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Today I just wanted to share a website that I think is very useful for anyone looking for content tips. The site is Darren Rowse’s www.ProBlogger.net. The site has a lot of great information. He talks mostly about how to make your blog better, but here is the archive of his posts that focuses on content.

Darren has some “out-of-the-box” suggestions that you don’t normally see discussed too often. Punctuation, reader engagement, creativity, repeating content, and if your post matters, are just a few of the things he talks about.

Also, while you’re there, don’t forget to browse around the rest of his site to check out his blogging tips.

WebProNews is running a series of weekly SEO Tips that I recommend checking out. They should be up every Thursday. Topics will include:

1. Keyword Research & Selection
2. Competition Analysis
3. Site Structure
4. Content Optimization
5. Link Building
6. Social Media
7. PPC
8. Statistics Analysis
9. Conversion Optimization
10. Keeping It Up

The first one from Dave Davies of Beanstalk is currently up here with the next one on competition analysis from Stepforth CEO Ross Dunn due Thursday.  Articles in the series will be able to be found in the Expert Articles section on the WebProNews front page.

One of my friends runs a small business which among other products markets an ERP software. The company not only sells the software but also needs to install and provide first level support and training. He approached me with a problem common to businesses of his size: escalating support costs. The major component of his budget was spent on service visits and as salaries for his service personnal. Just to help him out I did a small search to identify how other companies from around the globe tackle this problem. Remote access of PC’s is the most common solution. Read the rest of this entry »

Is your computer home to various virus ans spyware? Are you confused as to which anti virus software and anti spyware software to choose? The safest choice would obviously be to use the one recommended by the Internet leader - Google. You can download this free antivirus from Norton from this site. This comes as part of a PC software pack that can be downloaded and installed free of cost. Read the rest of this entry »

The unique thing about online business is the fact that your most crucial asset is virtual. Add to it the fact that your virtual office can ‘go down’ with the whims and fancies of your hosting or network provider means that you lose dollars with every minute that your site is down. The solution is obvioulsy to ensure that you select hosting providers who have no downtime. But every webmaster knows that there is no hosting provider that gives 100% uptime day after day. So what can you do? At the least you can find out that your online business had a blackout and inform the hosting company to do something about it ASAP. To do this, you obviously need to know that your site is down. This is what we will be looking at today using a free service by FreeSiteStatus.com. Read the rest of this entry »

As defined by Wikipedia, feeds are a means to “publish frequently updated content such as blog entries, news headlines or podcasts.”. These feeds can then be read by using software called ‘feed readers’ or ‘aggregrators’. In order for you to access a feed, you will need to subcribe to that feed service. In this post, we show you a resource which you can use to publish your own feed. You can use this feed to create and maintain personal reminders, or maintain effective communication in a team environment or use it as an alternative or complement to your email newsletter. Read the rest of this entry »

Today we came across an unique resource - a Wordpress theme generator. We must thank LivelyDirectory for helping us to find this resource. Using this theme generator, you can easily modify existing themes by changing the layout, color, font etc. Absolutely no knowledge of HTML, CSS or web design is required. You do need to have a sense of colors though.

The theme generator uses Yahoo UI and is based on Wordpress 2.1. Try out this tool and let us know what you think of it.

A man is known by the company he keeps. And now this has become so true of the virtual world too. The sort of sites that link to you and refer you traffic has started to influence your credibility - both in the eyes of general web surfers as well as the search engines. If the sites that link to you or you link to are questionable then your site’s worth and credibility is also under the scanner. We found an excellent free tool that will analyse the links on your site and analyse if they point to any ‘low credibility’ sites. This tool can be found on bad-neighborhood.com. Read the rest of this entry »

There are so many traffic exchange programs around that you can easily get overwhelmed. All of these can be classified into mainly auto and manual surfing types. The main issue with these traffic exchange programs is that there is no guarantee that people are actually seeing your site. Auto surfing programs keep refreshing the browser, each time with a new site - so it hardly matters whether some human is looking at the site. Some programs like the one at BoostMyStats.com try and overcome this by giving some special benefits if the member actually views the sites. Read the rest of this entry »

How many times have you finished your job and waited for the payment to arrive? How many times have your customers told you that your check is in the mail and you should receive it ‘anytime now’? To make life a little simpler for such businessmen, there are various payment recovery services available. One such service provider is authorizeddebit.com. Read the rest of this entry »