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SEO Secret 4 – Search Engine Algorythms

Over 50 calculations go into every search engine. It is the sum of all these factors which determines your position in the rankings.
Most engines include things like page title, keyword density, keyword proximity, word stemming, semantics, link popularity, link reputation, linking community, citing page relevance and more. Google throws in their proprietary Hubs, Authorities, TrustRank and PageRank into the mix.
Sheesh! How can one ever keep up?
You don't… And here's why.
If you're chasing the algo, you're chasing shadows. It's a snapshot of the past. It's not where the engine is now, or where it will be tomorrow. The real secret is to focus on besting the competition, not the search engine.
In the old days, search engines used a "one-size-fits-all" approach to ranking pages and we could gather engine intelligence outside our industry. With the addition of semantics and the advent of NLA (natural language analysis) our intel must be topic sensitive.
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Original post by Michael Campbell

by Kerry Alayon-Babas

There are many network marketing sponsors out there handing out the antiquated advice of the 90s. Their advice is creating many frustrated home business owners. It is really not their fault. They dont know any better. However, you have to change the way you think before you will stop struggling with your business.

You see, times have changed and there is a much better way of getting your business off the ground and growing your down-line. You can actually run it in a way that prospects will be calling you to come and join your MLM business. Those who are still chasing down their prospects and trying to convince them to join the business are going to be completely obliterated by marketers who bring value to their networks and teams.

I know what it is like to struggle with an MLM company. For the past 6 years I have chased down prospects on the phone, bought mlm leads, and tried to persuade family and friends to join my organization. I lugged bags of products to peoples houses and played fun games to engage the group of friends of friends at house parties. It was a bit humiliating when family members would ask what scam I was trying to get them into. Talk about frustrating. I did achieve a certain amount of success but not to the degree I wanted.

It was the combination of the pressures of the day JOB and the increasing amount of work from my flailing business that drove me in search of a better way. I could not believe what I was missing. There are growing numbers of successful online marketers who are creating tremendous teams with absolutely no prospecting or cold calling. They talk to their family and friends about the weather and the news rather than their new proposition. How cool it that?

As you change the way you think about your business, make sure you are involved in a quality program. It has to hit your passion and purpose. Remember you will be living this business on a daily basis. You want it to be something you LOVE. Every home business has some kind of community you can plug into to gain insights and support. Make sure you become a major player in the community from the beginning.

Lets say you are already involved in a home business. Are you active in the community? Are you a leader? Chances are you are not if you are reading this article. Plug yourself into the leadership role today. Take your talents and the values you have to offer share them with your up-line and your down-line.

Here is where the first big change comes in. Stop marketing those MLM Company replicated websites. They all have the same content that every other rep is marketing with. How will you stand out from all of the other reps who are marketing the same business opportunity with the same website?

Tell me, would you join a program or follow a leader? What value are you bringing to the table? As you brand yourself and learn more about todays technology, you will bring more value to everyone you come in contact with. The brand you are now asking people to invest their time and money in is YOU.

Buying MLM leads is a thing of the past. So is trying to convince your family and friends to join your MLM organization. Bring Value to the market, Brand Yourself, and Enjoy Success!

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Best Prices in Web Hosting

by Sara Phelps

Despite what you may be thinking by the title of this article, this article is not a comparison of different prices from different web hosting companies. There are a number of places where you can get that information, so it seems rather useless to just add another. Rather, what this article does is give you general information on what you should be looking for in terms of the best web hosting prices for particular web hosting packages that you might be interested in. This is useful information because it is information that you can keep in mind when you are shopping around for a web hosting package and information that you can use to determine whether or not the price you are getting is a fair price to begin with.

Some people might consider the above to be harsh, but really the reason it is true is because when you get to the $10 barrier, you are actually into both some Windows and some Linux hosting packages that have benefits far in excess of what you could ever hope to get from a discount plan. Therefore, it makes no sense to pay that same amount of money for a discount plan when you could simply take the Windows or Linux plans and get all of the added support that you would not get under a basic plan. Support under Windows plans includes things like support for ASP and MSSQL; things that would perhaps not be there under most discount plans. Windows and Linux plans can both be found for in the $10 to $15 range per month for their basic incarnations and then if you want more space, more bandwidth or anything else, it just increases from there.

Ultimately, discount web hosting is of course going to be the most popular type of web hosting in today’s world, simply because there are so many people nowadays looking to start a business online. If you are interested in starting a business online, chances are that for the most part you don’t have a lot of money to begin with and therefore the discount web hosting plan is going to be the one for you. Discount web hosting is very cheap and for the most part very cost efficient. The cheapest discount web hosting plans are going to run you around $5 to $6 a month and at the most a good discount web hosting plan should not cost you more than $10 a month. If it does end up costing you more than $10 a month, you are likely not dealing with an honest web hosting company.

There are way too many specific types of web hosting packages in the world today to really tackle them all in detail, but for the most part you can actually figure out what the prices of related items should be based on the price knowledge of just two or three different kinds of web hosting. So, without further ado, those three types of web hosting are discount web hosting, Windows web hosting and Linux web hosting.

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