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Learn the Basics of Web Designing

Understanding Content Management - CMS - Software like  Joomla  and  Wordpress Articles and Menus and how they relate to your CMS Software Learn the Basics of Web Designing Next - How to Add Meta Data and Keywords Previous - How To Choose Your Website Domain

How To Choose Your Website Domain

How To Chose Your Website Domain  Your Website Domain must encompass your business framework... Good Hosting cost Money Your Domain can be a .com .org .za .net ... Avoid long domain names... Next - Learn the Basics of Web Designing

What is Growth Hacking - Infographic

The Growth Hacking Model Visualized  #infographic #growthhacking Mark Fidelman -  @markfidelman  

Twitter Verified Accounts

I-C Please note that: @TweetSmarter is not verified, not a Twitter partner, we don’t work for Twitter, and we don’t run Twitter ads. The upshot: Unless you’re famous and being impersonated, or an important politician or government agency, to get verified: It costs $15,000 to be verified for 90 days -or- You need someone who spends (probably more than) $5,000/month to ask on your behalf (many artists get verified this way without knowing how their agent or agency got them verified) This is based on my experience, and  a recent article from the holder of a verified  Twitter account that says specifically this is how verification works: “…you need to spend a minimum of $15,000 ($5K over three months) in order to “buy” verified status from Twitter. Or you need to know someone who’s “in” with Twitter (read: spending ad dollars with them) who wants you or your business to get verified.” (But: see below for some “loopholes.”) This has also been confirmed by AdAge, which state

Search Engine Optimization and Online Business Footprinting

Put Your Small Business on the first page of Google… So naturally curiosity will kill the cat… as Google to me always seemed to be an awesome cat and mouse tool… Could this really be done...? Watch the SEO and OBF Video Below SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization and having a website alone is not sufficient… Online Business Footprinting is the activity businesses share utilizing online Tools - Apps and Software  so before you go around paying 5k for a 3 month stint to an ‘expert’ here is how you can tackle the SEO basics for your small enterprise… Your Business Domain Name Your Domain name is most things, the be all and end of all of it all. Avoid long domain names. Simple Domain names that encompass your business framework and the design of your business. You can opt for many different types (.com - .co.za - .biz - .info etc). Good Hosting Costs Money – Expect to pay between R50 to R150 a month (+-1.2K (R1200.00) a year) for a reliable and good host.

How To Get Your Local Business on Google

Google Launches Major Push To Get Local Businesses Online, Improve Data New site offers tools, content and solicits business owners to update information. Google is introducing a program it’s calling Let’s Put Our Cities on the Map . This new portal (Get Your Business Online) is not unlike Facebook’s Blueprint and Learn How sites launched this week. It offers resources to business owners (and potential partners) to help them get online or correct and complete their online presences. Each user who visits will see a localized version of the site (based on IP detection). In addition to various FAQs, videos and other information, Google invites business owners to search for themselves and then tells them whether their listings are present and complete. If “incomplete” it asks businesses to update their information. For those not online at all, Google is also offering a free domain and hosted website (for one year) through Startlogic. Consistent with its AdWords reseller stra

How To Rank No.1 With Googles New Hummingbird Algorithim

How I ranked at the top of Google… On accident. Why new marketers shouldn’t be afraid of Hummingbird. I-C Hummingbird… If you’re new to online marketing, you might have read quite a few anecdotes of how Google has ruined search with their latest update, Hummingbird. Black and white hat marketing forums were littered with stories of how their keyword packed pages that were once reigning the top of Google search are now in the dark abyss (read: second page of search results). This was because Googlers got smarter. On an average, people were typing more words into their Google search results. People are no longer writing vague, short-tail keyword terms to find their desired information. They’re now writing keyphrases. Keyphrases have been what replaced keywords. For example, if I were selling low-priced blankets (I’m writing in bed right now) I would want any customer who searched “Where to buy the cheapest blanket?” to see me immediately. This is what would be known as long-