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Because this is the beginning, and you’ll just be getting everything set up, month one will be your most expensive. 50 to 60% of your costs will be taken up in month 1. You’ll need domain & hosting, educational materials, and some research resources.
I couldn’t find anywhere that Darren had posted a quick compilation of all the answers for his group writing project “What would you do differently if you had to start all over again?”, so I’m doing it here for you, oh interested one.
Click on the bloggers’ name to see their full response at ProBlogger.com.
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Top 10 General Benefits of Links + Benefits of 15 Specific Link Building Techniques
Below we’ll first discuss the general benefits of links and link building, then we’ll get into the specifics.
A History:
Links are the foundation of the internet and were the original functionality of web pages. The ‘http‘ in your address bar refers to ‘hyper-text-transfer-protocol’ - ‘hyper-text’ is links. Links are what distinguish the internet from other forms of documentation / communication in that internet documents can be ‘linked‘ - from and to any other available document.
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No, it’s not a Google horror story. Well, maybe not… but MicroSoft is sure pulling a biggie with their announcement of a new product they’re working on called Photosynth, based on SeaDragon technology.
It WILL revolutionize the way we see the web. Literally. As best as I can understand from seeing the demo video, the system reads pixels from images that have the same subject in them, and overlays them to create ‘3-dimensionable’ images, map overlays, layered renderings, and apparently, much more.
From the Photosynth demo site:
“…takes a large collection of photos of a place or an object, analyzes them for similarities, and displays them in a reconstructed three-dimensional space.”
They actually offer a preview demo of the technology that requires a 5.5Mb download to view. It was so mind-blowing, I wish there were time machines because I can’t wait for the future to arrive so I can use this NOW. I was SHOCKED while I was using this. The implications are mind bending, but we’ll talk about that in a second. Before you download the demo, get a bit of a background by watching a public demo at a TEDtalks convention.
Watch the video, you’ll go - WOW, at least once. Try the zoom feature - the detail is incredible.
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Here are some inexpensive and fairly good to deal with hosting companies that we use for our various clients and projects. All of these hosting companies can host a WordPress blog.
ALL of these hosting companies have features that allow you to host a WordPress blog. Requirements are PHP and MySQL access.
BlueHost Hosting & Domain Names - RECOMMENDED
We use Bluehost for many of our own and client websites. Very easy to use, excellent customer support, and has all the features you’ll ever need, and more. Offers great deals on multiple domain hosting.
1&1 Web Hosting & Domain Names
We have used 1&1 for a few of our websites and have only a small complaint that customer service was a little slow in helping us out. That was a while ago though. We host all of our Outlook Email web hosting at 1&1. Many special add-ons for your site available.
Dot5 Web Hosting & Domain Names
Cheap, easy to use, has all the features you’ll need, and decent customer support.
Dotster.com Web Hosting & Domain Names
Cheap, easy to use, has all the features you’ll need, and decent customer support.
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Google AdSense is probably the most prolific and easy to implement of all the affiliate type ‘make money online’ schemes. It is actually called ‘contextual advertising’, meaning, that the ads that get served on your pages will be totally relevant to the CONTEXT of the content of your page. So, if your page is about ‘golf clubs’, the special code you implement will only (most of the time) display golf club ads.
← Click this button to join, or learn more than I could ever write about Google AdSense from these great resources:
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No, this is not our logo, rotated…
If you study it closely, you’ll notice that our logo signifies the ‘virtually flowing spring of information’ symbolized in the background waterfall image in the bottom right. The RSS symbol <- to the left - signifies the ‘broadcasting’ effect that RSS has and is intended for.
Depending on your camp - RSS means “Really Simple Syndication” - or - “Rich Site Syndication”.
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Hello beautiful internet person…
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Not only is it like ordering a steak and getting it cooked EXACTLY how you wanted it - with just enough side veggies to get caught in your teeth - but your server is kinda cute AND brings you a big heaping chocolate double freak-out for desert to show you how appreciative they are that you are such a great customer and that they could serve you… it’s like, you’ll also get lots of good, fresh SEO information, soaked with bucketloads of online marketing tips, tricks, tools and resources.
Why SEO - AND online marketing?
Well, SEO used to be: “What you need to do to your site to get better rankings”. Now, SEO is: “What you need to do to get better rankings”. See the difference? It has expanded PAST your site - far past. And because online marketing usually means “What you need to do to get better traffic“, it usually involves some very aggressive tactics that gets users interested, engaged, involved, and loyal. And because of those things, search engines love and reward aggressive online marketing - so SEO and online marketing have kinda become the same thing.
Why?
Because aggressive online marketing usually provides;
Many will argue against the “SEO = online marketing” theory, but wouldn’t you agree that if you just focus on an aggressive online marketing strategy - you’ll usually (meaning: in time) end up accomplishing many of the tasks required to achieve good search engine rankings and traffic?
Here’s just one factor to substantiate this claim: A good online marketing strategy usually ends up in many links being generated to the subject site. …Get links. That’s RULE #1 of SEO .
I rest my case.
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SEOspring is written, moderated, designed, coded, installed, modified, hosted, worried about, added to, researched, paid for, and an inspiration to Paul Marek, of www.3RING.com, his real job.
Paul Marek, President and Senior Internet Strategist at www.3RING.com, has been involved in online marketing since before Google came on the scene, and was optimizing websites for search engines like Yahoo, Alta Vista, and LookSmart. He has provided online marketing consultation and / or services to multinational corporations, and designed and built websites for some of the most recognized names in business. Paul serves clients like: www.ServiceMaster.ca, www.ColdwellBanker.ca, www.StLawrenceCement.com, www.AmeriSpec.ca, www.DufferinConstruction.com, www.PsionTeklogix.com, www.NobelBiocare.com, and more.
He has also created websites for and provided online marketing advice to local businesses as well; www.GolfCaledon.com, www.NadinedeLange.com and www.C3Online.ca.
Paul has also created a few hobby websites where he can apply and reap the rewards of his online marketing knowledge for his own projects. Here's just a few: www.RemodelingMySpace.com, www.MensUnderwearPortal.com and www.Web-Site-Hosting-Comparison.com .
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