With 5 billion page views per month (according to Wikipedia) and the ability to put your ad in anytime you want Craigslist provides an incredible opportunity to promote your website and MAKE SALES. This classifieds ad site allows you to post ads in selected cities based on categories, and can produce a huge amount of traffic to your site.

However it’s not just a matter of putting together some spammy ad and listing it in a hundred cities. Without a little foreknowledge all of your hard work will get “Flagged” or deleted off the list as fast as you can put them on followed by your IP getting banned.

One website that helps you to be able to make the most of this valuable resource is The Craigslist tips site. The editor of this site has had outstanding success in using Craigslist to promote his sites and products and has started writing his tips in a weekly blog post.

Some of the recent topics include Read on …

In a January 2006 survey conducted by WordpressTutorials.com, 48% of respondents admitted to just starting to experiment with blogging.

The purpose of their blogs vary from promoting their products and services, to building a community in their niche market, podcasting, profiting from contextual advertising, and generating additional traffic and exposure to their target websites.

Close to 50% of those surveyed began their journey into blogging with free blogging services such as those offered by Blogger.com, a division of Google.

Over time, many respondents report a lack of features and control that influence their search for a platform that offers them choice, control, convenience and comprehensive features and capabilities. Enter Wordpress into the scene.

Wordpress is known for its open-source blogging platform, which means a host of developers have contributed their time and programming expertise in molding it to be the best it can be for the community at large. This also means you can begin blogging with Wordpress today free.

You can download the files from Wordpress.org, or simply install it from your hosting account’s control panel (cPanel) through a feature called Fantastico.

Here are five compelling reasons that set Wordpress apart as a superior blogging application.
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Many people have asked me how do you create a RSS feed and what is it. RSS “Really Simple Syndication or some people call it RDF Site Summary” can be used to share information about a web site, such as news, press release and articles. It can be used to market your web site and can be very successful, if done right.

When an RSS feed is created from a website, the site’s latest articles or news will be available to other websites.

Why do I have to create an RSS Feed?
Well, Maybe you want to write original articles or news for your site and want other webmasters to be able to use
this content on their own websites, or to help promote your website. Or you may want to allow your visitors
to download it to their program, so they can get easier and faster access to it.

Before we start you need to know a few things. I am only going to teach you RSS 2.0 Syntax with this
tutorial. This is only the basics and not everything you need to know to become a true pro at RSS, but it will
at least get you started in creating your own RSS feed.

Also you will need Notepad or WordPad or some
other text editor. If you know any other programming (HTML, PHP, PERL, etc.) language it will help you
understand RSS much better.
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As the world wide web spread across the world, more and more web pages are made available in languages other than English. Google has provide a translation link and language tools to enable you to read more pages written in unfamiliar languages.

The Google Research blog posted an article about how Google’s translation tools work differently than most commercial machine translation systems. Recently, Google released their Arabic translation tool — I’ve only tried it once, but it looks very good.

I went to aljazeera.net to find some Arabic text so I could try the tool. I translated the first page I could find – the results were amazingly readable. Here is a screenshot showing the result of my translation.

I don’t know Arabic, but I do know now that the translation says Hamas condemned the United States to provide financial support for the Palestinian Presidential Guard forces, and considered it blatant interference in Palestinian internal affairs..

The NIST 2005 Machine Translation Evaluation results show that Google is ahead of companies like SYSTRAN — the brains behind Yahoo’s tool called “babelfish” and other popular lanaguage tools that cost you an arm and leg for their software translation tool.

You can try out the tool for yourself here: Google Language Tool

As FrankenGoogle (Dr Frankenstein’s evil search engine designing twin) works in his laboratory creating new monsters to cause us poor webmasters to shiver, many start to wonder if one of the latest ones has struck their website.

The Google Supplemental Index:
How do I know that’s happened to me?
Is it a bad Thing?
How do I get OUT!?

How do I know that’s happened to me?

Well, it is pretty easy to find out. *****

Using Google’s advanced search operator “site:” you can view all of the pages that Google has indexed for your site. If you find the words “Supplemental Result” under any of the pages that you would really like to have show up in the searches, then yes the monster has struck.
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First, we want to wish all our visitors a very happy Christmas Day from ThirdSquare.com!

Alright, you got your website all set up, the design looks slick, and you are ready for the flocks of visitors to arrive. Problem? No one is coming. The Internet is like a shopping mall, a very large and busy shopping mall. The chances that people will land on your website are very slim. That’s why you need to begin marketing your website.

How do you go about this? The simplest thing to do is to get your website out where people will see it. This must me done in a subtle manner, however.

Signatures in Forums, Comments In Blogs

Try to find forums or blogs that discuss similar topics as your website. Become a member and leave your link in the signature or for blogs leave a thoughtful comment.
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The inconceivable has happened, your baby, that you have poured hours over, creating content, promoting in the search engine, spent sleepless nights fretting over what to add next, has stopped producing. Traffic from Google has fell through the floor. As the beads of sweat start appearing on your forehead, you wonder, “Do they think I spammed them?” “Was it that last link trade I did?” “Is this just another nightmare caused by eating cold pizza and pickles before bed?”

No, it’s quite possible you just fell victim to FrankenGoogle’s (Dr Frankenstein’s evil search engine designing twin) latest experiment. The Supplemental Index.

What is it?
How do I know that’s happened to me?
Is this a bad thing?
If so, How do I get OUT!?
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Alot of publishers are getting ban out of AdSense when they have committed nothing wrong to
deserve any type of punishment. Many are left wondering what they have done wrong and what can they do to
get back in Adsense grace. Below is a few steps that you can take to try to get back in AdSense and also how to
minimize the chances of this problem becoming yours.

Click fraud is the most common reason publishers are getting kicked out of AdSense. Most web hosts offer
server logs, if your web host offers access to server logs make sure you hand this over to Google as well. This
will allow Google to look for any suspicious activity on your web site. It shows Google that you take this
problem seriously and will help them in anyway you can.

It’s also important to have a click monitoring program, you should turn over all the information you receive
from your click monitoring program to Google. You may want to go so far as disabling ads for your own IP
address and local geographic area. This prevents accidents and makes sure Google doesn’t mistake any another
user as you. Don’t ask your visitors to click on your ads, Google’s TOS (Terms Of Service) makes it clear that
this is not allowed and isn’t tolerated.
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As the Web continues to evolve as the venue for competition in business, the webmaster’s role is increasingly becoming critical. What exactly is a webmaster? He, or she for that matter, is essentially the administrator of a website.

What is a webmaster expected to do? Now that is another question all together – one that would take quite some time to answer. In a nutshell though, a webmaster performs all the activities necessary to keep a website up and running efficiently and successfully. Perhaps the first thing a webmaster is required to do is register a domain name and make sure that the payments to the Internet Service Provider and domain naming authority are made regularly. Otherwise, the website would be lost.

That is the easy part. Aside from this, the webmaster has a plethora of other tasks to attend to. He needs to be skillful when it comes to the different protocols that the ISP uses. He also needs to monitor the size of the website so that he can make sure that the allocated bandwidth is not exceeded. He also needs to coordinate with the page designers and programmers. In connection with this, he must set the standards to be adhered to in the design of the website. Furthermore, a webmaster must set up a back up system in case of technical problems so that all the information contained in the site would not be lost.
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Some of us can remember the days when SEO was a no brainer. Throw up a page of garbage, get a few useless backlinks, an adjustment here and there.. and voila! You could take over 4 or 7 of the top ten spots. The traffic would flow. But times have changed. As the business of search has matured into a multi-billion dollar industry, they’ve put an enormous amount of money and effort into making our jobs as search marketers hard. And what they found is this: content is hard.

More and more now, it’s all about good content. And not just any content but well-written, relevant, and unique content. And not a page or two, but lots and lots of it.

The Problem of Content

As a professional SEO, I wrestled with the problem of content for some time. I even hired full time editors for article generation! But while that’s effective to a certain degree, it isn’t practical on a large scale. Of course, others experienced my pain. And predictably, some original ideas about how to ‘fool’ the search engines into believing that webpages are original were developed. Some were very clever.

Scraping was born, and word randomization. Automatic site generation gave advertisers the ability to fight the search engines in a new way. Instead of working feverishly on one perfect website, it would be death by a billion paper cuts… or in this case,a billion websites.
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