English Lessons for the French Advertised on a Bilingual Website

Posted on 10/12/2010 by Brian Stephens

Even a simple single page website can be used for business purposes. You will have to work harder at getting the site indexed by the search engines and will need to get plenty of back links to it to be sure it gets noticed and listed.

But on the positive side you can really target in on your desired keywords and make the site a target for a very focussed niche audience.

With less content the site needs to highlight  and focus the attention on one or two primary keywords to get it listed in a prominent position in the search engine results pages.
 

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A Social Bookmarking Campaign for Lazy Linkers

Posted on 09/02/2010 by Brian Stephens

This is a post for the webmaster’s out there who would like to get more of a presence on social book marking and media sites without having to put endless hours into trying to interact on too many sites. Worth a read because there is a free version, if you are risk adverse, and once you know how well it works you can decide if you want to invest to up the anti a bit.

Heres the link for the article: – A Social Bookmarking Campaign

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Link Popularity Tool

Posted on 08/10/2010 by Brian Stephens

Page rank is mainly determined by the number of links you have connecting to your website. The link popularity tool allows you to check where all the links to your site are coming from and gives you the opportunity to contact a site that is linking to see if you can come to some mutually beneficial arrangement to get more links or recommendations.

For example you could offer to write articles for publication with additional links back or offer advertising space. The opportunities are only limited by your imagination.



Link Popularity Check

How popular is your website?

example: www.host.com or host.com

URL: 1

URL: 2 *

URL: 3 *

Exclude your domain from result.

Send report to an e-mail address (optional).

Email

Send in HTML format.

Please enter the access code as displayed above.

Access code




* The second and third URL is optional.


Online Link Popularity Check
provide by SEOCentro.

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Free Gift Viral Marketing Tool

Posted on 07/31/2010 by Brian Stephens

Viral Advertising Marketing Campaign: “- Sent using Google Toolbar”

One of the best ways to promote a website or blog is to engage your target audience by offering them a valuable free gift. Especially if that free gift can be branded to your own website or business.

The SmartBar is a viral marketing tool which you can download for free and share with friends, business colleagues, customers or anyone else you like.

Opt for the upgrade and you can brand your own business through the SmartBar option, gain access to 24 hours a day, 365 days a year PC support for 3 computers and access technical assistance for new technology.

As a further bonus if anyone upgrades through your version of the SmartBar, you will be paid a referral fee.

Viral tools actually don’t come much better than this, this system is a combination of both Internet Marketing and Multi-Level Marketing and you can decide whether you want to use just the free version, the Internet Marketing version, the Multi-Level Marketing version or a combination of all three.

Essentially it is 3 businesses in one.

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Euro Traveler UK

Posted on 07/04/2010 by Brian Stephens

This is a great example of where you can create multiple drop down menus with something as simple as layers using show and hide functions.

Every menu on this navigation bar has been produced using these functions and since doing it I have realised it could be even simpler.

By positioning the hide layer in such a way that it forms a rectangle around the complete menu, you can use one closer to close out all the displayed menus. (Tried this and it doesn’t work, so forget that suggestion, you will need separate closers)

A really neat way to produce drop down or pop up menus that are truly search engine friendly. Review my earlier post on this topic that describes how to create drop down menus using layers. This will give you the basics and the Euro Traveler UK site will show you whats possible with this method, and as I said this can be further improved and simplified as well. I might just do that when I have a little time spare.

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