Webmaster Pro Guide

Making Money from Your web site and search engine optimisation
May 2nd, 2008

Free Vbulletin 3.7.0 Themes and templates

Hi

I offer you now a site resources for free skins and template for  Vbulletin 3.7.0 forums

You can choose and download vbulletin 3.7.0 skins theme which you prefer .

here is the site : www.themers.org

also you will find some skins for invision and other forum softwares

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May 2nd, 2008

PPC Advertising Tips

I have listed out a few tips pertinent to this mode of marketing that might go a long way in making you a successful online entrepreneur.

Appropriate Keywords for PPC Advertising

It is a given that, only the use of appropriate keywords will help you coin the perfect search engine friendly advertisement. When it comes to Pay per Click marketing you must at least try and find a few specific keywords that are related to your site or the content that you have put up on the site. You can then use them in your attempt at this form of advertising.

Budgetary Limitations for PPC Campaign

You must try and work within the constraints of a specific budget. You should never go beyond your budgetary limitations when it comes to the Pay per Click campaign. Your result oriented bid should neither be too low or too high.

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May 1st, 2008

vB 3.7.0 finally released

Just got and email from vBulletin to say version 3.7.0 is finally stable:

vBulletin 3.7.0 is now available for download from the vBulletin Members’ Area by all customers with active vBulletin licenses.

In this new release, we have concentrated on improving features for visitors to your vBulletin forum by implementing social networking tools such as extended user profile pages with visitor messaging, user picture albums, user-created social groups and reciprocal friendship creation. We have also taken steps to help forum staff deal with the growing problem of bulletin board spam by improving our human verification tools to prevent automated systems from registering and posting, and putting in place a one-stop-shop tool for dealing with spam and spammers in the inline moderation system.

Here is a brief but far from comprehensive list of some of the new features making their debut in vBulletin 3.7.0:

* Inline spam management & prevention
* Thread tagging
* Search cloud / tag cloud
* Thread prefixes
* Reciprocal friendships between users
* Public visitor messaging on profile pages with ‘conversation’ feature
* User picture galleries with user comment facility
* User-created social groups with invite only and moderated membership options
* Extended member profile pages
* Customizable member profile pages with admin-controlled styling abilities
* Inline editing of custom user profile fields
* Lightbox viewer for attached images
* Viewable and comparable history maintained for post edits
* Extended re-authentication for inline moderation actions
* Notices system for navigation bar
* New human-verification tools including reCAPTCHA, and question/answer
* User change history
* Social bookmarking integration

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May 1st, 2008

Maximize Traffic With 10 SEO Power Tips

 How do you know what type of content is really going to attract the right searchers?In this article I wanted to cover a few very basic tips that you can keep in mind when building high-performance strategies. Remember that good search engine marketing is not about trying to manipulate or “fool the search engines.” Good SEO skills are more about creating genuine relevancy for well-written content that deserves to be found because it is truly the most relevant and useful to your audience of readers.

What students quickly discover in the 5-Day classes is that the optimization skills are not nearly as hard as many people make them out to be (even for the most competitive phrases,) once you’ve been trained and understand the full scope of influences that are at work. The biggest advantage that we have had is all about the “accuracy of information.”

 

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April 30th, 2008

Google has been too Generous This last PR update

This PR update is about to end . and I observer that google has been too generous comparing to last updates .
Even some directories which was panalized got some good rankings like AvivaDirectory (pr4) .

and about 80% of the site have increased their PR . Seems like google is using the old algorithms .

but instead of that we find many site which lost their PR . like usual .

I would like to know what do you think about this Update

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April 27th, 2008

Google Webmasters And Analytics Update

Google has recently updated the backlink count over the past week, so you may see new backlinks registered in the Webmasters Tools page. While a Google update usually comes weeks after this happens, don’t be too happy yet, since Google is growing more and more unpredictable.

Google has also updated Google Analytics. You can now view the traffic charts by week or month rather than by day. This is useful if you want to compare traffic over a long period of time (or calculate how much traffic you have received in a particular month).

Another feature of note is benchmarking. If you are tired of Alexa’s inaccuracies when you compare rival sites, you could give a shot at Google Analytics. Benchmarking pits you against sites that have similar “size” (determined by traffic, with 3 classifications: small, medium, large) to your site. Generally, this statistics help determine if your site’s traffic is above average, or below average. It can also serve as a… benchmark, when setting new goals. Nonetheless, there are some glitches associated with this feature (that’s why it’s in beta), such as some charts being unable to show some info if your site lies to far above or below the benchmark.

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April 27th, 2008

Small Firefox Update - 2.0.0.14

Mozilla recently released an update for Firefox to fix a potential security threat. This update is available through auto-update.

The update only fixes one flaw in Firefox related to the Javascript “garbage collector” which may cause crashes in Firefox. While this problem has not been exploited for any purposes, Firefox isn’t going to wait till it is. This is not a feature release, so no new features are added.

An interesting note is that this update fixes only one issue, unlike other updates that normally patches several issues at once. In addition, the security flaw was fixed as soon as it was announced (i.e. on the same day). A pretty impressing feat, considering most other browser makers (notably Microsoft) prefer the all-in-one approach, compared to the bit-by-bit approach used by Mozilla.

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April 27th, 2008

Spam Should Be Considered A Statistic

You hate spam. Everyone hates spam. Spammers would hope that you mistakenly approve their spam, but that never really happens, if at all. As spam volumes continue to rise, people can easily brush it off as a regular thing. Nonetheless, let’s turn that nasty piece of garbage to a piece of “bragging right”. The idea is this: The more popular your site is, the more spam you’ll get.

Why this theory is true

Generally, comment spammers tend to target certain sites more than others. So, well-linked sites (and sites easily found by others through god-knows-what) tend to receive more attention by spammers. As far as anyone can tell, it does seem that spam bots are really efficient - being able to find well-concealed sites, and hitting them where you least expect them.

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April 26th, 2008

Software piracy - unauthorized use or reproduction of copyrighted patented material

Software piracy is a growing concern for the modern society. It was an issue since the very first day commercial software hit the shelves. Initially it was spread within friends and/or communities via cassette tapes or floppy disks. With the development of the Internet, software piracy has spread exponentially. The phenomenon, in its current form, was not considered a serious problem until the early 1990s. Since them, there are a series of worldwide organizations that deal with software piracy. Mainly Software Publishers Association, Business Software Alliance, Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), as well as American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP) and Broadcast Music Incorporated (BMI).

Software piracy impact needs to be judged depending on various factors, such as living standards and geographical zones. Arguably, the industry may benefit from the software piracy process, which is not that bad as they present it, and it represents a good way to test the products a company develops, it leads to increased awareness and contributes to the popularity of various software development companies and, in the long run, results in increased profits for both parties.

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April 26th, 2008

Pay Per Click advertising

To deliver a more complete search marketing solution, High Position are about to launch a new Paid Search service utilising versatile and innovative PPC management software, this new service will offer our existing corporate clients a much more comprehensive PPC solution.

The demand from our natural search clients for us to management their existing PPC spend has continued to grow and so we are now launching this new service to cater for this ‘Corporate’ market, we are also ‘beefing up’ our PPC team by hiring and training experienced paid search professionals from the industry.

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