Back links: Article marketing's backbone

Article marketing can be an effective way to build your company's online presence. But to maximize its potential, remember to use Back links. Back links are also known as incoming links, inbound links or IBLs. Think of them as the reverse of hyper links: Hyper links take users from your site to another. Back links take users from another site back to yours.

Back links are links received by web directories and websites from other directories and websites. Search engines use them to determine a website's ranking. That is, when you enter a keyword into your favorite search engine, one way the search engine decides which site is at the top of its list is by the number of Back links it has.

Back links build on quality. If your website is a good one, people will start linking their sites to it. This of course builds traffic to your website and thereby builds your business. The trick is to build Back links to get the ball rolling.

There are good and bad ways to build Back links into your website. The best way is to get quality Back links from websites similar to yours. For example, if you are a financial advisor, ideally you'v like to get a Back links from another financial site. But how do you do that?

The most important factor to remember is that no one will back links to your site if it isn't any good. Spend the effort to make your efforts really shine.

One obvious way is to find a website that you like in a related field. Ask someone at that site to review your article and consider posting it. If it is quality work, it should be no problem for it to get posted when there is space available. After all, the webmaster there wants quality work on that site too.

One way is to get your article posted in an article directory or to a content exchange program that syndicates material. If your article is syndicated, such as in an RSS feed, your article is summarized on another site, with a Back links to your site. Visitors will then go to your site to get the full article.

Another technique to use is to publish a press release that happens to have a link to your website. When the press release is published, visitors will then use the Back links. However, be aware that press releases are intended to publish newsworthy events. If theres nothing newsworthy it will be ignored.

When you write a free article for web content, be sure to put a link to both the article itself and in the box at the end of it. This gives users two opportunities to link to your site, thereby creating a Back links opportunity.

It is important to note that when someone does back links to your site, make sure it is to something directly related to the subject discussed in the link article. For example, if the subject is banking, make sure the Back links goes to one of your articles on banking and not just your website. This will be of greater interest to the visitor.

If possible, offer a newsletter or another offer which will require the Back links user to register his or her email address with you. The whole point of article marketing and Back links is to drive visitors to your company and website. Don't lose a contact (and potential customer).

Remember that like anything worthwhile, building Back links will take time. It could take several months to get the word out about your article and your website. It sounds like a long time but in article marketing, as with any marketing, the time spent is worth it.

In each of these efforts, remember to refer to sites and directories that have high search engine rankings themselves. What better way to improve your ranking than to link yourself with another high-quality site?

While Back links are important to build interest in your article and website, it's important to use them correctly. Search engines have become quite adepts at scoping out poor Back links usage.

One of these involves link farms? Link farms are groups of several websites that have links to each other, solely with the intent of building their search engine rankings. Search engines frown on these because they do not offer the user real information.

In a nutshell, the best way to get quality Back links in article marketing or for your website is to use quality content and update it regularly. It may take extra effort but it is indeed worth it.

 

Business Analyst’s Perspective

A vision is essential, because it helps the team focus on a common goal. This common objective is easily lost once individuals work on lower level details such as requirements, code, and so on.

 

Every project should have a vision statement that each stakeholder can understand. The vision statement is helpful to clarify the core values of the project. It should state why a customer or end user will want the solution the project team is building. The shorter the vision statement is, the better it is. A sign of a successful vision statement is that everyone on the project team can relate to it and connect their daily work to it.

 

Key questions to consider include:

 

•Why are we building this solution?

 

•Does the team understand the vision?

 

•Does the team work on things that contribute to the vision?

 

Explain that one way to think about vision statements is to consider whether your project is a Strategic project or an Adaptive project.

 

•Strategic projects involve significant investments based on a plan to improve appreciably over their predecessors.

 

•Adaptive projects are those that make incremental changes to existing systems.•

 

A useful way to help derive a vision statement for a strategic project is the "elevator pitch". i.e. you can recite it to a perspective customer or stakeholder in a brief duration of an elevator ride. The stakeholder / customer should be able to remember it from a short encounter.

 

For adaptive projects, it's often easier to describe the vision in terms of business process change. If a business process model or description is available, that's a good start point.

 

 

ASP.NET MVC Best Material: “NerdDinner” Tutorial, Free for download

Go Scott’s blog:

http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2009/04/28/free-asp-net-mvc-nerddinner-tutorial-now-in-html.aspx 

 

*  Introducing the NerdDinner Tutorial
* How to create a new ASP.NET MVC Project
* How to create a database
* How to build a model with business rule validations
* How to use controllers and views to implement a listing/details UI
* How to provide CRUD (create, read, update, delete) data form entry support
* How to use ViewData and implement ViewModel classes
* How to re-use UI using master pages and partials
* How to implement efficient data paging
* How to secure applications using authentication and authorization
* How to use AJAX to deliver dynamic updates
* How to use AJAX to implement mapping scenarios
* How to enable automated unit testing

[C#] Format a XML string using XmlTextWriter

// a demo string
string xml = "<Root><Eles><Ele>abc</Ele><Ele>123</Ele></Eles></Root>";

System.Xml.XmlDocument doc = new System.Xml.XmlDocument();
doc.LoadXml(xml);

System.IO.StringWriter sw = new System.IO.StringWriter();
using (System.Xml.XmlTextWriter writer = new System.Xml.XmlTextWriter(sw))
{
    writer.Indentation = 2;  // the Indentation
    writer.Formatting = System.Xml.Formatting.Indented;
    doc.WriteContentTo(writer);
    writer.Close();
}

// out put the formated xml
Console.WriteLine(sw.ToString());

From: http://jack-fx.com/blog/programming-Tag/ 

Swine flu treatment: Antiviral drug stocks

The UK government has drawn up a national framework for preparing for a flu pandemic.

If the swine flu outbreak became a pandemic, it would have a big impact on NHS services and our daily lives. The national framework includes making sure that the NHS is as prepared as it can be, and that treatment would reach people as soon as possible. It aims to protect the public by minimising disruption and the spread of the infection.
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The UK government has drawn up a national framework for preparing for a flu pandemic.

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Improve the Point of Action

When building a website and going through the laying out phase it is important to identify the POA (point of action) which means what you are wanting the customer to do.

For example download demo, make a purchase, submit information and anything else that requires some form of action.

This is where it is a constant struggle to improve website conversions. There will always be more people that visit a website than those who take some form of action on a website. There will be more people who will add items to a shopping cart than those who make the checkout purchase.

To improve the conversions of a website means that the point of action must be improved. This may be a multiple of things like easier navigation, explanations during checkout process, simpler checkout process, or anything else that would make it easier for a customer to take action.

The biggest reason people do not buy things or stop taking action is confusion and fear. All shopping cart abandonment issues generally stem from these two issues. This is where the POA must be crystal clear.

There may be several Point of Action items listed on your website and they may differ in level of importance. Having the customer make a purchase on most sites is going to be the primary POA while signing up for a newsletter will be a secondary POA.

Clearly identifying what is your primary POA will determine where your energies go in helping a visitor choose the action you want them to take. The more a visitor takes action on your primary POA the higher the conversions you will receive.

The main POA for the Innovation Simple website is for individuals to get a quote and pricing on products and services. This is why we have made it simple for those who visit the website to take that point of action.

People must be told what you want them to do and what actions they should take. They do not come right out and say that they want to be told what to do, but when they visit your website they immediately look for what to do. The better that is laid out and the simpler it is for them to fulfill that action the higher your conversions will be.

from: http://jack-fx.com/blog/