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Okay. This is going to be fun. First of all, watch the following video to learn a simple technique (there are many) on how to detect a lie :- (more…)

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Wow. Its been a while since the last time I go for a jog and get myself sweat. I recently feel alot of backpain and also on the neck. I thought lying on the bed will make me feel better but instead, it got worse. So just now I went for a jog and I felt really refreshing and more energetic! I think I want to take a few minutes daily to get my self sweat so that I can be more productive

Speaking of productivity, do you know that you can effectively decrease your website traffic(if you got a very good traffic).  Ireally think that this is beneficial for you if you already have a good steady traffic to your site, If You are just starting out, this is also an eyeopener :). So here you go, the three simple tips on decreasing your traffic with extensive effort!:-

1. just read your blog and do not update until  the end of the month. If you are updating it, do not put heavy content. A few sentences would be nice :).  Putting a date counter on the page to show when it was last updated is lame. So don’t put it okay !
2. just put to your blog and do not offer anything. If you have anything that can give value to your readers, scrap it! Your readers loves value. SO you need to get rid of it in order to flush away your traffic.
3. Another thing is Opt in. I have said his again and again before. Putting an Opt in is totally unnecessary if you want to decrease your website traffic.  I saw many bloggers put special offers and anything similar in their blog. This is again, giving value to your customers.. they will come again and again to see the update. So bottom line is, its a bad idea…

I hope you enjoyed the tips and please stay healthy. Do not be like me.. I am a very bad example.. but at least I want to improve my self by going for a jog in the park. What about you?

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They say everyone can start an online business. Even the guy next door (if you have neighbors ). Whatever we do, it is important to have a good business plan. It should show who the target audience is, and just how the product or service that is being provided will meet or exceed their needs and expectations.

When organizing a business plan it is best if you break it down into sections such as:-

1.    Business summary – The product or service you want to provide.

2.    Market analysis – Research on the product or service and how the competitors are doing.

3.    Product positioning – How to make it more prominent compared to your competitors.

4.    Market strategy – How are you actually going to market it?

5.    Customer analysis – Look at what the customer wants or needs.

6.    Financial analysis – What you need to invest in order to set up the business and to keep it going while it is just getting started.

7.    Overall business goals – What you hope to achieve in, say, a year’s time.

Once a business plan has been developed, it should not lay in the back of a drawer somewhere.  It should be a working plan that you can refer to when you need to. The best way to make a business plan is to keep it simple (one or two pages should be all you need). Certainly one of the best things you can do when starting an online business is to create a plan then stick with it.

You may find the following blog post interesting if you want to know what other people are doing in order to plan and building strategies their business:-

10 Golden Rules Internet Marketing Strategy Blog

 Developing personas for marketing strategy

What is Your Social Media Marketing Strategy?

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photo credit: pizzodisevoFound this video on Laling’s blog.. My personal favorite is when he got problem accessing the PC. Enjoy the video

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I was surfing around, Sleepy as usual. I found many bloggers teaches their readers on how to increase website Traffic and Ranking. Sometimes its frustrating, when it comes to improve your website or blog’s ranking and traffic.

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There’s a lot of work involve. If you can take the challenge, I can guarantee you that You will succeed. However, what if You dont want to increase your website ranking or traffic…What would you do? Here’s a list of action plan if you plan for those of you who doesn’t want to improve your website traffic and ranking :-

• Don’t ever Monitor your competitors and the top ranked websites especially to see what they are doing right in the way of :-

• Design
• Navigation
• Content
• Keywords
• and anything that you could imagine

• Do not write and submit your articles for your website or for article banks. This will only demonstrate your industry and product or service expertise and worse, you will be perceived as an expert in your field!

• Do not waste your time by Using reports and logs from your web hosting company to see where your traffic is coming from. And dont even think about analyzing your visitor location and their incoming sources whether search engines or links from other sites and the keywords they used to find you.

• Do not Keep track of changes in search engine algorithms and processes and accordingly modify your web pages so your search engine ranking remains high.

• Don’t even bother making your customer visit easy and don’t give them any reason to remember you. Using the newsletter, free gifts and anything similar is a big No No!

Just start with these simple action plans and I guarantee you that your website ranking will Amazingly reduced and your website traffic will Decrease, Absolutely. I hope you enjoyed the post.

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Wordpress recently released its 2.5 version. While most bloggers have upgraded their wordpress to the latest version, there are a few portion of bloggers are still using the old one. I am one of them.

Its not that I dont want to do it. I tried but my head was spinnin as I read about how to upgrade my wordpress blog, specifically the Sleepy Surfer dot com. I’m still new to wordpress.

A wealthy Dragon from Hong Kong made a very useful post on how to upgrade wordpress blog to the latest version. I am currently using his post to get the job done. I need to learn a few more things prior to the upgrade process.

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There are questions on how most of the webmasters or bloggers monitors their sites. The followings are the common questions and also the suggested solutions:

How do I test my own website links or other websites for broken links?

You can always check out this tool:-
http://home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html

How can I check the search engines for the number of back links to my URL i.e. other web pages linking to my site?

Digital point have a very helpful tool :-
http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/backlinks/

How can I determine why my site is showing in only a certain country?
http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/website-country/

There are other tools as the internet evolves. People are getting more creative in finding solutions. Almost everyday, a new tool is created. It depends on your requirement. Good Luck!

Cool resources that you might wanna check out:-

Useful Web Resources for Small Business and Non Profits #5

20 Useful Webmaster Tools

7 tools to track your blog Visitors

5 Tools to Monitor website, if it is dead or alive

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Jimmy is a blogger and also a webmaster who wants to market his website and blogs using the mystical and magical techniques of Search Engine Optimization. he got alot of unique traffic everyday. His techniques are proven to be effective in SEO marketing.

Jimmy knows that using his main keywords in the title of his blog post and websites are important as Mr Spider Robots loves them.

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Not all browsers append whatever you put in the title tag by adding their own name, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer or OPERA is not one of them.

Jimmy is aware that the title tag is totally different from a Meta tag. However, it’s worth considering it in relation to them.

All major web crawlers will use the text of your title tag as the text they use for the title of your page in your listings.

Any text that are in the title tag (between the <title> and </title> portions) will magically appear in the title bar of browsers when they view the mystical web page.

The actual text that Jimmy use in the title tag is one of the most important factors in how a search engine may decide to rank Jimmy’s web page or blog.

Jimmy has given a good SEO practices for all website and blogs. It is recommended for you to follow what jim has done for his website and blogs.

Other resouces that can help you to understand more :-

Importance of Keyword Density in SEO

Keyword Density & Keyword Density Tools > SEO Myths

Biggest Reason Original Article Fail is Keywords and Keyword Density

P/s: Jimmy is a fictional charactor created by The Sleepy Surfer. However the facts are based on true stories happening all around us.

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In the last post, I wrote about the Search engine Spiders and SEO. I know that the information is not enough but I would rather write one thing at a time. And and this post, I will tell you a few more facts about our Search Engine Spider Robots!

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• The spider robots will periodically return to the sites to check for any information that has changed. The frequency with which this happens is determined by the moderators of the search engine.
• A spider’s brain is almost like a Complete Report or an Encyclopedia where it contains the table of contents, the actual content and the links and references for all the websites it finds during its search, and it may index up to a million pages a day.
• Search engine will search through the index which it has created by the Spider Robots and not actually searching the Web.
• Different search engines produce different rankings because not every search engine uses the same species of Spider Robots to search through the indices.

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Ya know, these spiders are like a new species created by mankind. They are evolving and have a mind of their own. I wonder if they ever get inlove with each other, maried and get their own children and pursue their career in the Serach Engines

More related post on Search Engine Spiders:-

How Do Search Engines Work - Web Crawlers / Web Spiders

Search Engine Optimization For Blogs

Improve Search Engine Ranking

Link Building 101

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If you are new to Search Engine Marketing, one of the first term that you must know is SEO. SEO is a short name for Search Engine Optimization. But in this post, I’m not gonna talk about SEO, but something else that is related to SEO.

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Introducing the Search Engine Spiders. Search Engine Spiders are the ones that makes the search Engine Works. These Spiders are actuualy automated programs that is run by the search engine system. If the Search Engines can talk, here is a potential interview result between me and the Search Engine Spiders:-

• Hi, I’m Spiderman. No.. I’m not related to Stan lee.. Who is he anyway? To make it simple, lets just say that my job is to index websites on the internet 24 hours a day.
• When you submit your website pages to a search engine by completing my required submission page, I’d be happy to index your entire site.
• I usually visits a web site, read the content on the actual site, the site’s Meta tags and also follow the links that the site connects.
• I will then return all that information back to a central depository, where the data is indexed.
• I will visit each link you have on your website and index those sites as well.
• Some of my friends will only index a certain number of pages on your site, so don’t create a site with 500 pages! We hate them anyways..

There are many other facts about the Search Engine Spiders. Now you have been introducedto the search engine spiders, You are now have a basic Idea what it is, thus further study onit using Google..

I hope you enjoyed this post. Please share it with your friends..

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