Do Links Increase Page Rank?

Posted on April 8, 2012 by Administrator
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It must be true because when you read every SEO article it says this happens.

So who are “they” and by what authority can “they” say that.

Anybody. So tongue in cheek.

Let’s look into all of this.

Trying to get some authority to grab onto, I checked in with Google’s’ Webmaster tools.

For those of you that haven’t used this site you have to create account or already have a Google Account to get in.

Page Rank is partly determined by how many links, internal links and back links travel to, in and from your website. It is part of the 200 different factors which influence how the Google’s search will show your website. To find out the PageRank of your website do a Google search “Google: Pagerank”…then type in the website address you are interested in, in the widow that opens up for you. Don’t fuss, it is usually “0″. The scale is 1 to 10. Wikipedia is 9/10…Yikes.

Have you ever visited a website and all you see on the web pages are links. That is called a link farm and they don’t generally get shown on a search unless they happen to have a keyword exactly like what was posted to the search box. I don’t see the sense to that and it is as much work as simply using content to get a Page Rank.

Link Exchanges were the vogue for a few years and they worked then but now the Search Engines ignore the links from these places. It is easy for their bots to determine where your links come from. Search Engines will ignore website that have been determined to use these services.

You also have to be careful not to link to gambling or porno websites, either directly or indirectly. If you share a server with a Webhost you have to check what other websites are also sharing that server. If there are unsavory wrong ones present all the websites on that server are flagged. Ask your Webhost for this information.

The other thing with links is not to include too many of them to quickly in your website. Rule of Thumb: 8 to 10 links added every month is considered normal, providing they are some how subjectively related to the subject of your website.

To get links to my websites I use a link submitter and submit my websites to the various appropriate directories I find. It is slow and tedious work but it seems to work.

I am of the opinion that just relying on links to increase PageRank to a new PageRank is misleading. It is only part of the orchestrated effort with content being at the center of it all.

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Are Long Distance Phone Fees Busting You?

Posted on March 17, 2012 by Administrator
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Phone Companies had a monopoly on long distance phone fees for years and we all got used to seeing a whopping monthly phone bill because of them. We kept phoning our families that lived away from us down to a minimum to avoid the cost of long distance phone fees to maintain our budgets.

Then over the last 10 years many phone companies lost their monopolies and the competition has gradually eroded the system so that long distance phone fees were reduced to pennies per minute rather than dollars.

However are you aware that you can now get long distance phone calls without fees?

I have been aware for a couple of years of Magic Jack, where you lease a converter for $60 delivered for each computer, creating a Voice Over Internet Phone (VOIP) and talk to your heart’s content without any long distance phone fees. Then once per year you send in a lease payment of $20 for each converter you use. This system also comes with its own phone number so it does not disrupt or change your landline or mobile.

Another way to avoid long distance phone fees, I just recently became aware of is through the use of the Microsoft Phone. It is called 3CX Phone. On their web page they state..”3CXPhone for Windows is free, although you need to have a VOIP provider or VOIP PBX account from a 3rd party to make and receive calls free of charge or at low cost (depending on the provider). 3CX does not provide such a service.

I have been using the Microsoft Phone now for awhile and am very impressed with it. It was easy to set up and has an option of auto dial which would be useful to businesses making back-to-back phone calls. I haven’t experienced any glitches either. Sweet.

Microsoft Phone also provides a list of VOIP providers one such provider is Skype, as many of you know is another free download. Skype Premium is being featured right now at $4.99 per month, which is half of it’s regular charge (just thought I would mention it for you go-getters).

Skype also provides free phone calls across North America at no cost. So really the long distance phone fees come now from only those people that we phone offshore. These charges can really add up so it is necessary to work your way around them.

Yes, there are peripheral costs, however, you don’t need to have long distance phone fees busting your budget anymore, right?

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Smashing Through The Internet Job Barrier

Posted on March 11, 2012 by Administrator
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One of the most exciting aspects of the Internet to me was the realization that it could be a perfect medium to work at home and work using it. But how do you smash through the Internet Job Barrier?

You have to pick your own way if you want to do this and I did and I have and I am sharing with you as I am right.

When you initially try to find something to do, like a real job, on the Internet search “find work at home jobs” on Google you will get 1,910,000,000 listing results. Yikes and happy reading…and you should at least scan some of it too.

Then try “genuine work at home jobs”. Thats better – only 51,900,000 searches come up. One of the first listings which is found on the first page reads as
Work At Home Jobs – How to Get to Work at Home – Work At Home :
is really must reading. This will give you a heads up on some of the things you should be aware of before you get involved with any of the other listings.

Then try a few more search words of you own. Satisfied with what you have found so far? Probably not. With many of the listings you can sense or can figure out rather quickly, these are not genuine offers of employment, rather self-improvement, opportunities and “goodness knows” items.

Ok, so if you didn’t know before how to find a job to work at home and you have done what I have suggested above you now know it is not an easy thing to do. This is how I finally figured it out. I read Employment Forums searching for leads. Initially I spent about week just reading the posts by members. It is interesting and boring at the same time, just hang in there and keep reading.

With some of the Forums I registered, but mostly I didn’t. First I searched “at home” and then variations of that search term. The posts mention the Companies and the issues or responses the person posting has had. I also read the Title Board – sometimes the topic is just sitting there. Read some more.

Slowly, there emerges a list of Companies which people have worked with from home. You will also get an insight of the pros and cons of each of these Companies. Then do searches for the Companies you found named in the postings. Quite often you will be referred to a Job Recruiter website to make an application for a job. Register with the Recruiter and look at their client requirements for employment and then the job listings. You shouldn’t have to pay to gain access to this information. You shouldn’t have to pay for training either.

You will find O’Desk mentioned frequently. This is a Company where you register and then watch the job board which is posted first thing in the morning and sometimes sporadically throughout the day. You read the requirements of the job, determine if you can do it and then put in your name for a position. The positions offered are usually writing posts on someone’s blog or website to make it appear much busier then it really is so the Search Engines will feature it over other blogs or websites not quite as active. The people doing this have more than one email address and write multiple posts while on the websites. If you are okay with this kind of subterfuge – go for it. Personally, I don’t think it is right but who am I anyways? It is a gray marketing wrinkle.

Guru dot com is many people’s favorite site. Here it took me a whole day to complete all the requirements suggested to get work. Bottom line is the employers post the job requirements and then you respond telling them what you could do for them and for how much. It ends up as a bidding war and a perfect set up for third world country workers to get taken advantage of. One U.S dollar in their Country buys a whole lot more than in North America so they can afford to bid much lower to get the work. It is just a fact of life today.

In one instance, another Job Recruiter as a pre-job qualification requires you download and submit a report done by the Belarc Advisor. Don’t…or at least modify the Report before you upload it as it also records the License Key Information of your software. Can you imagine that information getting into the wrong hands?

I finally determined to smash through the Internet Job Barrier lies with the Job Recruiter listings and this is how I find my work to work from home. I still keep my eye on the Employment Forums as they will inadvertently tell you who to stay away from and why. Last word of caution: do not overbook your time or be overly ambitious – it will bite you.

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