For the month of July, ProNetHosting is running a CRAZY SUMMER SPECIAL that allows you to buy unlimited web hosting for just $4.95 for the entire first year of hosting! That’s right, you will only pay $4.95 for 1 FULL year of Linux shared hosting; no strings attached. Not only is this an incredibly low price, but you will get unlimited space and unlimited bandwidth on their Linux shared web hosting packages.

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Landing page optimization and testing can have a dramatic impact on your online marketing profitability. But even without testing you can quickly eliminate several common mistakes that can instantly skyrocket conversion rates. These approaches work across a surprisingly wide variety of circumstances and industries:

Remove choices.
You should be very clear about your desired conversion action (whether it is a sale, download, form-fill, or simply a click-through to another page). All other clickable links or choices on the page should be eliminated or at least visually de-emphasized.

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About 75% of people on internet having blog want a steady income via it. You can have steady income only if you have steady blog audience. Try to locate the right internet strategies to attract your visitor so that they come back. If you are successful in offering meaningful information on your blog then your visitor are sure to become a regular visitor. People who come to you only want information that can be relied upon. In case you want your blog reader to stay tune with you, then try out these following strategies to make money on the internet with blog!

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An original post by Keith! I think it’s one of the best guide to someone who doesn’t know what Twitter is!

Twitter is hard to explain to those that aren’t using it.  For a long time I have avoided sites like MySpace and Facebook but I’ve always had a blog, a cell phone, and email.  Those three items made me feel connected.  If I had something to say, I’d blog it.  If someone wanted to reach me electronically they could send a text message or email.  Lastly they could just call me.  Little did I realize how disconnected I was until later on.  It took Twitter to really show me how disconnected I was.  After becoming a Twitter fan I started to spread the word.  Some people I convinced to start using it.  Others are still holding out.  Maybe this will be enough to put them over the edge.

Not Until They Use It

I remember when I first told Alan Stevens about Twitter.Com.  He reluctantly joined and said "oh great, another social networking site".  It wasn’t long until he started to see Twitter’s potential though.  Alan’s first tweet was on Oct. 25th at 11:04 PM.  About a day later he said this and as we can see he was starting to get it and work his way through it.

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Recently, one of my friend asked me “Hey Niks, do you know Gmail Labs”? I replied – “I know Google Suggest Labs”. He smiled and said it’s alright, Gmail Labs is something different! Well, this enticed me to know what Gmail Lab is and how can it help. Although, all these years Google has been making my experience with Gmail more pleasing, effective and productive, so what’s with Gmail Labs? Actually, Gmail Labs is full of experimental new features that you could choose to use or not use. However, many people might still don’t know about Gmail Labs or haven’t taken time to review all the exciting features. With that in mind, I thought sharing Top 10 excellent features worth turning on that can increase your daily productivity.

Offline – I found this to be the best feature among all. This allows you to work offline and work with your messages without even having Internet connection. What this means is that you could be using Gmail, lose your Internet connection, and never know the difference. Your inbox messages, attachments, etc. are always synced with your desktop, and you are free to use offline.

Email Addict – Too much on Gmail? Enable this features and a link would appear at the top of the page, blocking your Inbox and chat screen for 15 minutes and allowing you to take a break. Email Addict is superb for people who have trouble stepping away from their computer!

Undo Send – This is very helpful for me, I often find myself saying –Oops, Send so soon?? So, this gives me a grace period of five second to correct my error. You will see a new “Undo” link with every sent mail, just click “Undo” and it will take you right back to compose message where changes can be done.  

Message Translation – Got online friends who happen to speak other language? This new feature in Gmail Labs automatically translates your inbox messages to the language you can understand. You can simply click on the translate link, which automatically appears when an email in different language than your default one. Now language would not be an obstacle for users!

Multiple Inboxes – Multiple Inboxes allows me to implement multiple input boxes. So, now it is possible for me to systematize and underscore the new inbox messages displayed under one setting. I now have better customized view of my mails and it is easy to handle them at a glance as well. However, you should know that this feature creates multiple inboxes for labels, and not for your secondary Gmail accounts.

Mouse Gestures – This is extremely useful for person like me who relies more upon mouse than hitting keyboard shortcuts. I can now navigate my mails using Mouse Gestures. Hold right-click and move the mouse left to visit to a last conversation, move it right to visit to the next conversation, and move up to visit back to the inbox view. So simple!

Canned Response – Canned response is a no newer but has two interesting features that can help you save time. It has the ability to store email as templates and then skill to automatically reply to emails using those templates. So guys don’t waste time typing similar response when you can type it once and save it!

Inserting Images – I always use to get irritated whenever I had to attach images in the email coz of the process. And now the newest Gmail Labs is making my work lot easier when I have to send an image!

Task – Managing my task was never this easier with Gmail! But now, I can create my due dates, to-do list, sub-tasks and loads of things using incredibly simple interface in Gmail window!

Hide Unread Counts – This features is great for people that are lazy to manage their inbox and don’t care about unread mails! It hides the unread counts of Inbox, label etc!

Beyond doubt Gmail has become more productive, easier to use and truly viable alternative to Outlook! Check out Gmail Labs for even more interesting features that might make you even more productive.

Title is one of the most important factors to consider when writing a post. Only your title can determine whether your visitors will read your post or not. There are several ways that your post could be stumble upon – may be via search engine, RSS feeds, link from other post or could be via social media sites. So only an effective title would grab people’s attention and can be reason to read it. That’s the reason you must spend some time thinking on how you can make your title special. All your effort of writing post may go for toss if you don’t have an effective title!

·         Benefit – Your title must tell readers that there is a benefit of reading the post.

·         Controversy – Reader usually get excited to read the post that has some kind controversy or debate. Although not suitable for all blog post!

·         Question – Any title that has question will entice reader to visit and check the post and even comment on the same.

·         Personalization – Most of the post that is personalized works best. For example using “I” and “You” have great impact on visitors.

·         Keywords – Don’t forget search engines, though you write only for readers it is search engine that will help you drive traffic. So use keywords in the title.

·         Impressive words – Words like ‘Interesting’, ‘Secrets’, ‘Tips’, ‘Warning’, ‘easy’ will encourage readers to check the post and more likely to come back if the post is really useful.

·         Funny – Don’t use funny titles if they leave your reader only confused. But works great if they are just funny and give readers a smile!

Just take your time to write blog titles. The most time you spend on getting the title, the more effective your title will be. Don’t just post the title that comes in your brain first.

I have been using Google Adwords Vs Yahoo Search Marketing for quite some time now. Of course there is lot of different stuff with both the giant but I came across two major different between Google Adwords and Yahoo Search Marketing that could turn into a big discussion!

1. Quality Score:

Google’s Quality Score is on an individual keyword that you choose and is obtained at time when search takes place. You can also have low and high QS keywords in same ad group. With Google the broad match and phrase match keywords show you only average Quality Scores. Only the perfect match can show you even the close real QS, yet it is average since QS is based on things that occur during search.

Yahoo’s Quality Score are only to appear at the ad group level. This simply means that everything in the ad group is a backup for QS. Any bad QS keyword could easily drag down the others. Yahoo suggests that they organize ad group just like Google but then split up the ad groups by the number of traffic. This means with Yahoo I get 3 times as many ad groups than I get Google!

2. Match Type.

Google Phrase – Broad, Negative Phrase, Exact, Negative Broad, Negative Exact. Broad is a wild card for Google that would locate all keywords with any of the keywords in your phrase plus synonyms, singulars, plurals and anything before and after the term. Exact is just the exact nothing more or nothing less and Negatives also work the same way. If you wish to put in a singular then you have to put in singular as well. In case you go for negative match you will not have exact match for the same term. Google believes that a plural and singular keywords to be two separate words. Negatives could be done at the ad group and Campaign level!

Yahoo Phrase – Advanced, Standard, Excluded Words. Here Yahoo does not have any exact match. Advanced is simply like Google Broad and even standard is just like Google broad. But with Yahoo if you put in negative keyword match it would not be excluded if you have it as advanced or standard match. In case you put singular it would exclude the plural. Not like Google, Yahoo singular and plural keywords to be the same keywords and cannot be separated. Negatives could be done at the account level and ad group level only!

Of course there are many other differences like geo targeting, campaign settings and more, but these 2 I found it not very obvious in my understanding. However, if you are a newbie then I would say go try out Yahoo first because it is comparatively easier to get your ads placed then Adwords. Google AdWords is capable of delivering a lot of traffic, but their “quality score” formula makes it difficult for some people to get their ads shown on Google. Ensure you have a good stats program so you would know what the traffic does once it enters your site.