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Jan 27

Building a website can take anywhere between 1-4 weeks, sometimes longer and other times shorter dependant on the size of the project. Driving traffic to your site and appearing on the first page of the search engines is the part that requires time and effort.

Here are a few questions that you should think about:-

Is your website going to find its own way into the search engines?

If it does then:-

What will people type into the search engine in order to find you?

On what page will the results show in?

These are some very important questions that need to be looked into by any webmaster. Whats the point of having a website called BlahBlah.com that sells LCD TVs and only comes into the search engines when someone types in BlahBlah. If you own a site that sells products like LCD TVs then you will want your items ranking best in search engines and not the name of your site.

Whats the logic in ranking number one for BlahBlah and number 210 for JVC LCD LT42DS9 which is one of the products it sells?

I would like to share some known tips and tricks to give your website that boost in traffic and show you how to work on separate parts of your site which you would like ranking higher then other parts. So lets get started.

There are many tools on the net that are specifically designed for webmasters, the majority being open source which means that they are free to use. As Google is the king of search engines its always a good idea to concentrate on Google, the other search engines will automatically follow. I would recommend using the google analytics tool which will show you information about your site, where traffic is coming from, what your bounce rate is and much more precious information.

Sign up for Google webmaster tools and utilise the tools that google provide. You can set the speed of the spiders that index your site, set the area for your targeted traffic (UK for example on a .com domain) and find out many more things about your site.

When you first get your website you will notice that you dont show up on search engines even though you type the full address of your URL. People say that the best way around this is to upload a Sitemap in your Google webmaster account showing google that your site exists and showing the pages contained within it. Sometimes Google can take upto a month or so before they get round to visiting your site. This is a long time to wait especially after working on your website for 2 weeks solid. You want to get into the search engines as soon as possible.

Building backlinks is the key to a successful website. I would personally recommend that you concentrate on your backlinks the most. If you can get back links on sites that are already indexed and spiders visit them everyday then your site will more or less instantly appear in the search engines. Spiders will crawl the site that contains your backlink as usual and come across your link. The spider will then follow the link to your site and start indexing. Within a few days you will be in the search engines.

Build your backlinks as anchor text with words that you want to rank high for. So for example instead of writing BlahBlah.com as your backlink write something like ‘Buy LCD TV’ which then becomes a link to BlahBlah.com. When the spider crawls the site and comes to your backlink it will notice that this site refers to you as buy lcd tv and note it down. When someone types in buy lcd tv in the search engine you will rank higher in the search results. When you have enough backlinks pointing to your site with relevant keywords as the anchor text, you will start to see a massive improvement of traffic and sales.

The best backlinks to concentrate on are one way links. This means that a site links to you and you do not link back to it. The second type is a 2 way link which is also known as a reciprocal link. This means that you link to a site with the understanding that they link back to you. This type of link building is not as powerful as it once was.

There are many ways to build one way links. Let us look at the most common ways. Write articles, do exactly what I am doing now. Witting useful articles will allow you to place a link in the authors section. This is very useful as this provides you with a 1 way backlink.

Be active in your line of business. Visit relevant blogs and add to the knowledge base by leaving a review or comment.

Submit your website to directories. You will be able to submit your website to relevant parts of the directory. This will provide relevant traffic and a back link.

Exchange relevant links with other websites. You can contact webmasters requesting link exchanges. The majority of webmasters will know how important it is to keep building their backlinks especially with relevant sites.

A few things to note are to change around your anchor text every now and then. Build links to all your pages. To start of with you will need to work a number of hours a day once you start seeing the results dont stop. Work on your back links for 1 hour a day at the very least. Try to get do follow backlinks. So

how can you increase your page rank?

The more a spider gets directed to your website the more popular it thinks your site is. Goggle review sites about every 4 months. As long as you concentrate on your backlinks you will find that spiders crawl your site more. When your website comes up for review with a little luck you should have your first page rank.

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Jan 10

Why do people who do good suffer while those who commit injustice go unpunished?

Such questions arise when we see an event in its limited framework. No good action will yield a bad result. Or, no bad action will bring a good result. This is the law of Karma. As you sow, so shall you reap! If you sow a mango seed, a mango tree will grow. but along with the mango tree, some thorny bushes may come up because of the seeds present in the manure brought from somewhere else. It is not the mango seed that brings up the thorny bush. Your mango seed will bring mango fruit, in due course.

The question of justice and injustice arises only when one sees the world from a limited framework. This is probably why the Jain philosophy does not even accept the judge. They simply believe that the whole world is governed by the law of cause and effect. And they call it the law.

When seen from this perspective, there cannot be injustice.

If there appears to be an injustice, there are people who are bringing justice; this is also part of the Law. For example, if someone gets a disease, there is someone else who has the cure for it. If the person with the cure knows that sombody is suffering, it is his dharma to bring him relief. If it’s somebody’s karma to steal, it’s dharma of the police to catch him.

Karma and dharma go hand in hand. Karma is always dynamic, in the sense that there is perception and there is action. Karma means the action, its impressions and its result. It has three phases–latent action, the action that is in process, and then the root of the action, or the cause of the action. All three things are a reality.

Karma is beyond all logic and reasoning.

It causes people to be together or separate. It causes some to be weak and some, strong. It makes some rich and some poor. All the struggle in the world, whatever it may be, is the bondage of Karma.

Some Karma can be changed and some cannot. Only human life is blessed with the chance to be free from karma. And only a few thousands aim to be free from it. As a human being, you can accumulate karma. Awareness, alertness, knowledge and meditation all help erase past impressions. Only through Grace can the bondage of karma be burnt.

The awareness of dharma helps in comprehending the strange ways of karma. Whenever you see a bad karma or someone suffering, you need to help him. That is your dharma. Karma is also always bound by time, because every action has a limited reaction.

If you do something good to people, they will come and thank you; they will be rateful to you as long as they are experiencing the effect of your action, but not forever. Our perception of suffering , of good and bad, is always relative. God does not come within the purview of relativity. He is the absolute reality — Sarva Sakshi — a witness of all that is.

See God as a movie director, rather than as a judge. He has no ill feeling for the villain, and no special favour for the hero. Each one is playing his role. In the end, both the villain and the hero are rewarded.

That is why in the puranas, every villain who dies also goes to heaven. After so many years, when the pandavas reached heaven, they found Duryodhana already sitting there happily. 

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Dec 25

There are many aspects of insuring your car that may seem a bit strange and even unfair. The price formation of policies is usually conditioned by factors that an ordinary consumer may consider irrelevant yet the insurer will see a precise way to asses the risk of insuring a particular person. And of all the factors that will affect your insurance premium one of the most strange is the gender. Yes, that’s right the price of insurance will vary depending on whether you are a male or a female. Sure, it may sound sexist and discriminatory but there are real facts supporting such an approach. And if you think that male drivers are charged less because they are better while behind the wheel you’re in for a big surprise!

Yes, it’s a fact that you can get a different premium just because of your gender. But before you start calling in the court for a discrimination case take a look at the facts that drive the insurance companies to act so strange. First of all you have to understand that insurance companies are crazy about assessing the risk they take upon themselves when insuring someone. They will use any awkward factor that will allow them to predict how it is likely for a person to file an insurance claim. And while the place of residence, education and marital status may seem logic from that perspective the gender of the driver isn’t something rational from the customer’s point of view. Yet, the statistics state otherwise and insurance companies are happy to use them in order to support their approach.

According to statistics female drivers file less claims then male drivers. And not because there are more men on the road in general. In relative terms the percentage of women filing claims is less compared to men. Moreover, female drivers tend to end in far less serious accidents, causing less damage and implying less costs to cover. Because of that the insurance companies usually charge female drivers with lower auto insurance rates than men. Of course, this doesn’t mean that all female drivers are good on the road and don’t cause any trouble. There are always good and bad drivers no matter the gender, age, social status and place of residence. However, the general trend is as described above and insurance companies take in consideration every aspect of the statistics that allows them to handle their risks.

If you are a male driver and find yourself offended by such a trend in auto insurance price formation there’s only one solution available – shopping around. There are many companies out there with different statistics concerning their customers, so there is a chance to find a company that has as many accidents with female drivers involved as men. Still, the best thing to really set your mind to is having a good auto insurance policy. Does it really matter who is paying more or less? The really important thing is that your policy would be adequate to your personal needs and priced as competitively as possible.

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Dec 17

We are human. We make mistakes. We’ve all had our share of broken promises and regrets, but there is on lesson I life you do not have to learn on your own. Do not buy a gaming chair.

A gaming chair often lures innocent gamers looking for the latest accessories to fit with their game, but just because something looks good does not mean it is. It is back to the whole don’t judge a book buy its cover thing, etc.

If you take a look at the logic behind a gaming chair, perhaps you can see where I am getting at. These usually made out of plastic awkward contraptions are anything but flexible, which is what you really need when you get into the game. A bean bag chair is much more suitable for what you are looking for in this instance.

Plastic never has and never will be an item of comfort, so just because there are cool little swirly patterns on the arm wrests (which are in the way, mind you) does not change that law of physics.

Plastic is a no go.

Cool looking shapes are anything but natural, and should be avoided at all costs. Sometimes I see some gaming chair of those arched or stretched shapes and think they were made for the aliens in the game rather than the person playing.

When it comes down to it, gaming chairs are not practical financially, nor are they practical for gaming. There are uncomfortable and pricey, and if you want the opposite, get yourself a bean bag chair.

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Nov 12

Free coupons have been around for more than a century now, and the fact that they have helped thousands of people shave off dollars from their purchases is one that is most welcome with shoppers. You could save on shopping with these coupons, but there would always be a way to save more and spend less. What ways could be used to make the best out of your coupons?

 
The internet is an extensive source of coupons. If you want to save more, look for more coupons that you could use. Of course, it wouldn’t really help if you overspend because of these coupons or if you buy things you don’t need because you felt you need to. Even coupons in the newspapers have the same logic behind them. If you find good coupons in a newspaper, it would make sense that you buy one or two more newspapers. This means that you get twice or thrice more the savings. However, something would be different in an online coupon. If you want to get more savings in an online coupon, you could try printing out many of coupons that could be used on a single purchase. Also, it would very well help if you could ask your store if they would accept your free coupons.
 
There are some stores that could double your offers. Simply put, there are stores that hold double coupon promotions in certain times of the month or the year. However, not all stores would advertise it. There are some stores that would happily tell you if you only ask. For example, you could have a off your purchase if your coupon says on a double coupon promotion day. Ask around to get the best deals. It would always help that you know what stores offer them.
 
You could stroll around the grocery in search for these coupons, or you could simply ask and they would happily show you the way. When you buy an item or if you reach a certain amount, groceries could print out free coupons in checkout lanes. Most of the times, these coupons would offer discounts, dollars off, and free items. There are people who would not even pay attention to what these coupons are. Read them carefully and learn about them because they could very well help you with your next purchases.
 
Online stores could make use of coupons too. They come in the form of electronic coupon codes that you would enter as you check out your cart in an online shopping store. The internet is also a very good source of electronic shopping coupon codes. There are certain advantages to shopping online, including coupon codes for free shipping for your ordered items, or discounts on the total amount of the purchase.
 
There are many places where you could see free coupons, and you could make the best out of them if you could use them wisely. Looking for them could be as hard as actually using them. They are always included in tips that you could use if you want to save money, and one could really benefit from them if they know how to use them.
 

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