Monday 5 November 2012

The Importance of SEO (Search Engine Optimization)

The purpose of SEO (Search engine optimization) is truly brings the website’s need on the top rankings in the most popular search engines like Google, Yahoo, Bing etc.
As we know that Internet has become a most powerful marketing tool for us. Most of websites are available on the World Wide Web due to various purposes. But they need to be on the top rankings in the search engines to maintain its popularity and to increase the volume of traffic to the site. SEO serves the given purpose, but when the pages of sites are optimized with high targeted key words, the rank of the site increases. It can be truly said that “higher the page rank, higher the traffic.
Ways to maintenance of Ranks
There are several ways in SEO involves a number of tools and techniques to increase the ranking and sales of the site through popular search engines. Such as,
Keywords: The web pages should be designed with quality content, open and point-specific. It should be contain the highly specific keywords which are usually searched by the visitors through search engines. This really helps in bringing your web pages on the top. It’s also advisable that pages should be analyzed with keyword density.
Content is King: It’s imperative that the content of the site should be periodically updated so that it becomes effective and alive. The website should contain high quality for visitors to use it broadly.
Link Popularity: The links of the site is an essential aspect which decides the ranking of the site in the search engines. A lot of incoming links which are contains different files, like keywords, directories and many more.
 PPC (Pay per Click): PPC is another way to increase the website ranking in search engines. It’s popularly known as advertisements method. This also the best SEO tools for increasing the traffic to your site. 

Sunday 4 November 2012

Use Better Photos on your Blog With Zero Effort

You never really know what kinds of resources you’ll need when running a site, until you have one of your own. I guess it’s a bit like parenting or taking on a new job: so many details that nobody ever bothered to mention before! One thing that I realized I desperately needed very suddenly when I started running my own blog was photography. I had all these posts, big long posts, and nothing to break the monotony. It looked awful. It looked boring.

So, I took into my own hands to jazz up my site with some visuals. I have this digital camera that’s like, okaaay, and skills that are somewhat meh but I figured that I’d eventually be able to hack it. After taking about 50 photos of my cat (who had nothing to do with the post in question, but was a ready and available subject) I realized that my efforts were futile. Even after learning some basic skills on retouching photos I realized that my own photography was only going to take me so far.


Either stock photography has come a long way, or I never really knew what the heck it was, at least back in the day. I often had this impression that it was all highly-processed, ultra-contrived scenarios that had all the appeal of a late night infomercial. Know what I mean? Fish eye lens people holding various objects, pictures of happy coworkers merrily gossiping by the water cooler or that “super stressed out” guy.
Boy, was I wrong, but I didn’t know it. So I never even considered checking out stock photography sites. I kept shooting pictures of my cats, or of food, or my neighbourhood, and hoped that my clever captioning would allow me to save face.

My Adventures in Stock Photography

 

So about a year ago, when my website was about 6 months old, I decided that I wanted some models for my own website.

I knew that it would cost a small fortune to hire models and a professional photographer, and there was no way I was going to attempt to be on either side of the lens myself. That’s when my cousin (who happens to be a son of a photographer) told me to check out some stock photography sites.
Frankly, I was a little appalled. “You, of all people, should know better than to suggest I use THAT!”
That’s when he told me that even his dad sells some photography to stock sites, and that I should really check a few of them out.

“But I don’t need business-people jump shots,” I informed him. I got a look in return, so I started googling around.

I was shocked…not only was the photography not at all cheesy, but it was good. Real good.
I felt pretty giddy and excited knowing how much this was going to turn my blog around!
And it required SO little effort on my part! Yay!

Article source: http://inspirationfeed.com

Thursday 1 November 2012

Pictorial review: Range Rover Evoque

Even though the Evoque is tall, the vehicle has excellent handling and has no body roll. The Evoque handles just like a sedan and points in the direction you want it to.