1. Facebook

The granddaddy of them all. According to Alexa rankings, Facebook is the 5th most popular site in the world today.

Facebook is the perfect place to develop relationships online and now boast with more than a 100 million users online.

Unfortunately, to many marketers have adopted their tacky ‘MySpace Mentality’ in Facebook by pasting endless links on your profile wall.

This is enough to make anyone cringe.

Lots of potential for marketing, if you are prepared to build relationships first.

Best Resource will be Mari Smith, relationship and buzz marketing specialist. You will find plenty of golden nuggets on her fan page which can be found by doing a search on Facebook.

2. Squidoo

There’s been plenty of debates whether Seth Godin’s (the king of marketing in my honest opinion) collection of half a million pages still delivers quality traffic after a not so recent Google Slap.

But, like Seth mentions, Google is famous for rewarding pages that are worth while, so if you Squidoo lens provides quality content, Squidoo has endless benefits for your web presence.

Check out Rena Klingenberg’s Squidoo Traffic Power lens for great tips and resources.

3. Hubpages

Hubpages are relatively the same as Squidoo. Instead of a lens, you build a hub. Hubs with blatant affiliate promotions will not get approved.

Only original, relevant content will cut it.

You will find plenty of excellent ‘how to’ hubs on hubpages itself which will help you get started.

4. StumbleUpon

This site absolutely rocks! Install the ’stumble’ button on your Firefox browser to vote sites a thumbs up or down, or simply bookmark a favorite while doing research on the fly.

5. Mashable

Mashable is the worlds largest blog to focus on all the web 2.0 and social networking news.

Very popular amongst bloggers and social networking fanatics with an influential demographic which increases daily.

6. Digg

Digg is a community-based social news site with a readership who is extremely tech savvy.

You can submit your articles, blog posts, videos, pictures, etc and if the community ‘diggs’ it, you get, well, digged.

If a link to your content gets submitted to Digg and gets voted for by the community, you can receive hundreds to even thousands of visitors in as little as minutes.

Look out for Dean Hunt. Dean Hunt’s content has been featured on the front page numerous times and provides a excellent free report on his blog called ‘Confessions of the Buzz Content Hustlers’.

7. Technorati

Simply said, the Google of Blogs. Technorati was founded to help bloggers collect and share information for online global conversation.

Technorati currently states it is tracking over 112.8 million blogs. Once you have sufficient content, you need to claim your blog with Technorati.

A good idea is to let your friends and others favorite your blog with Technorati.

8. MyBlogLog

The key to global conversation throughout the blogosphere.

MyBlogLog enables bloggers to talk amongst each other and learn about their readers by checking out their blogs and active communities.

This generally made possible via a widget in the sidebar displaying your most recent visitors to your blog.

MyBlogLog enhances your existing presence on the Web and connects it with communities of like-minded readers and bloggers, adding context to the conversations in which you take part.

9. Propeller

Several years back when Netscape.com was acquired by AOL, Netscape wanted to follow in Digg’s footsteps and added social news.

So, Propeller was born.

Propeller is a social news portal which, like Digg, is controlled by the popularity which is voted for by the community.

Make sure your content is newsworthy and original when you submit to Propeller.

10. Mixx

Direct competitor of Digg who is receiving a lot of attention from CNN, who now adds a ‘mixx it’ buttons with all their content.

A fun group of diversified personalities consisting of a ex-banker, a blackjack dealer, an ice skater, a self-professed geek and a rabid cricket fan. Be sure to add Mixx for strategic social marketing.

And of course… Twitter!

The list cant be complete without adding Twitter to the portfolio.

Twitter’s microblogging 140 character conversations is taking over the web, literally.

CoachDeb has created the ultimate guide to Twitter, so if you are still in the Dark about how Twitter works, download the TwitterHandBook.

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1. Title Tag

The Title Tag is located at the top of your html page
and it tells the search engines what your page is about.
When you open your page in a browser these are the
words at the very top of the screen. Despite its simplicity,
the title tag is crucial to ‘on-page optimization’; it should
include your main keywords and it should be 63 characters
or less if you want your title to appear in full on Google.

Many SEO experts create webpages in a three-prong
approach. They place the title in:

- the title tag
- on the webpage itself
- and in the URL for that page.

Sometimes they will just pick the main keywords from
the title and place them in the anchor url instead.
For example: www.yourwebsite.com/keywords.html

2. Meta Description Tag

The Meta Tag contains the description for your webpage.
Your description will show up in all the search engines
so you have to be careful to write precisely and objectively.
It should be about 140 characters or around 20 words.
Make sure to include your keywords but don’t spam – don’t
repeat your keywords more than twice, using variations is
helpful.

Keep in mind, successful webmasters make their descriptions
stand out from the crowd and entice the surfer to click
their link. It is also the first contact with your potential
visitor or prospect so make a good first impression.

3. Anchor Tag or URL

The anchor tag is used to form links within websites
or from site to site. This tag should have your title
or the main keywords from your page title to be the most
effective.

Anchor text is also important to know, these are the
underlined, clickable text or words in a link.
<*A HREF="url"> anchor text <*/A>

If you want to check Google for all web pages
containing your keywords in the anchor tags.

Just type into Google Search:

allinanchor:yourkeywords

4. Finding Backlinks

One of the keys to higher rankings is building quality
links from relevant related quality sites. The search
engines, especially Google, counts each link as a “vote”
for your site or content. Many experts suggest you include
your main keywords in the anchor text of these inbound
links in order to rank high.

If you want to find the number of backlinks your site
has.

Just type into Google Search:

link:yourURL

and it will give you the number of backlinks you have.

Google doesn’t give you all your existing backlinks,
so you can try Yahoo! to find a more exact number.

Just open Yahoo! and type in:
linkdomain:yourURL

5. Checking Indexed Pages

If is very important for you to know what content
the search engines have indexed from your site.
You can also check to see how your links are
displayed and to see if any titles or descriptions
are missing from your pages.

You can see how many of your pages are indexed
in Google by using the site command.

Just type into Google Search:

site:yourURL

Another way to look at your pages in Google
is to type in “http://yoursite” and “www.yoursite”
with the quotation marks to see the exact number
of listings for each.

6. Checking Google Cache

You can also check to see the Google Cache
of your site by using the cache command.
You will also discover when it was last
retrieved.

Just type into Google Search:

cache:yourURL

7. Finding Associated Keywords

Keywords are the heart of the Internet, you
must dominate the search engines for your
chosen keywords if you are to succeed online.
So make sure you have your main keywords in
the Meta Keyword Tag on your page. Many experts
suggest you place your page’s main keywords
in the first and last 25 words on that page.

You must also be able to find and use variations
of your keywords to completely conquer your targeted
niche. To find what other keywords Google has
associated with your main keywords, just use
the tilde ~ command to find associated phrases
in Google.

Just type into Google search:

~keywords

Variations will be highlighted in bold print.

8. Finding Titled Keywords

If you want to find competing sites that have
your keywords in the title just use the allintitle
command.

Just type into Google search:

allintitle:yourkeywords

In summary, if used consistently, these basic SEO
techniques should help improve your rankings and keep you
in the picture with regards to your standings in the search
engines. Your site’s stats or raw traffic logs will also confirm
the rise or fall of your keyword rankings. You must have
complete knowledge of both your site and your keywords
in the search engines, especially Google. Since Google will
deliver most of your quality traffic, you must optimize for
it and be aware of what is happening to your site and keywords
within Google. This is yet another example where knowledge
equals success.

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To improve your time management, study the following concept:

* Proper focus, concentration, delegation of duties, and right time scheduling will save your time.

* Make a journal of your daily schedule starting from your morning habits, to your work routine, to your personal interactions, and to your leisure activities.

* Analyze what is important in your daily task and prioritize those that need an urgent attention.

* Make the most important and focal tasks your basis for commitments.

* Organize your projects by splitting the bigger project into smaller ones and set a quick-fix limit.

* Avoid inconsistency and conflict among job and beliefs by considering your values in life.

Develop a system that would help you cope from stress. Strategies and other alternatives would be useful to help you cope up from any stress. The best way to develop a system for coping strategies is by recording the stress and by noting down every detail of stressful events, your response to it, and what you did to cope up from it. Using these data, you can make an adjustment on the strategies and improve those that were helpful.

Behavior, lifestyle, and discipline are among the factors that influence the degree and reduction of stress. To better improve yourself when coping with stress, try the following guidelines:

* Balance your time for work, family obligations, and personal affairs.

* Make your life purposeful.

* Give yourself a good recovery from stress by sleeping soundly.

* Healthy and nourished body can fight stress naturally so make sure you eat a healthy and balanced diet.

* A regular exercise will help condition your body, as well as your mental aspects.

* Alcoholic drinks will further increase your stress so try to reduce intake of it.

* Avoid first hand and second hand smoke.

Another factor that affects the reduction of stress is the social support you receive from family, friends, and the community. The thought that there are people who love you and care for you encourages you to become stress tolerant and flexible. Social support also develops your self-esteem and improves your mental, emotional, and physical health.

Stressful events can spark off destructive thoughts such as fear, insecurity, anxiety, depression, rage, guilt, and a sense of worthlessness or powerlessness. This is how negative thoughts affect your emotions and eventually initiate body’s stress. It will be an advantage in favor of you if you will learn how to deal your negative thoughts. Once you know how to deal those thoughts, you will no longer be affected by stressful events. Here are some of the guidelines to help you deal with your negative and destructive thoughts:

* Stop yourself from thinking negative thoughts and help eliminate stress.

* Forbid yourself from over-reacting to stressful events and disregard irrational thoughts. Overstatement of negative thoughts, expectations of worst events, and misinterpretation of incidence should be avoided to shun the occurrence of stress.

* Get to the bottom of the problem and distinguish the details of stressful events. Once you classified certain stress you can make an action to deal with it.

* Make yourself clear when corresponding to others so that your opinions would sound as simple and plain as possible. This way your subordinates would not feel intimidated or confused and the development of stress for you and for others would be reduced.

Every one of us shares our own experiences of stress in our daily struggles and responsibilities. No matter how great your tasks are or how plain your duties are, each and every individual would not want having stress as something that further harden the workload. Time management, proper behavior and lifestyles, and optimism are the most vital system we can ever construct to take away stress and bring about a more relaxed environment.

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