Thursday, September 22, 2005

Get link back to increase PR

PR or pagerank introduced by google to rate the website popularity. It is measured from 0-10 where 10 is the most popular (but google.com still at 8 PR)

The simplest method to increase PR is to get as many websites to link to your website. To do this you can do a link exchange.

The most important content to be exchange are
your url:
your website title:
your website description:

Make sure the website title is the same with the one you use on the website of given url.

You can make a form for people whoever want to exchange links with you by giving them your html code and let them fill a form with the above particulars

Create a 'resource' page to list all the links of website. When the list grow in size, you can categorize them into few major categories.

Sunday, September 11, 2005

email auto respond and mailing list

Auto response program is used to follow up, send sequential email and automatically response to sender's email

It is very useful to be placed on every websites since people will not buy on the first visit. We have to build confidence and provide free useful information to them in order to gain credibility and trust. Then the people will come back to us and buy from us.

Some of the FREE autoresponse program

http://www.freeautobot.com/
free autoresponder with ads

http://www.sendfree.com/
free autoresponder with 3rd party ads
ads exchange programs

http://www.getresponse.com/orderfree.html
limited to 5 follow ups
unlimited accounts, changes and subscribers
pro version = $17.95/mo (cheapest)

http://www.ymlp.com/
free list with ads when subscribe only. not in mailing list
low fee for premium one. $2.50/mo

Other paid autoreseponse

http://aweber.com/
$19.95/mo (cheapest)

http://www.emailaces.com
$8.95/mo + $2.95 to start (cheapest)

Mailing list
http://ezinedirector.com/ (has free option)


MORE AUTORESPONDER (not yet reviewed)
http://xenbot.com/ - free with cashculture.com
http://www.responders.com/

Friday, September 09, 2005

Tips to choose domain name

Domain name is a name that will refer to a server ip where the website is hosted. For example yahoo.com is a domain name.

You need to have a domain name or at least a sub-domain such as yoursite.tripod.com.

Some tips to choose a good domain name:

1. Easy to remember
2. Related with what your website offer.
3. No more than 7 characters
4. Try to be descriptive

Choose a domain name based on your keyword
Examples:

www.yourkeyword.com
www.yourkeywordwebsite.com
www.your-keyword.com
www.yourkeyword.net

Or alternatively, you can use any domain name with this method

www.anyname.com/yourkeyword (keyword in folder name)
yourkeyword.anydomain.com (
keyword in subdomain)