The most interesting part of WordCamp 2007 was Matt Cutts’s presentation. Here is a summary with 15 tips.

  1. Don’t put your blog at the root of your domain.
  2. Name your directory ‘blog’ instead of ‘wordpress’.
  3. In URLs, no spaces are worst, underscore are better, dashes or hyphens are best.
  4. Use alt tags on images: not only is it good accessibility, it’s good SEO.
  5. Include keywords naturally in your posts.
  6. Make your post dates easy to find.
  7. Check your blog on a cell phone and/or iPhone.
  8. Use partial-text feeds if you want more page views; use full-text feeds if you want more loyal readers.
  9. Blogs should do standard pings.
  10. Standardize backlinks (don’t mix and match www with non-www).
  11. Use a permanent redirect (301) when moving to a new host.
  12. Don’t include the post date in your URL.
  13. When moving between hosts, wait until Googlebot and traffic begin to visit the new host before taking down the old one.
  14. If using AdSense, use target section.
  15. Use FeedBurner’s (now) free MyBrand feature to take control of your feeds

Paul Coulter wrote on Articler.com this excellent article about why you need to start a blog to promote your business .

Paul explain Us how to start blogging.  Here is a list of tips to follow

  • Keep Your Visitors Coming Back
  • Give the Search Engines What They Want
  • Increase Your Natural Backlinks
  • Advertise Your Products and Services
  • Blogs Are Usually Free
  • Make Money Using Your Blog

Complete article here

Michael Fleischner wrote an excellent article entitled: How to effectively promote you book or e-book online?.

There are 7 rules to follow according to Michael to promote successfully your works.

  1. Develop a Website or Blog
  2. Online Marketing (PPC)
  3. Specific Jump Page/Testimonials(audio and written)
  4. Samples
  5. Email marketing
  6. Refer a friend
  7. Affiliate program

View the complete article here

Google has found the key to success through these rules. Why not use them to build our success?

1. Focus on the user and all else will follow.

2. It’s best to do one thing really, really well.

3. Fast is better than slow.

4. Democracy on the web works.

5. You don’t need to be at your desk to need an answer.

6. You can make money without doing evil.

7. There’s always more information out there.

8. The need for information crosses all borders.

9. You can be serious without a suit.

10. Great just isn’t good enough.

Here you can view the complete Google’s Philosophy

Google Adsense is perhaps the easiest way to attract advertisers from across the globe to your website. Just submit your website to Google for approval. If Google likes what it sees, it will place contextual ads linking to products likely to appeal to the readers. Each time a reader clicks a link, the advertiser pays Google a small fee, and Google splits that with you.

How to Make Money with Google Adsense ? Here are The best Google Adsense tips for making more money (profit) from Google adsense program posted by aman on articler.com

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The best way to attract visitors to your site is through content. If your content is not interesting and useful, it will be more difficult to attract visits, and, if you have ads on your site, even more difficult to get clicks on them.

Good content is a sure way of getting better revenue and through the years it has become much easier to provide quality content.

The traditional way to create content is writing it yourself. If there is a subject that you know a lot about, you will surely be able to write content about it for your site.

However, there are many other ways of providing content for free

1. Blogs - Writing a blog is fairly easy, and they are regularly updated. You can create a blog at http://www.blogger.com or have a blog on your site to write about news and updates.

2. Volunteer writers - Another option for content is to have people write articles for free. Many people like to write, you can see this on any site that has comments that may be added. These don’t receive any payment for what they write, they just do it for the fun of it, or to express themselves.

3. RSS feeds - There is a way of getting lots of content for your site for free: with Syndicated articles, also known as RSS feeds. There are many writers that want to see their work published so that they can start getting recognition. This creates a writer-publisher relationship through which both can benefit. The writer gets exposed to lager audiences, and the publisher, that is you, gets quality content for the site.

Note that the down side of adding RSS feeds to your site is that when a visitor clicks on a feed on your site, he leaves your site and is sent to the site that generates the feed.

4. Articles in your siteArticler.com has released a script that allows you to receive articles daily on your site for free, with the advantage that when a visitor clicks on an article to read it, he doesn’t leave your site. The articles of the topic of your choice are retrieved from Articler.com’s site and posted on your site for visitors to read. To obtain the script, visit http://www.articler.com/faq.php?faq=articles-in-your-site

5. Non-Copyrighted content – Many books and articles no longer have copyrights, due to the fact that no one has renewed these rights. Thus, they are available and may be used freely on any site. For an extensive list of non-copyrighted material, visit the Gutenberg Project.

6. Forums – By adding a forum on your site, visitors will write about the discussion topics that you can set up. This will provide fresh new content for free and create additional links to your site from search engines on a regular basis.

7. Reviews – You can create a review section on your site where visitors can write about products or services of their knowledge. By doing so, each time you add a new product or service to be reviewed, fresh content will be added by the site’s users.

8. Press Releases – A press release is an effective way to promote your site. You can also post your press releases on your site together with other press releases that are related to your site’s content. However, you must first visit the site that created the press release in order to learn if you can post their release on your site.

9. Games – Games are very popular, and many web surfers like to play frequently. You can find many online games that are free and available for your site. You may choose games that are related to your site, or just add an entertainment section for fun.

10. Guides & Directories – Guides and directories are a way of helping surfers to find what they are looking for. You can add a general web directory to your site, or a specific directory about a subject that is related to your site’s content.

11. News Headlines – Instead of adding full articles and feeds to your site, you can embed news headlines that will constantly show the latest news. These services update automatically, so you don’t have to change it manually in order to keep it updated.

12. Photographs & Video – As broadband connections become more common, different media types are becoming increasingly popular over the internet. Your site doesn’t have to include only text information. You can add photographs that are related to your site through sites that offer free stock photography, also you can include videos from youtube.

13. Tickers – Through tickers, you can show updates and information in a more dynamic way. There are many different topics that you can choose from to add tickers: news, stock, sports, weather etc. They occupy very little screen space and constantly change your site’s content dynamically.

14. Cartoons & Jokes – There are many free cartoons and jokes available that you can add to your site on a daily basis. By searching carefully, you can find jokes that are related to your site and add them to provide a fresh look at different topics.

15. Financial / Stock quotes – Financial and stock quotes are a necessary addition to any financial or news site. You can obtain these quotes for free from any major stock site.

16. Webmaster tools – If your site is intended for webmasters or site owners, you can add free tools that will be very useful to them. One fo the most important free webmaster tools is Page Rank Checker

17. Maps – You can use online maps in many different ways. By adding maps to your site, you can provide visitors with maps about their location, country maps, world maps, or a map that indicates driving directions to reach your business.

18. Weather - Weather forecasts and live weather feeds are available to be added for free to any site. Most of them can be embedded to your site and will be automatically updated. This will add informational content for visitors and provide new content daily.

19. Tips and Advice – There are many free java or html box scripts that will add daily tips and advice to your site and will surely keep your visitors returning to see the latest tips available.

20. Sports results – If your site is about sports, you can add the latest sports results to your site and keep visitors constantly updated about what is happening in different sports events.

The principal element to get traffic in your web site is the optimization  in the search engines, call SERP - Search Engine Ranking Position -  for a particular keyword or phrase. For example “social and sharing extension for firefox”. By this phrase, this article has been indexed by Google on the top #1 of the results, above of very important websites. Then, if your site has high rank you can receive a lot of natural traffic and this, can help you to get more money on line.

But, search engines work differently and you must learn special features or criteria of them. Yahoo works more on page optimization techniques. Google wants periodical actualization of content, and link building with other websites using Anchor Text. So, for to help you to improve the maximum out of search engines, you can read this article.

Happy optimization!!.

The versatility of Firefox allows to add some different tools to improve the navigation and marketing for businesses surfers. Here is a list of 32 social and sharing add-ons for Firefox.

ClipmarksCapture just the pieces you want

iMacros for Firefox relieves the repetition of checking on the same sites every day

AllPeers Beta Share your files privately and securely

WOT Helps you stay safe and make better decisions while browsing

Email This! Bookmarklet Extension will send your recipient the link

DejaClick Record and bookmark your browser activities

LinkWad Manage tabbed browsing sessions

Orkut Helper For orkut user

From Hyperlinks to Hyperwords Select any text and get useful commands.

Dai.sy Instant peer2peer Meeting.

CamZ Bar Browse the Largest Live and Archived Live Chat Site on the planet.

Grocery List Generator Store your recipe-ingredients and other groceries you need regularly.

Amazing Webpage Emailer Emailing a hyperlink (URL) may have sufficed when the web was young and static.

Kaboodle The best way to collect, compare, share and discover things you find anywhere on the web.

Extension List Dumper This extension adds a button (”Dump list”) to the Add-ons window.

From Hyperlinks to Hyperwords Select words and choose commands: References, Conversions, Translations, Email, Search & more.

FoxFon With FoxFon you can call your friends in a way similar to the SkypeOut service.

Send Page By Email Designed to support send page by email function.

RatePoint Rate and connect with like-minded people.

LinkWad Extension that enables users to more easily manage tabbed browsing sessions by saving groups of tabs.

xmpp4moz xmpp4moz integrates the XMPP protocol (also known as Jabber) into Mozilla applications.

Chipmark This extension mimics much of Firefox Bookmarks menu..

SamePlace Extensible instant messaging client based on the XMPP (Jabber) protocol.

Full Screen Homestar Runner Notice how small the cartoon is? Fix it with this extension!.

SeekSpeak Connect with other searchers!.

Gabbly Chat Sidebar Chat using the AJAX application.

BlueBox bar Navigate where it matters and see what’s hot now on the Web.

Yaplet Sidebar Chat on websites.

GroovyNotes Send instant messages and share pages.

Trailfire This tool provides a unique new method for commentary, web navigation, and social discovery.

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