Jun 02
Google and Matt Cutts announced that site speed is now a factor in Google’s ranking algorithm, this means you need to refine your websites and remove all unnecessary code. Clean coding is good coding, and will make your websites easier to update, maintain, and upgrade in the future.
One thing to note: Page load time is a small factor and will not be given the weight that other factors have; relevance, topicality, reputation, value-add, backlinks, keyword usage are all much more important ranking signals. Google uses over 200 elements in their search engine ranking algorithm, and page speed will affect less than 1% of all current search results.
Here are some page speed optimization tips that will help you decrease website load time.
Coding Best Practices For Fast Websites
- Make Fewer HTTP Requests
- Use a Content Delivery Network
- Add an Expires Header
- Gzip Components
- Avoid Redirects
- Put Stylesheets at the Top
- Put Scripts at the Bottom
- Avoid CSS Expression
- Make JavaScript and CSS External
- Reduce DNS Lookups
- Minimize JavaScript
- Remove Duplicate Scripts
- Configure Entity Tags (ETags)
- Make AJAX Cacheable
- Remove External Third Party Scripts Such As: analytics, widgets, graphical icons, comments, social media (you can move th on your own server)
The insight behind these best practices is the fact that only 10-20% of the browser response time is spent getting the HTML document to the end user. Spend your time on the 80-90% that is hidden behind the page to make your pages noticeably faster. This is for optimizing the way servers and browsers handle that 80-90% of the user experience with advanced webpages.
For more information and further reading about site speed algorithm changes
Steve Souders’ 14 Rules for Faster-Loading Web Sites
More page load time information at seomofo
Improve the performance of your website with Google site speed
Intenseblog tips to optimize html pages for fast loading times.
Jun 01
Video Services that can promote your online videos through SEO.
67 sites that you can use for video search engine optimization that will host and share your web videos with the web. These are specialized vertical sites for creating, discovering, searching, sharing, storing your videos.
After uploading videos, you will need to get links to the video detail page to get better placement in the search engine results pages. It usually requires 1/10 the amount of links to promote a video compared to a web page.
Video Sharing Websites
- BigContact social podcasting/videocasting
- blinkx tv / video / podcast search
- blip.tv video/podcasting sharing service
- Bolt video/photo/music sharing service
- Boltfolio video sharing service
- Brightcove professional paid video hosting and distribution
- BroadbandSports.com sports video portal with videos of sporting events and football matches
- BroadSnatch podcasts & v-log
- Castpost social video hosting / sharing
- Clipshack social video sharing
- Dailymotion international video sharing site with full length movies and copyrighted content
- DiviCast social podcasting/videocasting
- Dropshots social video sharing
- EveryBit search multimedia web content
- EyeSpot simple video mixing and sharing
- FireAnt.tv social video sharing
- Flukiest music/photo/video sharing
- Freevlog video logging tutorial
- GetDemocracy internet television
- GlideDigital social photo/music/video/file/etc sharing
- Grinvi social video sharing in spanish
- Grouper social video sharing
- Hulu professional videos and movies only, soon to offer a subscription service
- Kolablog multimedia blogging service; free
- LifeBlogger free blogging service
- Loomia podcast/video search engine
- Magnoto free modular blogging service
- MediaMax online media / file storage ; free (25 gb) and paid accounts
- MediaTurner rich media player service
- mefeedia social video sharing
- MetaCafe social video sharing allows movies and paid content
- MyVideoKaraoke social karaoke video sharing of self made music videos
- Openvlog video recording and sharing
- Orb secure access to media (music/photo/video)
- Ourmedia online storage
- Phanfare social photo / video sharing
- PicPix photo/video sharing/tag/organization application
- PiXPO video sharing service
- poddater video personals with tags
- Podesk video podcast/blog software
- Pooxi video search engine (french)
- Popcast social video broadcasting
- Revver social video sharing on this very popular youth oriented site
- SelfCastTV social video sharing
- SevenLoad social video sharing
- Sharkle social video sharing
- ShoZu social photo / video / text mobile sharing
- Stickam social media sharing
- Stridr / swapzies social media storage
- Strmz videos from TV channels
- Trueveo video search engine
- Tubemogul service to share and distribute your videos to multiple video search engines
- TurnHere film of the day
- uZood social media video sharing
- VideoBomb social video hosting / sharing
- VideoEgg video publishing
- VideoSift social video sharing
- VidiLife social video sharing
- Vimeo social video sharing, unlimited length uploads, easy embedding – one of our favorites
- vlogmap video blogs on google maps
- vMix social video sharing
- Veoh full video sharing service with professional features
- Vongo high-quality full screen video plugin software
- vSocial social video sharing
- woomu social video sharing with user tags and votes
- YouTube social video sharing, uploads limited to 10 minutes
- Zippyvideos social video sharing
With so many options for promoting your videos, you may be overwhelmed. If you promote your videos on the following websites you will cover 95% of the online audience.
Top 10 video sharing websites
- YouTube
- Blip
- Dailymotion
- Vimeo
- Metacafe
- Veoh
- Video Egg
- Grouper
- Megavideo
- Revver
May 29
Business.com is one of my recommend directories and it should be on your short list of sites to submit to. Having a directory listing at business.com will help your search engine optimization efforts and give you a high quality authoritative backlink.
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May 27
Enom has been called the domain name registrar with fantom coupon codes. There is a field to enter a discount code in their shopping cart, but finding actual working codes is more difficult than keeping an ice cube from melting in Palm Springs.
However, we have found some Enom promo codes to share with you that work for the PDQ reseller domain name system. This system is branded as Registry Rocket and allows you to take full control of all your registrations.
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These discounts will only work with the Enom Instant Reseller program, and provides a free upgrade of existing PDQ accounts. PDQ is branded as the Registry Rocket system, which provides an instant reseller store front where you can sell domain names and customize the price of all names.
Currently The Registryrocket system allows you to sell the following extensions: .COM, .ORG, .NET, .BIZ , .INFO, .CC, .TV, .WS, .NU, .BZ, .US
To use coupon codes on Enom.com you will need to first become an Enom member where you can receive 50% discounts on all domain name registrations.
May 26
Working with companies from South East Asia, Singapore & Malaysia, Japan, Korea or China requires different business etiquette than Western nations. Below is a video crash course in the art of the Asian business card exchange.
Following these simple tips and honoring protocol in their countries will win you huge points and guarantee respect. Not following these cultural business guidelines could result in lost deals or reduced business from Asian companies.
My generation, (Generation X) is not as formal as our previous generation, and some people lament that the United States is slowly losing formality & etiquette that makes for a respectful and polite society. This video contains important information for the younger business professional who may have no experience with Asian business culture and working with international firms.
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May 22
Affiliate Summit is the place you want to be and is the conference that will take your online business to the next level. The next event is in New York city, Aug 15-17, 2010 at the Hilton New York, and they are expecting over 3000 attendees.
Platinum Affiliate Summit conference passes cost $1,249 each but you can get them for $1124 with this discount code.
Here is the Affiliate Summit East 2010 discount code and special registration link
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This ASE promotional code is good for 10% off silver, gold, platinum or diamond passes
There is a special group rate discount of 20% for 5-9 passes and 25% off of 10 or more passes. Pool your resources in the comments and join as a group to get an even cheaper Affiliate Summit ticket.
If you used this 10% discount coupon code and the 25% group rate discount, you would only pay $615 for a Platinum Pass. That is a great deal.
The Affiliate Summit organizers have negotiated $229/night deal at the Ney York Hilton. You can save even more with the $189/night non-refundable rate plus taxes.
What’s new with ASE2010
Affiliate attendees are now able to vote on sessions, not just the Affiliate Summit advisory panel. ASE2010 will let you review all 32 sessions and “Ask the Experts” tables.
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May 19
When would a website not want to optimize for search engines?
When they have more to gain from a closed system. It worked for AOL for a long time, maybe it can also work for
Gilt Groupe, Groupon, and other localized social shopping discount websites.
Most interestingly, neither of Gilt nor Groupon try search engine optimization to sell their offers: traditional SEO is the antithesis of their businesses. 
These custom shopping sites get special deals from merchants who can offer lower prices because the products will not appear in Google searches and there is no fear of price wars from competition.
Efficient pricing is great for the open internet, but bad for businesses. Ubiquitous, instant, free, continual, direct product comparisons drives price towards marginal cost quickly and can reduce profit to zero. Information inefficiency is the best way for e-commerce retailers to protect their profit margins, and they can do this with teaser offers on targeted social shopping websites such as Groupon.com and Gilt.com.
Information inefficiency was the natural state in which we existed pre internet, but now it must be carefully manufactured.
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May 18
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May 17
Myspace has given us a coupon code to use on their Myads.com pay per click ad program. The key benefit of advertising on myspace is the ability to target users with extremely high accuracy. The demographic targeting data available to Myspace advertisers makes this program a must try resource.
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May 13
Use the money mindset to overcome information overload and learn how to focus to accomplish more work and be more productive.
This is a review of the Money Mindset program, which is a simple video training course that outlines the steps you should take to achieve greater success in your online business.
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Google and Matt Cutts announced that site speed is now a factor in Google’s ranking algorithm, this means you need to refine your websites and remove all unnecessary code. Clean coding is good coding, and will make your websites easier to update, maintain, and upgrade in the future.
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