Web 2.0 - Are You A Part Of It?

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Contents:

o Web 2.0 - Are You A Part Of It?

o Buying a New Computer

o Site Build It - Back To Work Special

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o Web 2.0 - Are You A Part Of It?


You probably know by now, the whole Web 2.0 (Social
Bookmarking/Media Sites) like FaceBook, MySpace,
YouTube, Digg, Twitter... will play a greater and
greater role in the success of your online business.

As these sites become even more popular (if that's
possible) they will be a great source of traffic and
business for anyone who is taking advantage of them.
No one can now dispute this fact... these media sites
are very important. So the question to you is:

Are You A Part Of It?

Do you use these sites in your marketing? In your
site promotions? Are you a member of all these sites?

As I slowly work my way thru John Reese's comprehensive
Traffic Secrets 2.0 - I am realizing more and more
just how important all these social media sites
are and just how important they will become in the
future.

You simply have to get your site or sites onto this
whole "social media" bandwagon. Now the traffic
from these sites is not the best, it's usually
of a much poorer quality than free organic traffic
from the search engines or Pay Per Click traffic...
but the SEO benefits for your keyword rankings are
very significant.

Getting your site listed/linked on the front
and interior pages of these popular sites does
wonders for your SEO and keyword rankings.

Many people think getting involved with all these
sites takes a lot work... but it really doesn't.

One very simple thing I did years ago was put
the AddThis button on all my webpages... this
is a free service and only takes a few minutes to
sign-up. A few more seconds to add the code to
your site's template or content management system...
and your site's vistors can add your content to
any and all of these media sites for you.

I have gotten hundreds of links/bookmarks in
these social media sites and I am not a member
of half of them... my visitors like my content
enough to bookmark it so others can visit and
check out my content for themselves.

It's a simple and easy way to introduce your
site and yourself to the whole Web 2.0 bandwagon...

You can get started with a free AddThis bookmark
button here:

http://www.addthis.com/


Start experiencing the benefits of Web 2.0
for yourself!




o Buying a New Computer


While trying to use John Reese's new course
on Traffic Secrets... my trusty Toshiba laptop
which I bought several years ago, kept freezing
up - the CD-Roms, not the computer.

When I checked out the minimum computer requirements
for these state of the art CD-Roms I was a little
shocked - you needed Windows XP or Greater,
Pentium 4, 2.4Ghz Processor and 512MB DDR RAM...

My laptop specs wasn't quite up to the task so
my solution - I needed a new computer.

Now, thankfully because of my online work, the
expense of buying a new rig wasn't a problem.
I just went into the computer store and bought
the most expensive PC with the highest specs
they had... computer prices as you probably all
know have come way down in recent years.

I went with a HP desktop PC this time because
it gave me the highest specs, I believe it has
6 Gigs of RAM, 750 Gig Hard Drive and Quad Processors!

Now I don't presently need all that RAM or the
storage space or the Quad Processors - but wait
a few months and even this system will probably
be out of date. That's a bit of an exaggeration
but the tech stuff is advancing so fast, today's
PC is often outdated in a year or less.

This one should make watching John Reese's
CDs a breeze...

If you're not one that wastes their money
on expensive computers, you can find some
real computer bargains online here:


Cheap Computers/Laptops






o Site Build It - Back To Work Special


As a former teacher, I used to dread this
time of year. Back to work for me meant
the summer was over and while I looked forward
to the fresh batch of eager faces, it did mean
a lot of hard work was ahead...

Now, September means something entirely different
since I have been working full-time on the web.
I look forward to preparing for the xmas season
and doing my SEO work.

I work at home and make my own hours. I can take
vacations to see Bruce Springsteen, Elton John...
whenever I want to. I can visit family and friends
anytime.

This lifestyle can't be beat or at least I haven't
found it yet.

Anyway, a lot of people reading this are trying
to do the same. One of my best recommendation has
always been Ken Evoy's SBI.

Site Build It is a whole marketing package that
will get you working online and realizing your
own business. But don't be fooled, even this
system takes a lot of work, you do have to work
to get it up and running.

But once you have a successful site or two,
life will never be the same. As I said,
the online lifestyle can't be best.

If you want to see what SBI is all about
or you want to view how an online business
is possible for anyone.

View this video:

SBI Video


And if you're really interested just clicked
the link and it will take you to a Special
Sale. For $100 more, you get another SBI site.
Good until Midnight - Aug. 29th.







Kind Regards,

Titus

P.S. These are the sites that make
my online lifestyle possibe:

http://www.bizwaremagic.com
http://www.marketingtoolguide.com
http://www.onlinefaxguide.com
http://www.internetfaxguide.org
http://www.pdaphonedeals.com
http://bizwaremagic.tradepub.com
http://videotour.sitesell.com/bizwaremagic.html

URL Canonicalization - Should You Use It?

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Contents:

o URL Canonicalization - Should You Do It?

o Google Is Everything Or Is It?

o BlinkWeb - Free Site Creation Tool

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o URL Canonicalization - Should You Do It?

This week I am working on the tricky issue
of url canonicalization. Big name for something
that's really simple - some search engines read
the different versions of your domain's url
as different - www.yoursite.com and yoursite.com
can have different number of links pointing to them.

They may consider the www and non-www versions
as two different sites, although obviously it's
your "one" site with the same content.

Canonicalization was a big topic a few years back,
which had concerned webmasters worried they were dividing
or diluting their Google PageRank. Should you still use
it or not? Read my SiteProNews blog post to find out...

url canonicalization should you do it




o Google Is Everything Or Is It?

Bill Platt and his site thephantomwriters.com is one
of my secret weapons for getting high rankings. His
article distribution system is excellent - I have
known Bill for years and have been using his system
for just as long.

But I also admire Bill for his writing skills - he's
one of the best I have come across. Just look at that
title above for a second and think about the drawing
power it has!

I couldn't resist going to the article and reading
it. It you're just as curious - you can read it
below. You won't be disappointed in the information
you'll find:

Google Is Everything Or Is It?



o BlinkWeb - Free Site Creation Tool


I am still raving about Brad Callen's BlinkWeb...
if you haven't checked this out yet, please give
it a look.







Kind Regards,

Titus

RSS Revisited - Why You Still Need RSS On Your Site

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o RSS Revisited - Why You Still Need RSS On Your Site

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Today I thought I would share with you some
of my views on RSS and blogging.

RSS has always been a favorite topic of mine and
it is one of the main reasons I can work full-time
online.

RSS and blogging (especailly Wordpress) have made
my niche "keywords" competitive in all the search engines
and that as they say - has made all the difference.

But it is just not me or my own experiences, everyone
knows RSS and RSS Feeds have become extremely important
for today's Internet Marketer, but has all the media hype
surrounding RSS been justified? More importantly, has RSS
lived up to its early promise? Read to find out...


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RSS Revisited - Why You Still Need RSS On Your Site


One of the very first articles I ever wrote on
Internet Marketing had to do with RSS and it was
entitled "10 Reasons To Put RSS On Your Site."
That was in 2004 and RSS was somewhat new and
many webmasters were just beginning to place
blogs and RSS feeds on their sites. If you do
a search in Google, you can still find that
article on around 2,000 sites.

Most people now refer to RSS as "Really Simple
Syndication" - although it originally stood for
"Rich Site Summary" and was a very simple way
of summarizing and syndicating your content
in real-time to all interested parties.

RSS had its early beginnings with Netscape in
1991 which introduced the first version of RSS
(RDF Site Summary). Later versions would be
introduced and made popular by Dave Winer of
ScriptingNews and Userland fame who is considered
by many to be one of the major founding fathers
of RSS.

Most people today associate RSS with blogs and
blogging. You can read RSS content by using an RSS
feed reader or "aggregator" which can be desktop
or web-based. Some common feed readers include
FeedDemon, My Yahoo!, iGoogle and Firefox (Live
Bookmarks). You subscribe to your favorite RSS
feed by clicking the small icon on your favorite
blog or site and then when fresh content is
published via RSS your reader can immediately
retrieve and display it for you.

RSS is a very simple way of keeping up to date
and in contact with your favorite site or topic.
It makes staying informed easy to do and it provides
site/blog owners a simple way of distributing their
content.

One can't but wonder has RSS lived up to all that
early hype?

Perhaps that question can only be answered by looking
at the popularity of blogging and the role it now plays
on the web. No one can deny blogs and their accompanying
RSS feeds carry tremendous weight, no matter which way
you measure it. Can anyone now imagine the World Wide
Web without blogs?

But the importance of RSS goes beyond just blogging,
we tend to forget how important it is for all the
new social media sites like Digg, Technorati, Reddit...
and not to forget fast growing applications like
Twitter.

People also forget RSS feeds play a major role in
online retail and affiliate programs. For example,
you can get an RSS feed of all the latest Amazon
products to place on your site. Many major online
companies now have these product feeds to help promote
and sell their wares.

XML and RSS have blended so seamlessly into many browsers
and operating systems most users are blissfully unaware
they're even using RSS. Maybe that's how things should
be; with RSS, the ever-present workhorse, quietly doing its
job behind the scenes.

RSS is just as important now as it was five years ago
- actually its influence and presence has only grown
stronger over the years. If you have not fully embraced
RSS and placed it on your site and in your online marketing
you're missing out on one of the best opportunities to
spread your message on the web.

RSS is here to stay and even has its own advisory
board to help with the technical and programming side
of RSS. They also list a very handy "RSS Best Practices
Profile" for any webmaster wishing to create their own
XML-based RSS documents. http://www.rssboard.org/

Why should you use RSS?

Well, the list of reasons is quite long but RSS can help you:
syndicate your content in real-time, sell your products, build
your list, gather fresh content, promote your company and boost
that one vital element everyone needs more of on the web - traffic.
For those who have taken full advantage of RSS it has delivered
in more ways than one for it has truly turned into that Golden
Goose with the Midas complex. RSS has simply proven beneficial
to those users who have fully embraced it.

Now, you still don't really need 10 reasons to put RSS on your
site, do you?



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Kind Regards,

Titus