I want to shift gears from leadership to a pure focus on crafting an exceptional life for this blog post. Ultimately, life goes by in a blink. And too many people live the same year 80 times. To avoid getting to the end and feeling flooded regret over a live half-lived, read (and then apply) these tips:
1. Exercise daily.
2. Get serious about gratitude.
3. See your work as a craft.
4. Expect the best and prepare for the worst.
5. Keep a journal.
6. Read “The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin”.
7. Plan a schedule for your week.
8. Know the 5 highest priorities of your life.
9. Say no to distractions.
10. Drink a lot of water.
11. Improve your work every single day.
12. Get a mentor.
13. Hire a coach.
14. Get up at 5 am each day.
15. Eat less food.
16. Find more heroes.
17. Be a hero to someone.
18. Smile at strangers.
19. Be the most ethical person you know.
20. Don’t settle for anything less than excellence.
21. Savor life’s simplest pleasures.
22. Save 10% of your income each month.
23. Spend time at art galleries.
24. Walk in the woods.
25. Write thank you letters to those who’ve helped you.
26. Forgive those who’ve wronged you.
27. Remember that leadership is about influence and impact, not title and accolades.
28. Create unforgettable moments with those you love.
29. Have 5 great friends.
30. Become stunningly polite.
31. Unplug your TV.
32. Sell your TV.
33. Read daily.
34. Avoid the news.
35. Be content with what you have.
36. Pursue your dreams.
37. Be authentic.
38. Be passionate.
39. Say sorry when you know you should.
40. Never miss a moment to celebrate another.
41. Have a vision for your life.
42. Know your strengths.
43. Focus your mind on the good versus the lack.
44. Be patient.
45. Don’t give up.
46. Clean up your messes.
47. Use impeccable words.
48. Travel more.
49. Read “As You Think”.
50. Honor your parents.
51. Tip taxi drivers well.
52. Be a great teammate.
53. Give no energy to critics.
54. Spent time in the mountains.
55. Know your top 5 values.
56. Shift from being busy to achieving results.
57. Innovate and iterate.
58. Speak less. Listen more.
59. Be the best person you know.
60. Make your life matter.
Source
This are some stunning advices for a beautifull life!
Friday, December 24, 2010
Monday, November 22, 2010
SEO Tips
Traffic is the core element of a successful website. Search Engines have become the primary way of bringing traffic to an online venture. Targeted traffic can convert into potential business and revenue for any website owner.
 | Tip 1: Avoid Bad Coding. Ensure web pages are W3C Compliant. Search Engines bots crawl through web sites by analyzing the sites code. The idea is to make html clean and error free so that these bots are able to index every page of a website. Having errors could mean that your entire site does not get indexed by the bots, and ultimately can lead to a lower page ranking. Tip 2: Use Relevant Keywords. If a website is about belgian chocolate, then go after specific keywords. For example "gourmet belgian chocolate" and "belgian chocolate truffles" would be good choices because they are very specific. The more specific a keyword is, the less competition it will receive in search engine rankings. This allows sites to have an easier time ranking, and a better position in the search engines. Tip 3: Smart Keyword Placement. After the keywords have been decided on, they should show up somewhere in the site title and header tags. The keywords should also be in the web pages body, but avoid overdoing the keyword density. Tip 4: Get Inbound Links. Relevant incoming links from other websites that are 'trusted' can boost the site's search engine ranking. Try to avoid paid link backs and too many reciprocal links. Stay away from link schemes. |
Sunday, November 21, 2010
Keyword Spy Package
This is my Keyword Spy Package
I hope it will be helpfull
http://www.google.pl/trends
http://www.google.com/sktool/#keywords
http://www.google.com/insights/search/#
http://ranks.nl/tools/spider.html
http://hint.fm/seer
http://www.keywordeye.co.uk
http://suggest.thinkpragmatic.net
http://whatdoyousuggest.net/#|default|default
http://duhomez.ironie.org/seo-widgets/suggest.php?kw=home&mix2=office&lang=fr&depth=1
and after all I use this : http://www.marketsamurai.com/full-version.php
I hope it will be helpfull
http://www.google.pl/trends
http://www.google.com/sktool/#keywords
http://www.google.com/insights/search/#
http://ranks.nl/tools/spider.html
http://hint.fm/seer
http://www.keywordeye.co.uk
http://suggest.thinkpragmatic.net
http://whatdoyousuggest.net/#|default|default
http://duhomez.ironie.org/seo-widgets/suggest.php?kw=home&mix2=office&lang=fr&depth=1
and after all I use this : http://www.marketsamurai.com/full-version.php
Effective SEO Tactics for Webmasters
Ever thought of what are the most effective tactics for webmasters to optimize their websites? We certainly have, and we have listed here some of the most essential methods that a webmaster needs in order to obtain the most effect with the least effort:
- Keyword research: Having relevant keywords is where SEO starts. Obtaining good keywords could mean the difference of having no visitors for your site to many visitors. It also determines how relevant your visitors are to your website. Most on-site optimization requires that good keywords are present to have a good optimized site.
- Meta tag optimization: Description meta tags are used as snippets by Google, so having good meta tags are essential to have relevant visitors coming to your site. Within this description, words that match the user’s query are bolded, so make sure to have relevant keywords within the description.
- Title tag optimization: A title tag tells both users and search engines about the topic of your website, so make sure that it is relevant and not just full of random words. Make sure to add in your primary keywords to optimize the title fully.
- On-site optimization: This could include different elements such as the content, the image tags, and other website content related changes. Try to add new elements to your site, and make sure that it is relevant and useful for the visitors as well. It will be sure to make visitors come back for more.
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Today - Fiverr.com
This is the gig:
"Send me your written review of anything and I will post it to my blog with 2 links. (Will not accept objectionable material, pornography, etc.) (No bad neighborhood links will be posted) My blog has google page rank 2 and it is hosted on blogspot."
Thursday, November 4, 2010
24 On-site SEO Checkups For Clueless Developers / Marketers
Although this will seem, to many of you, a very generic list of SEO on-site tips, you may be surprised to see how many SEO consultants and web developers overlook or forget these basic steps when launching a new site. These twenty- four On-site search engine optimisation checkups/tips can assure that any link building / link baiting efforts that will be made will give great results.
1. Run a $100 Adwords test campaign after your initial keyword research, helping you do the best themed/relevant keywords on-site optimisation.
2. Ensure there is a well written, non-duplicated attractive Title / Description tags on every page.
3. Verify that almost every single piece of relevant content on your site is somehow static to the page it was written for and is not a text image (double check that with a text browser).
4. Revise the On-page content to be sure there is a minimum presence of your themed keywords on every page. Don't try to go overboard, just think as if you'd be the user.
5. Double check your code to make sure you've got your content titles and subtitles under H1 / H2 tags.
6. Verify that the any navigational element are text links and are not "click here" or "more info" type of links.
7. Make sure contextual links are widely spread and commonly used all across the website content to emphasize key pages.
8. If you plan on trading links, make sure there is small directory with themed categories, or at least get a "links/resources" page.
9. Verify that your robots.txt file exists and that you added the folders you want to prevent access from.
10. Be sure there is a sitemap.xml at the root of your site.
11. Make sure there is a breadcrumb to help the cross-linking of your site.
12. Verify that the static sitemap is easily reachable by your visitors.
13. Ensure that your 404 page contains links to your main categories and maybe a search box.
14. Check that important images are labeled properly with the alt tag (this should be automated somehow).
15. Make sure you installed generic analytics to ensure any kind of tracking (Google Analytics, Indextools).
16. Make sure that conversion/defined action tracking analytics are installed (Heatmap tracking, conversion trackers from PPC platforms, Indextools action trackers, etc).
17. Register / validate your site through Google Webmaster central to be able to analyze incoming links and validate a few things (like your robots.txt file).
18. Do a quick IP location test to make sure you're hosted near your main market.
19. Unless otherwise advised, get your company's signature at the bottom of the pages you create for clients, using one of your best keyword as anchor text. This is vital. You shouldn't be worried about promoting your services, especially if your clients are highly satisfied with your work!
20. Use all SEOmoz tools (I'm a bit biased here): Page Strength and Keyword Difficulty to measure the efforts required to achieve high SERPs (by comparing your actual site with the top competitors website), and the Crawl test to ensure your website will get properly indexed.
21. Get your website xhtml/w3c validated to cover the major issues you might not have thought of
And a few extras, if you're running a blog platform
22. Ping the major content aggregators (Google Blog Search, My Yahoo, Wikio, etc.)
23. Include links to major social platforms (digg, del.icio.us, blogmarks, technorati tags, etc.)
24. Use Feedburner to get stats and a universal RSS feed
With this basic checklist, any web development company that is building and marketing websites will give its customers a fairly good chance of achieving high SERPs while generating several leads with referrals and good SERPs for themselves. The extra time it takes to do this justifies the reward you get. As an example, our company currently employs 17 people: I can say that half of the business we've generated has been solely because we insist that our customers implement at least these basics steps before launching a site. And, let me tell you, nobody is unhappy with the traffic, and nearly all of them don’t mind that our signature's there!
Source: seomoz blog
1. Run a $100 Adwords test campaign after your initial keyword research, helping you do the best themed/relevant keywords on-site optimisation.
2. Ensure there is a well written, non-duplicated attractive Title / Description tags on every page.
3. Verify that almost every single piece of relevant content on your site is somehow static to the page it was written for and is not a text image (double check that with a text browser).
4. Revise the On-page content to be sure there is a minimum presence of your themed keywords on every page. Don't try to go overboard, just think as if you'd be the user.
5. Double check your code to make sure you've got your content titles and subtitles under H1 / H2 tags.
6. Verify that the any navigational element are text links and are not "click here" or "more info" type of links.
7. Make sure contextual links are widely spread and commonly used all across the website content to emphasize key pages.
8. If you plan on trading links, make sure there is small directory with themed categories, or at least get a "links/resources" page.
9. Verify that your robots.txt file exists and that you added the folders you want to prevent access from.
10. Be sure there is a sitemap.xml at the root of your site.
11. Make sure there is a breadcrumb to help the cross-linking of your site.
12. Verify that the static sitemap is easily reachable by your visitors.
13. Ensure that your 404 page contains links to your main categories and maybe a search box.
14. Check that important images are labeled properly with the alt tag (this should be automated somehow).
15. Make sure you installed generic analytics to ensure any kind of tracking (Google Analytics, Indextools).
16. Make sure that conversion/defined action tracking analytics are installed (Heatmap tracking, conversion trackers from PPC platforms, Indextools action trackers, etc).
17. Register / validate your site through Google Webmaster central to be able to analyze incoming links and validate a few things (like your robots.txt file).
18. Do a quick IP location test to make sure you're hosted near your main market.
19. Unless otherwise advised, get your company's signature at the bottom of the pages you create for clients, using one of your best keyword as anchor text. This is vital. You shouldn't be worried about promoting your services, especially if your clients are highly satisfied with your work!
20. Use all SEOmoz tools (I'm a bit biased here): Page Strength and Keyword Difficulty to measure the efforts required to achieve high SERPs (by comparing your actual site with the top competitors website), and the Crawl test to ensure your website will get properly indexed.
21. Get your website xhtml/w3c validated to cover the major issues you might not have thought of
And a few extras, if you're running a blog platform
22. Ping the major content aggregators (Google Blog Search, My Yahoo, Wikio, etc.)
23. Include links to major social platforms (digg, del.icio.us, blogmarks, technorati tags, etc.)
24. Use Feedburner to get stats and a universal RSS feed
With this basic checklist, any web development company that is building and marketing websites will give its customers a fairly good chance of achieving high SERPs while generating several leads with referrals and good SERPs for themselves. The extra time it takes to do this justifies the reward you get. As an example, our company currently employs 17 people: I can say that half of the business we've generated has been solely because we insist that our customers implement at least these basics steps before launching a site. And, let me tell you, nobody is unhappy with the traffic, and nearly all of them don’t mind that our signature's there!
Source: seomoz blog
Dirty little SEO secrets Revealed
Tip#1
Tip #2 this is the address I use
Tip #3Quote:
| I have found that writing a letter to google telling them my site is now live and asking them to let the relevent people know has an astounding effect! |
Quote:
| New Websites Division Google Seattle 651 N. 34th St. Seattle, WA 98103 |
Putting the word "Number 1 ranking" automatically lets Google know you are the number 1 ranking website and they put you there
How to be excellent in English or learn English by yourself.
- Find Good communities: That's the first thing to do. Find good communities and blogs to read every day. Put 1-2 hours / day. You won't understand the details, especially if they are written by some kind of location specific language, but you get the whole idea and the style.
- Review grammar and syntax: Review your school courses. Tenses and forms, conditionals, passive voice... all that "crap". It's important that you have a solid mastery of the language basics to write fluently.
- Watch and listen: My recommended channels are BBC World and Aljazeera International. Listen to podcasts and videos on the web.
- Practice: Contribute to forums, get into the discussion and don't be afraid from being singled and turned down. Start a blog.
That's it. It's not hard, it also won't happen in a day or two. Persistence is the key here. Good luck.
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