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Why social networking is good?

The Internet has absolutely changed our lives, by giving people new ways of working, new ways of communicating, and of being entertained and you may realized by reading it the following facts.

On Nov. 3, 2008, the day before the US presidential election, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama had 2,379,102 Facebook supporters while Republican candidate John McCain had 620,359. Obama had 833,161 MySpace friends and McCain had 217,811. Obama had 384% more Facebook supporters and 383% more MySpace friends than McCain
It was the social network service, which make such difference in US president election. Generally social network services are focuses on building online communities of people who share interests and/or activities, or who are interested in exploring the interests and activities of others. Most social network services are web based and provide a variety of ways for users to interact, such as e-mail and instant messaging services.

The social network service in other words can be describe as a spontaneous movement of people using online tools to connect, take charge of their own experience, and get what they need information, support, ideas, products, and bargaining power from each other. Users benefit by interacting with a like minded community and finding a channel for their energy and giving

We are people who would like to see more “good” than “bad” so let us discuss the social networking is good for us and our society by and large.

In Educational applications:
It has been observed that by social network college students using the services to network with professionals for internship and job opportunities. In other words social networks are also being used by teachers and students as a communication tool. Teachers and professors are doing everything from creating chat-room forums and groups to extend classroom discussion to posting assignments, tests and quizzes, to assisting with homework outside of the classroom setting. Social networks are also being used to foster teacher-parent communication. These sites make it possible and more convenient for parents to ask questions and voice concerns without having to meet face-to-face.

Business applications:
Social networks connect people at low cost; this can be beneficial for entrepreneurs and small businesses looking to expand their contact bases. These networks often act as a customer relationship management tool for companies selling products and services. Companies can also use social networks for advertising in the form of banners and text ads. Since businesses operate globally, social networks can make it easier to keep in touch with contacts around the world.

There are five major uses for businesses and social media:

  • To create brand awareness
  • As an online reputation management tool
  • For recruiting
  • To learn about new technologies and competitors
  • As a lead generating tool to intercept potential prospects

Social networking is good for Enterprises as the employee by sharing information and knowledge with one another; they are able to increase both their learning and their flexibility in ways that would not be possible within a self-contained hierarchical organization.

Dating applications:
Many social networks provide an online environment for people to communicate and exchange personal information for dating purposes. Intentions can vary from looking for a one time date, short-term relationships, and long-term relationships

Medical applications:
A new trend is emerging with social networks created to help its members with various physical and mental ailments. For people suffering from life altering diseases, PatientsLikeMe.com offers its members the chance to connect with others dealing with similar issues and research patient data related to their condition. For alcoholics and addicts, SoberCircle.com gives people in recovery the ability to communicate with one another and strengthen their recovery through the encouragement of others who can relate to their situation. Daily strength.org is also a website that offers support groups for a wide array of topics and conditions.

Investigations:
Social network services are increasingly being used in legal and criminal investigations. Information posted on sites such as MySpace and Facebook has been used by police (forensic profiling), probation, and university officials to prosecute users of said sites. In some situations, content posted on MySpace has been used in court.

Government applications:
Social networking is more recently being used by various government agencies. Social networking tools serve as a quick and easy way for the government to get the opinion of the public and the keep the public updated on their activity

Some other benefits of social networking are as follows:

  • Loneliness is as much a risk to your health as high cholesterol and smoking
  • Women that contract breast cancer have a much higher chance of survival if they are part of a support network of people who are going through or have been through a similar situation.
  • People with lots of friends are less likely to be involved in accidents
  • People with lots of friends are also less prone to almost every serious medical condition you can think of
  • Having a large network of friends increases your life expectancy significantly (as does being optimistic by the way)
  • Build meritocracy, openness and democracy among the employees.
  • Diffuse power away from hierarchical structures
  • Incubate the talents and ideas of the many

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By Amit Panchal
November 19, 2009

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How to do a marketing press release?

News is important part of everyone’s life therefore more than 50% people who surf the web always log on news site first. Due to this reason online news sites like MSNBC, The New York Times, CNN, and Yahoo! News etc. have higher visiting rate. By placing your link in Press Release you can get direct benefits of their higher Page Rank too.

In fact press releases are design as a communication tools between the media and public relation firms or PR staff. Online news sites such as Google news and Yahoo news contain a greater amount of PR and their search engines places it directly to the customers through RSS feeds thus it becomes an effective communication tool.

Considering the above facts many SEO firms have started optimizing the press release to attract incoming links and got good success too. If you want to get maximum expose you have to take following steps:

Announce worthy:
Always try to give useful contents to the readers as every one likes worthy contents none want to kill one’s time. Uncover particular story because news outlet like that approach. Don’t hesitate to put your information your ideas to the media. Don’t focus on too much keyword.

Have good optimization:
Use optimization technique you use for web page optimization. Place your primary keyword in title and in the first letter or line of the first paragraph.

Disperse it well:
Distribute the release via a wire service like Business Wire and PRWeb or PRNewswire.

Create call of action:
Try to give the reasons to take actions for your readers by placing some attractive textual message.

Relevant and easy:
Make contents relevant and make it easy for journalists and bloggers to write about your news as they have tendency to copy and past the contents and then make their comments.

Place in media room:
Post the release to the company site or company blog where media room is enabled. Generally, the company site contains a blog that can archive press releases chronologically and by category, offers a search function, lists previous media exposure, contains links to media-centric photos, audio and video as well as an RSS feed to make it easy for interested parties, including journalists, to subscribe to company news.

Use social bookmark site:
If you use social bookmark sites such as delicious, Furl.net and blogmark.net which are linked to from the online media room and many become available for search engines.

If you follow the marketing rules very well then try to track your marketing efforts and track the press release:

  • Embed tracking codes in the links from the release to the landing page.
  • Monitor the web analytics of the site the press release links to for referral traffic sources.
  • Setup Google alerts to monitor when the release gets picked up.
  • Monitor blog search engines like google blog search and technorati for pickups.
  • Monitor standard search engines for pickups and links.
  • Track conversions from press release landing pages.

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By Amit Panchal
November 19, 2009

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Internet Marketing – The 5 easy steps to make money online

What is Internet Marketing?
Internet Marketing is all about making the best use of the power of the Internet to reach across to a wide audience, situated across the world. The many aspects to Internet marketing contain affiliate marketing, pay per click advertising, e-mail marketing, banner ads, interactive advertising, search engine marketing, article marketing, and blogging.

From beginning to end these hosts of techniques, companies can gain awareness of people who surf for information about their products or services. In other words, they can reach out to a targeted audience and get a optimistic response from such as audience, since the people they target are the ones actually looking their services.

These are the 5 easy steps to make money online:

1. Plan first:
All booming business starts with plan.
•What do you want to sell online?
•How to release your product in market?
•What is the prospective of your earning?
•Do you have budget to grow your online Business?

2. Know your targeted audience:
If you want to save your online marketing cost, you must know how your audiences behave.
•How long do they spend on your website?
•What kind of words triggers your prospects buying emotion?

By knowing about these things, you can make lots of money online with the less investment.

3. Pay Per Click:
This is a paid marketing tool where you write and publish keyword base ad whenever a relevant search is made. It can give the fastest result because it only takes a few minutes to setup and display online.

If you certain to focus your Internet marketing approach on PPC, you need to at least go through the tutorials equipped by the Google search engines. If you ignore that, you are going to waste your money if you created a non-targeted PPC ad.

4. Article Marketing:
Article marketing is a free marketing tool where you publish information rich article online. You can offer guidance or tips in your articles so that your readers will realize that you are a respectable person.

Once they know you are sincere to help them, your prospects will felt safe enough to purchase with you.

5. Affiliate Marketing:
When you want to make money online, affiliate marketing is absolutely your choice. When you open your internet marketing business to affiliate marketer, they are going to bring more business to you. But before you can join affiliates to your business, you must make sure that your product and commission are compelling enough.

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By Amit Panchal
March 6, 2009

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Why Link Building is important for website?

What is Link building?

Get inbound links from quality sites. Quality sites are those that rank high on search engines and/or have a good Google PageRank. If the sites are connected with the theme of your web page that will help increase your rank better. Caution: link farms can get your site banned in search engines.

One method of link building is to submit your website URL to the many free or paid web directories. Web sites like Dmoz are designed to allow people to submit their website into appropriate categories based on the content of the website.

Link building services are one of the most significant SEO strategies that the search engine optimizers and the web developers make use of. By dint of the link building services, one can improve ranking the website in the search indexes, attract great traffic and eventually make more profit by the Internet.

How Link Building Promotes Your website?

There are many different ways to promote your site. The search engines are a major source of various traffic on the Web. Having other sites link to you will be very helpful in accomplishing these main objectives, such as:

- Having the search engine spiders to find your site;
- Having the search engine spiders to crawl your site more frequently;
- Getting the search engine spiders to crawl your site more deeply, which will get     them to look at more than just your site’s homepage.

What are the benefits of Link Building?

1. Following a link is one of the most popular ways for people to find new sites. If a site or a writer that you respect gives a link to further resources, then because of that respect you’re likely to follow it. Therefore, the more inbound links you have to your site, the greater the opportunities for people to find your valuable content.

2. Search engines give sites with good inbound and outbound links a higher ranking. The logic goes that if you provide outbound links to other material you are providing a valuable service: and, if other sites link to you then you must have content of value.

3. By providing links to other material you don’t have to re-invent the wheel and create it yourself. In writing this report, we provide lots of links to additional material. We see this as a valuable service to our readers and it also makes good use of the material we collected in researching and developing the report.

4. Having a linking strategy forces you to ask the fundamental question, “Why would anyone want to link to you?” The answer of course is that you provide something of value: you need to be clear about what that value is.

5. Inbound links help to build trust. If people see that a popular or respected site links to you, then their level of trust in what you say and what you offer is likely to be higher.

6. Perhaps most importantly, you become part of a community. In every field of activity on the web there will be a number of key sources. Linking to them and providing valuable content that they can link to will make you a part of a powerful virtual network.

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By Amit Panchal
February 27, 2009

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What is the Benefits of Social Bookmarking?

What is Social Bookmarking?
Social bookmarking is a method for Internet users to store, organize, search, and manage bookmarks of web pages on the Internet with the help of metadata.

In social bookmarking websites, users create and store bookmarks of their choice. These bookmarks can be viewed by others and that let them know about new services and latest concepts which are making news in the online world.

Many social bookmarking services provide web feeds for their lists of bookmarks, including lists organized by tags. This allows subscribers to become aware of new bookmarks as they are saved, shared, and tagged by other users.

For example: del.icio.us, Digg, Furl, My Web, Reddit are some of the most popular social bookmarking websites.

Benefits of Social Bookmarking:

1. Importing of Bookmark:
You can put all your bookmarks together and consolidate them in one place on a Social Bookmarking website which reside on the desktop of your computer.

2. Accessibility of Bookmark:
You can access your bookmarks anytime and anywhere by saving them on a Social Bookmarking website with an internet connection.

3. Sharing of Bookmark:
You can easily share your bookmarks with your friends or co-workers which are present on Social Bookmarking websites. Also you can view bookmarks of your friends or co-workers or other users.

4. Finding Popular Website on Internet:
At Social Bookmarking Websites, you can come across a lot of other articles and websites which are popular among other users.

5. Makes Search Capability Easy:
Social Bookmarking Websites makes search results more faster than yahoo or Google.

6. Private Bookmarks:
If you save bookmark as “Private” than it would be accessible only to you.

7. Data Safety:
Social Bookmarking Websites allows exportability and save your bookmarks on your desktop to avoid loss of data. How to get started with Social Bookmarking In order to get started with Social Bookmarking, all you need to do is register yourself on a social Bookmarking website. The registration process on a social Bookmarking website is free of cost and relatively simple unlike other websites. You can use any user name for registration of your account which becomes part of the URL that can be used to access your bookmarks.

8. Fast Indexing :
Google bot index these community web sites very fast, for example, digg, stumble and technoraty stories are indexed every 15 to 20 minutes, So when you get the web site submitted in these social sites and they remains on home page or inner category page, they get indexed very fast!

9. More Natural Links – Link Baiting:
If other members like your web site or story, they will surely publish that story with your web site URL in their own forums, blogs and websites, So you keep getting natural one way links!

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By Amit Panchal
February 26, 2009

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Top 10 SEO Firefox addons that makes your work easy

Firefox is being famous in Webmasters and SEO community widely because of its tab browsing, however other browsers like Chrome, Opera and IE 8 Provides the same functionality but they don’t provide the excellent support for addons which Firefox provides.

There are many different tools out there for SEO to use on a website. Each one has different features and benefits depending on how you use them. Here We show you different tools that you may or may not know about. Some free, some paid, all good.

Here I share with you list of some important SEO addons for firefox which I am using.

What makes Firefox so great?
- It’s totally free available.
- It’s secure. If a security issue comes up, the Firefox team plugs it in just a few days.
- It works on Windows, Mac and Linux. Each version with the same features and functionality.
- It has a large developer network creating extensions. Most extensions are platform independent too.
- It is what you want it to be. Between extensions and themes, the user can build a browser that does what they want. It is really all about you.

SEO Firefox Addons:

(1)SEO for FireFox:
Exhaustive SEO analysis within search results an instant access to other great SEO research tools: keyword research, GoogleAdwords tool, traffic estimator, Google trends; export to CSV function.

http://tools.seobook.com/firefox/seo-for-firefox.html

(2) Wizz RSS:
This is RSS and Atom news reader for Firefox.
- Wizz RSS Sort the blogs in folders
- Helps you to Identify Viewed and Unviewed Posts.

http://www.wizzrss.com

(3) search Google Global extension in Firefox:

Google Global now allows you to view organic and paid Google search results as they appear in almost any location on Earth.

- View paid and organic search results as they appear in different cities.
- View paid and organic search results as they appear in different regions.
- Open all results from countries, cities and regions in multiple tabs for easy comparison.
- Custom advanced saved searches.
- Firefox V3 compatible
- Many more…
you can add this Plugin with your Firefox Browser From

http://www.redflymarketing.com/blog/google-global-view-results-different-locations

(4) Read later:
Quickly save a page for further reference, allows to bookmark pages to read them later; synchronize the pages using FoxMarks.

http://www.ideashower.com/ideas/launched/read-it-later

(5) InFormEnter:
This is addons using for help in form filling work like Directory submissions or
article submissions form

http://informenter.mozdev.org/installation.html

(6) SEOQuake:
Any page instant SEO analysis

http://seoquake.com

(7) SearchStatus:
This is addons for checking rank in Google, Alexa, Compete Rank Toolbar and many options are there.

http://www.quirk.biz/searchstatus

(8) Rank Checker:
Firefox Rank Checker extension allows you to easily check your website rankings in Google (US and international), Yahoo, and Microsoft Live search.

http://tools.seobook.com/firefox/rank-checker/

(9) Linkdiagnosis.com:
This is back link checker with all the Data of your site.

This Plug in will allow you to check lots of interesting data like:
* see Google Pagerank of every backlink
* see Anchor text of every backlink
* see if links are no-follow
* see most popular anchor texts
* see charts with breakdown of pagerank and link types
* CSV exports

http://linkdiagnosis.com/

(10) Foxmarks:
This addons for Synchronize your bookmarks across different computers (most useful if you are working both at office and at home). Access your bookmarks from any computer anytime via

http://my.foxmarks.com

http://www.foxmarks.com

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By Amit Panchal
February 24, 2009

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Why is search engine optimization important?

What is search engine optimization?
Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of improving the visibility and quality of traffic to a web site from search engines via ‘organic’ or ‘algorithmic’ search results. The process of optimizing a web page or a website in order to gain higher positions or rankings in search engine results (SERP’s) for different keywords or phrases. SEO can also target different types of search, including image search, local search, and industry-specific vertical search engines.

Why is search engine optimization important?
The main purpose of search engine optimization is to increase the traffic generated by a website. Websites are built to be seen by Internet users and search engines can help it achieve this goal.

SEO has two main part:
1. On Page Optimization
2. Off Page Optimization

1. On Page Optimization:
On page Optimization is executed at the web site itself. Getting improved search engine result start with the website. The first paragraph on every pages needs to be keyword rich without repeating the title of the page. Meta-descriptions and Meta-keywords are important, too. Updating these on a regular basis is beneficial.

2. Off Page Optimization:
Off Page Optimization are strategies for search engine optimization that are done off the pages of a website to maximize its performance in the search engines for target keywords related to the page content. Examples of off-page optimization include linking, and placing keywords within link anchor text. Methods of obtaining links can also be considered off-page optimization.

These include:

  • Public relations
  • Article distribution
  • Social networking via sites like Digg and Slashdot
  • Link campaigns, such as asking complementary businesses to provide links
  • Directory listings
  • Press Releases Distribution
  • Link exchanges
  • Three-way linking
  • One-way linking
  • Blogging
  • Forum posting
  • Multiway linking

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By Amit Panchal
January 1, 2009

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How to distribute a press release?

How to distribute a press release?
Distributing a press release at the right time to the right individuals is key to publicity. Detail and preparation will help you execute this important public relations activity.

You can send the news release directly to the media yourself, using the mail, fax, or email. When in doubt about the best option, ask the journalists you will be sending your release to. This can have the advantage of creating a more personal connection with the people you send the release to. Submit your site to a few online news wires and news websites. There are a number of sites that require payment. However, there are a few good free websites as well.

The main wires include:
* Canada Newswire
* CCNMatthews
* Business Wire
* PR Newswire
* PR Web

Main benefit of press release destribution in google news is that it goes to the straight to the people who can search online news. The communication network that is generated at google, yahoo & MSN and can be by world of mouth from the people who have read the press releases. You will know its happens because of more people visiting your website. Your website name will become easily recognizable. Be prepared to answer media questions regarding your press release.

How to generate profit with press release writing?
Writing press releases is one of the most important ways to promote your website over Internet. Press release writing frequently will help your website be noticed by the web traffic. Press releases are an essential part of your advertising and promotional campaign online, and hence writing an effective press release, which is newsworthy, and attention grabbing is the most important. Only writing the PR does not help your purpose. It needs to be well complemented with proper use, to get the most effective result.

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By Amit Panchal
January 1, 2009

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How to write a press release?

What is a press release?
News to the media, prepared in a journalistic manner and from the point of view of the media. A press release is structured as follows: header, headline, lead, body copy, and boilerplate. Press releases are distributed simultaneously to all selected media by mail, fax, and increasingly by e-mail. Commercial press-release distribution services are also used to distribute press releases.

How to write a press release?
Decide why you are writing a press release and determine your thought. Keep it short and to the point. Usually, press releases are no more than one page. Print the words “FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE” in the top left-hand margin in all caps.

Follow this line with relevant contact information:

  • Name
  • Title
  • Address
  • Phone number
  • E-mail address.

Write a headline and center it in bold type just above the first line of the body of the press release. Headlines typically highlight the most important, significant or shocking fact in the release.

Create a dateline – the starting line of the body of your press release – that includes the city where the release is generated and the date.

Make certain the first paragraph includes all the vital information:

  • The where
  • When
  • Why
  • What
  • Who

Wrap up the last paragraph with a “for additional information” line, a place to find more details. An annual report or a Web site can be with complete sources of information.

Center these marks, ” # # #” or “-30-”, at the bottom of the page to indicate the end of your release.

Why write press release?
By effective press release writing and distribution, your company can achieve a significant and measurable increase in brand visibility on search engines, web site traffic & sales. Press Releases can help you achieve excellent rankings within major search engines. Press releases provide opportunities for inbound link development when Yahoo News, Google News and major news search engines list your data online.

Press release also benefits your website when you issue a release because you are providing relevant information to those searching for news related to your industry. It could be a prospect looking for industry info when researching a purchase or a journalist researching a story. At any rate, your company will be represented in the search results, which increases the relevant traffic to your site.

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By Amit Panchal
January 1, 2009

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Are Social Networks for You?

Are Social Networks for You?
To succeed with social networking sites, you’ll likely need a staff member who has a passion for working with these kind of websites. You will also need to create goals to understand if the time commitment is worthwhile. For instance, if you’re trying to enlarge your community, how many new people linked with your cause would make your time worthwhile? Be open to alternative goals, too: Perhaps your basic purpose with social networks is just to get your name in front of the younger members of your audience and promote your product or services. Think through the challenges and opportunities carefully, and then decide whether social networking is right for you.

How to use social networking sites?
Social networking is a fast-growing innovation, tapping into the rising influence of user-generated communities such as blogs, wikis, networking, and bookmarking sites. By joining these online communities, you can build relationships and promote your products & services.

Actually online social networks attract members who spend over shared interests and opinions. That creates a clubbing and trusted group of virtually connected friends or associates. So when a member or blogger recommends your product, commands your service.

What are the benefits of social networking on the Internet?
Social Networking sites presents lots of benefits for small businesses.

  • They are typically free to join and easy to use.
  • Social networking sites allow businesses to connect with both customers and other associated businesses.
  • The Internet never closes, so advertising through social networking sites has the potential to reach many more customers than using traditional forms of advertising.
  • The biggest benefit of using social networking sites to promote your business is your ability to build a network of loyal clientele.
  • Social networking sites take “word of mouth” online, and small businesses have much to gain.

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By Amit Panchal
January 1, 2009

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