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Donald Nelson - EzineArticles.com Expert Author
Donald Nelson is a writer, editor, web developer and social worker. He has been working on the Internet since 1995. Currently he is the proprietor of A1-Optimization, a firm providing affordable search engine optimization, reciprocal linking and website copywriting services. His articles have been published on hundreds of websites.
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- Why Should I Stay in School?
[Reference-and-Education] What is the value of a high school or college education? Beyond the diploma there are some more important things that education gives a graduate.
- Vlora - What to See in Albania's Second Largest Port City
[Travel-and-Leisure:City-Guides-and-Information] Vlora is a coastal city on Albania's Adriatic Coast. It is reputed to be one of the most beautiful places in the Mediterranean region and in recent years has become an important tourist center.
- Three Tips For Effective Article Marketing
[Writing-and-Speaking:Writing-Articles] One of the best ways to get free advertising and links back to your site is to write good articles and publish them on blogs and websites around the Internet with a link back to your site. Doing this in a systematic way is usually called "article marketing." I have done it for years and believe me it works! However, my enthusiasm for article marketing is started to wane due to an avalanche of poorly written articles which do not provide end users with useful information.
- Your Child Can Learn How to Meditate
[Health-and-Fitness:Meditation] Meditation is an important practice for children as well as adults. It is not difficult to teach your child to meditate, and this article gives you a simple method to begin the practice with your child.
- Are Netbooks the Real Deal?
[Computers-and-Technology] A new genre of sub-notebook computers has become popular in the last year, but are these new computers capable of doing all the tasks that we normally use laptops for? This article provides the answer.
- Why You Should Try an Open Mic
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Performing-Arts] Are you an emerging artist that needs to get some experience? If so, then open microphone evenings are a good opportunity for you. Find out how to take advantage of this performing option.
- Starting a Website? Then Choose Your Domain Registrar Carefully
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Domain-Names] A domain name is a valuable property of any business or any individual who would like to establish a presence online. It is extremely important to register your domain name carefully and with the right registrar. I would like to share my experience with you and hopefully you can use it to pick a domain registrar that will treat you fairly.
- Is Search Engine Optimization Cost Effective?
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:SEO] If you pay someone to optimize your website, will you get the money back in increased sales? A search engine optimization specialist looks at this question and gives his opinion.
- Physical Therapist Assistants and Aides - Career Opportunities
[Business:Careers-Employment] Would you like a job as a physical therapist? Find out what is involved in this kind of career. This article gives you a concise introduction.
- Reciprocal Linking: Is it Still Worth the Effort?
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Link-Popularity] It is getting much harder to get high quality reciprocal links. This article looks at the changing Internet linking landscape and offers advice on how to get high quality reciprocal links.
- Six Tips for Building a Content-Rich Website
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Web-Development] Good content will help your website to be successful. In case you are wondering how to create content, this article offers six tips on how to do produce interesting articles and web pages for your website.
- Keeping Track of You Website's Visitor Statistics
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Traffic-Building] Here is an introductory guide to website statistics. Find out which statistics are important, what they mean and how to gather them.
- How to Get All of Your Web Pages Indexed in the Major Search Engines
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:SEO] A website is more than just a home page. In fact, it is useful to think of a website as a cluster of mini websites, with each of the inner pages being a full-fledged website. Depending on the content of these inner pages, visitors will enter your site through these "side doors" on the strength of search engine queries that match the content of these interior pages.
- Search Engine Optimization: Four Vital Steps for Optimizing Your Web Pages
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:SEO] Search engine optimization is the art and science of building web pages that are both search engine friendly and user friendly. This article shows you four steps that you should take when optimizing your web pages.
- How to Track Your Website's Statistics
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Site-Promotion] You can't improve the performance of your website unless you know who is visiting you and how they go to your site. Web counters, log analysis programs and java script trackers can give you these vital stats. This article outlines the options that are available today.
- Six Reasons Why You Should Jump Into Article Marketing
[Writing-and-Speaking:Writing-Articles] Publishing your articles on other websites and in the electronic newsletters of other companies is one of the best forms of Internet promotion. Find out how article marketing can benefit your business.
- Website Optimization: Bring More Traffic to Your Site the Right Way
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Traffic-Building] If you want more traffic for your website you should do it the right way, by carefully choosing your target keywords and building search engine friendly web pages. This article gives a three point guide to website optimization
- Tips for Making Your Pages Search Engine Friendly: Part 2 Writing Effective Meta Tags
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Web-Design] As with many other things which are unseen, there is a lot of unnecessary mystery surrounding the use of meta-tags on web pages. The meta tags are information packets in the head portion of a web page.
- Tips for Making Your Pages Search Engine Friendly: Part 1 Graphics, Text, and Page Structure
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Web-Design] Your web site may look beautiful to your eyes, but what about to the "eyes" of a search engine? If you can understand how a search engine "sees" your site, than you can design the site or make the necessary changes so that your site will get a higher ranking in search results.
- Search Engine Optimization: It's The Little Things That Count
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:SEO] Building a search engine friendly site can seem like a daunting task, but there are some parts of search engine optimization process that are quite simple and quickly done. These seemingly simple tasks can make a big difference in the results you get in your efforts to attain top search engine positions. If you are in the process of building a new site take a look at the easily done optimization points explained below, and if you already have a site, you can use this list as a way to check your site.
- Ten Tips for Effective Internet Article Writing
[Writing-and-Speaking:Writing-Articles] On the Internet “content is king”, and the real guts of content is the written word. If you are managing a website you need readable text for your onsite articles, for articles in your promotional newsletter or ezine and for promotional articles to be published on other sites or in other ezines. While these writing tasks can be outsourced to professionals, it is also possible for you to do it yourself if you follow a step-by-step process that is outlined in the following ten tips.
- Seven Ways to Jump Start Your New Website
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Site-Promotion] You’ve just got a new website and it looks beautiful, but unless you take some active steps to promote it, it will just sit there like a new car without any gas and empty tires.
- Reciprocal Links: Quality is as Important as Quantity
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Traffic-Building] Link popularity, the number of incoming links to your website, plays an important part in determining your site’s ranking in a search engine. But, before you rush off to try and get any and all sites to link to you there are a few things to consider, and one of them is that the quality of the links are as important as the quantity.
- Pacing Your Way to a Successful Internet Business
[Home-Based-Business] Timing is everything when it comes to building a business on the web. If you think that you can build a viable business in six months or less then you are mistaken. However, if you are patient and systematic, and willing to learn from your own experiences and from the wisdom of others, then you have every chance of being successful in your Internet activities. Here are six lessons that I have learned in the course of building an Internet based business; perhaps they may be helpful to you!
- Improving Your Site's Link Popularity, And Search Engine Ranking
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Link-Popularity] Have you ever wondered why one web site (maybe yours) is buried deep in the search rankings for a particular keyword, while another site (your competitor's) is at the top? Both sites may have similar content and even similar metatags, but one is number one and the other is number 131.
- How to Publish a Newsletter to Supplement Your Existing Website
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Ezine-Publishing] If 100 people came to your website and one person ordered something, does that mean that other 99 surfers were not interested in your products or services' Probably not. Every day there are lots of good prospects passing through your website and one of your most important jobs is to engage these people in some way so that you can bring your message to them again and again. One of the best ways to do that is through a monthly newsletter, like this one!
- How to Make Sense of Your Website's Statistics?
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Web-Development] In the early days of the Internet it was common to visit a web site and see a counter informing you that "you are the 118,456th visitor to this site", and various webmasters would proudly talk of how many "hits" their sites were getting. Now, things have changed and you will mostly find counters on amateur sites, and wiser webmasters now know that the term "hits" doesn't really mean much.
- How to Make Your Web Site Come to Life: Tips for Making Your Pages Interactive
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Web-Design] My first web site was nothing more than a brochure that was transformed into an HTML document and installed on the web. Since then I have learned that web pages can do a lot more than printed brochures, because they can offer several different ways to involve the visitors. Here are some of the ways that I use to bring my sites to life.
- Guide to Obtaining a #1 Ranking in the Search Engines: eBook Review
[Book-Reviews:Internet-Marketing] Allis offers a step-by-step easily understood method. His advice is based on sound optimization practice, and avoids “tricks” that will get you in trouble with search engines. Whether you are a beginner or an expert, you will find something of interest in this ebook.
Allis takes you through the process of keyword selection, and then optimizing pages with these keywords, and explains where and how to submit the pages. Most importantly he takes into account...
- Content: The Key To Increased Website Traffic
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Web-Development] Everyone wants to have a lot of traffic to their website. In order to get this traffic many people try to work on their meta tags or even do tricks trying to get more visitors to their website. One of the simplest and most solid ways to increase the flow of traffic to your website is to offer more content. It has often been said that on the Internet, content is king. It is important to understand how more content can bring more visitors to your site and how to generate content that is related to your particular web site.
- How to Choose Your Link Partners
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Traffic-Building] To link or not to link? That is the question we face when we receive e-mail from people asking us to make a link to their website, or when we are looking for link partners ourselves and find a prospective site. How can we decide if it is worthwhile to take the effort to make a link for such site? If we look at the fundamental reasons for making link exchanges in the first place, then it is easy to decide which link possibilities we should pursue and which we should drop.
- How to Survive Search Engine Upheavals
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:SEO] During the month of November many website entrepreneurs were shaken when Google made its infamous “Florida” update, wiping out search positions for several high-ranking websites, which disappeared from the “top 100” overnight. While all the details behind the Google changes are still not known, it is possible for website owners to learn something from this experience and take steps which will ensure that they will not be adversely affected by future upheavals of this sort. I have compiled a list of six steps that can be taken to bring about steady, long term success regardless of search engine fluctuations.
- Build Your Website With A Search Engine Friendly Design
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Web-Design] A good looking and user friendly website is an extremely important asset to your success on the Internet. However without traffic, even a well designed site will not produce results for you. The best websites are those that are both attractive and easy to use by your human users, and at the same time, convenient for the search engine robots that are trying to find and collect data from your site.
- What's in a Name? How to Use File and Directory Names to Boost Your Search Engine Rankings
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:SEO] Getting a ranking in search engine queries for highly competitive categories is becoming more and more difficult. The most important factor in getting a high ranking is to build a site that truly deserves to get a top ranking; a site that provides much useful information about the subject that is being searched for. However, in addition to providing relevant content, it is the presentation of the content that plays an important part in separating sites that reach the top of search engine queries and those that are buried on page 25. One factor in presentation and optimization that is often underestimated is the naming of files and directories.
- Make Your Words Sell: A Guide to Internet Copywriting and Marketing
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Web-Design] When it comes to selling and communicating on a web page, it is the written word that makes the vital difference between satisfying your viewer or losing her as she clicks through to the next web site.
- About Us - Use this Section of Your Website to Boost Your Sales!
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Web-Design] Many websites have an “About Us” page. However, when you click on the “about us” button and reach some of these pages, often you do not learn much about who is behind the website. This is a pity, for you, but it is also a loss for the person who owns the website, for she has missed a chance to convince you why you should do business with her.
- Building A New Website? Make It Spambot Proof
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Spam-Blocker] Spam has probably joined death and taxes as one of those things that just can’t be avoided. However, there are prudent steps that you can take to reduce spam or even prevent it, especially if you run or are thinking about running your own website.
- Tools for Search Engine Optimization: SEO Studio Reviewed
[Shopping-and-Product-Reviews] When it comes to search engine optimization, there is no free lunch or magic...
SEO Studio: software for search engine optimization tasks shortcut that will enable you to get top rankings without any effort or merit. However, there are a few submission, optimization and ranking tools which, when placed in the hands of competent web managers, can greatly ease the task of conducting website promotion campaigns. Here is a brief survey of one product that might be useful for you.
- Optimization Tips for the New MSN Search Engine
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:SEO] The great and often-quoted baseball player Yogi Berra once said: “You can observe a lot by just watching.” That’s what I have been doing with the new MSN search engine that was recently launched with a lot of fanfare.
- Phishing: The Most Dangerous Form of Spam - Learn How to Protect Yourself from Security Threats
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Security] Spam is one of the curses of the Internet age. But if the clogging of mail boxes with useless emails was bad enough, unsolicited emails aimed at tricking you into giving your valuable passwords, banking and PIN numbers is the most dangerous variety of email that you will ever encounter. This kind of email is known as “phishing” because the unscrupulous authors of these messages are fishing for valuable information which they can use to capture your online identity.
- Website Promotion: Choose the Promotion Methods that are Best for YOUR Site
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Site-Promotion] Website Promotion is a varied enterprise. There are several methods of online promotion, and each website owner has to choose the mix of methods that is best for his or her particular website.
- Managing Your Reciprocal Links Directory
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Traffic-Building] Reciprocal linking is an inevitable part of the life of any webmaster. Incoming links are valuable because the rankings in Google depend in large part on the amount and quality of these links, and because incoming links provide a steady stream of traffic.
- Does Your Site Deserve A Top Ten Search Engine Ranking? (Part 2)
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:SEO] If you make a proper evaluation of your website you may actually discover that compared to your competitor’s offerings you really don’t deserve a top spot in the search engine rankings. However, there are some steps you can take to improve your company, improve your website and improve your rankings in the search engine queries related to your product or service.
- Does Your Site Deserve A Top Ten Search Engine Ranking? (Part 1)
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:SEO] “Can you get my site a top ten ranking in Google?” Many people ask this question to search engine optimization professionals, but how many people have ever asked them selves whether their site “deserves” a top ten ranking in the leading search engines?
- What Should I Be Doing While I Am In Google's Sandbox?
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:SEO] It is now well known that Google has an ageing delay in its algorithm. What this means is that a new site will not, during an initial period, show up in queries made for that site’s main keywords or key phrases, even if the site is well-optimized. Some people have referred to this as the “Google Sandbox.” If you have a new site the big questions are: 1. How long does this period last? and 2. What should I do during the time when I will not get good results from Google searches?
- The Money's in the List!
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:List-Building] “The money is in the list.” This is one of the slogans of internet marketing experts who say that it is very important to build up an opt-in list and then make regular mailings which will enable you to sell your goods and services.
- Make Your Website Talk: How to Install Streaming Audio on Your Site
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Audio-Streaming] One of the most important tasks in online selling, and indeed in all selling, is to convince the prospective buyer that you are someone who can be trusted. A nice picture of yourself in your “about” section is helpful, but even more convincing would be a heartfelt audio message in which you explain yourself and introduce your product or service.
- Linking Strategy in the Post-Jagger Period
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Traffic-Building] “Please take down my link.” I never thought I would live to see the day that I would get an email like this, but the latest Google update has caused some people to panic. This particular person thought that his site would be penalized if he had a link coming from a site in an unrelated field. Well, following the Jagger update how should we approach linking? Should we “nuke” our reciprocal links directories altogether? Or is there a sensible way to continue linking?
- How to Make Your Articles Stand Out From the Crowd
[Writing-and-Speaking:Writing-Articles] Internet article writing is becoming a crowded field. Here are some tips and guidelines that will help your articles to stand out from the crowd and get published in high traffic locations.
- How to Get Non-Reciprocal Links and Improve Your Page Rank
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Traffic-Building] Non-reciprocal links are better than reciprocal links. Find out how to get them.
- How to Create Optimized Copy for Your Website
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Web-Design] Learn a simple technique to produce optimized content for your website.
- How to Write and Use Description Meta Tags on Your Web Pages
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:SEO] You don't have to be an SEO expert to write good description meta tags. Here is a step-by-step tutorial article.
- Six Ways to Increase Traffic to Your Website
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Traffic-Building] Take a look at six different methods that you can use to increase visitors and traffic to your website.
- How to Write Title Tags for Your Web Pages
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Web-Design] The title tag is the single most important sentence that you will write for your web page. Learn how to write title tags that help you to get high search engine rankings for your most important keywords and keyword phrases.
- You Have More Web Sites Than You Think You Have: The Importance of Deep Submission
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:SEO] If I ask you how many web sites do you have? You may say “One, yes it is www.mycompany.com “ or “two” in case you have a second organization or company. When I first began pro...
- Submitting Your Site To The Open Web Directory: Some Dos And Don'ts
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:SEO] One of the most important steps in any site’s publicity campaign is the submission to the Open Web Directory (http://www.dmoz.org) as this directory provides search results for many of the most...
- Website Maintenance: What Does it Take to Manage Your Website?
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Web-Design] Every action has a beginning phase where you launch your activity, a middle period in which you must sustain and develop it and a conclusion. Many people set up a website enthusiastically but then th...
- Is Your Website's Copy Up to the Mark?
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Web-Design] The Internet is a relatively new medium. What works for you in your printed offline brochures and advertising materials may or may not work on your web page. If you have already invested either time ...
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