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Optimize Your Mobile Website In 5 Steps

January 24, 2012   admin   12 Comments

Optimizing your mobile website is crucial to your success. Why? Well, because people using mobile phones to search are motivated searchers. They are ready to buy or are looking for information to make decisions. These are people who can’t wait to get home to use the computer.

That’s why if your mobile website is not optimized, these motivated searchers won’t find it. The unfortunate result will be loss of sales. So, how do you optimize a mobile website? Here are 5 important steps.

Step 1. Make a plan

Having a master plan for your mobile website is a great idea. The beginning point would be to have site that loads quickly, is well designed and is tailored for most smart phones. Try and solve one major problem on your mobile website. Do not expect visitors to perform too many functions on your site will reduce its impact.

Step 2. Make your website user-friendly

This seems like an obvious thing to do, but most sites are not. Let your mobile website be friendly to the search engine crawlers and mobile devices. A site cannot be friendly to all smart phones. You need to choose those that your users are most likely going to use.

If you do a survey and find that 80% of your clients have Samsung and Nokia phones, then design a website friendly to these brands.

Step 3. Choose keywords

Start by determining how people search your products or service. Determine words they type on search engines. Get to know the global and local search numbers of those keywords. Get to know the competition of those keywords locally and internationally. Get a SEO expert to help you if you can’t.

However, it is good to note that mobile searches are normally local. Meaning that if you are in New York, the results you get will be different from those you will get when in Los Angeles.

Step 4. Make your content relevant

Have relevant content centered on your keywords. Google crawlers will review all the websites with the keyword. They will then decide which sites are the most relevant and bring the search results on a page. That means if you get the keywords right, then your site will rank high on search results.

Step 5. Do a submission of your website to various directories

There are reasons that make it necessary to submit your site to directories. First, to get your website indexed. This enables crawlers to find your websites when they come searching; otherwise the search engines will not know of its existence. Secondly, so as to improve your in search engine rankings. And lastly, this helps in targeting specific keywords which enhances website visibility.
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Learn How to Install Joomla on Your Website in Less Than 5 Minutes

January 23, 2012   admin   6 Comments



You can learn how to install Joomla on your website in a number of ways. However, the simplest and by far, the quickest is through Fantastico. This usually takes about 1-2 minutes once you know how. In this article, we are going to cover just that.

So, here is the step by step process for installing Joomla on your own website.

1. Log in to your hosting account’s Control Panel. This should usually behttp://www.mydomainname.com/controlpanel, where ‘mydomainnane’ is replaced your own website that is hosted on that hosting account.

2. Look for the smiley icon that says “Fantastico” and click on it. This is where you will be installing the Joomla package from. Note that Sometimes, it may say “Fantastico De Luxe.” Don’t worry it is the same thing. Much like saying “my room” and “my bedroom” ;)

3. Look for “Joomla” under the “Content Management” category of scripts in Fantastico and click on it. Also, note that the title ‘Joomla’ may sometimes have some numerical suffixes showing which version it is. For example, the title may read “Joomla 1.5″ for version 1.5 of the CMS. Just click on the most recent version and go to the next step.

4. Look for the hyperlinked blue “New Installation” link and make sure you have at least as much as the minimum disk space required for you to install Joomla on your website. This is usually about 25 MB of disk space.

This is not usually
a problem, with most people’s disk space running into the tens of gigabytes. But it is still good to make sure you have enough to hold a new Joomla installation.

5. Choose where on your website you want to install Joomla. Will it be on your main domain, an existing sub-domain or a new not-yet-existing sub-domain or directory? Indicate it in this part of the installation process.

6. Fill out other required fields that are required to smoothly install Joomla on the site. This includes creating an Admin username and  password. Don’t choose ‘Admin’ and ‘password’ as your username and password. Many people do this and have been hacked. Also, fill out the site name or main keyword, email address and other details here.

Then click the “Install Joomla” button.

7. On the next page, make sure that all the needed information is correct. Also, note down your Admin username, password and backend page (the one that ends with /administrator).

Finally, hit that “Finish Installation” of a button.

Voila! You have just learned how to install Joomla on your website. This should usually take only 1 or 2 minutes at most. After all, all you are doing is just hitting buttons, except for when choosing a username, etc.

If it still sounds a little like “nerd talk” (with all due respect to all the nerds out there ;) , you can watch the video version of this article where you see the Joomla installation done live on the screen and see if you can learn how to install Joomla after that.
Thanks to  Khursheed Alam!

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SEO (Search Engine Optimisation)

January 20, 2012   admin   12 Comments

Looking for SEO ? Well, You have come to the right place. The are many websites which are providing this service but I’m going to tell you one of  the SEO service of the web, Yes I’m talking about SEO Sheffield . Just click on this link know all about SEO.
www.spiralmedia.co.uk/seo is run by a team of professional internet marketeers who already run their own highly ranking and profitable internet sites across all sectors from retail to finance. The company consists of a number of specialised SEO professionals assisted by a highly talented team of content writers, link builders, developers and account managers who have previously worked in many prestigious media companies and online businesses.
Unfortunately simply submitting your web site to search engines will not drive traffic to your site. Although submission is an integral part of any effective search engine optimising strategy, you must achieve good search positions for anyone to find your listing. Hopefully the useful hints and tips will help you optimise your site and achieve that top ten position.

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A Warning Note for Apps and Extensions Users

January 16, 2012   admin   4 Comments

Apps and extensions you install may have access to your data. You might also see a warning dialog when an already installed extension or app is updated, if the item requests new or different permissions. A warning doesn’t mean that the extension does do something dangerous, just that it could.

Don’t install an app or extension unless you trust its creator. Check the item’s ratings and reviews to determine if it’s trustworthy.

Here are the permissions that apps and extensions may request. Click the links to see more details.

All data on your computer and the websites you visit

This item contains an NPAPI plug-in.

Caution: NPAPI plug-ins can do almost anything, in or outside of your browser. For example, they could use your webcam, or they could read your personal files.

Read more : http://www.google.com/support/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=186213

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