The most important thing is getting more and more members to your group so that you can post a single message, update, event or anything about your website and it will be delievered to all the members. I would like to tell you how you can get thousands of members to your group on facebook.

1. Create a Facebook account and try to add friends, a lot of friends.

2. You should have atleast 2000 friends, before you create a group. Remember, do not create group until you have proper number of friends. There are a lot of people on the Facebook who make 5000 Facebook Friends in 7 Days only. Visit Google and type '5000 Facebook Friends in 7 Days only' to check how people do it.

3. Now, go to the group home page.

4. Create an interesting group and suggest your friends your group and ask them to suggest it to their friends.

5. The more interesting & descriptive information you will provide, the more members should will get.

6. Never hurry in adding members to your Facebook group. But if you are able to learn how to add members quickly then it will be very nice.

I use Facebook Fan Pages rather than groups. I know these are different things, but I get hundreds of visitors to my website from Facebook fan page. I add thousands of fans quickly to my fan pages. I added near about 50000 Fans in 30 Days only last month and made $500 Everyday with Facebook Fan Page.

If you are really serious in getting traffic, making your facebook group popular or making money with Facebook then you should take it seriously!

But with so many marketers jumping on the blogging bandwagon, few people are giving a thought to whether blogs are really up their alley, or taking the time to consider the best ways of going about it.

If you are planning to start a business blog, ask yourself these questions before you take the final plunge.

1. Do you really need a blog?

Writing and maintaining a blog takes a certain degree of commitment, as well as a passion (or at least a liking) for stringing words into a decent sentence. If you don't enjoy writing that much, you could always create an audio or video blog.

But would your business objectives really be served by starting a blog? Or could other methods of online marketing – like SEO, ezine advertising or newsletter publishing work just as well, if not better?

2. Whom do you want to reach with your blog?

The first step to reaching your audience is understanding where they go to find information about your products.

If your audience largely consists of people who live in your town or use products that they search for in the newspapers, offline advertising might be more suited to your purpose.

If however, your target audience belongs to one or more of these segments, a blog might be just the thing to boost your business.

- Internet users

Does your target audience really use the internet? If not, then starting a blog (or any online activity, for that matter) will just be a huge waste of time and effort.

- Blog readers

Does your target audience read blogs? Or do they prefer to get their information in their inbox? If the latter is true, then an email newsletter might be a better option than a blog.

- Search engine users

A blog is an excellent way to boost your search engine rankings and get listed for a lot of your target keywords. If you know that your audience uses search engines to find information, a blog will increase your chances of getting their attention.

3. What do you want to achieve with your blog?

There are a lot of things that a blog can do for your business. Blogs can help you -

- Increase your visibility and search engine rankings

- Brand yourself, your products, your services, your company

- Build a community and network with people who have similar interests

- Expand your reach to those outside your current sphere of influence

- Establish your credibility as an expert or thought-leader in your field

- Put a human face on your business

- Reach out to potential customers and stakeholders

Deciding exactly what you want to achieve with your blog can help you get focused, so that you can spend your time and effort in activities that help, not hinder your business objectives.

4. How much time can you spend on your blog?

Serious business bloggers not only spend time writing their own blogs, but also spend a great deal of time reading up on current events and browsing other blogs in their field for information.

If you are prepared to put in the time and effort required to do that sort of research, your blog will serve as a good branding tool for your business.

If not, you should either hire someone to do the research or seriously rethink your decision to start a blog.

5. What blogging platform will serve your needs best?

Deciding your blogging platform is an important step that you should take only after becoming familiar with the features and benefits of each option.

The reason it is so crucial is because it can be extremely difficult to migrate an established blog to a new platform once you have started it. Moving your blog can result in you losing your data, search engine listings and readers, so don't take this decision lightly.

Decide which platform will best meet your marketing objectives, time constraints and personal preferences before you make your first post.

According to T.L. Pakii Pierce who writes at "How to Blog for Fun & Profits!" http://blogforfunandprofit.blogware.com, if you are short of time, and want to spend more time writing, then a hosted solution like Blogger, Blogware, Squarespace or Typepad might serve your purpose better.

This might also prove a better option if you want to get started as soon as possible, are new to the internet, or are unfamiliar with scripts or code.

If, on the other hand, you're a control freak (like me) and don't mind spending some time and effort to customize your blog, then a server-installed software, like WordPress, b2Evolution or Movable Type might be just right for you.

If you don't want to install the scripts yourself, choose a hosting solution with Fantastico, which comes with a one-click install of a number of blogging software.

6. How do you plan to promote your blog?

Why is it good to know this before you start your blog? Because it will help you decide where best to invest your time and effort when you need to build traffic to your blog.

You'll learn more about the methods to promote your blog when you subscribe to the email course below. Some of these tasks can be outsourced, while others you would have to do yourself.

Decide what you want to take on and look out for service providers to handle the other functions so you can start building traffic to your blog as soon as possible.

7. How will you assess the success of your blog?

To determine how successful your blog is in boosting your profile or profits you will have to measure your blog traffic and track sales or leads that have come through it.

Planning this in advance will help you take more informed decisions about your blogging metrics, choice of blogging platform and degree of customization you require on your blog.

Understand that blogging is not for everyone. It's just another form of communication.

Don't get so hung up on the technology that you end up ignoring more appropriate ways of communicating your message.

Some things may be easier to communicate face to face, in a conference room, or even through the good old telephone.

But if you asked yourself all the questions above and decided that blogging meets all your objectives, then a blog may be just what the doctor ordered for your business.

There are specific steps one may take to decrease the time it takes for their Web pages to load. If you haven't heard the news yet, Matt Cutts, Google search engine evangelist, has already made it very clear that the speed of your site will soon affect your search engine result rankings. So, how can you improve the performance, speed and response time of your WordPress Web site?

High speed Internet connections are not a worldwide standard yet, so people not using a high speed connection have to spend more time to search for and to access information online. A Web site which loads fast will help a great deal when trying to reach users with a limited Internet connection.

"[...] if page load time exceed 8 to 10 seconds, the user’s frustration increases. Newer research has shown that about a third of all broadband users are reluctant to wait more than 4 seconds for a web page to load. For narrowband users almost half of them won’t wait more than six seconds." (Source: In Usability We Trust)

Place yourself in the shoes of one of your visitors, or a potential customer. Most people find it frustrating when trying to open a Web page that takes forever to load, so don't make them wait.

It is therefore crucial that serious Web publishers invest at least some time and resources to learn as much as possible about optimizing Web sites for speed.

Now with all that being said, where to start? How can you make your Web site faster?

Should you optimize your images first? Or maybe remove all those extensions, widgets and side-bar plugins that you have collected and installed over time? Or is it needed to go and actually start tweaking your HTML or CSS code? If you have little or no experience on these fronts, you can still speed up your Web site.

Here are several tips on how you can speed up your WordPress Web site.

1. Eliminate Unused Plugins

Do not use too many plugins.  Only use the plugins that you really need.  There are lots of cool plugins created for WordPress that allow a user to do just about anything, and while it is tempting to install all the plugins that you think are necessary, too many plugins will noticeably slow down your Web site. Think about about them as a bunch of little apps running at the same time – too many will affect the overall performance of the WordPress Web site. Keep the number of the plugins low, maybe 5 to 10, but don’t go over 20.

2. Optimize Your Database

All the information for your blog posts and comments are stored in a database. To speed up the loading time of the pages, you should optimize this database. There are a couple of ways to do this – with a WordPress plugin, or manually. The plugin method is recommended, especially for non-technical users.

There are many database optimization plugins for WordPress, but I find that the WP-DBManager WordPress plugin to be one of the best… and it's free! Just install the plugin, activate and configure. Once configured, WP-DBManager will optimize and backup your database on the schedule you set.  I recommend you back up your database every 1-4 days and have it optimized every 3 days.

If you want to optimize your database manually, here are some instructions:

1. Log in to your Web hosting Control Panel, locate and open PHPMyAdmin – it should be located in the Database Manager section.

2. Select the appropriate database.

3. Click “Check All” at the bottom of the page to select all of the tables.

4. Select “Optimize table” in the drop-down list to the right of the "Check All" link.

5. That's it, your done.

If you like, you may also export the database, for back-up purposes, using the export feature PHPMyAdmin provides. We will cover that in a different article.

3. Caching Your Database

Another way to speed up the work of your database is to cache it. This reduces the number of queries made to the database each time a user visits your WordPress Web site. Caching your database can easily be accomplished using the DB Cache Reloaded plugin. This plugin caches every database query with a given lifetime. It's much faster than html caching plugins and uses less disk space.

4. Disable Post Revisions

Post revisions came in to existence in WordPress version 2.6 and can be useful when multiple writers work on the same WordPress Web site. If left enabled, this feature will create multiple entries for each blog post in your database, effectively slowing it down. Each of these post versions are not necessary for most users, and clutter the database with many unnecessary entries.

Disabling post revisions can be done in a number of ways, here are two of the easier methods:

1. Add the following code to wp-config.php:

   define('WP_POST_REVISIONS', false);

2. Use the "Revision Control" or the "No Revisions" plugin to control if revisions are created or not.  Install either of these plugins for complete revision control.

3. You can also delete all post revisions by running this query in phpMyAdmin:

DELETE a,b,c
FROM wp_posts a
LEFT JOIN wp_term_relationships b ON (a.ID = b.object_id)
LEFT JOIN wp_postmeta c ON (a.ID = c.post_id)
WHERE a.post_type = 'revision'

5. Optimize Your Images

Optimize your images for use on the Web. It's not necessary to have a high-end image editing program like Adobe Photoshop to accomplish this goal, there are plenty of open source applications and Web sites you can use at no cost. Here is a list of free image optimization tools:

Web Based Tools:

• PunyPNG – Analyzes your image and figures out the best image format to use. Depending on the file, PunyPNG will automatically convert your GIF into a PNG format and then further compress that. For JPEGs, sometimes it's better to make it a PNG, and other times it's better to keep it as JPEG and use jpeg-tran to optimize it. PunyPNG makes all those decisions for you and ensures the best possible results.

• Smush.it – Smush.it uses optimization techniques specific to image format to remove unnecessary bytes from image files. It is a "lossless" tool, which means it optimizes the images without changing their look or visual quality. After Smush.it runs on a web page it reports how many bytes would be saved by optimizing the page's images and provides a downloadable zip file with the minimized image files.

• Dynamic Drive Online Image Optimizer – Image Optimizer lets you easily optimize your gifs, animated gifs, jpgs, and pngs, so they load as fast as possible on your site. Furthermore, you can easily convert from one image type to another. You may choose to optimize an image from your computer or from a URL.

• SiteReportCard Image Optimization Tool – This is a free utility that compresses your GIF, JPEG, and PNG images. Decreasing the file size of your web images will increase the download speed of your web pages without affecting image quality! Enter an image or graphic (GIF, JPG, PNG) that you would like to optimize and the software will compress and display the image at various sizes and levels of image quality.

Desktop Tools:

• Shrink O’Matic – An AIR application to easily (batch) resize (shrink) images. It handles JPGs, GIFs and PNGs. Simply drag and drop images and they'll be resized as you wish! Options allow you to choose the output sizes, names and formats.

• OptiPNG – A PNG optimizer that re-compresses image files to a smaller size, without losing any information. This program also converts external formats (BMP, GIF, PNM and TIFF) to optimized PNG, and performs PNG integrity checks and corrections.

• ImageOptim – Optimizes images so they take up less disk space and load faster by finding best compression parameters and by removing unnecessary comments and color profiles. It handles PNG, JPEG and GIF animations. It's excellent for publishing images on the web (easily shrinks images “Saved for Web” in Photoshop) and also useful for making Mac and iPhone applications smaller.

• PNGOut – A tool which can optimize PNG files created by other programs. It can be run from the Windows Run dialog box or at the command prompt. PNGOUT can produce even smaller files than pngcrush -brute or optipng -o7, however, since PNGOUT does not automate trials, you will have to find the right options yourself

• JPG & PNG Stripper – A tool for stripping/cleaning/removing unnecessary metadata (junk) from JPG/JPEG/JFIF & PNG files. The image quality IS NOT AFFECTED. Includes command line support. Just specify a folder or file on the command line (wildcards allowed).

• PNGGauntlet – A .NET program that uses Ken Silverman's PNGOUT command line utility to optimize PNG files. Many PNG files output by popular graphics software packages like Photoshop or Fireworks are not as small as they could be – PNGGauntlet squeezes the last bit of size out of them. Furthermore, no information is lost during this process – the only thing that changes is the file size. Just select the files you want to optimize (or drag them onto the window), select where you want them to go, and click the button. PNGauntlet can also be used to convert JPG, GIF, TGA, PCX, and BMP files to PNG.

• TweakPNG – A low-level utility for examining and modifying PNG image files. The current version requires Windows 2000 or higher (XP, Vista, etc.), though it is possible to build a copy that runs on Windows 95/98/ME. In order to use it, you will need to be at least somewhat familiar with the internal format of PNG files.

• RIOT(Radical Image Optimization Tool) – An image optimization tool that will let you to visually adjust compression parameters while keeping minimum file size. It uses with a side by side (dual view) or single view interface to compare the original with the optimized image in real time and instantly see the resulting file size. It is lightweight, fast and simple to use, yet powerful for advanced users. You will be able to control compression, number of colors, metadata settings and much more, and select image format (JPG, GIF or PNG) for your output file.

6. Optimize your CSS and JavaScript Files

Optimizing the CSS and JavaScript files will reduce the size of the files, save some disk space and decrease the server load. Here are a few tools for optimizing your files:

Optimizing CSS:

• JS & CSS Script Optimizer WordPress Plugin – This plugin will help you make your WordPress Web site work more quickly by grouping and packing your JavaScript and CSS files.

• CSS Optimizer – A simple online optimizer that processes your current CSS and outputs the compressed version. You have the option of linking to the URL of your stylesheet, uploading a CSS file, or directly inputting your styles. It’s a simple tool that’s "plug-and-chug" – there are no options, so the optimization procedure will remain the same for all your inputs (great if you’d like to standardize compression settings).

• CSS Compressor – There are plenty of compression options you can set that deals with colors, measurements (units), rules, and CSS properties. CSS Compressor also provides a useful Combine utility for simultaneously combining and compressing up to three separate CSS files.

• Clean CSS – Based on the popular CSS minifier, CSSTidy. You can set your desired compression level (the trade-off to higher compression is more difficult readability) and customize compression options. It prints out a line-by-line report afterwards to show you exactly what’s been changed.

• CSS Validator Firefox Addon – Validates a page using the W3C CSS Validator. Adds an option to the right-click context menu and to the Tools menu to allow for easy validation of the CSS of the current page. Opens the results in a new tab. Will only work on pages that have a CSS file associated.

Optimizing JavaScript:

• JavaScript Compressor – Free online tool which will compress and obfuscate JavaScript code, optimizing it for usage.

• Free JavaScript Optimizer – This tool will let you optimize your JavaScript (JScript) code by removing comments, whitespace as well as other unnecessary characters as well as by optionally shortening function / variable / class names. You can expect size reduction of 20-50% depending on your coding style and the use of tool's extensions. On one hand it will make your pages load faster and, on the other hand, it will cause your pages to work much faster, once they're loaded.

• YUI Compressor – This JavaScript minifier is designed to be 100% safe and yields a higher compression ratio than most other tools. Tests on the YUI Library have shown savings of over 20% compared to JSMin (becoming 10% after HTTP compression).

7. Limit The Embedding Of External Content

One great thing about the Internet is all the available content out there for people to use on their WordPress Web sites. There are images, videos, MP3s, chat applications, social network widgets and just about anything else you can think of is available for usage on your Web site.

While this is all fine and dandy, and by all means make use of the free and shared media out there, keep this in mind — you can not control the speed or availability of the content. This means that if the originator of the content decides to remove the content from the Web, or places it on a slow Internet connection, the Web pages embedding this content may suffer extended load times. Sometimes there is no way around embedding a YouTube video or a document from Scribd, but whenever you have a chance, host your the content you use on your own Web site.  Hosting your own media will give you more control and you will always know that your content will be available.

These short list of optimization tips should get your WordPress Web site running fast and smooth.  This list is by no means complete, but it is a great start!

What is Web 2.0?

The term Web 2.0 is associated with web applications that facilitate interactive systemic biases, interoperability, user-centered design, and developing the World Wide Web. A Web 2.0 site allows users to interact and collaborate with each other in a social media dialogue as consumers of user-generated content in a virtual community, in contrast to websites where users (prosumers) are limited to the active viewing of content that they created and controlled. Examples of Web 2.0 include social networking sites, blogs, wikis, video sharing sites, hosted services, web applications, mashups and folksonomies.

The term is closely associated with Tim O'Reilly because of the O'Reilly Media Web 2.0 conference in 2004. Although the term suggests a new version of the World Wide Web, it does not refer to an update to any technical specification, but rather to cumulative changes in the ways software developers and end-users use the Web. Whether Web 2.0 is qualitatively different from prior web technologies has been challenged by World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee, who called the term a "piece of jargon", precisely because he intended the Web in his vision as "a collaborative medium, a place where we [could] all meet and read and write". He called it the "Read/Write Web".

The term "Web 2.0" was coined in 1999 by Darcy DiNucci, a consultant on electronic information design (information architecture). In her article, "Fragmented Future", DiNucci writes:

The Web we know now, which loads into a browser window in essentially static screenfulls, is only an embryo of the Web to come. The first glimmerings of Web 2.0 are beginning to appear, and we are just starting to see how that embryo might develop. The Web will be understood not as screenfulls of text and graphics but as a transport mechanism, the ether through which interactivity happens. It will [...] appear on your computer screen, [...] on your TV set [...] your car dashboard [...] your cell phone [...] hand-held game machines [...] maybe even your microwave oven.

Her use of the term deals mainly with Web design, aesthetics, and the interconnection of everyday objects with the Internet; she argues that the Web is "fragmenting" due to the widespread use of portable Web-ready devices. Her article is aimed at designers, reminding them to code for an ever-increasing variety of hardware. As such, her use of the term hints at, but does not directly relate to, the current uses of the term.

The term Web 2.0 did not resurface until 2003. These authors focus on the concepts currently associated with the term where, as Scott Dietzen puts it, "the Web becomes a universal, standards-based integration platform". John Robb wrote: "What is Web 2.0? It is a system that breaks with the old model of centralized Web sites and moves the power of the Web/Internet to the desktop."

Web 2.0 can be described in 3 parts which are as follows:

• Rich Internet Application (RIA) – It defines the experience brought from desktop to browser whether it is from a graphical point of view or usability point of view. Some buzz words related to RIA are AJAX and Flash.

• Service-oriented Architecture (SOA) – It is a key piece in Web 2.0 which defines how Web 2.0 applications expose its functionality so that other applications can leverage and integrate the functionality providing a set of much richer applications (Examples are: Feeds, RSS, Web Services, Mash-ups)

• Social Web – It defines how Web 2.0 tend to interact much more with the end user and making the end user an integral part.

As such, Web 2.0 draws together the capabilities of client- and server-side software, content syndication and the use of network protocols. Standards-oriented web browsers may use plug-ins and software extensions to handle the content and the user interactions. Web 2.0 sites provide users with information storage, creation, and dissemination capabilities that were not possible in the environment now known as "Web 1.0".

Web 2.0 websites include the following features and techniques: Andrew McAfee used the acronym SLATES to refer to them:

Search – Finding information through keyword search.

Links – Connects information together into a meaningful information ecosystem using the model of the Web, and provides low-barrier social tools.

Authoring – The ability to create and update content leads to the collaborative work of many rather than just a few web authors. In wikis, users may extend, undo and redo each other's work. In blogs, posts and the comments of individuals build up over time.

Tags – Categorization of content by users adding "tags" – short, usually one-word descriptions – to facilitate searching, without dependence on pre-made categories. Collections of tags created by many users within a single system may be referred to as "folksonomies" (i.e., folk taxonomies).

Extensions – Software that makes the Web an application platform as well as a document server. These include software like Adobe Reader, Adobe Flash player, Microsoft Silverlight, ActiveX, Oracle Java, Quicktime, Windows Media, etc.

Signals – The use of syndication technology such as RSS to notify users of content changes.

While SLATES forms the basic framework of Enterprise 2.0, it does not contradict all of the higher level Web 2.0 design patterns and business models. In this way, a new Web 2.0 report from O'Reilly is quite effective and diligent in interweaving the story of Web 2.0 with the specific aspects of Enterprise 2.0. It includes discussions of self-service IT, the long tail of enterprise IT demand, and many other consequences of the Web 2.0 era in the enterprise. The report also makes many sensible recommendations around starting small with pilot projects and measuring results, among a fairly long list.

What is PageRank, you ask? 

PageRank is a link analysis algorithm, named after Larry Page, and is used by the Google Internet search engine to assign a numerical weighting to each element of a hyperlinked set of documents, such as the World Wide Web, with the purpose of "measuring" the Web page's relative importance within the set. The algorithm may be applied to any collection of entities with reciprocal quotations and references. 

So what does that all mean? 

It means that Google, and other search engines, use a mathematical algorithm(PageRank) to calculate how relevant your Web page is to the content it is presenting. You do not have to know how, exactly, PageRank is calculated, just how to work with it. 

There are numerous methods and techniques for improving PageRank. The following list comprises of 25 ways that anyone owning a Web page, or Web site, can accomplish to raise their PageRank and well as optimizing it for SEO too.

25 Ways To Increase Your Blog's PageRank:

1. Make a habit of posting to your blog on a regular basis.
2. Choose a proper theme for your blog. Make sure your theme works with your content, do not pick a theme for a news site if you are operating an ecommerce site selling jewelry. 
3. Select a topic for posting, then write it in a several parts.  Release each part on a timed basis to keep the interested readers returning for more.
4. Optimize your blog so that it loads faster.  Use a theme testing Web site to make sure your theme is running optimally, use only the necessary plugins, delete any inactive plugins, and use a database optimizing plugin to keep your database running smoothly. Visitors will become annoyed, sitting idle, while your blog page loads.
5. Blog about out breaking news as soon as it happens. People rather get their news from one place, instead of hunting and pecking for it all over the Web. If you become their news source, they will return again, and again.
6. Make sure to use pertinent keywords in the body of your content. Placing keywords strategically in your articles will increase the chance that your content is retrieved when a search is made.
7. Encourage commenting on your blog. Highlight the most relevant comments, and commenters, on your blog and give them a prominent position on your post pages. It is important to manage your comments as they are posted, do not delay.
8. Submit your blog to the appropriate announcement services.  This can be accomplished automatically with each post by configuring your blog's settings or using a plugin.
9. Enable your RSS feed.  This is easily done within the blog's settings.
10. One popular service for announcing your blog posts, is the Ping-O-Matic service. There are many similar type services available, so select one that makes sense to you. Ping-O-Matic type services update different search engines each time your blog is updated.
11. Include an email subscription button and form. Allowing visitors to receive email alerts on a regular basis, or as your blog is updated will definitely increase activity.
12. Create a signature/profile you can use, like gravatar or facebook for example, and comment on other blogs. This will introduce your blog in the blogger community. Use the same profile each time you make a comment anywhere on the Web, and make sure to keep your profile updated.
13. Write reviews about other successful blogs, and link to them in your post. This is part of making your blog an authority on the subject matter you chose.
14. Make sure to include your blog’s URL as part of your email signature, and for any social networking profiles you might have. Any place that makes sense for you to include the URL of your blog, do it.
15. Include a way for users to easily add your blog posts to their social networking Web sites, bookmarks and other shared content. A referral from a known source, such as a friend, goes a long way when it comes to driving traffic.
16. Have an opinion when you write your blog posts. Nobody wants to read about someone who always takes the middle road, that is just boring.
17. Promote the topmost posts in the your blog. Choose them on the basis of post views, ratings, amount of comments, etc. There is a reason these posts were popular, so use them to your advantage.
18. Upgrade your blog's “previous” and “next” post buttons with a more robust navigation system.  Use a plugin that adds a paginated navigation system. This will help users to quickly, and easily, navigate through your blog.
19. Build up as many inbound links in your blog as possible. These are called backlinks. These backlinks help Web visitors easily find your blog and increase your PageRank.
20. Install a statistic tracking software like Google Analytics, or something similar to keep statistics on your visitors, incoming searches, links to your blog and more. There are many plugins that will connect just about any major statistic tracking software to a blog, and most of them are free.
21. Use images in your posts. People love images, and they can add to the effectiveness of your blog posts. Remember, a picture is worth a thousand words!
22. Add a translation widget to your blog so that visitors from all over the world may read your posts, and become a part of your blog's community.
23. When you are not blogging, keep on the lookout for things to blog about. Things your read about, conversations you have, the things you think about all have the potential to become great blogs posts. Always stay in the game.
24. Spelling and grammatical errors are a no no. You will lose a lot of readers if you don't use the spell check.(As I point this out, I am sure this post will be scrutinized for spelling errors. LOL)
25. Keep your blog description and keywords up to date.  A minimum monthly review of these items is mandatory.

While this is not a complete list of methods for acquiring a high PageRank, it is a great start.  Once you have each of the 25 list items completed, you'll have been exposed to the process and many other methods for improving your PageRank will become apparent. If you have any other, easy to accomplish techniques for increasing PageRank, please comment below.

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What is a robots.txt file, and what does it do?

Web site owners use the /robots.txt file to give instructions about their site to web robots; this is called The Robots Exclusion Protocol.

A robots.txt file is a simple text file which restricts access to your site by search engine robots that crawl the web. These automated bots,  before they access pages of a site, check to see if a robots.txt file exists that prevents them from accessing certain pages. (Only respectable robots will respect the directives in a robots.txt file, although some may interpret them differently. However, a robots.txt is not enforceable, so spammers and troublemakers will ignore it. For this reason, we recommend using an .htaccess file.)

While most search engines won't crawl or index the content of pages blocked by robots.txt, they may still index the URLs if they are found on other pages on the web. As a result, the URL of the page and, potentially, other publicly available information such as anchor text in links to the site, or the title from the Open Directory Project (www.dmoz.org), may appear in search engine search results.

In order to use a robots.txt file, you'll need to have access to the root of your domain. If you don't have access to the root of a domain, you can restrict access using the robots meta tag.

Here is how it works?

It works likes this: a robot wants to vists a Web site URL, say http://www.sitedoodle.com/demo.html. Before it does so, it firsts checks for http://www.sitedoodle.com/robots.txt, and finds:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-content/cache/
Disallow: /wp-content/themes/
Disallow: /wp-content/plugins/
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /wp-includes/
Disallow: /wp-login.php

The "User-agent: *" means this section applies to all robots. The "Disallow: /wp-admin/" tells the robot that it should not visit any pages in the "wp-admin" directory.

Remember these two important considerations when using /robots.txt:

• robots can ignore your /robots.txt. Especially malware robots that scan the web for security vulnerabilities, and email address harvesters used by spammers will pay no attention.
• the /robots.txt file is a publicly available file. Anyone can see what sections of your server you don't want robots to use.

VERY IMPORTANT: Don't try to use a robots.txt to hide information.

Creating a robots.txt file:

The "robots.txt" file is a text file, with one or more records. Usually contains a single record looking like this:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /cgi-bin/
Disallow: /tmp/
Disallow: /~johndoe/

In this example, three directories are excluded.

Note that you need a separate "Disallow" line for every URL prefix you want to exclude — you cannot say "Disallow: /cgi-bin/ /tmp/" on a single line. Also, do not leave any blank lines in a record, as they are used to delimit multiple records.

Globbing and regular expression are not supported in either the User-agent or Disallow lines. The '*' in the User-agent field is a special value meaning "any robot". Specifically, you cannot have lines like "User-agent: *bot*", "Disallow: /tmp/*" or "Disallow: *.gif".

For a basic WordPress installation, the contents of your .robots.txt file should look like this:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-content/cache/
Disallow: /wp-content/themes/
Disallow: /wp-content/plugins/
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /wp-includes/
Disallow: /wp-login.php

This configuration may change with future WordPress upgrades, but as of version 3.0.4, this will suffice.  Below is a download link to a robots.txt file you may use for your WordPress installation.

What you want to exclude depends on your server. Everything not explicitly disallowed is considered fair game to retrieve. Visit www.robotstxt.org more details and examples.

Having created your robots.txt file, you'll need a place to put it. Where does it go?

The short answer: in the top-level directory of your web server.

The longer answer: When a bot looks for the "/robots.txt" file for URL, it strips the path component from the URL (everything from the first single slash), and puts "/robots.txt" in its place.

So, as a web site owner you need to put it in the right place on your web server for that resulting URL to work. Usually that is the same place where you put your web site's main "index.html" home page. Where exactly that is, and how to put the file there, depends on your web server software.

Remember to use all lower case for the filename: "robots.txt", not "Robots.TXT.

Having just learned about robots.txt files, you can build your own custom file for your Web site.  If you are a Wordress user, you may download our optimized robots.txt file to use with any standard WordPress installation.

Adding in multiple sidebars is fairly straightforward and you can create as many as you need.

Locate your functions.php file in your theme, or create one if one does not exist, and add the following code:

< ?php
     if(function_exists('register_sidebar'))
          register_sidebar(array(
          'name' => 'Sidebar One', // The sidebar name to register
          'before_widget' => '

',
          'after_widget' => '

', 'before_title' => '

', 'after_title' => '

', )); ?>

You should customize and styling these values to match your WordPress theme.

To add additional sidebars simply repeat the code only changing the ‘name’ value. I registered three sidebars in the example below:

< ?php
     // The first sidebar
     if(function_exists('register_sidebar'))
          register_sidebar(array(
          'name' => 'Sidebar One', // The sidebar name to register
          'before_widget' => '

',
          'after_widget' => '

', 'before_title' => '

', 'after_title' => '

', )); // The second sidebar if(function_exists('register_sidebar')) register_sidebar(array( 'name' => 'Sidebar Two', // The sidebar name to register 'before_widget' => '

', 'before_title' => '

', 'after_title' => '

', )); // The third sidebar if(function_exists('register_sidebar')) register_sidebar(array( 'name' => 'Sidebar Three', // The sidebar name to register 'before_widget' => '

', 'before_title' => '

', 'after_title' => '

', )); ?>

Finally, add each dynamic sidebar into your WordPress theme using the following code to activate each dynamic sidebar:

< ?php
     if (!function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') || !dynamic_sidebar('Sidebar One')) : // Each sidebar name
?>
< ?php
     endif;
?>

Include the following lines of code somewhere in your functions.php file.

Adding this bit of code will cause the search results to only return posts and exclude all pages.
If you have any questions or comments, please use the comments form below.

function vibeExcludePages($query) {
   if ($query->is_search) {
   $query->set('post_type', 'post');
                                }
   return $query;
}
add_filter('pre_get_posts','vibeExcludePages');

First things first, you should always back-up your laptop and/or phone on a regular basis to prevent data loss and to minimize lost time due to your data being stolen.  A full back up will have you back in business in no time.

Second, you should always have a software application installed that will help you to recover the hardware if it has been stolen. Software has been developed that will send you data, from your laptop or phone, if it has been stolen. 

Prey lets you keep track of your phone or laptop at all times, and will help you find it if it ever gets lost or stolen. It's lightweight, open source software, and free for anyone to use.

How it works

Basically you install a tiny agent in your PC or phone, which silently waits for a remote signal to wake up and work its magic.

This signal is sent either Desktops and laptops, as they check against a URL from the Internet or In case it's a phone">through an SMS message, and allows you to gather information regarding the device's location, hardware and network status, and optionally trigger specific actions on it.

You can quickly find out where your computer is located, who's using it, and what he's doing on it thanks to Prey's powerful reports system.

By marking your device as missing, Prey will gather all the evidence you request and send it either to your Control Panel account or directly to your mailbox, depending on the reporting method you choose.

Besides gathering information, you can also trigger actions remotely such as sounding a loud alarm or showing a message which will appear onscreen – just in case you want the guy to know he's being chased at.

You can also wipe your stored passwords for security, or even lock down your PC to prevent access. In other words, you're in control.

Key features

• 100% geolocation aware

  Prey uses either the device's GPS or the nearest WiFi hotspots to triangulate and grab a fix on its location. It's shockingly accurate.

• Wifi autoconnect

  If enabled, Prey will attempt to hook onto to the nearest open WiFi hotspot when no Internet connection is found.

• Light as a feather

  Prey has very few dependencies and doesn't even leave a memory footprint until activated. We care as much as you do.

• Know your enemy

  Take a picture of the thief with your laptop's webcam so you know what he looks like and where he's hiding. Powerful evidence.

• Watch their movements

  Grab a screenshot of the active session — if you're lucky you may catch the guy logged into his email or Facebook account!

• Keep your data safe

  Hide your Outlook or Thunderbird data and optionally remove your stored passwords, so no one will be able to look into your stuff.

• No unauthorized access

  Fully lock down your PC, making it unusable unless a specific password is entered. The guy won't be able to do a thing!

• Scan your hardware

  Get a complete list of your PC's CPU, motherboard, RAM, and BIOS information. Works great when used with Active Mode.

• Full auto updater

  Prey can check its current version and automagically fetch and update itself, so you don't need to manually reinstall each time.

I am sure many of us are doing most of the right things when approaching a potential freelance job or project, so let us focus on the things that are most done incorrectly.

Here is the list:

1. Failed to read the specifics regarding the project.
   Be sure to read the complete project outline and/or description provided by the client before responding. Don't waste your time, and your client's time, on a project you do not qualify for.
    
2. Ease up on the jargon.
   Avoid techno-babble and speak like a human being.  Talk about the client's project in as normal terms as possible, focusing on the needs at hand and not on your ability to recite technical acronyms.

   Write an application letter. Leave it for a while, then edit it. Brutally. Short punchy sentences, no guff. Be convincing about how you can make the client money would be an attention-getter.

3. "Coming soon" client-listing pages.
   You say you've done work for lots of clients. You say that you've worked for this guy and that guy. You provide a portfolio link for the prospective client to view, and when the client arrives, a "coming soon" message is displayed where your client list is supposed to be. Need I say more?
    
4. "Under construction" pages on your company web site.
   A Web site is a living, breathing document.  It is always "Under Construction"! If you don't have any content for a page, put some there or hide it.
    
5. Only put up pictures of sites you've done, rather than links to the actual sites.
   Pictures can be faked, and they don't show background programming. Links to examples of your work are a necessity.  Screen captures are fine to use for a description, but not as the example.
    
6. No mention of your main web site URL.
   Always provide the URL of your own site (you should have one). Mention your URL at two times, near the beginning of the document and near the end.  If you are submitting a multi-page proposal, be sure to include your URL on each page.
    
7. No hyperlinks provided at all.
   Not providing hyperlinks to your Web site, and/or example Web sites, will surely get your proposal tossed out.  Make it easy for the prospective client.
    
8. Using Gmail or Yahoo for your email address.
   A pro designer shouldn't use a freebie email address service. This does not show stability or longevity.  It makes you look like an amateur.

   I can conceive that a web designer might use a freebie account for some special purpose, but your own domain name is a basic calling card that goes out in each email you send.

9. Bad spelling and grammar.
   This is one of the most important items on the list. Spelling and grammar errors are killers, especially when made while referencing names and places. Poor spelling is a sign of laziness, and can easy be avoided with a quick spell-check.
    
10. Don't phone the employer up.
    Unless they say 'canvassing will disqualify', 'phoning the employer is a good idea. Why? Because geeks are famously introverted and tongue-tied, supposedly. So if a Web site designer can communicate clearly over the telephone, that, coupled with a good application, puts you streets ahead of the email-only applicant.

    No need to jabber. A polite inquiry to establish contact will do. "Just checking you've received my proposal", that sort of thing.

11. Don't keep yourself mysterious.
    Emails are impersonal. Anything that can establish you as a human being, a person, a potential ally and friend, is good. It'll make you more memorable. No need to jump out of a giant cake, 'though!
     
12. Leaving unclear phone messages.
    When phoning a client, be sure to leave clear and concise phone messages. Don't make your client have to listen to the message three times to figure it out.
     
13. Provide your rates per hour.
    Forget that. You're not a lawyer. Web design jobs can be clearly defined, in terms of time, work and software required. A definite price can be agreed on in advance. It's called a contract. Otherwise, you leave the client open to escalating bills, and yourself to mission-creep.
     
14. Delay applying.
    The first few applications are more scrutinized. After that, application fatigue sets in. After one hundred, only an applicant who seems a real prospect will be given more than five seconds' of scrutiny.