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10 Simple Tips to Fast Loading Website and Home Business Blog

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When was the last time you ran a check on how fast your work at home business website loads? Perhaps one month ago? 3 months ago, or the day you had your website created? Don’t you think you owe it to your readers and your subscribers whom you have openly said you’re providing good quality content while quietly saying to yourself how you wish you had more repeat visitors coming to your blog?

You might have one of the greatest looking websites in your niche but very few people are going to see it if it takes such a long time to load

I do not like to visit slow loading websites because the waiting time kills me and time is valuable. But if I have such thoughts, don’t you think my visitors coming to my site think the same way too.

The speed of your website or work from home business blog is the responsibility of the webmaster and you just have to set aside some of that valuable time to make this a periodic tune up. If you are just about to design your new work at home business website, do remember to check out how long it will take to load.

1. Minimize the use of images - The best way to get a fast loading web site is to minimize the use of images. It may be impossible to totally have a site without images and that’s not what I am recommending too. Perhaps set yourself 20% of your website having images. Remember all the popular sites like Google do not have many images. That’s because they place more importance to its load time as well as readers’ on-site experience.

2. Minimize the bytes of your html write-up by deleting all unnecessary characters, and blank spaces for fast loading pages.

3. Minimize the bytes of your website images with an Image Optimizer. This tool allows you to easily optimize your GIFs, animated gifs, JPGs, and PNGs, so they load as fast as possible on your website. I’ve also found out that you can easily convert from one image type to another up to an upload size limit of 300kB. Just to give you an idea what this means, I recently converted the image I had used on Work At Home Internet Business-7 In-Dept Link Building Tips . The picture size reduced from 105.61 KB to 13.09 KB, an unbelievable 87% reduction in bytes.

4. Use a HTML Validator to check out all errors found as such errors will increase your site loading time.

5. Reduce the number of animated GIFs as they take a very long time to load your pages. If it’s really necessary, choose smaller animated gifs.

6. Keep Your Code Clean - If you do use a WYSIWYG editor, most of the time you will receive redundant code added to your pages for example, these empty tags <font> </font>. Removing these excess tags will speed up your load time.

7. Keep your icons simple and small - Try not to use big images on your website. Instead use simple and small icons that add just a little color to attract your visitor’s attention.

8. Remove Anything You Don’t Need – Take a closer look at some of the things that you have put on your work at home business site and you will be amazed at the number of things you could remove, if not needed. This may be in the form of images, embedded sound files, widgets or animated GIFs.

9. Avoid Long Pages – Besides taking a longer time to load, long pages are not well received by your visitors. It’s a better idea to split these long pages into shorter pages which improves the page load up time.

10. Check your load time periodically – Make it a practice to check your website load time. It should be in your mental checklist to ensure a fast and error free site. Here is a website analyzer that you can use to quickly check it for your website.

Discover How You Too Can Easily Turn Your Blog Into A Super Fast Loading Blog

If you have a blog which is hosted in the Link Building same domain name as your website, you can be sure that using these 10 tips will also improve the load up time for your blog too. However do you want your blog to load even faster to cope with the demands of so many plugins, and countless of creations you’ve made on it? Well I’ve asked my good friend Yan, of ThouShallBlog, who has been making a name for himself in the blogging fraternity in just 3 months what it takes to achieve this. He has the answer for us in “5 Possible Ways To Speed Up Your Blog”. I really hope you read it as I’ve found very interesting and useful ways here to get my blog up to speed.

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Well as promised in my recent post Legitimate Home Internet Business: Review of My Blog Get Free Linkback, I’m here again giving my linkbacks to people who have responded. This is my review of the second batch of bloggers who have participated and provided me with the required information. I am happy to see more people realising the true benefits of this fun-filled review my blog/link exchange with a twist. Batch 3 review has just been scheduled to be published within the next 2 days.

4. Internet Marketing Online Affiliate Programs
Patricia Brucoli’is Internet Marketing Online Affiliate Programs website really lives up to her chosen domain name. It really looks like a “Network” of good quality legitimate home internet business programs, Resources, Featured Opportunities, Coaching/Mentoring and Articles Archives. In fact developing and building a good business network is one of the most fundamental and vital components of a successful internet home business. When I first visited Patricia’s blog/homepage, I was just starting out on my business and like most other newbies, was pretty much overwhelmed by what’s going on and getting caught up in the “too much to learn, so little time” syndrome.

I had found my visits to her site very beneficial for my own development and personal learning growth. So for a newbie, visiting this blog is definitely an eye opener and an enriching experience but for the experienced marketers, it is something they can expect from another seasoned marketer. They are here perhaps to update themselves and learn new skills or knowledge especially since Patricia is the member support director for PlugInProfitSite.com, a moderater at the Internet Marketing Warrior Forum, and a Certified Veretrainer in Veretekk. With such credentials, it is only natural to expect her blog choke-full of good quality stuff for the serious marketer, but for those finding the Internet Marketing journey a little tough, well she has much to share and impart her knowledge too. In her articles, she constantly reminds people to remember to “walk your dog”, ” take a break with your kids” and other work-life balance suggestions, something which I seldom see from other bloggers.

What I really liked about her Internet Marketing Online Affiliate Programs blog is that it doesn’t follow conventional blog designs and format. Her choice of broad categories of Network, Coaching & Mentoring, Affiliate Programs, Opportunities, Resources, instead of a One List of Categories is spot on and is as good as it gets. Any new internet home business owners wanting to get ideas on “how to” for creating and designing a new blog can learn a thing or two here. But I suspect, not before having enjoyed lots of good articles she has written over the years covering topics that you could benefit from, for your legitimate home internet business. Thanks for taking time to review my blog Patricia, my mentor, my friend.

Diluting your product to make it more ‘commercial’ will just make people like it less.

Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative

5. Free Website Marketing
Starting and then growing your online business at home has never been easy. Marketing your website and the products or services you promote can cost you dearly if you are not careful. Fortunately there are some websites that still offer them for free. Here is one Internet Marketing Forum which I find interesting and you ought to check it out:

Oscar’s free website promotion forum has 62 members with more than half of these members very active in 109 posts just over the last 3 months. Judging from the members’ joined dates, this forum is relatively new but looks promising and growing at a good rate. Although it has familiar topics like Internet Marketing, Adsense, Affiliate Marketing, Article Marketing, SEO Marketing, focusing on these popular ones is a wise decision. It also allows you to create your own blog and one of the things that caught my attention was that “The Blog system gives you your own personal space at EasyMarketingForum.com”. Find out what this means and more when you joined. Thanks Oscar for taking time to review my blog.

How To Do A Review of My Blog and Get A Linkback
The Review My Blog is one of the best linkbaits ever thought of by marketers. You review my blog and I link to it. It’s that simple and a win-win situation for both bloggers in terms of SEO perspective.

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Internet Home Business: How Keywords Can Get You Top Search Engine Rankings (Part 2)

Your legitimate home internet business keyword ranking at Search Engines can be easily attained by experienced SEO experts. Is this a fair statement? Of course it is, provided you are an SEO expert, or engaged one, someone who provides SEO services including search marketing and web analytics and practices optimization for about a decade.

Here are a few websites that you may find very useful for your legitimate home internet business especially for link building. They will be used in this as well as the next few topics. You will find them very useful for getting things done.

Here they are:

1. Google Keyword Suggestion Tool
https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal
2. Keyword Density Analyzer
http://www.submitexpress.com/analyzer/
3, HTML Validator
http://online.htmlvalidator.com/php/onlinevallite.php
4. Meta Tag Analyser
http://www.submitexpress.com/cgi-bin/analyzer/meta.pl

Well the truth is not everyone can afford to pay an arm and a leg for SEO services unless you know a family member or close friend who can advise you for free. Not withstanding this, the real work still has to be done by you anyway, and SEO is an onging process. Maybe this is as good a time as ever to appeciate Nike’s motto “Just Do It”.

Determine Relevant Keywords
For your website
1. Obtain a list of all your relevant keywords to be used using the keyword suggestion tool. If you do not have a good list of such keywords I suggest that you do a little research at other sites in your business niche to get some ideas. Catalog all the keywords your new page will contain. Fill your pages with 1/2 of these keywords and rotate in new keywords every now and then. Maintain the listing of these keywords on your page with a keyword density analyzer.

Keyword Density
I suspect keyword density may bring up some debate about how critical this is for SEO. While this discussion warrants another separate post, it is sufficient to say at this juncture that there are different opinions about what is the ideal keyword density. However an SEO specialist whom I’ve had the pleasure of consulting with and who has done extensive SEO testing has advised that keywords density should not be greater than 5% and not more than 71 keywords in the page.

For new pages
2. Determine one primary keyword phrase to set as a goal for top search engine rankings. Fill your page with this phrase exactly 3 times and another 2 times with a secondary keyword phrase. Example: “legitimate home internet business” on your page 3 times and “work at home internet business” 2 more times. For new sites, it is recommended that you focus on those keyword phrases with a low to medium search volume. Phrases with a high search volume take a much longer time to get top ranking because of higher competition. Use your selected keyword phrase for 30% of your backlink titles and 3 to 5 other supporting phrases for 70% of your backlink titles. When all these keywords get to top 17 at one search engine, select additional keyword titles and repeat the process.

Keyword Linking Technique - How You Want Others To Link To You
One of the most important keyword linking techniques adopted by experienced internet marketers is to get your link partner to use your chosen keywords as their chosen anchor text when linking to you. Maybe this is something simple to do, yet it’s the most influential factor that affects your search engine ranking, so it’s really worth doing this.

What you can do
Get in touch with your friends, business partners and other bloggers to link to your site or page using your chosen keywords in anchor text. If you explained how they too will benefit from an SEO perspective and that you will reciprocate, you can be sure that they will be most happy to do so.

Need more proof?
In March 2007 John Chow, a familiar name by now, caused quite a sensation in the blogging fraternity when he ran a promotion on his blog where he will link back to you if you do a review of his blog. His requirement? That you just link to his site and page with his chosen specific keyword phrase “make money online”. Most people were happy to link with him even with this condition and at the end of his link building campaign, hundreds of people had participated and his keywords ‘make money online’ ranked # 2 in Google.

How To Get Websites To Link To You With Chosen Keywords
1. You probably agree with me that although you know it’s important, submitting to many directories for your website or blog can be such a painful experience. Well perhaps if tell you how to get the best out of such submissions, it might just ease the pain a little. Ready? When you are submitting to a directory, you will usually see a screen, which looks like this:

In the area where you are asked for the Site Name/Title, this is where you should type in your keyword phrase instead of your site name. Do take note that different directories use different naming conventions here. I would then use ‘Work At Home Internet Business‘ if this is my chosen keyword phrase.

All other inputs like URL, email address remain pretty much the same and should be typed in accordingly following what you’ve been doing all the time.

2. You could think of a good linkbait to use. Something that appeals to bloggers who would thank you for doing so. Maybe along the line of a review of your blog offer.

3. You could also think of an ingenius contest that attracts bloggers to your blog like bees to honey. Everyone likes a contest especially if there is a good prize and a link back. All that’s left for you to do is set the golden rule to link back using your targeted keyword.

” Everyone says that Content Is King….but I say Content Is King only if it brings in loads of backlinks….”

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Make Social Bookmarking Your Best Home Business Idea

Many work at home business owners may not have realized the full potential of social bookmarking and how they can use it more effectively. What sort of benefits can you reap from using social bookmarking you might ask? Well how about increased leads, sales, your subscribers and even repeat visitors to your blog or website. All for free. For new bloggers read on to learn something so powerful that you can use as your best home business idea. For other webmasters and website owners, there may still be a trick or two that you have not thought of that can benefit your online business opportunity.

The Origin
Originating from a bookmark, a mere piece of paper that marks a page so you can find it easily again, a computer bookmark is a link on your computer that marks your selected web page to let you find that page easily.

Weaving A Little Magic
The most fundamental benefit of a social bookmark is that it lets you share with others when you post this page to dozens of social bookmarking websites. These sites have really grown substantially to serve the needs of many work at home business owners and private individuals. Some of the most popular ones are del.icio.us, ma.glolia, StumbleUpon, Digg, Google Bookmarks, just to name a few. Many have indeed capitalized on this new found craze as a new online business opportunity not to be missed. And who says that the online business niche is getting too saturated?

When I started this post, I mentioned that social bookmarking if used correctly can be a very powerful platform for your work at home business. If I liked your web page and posted a bookmark to it at one of these sites, something magical would happen. First, other members of the bookmarking site could view this link. If they liked it, chances are they would follow the link. Then they could subscribe, view more pages, buy your product or whatever your site offers. They could also bookmark the link and a new chain begins. Think about this. Many people participate in several dozens of bookmarking sites. They might bookmark your page several times or even blog about it using your link. Of course this may be what’s in an ideal situation, but it doesn’t take away the fact that social bookmarking could be weaving that magic you’ve been waiting for. It doesn’t take away the power that it can unleash for you either. If you learned the correct technique and using it effectively, it could well be your next best home business idea.

Appease The Search Engines
Another benefit of using social bookmarking is that the search engines can see and recognize which sites are building up naturally created “votes” across what domains. In general websites that can attract numerous bookmarks have a better advantage over others that don’t. Many people may not be aware that Google has a social bookmarking site called “Google Bookmarks” so that explains why we should include our bookmarks here too. Another reason why we should do this is that Google has included social bookmarking in its personal search algorithm for some time now.

Harness The Power of Social Bookmarking
Ever since the birth of social bookmarking sites, people have been doing this manually. It’s cumbersome but it does work. Bloggers would place the little icons for Digg, ma.glolia, del.icio.us and others at the end of each post. By doing so, the blogger hopes that visitors reading the post will be prompted to bookmark the post provided he likes it.

With the increase of many social bookmarking sites, a few smart people started writing scripts to automate this process further. This made sites like socialmatic.com and onlywire.com possible and gave bloggers a new breath of fresh air.

You should place the link on your website or blog to provide your readers to bookmark your post easily. I used them as well as The Bookmarketer , a social bookmarking tool which helps my visitors promote my site in many ways. I placed this free tool at the bottom of each blog post. Fee free to grab this free tool to put on your site too.

Social bookmarking has helped the average webmaster grapple with the ever evolving internet marketing world and the more seasoned ones on the way to find real success in their work at home business. It’s here to stay and no webmaster or home business owner can afford not to recognize its full potential and make the best out of it. Check out some cool social bookmarking plugins at Barbara Ling’s 21 Days To a More Profitable Blog.

What’s your opinion?
Did you like this post and do you have a better idea of what social bookmarking is and the benefits you and your work at home business can obtain? Do you agree that it may be one of your best home business ideas? If you have any insights on the subject, I really love to hear from you.

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