Tuesday, August 12, 2008

My experience on ultimate flirting championship

I have been visited to an interesting online game at Victory Hair (vo5victoryhair.com). Users can play the game through the widget provided below, or install this widget on their own blog to play.

As mention before, this game required three players, if you are the serious participate, then you will play in the role of judge and flirter and you will go through some funny and interesting questions and answers, some even use the Hollywood's most memorable lines such like "I am superstar, can I know more about you?" and many more. This is just the game, nothing impact of your actual life. You can try it up and play during your free time, and get experience with this interesting game.

From my experience, this is the interesting, fun and Extreme Style by VO5 game that I used to play on my leisure time.

Here is the widget. Play to install on your own blog.

For more widgets please visit www.yourminis.com

Sponsored by Extreme Style by VO5

Keys to Being a Successful Pseudo-Solo

First, Invest in Information and Learning.
It seems like a lot needs to get done, right now. Remember - millions of people have already done what you have tried to do. So, the best thing to do is to learn from some of them.

Get books from the library, or buy them. Take classes, free or otherwise. Find people you admire who have successfully navigated what you're trying to do and take them to tea or lunch and ask them questions. I've done about a dozen interviews with folks I admire and have them up in our online community for just that reason: The Business Oasis. Make sure the information resonates with you. As just one example, marketing professionals out there are all saying more or less the same thing, so you can find one that your heart really resonates with and is speaking your language.


Second, Get Help with the Numbers.
if you are running a business, you should not be doing your taxes yourself. There are too many deductions and pitfalls and details. You want to hire it out, even if you think you ca not afford it. If possible, hire a bookkeeper to keep your accounting clean from month to month. Not only will it help you at tax time, but it will also help you understand your business better, simply knowing how money flows in and out.

Monday, August 11, 2008

The Myth of Being Successfully Solo In Business

There is a breakneck pace that many new solo business owners assume with an infinite number of things to do, and about a dozen hats to wear, it gets overwhelming, fast.

These strikes at the heart of the most dangerous myth in business: the bootstrap myth, known in this particular instance as the myth of the successful solo entrepreneur. The myth says that you can do it on your own, you can bootstrap your way to success, and that when you go solo, you do not need anyone else. That is the whole point of being self-employed, or running a personal-sized business.

In the physical reality, when you are an employee at a company, you get to do your job. And, unless you think upon it, you might not realize how much other people do just so you can do your job. If you're overwhelmed trying to make your business work yourself, there is good reason for it. Frustrating - but do not despair. It may help to understand why it is this way.

In the spiritual reality, when someone offers help, do you say: "Yes!" or do you say: "Nah, I can get it." If the bootstrap myth is operating in your business, there may be a hundred subtle and not-so-subtle ways that you avoid or turn away from help or prioritize. And yet we are meant to both help and be helped by each other. This is one of the ways that we experience the Divine in our lives, through the actions, support and love of others.

After going through some big transitions ourselves, having grown up in a small retail business, and having worked with hundreds of clients, let share some insights into how to prioritize.

Source from SiteProNews Newsletter.

The VO5 ultimate flirting championship

The Vo5victoryHair.com offers an ultimate Flirting championship for everyone, especially for the teenagers to participate and play the game thought the third party widget that installed on the website.

This is an interesting online game that involves three parties/ players, to start the game. At first you will be waiting on the room until there are total of three players for the game, once the game is started, system will either set you as the judge or the flirter. If you are the judge, then you need to pick a question and ask the flirter (at most five questions), whereas, if you have been chosen as the flirt, then you can answers the question as creative, funny, humor, incredible as possible to beat your opponent in the game.

During the game, the worst pick up line is "Are you flirter? as I can not see you directly from the screen". What is victory hair? I think that is play the game and win the victory hair care product. If you are curious and excited, then you should have a try to play the Extreme Style by VO5, the Ultimate Flirting Championship. Once you played and tested some of the memorable lines, then you could see how interested it is. After completed the game, you may register for the sweepstakes by submit your registration form, and stand a chance to win a grand prize.

Here is a simple widget for the game.


For more widgets please visit www.yourminis.com

Sponsored by Extreme Style by VO5

Saturday, August 9, 2008

The SEO Mistakes Made on Database Driven Websites (Part 2)

5. Creating pages that are hidden behind form submissions or Javascript post backs that cannot be accessed by a search engine crawler. This is far more common that is generally realized. For instance .NET creates post back links by default instead of proper links - potentially making huge sections of a site unreachable. Likewise, it is easy to hide lovely content rich areas of your site behind a drop down selector in a form that means certain areas of the site are not visible.

6. Too many query strings - this is a common bugbear of the professional SEO, where complicated database selections create deep levels of pages, but with seven or eight &id= type strings. Additionally, some bad development methodology can leave pages with null query strings that appear in every URL but do not do anything. The answer to this is generally URL rewrites, creating much more search engine friendly and user-friendly URLs!

7. Putting query strings in different orders when accessed through different places - this can create duplicate content issues, which can cause major penalties.

8. Not using user language to generate automated pages - if you are going to create a database driven website that uses words in the query strings make sure that you use words that will help you with SEO - if you sell widgets, make sure you are using the word widgets somewhere in the URL instead of just product= or id= - keyword research can assist with this.

9. Not allowing the meta data and title to be edited easily after the site build. It is possible to hard code the generation of meta information into a database that does not allow it to be edited later. Creating a mechanism for modifying this information initially helps everyone at a later stage when the information needs changing without shoehorning it into an already developed structure.

10. Creating keyword stuffed pages by using auto-generation. Search engines quite liked pages with high densities of your keywords, but now these are likely to get you marked down rather than up. So be aware when creating pages that long pages with lots of your products on can create too high a density. For instance listing blue widgets, light blue widgets, navy blue widgets, sky blue widgets is going to create a page with a very dense page for the phrase "blue widgets".

These are just 10 of the most common potential optimization pitfalls when creating dynamic websites. There are many more facets to producing a great database driven site, including user friendliness, speed, performance and security, but they all add together to make the best solution to your needs.

Source from EntireWeb Newsletter

Wednesday, August 6, 2008

The SEO Mistakes Made on Database Driven Websites

Search engine friendly websites is one of those often heard phrases, both from web site development companies and from their clients.

Search engine optimization companies actually spend a lot of their time analyzing a website and removing barriers to the search engines ranking a site highly. At the web development level, it is possible to build a site that is perfectly search engine friendly. One of the hardest types of sites to get right though are database driven websites. There are ten of the most common issues that are created, often unknowingly, in the development process of a dynamically generated web site.

1. Pages with duplicate content - not enough differential areas within the pages, so that only small areas of the page change from page to page. It is essential that enough of the page text changes for the search engines to see an appreciable difference between one page and the next.

2. Pages with duplicate page titles - the page title is a great indicator to the search engines of the primary content of the page. Whilst this is often unique on sites such as e-commerce websites, it is often overlooked in other sites, particularly where small areas of the site are generated from a database, such as news pages.

3. Pages with duplicate meta descriptions - this is easy to overlook and set a global or category level meta description. These give the search engines a reason to penalize your site for not giving them enough information, and again, creating a unique meta description for every page is an essential SEO task.

4. Using auto-generation of pages as a shortcut instead of creating good content. This is linked quite closely to point 1, where it is possible to create pages that have only a tiny percentage difference between them. Databases are fantastic ways of storing information, but you still need to put the work in to fill them with content. Unique information about the subject of the page will immensely help both the long tail and the ability of the search engines to determine that a page is valuable.


To be continued..
Source from EntireWeb Newsletter.

Saturday, August 2, 2008

Goals of a Landing Page

Many marketers make the mistake of assuming that a conversion is the main goal of an effective landing page. But attracting and capturing qualified leads is an easier and more important goal. Because you can always "sell" to visitors later. Grabbing their contact details ensures you have captured them at the height of their interest.

So the main goals of a landing page are:
1) To Attract Prospects (primary goal) - grab email address and/or phone number

2) To Produce Conversions (secondary goal)

Features of an Effective Landing Page:

The ingredients for an effective landing page include:
1) Reinforced Ad Message
2) Punchy Headings
3) Short Paragraphs
4) Enticing Copy
5) Few Distractions
6) Value Proposition
7) Compelling Images
8) Little or No Navigation
9) Calls to Action
10) Few choices
11) Simple Language and Concepts
12) Important Content "Above the Fold"
13) Testimonials
14) Establish Visitor Trust
15) Foolproof Conversion Process
16) Test, Tweak and Test Again

When it comes to encouraging your visitors to take the action you want them to take, focus on one primary action per screen. Do not stuff too many products onto one screen. Make your call-to-action button clearly visible without having to scroll, do not bury it under pages of information. Consider using tabs or a pop-up box to consolidate information.

Taking Prospects by the Hand such like when visitors are on your landing page, you need to make it easy and painless for them to take the next steps. In a virtual sense, you need to take them by the hand and lead them through the process. How do you do that? Tell visitors why they should purchase from you. According to the Marketing Experiments Journal the "Clarity of your value proposition is the most important factor in determining whether a customer buys from you or not."

Tracking and Tweaking is key such like PPC campaigns, you have so much more control than you do with SEO campaigns. Because you have nearly full control over how your listing appears, what keywords trigger it, where on the page it appears, how much you pay per lead and what page your ad links to.

If you want your campaign to succeed, you can not have a "set and forget" mentality many advertisers have. PPC campaigns require constant tracking and tweaking. Later in this course we discuss ways of testing your landing pages and ads to consistently improve your conversions.

Source from SitePro Newsletter.