Tracking your website performance

Search engine optimization is a very complicated task. If you enjoy spending considerable amount of your time in front of the computer then you might as well allocate a portion of your research and browsing time tracking your website performance. Google provided free Google Analytics tool to help you promote your site, improve your site’s traffic, and increase your returns on investment or sales. Google Analytics help you make an informed decision on which marketing strategies you implemented were effective. Then you may revisit your marketing goals, media and internet marketing plan, redirect traffic again and be able to increase your lead conversions in less time. You may log in to this site Google Analytics using your Google email account username and password. Browse the site and create your html code. Copy and paste the Google Analytics html code to your website and confirm the code back to your Google Analytics account. The process is simple but it can deliberately help you which marketing strategy is best for your niche product.

Free text messaging online

Stop sending sms direct from your mobile and use your Yahoo text-messaging feature. Mobile carriers may charge incoming text messages so write long messages instead of short multiple ones or your recipient may end up paying short multiple incoming messages. You do not need to spend sending text messages but make sure your recipient get to reply at least one of your mobile messages or you may not be able to send any more messages forever. This is an anti-spam feature of Yahoo text messaging services.

Snap a shot free screen capture software

Snapashot is screen capture software that is easy to learn, convenient to use, and free to download. This open source software looks like a box. The box looks like an empty frame with the command buttons located at the right side. You need to fit the image you are going to capture inside the box. Click “save to file” and choose the file format you want to save the image. I usually save images in jpeg format.

This is good when you are blogging and needed images to suit your posts. The tool allows you to adjust the width and height of the box too. You can either use your cursor to adjust the sides or fill in the measurement of the number in the right side of the box with “W” or “H” figures. You do not need to buy screen capture software if your need is not highly technical. Save money and look for open source software first!

Screen capture free software

Virus hit my computer so all my programs were reinstalled. Unfortunately, I was not able to install back other software like Snagit given by my old client. Since I do not have the product key and I was ashamed to ask for it, I was thinking of buying one next month.

Tonight, as I was writing my blog. The keywords screen capture hit my thoughts. I started looking it free screen capture software and I found two. I was hoping to find similar or maybe with features closer to Snagit screen capture software. I found free Fireshot Pro that is one of Firefox add-ons. I really love Firefox add-ons!

I downloaded and tested it immediately. It was good but not as easy and user friendly as Snagit. But it is good. You need to read the instructions first to familiarize yourself with its features. You can download the free screen capture Fireshot Pro here.

http://screenshot-program.com/fireshot/

Fireshot Studio has many features you may want to use too. Please download Fireshot Studio here.

http://screenshot-program.com/fireshot/installed.php?ver=0.69

Free website and blog hosting

Make your company known using free website hosting at first. There is no need to pay for many hosting when you are undecided which niche product to market. Use free websites as your calling card in the internet until such time that you are ready with your product and company.

When you are undecided about the direction of your company, you need to test your target market with your niche product first. Observe and plan your marketing strategy. Market positioning and branding will come later when positive results arise from your marketing experiments.

Know the importance of testing the market’s reaction first in the least cost. You do not want to spend thousands of dollars in advertising when you are not decided yet. Make a simple pilot run of your advertising strategies and compare results. The best way is to use free website hosting first.

Live Chat using Google Chatback

Business entrepreneurs and professionals alike are using paid live chat services to converse with their visitors and customers through their websites. Google Chatback is one big company savings for you. You can go to the Google Chatback page and get your Google Chatback html code. Paste the html code at your websites and communicate with your visitors. This is free. No worries about credit card details and monthly payments. The Google Chat will only allow you to converse without saving the chats. If there are important matters that you need to save, just transfer it to a word document or copy and paste to your email and send the chat log to yourself. Use this only if you don’t need to save and block a lot of spam messages.

Share desktop and collaborate

One good thing the internet brings to the human population is the ability to connect with people anywhere in the world. The technology, ideas and products of human ingenuity is amazing. The need to connect, see each other, see each other’s files, and edit each other’s files is critical to business operations. Thanks to Adobe Connect Now, small business entrepreneurs, students, writers, and many professionals can collaborate using their free account. Adobe Connect Now allows you to share your desktop, view your webcam, and talk. Desktop sharing is a must for outsource workers. This can save you time sending snail mails or even emails. Imagine sending emails back and forth before you are clear with a certain project. Adobe Connect Now will allow you to discuss your project and share files by the click of a mouse. Many people often go to the paid account subscription page. I would like to help you save a little money if you are just a small time writer like me. Go to this link and subscribe Adobe Connect Now.

Translation help

People wanting to read websites and blogs with other languages can stop scratching their heads and search for Google Translate. Google Translate is a program Google made for internet users who have difficulty understanding the universal English language or other languages. You may copy and paste the text you want to read and understand at the web page below the “enter text or a webpage URL”. You will then click on the first box at the bottom, left side. Select the language of the original text. Then proceed to the next box to select the language you desire to translate the original text. After you have completed the selection of from what language to what language the translation would occur, click the translate button at the right side of the web page. Google will then display the translated text on same page. If you want to go directly to the webpage, please click on this link Google Translate.

Research Writes, outsource your media plan

Media plan is important when you are about to start an online business. You should be able to make research on a lot of competitive sites and know how they run their businesses. You should be getting the ranks and traffic of the websites too. Know the behavior of your target market and learn how to catch them and redirect their traffic to your website. ResearchWrites.com offers research and writing services for business entrepreneurs at a lower cost because of low maintenance and overhead head cost incurred. The company was good enough to provide experienced writers at the least cost possible.

If you want to start it right and don’t have the time to waste for personal research, outsource your research and writing projects to ResearchWrites.com. Inquiries can be sent to email at research writes dot com.

Backup, publish and get paid

Textive offers a great way to share, backup and earn from your shared files. Textive allows you to store your documents and share your best stuff to the public. Register to the site and start backing up your files for free. This is a web based backup so you are guaranteed complete access of your files anywhere with an internet connection. \this is a free easy backup solution for you. You will earn 20% of the advertising revenue you generate from your page.

Payments are sent via Paypal, minimum of $20 payout. Just in case you want to try this, be careful in selecting public and private files. There’s no harm in checking twice for confidential files. Lectures from school or files that contain information can be placed there for your public readers. This could be a good source of income for students and professionals alike. Google textive.com, subscribe, and start earning dollars now!

Online advertising

Traditional online advertising and SEO can drive traffic to your site. It is so flexible that even self starters, non-technical, website entrepreneurs and first time service providers can do it. Ad posting is very easy. Take a look at Craigslist ads and learn how people advertise their needs or their services.

Learn how to make bullet points and keyword specific phrases. This will make your ad brief and direct to the point. Learn how to say something in phrases. Make sure that it is totally comprehensible and effectively relate to your readers what you mean.

There are plenty of free advertising sites online that you can take advantage. The best is still Craigslist. Many people derived their income and money making schemes patiently advertising at Craigslist every two days. If you find it difficult to write new ads each time, you can order from Writer Outsource for the text.

The best is to negotiate a package like writing and posting the ads. Pay the ads per word and then pay for the posting charges. Provide your Craigslist accounts and they will gladly do the job for you. Writer Outsource are reliable and dependable. Don’t miss your chances getting more traffic. Outsource the task or do it on your spare time!

Web history – let your memory run to your Firefox browser

The Firefox browser is real cool! The Infoaxe add ons can help you enable web history without having to log in to any account each time you want to record your web browsing history. Every page you visit gets added to your Infoaxe memory from across multiple computers that you use. This is applicable not only to Firefox but also to your Internet Explorer browser as well. You will realize that bookmarks is not needed anymore when you enabled your web history for pages that you needed to visit only once. Let Infoaxe Firefox add ons remember the pages that you visited in the web any time any day. There is no limitation to the number of pages you visit. Just go on with your research and it will continuously record everything. You are able to see your history also at the right side of your Google search page if you want it that way for your browsing convenience. Infoaxe will synchronize your web history for you!

Admit it… you can’t bookmark everything! Let Firefox Infoaxe help you with your bookmark and memory challenge! It is a personal browsing history engine that you can have by simply signing up to Infoaxe homepage. Install the toolbar and get on with your research without any fear of forgetting which web page you want to get back at a later time. Your research web history is synchronized and is searchable to any computer as long as you were able to install the Infoaxe toolbar. A video demo is available at the homepage to help you understand how Infoaxe works. This is good for those who perform much research and do not want to fill bookmarks with not so important, one-time-visit web pages.

iMacros for repetitive tasks

Firefox has one of the most useful add on tool for data encoders working on repetitive tasks every day. iMacros can save you time and energy. iMacros allows you to record your tasks and perform recorded tasks when you run recording. It is as easy as 1, 2, 3. Only the machine is not so perfect that sometimes you may find a glitch. It does not require programming though the name may sound hi-tech. You only have to record your task and then hit stop when you are done with a set of repetitive task. Position your cursor, let the iMacro run and sit down or do other work online while waiting. iMacros is good for html, css or other web development tasks. To know more about the software and to read the step by step guide, please click on this link – iMacros Firefox Add Ons.

Open multiple Yahoo Messengers in one computer

Yahoo Messenger certainly has a limitation. You are only able to use one YM for one computer and nothing else although you can use Yahoo Web Messenger for your other Yahoo ID. What if you need to open more than one Yahoo ID in one computer? This is a constant problem for online workers who are working with different customers and fulfilling personal YMs at the same time – opening multiple Yahoo IDs!

Anythingtips.com certainly has the answer to that. You can download software to run multiple Yahoo Messenger 8 in only one computer. Saves you the time to monitor several computers and saves you the money to buy additional computers too. Some clients may require you to open their Yahoo Messengers so you may receive incoming calls from the Phone In numbers they bought from their respective IDs. Accessibility is the key to smoother operations. Limitations is only limited to your imagination. I agree to that now.

There are people who will stop at nothing to get what they want and what they believe should be available with technology and the internet resources. Computer geeks created something like a computer registry to make this idea possible. Click this link to install and uninstall the multiple registry file. Never stop to wonder and think of what is impossible. The tool and software you need may just be lying in the cyber world waiting for you to discover them. Enjoy chatting!

Plagiarism check, compare duplicate content

Freelance writers may or may not be aware about plagiarism. Plagiarism is the close imitation of the use of words, description or language of another writer or website content. It is something that you may have done because you are not clear about the concept of plagiarism. Your work is plagiarized if it contains more than three or more words that are exactly similar to any content that can be found or detected by any search engine in the internet.

You may want to create an account with www.PlagiarismDetect.com to check plagiarized phrases or sentences in your work first before you submit them to your clients. The bold phrases that you will see in the results are the phrases or words you have to look in your article or essay. You need to edit the sentence or words to create one remarkably good article that is grammar error free and not plagiarized. Plagiarismdetect is a good tool to ascertain your work is 100% unique.

Rewrites or rewriting articles is not an easy task too. Some customers may require a 90% or 70% new article. This means that the modified version should be about 90% or 70% unique from the original article that was given to you for the rewriting task. You may want to use the dup compare tool of this website http://www.dupecop.com/duplicate-content-checker.php. This tool will help you best understand how to rewrite unique modified versions of the articles.


Freelance writers don’t just write articles. You are to conduct a little research on your topics and create well written, well research articles for your clients. When you show your clients that you are a dedicated writer, they will maintain your services and soon a lot more orders will come your way. Give your best to anything that you do and the best opportunities will come knocking back on you!

Google toolbar drag and drop functionality

Many users of Google may not know this yet. You are able to drag and drop URL from the web page you are currently viewing to the Google search toolbar. This will automatically conduct a search about the URL but it will be done on the same window. So if you are not ready to leave that page yet, you may copy URL to another tab or simply bookmark it for later reference.

This drag and drop feature also works with any text in the web page you are currently viewing and would like to conduct further search. As I have said before, be careful to remember clicking bookmarks before doing any of those drag and drop search thing. This feature also works with your word processing applications running at the same time with your web browser.

Another technique is to highlight the word or text appearing on the web page, right click and then select “Google search”. A pop up menu will appear after you right click highlighted text. There are many functionalities and features of Google that we haven’t discovered yet or maybe didn’t bother to read because their blogs kept on getting longer and complex at times. This is the simplified explanation. Take advantage of the features and make your research and browsing experience a better one.

Guide on how to create text links and meta tags in your webpage

One good thing with research is you get all the information and tools you need to complete one simple task to obtain wider profit margin for your internet marketing projects. In line with this is the basic knowledge on how to create text links and meta tags in your webpage. One major skill you need to posses as a blogger or as an internet marketer besides being very internet savvy is to know how to do simple html as such as vital meta tags and text links. Keep this in mind when you are creating meta tags:

You have several options to create your text links. You may create a plain text link that should look like this:

If you want to create a text link that will open to another tab or window you just add target="_blank". The html should look something like this:

Picture links are a little complicated. You need to host your image first. Personally I used photobucket.com for this purpose. You should use a site that is likely to be live or up most of the time. If they fail to show live then your codes and images will likely disappear too while they are experiencing downtime. The picture link is something that looks like below:

As a site owner or as a not so tech on-your-own webmaster, you should know simple things like meta tags and text links if your intention is to run everything on your own. I have been managing quite well with these things. Although some sites especially blog sites do not allow editing html pages other than the title then it would still be good to know at least basic SEO tips that could help you get more traffic to your webpage. One simple suggestion is to look for open source or free templates sites on the internet. They allow you to download then you can just tweak the free website template. This is very cost effective and there is no need for high programming knowledge to do this. Templates can be edited using notepad if you are using Windows OS. Kompozer is good software too but notepad has always been my friend when I am editing my sites. Searchbliss site even sells html tables at a good price of US$5. Visit searchbliss site. Webmaster resources and tools are way cheaper and affordable there. Customer service is great too.

Instant remote support

Web conferencing, desktop sharing, screen viewing, webcam and audio access are the trend today for real time business online collaboration. Unlimited collaboration and maybe meeting size are available in some free websites but this is usually offered to paying subscribers. Share any application with your team members in any location to cut on travel cost and phone bills. Accelerate your projects and close deals in seconds through desktop video conferencing and IM. Experience an increase in sales out of your increased productivity. You don’t have to send or upload documents. Cut your upload and download time by instant sharing of your desktop.

Tools are important when motivating people to connect, meet and instantly share ideas online. Choose one company who can provide real time collaboration with whiteboard and annotation tools, mouse and keyboard sharing and allows instantly changing presenters. The best feature is your ability to record your online meetings to share, playback or review anytime. Use remote tools for web conferencing on team meetings, webinars, sales presentations, online training, tutoring, brainstorming and more online file collaboration.

You can give full online remote support on tech computer problems to your clients this way if they allow you to access keyboard and mouse. LogMeIn is one of the free sites I can recommend that is most helpful. Team Viewer gives free personal fast friendly solution for remote access that can be done even without installing the software in their new web browser based access. End your sentiments with time management and project delays. Do it online and use a better tool to better suit your needs.

Foxmark and Firefox bookmarks

Bookmarks are priceless. It takes years and long research to maintain a list of it. I expected Foxmarks to be foolproof. I was confident that even if I have another computer crash I won’t experience losing precious links on bookmarks because I have Foxmarks. I was very contented with the way Foxmarks had synchronized bookmarks from my two computers until today.

I was surprised to see that 414 of my bookmarks were replaced by only 3. Argh….. I cried….. I did not expect this to happen and I was not able to create a back up for bookmarks. I spent the whole 4 hours of my time trying to figure out what to do and how to get those precious links back. I asked my friend John to help and he sent me links to read about Firefox and losing bookmarks. Oh God I can’t concentrate reading and cannot understand a thing when my beauty is on panic mode!

I accessed my account at Foxmarks and saw that we are allowed to retrieve bookmarks. The only problem is that everything is coded. I clicked on at least three codes on dates that I estimated had the most complete bookmarks and great…. Just great…. It didn’t work out! I tried it thrice and it has been loading for more than an hour. My world seems to fall apart. After an agreement with John that he will help look for it in my computer using logmein, the explore and restore seemed to work magically. It did not update immediately though but it was still a good thing I had Foxmarks.

Firefox users have this kind of problem. This I gathered from research. It is like a Firefox bug or something that your list of hundreds bookmarks could get replaced by only 1 or 2 bookmarks at most. Well you definitely have a Firefox option if you are not using Foxmarks. Don’t you know that Firefox creates backups of your bookmarks? This is located in your Firefox profile folder.

Inside your Firefox profile folder is a subfolder called “bookmarkbackups”. Look for the bookmarks.html in the Firefox profile folder. There is a good probability you can get your bookmarks back if you are able to do this. You should know that Firefox generates its bookmark backup daily. Delete the file and replace it with the latest backup. Make sure you rename the backup to bookmarks.html first so Firefox is able to recognize it.

Another good way to do it is to open the run prompt in Windows. Close your Firefox first before doing this. Type firefox.exe-profilemanager. This will open the Firefox profile manager. There is a good possibility you are going to see more than one profile. Load the default profile first. Check if your bookmarks are back. If you are the only user of your computer then you may delete the other profile. For bookmarks backup, you may use your Google bookmarks. You can import your Firefox bookmarks by the click of a mouse. I just did that and I am contented and happy now.

Smartphones and functionality

Express your style, simplify your life, work and connect anywhere by the palm of your hand – Blackberry smartphone! Blackberry Bold has no substitute – elegant design and features or functionality are absolutely perfect to your executive taste. The smartphone was created to power the passions you pursue, business or image purposes to your maximum pleasure and satisfaction.

The best feature is its Wi-Fi access. Other features are mobile streaming, file editing, Wordtogo, multimedia, GPS and Blackberry maps and long lasting removable battery. Get connected anytime, anywhere, away from the office or just on the go. Your Blackberry Bold lifestyle is all you need to get things done when away from your laptop.

Camera is 2.0 MP. Use it for on the spot video recording or even wireless email handy phone for your personal and corporate data access. It has an integrated earpiece/ microphone and a built in speakerphone. Standby time is max 13.5 days. Talk time is max 4.5 hours. Works well for your needs. Expanded memory supports microSD card aside from its 1Gb on-board with 128 Mb flash.