Creating Web sites today can be a daunting task. There are so many formats, techniques, and tricks that it’s easy to get carried away. A good Web designer/developer needs to know when to stop. In addition, they need to make sure the site is optimized in order to maximize the client’s investment. That’s where Web site optimization comes in.

Andrew King has published a new book to help you pull it all together. It’s called Website Optimization: Speed, Search Engine & Conversion Rate Secrets. King is the founder and former Managing Editor of WebReference.com and JavaScript.com. He’s currently the President of Website Optimization, LLC, a Web performance and search engine marketing firm based in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

King’s new book is all about maximizing the return on the client’s investment in their Web site. It focuses on increasing conversion rates, and optimizing the site for search engines as well as speed. And it does a great job of it. The book is filled with case studies and examples, along with valuable tips and techniques for increasing the speed of your Web site, along with its conversion rate.
Search Engine Marketing Optimization

The first section analyzes well-tested methods for increasing your position on the search engines. Here, King begins with examining “core techniques” used with his own clients. First, search engine roadblocks are discussed, including splash pages, the use of Flash, improper navigation and duplicate content.

Next, those steps that will help to increase search engine rankings are examined. King looks at ten steps that go beyond Google’s PageRank method. These steps include the proper usage of keywords, writing effective page titles, meta description tags and headlines, creating keyword-focused content, and building good inbound links.

The section is rounded out with an in-depth study of pay-per-click (PPC) and conversion rate optimization. A case study is also included. These tips alone could help increase your ad revenue.
Web Performance Optimization

King has spent many years learning how to tweak and fine-tune Web sites for peak optimization. When he was the Managing Editor of WebReference.com he was constantly testing new methods and tweaking the site for speed. A lot of that knowledge comes together in this section.

The first chapter covers optimizing Web pages. These twenty pages cover topics such as reducing overweight graphics, the placement of CSS and JavaScript links for better page rendering, performance tips, reducing DNS lookups, and minimizing HTTP requests. There are nuggets of gold to be gleaned from this chapter. Don’t miss it!

Other chapters include CSS and Ajax optimization, along with more advanced techniques. These tips and techniques should help increase the visitor’s satisfaction by making the time on each page more usable, without having to wait for things to happen.

Finally, a chapter on Web site metrics is included. Here you’ll learn what metrics are and how to use them.

Conclusion

King has put together a valuable reference tool that should be included on the desk of every Web developer, designer and marketer. These procedures should help to make any Web site more effective and profitable. Check it out before your competition does.

Technorati Tags: website optimization, search engine optimization, website

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Actually I want to make this tips long time ago, but I just can realize this post now. Because of my daughter got sick I have no time to make this post, I have to take care of her, I have little sweet baby and I am very very very very sad when she is sick. I hope she can be recovered well and cheering up my life again.

Back to this post, PayPerPost is the best program if you need to earn money through your blog. To get job here, you must have an active blog. The core is your blog is always updated all the time; at least you make a post per day regularly.

According to their TOS, you are prohibited to make paid post in sequences; there is one non paid post between your paid posts. Always keep attention to the advertiser’s requirements in your post, and do your job as fast as you can don’t be lazy.

Yup, that’s all tips from me. Hopefully can help you to earn more money.

Technorati Tags: payperpost, tips, online earning

Just few months ago after Bill Gates retiring from Microsoft, he quietly builds now company that so called bgC3 that completely equipped with high tech equipment like Surface from Microsoft. According to Gates’s friend, bgC3 is an acronym of Bill Gates Catalyst 3 (the third Bill Gates’s company after Microsoft and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation) a company that describes as “think tank” that focusing to “Science and Technology Services”. “Research and Industrial Analyzes”, and “Design, Software and hardware development”.

According to the source, this is non commercial company that being the medium of Gates personal ambition to pursue of science and technology. Gates intend to be the catalyst of gathering people through new ideas. The main purpose of this company is not to create brand new companies, but ideas that generated from this company could be given to Microsoft, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation or any make sense location.

This company will give us Bill Gates life description after retiring from Microsoft. We’ll wait and see Gates’s new company innovation. Before his retirement decision a month ago, Gates tell press conference that he will focus on Bill & Melinda gates Foundation and lead several Microsoft project in part time. He admitted that he don’t mind with new revolutionary ideas that will bring human welfare.

He built this new company in perfect time, with this economic crisis and his wealth gates will have big chance to recruit popular scientist for working in bgC3. Gates always hired smart people in his company, and they are all hard worker that always search for knowledge. He is very interested to information and technology, but he also like to dig something in energy, biotechnology, and economy.

Whatever the purposes are, Gates new companies looks like don’t have ambition to be once again a giant. At least for now. (Repost from TechFlash)

Technorati Tags: bgC3, bill & bellinda gates foundation, bill gates, microsoft

Technorati is the largest tag search engine right now, when you have had Technorati account and had claimed your blog in it, it means you have done the right way to promote your blog outside. Tecnorati ranked lot of blogs based on number of incoming link in your blog from other blogs. The higher your rank easier people will find your blog when people search something, and your blog credibility is greater in Technorati.

That’s why you have to insert Technorati tags in your posts. There is plugin will help you to easily put Technorati tags into your posts, that is SimpleTags Plugin. I have this idea when I read Paul Stamatiou post in HOW TO: Boost Your Blog Traffic. Once finished read this, I search Technorati tags plugin on Google and I found SimpleTags is suitable plugin for this purpose.

I have used this on my blog, you can see this in the end of my posts. If you are interested, you can use this too, download this plugin and read the usage on SimpleTags - A WordPress Plugin for generating Technorati Tags.

Technorati Tags: Technorati, wordpress, albachtimi, ziddu, plugin, plugins

What is DoFollow? Is it worth to be campaigned? Bloggers are usually searching blog that have been applied DoFollow plugins by commenting on the specified blog, the reason is leverage their blog’s PR. By open NoFollow attribute on a blog, it means allowing Google crawler to trace link on the comment form, other words is Google make this as backlink. Why it should be Google? Because Google is the owner of Pagerank.

Actually blogger who applying DoFollow on his/her blog inserts banner like, U comment I Folow. But not each of them insert this banner, so if you want to check whether a blog applying DoFollow or not, here is a little trick:

You can make highlight on the name who leave comment on a blog, right click on the highlighted area and click view selection source. You can see the highlighted area and take your attention to rel=”external” if the specified blog using DoFollow and rel=”external no follow” if this blog doesn’t use DoFollow.

I hope you can understand and using this as your benefit.

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Here are the simple steps to promote your blog:

1. Leave your comment on other blogs.
   Leave comment on other blogs is one way to get backlink, backlink is one method to raise your pagerank, and thus your rank in search engine will be better.
   When you always leave comment on other blogs especially on popular blogs which have tons of visitors, then half of those blog’s visitors will be converted as your visitors. Make sure you always leave good quality comments, not just simple comments which only promote your blog. If you do this I believe that your blog will have traffic bump.
2. Get listed on search engine.
   Search engine is potential place to promote your blog, because tons of people use this to search information. Make a posts regularly, one or two posts each day, and make good title of it. Once you done this, reader will subscribe to your blog because they like your posts and gradually your feed count will containing large number of subscribers, it means that your blog become popular. Besides post regularly, as I explained above you have to leave a comment regularly to popular blogs which has tons of visitors and have high pagerank. Make schedule, and be discipline. If you do all of this, you have make many doors that entice people to come in.
3. Advertise your blog.
   Alternative way is to advertise your blog on advertisement services. Use news ads line network like growurl.com.
   
4. Join on many forums and promote your blog through email signatureBy leave your email with signature, you have promote your blog indirectly. And do the same thing in forums that you have registered with.
5. Make link to your site/blog from your other site/blog.
   This is one effective ways to promote your blog, besides you will get them backlink on each.

If you do those tips above consistently and discipline with your schedule, you will achieve your goal in the future.

Everyone knows that commenting on other blogs is effective way to:

1. Increasing blog popularity;
2. Increasing Technorati rank;
3. Increasing unique visitors;
4. Increasing blog’s comments.

Here are 10 simple tips to increase the number of comments on your blog:

1. Start to commentsIf you have not started, start from now and always make sure to comment on others blog, then your blog will be known. If you want to get quality blog traffic, and then help others to do the same thing, every blogger has the same goal with you!
2. Regularly and continuously increase the number of your comments on other blogs.If you participate now in 5 new blog per day, try to increase to 10 per day. Make a schedule for this action regularly.
3. Please leave useful comment.If you only praise other blog without considering the topic of the article that discussed then you will get low traffic. Try to read their article and learn it, then you can leave a comment that relates to the topic. This could make your blog traffic increase.
4. Be the first commentatorif you are the first commentator on other blogs, then you will have 20+ new visitors.
5. Leave a Comment on Threaded Comments blog.If you often be preceded by other people in the first comment, you can check whether the blog using threaded comments or not. Try to see the JohnChow.com, you can leave a comment on others comment up to 3 levels.

   

   Thus, it means you will be the second commentator though there are 10 comments before you.

6. The benefits of Top Commenter PluginsOne way to know who the latest blogger that leave a comment by seeing the most frequent comment on the blog that you visited.Many blogs use this plugins, so get the opportunity from here and start to become loyal commentator on a blog not only to get a link but also to increase the amount of your blog traffic.
7. Find blogs that using no follow tagThis could give you some benefits; those are will increase blog traffic, increasing SERP, increasing Technorati rank.
8. Leave comment on blogs that using The Comment Luv PluginThis plugin rapidly becomes popular Wordpress plugin, this plugin will show ours blog latest post on others blog where get commented.
9. Be a loyal bloggerThe point is, we’ll often get links from other bloggers because we often visit and comment regularly on a certain blog where there are other bloggers who comment as we are. We are not realizing this make each other become familiar, so our blog is often visited by other bloggers and could be their reference on their posts.So do not ever think that blogging is a simple job, where you leave a comment and go, but you have to think this is a mutually beneficial relationship.
10. Consider to build image through your commentsWhen you leave a comment with your blog name like this: blogname.com or name – blogname.comThere is lot of debate about this; people like to discuss with human not a blog.

In the early of PageRank (PR) birth, PR is one of the indicators of success or not a website. Website which has a high PageRank got special value to Google, PR can also be said of 3 months achievement report of certain website that scored by other website. This time the situation is changing, gradually PR is not so attractive anymore and be an indicator, because of not every site that has high PR will has tons of traffic al at once. As example is my blog with PR2 and JohnChow’s blog with PR3 has big different in visitor’s number, besides Google kick PR of a blog that participate in the program like Text Link Ads (TLA) and Paid to Review (PTR) is a factor people don’t like PR as indicator of blog success. People are more like to use Alexa rank as measurement of blog success.

PageRank is calculated with Google algorithm that seems so complicated, but the core is the number of backlink, either incoming link or outgoing link. The comparison is incoming link have to be more higher than outgoing link, when this is reached will causing PR going higher.

By observing those facts above, we can make a trick with this PR matter, that is creating so many incoming links as we can into our blog. there are various ways can be done, but the effective ones is by leave a comment on other blogs, and the comment’s blog using do follow rules. Do follow will make commentator’s blog address be indexed by Google.

To get to know the blog using do follow or not can be done by seeing the blog’s source code like this for do follow blog, or using search status by activate Highlight No follow Links to see no follow links automatically.

When you leave a comment on others blog you have to remember to leave your blog URL address (like http://www.albachtimi.com) and try to comment naturally and relates to the content. Don’t leave comment more than 3 times on one article because this will assume as spam. You have to read my other tips and trick to maximize your blog ability. Just wait and see.

As I have explained before, blog campaign is needed to get known by others. For this purpose at least you should submit your blog to two popular blog directories: technorati.com and feedburner.com. Technorati blog directory is currently the largest followed by blogsearch.com owned by Google. Technorati not only function as a blog directory, but also as a blogsearch, tags aggregator, a tool to know linkback blog and online bookmarks. What is the tag and online bookmarks and how to maximize the functions of Technorati?

Tag is similar with subject or category. This serves to help search engines find your writing. Currently, there are search engines work to find ’tag’. So, for example in your blog give the tag “server”, then when someone search “server” as search keyword in search engines, your blog will be listed. Technorati allows their members to put 20 tags for each blog.

Social bookmarks: if you open Internet Explorer (IE), then there is the FAVORITE menu. Favorite menu is used to save the various links that you like, including your own blog address so other times you simply open the link page from your favorite menu.

Example above is offline bookmark, this time there are many sites provide online bookmark services such as Technorati. This online bookmark can be used wherever you are get connected with internet. Unlike the offline bookmarks, you can only access your favorite blogs on your own computer.

Below is step by step guidance to maximize Technorati (this guide assume that you have sign-up/register in Technorati. If not please register first).

1. Submit to blog directory and Technorati tag.

The steps are:

• Sign in, click account menu.
• Claim a blog, and fill in your blog’ URL.
• Click Begin Claim.
• Choose quick claim, fill in your id and blog’s password.
• Click quick claim.
• Fill in your blog’s description.
• Mark “include this blog in Technorati’s Blog Finder” check box.
• Fill in 20 tags in the provided box.
• If you do not want to install Technorati feature in your blog, click save changes.
• But if you want to install Technorati widget in your blog, you have to give mark sign on “Show Technorati embed on my site”, and choose your desired features, then you have to copy the code and paste this code onto your blog template, click save changes.

2. Technorati Bookmarks/Favorites

The steps are:

• Click Favorites menu.
• Fill in your favorite blog’s address into “Add a blog to your favorites” box.
• Click add.

Noteworthy:

• Technorati only give 50 blog’s address to bookmarks.
• Whatever blogs can be bookmark, including your own blog.

This time I will give tutorials on how to include Backlinks PHP code on the blog machine. For information, Backlinks are only accepted paid blog hosting by PHP, ASP, ASP.NET, Perl format and CMS like Wordpress Blog (Blogspot and free paid Wordpress are not). For those who do not know what Backlinks is, you can see the information here and here.

Here are the steps to install Backlinks php code with the image. Hopefully the image could give you more clues to implement on yours.

1. Register at Backlinks.com if you do not yet have an account there.

2. Log in to your Backlinks account, and then click the Add Page link “as the image below”.

3. Click “Add Single Page”

4. Next, fill in the details of your blog that you want to be registered. Choose ‘advertising” as your category, leave the Country “United States” as your default, and select “Homepage” link for the page type. Finally, check all categories that provides so that your link could be sold as soon as possible.

5. The next step after entering your blog, go to the page “My Links Pages” menu and then click “installation code.” You will be taken on the page as below. Choose “Wordpress blog” menu and click “installation guide” to take Backlinks key and download Backlinks plugins.

6. Next, download the plugin that they provided, extract to your Wordpress plugin directory. If you have done it, you must activate the plugins through the dashboard of your blog. Finally, enter your “Backlinks key”.

7. This is the last step. Log in to the dashboard blog, and then open the “design” and “theme editor”, in the right, choose sidebar.php, then click it. On sidebar.php page find code like this: (See picture below). Now, exactly under the code, enter the Backlinks code as follows:

<?php if(get_option(’backlinks_key’)) : ?>
<li><h2>Partner links</h2>
<?php backlinks_links()?>
</li>
<?php endif; ?>

Then press “update files” button and try open your blog page, if you can see “link partners”, then you have successfully enter the Backlinks code.

Repeat these steps to your other blogs. You will see what I see every month, more or less like the image below: