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Do you think flash-based website will do good for your business?

Recently, I met a potential client that was asking about flash site and I noticed that she so much into flash thingy. Can’t really argue about flash website, they are just awesome but are they good for business?

Let’s find out…

As we all should know flash-based sites have been a craze since the past few years, and as Macromedia compiles more and more great features into Flash, we can only predict there will be more and more flash sites around the Internet. However, Flash based sites have been disputed to be bloated and unnecessary.

Website templates are very affordable and they save you a lot of effort and time when you want to create a new layout for your website. However, a lot of people make mistakes in the process of choosing and using a web template and end up with something that was unlike the image they had in mind. Here are some guidelines to help you avoid those mistakes.

Mistake 1: Popular Templates

A mailing list is the lifeblood of your online business. The old adage “the money is in the list” cannot be true enough — if you had a targeted list of prospects to contact each time you have a new product, you will be able to save a lot of effort by marketing it to your existing list of targeted prospects.

SEO approaches are divided into two namely white hat and black hat SEO. White hatters are known to follow the stringent guidelines in driving potential visitors into web sites. They also abhor the methods used by black hatters and try to find more ways to avoid problems in searches and page rankings. White hat SEO can be very effective, even if you are not allowed to use some techniques. Here are some more details about the type.

What is White Hat SEO?

SEO approaches have been categorized into either black hat or white hat. White hatters are considered to be the good guys, while black hatters are known to be grabbing temporary opportunities that will ultimately be discovered and disapproved by search engines and halted immediately. A lot of individuals still use black hat SEO for a number of reasons. Find out if you should stay with the good side or take some risks as a black hatter.

What is Black Hat?

Search engine optimization (SEO) can be a complicated process, especially if you are not very familiar, or well-versed, with the method. A lot of SEO beginners, and even some professionals, continue to commit the same mistakes when they do try to use SEO, thereby making it harder for them to get the results that they desire for their site’s page ranking.

Fortunately for you, by simply determining what mistakes they make and avoiding them, you can actually fair off better than those people who commit them, even if you are an SEO beginner. If you are already well-versed with the SEO process, then learning these mistakes won’t hurt your chances either, but rather, help improve them.

One of the main components that helps determine the success, or failure, of your search engine optimization (SEO) campaign is your keyword selection. Although this may not appear much, choosing the right keyword to use for your website is one of the more grueling parts of the entire SEO process, especially if you aim to find one that will be most effective for your site’s search engine optimization.

When using keywords for SEO, you just need to follow a few simple steps in order to properly find the right keyword that will do the job. There are also a couple of things that you need to look out for in order to avoid any problems when trying to optimize your web page.

Finally, we launched our first wordress plugin and its available for free.

Twitter Sifu support (tested) both latest standard Wordpress and Wordpress MU.

Twitter Sifu is a plugin designed to tweet whenever you publish a new post and also your older posts to get more traffic. As for the older posts the plugin will randomly picks your older post based on the interval specified by you. The primary function of this plugin is to promote older blog posts by tweeting about them and getting more traffic.

Why TwitterSifu?

Building a website can be the easiest thing if you’re web developer. But for those who don’t have experience mistakes are more likely to happen.

You see… In today technology everyone are able to create their own website but there is no point in building a website unless there are visitors coming in. By now we all should aware that a major source of traffic for most sites on the Internet is search engines like Google, Yahoo!, Bing (previously known as MSN), Altavista, ExactSeek, and so on. The best way to make sure your site listed or indexed by these search engines is by designing a search engine friendly site, you will be able to rank easily in search engines and obtain more visitors.

Nowadays, in this trendy world, people get very uptight when they do not look entirely presentable. This would also be the same situation in web designing.

Not only business owner but every individual would definitely want their website to look good, if not, to the best they can. This is because they understand the importance of having a good looking website that can impress others. Here are a few things we could look out for when wanting to create a professional looking webpage.

1) Color Schemes and Themes

The first thing before you start reading is to check whether your site have a sitemap.

So, what is sitemap anyway?

A sitemap is a list of pages, visual or textually organized model of a Web site’s content that allows the users or the crawlers to navigate through the site to find the information they are looking for. It is like a traditional geographical map that helps people find places they are looking for in the real world. It’s like table of content in a book where a sitemap is a kind of interactive table of contents, in which each listed item links directly to its counterpart sections of the Website. This used as a planning tool for website design and a tool that list all the pages in a website.

Normally, if you want to have professional designers’ custom build your site, you must be prepared to dish out at least a few hundred dollars. All this can change if you know where to find the best deals, the best designs for the lowest price. Here’s a rough guide:

First, you must understand that it is a rip off to get companies to design websites for you. Have you ever seen those advertisements in newspaper classified ad sections that offer a 5-page website at $500 or some company put their price tag few hundred dollars in the website but when meeting them they increase the price to few thousands? These companies are established companies with physical locations; therefore they have to increase the amount they charge to pay off some overheads: office rent, designer’s wages, advertising costs and so on.

Recently I was invited to give basics SEO Optimization training for a company on optimizing website and news content for search.  The intersection of website, search  and PR/communications are obviously something quite familiar and while I’ve  done several such presentations last year with our clients like Charity  Malaysia, Genting Permai Resort, Hotel Malaya, Nixfon and many more.

The outcome exceeded all expectations thanks to the excellent promotions by our SEO Experts for smooth handling the entire projects. Over 20 people registered for the SEO Optimization Training, there were over 50 questions.

Many business owners now tend to shift their business to online. Having a website not like those days where it’s just for the sake of having it. Today, your website is where your business resides; it’s like the headquarter of an offline company. Many business owners now treat the website as like their own office. And for that reason, it is important to practice good design principles to make sure your site reaches out to the maximum number of visitors and sells to as many people as possible. Just note this; poor website presentation will leave bad impression that will lead to no sales will be generated.

Over the past few years we met tons of clients, good and bad. So far, we managed to handle them properly. The good one we keep and create more business opportunity and the bad one we don’t wait just throw. Hey, doing business not always perfect, there are a lot of risks and we did encountered two clients that we felt the biggest headache and gave tons of problems. This is what we want to share today.