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Useful tips to manage your stumble account

November 11, 2009 By: Newbornbusiness Category: SEO, Social Marketing No Comments →

Despite the controversy of the New version of StumbleUpon, there are many great tools have been added to it such as you can know the similar interests of the other stumblers by their tags, the views and the reviews of your topics.

It also reduces the ability of spamming others by adjusting sharing with stumblers who accept shares of the toolbar. There are certain benefits of the old Stumble Upon which does not exist in the New version such as html editor which was controlling the code of images, videos, topics and the background of the stumbler’s account and the topics. In this article you will know some solutions of these obstacles.

I- Background

1- change background of your blog by :

* sign in to your account

* go to settings

* choose “customize your profile” then choose the color themes you want.

2- put background to your images,videos, topics

<center style=”border: 2px solid #ffffff;background-image: url(‘insert background location from any site you want’);
background-color:#000000; -moz-border-radius-topleft: 10px; -moz-border-radius-topright: 10px; -moz-border-radius-bottomright: 10px; -moz-border-radius-bottomleft: 10px;”> put the code generated when you add review to the page </center>

example

1- I choose topic from site, this topic : http://dl8.glitter-graphics.net/pub/478/478188lt2qyg0w1s.jpg

2- I add this topic to my blog

3- edit the topic and copy the code

4- choose url of background you want such as http://dl5.glitter-graphics.net/pub/534/534755h92efycwnw.jpg

the code will become

<center style=”border: 2px solid #ffffff;background-image: url(‘http://dl5.glitter-graphics.net/pub/534/534755h92efycwnw.jpg‘); background-color:#000000; -moz-border-radius-topleft: 10px; -moz-border-radius-topright: 10px; -moz-border-radius-bottomright: 10px; -moz-border-radius-bottomleft: 10px;”> <a rel=”nofollow” href=”http://dl8.glitter-graphics.net/pub/478/478188lt2qyg0w1s.jpg”><img border=”0″ width=”352″ height=”264″ src=”http://dl8.glitter-graphics.net/pub/478/478188lt2qyg0w1s.jpg“/></a> beautiful cat</center>

the result is

2- Fonts

1- Font color

to change the color of your text, add this code to your page

<span style=”color:red”> the text </span>

example:

the text is (stumbleupon is a great community website), if you want to change color from back to red. the code will become

<span style=”color:red”>stumbleupon is a great community website</span>

the result is : stumbleupon is a great community website

2- font size

to change the size of your text, add this code to your page

<p style=”font-size:xx-small;”>the text</p> this is for very very small text

<p style=”font-size:x-small;”>the text</p> this is for very small text

<p style=”font-size:small;”>the text</p> this is for small text

<p style=”font-size:medium;”>the text</p> this is for medium text

<p style=”font-size:large;”>the text</p> this is for large text

<p style=”font-size:x-large;”>the text</p> this is for very large text

<p style=”font-size:xx-large;”>the text</p> this is for very very large text

example:

the text is (stumbleupon is a great community website), if you want to change font from normal to large. the code will become:

<p style=”font-size:large;”>stumbleupon is a great community website</p>

the result is stumbleupon is a great community website

3- HTML Image Link Code

*If you want to add image to your blog whatever its size insert this code

<img src=”insert url of your image” />

example

if you want to put any image to your blog

1- copy the location of your image

2- add it to your code <img src=”http://blog.boxbe.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/love.jpg“/>

when you put this code to your page, the result will become

* if you want to add images to your blog with certain size add this code

<img  src=”insert url of your image“width=”write width you desired“height=”write height you desired“/> </a>

such as

<img  src=”http://blog.boxbe.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/love.jpg” width=”200” height=”80“/> </a>

the result is

These information will handle the common problems of the newest version of stumbleupon and waiting your comments if you have any problems.

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Walk A Mile In An Organic SEO Shoes

September 26, 2008 By: Newbornbusiness Category: SEO 1 Comment →

A perfect SEO optimization helps and ensures your website to attain the top position in search engines and keep it out there for as long as it continues. Organic or Natural SEO is to bring up a website without using any Paid Service. Customers always prefer using natural results as opposed to paid listings or sponsored listings, Organic SEO is an effective way to have your website show up in the Search Engine Results naturally. If you are looking for long term passive flow of traffic to your website, then Organic SEO is a must.

Organic (Natural) SEO focuses on promoting websites on the Natural search engine results also known as organic results in contrast with sponsored links (Pay-Per-Click/PPC). It refers to the processes and strategies that are undertaken to optimize a website so that it gets good relevance ratings based on the keywords that your site is responsive to. What differs “Organic SEO” from “Modern SEO” is that it is a manual process not just an automated processes of page submission and alteration. As it says, the results should be organic/natural.

Out of the numerous benefits that Organic SEO provides to a website, the most vital one is that they are permanent and free of cost. The rankings acquired through organic search do not run the risk of being lost after a certain time period. Organic SEO provides you with a clear understanding of the concepts that allows you to analyze SEO situations more accurately and come up with strategies that are more appropriate and responsive to your website’s needs.
Most people think that the only essential factors of organic search engine optimization (Organic SEO) are meta tags, keyword stuffing and internal links, while other areas of organic SEO study also include everything from link building and navigation to persuasive copy architecture and social marketing integration.

Organic Search Engine Optimization is an ongoing process. It cannot be achieved by doing it one time, since things always change (The age of your domain name, The amount of content available to the search engines, The amount of websites linking to your website and their popularity, etc…). Organic SEO will definitely help your website to attain a high ranking in all search engines if implemented properly and ensured with care.

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Blogs Are The Best Friends Of SEO

September 16, 2008 By: Newbornbusiness Category: SEO 1 Comment →

Every online marketer who runs a blog must have noticed that Search Engines always look for unique content that is not available from other sources; they search for exclusive, specific or rare content. SEO may be more important on a blog than on a traditional website because of the fact that blogs get indexed quickly.
Therefore Search Engines consider blogs, which present personal review or personal opinion about certain subject (Unique Content) and continually refresh material, as their best friends.

The beautiful thing about blogging is that your content does not have to be long or elaborate in order to get across a unique, point or piece of information that will impress the search engine. You are not forced at all to provide long and detailed posts and as a result duplicate or repeat what you read in other posts. Duplicating other posts can lead search engine spiders not to rank your pages high when they notice that they read something identical, like what you are presenting, before.

The replies (Comments) you can get on your blog posts can work as an amazing renewable resource of content for search engines, this can also help promoting your search engine ranking position (SERP).

Another great thing about blogs is that they are of a viral nature. they can be distributed for free through an RSS, Atom or XML feed that allow readers to always be up to date with what is new in your blog.

Finally, you should always know your goals and focus on them. Remember that the more focused your goals are the more unique your blog content is likely to be, and the more search engines friendly it will be.


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Don’t Always Blame SEO

September 05, 2008 By: Newbornbusiness Category: SEO No Comments →

If you are approaching SEO campaign that doesn’t work properly as you was hoping, this doesn’t mean that SEO is the sinner, and that SEO doesn’t work for your business. SEO is an effective and smart way to promote your business online and popularize your website in the internet, but it is all about how do you do SEO?

No one is perfect especially when it comes to the Search Engine Marketing and SEO. So if you want your website to rank well organically, don’t always blame SEO. You need to make sure that you are applying the perfect techniques in your SEO campaign and that you are not making some common mistakes that most online marketers do while promoting their business.

You can find and an online marketer who use the same Title and Meta description for all the pages of his/her website and then blames SEO for his failure!
Every page has its unique content and should be optimized according to a particular set of keywords that are the most relevant to the content of that page. If you don’t use relevant Title and Meta description for every page, your keywords will not match the content and thus making it harder to optimize
.

You may also find an online business owner who use the “click here” instead of building good URL structure and again blames SEO for his failure!
Including keywords within your URL structure will help to give your web page a boost in search engines. He/she also doesn’t pay any attention to Internal Linking, which is one of the best ways to improve the rankings of the different pages within their site.

Over time many websites and blogs create a huge amount of content which simply ends up being buried within the site. Use internal linking and a clear navigational structure to keep all the content within your site not further than two or three clicks from your home page.

There are competitors competing top ranking positions with you every day, so never stop optimizing when you see that your keywords have obtained high rankings.
SEO is amazing technique to promote your business and if you are able to utilize SEO properly, then you will be able to increase your website traffic, and at the same time improve your sales effectively.


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Why Keyword Density is critical for your business success?

August 31, 2008 By: Newbornbusiness Category: Keywords 1 Comment →

Basically, Keyword density is the number of times a keyword occurs within a webpage and how many times the keyword is found compared to all the other words within that page. Keyword density is always expressed as a percentage of the total word content on a given web page.

Your grade for writing, Keyword Rich Content, will depend heavily on how you use your keywords and keyword phrases in your Titles, Headlines, Opening Paragraph and First Sentence of Each Paragraph.

Key density is critical because Search Engines implement this information to determine a websites theme, and which keywords the site is relevant for. The perfect Word density will help achieve higher Search Engine positions.

Keyword Density is essential for all online marketers to be successful online, to reach those high SERP and therefore to achieve their dream of becoming number one in search engines.

Learning how to write with keyword density in mind is a skill that every online business owner must take into consideration. BUT more skillful online marketers do their best to keep their content understandable.

You should take care that if you use too low Keyword Density in your content, you will not get the unique benefit of search engines. Search engines are sensitive to overuse of keywords in content as well “keyword stuffing”, too high Keyword Density and your page might get flagged for “keyword spamming”. It will not get rated very well and it probably will not get chosen by Search Engines.

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Getting to The Front Page of Search Engines

August 29, 2008 By: Newbornbusiness Category: SEO No Comments →

We all want a betters search engine rank, getting on the front page of search engine such as Google, Msn and Yahoo is the dream of any online marketer. Higher your search engine ranking will be, higher will be the number of visitors to your website.

Search Engine Ranking is considered a yardstick to determine the online promotional success of a web page or website. There are some essential points that can make you achieve your dream and hit the front page of search engines:

Links:Better search engine ranks will not be obtained without lots of links back to your site. Search Engines check on the number of links that are associated with your site but these links should bear relevance and importance to your site as well. This can be done by asking web site owners to link back to you but it’s far easier for you to post links back to your web site yourself. Take part in forums, write articles, blogs, etc.

Content:
Search Engines’ spiders always seek unique fresh content that is different from other content on the web. Having a
useful, relevant, reliable, and new content can guarantee you a high place in the search engines.

Key Words:
The closest things in the “eye” of the search engine is the keyword presence on your site. You have to make sure that you place relevant and pertinent keywords on your site to make the site look more appealing to the search engine.
BUT never use too many keywords on your site content, because when you overdo the placement of these keywords on it, the site content may be subject to rejection for publishing.

Meta Tags:
Every web page should have Meta Tags that are considered, the hidden values that tell the search engine what your web page is about and which keywords are relevant to your page
.

Search engine marketing is one of the most effective methods of online marketing. More business web sites and successful internet marketers are profiting enormously by using this strategy. Start to apply these previous tips to your business strategy and you will gain endless traffic to your website by hitting the front page of search engines.

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Google Suggest Can Improve Searchers Skills and Change The SEO Game

August 27, 2008 By: Newbornbusiness Category: SEO No Comments →

Google always want to help, Google Suggestions Service, is a new upcoming service that provides a list of query suggestions in real-time as users start typing in the search box, helping to formulate queries and reduce spelling errors.

Google just announced that they will start to roll out Google Suggest as a default feature for the Google.com homepage over the next week.

It will be able to improve searchers and users skills by constantly popping up suggestions when they go about their daily queries, many who never really thought of keyphrases will now start to think about them. Searchers will gain a great experience to know how to search online and get what they are really searching for.

Google Suggest will be a constant reinforcement of all online marketers efforts to think about how consumers search. they may have to adjust their planning to meet these enhanced skills. It can also be considered as an incentive for online marketers to do their best to make their websites popular and therefore to be enlisted in Google Suggestions list.
The ultimate truth now is that Google is going to cause some definite changes into the SEO Game.

Let’s see how;

For instance, when you enter “On” with Suggest, some choices will appear below the search box like, “Online Games”, “Online Dictionary”, “Online Movies”, “Online Marketing”, “Online Radio”, etc.

This way Google Suggest, with the help of Inexperienced Users, is going to make some changes into the SEO Game, as you (Online Marketers) will be forced to have your relevant keywords “Identical” to at least the top 10 results appear in the “Google’s Suggest Box”, trying to gain the best SERP (Search Engine Ranking Position).

Google declared that Suggest is based on algorithms that use a wide range of information to predict the queries users most likely to want to see. It is known that it greatly depends on the most commonly searched phrases by online searchers.
Google Suggest is going to be released gradually this week after
being in the making for four years and we don’t have any action to take unless waiting and see what will happen in the next few days.

(We are going to tackle everything about Google Suggest, and its effect on the SEO game in details in further articles, after being officially released by Google)

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Super SEO Basics and Strategies

August 23, 2008 By: Newbornbusiness Category: SEO No Comments →

The major aim of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is to enhance your website keywords into the highest position in all kinds of search engines. But it is not so easy as you may expect.
To succeed in your SEO mission you should consider some basics and strategies and that is what we are going to tackle here:

* Writing Super Content:
Expert content is of great importance. A quality content management practice will play the role of digital billboard on web and pull traffic to your site. Websites get built with bad content won’t be favored by search engines and will end up being displayed on 100th page of Google and other search engines’ results. Sites that are just copies of other sites wont be listed, or if they are too new they may be passed over. Uniqueness and relevancy of contents displayed on your website will bring maximum traffic to your site. Always make sure that the content on your page should focus around your keywords.

* Using Super Keywords:
Density of key word on each page; Have a unique and relevant title for each page created, what is written out there would be displayed on search result pages, so you should have key words specific to your industry placed in title tag of your website, and limit your keyword phrases to one or two phrases of 2 to 3 words each.
Don not Keyword stuff in your website. This means you repeat your keywords in the content/title/headings etc. This could be either just repeating the word constantly or making the text very difficult to read. Cheating is not good for you, Search Engines will penalize you!

* Having Super Links:
Having an anchor text in inbound link will boost you search engine optimization process. It has been noted that Developing online tools that are of use to consumers, such as online loan calculators, can do much to boost inbound linking.
conducting research into competitors’ linking tactics and targeting websites are very important to have high quality links. You should take care that Search Engines penalize sites that have too many inbound links with the same text and skew their results.

* Keep Away from Super Shortcuts:
Some new marketers think there are some ways to shortcut the SEO process, but don’t be tempted these techniques will backfire and hurt your business. Techniques like keyword spamming, hidden text, link spam, meta tag stuffing and more will all end up hurting your ranking at best, and at worst will get you banned from the search engines all together.

Well these points pretty much sums up the basics of Search Engine Optimization. The key is to have your site in the top ten listings for your keywords. The trick to getting your site higher in the rankings is through the use of SEO the right way. SEO is an ongoing process for your website.

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Deadly SEO mistakes that even an expert may make

August 12, 2008 By: Newbornbusiness Category: SEO 1 Comment →

Search engine optimization is not really a simple strategy to implement. Yes, at first you might think that all you need to do is really basic. But then one simple mistake on your part could lead to great disaster. Since No one is perfect, especially when it comes to the ever-changing technology of search engine marketing and SEO, you need to know the most common SEO mistakes and try to prevent yourself from making them.

* Never have a bad title for your page; titles are the very first thing that the search engine spiders will see when they look at your website. A title should give the spider as well as the visitor a clear idea of what the website is all about.

* Never use the same Title and Meta description for all the pages; the Title and Meta tags of your page should be unique. Each page should be optimized according to a particular set of keywords that are the most relevant to the content of that page. The problem happens when you place the same title and Meta description for all pages, as your keywords will not match the content and thus making it very difficult to optimize.

* Never Write For Search Engines Instead of Humans; some webmasters are obsessing over keyword densities, ensuring all their keywords are entered into the text. This can for sure result in text that is disjointed and unreadable for humans. Writing for the search engine robots makes you miss the entire point of your site. You need the user who visits your site to come again and again, not to do his best to forget about your site.

* Never have poor incoming links; links have to be good incoming and outgoing links. If you have poor incoming links or there is poor internal linking all of your hard work to obtain links will be in vain. Links are important and the more incoming links a page receives, the more important the search engines view the web page. So always beware when choosing links.

Search engine optimization has become the focus of many people who have online businesses, but in the course of trying to be noticed many are making some huge mistakes. Not a lot of website or Web business owners know enough about SEO and what it can do to help them and their business. These mistakes can easily be avoided, and many have found these mistakes to be hampering their success as well.

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Most Common Black Hat Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

May 25, 2008 By: Newbornbusiness Category: SEO No Comments →

Black hat SEO techniques are also known as spamdexing and generally considered illegal and unethical by many. They can achieve the same benefits provided by white hat SEO techniques but they differ with the ways they use to achieve them.

Some of the tactics include link farms, keyword stuffing and hidden text:

- A link farm: is a group of web sites that all link to each other without any regard to quality or relevance. People create websites and the sites are then cross-linked to other sites in the same network, and would also include one-way links to the primary site with varying anchor text. Once the visitor has arrived to the website, the owner of the website will often use some kind of cloaking or redirect to show the visitor a sales page of the products, that is the really goal of the Black Hat SEO technique.

- Doorway or Gateway Pages: These are very simple and poorly designed web pages that act as doorways or gateways to another but just as poorly designed web page. Doorway pages often contain a link you’re asked to click if you wish to obtain more information about a given topic. Clicking on the link, however, will lead you to a useless page, but as far as black hat SEO marketers are concerned, they’ve done their job because they’ve got you to visit and search engine spiders will count that in their favor.

- Keyword Stuffing: is one of the most popular Black Hat methods. In this method, the website is ’stuffed’ full of any given keyword; content and readability of the text is severely compromised. The text is often pushed to the bottom of the page and put in a small font, the hope is that the search engine will see the keyword is used many times and rank it well.

- Hidden Text: is a similar method where a keyword is written repeatedly in the same color as the background; this usually gets the site reported by its competitors quickly and results in the site being blacklisted.

- Page Hijacking: these are websites containing very similar content to popular and original websites. They hijack the content of other websites as a deceptive means of gaining traffic.

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