How to get instant SEO results
For many, the biggest problem with Search Engine Optimization is that the results are not instant.
You start optimizing his site, then go to Google to see if his optimizations have the desired effect. It can take days, weeks or even month for Google to take into account those optimizations or it might never care about them.
It’s even worse when you try to figure out which change you’ve made have the greatest effect or what changes hade effect and which not. You’ll not get an eMail from Google saying “Thank you for optimizing your site, to rank better. We are pleased to inform you that the changes you’ve made influenced the rank as following …”. This will not happen. Not even in your wildest dreams.
Before trying to optimize your site for a huge search engine, like Google, let’s do another optimization, with instant results, for a smaller search engine.
The search engine will try to optimize for is FireFox’s search bookmarks engine. You’ll say “What? That search engine is on my local computer, and if I rank there it doesn’t mean that somebody will find me on Google.” You’re right. But the reverse is true : if you can’t rank even on a small search engine, chances are high you’ll not rank at all on Google.
Here’s how it works:
- start FireFox
- bookmark the page you want to test
- try to find that page in the bookmark section, searching for the keyword you want to rank for.
If you don’t see your page in the results, it simply means that you don’t rank at all in FireFox, and you’ll need, at least, to start adding that keyword in the page’s title.
How to do that is another story. Basically, you add the keyword you want to be found for in the <title></title> sub-section, of the <head></head> section of your HTML page.
Remember that before impressing Google, you should be able to impress at least your FireFox browser.
I rank #1 on Google for ternikadius
How can you rank first for a term on Google? Be the one who invented that term.
Have you ever heard of “ternikadius”? No? Neither did Google at the moment I wrote this. I checked to make sure. No results and no suggestions.
The first step is to assign a meaning to this word. Let’s say that I’ll call “ternikadius” a special report I wrote about an Internet Marketing subject. A fresh word can be assigned to virtually anything. Some English product names mean horrible things in some language. A word like “ternikadius” can’t be translated, therefore can’t mean something bad in any language.
The second step is to assign a nice link for it. For instance, how about this:
http://UltraShortReports.com/ternikadius
The third step is to make the above link pointing to the actual product. That is easy to do in PHP.
What are the advantages of creating a new name? There are at least 5 major advantages:
1. All mentions of “ternikadius” will refer to your product. The more people talk about it, the more rapidly this term will spread.
2. You can see daily what sites mentioned “ternikadius”. Doing this, you know what sites indexes fast new names, and you can repeat the process with other names you’ll invent.
3. You’ll invent one word names, which will be easier to remember than a long product name.
4. You can profit even from the competitor’s sites. If you create an affiliate program, what do you think they’ll promote when referring to “ternikadius”? Obviously, they’ll promote your product.
5. Is easy to find a domain name for the new word you invented. Because nobody’s ever heard of it, nobody has registered it so far.
When reading a title like “I rank #1 on Google for ternikadius”, some people will say “What’s ternikadius?” while other will ask themselves “How did he manage to get #1 on Google?”. Both will read what you’re reading now, to find out. After they finished reading, they’ll may not remember the name “ternikadius”. That’s fine. I bet that next time they’ll encounter, it will ring a bell. “Ternikadius? Yeah, I heard about it. I don’t remember what it was, but it sounds familiar.”
“Sounds familiar” – that’s the first step in developing a trusting relationship.
A spellchecker can be trained to remember the word “ternikadius” and not to complain about it next time it encounters. The same works for human memory.
Think of “ternikadius” as a “viral name”. Viral PDFs needs to be downloaded. Spreading a viral name is easier : you simply mention it.
The nice part of inventing a new name is that you’ll be forever on the first page of Google, from day one, without any effort. What am I saying? Page 1? You’ll be an ALL Google’s pages for ternikadius, even on the paid ones.
Be honest with yourself – next time you’ll hear about “ternikadius”, who you’ll think of?
See for yourself:
Search Google for ternikadius
How pretty girls help offline marketing
A big company, with a big budget, decided to offer samples to prospective customers. The company hired some pretty girls, paid them the minimal wage required by law, then asked them to lure people to the shelves where the company product were displayed.
One of those pretty girls asked me if I want to try a new product, a combination of snacks and milk. I took a sample and tasted it. It wasn’t the best thing I’ve ever tasted, but not the worst either. I thanked the girl for the opportunity to try the sample and I left.
The product I tried was … . Well, I can’t remember its name. Maybe, next time I’ll go at that store, I’ll see the product on the shelves, and I’ll read its name. Wait! I realize now that the girl was in the middle of the store. She wasn’t near any shelves.
In this case, I’ll take a look on that nice pocket calendar the girl gave me after I tried the product. Oh, that must have been in my dreams : she didn’t give me anything when I left.
Maybe the company will call me on the phone number I left on their questionnaire. What questionnaire? you’ll ask. I forgot. The company didn’t ask me for any details.
Was that product expensive? I have no idea. The pretty girl didn’t say anything about the price.
Was a special promotion running? Maybe, maybe not. I can’t remember and nobody told me about a promotion for that product.
Next time I’ll meet that girl in the store, I’ll ask her all the details. If I only can remember exactly the uniform she was wearing, with colors that probably match the company’s logo. I’m not sure that I remember that either.
So, what do I remember from a sampling experience, where I tasted an unknown product, from an unknown company, selling it I don’t know where, for I don’t know how much? All I remember is that the girl was pretty. Nothing more. A pretty, yet ordinary girl, with nothing special – a perfect match for the campaign she was running.
How to get paid $10 per word
Let’s say, for a moment, that I am willing you to pay $10 per every word you write for me. Would you write articles for me, for this price? The only condition is that those articles should be written by yourself, and not by someone else. Simply put, you have to do the work if you want me to pay you $10 per word.
How many ours would you work, for $10 a word? 1? 2? 10? I bet you’ll try to work several hours at least, knowing that I’ll pay you such handsome money for your words.
What you should write about? You can write about anything you like. That’s the only condition regarding the subject. It should be about something you like, because you’ll have interest in that topic, and the articles will have greater quality.
What if I pay you $10 a word, but only if you write at least 1,000 words per day? Would you take the job? Most people would do – $10,000 a day is a dream for many people.
Would it be okay if I don’t pay all those $10,000 on the same day? After all, it’s a great sum of money, and is good news if someone is willing to pay it to you, no matter when.
But, what if I’ll say that I’ll not pay you, but I know people who are willing to pay? Would you continue your work, even if you don’t know those people?
With 1000 words, written in a medium font and spanning several pages, you can have 1 report a day. If you sell that report for $5, you must sell 2,000 copies. This number, although big, can be divided by 10 years. That is 200 copies a year, which is less than 1 copy a day.
How you can say someone will be still interested in your topic in 10 years? There are evergreen topics, some people will be forever interested in.
I’ll not give you $10 per word, and maybe no person will. But that is okay, as long as you can make those money from 2000 people, each buying one of your eBooks.
Now, let’s get down a notch. Let’s say you sell 200 copies in a lifetime. That would value your words at $1 per word. It’s about 100 times more than some people are paid for writing articles.
How powerful can be a plain text copy?
How powerful can be a plain text copy? Very powerful.
All you read right now is plain text. Imagine how would you feel if you’d hear only one of the following:
“You will be evicted”
“Your mother has only 1 more hour to live”
“Your child will be paralyzed”
Do they have to be in bold letters to turn you upside-down? No, the words are strong enough as they are.
On the bright side, news like:
“Your AIDS results came negative – you’re are not infected”
“Your son won the gold medal”
“You won $1,000 on the lottery”
don’t need either to be put in bold print.
Then, why people use a lot of colors, big fonts, bad language and so on, instead of regular text? Who knows, maybe because they fear their products, some very good, will not be perceived as being valuable by the readers.
Big font is like shouting. There is no need to shout a terrific news or the most happy one. Only ordinary news need to be shouted in order for someone to pay attention to them.
Would you read your favorite writers only if they write in bold print? Or would you leave the office earlier to be at a book launch, just because you saw a black-and-white ad on the free local newspaper?
Thinking in milestones
I heard many times these questions:
- what programming language should I learn first?
- how do I learn a certain programming language?
When I hear any of these questions, I realize that the person who asks them, while eager to learn, doesn’t actually have an actual problem to solve. A programming language is a tool, which is used to perform a task. If he doesn’t have the task in mind, learning to use a random tool might not do him any good.
Almost all the programming books I ever read were reference manuals, disguised as a collection of tutorials. However, in many cases, the author didn’t think in milestones, therefore he didn’t invite the reader to do the same.
The first milestone should be defining the problem one is trying to solve.
For instance “I want to understand how WordPress works” is a good start.
One can’t get constantly closer to a target if he doesn’t have a target.
The second milestone should be identifying what programming languages WordPress uses. The most obvious ones are HTML and PHP. Therefore, in order to understand WordPress, he must understand first HTML and PHP.
The third milestone is defining what he wants to learn from those languages. When someone learns a new language, he doesn’t learn random words, but he learns first two things:
- the most used words (the core vocabulary)
- the way to combine those words (the grammar)
Next, he learns certain terms used on the field he wants to be proficient in.
In the WordPress’ case, one could start learning the basics of HTML and PHP, then how they are used in WordPress.
The fourth milestone is for him to try modifying the code, in order to adapt to his needs, to improve it or to fix the errors.
The last milestone is for him to be recognized as an expert and to monetize his knowledge.
That’s it. Five milestones.
Maybe the right question is not “what programming language should I learn first” but “What I’m trying to accomplish?” The answer to this question will lead to the right answer to the original question.
How to edit an exe eBook, for which you have GiveAway rights
It is possible that you got from someone an eBook, in exe format, with GiveAway rights, but you didn’t also get that eBook in an editable format, like .doc or .odt.
You have 4 choices:
1. You contact the person who gave you the eBook and ask for the editable format
2. You find an exe eBook decompiler
3. You print the exe eBook as a pdf file, then you extract the text from that pdf
4. You find a program that can copy text from exe eBooks.
Option #1 : Finding the author can take time and you can’t be sure that he will answer you back. Even if he does, this can take a long time.
Option #2 : The problem with the eBook decompilers is that not all the exe eBooks were created with the same program. Not only is hard to find what program was used to create the exe eBook, but you have to find the right decompiler, which can decompile the eBook you have.
Option #3 : This option doesn’t always work. Not every exe eBook has printing capabilities activated.
Option #4 : In my opinion, the best choice is #4. The best program I own that can select text from any of my exe files is called Aqua DeskPerience. This program can select text even from the menus of the Windows and from almost any place you have text.
Maybe there is a free program somewhere that can do the same, but never found one. Aqua DeskPerience has a trial and you can see for yourself what such program can do.
LunLunID :: 000000006 : Where Do You Send The Readers Of Your Articles
The problem:
Some beginner article writers do not know where to send the readers of their articles, who want to read more information from the same author.
The cause:
The writer has not decided yet what niches to write for. He has only one site and does not want to change the links from the articles, in the moment he will have one site for every niche.
The solution:
The writer should send the readers of his articles to a page that redirects to the actual page.
Step by step procedure:
Let us say the author’s site is called SergiuFUNIERU.com and the article is called “Where Do You Send The Readers Of Your Articles”.
Step 1 of 2:
- The author creates a folder, named Where-Do-You-Send-The-Readers-Of-Your-Articles
Step 2 of 2:
- The author creates a index page in that folder, that redirects to the desired page.
The author will send the readers to http://SergiuFUNIERU.com/articles/Where-Do-You-Send-The-Readers-Of-Your-Articles, which, in turn, will redirect them to the actual page.
Frequently asked questions:
Question 1 : Why not create a folder called 000000006, for instance? It would be shorter.
Answer 1 : Yes, but many people will believe that SergiuFUNIERU.com/000000006 is an affiliate link, even if it is not. If you do not believe this will happen, please contact me and I will show an example where a regular link was misinterpreted as an affiliate link. That link was not even on my site, but on site that had no affiliates whatsoever. A lot of people simply refused to access that link, just because it contained a number.
Question 2 : What language is necessary for redirection?
Answer 2 : Redirection can be done in several languages, including HTML and PHP. There are advantages to each approach. Please follow this link to see exactly the code.
http://SergiuFUNIERU.com/articles/Where-Do-You-Send-The-Readers-Of-Your-Articles
Question 3 : Why did you use “-”, instead of ” ” in the name of the folder?
Answer 3 : If I use spaces, then the address will become : “http://SergiuFUNIERU.com/articles/Where%20Do%20You%20Send%20The%20Readers%20Of%20Your%20Articles”, which is harder to read. Please notice that the web browser will replace ” ” with “%20″.
Question 4 : Why using an index.php or index.html page, inside the Where-Do-You-Send-The-Readers-Of-Your-Articles folder, and not using a page called Where-Do-You-Send-The-Readers-Of-Your-Articles.php or Where-Do-You-Send-The-Readers-Of-Your-Articles.html?
Answer 4 : There are several reasons for this:
a) The address http://SergiuFUNIERU.com/articles/Where-Do-You-Send-The-Readers-Of-Your-Articles looks better than http://SergiuFUNIERU.com/articles/Where-Do-You-Send-The-Readers-Of-Your-Articles.php
b) The address http://SergiuFUNIERU.com/articles/Where-Do-You-Send-The-Readers-Of-Your-Articles does not disclose the language you use on the index file. For an attacker, the extension html or php might accelerate the breaking of your site.
c) If, at one point, you decide to change the language from html to php, or to other language, the address http://SergiuFUNIERU.com/articles/Where-Do-You-Send-The-Readers-Of-Your-Articles remains the same. You just rename the index file. If you use http://SergiuFUNIERU.com/articles/Where-Do-You-Send-The-Readers-Of-Your-Articles.html, then you will have to change to http://SergiuFUNIERU.com/articles/Where-Do-You-Send-The-Readers-Of-Your-Articles.php, which is not the same address. You will defeat the entire purpose of redirecting.
Question 5 : How do you create a folder on your domain?
Answer 5 : You can do that using any FTP client.
Question 6 : Why did you use the /article subfolder?
Answer 6 : It is easier to have a separate folder for each purpose. For instance, /article will be for articles, /blog will be for your blog and so on.
Want to know more? Please see
http://SergiuFUNIERU.com/articles/Where-Do-You-Send-The-Readers-Of-Your-Articles
How to write an article when you have no ideas?
The answer is very simple. Don’t write articles when you have no ideas. First, get the ideas, write them down on a paper on in a computer file, THEN start writing articles.
Writing an article without having the idea first is like making a soup without having the ingredients. You don’t put water to boil, then go to the market and buy the vegetables, don’t you?
You gather all vegetables, then boil the water, then add the vegetables in the boiled water.
So, the actual question is “Where do you get ideas?”.
The answer to this question is even simpler. Ideas are floating around you. You just have to grab them, and write them down.
Source of ideas:
1. Random thoughts
Several times a day, everybody has random thoughts. Write them down. Chances are that 1 out of 10 will be a great idea for an article.
2. Products you own
Let’s say you watch TV and see a commercial about a product. Do you own that product? If yes, what did you like it about? What you hate about it? Is there an affiliate program about that product?
You can easily write an article about that product.
3. News you heard
Did you know that …? Not everybody knows what you know. So, if you hear some news about a topic that interests you, make an article with your comments about the subject.
Just don’t forget to write down the ideas as soon as you get them. Within 24 hours, you’ll get enough ideas to get you started.
What’s the difference between blogs, forums, and article directories?
On a forum, everybody can start a topic. On a blog, only the owner of the blog can start a new topic. On an article directory, the article writer starts the topic.
On a forum, people ask questions hoping that someone will have the right answers for them. On blogs and article directories, the writers have the answers, hoping someone will ask the right questions.
An article directory is actually a moderated blog, with a lot of writers. Is moderated, because the owner of the article directory decides, in the end, which articles will be published.