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10 SEO Tips And Tricks For A Budding Web Designer

Every kid on the block seems to know web designing these days. Actually thinking along those lines it is not difficult at all to learn how to design a web page or for that matter even a site. What with FrontPage, Dreamweaver and the gang making the job even simpler.

But one has to realize there is more to web designing then knowing how to write a few HTML codes or use one of the many commercially available programs. While teaching you how to code or code correctly for that matter is not the objective of this article, I would be giving you some tips that distinguish the real web designer from the rest of the pack.

1. I will strictly ask you to not to use lots of flash contents if you want to be at the top of the search engine. Yes, I know it looks awesome but it does nothing more than hindering your all search engine optimization strategies. You don’t need to provide your visitors an eye candy, dude just provide them some helpful content.

2. Always remember to use navigation menu at the right side of each page of your site, why? because search engines count the first few phrases appearing on the page, this way you would provide the search engines the content first.

3. Make your pages cross browser compatible. Though this is very difficult even for the most experienced among us, TRY!

4. Time your page for its loading speeds. Remember, though a graphic image looks really good on your site, its hateful if your visitors have to wait hours for it to load. You may be using a high speed connection, the whole world doesn’t. Your page has to be quick to load.

5. Too many images have exactly the opposite effect then they are meant to have. So, do everything in proportion… including putting in graphics and animations.

6. Colour combinations matter. Your text has to be readable & as importantly if not more, worth reading.

7. Always work on a good navigation structure… Remember if a client cant find your contact info or order link, you’d miss on a sale.

8. Make your site search engine friendly. Its no use having the best site in the world which no one can find. And for every one’s sake don’t mess around with hidden layers to get a high listing on the engines. It is JUST NOT worth the risk!

9. If you have ad banners, place them with a little thought. Too many of those little pop ups are the most annoying thing on the web and more often then not deter visitors from sticking onto your site rather than earn you some extra cash.

10. Lastly… you never know everything. Over the years and after designing a dozen sites, I still learn something new from ever project that I undertake. Guys you can never be perfect when it comes to coding… And if you are… then there is always room to improve perfection.

10 SEO Tips And Tricks For A Budding Web Designer.

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10 Good Reasons For Submitting Articles To Ezines – Article Marketing Reviewed – Exploring Article Writing and Promotion

Writing and submitting articles to ezines and article directories can be one of the most effective forms of free promotion for your website.
Here are some reasons why you should be doing this to help grow your business:
1. Branding.
You can brand your website, business and yourself by submitting articles to ezines. You can include a “resources box” at the end of the article. That resource box can give your name, business name, your credentials, website address and a brief description of your website to prompt readers to visit.

2. Expert Status
If you write informative and helpful articles, youll become known as an expert in the field. This will give you and your business extra credibility which will help position you against your competition.
3. Exposure
Your article might also be placed on the ezine publishers home page. If they publish each issue on their home page this will give you some extra exposure and added credibility.
4. Permanent Links
You might get extra exposure if the ezine publisher archives their ezine on their site. People often want to read the back issues before they make the decision to subscribe. And your article will be there for them to see. This will aslo give you a valuable permanent back link to your site, which is great for Page Rank.
5. Free Advertsing
You will get free advertising. This frees up money to spend your profits on other forms of advertising or building your business. You could then buy advertisements in other ezines that havent published your articles.
6. Lead to Other Income
You might get extra income from people wanting to hire you to write other articles, ebooks, or even asking you to speak at seminars. What a great way to multiply your income and credibility.
7. Going Viral
If you allow ezine publishers to publish your articles in their free ebooks, your advertising could multiply all over the internet. These ebooks tend to be given away over and over again, each time increasing your reach.
8. Increase Your Reach
When you submit your article to an ezine publisher that has a free content/article directory on their web site, you can get your article published all over the web. They allow their visitors to republish your article on their website or in their ezine.
9. Trust
Youll gain peoples trust. If they read your article and like it, theyll be far more likely to buy your product or service. This will give obvious benefits to your profits.
10. Establish Relationships
Heres how you can really boost your chances of getting your article to run in an ezine. Agree to run one of their articles in your ezine if, in exchange, they run yours in their ezine. Its a win/win situation, that could lead to even more profitable joint venture deals in the future.
As you can see, there are many reasons why you should be practicing article marketing to build your online business profile.
You dont have to be a prize-winning-quality writer. Just make sure the articles are informative and that the information you impart is valid and accurate.
Now you just have to get on and do it. The best way to learn is to “just do it”!

By Michael Beauchamp
Michael Beauchamp, is the owner of http://www.e-bizresources.com He has also just launched http://www.free-ad-directory.info where youll find many free online advertising resources, or you can submit your own quality free advertising site.

10 Good Reasons For Submitting Articles To Ezines – Article Marketing Reviewed – Exploring Article Writing and Promotion.

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Portal Feeder-Article Marketing on Steroids – Article Marketing Reviewed – Exploring Article Writing and Promotion

The purpose of article internet marketing is to connect people with the information they are searching for on the internet, and at the same time create a desire in them to go to your website for more information, or to look at the products you offer there.

As the main reason people surf the internet is to find quality information and solutions to problems they may have, the role of a search engine is to connect people with the information that they are looking for.

The way this happens is through keywords. The words that a person types into the search bar of Google or any other search engine are called keywords. The search engines use those keywords to connect people with the information they are seeking.

An important key in article internet marketing is to write the article around the main keywords of the website page that you want to promote. By developing the skill of writing articles that contain the right elements that search engines need to send people to your article, you will become successful at article internet marketing.

A major role of Portal Feeder 2.0 is to to create quality websites full of unique content and to teach portal feeder members how to optimize those sites to attract the search engines. As search engines are looking for fresh and unique content,an important part of the Portal Feeder training is to teach Portal Feeder members how to create quality articles.

Writing quality articles is foundational to success in online marketing. The Portal Feeder training teaches what are the critical elements of a quality piece of content. The title and the content need to be written in such a way that the reader’s attention is held when they start to read. The article needs to have not only the keywords related to the topic, but also other words that also indicate to the search engines what the article is about. This strategy is called Latent Semantic Indexing.

Another strategy taught in Portal Feeder is that articles should not have a closing paragraph. The resource box plays the role of the closing paragraph. The resource box should spark the curiosity of the reader to click the link and see the benifit of what you are offering on your website.

As an owner of an article directory, I have discovered that many article authors do not write quality articles that benefit the readers and attract search engines to index the article. Many people make obvious mistakes which indicate that they do not fully understand the power of article marketing. If you want to make money marketing online, it is important for you to know and follow sound strategies in your article marketing.

Portal Feeder-Article Marketing on Steroids – Article Marketing Reviewed – Exploring Article Writing and Promotion.

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