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My Filipino SEO, Oliver, posted some great tips on creating content. And that is definitely the way most web masters go about creating content. Let’s look at the different methods of creating content in more detail.

Creating Your Own Content
Sure you can create your own content. But be aware that in order to make your site successful, you need to be creating content all the time. For those of you that like to write and are good at writing and have a lot to talk about, then this may be OK for you.
In all, this method is the most expensive and time consuming way of creating content. Also, you are in control of the content. An example of a webmaster creating content is a blog. There are many successful blogs out there that are updated frequently.

Having Users Create Content
Another option is to have a database driven site in which users generate the content. The site can be a pre-made application such as a forum or a custom made application. One tradeoff made here is the development time. If you like to code and not write, then this method may be for you. When the forum becomes popular, users will generate hundreds or thousands of pages per day. However, you are not in control of what users post and it can be complete garbage from a search engines perspective.

Using Content from Other Sites
You need to be really careful when using this method. Yes, anyone can take content from another website and use it on there own. However, this may be illegal and unethical. Besides, search engines want unique content. Also be aware, that you may be penalized for having duplicate content by search engines. The key is to find a source of content that is untapped and content that is OK to use such as content from the government. This is how I create content for anyInput. More this later.

Definitely, a website that has a lot of contents impresses visitors, this is because they come back again and again to see updates on articles, news, tutorials and a lot more.

But what about websites that sells products and database driven sites like anyInput.com, anyAssets, anyUI and anyInfos?

While product based websites contains things to sell, and mostly database driven sites, it should also contain description, promotional articles that would support the integrity of the product you are selling, maybe a dummy site or subdirectory that will contain marketing techniques that points them to the products you are selling like promotions, discounts or other things that explains the beauty and strength of the products could be made. Otherwise, your site will be found dead, NO visitors, NO sales.

Another tips for creating content on your site is to make an appeal to the buyer or visitors that will drive them to visit your site again and again. Be sure not to copy other sites’ content, which some owners or even writers and webmasters do to save money and time. You could derive thoughts and ideas from them, make an original article and claim them as your authored one, besides you don’t want to face infringement and plagiarism issues, right?

A good content shows the writer’s own personality and flavor. But an informative contents should be based on what really had happen or is happening and not a personal opinion. It can be based on what you have experienced especially when talking about problems that you have solved or technique and tips you have discovered.

Make sure what your site is explaining should be understood by many. Use the English language as much as possible, since it is the primary business language the world understands, although there are a lot of language translation tools available for those who can’t. This ensures that people knows what they are reading and will not be mislead, since you are promoting your site internationally.

Remember to check your grammar everytime a content is published, this will increase your site’s integrity and will tell people that you are serious in your internet business and that you are really professional.

Last thing here, always make sure you do daily or regular updates. People will be more excited to visit your site again and again to see the newest content and updates. This will avoid being tagged as a boring site.

Many people I have talked to over the years essentially say to me focus on a niche when starting a business. A family friend, Don, said that I should focus anyInput at a niche such as stamp collecting, comic collecting, coin collecting or etc. My uncle said I should focus on a niche for monthly subscription fees such as “hotel inventory software.” Further, there are countless examples of successful websites that have a niche market. There is a wine collectors forum and a php developer forum and forums about anything imaginable. You need to start out in a niche first.

Once your business has a good chunk of a niche market, then you may decide to go after another niche. If you keep growing you may discover that you now own a general market. A perfect example of this is facebook. They started with colleges and were in that market for years until recently they took on the general social networking market. Another example is Amazon which began as an online book retailer.

Even though, I knew about the importance of niche markets, I never applied the idea to my sites. They are all general sites about a vague topic such as “free online storage” or “maintenance software.” These ideas are not focused and will probably not pick up steam. So I have finally decided to use a new strategy based on niches for new sites that I created moving forward.

Advertising revenue through Google adSense is my primary business model. The revenue I earn is in proportion to the number of page views my sites get. As the number of page views increases so will the revenue. Unfortunately, you can’t survive on the advertising model because the earnings are not high on sites with a low number of page views. Unless your site achieves millions or billions or page views per month and costs little to run don’t expect to quit your job or earn thousands.

If I achieve say 1 billion page views a month, then advertisers will come pay me directly and I will earn some serious $$$$. I will not need to use Google adSense as my ad middleman any longer. However, with the current concept of anyInput, achieving 1 billion page views a month may unrealistic in the short term. Sites that get 1 billion page views a month quickly are sites that are interesting to the majority of people out there. Social sites where you can view profiles about people such as facebook, plentyoffish and etc. are interesting to people.

Advertising revenue should be my secondary business model since the earnings are low. In the short term, relying on advertising model will not produce a sustainable business and the advertising model will not allow me to survive in the short term. Therefore, my primary model is changing to the collection of a monthly subscription fee from small businesses interested in using the anyInput concept.

So, I have my laptop and I am bringing it in the office. But as time goes by, I realized that I might over use my laptop’s screen, since LCD screens have lower lifespan compared to the CRT (Desktop Screen/Monitors). I am bringing my laptop at office, because all of my important documents and accounts are stored on it, so there is no choice left for me. One day, it came to my mind why not use the company’s desktop while using my laptop, in that way, I could save my laptop LCD’s life while still use my laptop efficiently. So, how did I temporarily disabled my laptop screen and utilize that of the company’s?

Doing this in Windows Operating System is just in a blink of an eye, same as with the Linux environment but is more secured, well that is the essence why I decided of having an Ubuntu software to govern my machine.

So, I will make the procedures in step by step way on How To Utilize Desktop Monitor Instead of Laptop’s LCD

1. Connect your CRT data cable to the laptop’s extended video port.
2. Start your Ubuntu Operating System.
3. Log-in to your account.
4. When you are already logged - on, Click on the System > Preferences > Screen Resolution menus.
5. On the Screen Resolution Settings Window, uncheck the Mirror Screens checkbox. Then you will see the current monitors being used by the system, both (CRT and Laptop) monitors are displayed since you are connected currently to them.
6. Click on the Laptop (your screen viewable measurement), i.e: Laptop 14″ , then click on the “Resolution” menu item and set it to “Off” using the drop down menu .
7. Your Laptop screen is now disabled.

** If you want to bring the display back to your Laptop LCD, follow steps 4 until 6 and set the “Resolution” to your desired values from the drop down menu i.e.: 1024 x 768, etc.

Enjoy the tweak! More on other tweaks later.

These are the summary of the things you need in preparation for your web-treprenuership

1. Research for the Best Keywords for your services, products or ideas you want people to search that will drive them into your site. You can use thousands of tools that can be found in the internet to discover them for you. I am sure Google has it that is free and ready to use. Give it a try to search them. Proceeding to your on-page optimization, use your keywords as part of the title tag, say if you’re site is about programming, include that phrase in your titles too.

2. Include your search keyword in the header of your web page, the spider would love to see them there, they are attracted with the headers, so eventually, if your keywords are included in the headers, you will get indexed easily.

3. Use your keywords in the body text, since spiders are also looking for keywords in the body of the web page.

4. Do not limit your mind setting to keywords only, the relationship between the context of the body with respect to your search keyword term are also important, so get around the whole thought and try to be creative in writing articles perhaps.

5. Use H1 tag for your keywords. H1 is used by webmasters to intensify attention for a particular word, same way as spiders, they are paying attention to those words in big and bold letters, so why don’t you start to present your keywords in a highly regarded style?

6. Use Keywords in domain and URL. Search engines are looking for links that is matched with the search term that is queried by the users, and if your keywords can also be found in your domain and URL, for sure you will be indexed by search engines in a speedy way.

7. The reasons why SEO people are submitting their links to thousands of Directory Submission Sites is because of Link Popularity.

8. When submitting to Directory Submission Site or doing link exchange, make sure to post your link to relative topics or sites.

9. The age of your site is also considered in search engine indexing and Page Ranking procedures.

10. The number of pages that are indexable in your site are also being taken into consideration.

With all the list above, I am sure you have a lot of ideas on how to start your own site that is search engine friendly and are easily be indexed.

Good Luck and have a great day ahead of you! We’ll see you you later.

December 1, 2008 - anyInput has launched and released anyUI.com. anyUI.com is based on the same platform as anyInput but differs in its customizations to the particular market we are targeting.

From our experience, many websites such as government websites have public database data that they are sharing or want to share. These websites often place text files of public database data on their web sites for interested people to download and consume. Unfortunately, the downloadable public data is not easily accessible to the normal web browser. It is really suited to technically minded people. Further, additional steps must be taken for the downloaded data to be viewed.

These websites can make the public database data more accessible. However, this requires additional resources such as programmers to build a database user interface. anyUI.com is essentially a user interface for your public data that can be viewed and easily manipulated for the normal web browser. You just tell us where the data is on your site and we will download it, process and build a simple web interface for you. Provide links to your anyUI homepage on your site and let users know that the public database data can be viewed right away through a simple web browser.

Sorry for the long delay in posts authored by me. I am only one person and can only do so much. I actually have been working very hard over the last year in creating sites based on the anyInput platform and testing internet marketing methods. The sites are anyAssets, anyUI and anyInfos. The internet marketing method that seems to work is based on data aggregation. More on this later.

You may have noticed that the blog has been active over the past year with posts about anything. Well, those are from my Filipino SEOs. More on the later as well.

Viruses are one of the several types of malicious software or malware. Viruses that are common in the wild are mostly relatively fast to extremely fast infectors. Although some viruses are merely disruptive, others can destroy or corrupt data or cause an operating system or applications program to malfunction. Viruses typically do this by avoiding suspicious programs, such as small program files or programs that contain certain patterns of ‘garbage instructions’

Several thousand computer viruses are known, and on average three to five new strains are discovered every day. Antivirus programs and hardware have been developed to combat viruses. A computer virus usually attaches or inserts itself to or in an executable file or the boot sector (the area that contains the first instructions executed by a computer when it is started or restarted) of a disk; those that infect both files and boot records are called bimodal viruses. In a common parlance, the term virus is often extended to refer to worms, trojan horses and other sorts of malware, however, this can confuse computer users, since viruses in the narrow sense of the word are less common than they used to be, compared to other forms of malware.

How to Install Microsoft Fonts in Linux Guide:

Tested on Distribution: Ubuntu Hardy Heron

How to install MS core fonts

You can install the MS core fonts by installing the msttcorefonts package. To do this, enable the “Universe” component of the repositories. This is done by default in Hardy. After you do that, use the following command from the command line:

$sudo apt-get install msttcorefonts

After installing new fonts, you will have to log out and log in again to be able to see and use the new fonts. If you want to avoid this, you can regenerate the fonts cache by issuing the following command:

$sudo fc-cache -fv

And that is it. Microsoft Windows Font Styles are now part of your Linux Ubuntu System.

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