Displaying All Posts in the General category

The Netsetter: Web Pages vs. Web Sites

A couple of weeks ago, I was trying to explain to a friend why links from high PageRank sites is often overrated. When he then insisted that I was contradicting advice I had given him earlier, I was confused for a moment, until he gave me a concrete example.

“Didn’t you say that a link from a high PageRank site like HubPages or Squidoo was better than a link from a low PR site?”

I finally understood his confusion. It wasn’t what I said, but what he heard. Whenever I talk about “web pages”, people hear “web sites” and assume the two are synonymous. You might think that going over this distinction (which I’ve alluded to in earlier posts) is splitting hairs, but it actually does matter for link building and content development.

Pages Matter More Than Sites

Links point to individual web pages, not sites. Google results list individual web pages, not sites. Occasionally, Google will list a site’s home page as a search result, but the result itself is for that page specifically, not a referral to the site as a whole. These facts are pretty obvious when stated plainly, but they’re easy to lose site of when listening to some SEO theorists.
Click Here to Read Article …

Popular search terms for this article:

web page vs web site, websites vs web pages, web site vs web page, web pages vs web sites, web page vs website, web pages vs websites, webpage vs website, webpage vrs website, websites vs webpages, D-link net setter prise and photo

8 Ways to Forget About Work…and Have Fun!

Jen Smith 13th February General 14 Comments

Switching off from work is something many of us find difficult. We want the work-life balance but can find our minds are still consumed with thoughts of work when we are not there. Here are some tips to help you switch off:

1. Create a Ritual

Mark a line in the sand to signal the end of your work day. This is important whether you work from home or away. If you wear a uniform at work, you could change when you arrive home. Having a shower is another great way to wash the work day away. If you have an hour’s commute home you could decide that you will allow yourself time to ruminate over the day and upon arriving at home, you “switch” off. Find some way to delineate the work day from your leisure time.

2. Unplug

Unless it is part of your contract or job, get in the habit of unplugging from work when you are not there. You don’t have to be connected 24/7. Turn off your phone and laptop. We might think that being continuously available is what is expected of us, but often we are the ones who put these expectations on ourselves. If your boss or colleagues do expect you to be at the end of the phone or email outside work, set a new boundary around your home time. Explain what you are doing and how it will work and what you are willing to do, you don’t have to be inflexible. Be clear and assertive. Your actions could help change an unhealthy workplace habit.
Click Here to Read Article …

Popular search terms for this article:

how to forget about work, how to switch off from work, jennifer smith work at home, how to switch off after work, how to forget work, forget about work, switching off from work, jennifer smith work from home, how to forget about work when you get home, ways to switch off

Awesome Links #35: Time Tracking, Android Apps, Mobile Priority Inbox

Abhijeet Mukherjee 12th February General Leave a Comment

How to Keep Track of When You Work Using a Scheduled Task
This interesting article over at the Guiding Tech blog shows how one could accurately track when he logs in and when he locks his Windows computer. While it could be of great help to people at work who are required to fill in timesheets every day, even people who work from home could make use of this technique to check how productive they are.

10 Android Apps to Help Save You Time & Money
The Lifehack blog has a great list of ten Android apps that can help you cut down on the time and money you spend each day. The list includes the usual suspects like Mint’s personal finance app, as well as some other lesser known useful apps.
Click Here to Read Article …

Popular search terms for this article:

time tracker android, time tracking android, android time tracking, time track android, mobile app time tracker, android app time tracker, time tracking app android, time registration android, tiem tracker android and money, to do list with time tracking android

Awesome Links #34: Pomodoro Technique, Changing Habits

Abhijeet Mukherjee 5th February General Leave a Comment

This week’s Awesome Links offers insights on The Pomodoro Technique, successfully changing habits and how to work in multiple time zones without missing a beat.

Managing Money, Time, Energy, and Information: Five Powerful Tactics from My Own Recent Experience
In this article, Trent from the acclaimed The Simple Dollar blog talks about the steps he took after his wife returned to a full-time job. He discusses how he had to manage his kids, work and information. The very first tip – which talks about keeping a bedside notebook – struck a chord with me. While I might replace the notebook with a tool like Evernote on my iPod touch, the concept remains the same.
Click Here to Read Article …

Popular search terms for this article:

pomodoro technique, evernote pomodoro, pomodoro evernote, pomodoro technique evernote, pomodoro for evernote, job technique links, zenhabits evernote, evernote habit, pomodoro technique timer notebook, pomodoro tecnique with evernote

How to Choose a Search Friendly Domain Name

Andre Kibbe 4th February General 14 Comments

Choosing a domain name should never be allowed to become a stumbling block for launching your blog or business. While it’s easy to go wrong with domain name selection, a bad choice is almost never catastrophic, unlike failure to take action. As with most things in life, making a decision work is more important than making the right decision.

There are two basic approaches to picking a name for your site. You can either focus on branding, or focus on keywords. If you take the branding route, you don’t need much help from me—you know the product or subject you’re trying to promote better than I do, assuming you know enough to create a website about it. That’s more of an art than a science. On the other hand, if you want to go for a keyword optimized domain name, there’s a more deterministic way to pick the best one available.
Click Here to Read Article …

Popular search terms for this article:

how to choose domain name, how to select a domain name, how to select domain name, friendly domain name, how to pick a domain name, domain name searcher, find-what you search net, best way to pick a domain name, mac bulk domain search tool, rate your domain name

Awesome Links #33: Free PC Software, Circadian Rhythms, Todo.txt

Abhijeet Mukherjee 29th January General 1 Comment

This week’s Awesome Links includes free software for the new PC user, new Gmail Labs features and using a plain-text editor as a to-do list to get more done.
Click Here to Read Article …

Popular search terms for this article:

Free pc software, circadian rhythm software, todo txt tips, circadian rhythm program, awesome free software, rhytm pc software, setting up todo txt on pc, software circadian rhythm, todo software for pc, todo software pc

Awesome Links #32: Work-Life Balance, Wake Up Early, Mentoring

Abhijeet Mukherjee 22nd January General 4 Comments

This week’s Awesome Links discusses some insights on the changes underway at Google, finding work-life balance and tips on mentorship for freelancers. In addition, there’s a link that offers tips to help you become an early riser and another providing a list of companies with a large user base despite having very little manpower behind them.
Click Here to Read Article …

Popular search terms for this article:

google work life balance, work life balance at google, work life balance google, work life balance in google, google work life, google worklife balance, google finds a work-life balance, getting up early podcast, mentor work life balance, work life balance and google

The Netsetter: Legitimate Ways to Get Backlinks

Andre Kibbe 21st January General 20 Comments

SEO can be made as complicated as quantum physics, but the reality is much simpler. While there may indeed be the oft-cited “200 ranking factors,” anyone with experience knows deep down that backlinks are the lynchpin to scaling the heights of Google. However clever your keyword selection and copywriting are, there’s no getting around the fact that you need more links, stronger links, or more relevant links pointed back at your content than the next guy’s.
Click Here to Read Article …

Popular search terms for this article:

Ways to get backlinks, best way to get backlinks, new ways to get backlinks, lack of work at contentauthority, legitimate backlinks, ways of getting backlinks, how to get legitimate backlinks, professional unique resumes, get backlinks, elance backlink appraisal

Awesome Links #31: iCal Tricks, Internal Clock, Merits of Yoga

Abhijeet Mukherjee 15th January General Leave a Comment

Where can you catch up on some great iCal tricks, get attuned to your own internal clock and learn when procrastination is a good thing?

This week’s Awesome Links, that’s where.
Click Here to Read Article …

Popular search terms for this article:

ical tricks, ical addons, ical easter eggs, links to ical, awesome ical, ical easter, Awesome Tech Blog pics, tricks for ical, enhance ical, chess tricks

Awesome Links #30: Winter Running, Breaking Bad Habits, Finance Apps

Abhijeet Mukherjee 8th January General Leave a Comment

With 2011 kicking in, this week’s Awesome Links focuses on how to get your year started on the right track. Between getting exercise during the winter months, ridding yourself of those lingering bad habits and getting your finances in order, you’re sure to find some — if not all — of these awesome links useful.
Click Here to Read Article …

Popular search terms for this article:

habit breaking apps, bad habits app, lifehacker howto break bad habits, motivation to run in the winter, list of habits bad people do in winter, how to break the oversleeping habit, how do i break my oversleeping habbit, habits app, app for bad habits, breaking bad habits app

The Netsetter: My Favorite Keyword Research Tools, Part 2

Andre Kibbe 7th January General 2 Comments

The previous two keyword research tools I covered were extremely powerful for finding keywords and checking their competitiveness on a large scale. They allow you to accomplish in hours what would amount to days or weeks of checking by hand.
Click Here to Read Article …

Popular search terms for this article:

what are the two key word, Search how tall is angelina jolie comared to you, go to how to use google’s free keyword tool or the resource page for my favorite keyword research tools and to learn more about this, seoc tools, seoquake for firefox parameters basic preset, seo title competition, seoc number of keyword, seoc tool, seoquake keyword competition, seoquake seoc

Awesome Links #29: New Year, OS X Desktop, ChromeMarks

Abhijeet Mukherjee 1st January General 1 Comment

Our first Awesome Links of 2011 offers some reflections on the year gone by, setting yourself up for the year ahead and tools to help you get more productive with your mobile and desktop devices.
Click Here to Read Article …

Popular search terms for this article:

awesome desktop osx, awesome osx desktops, awseome osx desktops, bookmark chrome osx desktop, links, links on desktop osx, post your osx desktop, zen habits bookmark icon