated>2008-11-12T12:09:35.756+07:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Blog"/><title type='text'>Getting Started with Videoblogging</title><content type='html'>Videoblogging is the next generation of posting ideas and products over the internet.  Everybody knows about textblogging. Now they use videos for a better way of expression. This form of communication may entail a lot of resources, but it is all worth it. If pictures say a thousand words, videoblogging exceeds that by far.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A videoblog requires larger disk spaces on websites, a faster server, and a whole new set of programs to support it.  Videoblogs can be fed through RSS. This is technology of syndicating your website to other RSS aggregators.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Videoblogging works with people on the internet expressing their selves. Now if you put this on a business prospective, you are up to a lot of benefits. Think of it as a powerful tool in making showing your prospective customers your line of products or your services. It’s just like showing a commercial all for free. And if you videoblog through RSS, then most probably you are getting your target market. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;People like to see what they are going to buy. Some would like to see proof and be sure that they are getting their money’s worth before shelving their dimes on it.  All of us know the influence of a thirty second commercial. The effect of videoblogging is similar to that. You show your product, people watch it. If they like it, they buy it. If you present it good enough, they’ll buy the product even if they don’t need it.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now on the web, things are pretty much static, unlike in television in which all are moving. If you post something that is mobile, it would most likely catch attention. Now imaging your product parading in all it’s royalty through videoblog.  You’ll get phone call orders in no time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If your business is just starting up, you can create a videoblog right at your own home. All you need is your web camera, microphone, video software, and lights. For as long as you know how to use your camera, then you can create a videoblog.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Invest in a good web camera. The higher its resolution is the better the output. And you like to present your goods in the optimum way so get the best one possible. Make a short story, or just capture your goods in one go. Just make sure you are getting the best profile for each. Get those creativity juices flowing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lights are important in a production. Make sure you illuminate entirely the area you are going to use to create videoblog. The brighter the area, the crispier the images will be. You can also use lighting effects for added appeal to the presentation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Should you require sounds for your videoblog, you need a microphone. Record you voice as a voice over for promoting the product and its benefit to consumers. Sounds are as important as videos on a videoblog.  It is advisable to make your sound effects as enticing as the video.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Your video editing software can be any program. You need this to finalize your work. You can add sounds, delete some bad angles, or insert some still pictures in there too. Some programs              are user-friendly and can be used even with zero knowledge on video editing. Even simple video editing programs should do the trick. Select your background carefully too. The light affects the presentation so make sure that the background and the light complements each other.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Videoblogging is a great tool but it also has it downside.  It may slow down the computer so other may steer clear of it.  Download time may also be time consuming especially if customer is still on a dial- up connection.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But don’t let those stop you. Let videoblogging be an alternative for you, though it is best to still keep the text and pictures present in your presentation to accommodate all possible viewers of your site.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nowadays, the more creative you are in presenting your product to the market, they more you are likely to succeed. Videoblogging offers an interactive way of selling. You involve the customers. You instill in them the advantage of your goods.  And at times, those are enough to make a sale.&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;By Aris3star&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://computer-business-internet.blogspot.com/feeds/8319957407320272043/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=506274170016531704&amp;postID=8319957407320272043' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/506274170016531704/posts/default/8319957407320272043'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/506274170016531704/posts/default/8319957407320272043'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://computer-business-internet.blogspot.com/2008/10/getting-started-with-videoblogging.html' title='Getting Started with Videoblogging'/><author><name>aris3star</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15076346211743588921</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjehECsAALhE2Bad-H8KZo8fa_rovXE-9z6R0I2RvgWWj0YTYOnPPuTjVjohYpRxTQi18OWD9_I7r3bcUuwpCM7_2EtxmRuuqyxaYXutKwUc5_5dYeTQtU0HcxBboOW8g/s1600/*'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-506274170016531704.post-8498195729081573179</id><published>2008-07-04T08:21:00.001+07:00</published><updated>2008-11-12T12:11:14.207+07:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="PPC"/><title type='text'>PPC Advertising for Maximum Web Promotion</title><content type='html'>Engaging in pay-per-click (PPC) advertising has its own benefits and drawbacks. But what exactly is PPC advertising and what it can do to your business?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Business nowadays is doing different kinds of austerity measures when it comes to advertising their products and services. This is because of high rates of placing ads on print and on television. But there is a fast growing approach that businessmen can utilize to bring their services closer to the people and that is through Internet Marketing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One tool that is causing internet marketing popularity is PPC advertising. This is a technique used in search engine marketing that requires one to pay a fee every time someone clicks an ad on your website. Usually this placement is done through a bidding process. If you are a top bidder for your keywords/phrases, you are sure to be on the number one spot on all search engines. Just be sure of the effectiveness of your ad copy to get the most number of clicks you need for your business.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here are the benefits of PPC advertising are:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1.    You need not be a genius in computer and technology to be able to run this ad campaign.&lt;br /&gt;2.    Immediate results are seen after a few days.&lt;br /&gt;3.    No need to make a website conform to the SEO rules.&lt;br /&gt;4.    Nothing to lose even if you do not top the pages of different search engines. You can still always choose PPC advertising.&lt;br /&gt;5.    You can make use any search engine available.&lt;br /&gt;6.    You can type in any keyword you like.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cons of PPC advertising includes:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1.    Fixed payments every month to the search engine you choose.&lt;br /&gt;2.    Pay for each click received by your website. At times, visitors are just competitors or people playing pranks on search engines. This hassle wastes money you put in to this advertising.&lt;br /&gt;3.    Inability to pay for the fees next month would mean removal of your website on the paid listings.&lt;br /&gt;4.    This advertising can only be used temporarily because it is difficult to handle in the long run.&lt;br /&gt;5.    Pay-per-click pricing can be costly for long periods of time, therefore, this should be stopped after an ad campaign.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But how exactly PPC advertising can increase traffic, leads and sales?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PRE-QUALIFIED TRAFFIC. All visitors of your website are already considered as a qualified consumer or buyer of your product. PPC advertising leads your customers to you for a lesser cost.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;INSTANT EXPOSURE, IMMEDIATE PROFITS. PPC search engines enable you to get your desired results fast. They will have your website live within just a few hours which means immediate increase in sale.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;CONSISTENT TOP LISTINGS. This is to get your website on top of the sponsored search results for free. You just have to choose the keywords related to your site and business and place them within your web pages. After this, you are done.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PPC advertising enables advertisers to control their advertising campaigns. Advertisers have effectively targeted their audience and set their own price per click. PPC advertising networks provide the platform to identify the desired audience by geographic setting, topic and industry.  These networks have a list of websites of the publishers where the ads will be placed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tools are provided by the networks to check how the pay per click limit is working for a certain advertiser. If its still competitive, would it be even listed among the paid search lists or does it generate sales? Of course, if the advertiser made the highest bid, the better chances the ad will be seen in the search engine. These networks too provide protection for the advertisers against click fraud. This advertising set-up allows advertisers to set a daily budget for his ads, thus, less spending for unnecessary clicks. Advertiser will never go over his budget. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In PPC advertising, what are important are the keywords and phrases. You have to select at least ten &quot;very specific&quot; keywords that would give you the best traffic in the search. Then, write the ad creatively but straightforward. Tell the truth about your product or service and do not lie. Good thing if your product or service will not disappoint those that are relying on your ad&#39;s promise - but what if it did otherwise? Important too is the clarity of the ad. Do not use very vague languages. Include important details like the price.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You should also remember to budget your bids. Do not go overbidding because you will only lose your money and do not go so low that your ads will never get the chance to show up. Check your profit against your spending. If you see no progress then most likely you have to drop your ad campaign.&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;More and more advertisers have been using PPC advertising and it will continue to grow faster than any online advertising techniques. From revenues of $2.6 billion in 2004 to $5.5 billion in 2009, cost per click will dramatically go up as well from $0.29 to $0.36.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PPC advertising is new in online marketing and it is going to continue in the years to come. For advertisers, this means increase revenues with fewer advertising expenses, savings, more sales, good return of investment (ROI) and effective ad campaigns in the days to come.&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;By Aris3star&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://computer-business-internet.blogspot.com/feeds/8498195729081573179/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=506274170016531704&amp;postID=8498195729081573179' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/506274170016531704/posts/default/8498195729081573179'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/506274170016531704/posts/default/8498195729081573179'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://computer-business-internet.blogspot.com/2008/07/ppc-advertising-for-maximum-web.html' title='PPC Advertising for Maximum Web Promotion'/><author><name>aris3star</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15076346211743588921</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjehECsAALhE2Bad-H8KZo8fa_rovXE-9z6R0I2RvgWWj0YTYOnPPuTjVjohYpRxTQi18OWD9_I7r3bcUuwpCM7_2EtxmRuuqyxaYXutKwUc5_5dYeTQtU0HcxBboOW8g/s1600/*'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-506274170016531704.post-7086395673088696445</id><published>2008-06-06T14:03:00.001+07:00</published><updated>2008-11-12T12:11:14.208+07:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="PPC"/><title type='text'>PPC Appraisal Program:  Leave Your Computer On And Earn Money</title><content type='html'>This program is very simple to download, entirely free and really works!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Requiring no sponsoring, no costs at all to join, once it has been set up, the only thing you do is leave your computer on and the system will just automatically run and you can trace your income by the second.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This program operates comparable to “click on a search engine and get paid” programs, with the exception of the following:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1.    It is run automatically similar to auto surf, so there is no need for you to click on any link.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2.    It does not provide you with only one search engine, but there are at least twenty one now running.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you continually run your computer for twenty four hours a day, you may earn up to fifteen dollars a day.  At the end of the month, when they will be adding up to two hundred more search engines, you may earn up to sixty dollars a day, not doing anything, just be online.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In addition, you get another five percent of your referrals running time; these referrals could go as far as four levels.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Every search engine builds up an independent total of your time surfing.  You must reach sixty dollars before payment be done by each of the search engine.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Normally, when you are running your computer online for twenty four hours each day, without any referral, for you to reach sixty dollars, it would more or less take you up to two months, with the now running twenty four search engines.  Now consider this, sixty multiplied by twenty four will equal to one thousand four hundred forty.  This is how much you will make in two months, of doing nothing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Signing up:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Take note of this URL, as you will use this as your sponsor:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.ppcappraisal.com/register.php?fT=1&amp;amp;RefId=14387&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1.    Go to http://www.ppcappraisal.com/register.php?fT=1&amp;amp;RefId=14387  and fill out the form.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2.    Where it is asking for the company name, put PPC appraisal&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For the URL, put ppcappraisal.com&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For tax ID, put N/A&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fill the rest of the form with your personal information&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Take note that ppc appraisal does not accept any email address with full stops or non alphabetic characters in it. If you are in need of a new email address just for this intention, you can register at www.hotmail.com ; they offer a free account.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3.    Log in (this will take you on to a menu)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4.    Hit select all at the pages’ bottom.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5.    Go back again to the bottom of the page and hit “select all” then “request”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;6.    There will be more than two pages that will appear.  Do the same for all of the pages.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;7.    Go to your PPC account and click on “statistics” and observe the entire search engines appear and your total earnings.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;8.    Download “test 33” (go to http://66.84.56.206/ppc/test33.exe) and make sure you save it to the desktop.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;9.    Log in to PPC appraisal, select campaigns on the menu.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;10.    Write down a copy of your portal URL&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;11.    In the test33 browser, go to tools, analyst, act, setup; you will see two squares that are empty; on the lower left side, click append and wait for the pop up window to appear open.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;12.    Inside that window, type in set 1 and hit OK.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;13.    After which, it will fade away.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;14.    Go back to tools, analyst, act, hit set 1 and the url will load.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;15.    Go to tools, analyst and hit loop and then click on navigation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;16.    At the bottom, click on the word “six” and this will open up six different search engines.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;17.    Now the test 33 will start on clicking all search engines.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;18.    Do not adjust any settings.  You can minimize the window and still work on your normal computer wok.  It will just continue on clicking the search engines and will never interfere with what you do.  These are search engines that use up or get a run through this particular program.  They are doing this and making payments to improve or increase their numbers so they can have a better chance to compete with google or yahoo.&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;By Aris3star&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://computer-business-internet.blogspot.com/feeds/7086395673088696445/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=506274170016531704&amp;postID=7086395673088696445' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/506274170016531704/posts/default/7086395673088696445'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/506274170016531704/posts/default/7086395673088696445'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://computer-business-internet.blogspot.com/2008/06/ppc-appraisal-program-leave-your.html' title='PPC Appraisal Program:  Leave Your Computer On And Earn Money'/><author><name>aris3star</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15076346211743588921</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjehECsAALhE2Bad-H8KZo8fa_rovXE-9z6R0I2RvgWWj0YTYOnPPuTjVjohYpRxTQi18OWD9_I7r3bcUuwpCM7_2EtxmRuuqyxaYXutKwUc5_5dYeTQtU0HcxBboOW8g/s1600/*'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-506274170016531704.post-4678902360262287204</id><published>2008-06-03T11:03:00.001+07:00</published><updated>2008-11-12T12:14:33.883+07:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Strategics"/><title type='text'>Increasing Sales Through Strategic Internet Marketing</title><content type='html'>The Internet has now become an important medium for product and service advertisements.  Almost every company that can afford print, radio and TV advertisements have also ventured into placing ads on the Internet.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But with millions of websites out there being visited by millions of computer users, how can you make sure that your ad can be seen by your target customers and that your leads will be followed by these users?  Here are a few tips.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1.  Place an ad on the websites frequented by your target customers.  Before doing this, you need to define who will be your target customers.  Placing an ad on sites that they usually visit will increase the possibility that your ad will gain the attention and will be followed your target customers. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Also, consider the website&#39;s search engine placement, traffic, external linking and the other ads placed on it.  External linking will determine if there are other sites that link to this site.  This will mean that people can get to the site where your ad is placed, even if they are browsing a different site.  Check if many of your competitors have ads on this site.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2.  Placing ads on some sites cost some money.  However, there are also sites that can place a link to your site, product or service in exchange of having their link being displayed on your site.  This is also true about the newsletters sent by site owners to its mailing list members regularly.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Also, having helpful links placed on your site and having sites link to your pages help in boosting search engine ranking.  This is similar to making a statement that your site&#39;s content is important that other sites have links to your web pages.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3.  Pay-per-click (PPC) is also a good method in Internet marketing.  You will only need to pay for the ad if the link is clicked.  If you prefer this method of advertisement, make sure that you are using services that set limits on daily expenses.  There are also services that help you determine effective keywords and monitor the PPC results.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4.  Choose your domain name wisely.  It is still being debated if domain names matter when it comes to search engine placement.  Whether it does or not, having product related domain names help consumers remember your domain, that they can go back to your site even without the links.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5.  Make sure you have useful content on your sites.  While keyword density is important in search engine placement, having useless information or annoying repetition of keywords will not increase your customer&#39;s confidence in your site.  It may even affect your sites traffic and can get your site removed from search engines.  So make sure that keywords are used strategically.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;6.  When thinking of keywords, think like your target customers.  What do you think are they going to search so they can get to your site?  Also, use specific keywords or key phrases.  Submitting a single word or a very general phrase to a search engine will not get you to the top of the search results compared to submitting specific keywords that describe your product and services perfectly.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;7.  Track your ads.  Always check how much you have spent on placing links on frequently visited sites and on PPC.  There are services that allow you to monitor PPC transactions and how many of these end in sales.  You always need to consider if the ads that you have placed on these websites are getting you to your target consumers and if these ads can lead to revenue.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One final tip on marketing products and services, sell the benefits.  It will help your marketing strategies a lot if you highlight the benefits of choosing your products and services instead of merely discussing the product specifications.  Product specifications may not mean much to customers, unless they know what these stand for (how these specifications affect the quality of the product or service).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Many people say getting to the top of search engine results is difficult since millions of websites exist, which can be using the same keywords.  While this is true, this doesn&#39;t mean that your website has to stacked under your competitors&#39; websites when presenting search engine results.  Strategic advertising and linking, together with useful content, can also get you to the top of the search results.&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;By Aris3star&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://computer-business-internet.blogspot.com/feeds/4678902360262287204/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=506274170016531704&amp;postID=4678902360262287204' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/506274170016531704/posts/default/4678902360262287204'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/506274170016531704/posts/default/4678902360262287204'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://computer-business-internet.blogspot.com/2008/06/increasing-sales-through-strategic.html' title='Increasing Sales Through Strategic Internet Marketing'/><author><name>aris3star</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15076346211743588921</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjehECsAALhE2Bad-H8KZo8fa_rovXE-9z6R0I2RvgWWj0YTYOnPPuTjVjohYpRxTQi18OWD9_I7r3bcUuwpCM7_2EtxmRuuqyxaYXutKwUc5_5dYeTQtU0HcxBboOW8g/s1600/*'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-506274170016531704.post-8079616211931979649</id><published>2008-05-31T08:24:00.002+07:00</published><updated>2008-11-12T12:11:14.208+07:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="PPC"/><title type='text'>Maximum Website Promotion through PPC Bid Management</title><content type='html'>Tools for Internet Marketing have been rising to popularity these days because of cost-effectiveness and the possibility of measuring increase in profits and sales.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pay per click (PPC) is a means to advertise business through the use of keywords/phrases in the search engines. The advertiser is required to only pay for each click that sends a visitor to his website. Search engines such as Overture, Google Adwords, Search Yahoo and Miva are just some examples of search engines. They offer top positions among the sponsored listings for particular keywords/phrases you choose. The idea for bidding is you have to buy/bid on keywords/phrases relevant to your business. The highest bidder gets to be on the top of the search result listing and the second highest bidder, of course, gets the next top listing and so on. Every time a visitor clicks on your website, you will have to pay the same amount that you bid on that particular keyword.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PPC can be very costly, time consuming and sometimes not worthy. But if you know how to go about the step by step procedures, PPC is a welcome change to traditional advertising. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you do your searches for products, articles and auctions in the net, you usually type in a keyword or a set of phrase to guide you in your search. Either you use Google or Yahoo Search depending on where you are most comfortable at and where you usually get the best results. As soon as you key in the search button, immediately a long list of keywords or phrase will be displayed containing the keywords you key in. The first or the top link that you saw is most likely the one who bids the highest for that keyword you type. In this way, businessmen will produce the desired results; they get to be advertised, at the same time, saving and spending only for the clicks they need that might translate to potential sales.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The way to start PPC bid management is to identify first the maximum cost per click (CPC) you are willing to pay for a given keyword or phrase. CPC varies from time and even search engine to search engine too. Maximum CPC can be measured by averaging the current costs of bids (bids range from $0.25 to $5). Average of these bids is to be used as the maximum CPC to begin with. As your ad campaign progresses, the actual conversion rate (visitors turning to potential buyers/sales) will be determined and you may have to adjust your CPC (bidding rate) accordingly.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When you start to bid, see to it that you adopt different bidding strategies for various search engines. Search engines have their own PPC systems that require different approaches. It is also worthy to identify different bids for the same keyword phrases in various search engines.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Another thing, it is wiser not to bid for the top spot for two reasons: 1) It is very expensive and impractical, and 2) Surfers usually try different search queries in various search engines before they settle on the right one that fits to what they are looking for. This hardly results to conversion. Try to bid for the fifth spot instead and work your way up.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you are now going steady on your PPC biddings, it is time for you to develop your own bidding strategy accordingly. It is important for you to track down which sites bring the bulk of your traffic and identify the ranking of your paid ads. This will help your bidding strategy to be effective and you should also decide where you want your ad to be positioned. Usually your maximum CPC will limit your choices.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bid gaps (e.g. $ 0.40, 0.39, bid gap, 0.20, 0.19, 0.18) occur when there is a significant price increase to move up one spot in the PPC rankings. It is best if you take advantage of the bid gaps by filling them in so you can save up your cents to other bidding opportunities. Often there are keywords worthy of lesser bids to get the appropriate ranking on the list and produce a good number of clicks and higher conversion rate rather than bidding higher but having a poor conversion rate. You have to put in mind that overbidding too is not good but rather the best position for the most effective bid. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Using pay-per-click bid management in promoting your website will only be successful if you take time building many lists across many engines and studying the performance of every listing. In this way, you can make the most value from what you spend in the bidding process.  The key is to use the necessary precautions to stay ahead of the competition.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bid Management Tools&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In ensuring best results, you may use bid management tools. There are accepted and approved management tools that will help you in your bidding. They are categorized in two different types:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;•    Web based (services by monthly subscription) or,&lt;br /&gt;•    PC based (a purchased software)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Monitoring tools too may help in the tracking down of your keywords/phrases and search engines as to which among them often generate sales, overall and in relation to your cost per click. This is what you call return of investment (ROI) monitoring.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These bid management tools may include additional functions that may not get from online marketing tools that are readily available. Other tools can monitor competitor’s bids, produce reports for different parties and offer the ability to interface with multiple PPC engines. This is particularly helpful to those who manage more than a hundred keywords across several PPC engines to boost productivity and save time.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pay-per-click bid management is ideal for the effective promotion of your business online without the hassles of draining your financial keeping too much. It is now fast catching up as a means used in marketing your goods and services to reach to as many consumers as possible.&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;By Aris3star&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://computer-business-internet.blogspot.com/feeds/8079616211931979649/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=506274170016531704&amp;postID=8079616211931979649' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/506274170016531704/posts/default/8079616211931979649'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/506274170016531704/posts/default/8079616211931979649'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://computer-business-internet.blogspot.com/2008/05/ppc-appraisal-program-leave-your.html' title='Maximum Website Promotion through PPC Bid Management'/><author><name>aris3star</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15076346211743588921</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjehECsAALhE2Bad-H8KZo8fa_rovXE-9z6R0I2RvgWWj0YTYOnPPuTjVjohYpRxTQi18OWD9_I7r3bcUuwpCM7_2EtxmRuuqyxaYXutKwUc5_5dYeTQtU0HcxBboOW8g/s1600/*'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-506274170016531704.post-8933828984541783791</id><published>2008-05-25T08:19:00.003+07:00</published><updated>2008-11-12T12:11:14.209+07:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="PPC"/><title type='text'>To SEO or To PPC?</title><content type='html'>The online community is definitely a large market place that you cannot ignore, especially if you have an internet business. There are thousands if not millions of consumers that you can tap in the internet.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At the same time, the internet also poses a quite different challenge. The easy access that internet provides also gives you as much competition as you can imagine. It is too crowded and congested.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Having a website is not enough to make your business running and able to compete. You must take other alternatives to give way for the online community to access your website at any rate or chance possible.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You have to expose your website. Make it known. It has to be visible. It has to be frequently targeted by consumers and surfers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Invest in marketing your internet site.  There are basically two options available to you, the SEO and PPC. These two are probably the most desirable alternatives you can get for your internet business as strategy for search engine marketing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. SEO&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization. Some researches indicate that 60% - 70% of internet surfers and users actually resort to using the Google search engine to find and locate web sites and pages, for any topic they desire. SEO is the process taken to make sure that the internet uses will find your website when ranked among the top results of a search. This way you can make sure that you will be visible and can clearly stand out from the rest.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To get a search engine optimization, you will have to build on your own internet site frequently hit internet links to web site pages. The process will involve IBLN or Independent Back-Linking Network, wherein hundreds or even thousands of pages will be utilized to promote a particular website of a client.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In SEO, there is no need for you to pay for the clicks although it will require you to spend time doing research to get a favorable combination of ads and target audience. The SEO process is a long term one. It requires months, 6 months at the least, before the proper outcome is fully achieved, but once the goal is accomplished, you will definitely get a steady source of profit.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. PPC&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PPC means Pay Per Click. It gives way advertising on a search engine. These are sponsored listings that you see whenever you make a search. There will be a charge whenever a visitor or web surfer clicks on any of your ads. There will first be a bidding process. The highest bidder for the price per click will definitely get the chance to be first listed in the search engine.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With this kind of advertising, you can still basically control your campaign as you get to create your own ad. You will also manage the target audience and still stay within the bounds of your budget. Most of the providers of PPC advertising will allow you to specify the target market, either by topic, industry or geographical location. You can also very well check if your ad gets to be shown at all and if it is competitive with the rest.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are some guaranteed benefits when you get to maximize the PPC strategy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;?    PPC lets you advertise to the whole of the online community. It is also relatively easy to set up.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;?    At first glance, PPC advertising may seem very expensive. Could it possibly happen that someone out there will go on clicking on your ad? This will definitely give you a large bill without the expected profit on your part. If this provides a lot of worries, be rest assured that there is a protection for you. Networks are able to recognize fraudulent clicks.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;?    You can also set a budget for a certain period. The moment your budget has been used up by the target number of clicks, your ads will no longer be displayed until the next period you want it again displayed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;?    You will also be able to adjust well to changes in market demands and trends.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In deciding which of the two strategies will work right for you, think of your goals and of your resources. They definitely offer benefits and advantages that will work for your good. The better way to approach this two is to evaluate according to your short term and long term plans. Take the PPC course for your short term goals and choose SEO if you have long term ones.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There world is out there for you now. Just make sure you do what will work best for your entrepreneurial endeavors and visions. The secret to success lies in your hands. Just study your options well and you’ll get exactly what you want.&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;By Aris3star&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='enclosure' type='' href='http://www.englishsubject.net/' length='0'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://computer-business-internet.blogspot.com/feeds/8933828984541783791/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=506274170016531704&amp;postID=8933828984541783791' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/506274170016531704/posts/default/8933828984541783791'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/506274170016531704/posts/default/8933828984541783791'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://computer-business-internet.blogspot.com/2008/05/to-seo-or-to-ppc.html' title='To SEO or To PPC?'/><author><name>aris3star</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15076346211743588921</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjehECsAALhE2Bad-H8KZo8fa_rovXE-9z6R0I2RvgWWj0YTYOnPPuTjVjohYpRxTQi18OWD9_I7r3bcUuwpCM7_2EtxmRuuqyxaYXutKwUc5_5dYeTQtU0HcxBboOW8g/s1600/*'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-506274170016531704.post-8421326955822246151</id><published>2008-05-18T07:23:00.001+07:00</published><updated>2008-11-12T12:10:32.269+07:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Blog"/><title type='text'>Boost Your Business With Blogging!</title><content type='html'>Business blog is an incredible online marketing tool that saves you thousands of dollars but provides great business opportunities in just one click. Blogs are user-friendly, customized and flexible medium for disseminating useful information for effective positioning of your products in the market. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Companies engaging in business blogging have a definite edge over its competitors.  Here are some advantages:&lt;br /&gt;?    Word-of-Mouth. In a survey, there are currently 14 million blogs with 80,000 more being added each day and about 30 percent of the 50 million users are blog readers. Imagine how much gain your company will have, if your products are advertised through blogs. With Internet, information spreads so quickly especially if an impressive write-up goes with your product. Soon your blogs will be passed on to hundreds of possible customers.&lt;br /&gt;?    Awareness and loyalty.  Open communication with your customers creates trust and loyalty among them. Being there to respond to their questions and comments make them all the more willing to try your products and services.&lt;br /&gt;?    Feedback. Blogs is good for product research and reviews. It would be easier to improve on your products if you observe your customers’ thinking and behavioral patterns. You can also take immediate action to your customers’ concerns.&lt;br /&gt;?    Community halo-effect. Bloggers are reasonable, friendly and helpful. They are more than willing to create blogosphere of comments regarding your product. The only thing you have to do is embrace and take active part in the culture and your product will surely be considered in their next stop to the supermarket.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For better marketing results, actively promote your business blogs by submitting your blogs to blog search sites and directories. Do not forget to paste in with your blogs, your URL. Be sure that your blogs contain exclusive information with value and are always updated to keep readers popping in, read up your blog, move on to the next and click on again for updates.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Blog is like a setup booth in the biggest trade show on earth everyday. Marketing possibilities are just around the corner waiting to strike your sale scales up.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feeds are important too in conjunction with your blogs to get the best benefits. Use effective keyword phrases to generate high ranking status in the search engine traffic. In this way you have better chances of people finding your website leading to your blogs. More traffic means more potential sales.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For this to be successful, you can use RSS for news update feeds which can be read through RSS reader application. This is a very useful tool for business and internet marketers as well. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you are already convinced with the potentials of business blogs for marketing and targeting sales increase, your company is now ready to start blogging. But first, you have to be in tune with your company’s business objectives and determine if blogging will really help you achieve your goal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1.    Several blogs are dedicated to teaching people the do’s and don’ts of blogging, READ them! Include in your reading materials blogs that are consumer-based too to give you an idea.&lt;br /&gt;2.    Setup several test blogs right away.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If your initial try out with blogs worked well, you can now start setting up your blogs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1.    Study blog design. Blog hosting services provide pre-designed templates. But if you opt for paid blog service, you can ask your artist to design and layout your blog site to match the company’s identity and needs.&lt;br /&gt;2.    Choose a topic. Its good to have a line-up of topics you want for your blogs but be sure they are in consonance with your business objectives. This would be a test of your flexibility and open-mindedness since results may be going against the set objectives.&lt;br /&gt;3.    Remember the following safety measures in blogging:&lt;br /&gt;?    legal issues are sometimes involved in blogging; it is safer to include disclaimers and limitations of liabilities;&lt;br /&gt;?    corporate communication and legal department are responsible in educating the senior management on how blogs might affect business;&lt;br /&gt;?    create blogging policies; set limits on who gets to blog and what information are allowed to be made public;&lt;br /&gt;?    avoid outright marketing blog or you will shy away your readers;&lt;br /&gt;?    make content updated, relevant and fresh;&lt;br /&gt;?    reinforce the company’s core values; and,&lt;br /&gt;?    encourage employees to use it.&lt;br /&gt;4.    Start blogging and complete 20 posts before going to marketing.&lt;br /&gt;5.    Begin marketing.&lt;br /&gt;6.    Regularly monitor the coming ins and outs of readers and get updates. Then, measure your results.&lt;br /&gt;7.    Adjust if needed. You can always play with your designs in the blog site as long as it remains to match the company’s identity.&lt;br /&gt;8.    Strive to be consistent with your topic all the time.&lt;br /&gt;9.    Try to have unrelated topics with general and broad appeal.&lt;br /&gt;10.    Schedule updates regularly. Monday, Wednesday and Thursday would be best to update blogs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Once you have done all these things, you can now ultimately enjoy the benefits of business blogging.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(837 words)&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;By Aris3star&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://computer-business-internet.blogspot.com/feeds/8421326955822246151/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=506274170016531704&amp;postID=8421326955822246151' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/506274170016531704/posts/default/8421326955822246151'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/506274170016531704/posts/default/8421326955822246151'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://computer-business-internet.blogspot.com/2008/05/boost-your-business-with-blogging.html' title='Boost Your Business With Blogging!'/><author><name>aris3star</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15076346211743588921</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjehECsAALhE2Bad-H8KZo8fa_rovXE-9z6R0I2RvgWWj0YTYOnPPuTjVjohYpRxTQi18OWD9_I7r3bcUuwpCM7_2EtxmRuuqyxaYXutKwUc5_5dYeTQtU0HcxBboOW8g/s1600/*'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-506274170016531704.post-5320670991577808954</id><published>2008-05-18T07:22:00.001+07:00</published><updated>2008-11-12T12:14:33.883+07:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Strategics"/><title type='text'>How to Increase Sales Through Streaming Audio</title><content type='html'>Many studies have proven that radio is a good medium for product advertisements.  People listen to the radio for entertainment, usually to listen to the latest music or to their favorite radio program.  In between the program, advertisements on products and services are being played.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For many years, this has been the trend in advertising.  But now that the radio medium is almost behind the audio-visual medium, the TV, and the Internet, other marketing strategies have to be employed to continue the benefits of advertising through audio.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is then that the benefits of using music on websites were discovered.  Before, music on the Internet was just available in downloadable forms as mp3.  Even through hosting downloadable music on their servers, companies were able to get much traffic on their sites.  And everyone engaged in Internet marketing knows that website traffic plays a big role in boosting product and service sales.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However, there had been a problem with illegal music download in which artists, musicians and record companies have lost millions of revenues.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then, came the popularity of Internet music streaming.  Unlike the former, radio streaming does not allow download of the music files.  Thus, the copyrights of the artists and record label owners are protected.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, how can this be done?  There are several ways to stream audio from your site.  First, is to stream a radio program from your site or blog.  You can find free affiliate programs that allow you to stream their radio content from your site.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What will this mean to you?  This means that your site will have new audio content every time it is visited.  What&#39;s even great is that the content is being updated even without much effort from you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In this case, what you needed to do is to signup with an Internet radio station and have the link embedded on your blog or website.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Another way is to stream mp3s.  To do this, you just need to upload your mp3files on a server and add the files&#39; links to the page.  When the link is clicked, the browser opens a media player window and plays a file.  However, since the file is in mp3 format, it may also be downloaded.  Downloading music files without the authorization of the copyright owner is illegal.  Therefore, if you will be using this type of streaming, make sure that you have the appropriate permit to do so.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A third way to add audio to you blog or website is to stream music through organizing playlists.  Playlists are m3u files, which if downloaded, will not play music if offline.  Using this process, however, can be complex.  Here is a short instruction on how to do it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. Save your mp3 or wma file on the server.  You may skip this step if you know that the file exists on another server and know the link to that file.  Make sure that the link has a .mp3 or .wma extension.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. Open your text editor and type the path to the file.   Include the http:// and the file extension.  Repeat this step until you have included all the links to the files that you would like to be included in the playlist.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. Save the playlist with a .m3u extension.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4. Upload the m3u file on the directory where the music files are hosted or to your server.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5. Open your html editor and embed the link to the m3u file.  Through this, you can also set if you want to have the playlist to autoplay if someone visits your site of if you want your visitor to control playing the music.  You can also set the volume level.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After the code is embedded on the html file, and whenever your site is visited, the songs in the playlist will be buffered, streamed and played one after another.  If your playlist has several songs, the user can skip forward or go back a song in the playlist using the media player controls.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Doing this setup works for many website owners.  Through this you can customize the type of music being played on your site.  You can even play recordings related to your product to boost product awareness.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It requires knowledge of html to be done.  But if it will be the best way to increase traffic to your site, why not request assistance from programmers.  After all, having audio on a website is a proven way to increase sales.&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;By Aris3star&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://computer-business-internet.blogspot.com/feeds/5320670991577808954/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=506274170016531704&amp;postID=5320670991577808954' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/506274170016531704/posts/default/5320670991577808954'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/506274170016531704/posts/default/5320670991577808954'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://computer-business-internet.blogspot.com/2008/05/how-to-increase-sales-through-streaming.html' title='How to Increase Sales Through Streaming Audio'/><author><name>aris3star</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15076346211743588921</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjehECsAALhE2Bad-H8KZo8fa_rovXE-9z6R0I2RvgWWj0YTYOnPPuTjVjohYpRxTQi18OWD9_I7r3bcUuwpCM7_2EtxmRuuqyxaYXutKwUc5_5dYeTQtU0HcxBboOW8g/s1600/*'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-506274170016531704.post-6545880686278600531</id><published>2008-05-18T07:19:00.001+07:00</published><updated>2008-11-12T12:10:32.269+07:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Blog"/><title type='text'>All You Need To Know About Blog Hosts</title><content type='html'>Apart from the chat rooms, instant messengers and electronic mails created for communication and dialogue beyond turf are the emerging innovations that help man build opportunities for interaction.  The need for a personalized and human face aspect of building online communities is slowly changing the technological landscape of the Internet.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Blogs / “weblogs” or blogging are the newest gift of Internet technology to people all over the world. These are updated posts, crop up entries or personalized life snippets, of mundane or bizarre in nature. For most, a “blog” is a personal, unedited, and authentic journal meant to be shared in an online community. Blog site is a place where bloggers can publish anything; his thoughts, feelings, photos, special events, experiences, comments on issues and so on. It is more of an online diary with videos, links, documents, newsletters and opinions on just about any topics you are interested.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Blogs are made to welcome the insights and opinions of all and therefore, should not be written to sound intimidating and too formal. This kind of blog is a sure way to put off the readers. In the basics of blogging, conversational tone would be more appropriate to reach the desired audience.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Blogging is all about individuals reaching out to other individuals. Having a blog has its own set of advantages:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;?    Freedom of Expression. If you want people to hear you out and give their own opinion, this is the best way to create a line of communication;&lt;br /&gt;?    Networking is at its best. Having a blog is a good platform for exchanging genuine ideas from consumers to you as marketer of a certain product. Sound opinion and point of view is better than just showing the price quote;&lt;br /&gt;?    Excellent advertising platform. Blogging is a new way to advertise products, a refreshing change from the traditional advertising outlets and it is cost-effective.&lt;br /&gt;?     Gauging public opinion on products and services. The key is nice and catchy titles with new ideas presented in your content. This is an assurance of quick and repeated responses from your readers.  Blogs is an excellent spot for the exchange of ideas between the seller and the consumer. Good for measuring public opinion regarding services and products, even political and business matters alike.&lt;br /&gt;?    Useful tool for internal communication. This will help your company to build a knowledge-based community of employees. Also good for harnessing employee relations and identifying human resource issues in advance.&lt;br /&gt;?    Other benefits like search engine optimization (SEO) will help your blogs to be seen often by as many people as you wish. This is very good exposure for your products and services.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Many blog hosting services are available on the Internet. But the basic question is which one of the services will be the best to start off your business blog program? Business people are usually clueless to recent technological innovations which would help them maximize their marketing potentials. For these beginners, it is best to study first the services offered by blog hosts. An ineffective business blogging program may damage marketing opportunities instead of enriching them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A company may decide to do the following depending on its capacity and needs: 1) Host their own blog service, 2) Pay someone else to host the service, or 3) Setup a “blog aggregator page” and ask the employees to select their blog hosting services individually. There are paid and free services available for individuals.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For business blogs, they are required to have the latest blogging features; if not, this will prevent them from maximizing their marketing, public relations and SEO potentials.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Keep in mind that blogs should have the following basic essentials:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;COMMENTS.  Welcoming comments provide opportunity for dialogue. In business blogs, they are a good customer feedback mechanism. This helps develop better customer relations based from loyalty and trust. Blogging is an innovative way to converse with your customers.&lt;br /&gt;TRACKBACK. This helps in maximizing company and product exposure. Through this service, consumers can get back to you for more posts and updates without the difficulty of locating you. If your blog is popular in a specific online community chances are links going back to your blog site are everywhere online, other blog sites or even websites.&lt;br /&gt;CATEGORIES AND TAGS. These both help in classifying blog searches for ease of navigation and on site search. Categories act as libraries because it classifies posts by subject matter such as business, distance learning, e-commerce, online auctions, etc. Tags, help in the classification, especially in the blog search engine Technorati. Possible customers and new clients locate blogs about certain topics of interest by just clicking the tags.&lt;br /&gt;RSS FEED. Really Simple Syndication is the feed from your blog that is sent out over the internet, and collected through the various newsreaders and aggregators.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If your company is to establish a business blogging program, considerable options should be made available by the hosting companies shortlisted for the services. Free blog hosting services are popular but they are much appropriate for individual online journals. Paid blog hosting services offer unlimited packages best for your company’s needs. You may want to suggest checking out some blogs that use the host first, read and examine their layout and design. Another important thing to consider is a reliable technical support the host has.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After, choosing the blog host, a team should be ready to plan the design and structure of the blog: The team should:&lt;br /&gt;?    create a style that meets the needs of the audience;&lt;br /&gt;?    establish an open, credible tone;&lt;br /&gt;?    schedule weekly updating of blog - ideally, a few times a week;&lt;br /&gt;?    include weblinks of other website and blogs;&lt;br /&gt;?    blog post should be in the “first person;”&lt;br /&gt;?    focus on the business blog objective; and,&lt;br /&gt;?    maintain an honest, engaging conversational quality.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Remember, whatever the look, style and content found on your blog is a reflection of you and your company.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(990 words)&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;By Aris3star&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://computer-business-internet.blogspot.com/feeds/6545880686278600531/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=506274170016531704&amp;postID=6545880686278600531' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/506274170016531704/posts/default/6545880686278600531'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/506274170016531704/posts/default/6545880686278600531'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://computer-business-internet.blogspot.com/2008/05/all-you-need-to-know-about-blog-hosts.html' title='All You Need To Know About Blog Hosts'/><author><name>aris3star</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15076346211743588921</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjehECsAALhE2Bad-H8KZo8fa_rovXE-9z6R0I2RvgWWj0YTYOnPPuTjVjohYpRxTQi18OWD9_I7r3bcUuwpCM7_2EtxmRuuqyxaYXutKwUc5_5dYeTQtU0HcxBboOW8g/s1600/*'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-506274170016531704.post-4047159927966760805</id><published>2008-05-15T02:48:00.001+07:00</published><updated>2008-11-12T12:11:14.209+07:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="PPC"/><title type='text'>PPC marketing - Popular method of advertisement on the Web</title><content type='html'>PPC marketing or pay per click marketing is the most popular method of advertisement employed by various websites on the Internet. PPC marketing may often be referred to as pay for position, cost per click or pay for performance. But regardless of the term used, PPC marketing is the online advertiser&#39;s medium of choice for promoting products and services to online consumers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PPC marketing is beneficial to both the advertiser and the consumer. Advertisers using PPC marketing only need to pay for the actual click throughs linked to their sites from search engines. At the same time as consumers are relieved of having to get annoying emails or pop-up ads for products and services.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When an online consumer searches for a specific product or service on the Internet, corresponding PPC marketing ads are also displayed alongside the results generated by the search engine. This forms a highly targeted consumer group that is more likely to purchase a specific product or service. In addition, websites get to limit their advertisement costs with the use of PPC marketing. PPC marketing is truly a winning solution for both parties.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Possible drawbacks of PPC marketing&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Despite the obvious advantages of PPC marketing, there are possible drawbacks that can cancel out its benefits. One of the most common problems associated with PPC marketing is the inexperience of many people attempting to use this profitable advertisement method. Simply submitting PPC marketing ads to a search engine such as google, does not make up the entire campaign.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PPC marketing requires a calculated and systematic approach to setting up ads. PPC marketing involves the use of keywords and biddings in order to get top placement on a search engine. Getting top search engine placement helps boost traffic to a website that can easily translate into profit.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Without the necessary experience and knowledge to carry out a typical PPC marketing ad, may turn into an expensive campaign that does not convert into profit. PPC marketing ads also require continuous funding, as discontinued payments will also result in discontinued ads. This can be unfavorable for a website that has already built high rankings with their PPC marketing ads.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bidding on keywords can also be quite costly, as the growing number of websites on the web struggle against each other to bid on the most popular keyword for their PPC marketing ad. Obviously small business websites are at a disadvantage here since big business websites are able to pay more for popular keywords related to their site. This is because most small businesses only set aside a small portion of their capital for advertisement, putting them at a disadvantage.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Running an effective PPC marketing campaign&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are a number of things that a website should consider when running an effective PPC marketing campaign. It is important to develop a marketing plan in order to get the most return on investment from PPC marketing. Selecting the most appropriate keywords that relate to the site&#39;s business is essential in PPC marketing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However, simply choosing the most popular keywords does not necessarily translate into profit. Selecting more specific keywords that will put a site within the first ten results of a search also gets greater awareness from online consumers. In addition, it doesn&#39;t cost as much as getting the top spot for PPC marketing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is also important that a website constantly monitors the performance of their PPC marketing campaign. This will help the site modify any existing PPC marketing ad to make it more productive. At the same time any PPC marketing ad that has not proven effective can be immediately discontinued. Altering PPC marketing ads is a continuous process that many websites do in order to increase their return on investment.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Getting professional help with PPC marketing&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The popularity of PPC marketing has given rise to professionals offering PPC marketing services for small and big businesses. Hiring a professional PPC marketing company is advisable for a small business without experience in PPC marketing. Most PPC marketing companies offer reasonable rates for their services and at the same time produce acceptable results.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A PPC marketing professional can attend to all the details commonly involved in a PPC marketing campaign. Handling a PPC marketing campaign is a time consuming process that can be overwhelming for a small business. A PPC marketing professional can help set up a PPC marketing campaign and later on train someone from within the business to handle it to ensure its continued success.&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;By Aris3star&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://computer-business-internet.blogspot.com/feeds/4047159927966760805/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=506274170016531704&amp;postID=4047159927966760805' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/506274170016531704/posts/default/4047159927966760805'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/506274170016531704/posts/default/4047159927966760805'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://computer-business-internet.blogspot.com/2008/05/ppc-marketing-popular-method-of.html' title='PPC marketing - Popular method of advertisement on the Web'/><author><name>aris3star</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15076346211743588921</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjehECsAALhE2Bad-H8KZo8fa_rovXE-9z6R0I2RvgWWj0YTYOnPPuTjVjohYpRxTQi18OWD9_I7r3bcUuwpCM7_2EtxmRuuqyxaYXutKwUc5_5dYeTQtU0HcxBboOW8g/s1600/*'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-506274170016531704.post-2404340392098034299</id><published>2008-05-14T06:29:00.000+07:00</published><updated>2008-11-12T12:10:32.270+07:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Blog"/><title type='text'>The Importance of Blog Design</title><content type='html'>Blogs have increased popularity over this past months.  Many people have started to create their personal blogs to express their thoughts and feelings.  Internet companies have also started their blogs to inform consumers on the latest product news and reviews.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Because of this, blogs are also being used as internet marketing media.  Before, internet marketing is done by placing banners and links on popular websites, such as news and information sites.  Links were also included on newsletters and marketing letters sent to the members of their mailing lists.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Many people spend time reading blogs.  People read their friend&#39;s blogs, their favorite author&#39;s blogs, blogs on topics that they are interested in, and blogs on product reviews.  With the increasing popularity of blogging, it is even feared that people rely on blogs to get the latest news.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;While getting news reports from blogs isn&#39;t reliable, some people look for product reviews through blogs.  In some cases, this is more dependable.  While it is true that some media persons are being paid to write good reviews about a certain product, blog writers write about their actual experiences on products and services from a company.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Since there are many people who read and start their own blogs, blogs are a good medium to market a product.  With the increasing blog traffic means increase in product sales.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Blog traffic can be increased by joining affiliate programs and sites, which will list your blog under a certain search category or name.  You can also have your blog advertised in popular websites.  This, however, will cost some money and is not advisable if you have just started blogging.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A writer who has just launched his/her blog will want as much traffic as possible to increase advertisements on the site.  Also, some advertisers pay every time their link is clicked or the page that has their link is viewed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When you have increased traffic on your blog, you should try to keep you visitors coming back and recommending your blog to friends and colleagues.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This can be done by having informative or amusing content and good blog layout and design.  You may develop your blog&#39;s content or you can also acquire the services of a web content writer to provide you with the blog articles.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The blog&#39;s layout and design also plays a big role.  While most of the companies offering free blog hosting offer pre-selected templates, there are also some that allows customization that if you utilize this feature correctly can increase your blog&#39;s traffic.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here are a few tips to make your blog stand out from the millions of blogs out there that have standard designs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* Customize the banner&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The banner usually has the most generic designs that are common to the blogs from a blogging company or service.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can personalize this banner by having a graphic with the dimensions of the banner.  You can also edit the graphic so that it will also include the title of your blog.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In this case, you can create your own graphic or you can purchase professional looking graphics online for less than $10.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* Personalizing photos&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Of course, most of the photos that you will be posting will be your own.  However, if you don&#39;t customize the photos before posting them, you may miss maximizing the enhancing benefits graphics can add to the page.  Adding photo borders can help the photo stand out from the page. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It can also add to the design of your blog.  You can choose a standard border or you can also create your own border which can be associated with your blog&#39;s templates.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* Add a favicon&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Don&#39;t you think sites with icons on the address bar before the website&#39;s URL are cool?  Many people do.  These favicons add a professional look to the URL.  These easy to do using photo or graphic editing softwares.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* Check out blog templates, layouts, backgrounds, textures and skins from sites&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are sites that offer free blog templates, layouts, backgrounds, textures and skins.  You can make use of these so your blog will not look generic like most of the blogs hosted by the service provider.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* Include RSS feeds&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is a cool way to inform people with newsreaders about your blog headlines.  Tutorials on RSS feeds are available on the internet.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* Audio makes your blog more personal&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Not only does audio personalizes the blog; it can also keep your visitors coming back.  You can try having streaming radio stations, mp3 file or playlists loading with your blog.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* Advertisements&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you have signed-up with Google Ad-Sense, which I am sure you would like to do, make sure that the ads are conveniently placed that these will not hinder your readers&#39; ease in accessing the information on your blog.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Try using these tips and you can definitely increase and retain traffic on your blog.&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;By Aris3star&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://computer-business-internet.blogspot.com/feeds/2404340392098034299/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=506274170016531704&amp;postID=2404340392098034299' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/506274170016531704/posts/default/2404340392098034299'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/506274170016531704/posts/default/2404340392098034299'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://computer-business-internet.blogspot.com/2008/05/importance-of-blog-design_13.html' title='The Importance of Blog Design'/><author><name>aris3star</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15076346211743588921</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjehECsAALhE2Bad-H8KZo8fa_rovXE-9z6R0I2RvgWWj0YTYOnPPuTjVjohYpRxTQi18OWD9_I7r3bcUuwpCM7_2EtxmRuuqyxaYXutKwUc5_5dYeTQtU0HcxBboOW8g/s1600/*'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-506274170016531704.post-5388348195921474829</id><published>2008-05-14T06:27:00.002+07:00</published><updated>2008-11-12T12:09:35.757+07:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Blog"/><title type='text'>Blog Software For All Your Blogging Needs</title><content type='html'>Today anyone who has writing ability or is dreaming to be a writer has written a blog in the net. There are blog soft wares that are simple and easy to use and a technically inclined and challenged individuals can easily acquire a blog online.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For some individuals, blogs are their projects of every day living, as they talk about their daily episodes as well as make tribute to friends and family. Furthermore, blogs assume a profound meaning written to compose and assemble political statements, endorse a product, supply information on research, and even offer tutorials. Any subject that are of your interests, you can be sure that someone has written a blog about it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Blogs are now being written by musicians, politicians, sports figures, novelists, newscasters as well as other known figures. It is this blog fever that has raised controversy. The fact that anyone can compose and regarding any subject matter under the sun, complaints about certain write-ups are an issue. In a lot of blogs, names are being mentioned; do bear in mind that although you are entitled to write anything that interests you in a blog, you have to be very careful and take in a lot of responsibility. Do not make any statements which can become controversial; or else, be very prepared.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why a Blog?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1.    For personal acquaintances, relationships and hobby. A person can write a blog about his daily activities, what’s going on with his life as his way of telling his family and friends the things that goes on in his life. Likewise, one may also write a blog just so he can express what he feels about himself, or about a certain subject matter that is of interest to him.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2.    Topical. Some blogs are committed to a precise topic, like computer hardware or politics. These are frequently read like magazines.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3.    For marketing.  Corporations are too, into blogging; when well written and implemented, this kind of blog can be a powerful instrument for business communications, forming eagerness and anticipation regarding their products and services offered, or used as tool within the company, keeping employees well informed about company issues and news.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why someone else&#39;s software?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A lot of Web designer and creators will laugh at the belief and idea of utilizing the software of someone else. This is can be correct especially when each software greatly differs from the particular requirements that a client may have. Yet on the other hand, when it refers to a Weblog software, there is no reason for apprehension in the use of a package that is pre-written, as most packages were developed through years of study; not just knocked together over a couple of days.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In addition, one may study its feature set. For a developer, it would take a lot of time and effort to write and compose from “nothing at all” every single feature in the Weblog software packages of today. For most people, a blog is there for the main reason that chooses to publish or make known your literature and texts on the Web, so you want to spend your time more on writing than coding.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hosted Services&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If one wishes to start broadcasting on the Web, yet does not have web hosting, one can consider looking into a hosted service, which includes Blogger, TypePad, Live Journal, and more.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These services are operated or handled for an individual, so there is no need to concern one about technical upkeep of one’s Weblog; instead, one can concentrate on his blog&#39;s appearance and content. In just minutes, after signing for an account, one can readily start his own blog.  Many such services are offered free, such as blogger.  TypePad charges a minimal amount for monthly service fee.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Self-Hosted&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When one has Web hosting on hand, or is eager to buy hosting, in which one feesl that the advantage will prevail over the problems of keeping up your own blog connection and installation, then you may want to take into account a package that is self-hosted, which includes Movable Type, Textpattern and WordPress.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Other hosting companies did construct the process of installation easier, permitting installation with just a click from a control panel that is browser-based. It is important that you check with a hosting company so you can view if this function is offered. Similar to hosted services, some self hosted packages are made available either for free or for a certain fee which is dependent on the type of package that you choose as well as the basis why you are using it.&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;By Aris3star&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://computer-business-internet.blogspot.com/feeds/5388348195921474829/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=506274170016531704&amp;postID=5388348195921474829' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/506274170016531704/posts/default/5388348195921474829'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/506274170016531704/posts/default/5388348195921474829'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://computer-business-internet.blogspot.com/2008/05/blog-software-for-all-your-blogging.html' title='Blog Software For All Your Blogging Needs'/><author><name>aris3star</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15076346211743588921</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjehECsAALhE2Bad-H8KZo8fa_rovXE-9z6R0I2RvgWWj0YTYOnPPuTjVjohYpRxTQi18OWD9_I7r3bcUuwpCM7_2EtxmRuuqyxaYXutKwUc5_5dYeTQtU0HcxBboOW8g/s1600/*'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-506274170016531704.post-5421326319241241966</id><published>2008-05-14T06:27:00.001+07:00</published><updated>2008-11-12T12:09:35.757+07:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Blog"/><title type='text'>Blogging to Blog</title><content type='html'>If writing is an art, then, blogging is one way of using words to come up with an art. This is because people who are into blogging are the ones who are artistic on their own sense, carefully choosing words that would best describe their feelings, sentiments, wishes, desires, and everything.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Basically, blogs were first introduced as weblogs that refer to a “server’s log file.” It was created when web logging hit the virtual market. Since its inception in the mid-1990s, web logging gradually saturated the virtual community making the Internet a viable source of greater information.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However, with web logging, you still need a web site and domain names, but with blogging, you do not need anything just an account with blog providers. In most cases, these kinds of blogs are free of charge.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With the onset of blogging in the industry, personal journaling had been a common ground for people who wish to be known all over the world. However, not literally famous as this is not a case on being popular or well-known personality.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Generally, blogs are created for personal use. Like a journal, people can write their daily adventures, sentiments, and whatever ideas they want to express online.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nevertheless, with the advent of the online businesses, blogs had gradually taken the limelight in providing businesses a chance to boost their productivity online. This is where the business blogs have taken the limelight.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Business blogs are, basically, created to advertise the services or products of a certain web site or online business in order to increase online sales.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Moreover, business blogs are also one way of promoting the company so that the other readers will know that a certain company exists online. With blogs, entrepreneurs are able to establish a name in the virtual market through articles that can be very useful in the reader’s life.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;From there, you can make money out of blogs by simply syndicating it to your business’ web site. This can be done through the RSS technology.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, if you are thinking to create a blog, whether for business or for pleasure, you need to know some tips that could help you get through and make your blog one of the interesting blogs online.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here’s how:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. Consider your audience&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Even if your blog is generally personal, still, it would be better to consider the minds of your readers. You have to think of something that would interest them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After all, most of the reasons of people who write blogs are not at all confined to their own personal motives. Most of them would love to be “heard” (or read) and would love to be known, in some way or another, even for just a minute. Hence, it is very important to come with a write up that everybody can understand, not necessarily that these people can relate to it but they can understand it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. Pictures speaks a thousand words&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To make your blogging worth the browsing effort of your readers, it would be extremely nice if you will put some pictures in it. It does not necessarily mean you have to place a picture of yourself. Any photographs will do as long as it does not pose danger or insult to anyone who will be reading your blog.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. Make constructive and beneficial blogs&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Even if you are free to write anything you wan to say to the world, still, it would be better to create some write-ups that would be beneficial to your readers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After all, its information technology that you have there so better be inclined to provide information rather than sheer quirky entertainment.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4. Avoid making multifaceted and complicated blogs&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In order to have an interesting blogs, try not to use some highly technical and highfalutin words. After all, it is not a science discourse or a debate that you are making, so better stick to simple facts and short blogs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bear in mind that most people who use the Internet usually do more scanning than scrutinizing each site word for word. Therefore, it would be better to come with blogs that will not bore your readers just because you have these lengthy articles.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5. Make it interactive&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As much as possible and if your capacity will allow it, make your blog interactive. Yu can do this by placing some video or audio clips in your blog.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can even place an area for comments or for some feedbacks. In this way, you can get some impressions or reactions of other people. Who knows, you might even gain some friends just by making them feel at home in your blog site.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Indeed, blogs are not created just for the mere fun of it. It also has its own purpose in the world of the Internet.&lt;br /&gt;Therefore, for people who wish to harness their craft, as far as writing is concerned, blogs are the best way to do it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As they say, blogging is the contemporary term of creative and commercial writing.&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;By Aris3star&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://computer-business-internet.blogspot.com/feeds/5421326319241241966/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=506274170016531704&amp;postID=5421326319241241966' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/506274170016531704/posts/default/5421326319241241966'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/506274170016531704/posts/default/5421326319241241966'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://computer-business-internet.blogspot.com/2008/05/blogging-to-blog.html' title='Blogging to Blog'/><author><name>aris3star</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15076346211743588921</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjehECsAALhE2Bad-H8KZo8fa_rovXE-9z6R0I2RvgWWj0YTYOnPPuTjVjohYpRxTQi18OWD9_I7r3bcUuwpCM7_2EtxmRuuqyxaYXutKwUc5_5dYeTQtU0HcxBboOW8g/s1600/*'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-506274170016531704.post-545127691405679951</id><published>2008-05-13T01:29:00.000+07:00</published><updated>2008-11-12T12:14:33.884+07:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Strategics"/><title type='text'>Tips on Online Marketing</title><content type='html'>Marketing in a traditional sense has always been done by putting an ad either in the newspaper, the radio and the television.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Being in the digital age, efforts done by marketing to get the message across is not that different. It has just become a little more high tech which continues to help drive sales.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Businesses that want to sell something in the market need 2 things. The first is the product to be sold which later on will be distributed. The second is marketing which is the vehicle that is used to carry that message across to the consumer so that people are aware of its existence then it is purchased.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One way of the fastest ways of doing marketing today is building a website. Should one decide to shift and decide to do this, here are some tips one needs to know to get started.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1.    The first thing to do is to determine what the person wants to do. The product has to fill a need that the customers want right now. It should provide a solution of some kind that will make that will improve the quality of life either at home or at work.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2.    The next is to do the proper research. If the business is done with a group of people or a single proprietorship, it is best to brainstorm for the best domain name for the business. It should be catchy and will easily be remembered by people. Given that there are probably other people who have been in the business longer and that it is possible that the domain name has already been taken, it is best to think of several names in case it can no longer be used.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are sites in the web that have search engines to look for a specific subject and using popular keywords for ones website  will easily help people find it. These sites also allow one to make a site map which can be downloaded in minutes for a small fee. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Another good example is the various email sites and by doing a tie-up with these companies, one can get exposure as well as free service since people who do not have an account can also sign up and be an active member.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3.    A product of good quality should be sold at a decent price. Sometimes, the product one makes is already available in the market. To be competitive, one must figure out a way to convince people as to why this product is better than the other leading brands available. What features does it have that the competitor doesn’t? What makes it unique which is not only about the product on hand but the service that this can give as well?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4.    Just like having a normal business, one must acquire the right equipment and machines for the job. These could be merchandise that is either physical or electronic and an online ordering system.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To be successful, one should be sure that the goods that a customer will order can be delivered on time. If there are any problems, a customer support staff or system should be ready to cater to that. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5.    It takes money to make more money so one should be careful with what needs to be spent. By putting in tight controls in terms of expenditures and keeping track of the current balance while maintaining the same level of quality saves money which can be used for other things.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To avoid falling in this predicament, the first thing one must do is manage the expenses.  It is always good to carry a notebook around to log whatever expenses have been made or have a logbook to keep track how much balance is left. That way, a person can stay within a budget on a monthly basis.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;6.    With everything in place, it is now time to promote the site. One can email to friends about the site and what it offers then this too will also be forwarded and advertised to others. Another is showcasing ones website in E-zines or electronic magazines to get more customer traffic.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Any business big or small must have the right resources available to get the message across to the people and building a web site or a site map takes time. One can do it alone if that person knows how to do it, get professional help or simply start from the basics and learn it from the ground up.&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;By Aris3star&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://computer-business-internet.blogspot.com/feeds/545127691405679951/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=506274170016531704&amp;postID=545127691405679951' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/506274170016531704/posts/default/545127691405679951'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/506274170016531704/posts/default/545127691405679951'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://computer-business-internet.blogspot.com/2008/05/tips-on-online-marketing.html' title='Tips on Online Marketing'/><author><name>aris3star</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15076346211743588921</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjehECsAALhE2Bad-H8KZo8fa_rovXE-9z6R0I2RvgWWj0YTYOnPPuTjVjohYpRxTQi18OWD9_I7r3bcUuwpCM7_2EtxmRuuqyxaYXutKwUc5_5dYeTQtU0HcxBboOW8g/s1600/*'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-506274170016531704.post-1834009052581461157</id><published>2008-05-13T01:27:00.000+07:00</published><updated>2008-11-12T12:11:14.210+07:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="PPC"/><title type='text'>Affordable PPC search engine advertising</title><content type='html'>PPC search engine advertising is by far the most affordable form of advertising available. PPC search engine advertising is a flourishing business that by 2008 is expected to reach $ 8 billion. PPC search engine advertising is about producing leads. Creating leads will help potential buyers find the specific website that will provide them with the product or service they need.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However, PPC search engine advertising does not end there. It is important to understand that although PPC search engine advertising generates leads, it is also important for users to find relevant information at the website they are directed to. Information is a valuable asset in PPC search engine advertising that is often left unchecked by many websites. Keep in mind that users are more likely to purchase products or services from a company that provided them with the necessary information they needed in the first place.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Qualified traffic with PPC search engine advertising&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One of the benefits of PPC search engine advertising is that it provides qualified traffic to a specific website. Users that click on a PPC ad are those in search of a particular product or service. This helps eliminate unnecessary clicks from non-prospective buyers that only produce expenditures not profits. PPC search engine advertising is also the fastest way to get a reasonable return on investment.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A bidding process is used to establish the price of a specific keyword. In general, the budget for PPC search engine advertising may be a $100 to $100,000 depending on the number of keywords used. These prices can skyrocket in just minutes as more and more sites bid for the same keyword thus causing the prices to jack up.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PPC ads are placed alongside search engine results to which they are relevant. The highest bids for a specific keyword or phrase gets top billing on the search engine results page. Getting top placement provides greater odds for a PPC ad to get clicked by a qualified searcher.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Elements of PPC search engine advertising&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PPC search engine advertising involves three basic elements; constant monitoring, response analysis and refinement as the essential factors involved in PPC search engine advertising. Proper management of PPC search engine advertising can result in big profits for a website.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PPC search engine advertising makes it possible for sites to monitor the productivity of each PPC ad they place. This gives a site the opportunity to turn off any PPC ad that is not performing at its best. PPC search engine advertising provides the most economical way for a site to advertise on the World Wide Web.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The cost entailed in PPC search engine advertising is dictated by the clicks made on a particular PPC ad. The number of clicks made on a PPC ad is subtracted from the initial amount paid by the business to a search engine company. To minimize cost and maximize return on investment, a business will have to regularly monitor its PPC search engine advertising campaign.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How to use PPC search engine advertising&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Many businesses are unable to get the most out of their PPC search engine advertising campaign. PPC search engine advertising involves a lot more than just bidding on the highest keywords. Information is a main concern of many online users.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Providing online users with relevant information they need will help bring about a more long-term relationship with an online user that will more likely result in a sale.&lt;br /&gt;Information provided to online users may be in the form of a newsletter or e-zine that online users would likely sign up for. Sign-ups may be enough to cover the expenses of a PPC search engine advertising campaign.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sign-ups also help generate leads for websites as they build opt in list from qualified online searchers who clicked their PPC ad. Getting personal information from qualified online searchers can be done in a variety of ways such as offering freebies for surveys or signing up for newsletters.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PPC search engine advertising is a continuous process that requires hands on supervision and a thorough understanding of PPC search engines. Businesses may opt to hire the services of a professional or do PPC search engine advertising with in-house experts. Whatever course of action is selected, a business is sure to get a huge return on investment with PPC search engine advertising.&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;By Aris3star&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://computer-business-internet.blogspot.com/feeds/1834009052581461157/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=506274170016531704&amp;postID=1834009052581461157' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/506274170016531704/posts/default/1834009052581461157'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/506274170016531704/posts/default/1834009052581461157'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://computer-business-internet.blogspot.com/2008/05/affordable-ppc-search-engine.html' title='Affordable PPC search engine advertising'/><author><name>aris3star</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15076346211743588921</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjehECsAALhE2Bad-H8KZo8fa_rovXE-9z6R0I2RvgWWj0YTYOnPPuTjVjohYpRxTQi18OWD9_I7r3bcUuwpCM7_2EtxmRuuqyxaYXutKwUc5_5dYeTQtU0HcxBboOW8g/s1600/*'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-506274170016531704.post-5337657234768572510</id><published>2008-05-13T01:24:00.000+07:00</published><updated>2008-11-12T12:11:14.210+07:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="PPC"/><title type='text'>Cash and Pay-per-click Affiliate Programs</title><content type='html'>Millions are paying to get a ride on the Information Super Highway everyday. Now, it is widely known that the Internet is an accessible resource of many income-generating activities. Whether you belong to a private sales company or you are just interested in internet marketing, PPC affiliate programs can be a powerful venue to make money from the Internet. A partnership with an affiliate merchant is a win-win situation for the merchant and the affiliate: sales are soaring because of exposure and traffic while the affiliate is earning good cash.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To make things much simpler: the affiliate merchant provides a strip of advertisement and pays you when someone clicks on the ad’s link. You can get a commission of $0.10 to $0.30 for every click, but it sometimes it can go higher depending on your merchant affiliate. Sometimes, merchants require a quota ($1.4 for every 1000 clicks). Plus, you can get discounts from your merchant affiliates if you happen to like their products too. You can just kick back and relax while your website is generating cash. Sounds easy, doesn’t it?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What is PCC Affiliate Program?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PPC means pay-per-click, wherein you get in partnership with an affiliate company that literally pays you for every click. There are actually two types of PCC affiliate programs – those who pay a commission based on the number of clicks and the other based on the sales. The pay-per-click scheme is much more popular than pay-per-lead because the affiliate gets paid by just clicking the ad, regardless of whether the visitor buys from the affiliate merchant or not. Plus the chances of a visitor purchasing something from the affiliate merchant are not really that high.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In choosing an affiliate program, read the fine print carefully – some pay-per-click programs get the ratio of the number of people who went to your site and the actual people who clicked on the ad. If you have a heavily targeted website, this can hurt your earnings.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How do I start?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Of course, you need to have a website. Depending on your target audience, choose the best affiliate merchant that is most related to your topic. For example, your website is about Carpentry then you can search for affiliate programs that sell tools used in carpentry.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However, if you don’t have a website, that’s not a problem. You can put up a content site about absolutely anything under the sun like ‘Taking Care of Dogs’ or ‘Decorating your own Home.’ But wait, its not over yet. We are faced by a dilemma – on how to increase traffic! You first need to get internet surfers to see your website, then the ad.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How do I increase my traffic?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;First, design your website in such a way that it will attract internet users. A user-friendly site is always recommended so that the customers will know which one to click. Take into consideration the look and feel of the advertisement. If it doesn’t look professional, most likely, users will just ignore it. Place the ad on a strategic location – one where users can see it clearly. Visibility of the ad is always important.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Another way is to post a link to your website in forums, web communities, ezine articles or bulletin boards. However, this method requires a lot of effort – that defeats your purpose of getting easy money in the first place! The key is to do something once and forget about it. It’s like putting your business on autopilot. To maintain you pay-per-click business, be sure to track down site activity, so you are updated on how much money you are making.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Can I make more money?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you think you can go to the next level, you can try a two-tier affiliate program. This gives you the power to recruit affiliates. Other than the money you get from your website’s clicks, you will also get a percentage of what your affiliate generates. Some companies give 30% to a soaring 50% commission on all referral sales.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Remember, you should be able to manage and monitor your affiliate program. If you can recruit more affiliates, then you can get paid more without even moving a finger! Choose affiliates that can most likely attract more internet users and bring more traffic. You just have to know the right people.&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;By Aris3star&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://computer-business-internet.blogspot.com/feeds/5337657234768572510/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=506274170016531704&amp;postID=5337657234768572510' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/506274170016531704/posts/default/5337657234768572510'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/506274170016531704/posts/default/5337657234768572510'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://computer-business-internet.blogspot.com/2008/05/cash-and-pay-per-click-affiliate.html' title='Cash and Pay-per-click Affiliate Programs'/><author><name>aris3star</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15076346211743588921</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjehECsAALhE2Bad-H8KZo8fa_rovXE-9z6R0I2RvgWWj0YTYOnPPuTjVjohYpRxTQi18OWD9_I7r3bcUuwpCM7_2EtxmRuuqyxaYXutKwUc5_5dYeTQtU0HcxBboOW8g/s1600/*'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-506274170016531704.post-6265959283362137770</id><published>2008-05-11T10:34:00.001+07:00</published><updated>2008-11-12T12:09:35.758+07:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Blog"/><title type='text'>The Importance of Blog Design</title><content type='html'>Blogs have increased popularity over this past months.  Many people have started to create their personal blogs to express their thoughts and feelings.  Internet companies have also started their blogs to inform consumers on the latest product news and reviews.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Because of this, blogs are also being used as internet marketing media.  Before, internet marketing is done by placing banners and links on popular websites, such as news and information sites.  Links were also included on newsletters and marketing letters sent to the members of their mailing lists.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Many people spend time reading blogs.  People read their friend&#39;s blogs, their favorite author&#39;s blogs, blogs on topics that they are interested in, and blogs on product reviews.  With the increasing popularity of blogging, it is even feared that people rely on blogs to get the latest news.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;While getting news reports from blogs isn&#39;t reliable, some people look for product reviews through blogs.  In some cases, this is more dependable.  While it is true that some media persons are being paid to write good reviews about a certain product, blog writers write about their actual experiences on products and services from a company.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Since there are many people who read and start their own blogs, blogs are a good medium to market a product.  With the increasing blog traffic means increase in product sales.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Blog traffic can be increased by joining affiliate programs and sites, which will list your blog under a certain search category or name.  You can also have your blog advertised in popular websites.  This, however, will cost some money and is not advisable if you have just started blogging.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A writer who has just launched his/her blog will want as much traffic as possible to increase advertisements on the site.  Also, some advertisers pay every time their link is clicked or the page that has their link is viewed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When you have increased traffic on your blog, you should try to keep you visitors coming back and recommending your blog to friends and colleagues.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This can be done by having informative or amusing content and good blog layout and design.  You may develop your blog&#39;s content or you can also acquire the services of a web content writer to provide you with the blog articles.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The blog&#39;s layout and design also plays a big role.  While most of the companies offering free blog hosting offer pre-selected templates, there are also some that allows customization that if you utilize this feature correctly can increase your blog&#39;s traffic.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here are a few tips to make your blog stand out from the millions of blogs out there that have standard designs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* Customize the banner&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The banner usually has the most generic designs that are common to the blogs from a blogging company or service.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can personalize this banner by having a graphic with the dimensions of the banner.  You can also edit the graphic so that it will also include the title of your blog.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In this case, you can create your own graphic or you can purchase professional looking graphics online for less than $10.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* Personalizing photos&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Of course, most of the photos that you will be posting will be your own.  However, if you don&#39;t customize the photos before posting them, you may miss maximizing the enhancing benefits graphics can add to the page.  Adding photo borders can help the photo stand out from the page. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It can also add to the design of your blog.  You can choose a standard border or you can also create your own border which can be associated with your blog&#39;s templates.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* Add a favicon&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Don&#39;t you think sites with icons on the address bar before the website&#39;s URL are cool?  Many people do.  These favicons add a professional look to the URL.  These easy to do using photo or graphic editing softwares.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* Check out blog templates, layouts, backgrounds, textures and skins from sites&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are sites that offer free blog templates, layouts, backgrounds, textures and skins.  You can make use of these so your blog will not look generic like most of the blogs hosted by the service provider.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* Include RSS feeds&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is a cool way to inform people with newsreaders about your blog headlines.  Tutorials on RSS feeds are available on the internet.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* Audio makes your blog more personal&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Not only does audio personalizes the blog; it can also keep your visitors coming back.  You can try having streaming radio stations, mp3 file or playlists loading with your blog.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* Advertisements&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you have signed-up with Google Ad-Sense, which I am sure you would like to do, make sure that the ads are conveniently placed that these will not hinder your readers&#39; ease in accessing the information on your blog.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Try using these tips and you can definitely increase and retain traffic on your blog.&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;By Aris3star&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://computer-business-internet.blogspot.com/feeds/6265959283362137770/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=506274170016531704&amp;postID=6265959283362137770' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/506274170016531704/posts/default/6265959283362137770'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/506274170016531704/posts/default/6265959283362137770'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://computer-business-internet.blogspot.com/2008/05/importance-of-blog-design.html' title='The Importance of Blog Design'/><author><name>aris3star</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15076346211743588921</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjehECsAALhE2Bad-H8KZo8fa_rovXE-9z6R0I2RvgWWj0YTYOnPPuTjVjohYpRxTQi18OWD9_I7r3bcUuwpCM7_2EtxmRuuqyxaYXutKwUc5_5dYeTQtU0HcxBboOW8g/s1600/*'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-506274170016531704.post-4198416262785416833</id><published>2008-05-11T10:28:00.000+07:00</published><updated>2008-11-12T12:10:32.270+07:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Blog"/><title type='text'>5 Reasons Why Blogging is the New Internet Marketing Tool</title><content type='html'>Blogging is a concept that started in late 90s.  It used to be a way to comment an existing webpage, an opportunity for visitors and readers to react or voice out one’s opinion on the said page.  What started as a single-sentence commentary has evolved into pages of personal take on just about anything and everything under the sun.  As it continues to move forward, online advertising has tapped into the blog’s potential.  Here are 5 reasons why you should use blogging as an Internet marketing tool. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1.Blogging is simple.  The simplest way to get your piece on the net is through blogging.  No skills are necessary… an average adult can read and type, or at least click a mouse.  It’s like having a virtual piece of paper and you just write your ideas, experiences, new products, and hope that the truth behind your articles comes out and entice your reader to also try your product.  If you have a PC and an Internet connection (who doesn’t?) then you can blog and advertise.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. Blogging is authentic.  In this day and age where advertising saturate our lives, we question the credibility of promoters’ claims.  However, in blogs, real people share their real-life experiences, unscathed by paid advertising.  Reading blogs about first-hand product use is like talking to people about their first-hand experience.  You definitely want to buy a tried and tested product.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. Blogging is free.  Because blogging is yet to be proven as a mainstream online advertising media, most sites see it as something to augment current marketing tools and thus offer it for free.   Any opportunity for free webtime is definitely a bonus especially to businesses that are starting up.  Needless to say, paid blog pages can generate more income for your seriously growing business.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4. Blogging builds credibility.  As you get more and more into writing your experiences on a particular product or industry, your readers come to realize that they can depend on your posts for their own information needs.  As such, you become an expert on it; as a consequence, more readers visit your site and more bloggers link to your blogs.  As companies and professional organizations notice the growth of your readership base, they may soon get in touch with you for advertising on your blog page, or make you an affiliate, which pays for every referral generated from your blog site.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5. Blogging builds your market.  Unless you are a Hollywood star, chances are, only your Mom reads your posts.  Mom has a lot of friends, so she lets her friends know how interesting your blog site is.  But you need not depend on Mom to increase your readership base.  Look into the following ways to build your market through blogging:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-By using your e-mail.  Today, blogging is overcoming the e-mail’s popularity in quickly and effectively reaching and expanding a market.  In this age of speed and quick access, logging in and downloading e-mail is simply taking longer than clicking into a blog site.  Let them explore your site by using a short e-mail message as teaser to your blog site.  If your e-mail is on an entirely different subject, use your e-mail signature to give a link to the site.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-By using subscription.  An easy way to get your readers e-mail is to give them an opportunity to subscribe to your blogsite.  Keep some exclusive information for your subscribers to entice readers to subscribe and give their e-mail address.  Just be responsible in using their e-mail address, as the last thing you want is a comment on your blog that you are a spammer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-By understanding your readers.  Conduct a simple survey for your readers to understand their profile and advertising preferences.  Ask consumers to give you feedback on a post, an ad link, or a trial that you shared.  In this way, it is like interviewing your readers without the commitment and intrusion of a face-to-face interview.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-By joining a blog network –A network of blogs maybe a collection of blog sites that share the same industry, interest, readership base, payment mode, etc.  Consumers find credibility and convenience in clicking one link to several real bloggers about a single subject.  Clearly, more bloggers are better than one.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-By using RSS. RSS is the fastest growing technology on the Internet today.  As such, having RSS feeds to your blog is definitely another means of generating awareness for your readership base.  Having a variety of feeds can add interest to your blog site. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Give your business a boost by effectively using blogging as an Internet marketing tool.&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;By Aris3star&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://computer-business-internet.blogspot.com/feeds/4198416262785416833/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=506274170016531704&amp;postID=4198416262785416833' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/506274170016531704/posts/default/4198416262785416833'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/506274170016531704/posts/default/4198416262785416833'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://computer-business-internet.blogspot.com/2008/05/5-reasons-why-blogging-is-new-internet.html' title='5 Reasons Why Blogging is the New Internet Marketing Tool'/><author><name>aris3star</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15076346211743588921</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='20' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjehECsAALhE2Bad-H8KZo8fa_rovXE-9z6R0I2RvgWWj0YTYOnPPuTjVjohYpRxTQi18OWD9_I7r3bcUuwpCM7_2EtxmRuuqyxaYXutKwUc5_5dYeTQtU0HcxBboOW8g/s1600/*'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>

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