Archive for the 'Web Marketing' Category

How does Google update pagerank?

What is google page rank? Wiki has a great answer.

As you probably know that the higher the google pagerank is, the more seriously Google will treat your website. The search result will list a page with higher page rank first.  There are surely other matters which will determine the sorting. But page rank is definitely one important factor.

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Privacy Issue for bloggers

To make a blog website popular, one of the strategies is to open some personal information to public. While this is a good idea, it may bring privacy problems sometimes. So what information can be public regarding privacy issues? The way to figure this out is to check some other popular blogs and get the knowledge about what kind of information is available.

Here is a good example: Frank Mccown

How to combine programming skills with marketing talent

There are five ways to tell if your blog is on the right track, comments, subscribers, links, friends, and niche. Based on this point, programcreek.com is not on the right track at all. There are not a lot of comments, almost no subscribers, few links. This is true, because I’m not spending much time on this. To let the blog be linked by someone, it has to have something worth to link. Do I have this? NO.

Marketing skill is based on good products. Here, it is valuable content. So the only way to let the blog go to the right track is to spend more time making valuable posts.

Here is a nice article about blogging.http://www.problogger.net/archives/2009/10/21/5-ways-to-know-if-your-blog-is-on-the-right-track/

How many ways can you make money from your blog?

A number of articles on this topic have been posted, but I want to share my little experience of exploration.

In this post, I will list the approaches of making money online that I have tested. If you spend enough time on anyone of those, you will earn some money. Maybe it’s not a lot, but adding 100 or 200 dollars each month to your account is not a problem, if you play this well. I’m still doing research on this topic, so I will keep it updated from time to time.

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Make more video tutorials to bring more visitors

How can I get more visitors? The answer is always simple: make your website useful to more people.

I’m gonna make some tutorials for my visitors. The first one I do will be: how to make a beautiful resume using Word. (Since Latex is not as good as Word for a resume, it will not be introduced)

There is a very good tool to make screen video online, it’s ScreenToaster. The video can be submitted to Youtube online or downloaded to local machine. What I will do is to put the tutorial on youtube, but also provide download through fotfile.com. This is a terrific idea, if the tutorial is useful for a lot of people.