Articles from January 2012
Posted by Tim on January 30, 2012
Before the search engines wised up, site rankings were based on simple keyword match ups. Webmasters would simply load up their pages with keywords, irregardless of the sites’ actual content, and gain an unfair amount of attention. As a result, Google started focusing instead on site popularity. Page rank was determined largely by how many [...]
Categories: Internet, Online Resources, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Site Promotion
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Tags: directory submitter, Google, link directory, link exchange, Link farm, link pop, link popularity, Linking Campaign, marketing strategy, Methods of website linking, PageRank, Search engine optimization, Web search engine, Webmaster, Website
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Posted by Tim on January 27, 2012
As the information age has progressed, data security has become a greater and greater concern. Despite the popularity of mobile devices such as the iPad and iPhone, desktop and laptop computers are still used for the greatest variety of tasks, including business. This is especially true since more and more data that originally existed on [...]
Categories: Mac Software, Security
| Tags: disk wiping, DriveGenius by Prosoft Engineering, iWipe by illumineX, MacKeeper by ZeoBIT LLC, ShredIt X by Mireth Technology, wipe disk, wiping hard disk
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Posted by Tim on January 25, 2012
E-commerce is not a new thing. In fact, it really began with the first Internet connection, or even before. Strictly speaking, it got its birth in the 1960s, during which the foundation was laid for the e-commerce of today. One of the first important advancements was the development of the EDI, or Electronic Data Interchange, [...]
Categories: Business Management, Internet, iPhone / iPad
| Tags: Amazon, AOL, Apple, ASC X12, E-commerce, eBay, EDI, Electronic Data Interchange, High-speed DSL, history, iTunes, iTunes Store, Mosaic, Napster, Netscape, Time Warner, Yahoo!
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Posted by Tim on January 23, 2012
Okay, you’ve written your ebook and gathered up the illustrations for it. Perhaps you’ve even had a designer create a cover for it. But having your material in a Microsoft Word file is not enough. You need to actually put together your book in a format that people can read. The process of doing so [...]
Categories: Infoproduct Creation, iPhone / iPad, iPhone / iPad Apps, Mac Software
| Tags: Adobe Acrobat, Apple, ebook compiler, ebooks, iBooks Author, ipad, Mac, PDF
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Posted by Tim on January 20, 2012
As a home business owner, setting goals is crucial. After all, you must have something to aim for if you ever hope to achieve it. Effective goalsetting will greatly aid you in making your business enterprise a success. Some people start a home business with an overly simplistic goal, such as to “become rich.” Earning [...]
Categories: Business Management, iPhone / iPad Apps
| Tags: goal setting, goals, goalsetting, home business, iPhone, Mac, Quicken
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Posted by Tim on January 18, 2012
Article marketing is a form of advertising that utilizes articles written by the marketer himself or by a hired writer in order to promote a business. This type of marketing originated in the print world but has rapidly gained dominance online. The marketing aspect enters into the articles through the use of what is known [...]
Categories: Article Marketing, Internet, Site Promotion
| Tags: advertising, Article Distribution, Article Marketing, article submission, blog, Directory Submission, ecommerce, Internet, link, Macintosh, Marketing, promotion, publicity, search engines, SEO, traffic, web, website promotion
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Posted by Tim on January 16, 2012
One of the fundamentals of marketing is to market to your target audience, and that depends on what product you are promoting. People, especially the young, are spending more and more of their lives online. The advertising and marketing media knows this, and is pushing more and more of their content online as well. This [...]
Categories: Internet, Online Resources, Site Promotion, Social Networking
| Tags: book marketing, Internet promotion, Web 2.0
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Posted by Tim on January 13, 2012
When considering affiliate programs with which to monetize your website or blog, it is well to keep in mind that some will be better suited to you than others. Choosing the right program is important; in fact, experts tell us that 80% of all affiliate programs will not bring you any income as an affiliate. [...]
Categories: Affiliate Marketing, Business Management, Internet
| Tags: affiliate marketing, Apple Mac, internet marketing, link cloaker, link cloaking, Mac OS X, Mac OSX, Macintosh, MacOSX
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Posted by Tim on January 9, 2012
Have you ever received an e-mail invitation to “connect with” someone on LinkedIn or some other social networking service? The standard invitation provided by the service mentions that the user is a member and that the recipient is part of his or her network and is invited to join the service. It also points out [...]
Categories: Internet, Social Networking
| Tags: correspondence, email, invitations, Marketing, mistakes, networking, nonsense, social networking
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Posted by Tim on January 9, 2012
Diagrams and flowcharts are widely used in business. They can be a great way to get one’s thoughts in order and to map out processes in a logical and coherent way. In addition to being used to aid in the administration of a business, a flow chart or diagram can become a product in itself. [...]
Categories: Business Management, Infoproduct Creation, Mac Software
| Tags: arrangements, businesses, concepts, Diagrams, Linux, Mac, Mind Map Software, note-taking, Open-source, Opensource, problem solving, relationships, studying, UNIX, Windows, XMind
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