2007 Web 2.0 Awards

Top 3 Blog Guides:

1.Technorati

www.technorati.com

Monitor your links and reputation through the world’s leading provider of blog information. Find new blogs to read and attempt to get into Technorati’s top blog list!


2. Bloglines

www.bloglines.com
Amass your own collection of blog feeds. Publish your own blog and share your favorite content with others.

3. Findory

www.findory.com
Get your own homepage that shows you what you’re interested in from the blogs and news sources you choose to subscribe to.


Top 3 Bookmarking:

1. Magnolia

www.ma.gnolia.com
Keep track of your favorite online content and quickly see what others have said about a site while you’re still browsing it.

2. Furl | Your Personal Web Site

www.furl.net
Store your favorite corners of the internet and let others discover the cool stuff you’ve found. Comment on the content you find and read what other users are saying about your bookmarks.

3. Clipmarks

www.clipmarks.com
Save the web content that makes you sit up and take notice, not just the webpage you found that content on. Share that content with others in the hope that it will make them think, "wow!" as well!

Advanced Link Building Strategies

Nine Unique methods for building links on the web:

1. Directories
2. Top Competition
3. Link Searches
4.
Usurping Competitors' Links
5.
Article Writing & Submission
6.
Forums & Online Communities
7.
Blogging & Comments
8. Press Releases
9. Natural Link Building


Ways to design your own website

Before you design your own website, you want to know the list of the basic requirements for designing/hosting a website.

Web Designing
Decide the purpose of your website. Is it for blogging, or for advertising? Is it content-driven or focused on link building? This will provide you a clear idea on the look-and-feel of your website. The points you need to consider are:

* Text
* Layout
* Navigation
* Keyword analysis

Domain Name Registration
You need to have your domain name registered. Alternatively, you can have your website hosted on another domain names. Check out comparative price/services for domain name registration.

Web Hosting
Select a web hosting service that meets your design requirements in 2nd Step. Compare web hosting services, look out for criteria-driven searches, expert reviews, and question-answer processes.

Bandwidth
Space is a major issue in the online space. You need to decide how many pages will your website provide, and how much of host disk space will it occupy? What's your estimated monthly traffic? Also, what web authoring software will you use? Look out for formulas and calculators on search engines.

Web Development
This is a very crucial stage of building the website. After fixing the graphics and content flow, the technical aspects of fixing the HTML, source codes, programming languages need to be done. This has to be followed by testing, validating, and uploading.

Website Promotion
Now that you've developed your site, your next task is to get it indexed. Then you need to submit your site to search engines, like Google, Yahoo, MSN, by following various submission strategies and keyword selection. There are a whole set of rules on search engine optimization (SEO) to draw maximum targeted traffic to your website and earn revenue from it.

Website Maintenance
Last but not the least is maintenance of your website regular updating, links testing, host performance, and traffic analysis.

How to make the most of the internet?

E-commerce, Online business, Internet marketing, nearly marketplace, these terms obviously sound tired to anyone who uses the net even casually. Yet, the fact remains that opportunities in the e-world are opening by the day. On the net, searchers put their heads together to know how to make the most of the internet.

Without doubt, Online businesses have growing in the virtual world. Some way it generating money for even the service users. Accepted among them are auction, trading, google-pioneered pay per click, greeting cards, transactions, classifields, social networking services, content services, blogging and an endless array of developing businesses.

Many new business models for the web have also developed along the way: Affiliate, advertising, community services, subscription, brokerage. Many websites/web companies are also joining many of these business models. For example, many content driven businesses are combining advertising and subscription models.

Besides many of the B2B and B2C companies, online trading specially in stocks and shares have extremely flourished. The Internet has made distance and currency irrelevant, giving rise to transaction among people you've never met. The Internet has also made it possible for people to exchange skills for a price, starting from hiring the services of programmers to translators to gaming experts.

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