The 7 Best FREE Places to Submit your Website for Improved Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
July 10, 2009 by Jason Montero · 41 Comments
About once a month follow the links below and submit the URLs for your Websites. Manually submitting your site to the major search engines will cause your site to be re-indexed so that new text and information will be recognized and cataloged. Although most major search engines have ‘robots’ or ‘spiders’ that roam the web cataloging sites, the frequency with which they visit your site is based on many factors: how established it is, how often it is updated, how many pertinent incoming links you have, etc…
It is significant to note that there are many search utilities on the web that are ‘powered’ by one of the major search engines, and are therefore essentially extensions of those engines. This means if you are registered with the main engine, you will likely also be included in the additional directories it is powering.
To learn more than you ever wanted to know about Search Engine Optimization and Search Marketing consult Search Engine Marketing 101 by the good people at Search Engine Watch.
The 7 best FREE Places to Submit your Website for Increased Traffic
1. Google (also powers AOL Search & Netscape Search) – The King of Search Engines, the 600 Lbs. Gorilla, Google has the largest market share of U.S. based web searches at 67% of all searches as of April 2008. Google’s stated mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. Google is now widely recognized as the world’s largest search engine — an easy-to-use free service that usually returns relevant results in a fraction of a second.
Free Submit: http://www.google.com/addurl/
2. Yahoo! Search (also powers AltaVista & Alltheweb) – The #2 seed with a market share of 20%. The stated goal of Yahoo! Search is to discover and index all of the content available on the web to provide the best possible search experience to users. The Yahoo! Search index, which contains several billion web pages, is more than 99% populated through the free crawl process.
Free Submit: http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/submit
Thinking about starting your own business? Get some Free Expert Advice from the folks at Changing Course
April 3, 2009 by Phil Montero · 1 Comment
If you’re like many people the current economy may have cost you your job – or has you concerned about the stability of your current workplace. You’d love to start your own business but you are not sure if this is the right time.
Our colleagues over at ChangingCourse.com are offering a free 60-minute telephone seminar this Sunday on why this is the perfect time to start your own business and i wanted to tell you folks about it.
Here is their invitation describing the event:
Here’s why this is THE perfect Time to Start Your Own Business
Have you ever thought of simply putting out your shingle and starting your own business? Yet maybe your plans came to a screeching halt because of what’s going on in the economy. Well what if I told you now was THE perfect time to start your own business, would you believe me? Well, here’s the deal, it’s true, now is really the perfect time to start your business.
Did you know that some of the biggest Fortune 500 companies today were started in a down economy? This is just one of the many things you will discover when you sign up for Valerie Young’s call this Sunday, April 5 at 7pm. You’ll hear Valerie interview Tom Kennedy (a former consulting client of hers who took the ideas he got from our brainstorming session and ran with them) as well as two graduates of her Outside the Job Box Career Expert Training, Cheryl Young and Sherrie Porterfield – each with very different personalities, perspectives, and approaches!
All three of these individuals offer a unique perspective on why now is the perfect time to start your own home-based business. Read more
IRS Tax Extension Application
April 2, 2009 by Jason Montero · 10 Comments
IRS Tax Extension Application.
I hate to feed anyone’s procrastination habit, because sometimes i get it bad (did someone say boomshine?), but the link above will take you to an IRS approved provider website that will file an income tax deadline extension for you FREE of charge if you do it before April 20th. The vast majority of extension requests are accepted and they postpone your tax filing deadline for 6 months, until October 15th.
Taxextension.com is basically an automated, online way to file a Form 4868. As far as i’m concerned, the ability to efile tax forms goes firmly in the ‘computers make my life better category’. The jury is still out on Boomshine…
Dropping Outlook for Webmail (an update on my adventures in cloud computing)
November 25, 2008 by Phil Montero · 7 Comments
It was almost a year ago when I posted about my 60 day experiment to stop using Outlook as my primary email program and contact manager and instead moved to a web-based email system. Several people commented on that posting and I felt it was time for an update.
Let me say that after having moved my email onto the web I have been much happier and accessing my email is much more flexible. In fact, that move has prompted me to move other services I need, such as my calendar and to do list, to the cloud.
So let me briefly review what is no longer an experiment, but is now the new way I am working. First off, as for email, although I started by using Yahoo Mail Plus – after about 4 months I decided to give Google Apps and Gmail a try. There were a number of things I liked about Yahoo but there were some things that made me crazy too – such as often losing a message while writing it for no reason (the screen would just go blank), plus a big problem: the Yahoo Calendar. This is where Yahoo lost me as a user and Google won. Read more
Tools for running a business online
September 25, 2008 by Phil Montero · 2 Comments
A few days ago I came across a recently published list of 270+ tools and apps for running a business online. Whether you are a small business owner, entrepreneur, or solopreneur you are bound to find something useful in this list. It is broken down into categories covering topics such as accounting & billing, calendars & scheduling, collaboration, contact management, online meetings, project management, and virtual offices among many others.
Although no list like this can be exhaustive (we currently use some tools not on this list) – there were plenty here I have never come across before. If you’re looking to be more mobile and increase your ability to work where and when you want I encourage you to give this list a gander and consider which ones might be able to improve your business and workflow.
Tools like these were previously only available to organizations with large budgets. Thanks to them becoming more affordable small businesses can now truly work from anywhere.
