12 Reasons that Blogs are Better

Blogs are all the rage — and with good reason. When you convert your web site to a blog site, you will be in complete control when it comes to updates, changes, and additions. A blog (web + log) is a type of web site that is typically maintained by a person or group. Many personal blogs are akin to a diary, whereas a company’s blog may look and behave exactly as a standard web site. The owner(s) of the blog create the pages by posting a constant flow of entries written as commentary, descriptions of events, or reviews of noteworthy subjects or products. Blogs can even include multimedia, such as images, illustrations, video, or sound. These pages (articles, posts, or stories), are generally displayed in reverse-chronological order.

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Cyndie Shaffstall
Author of Small-business Guide to Winning at Web Marketing
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Designer of the Month Winners!

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6 Steps to Creating a Search-engine Site Map

If you have a web site but it’s nowhere to be found on Google, you can easily improve your rankings by submitting a site map. A site map is a listing of the pages within your site. In addition to telling the search engine what pages are within your site, you can also send instructions to the search engine — such as hide pages or prioritize pages.

There are software applications to automate the creation of site maps but the purpose of this whitepaper is to show you how to create a site map for your HTML site for free.

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The Ultimate Guide to Stalking Your Competition Online

Website Stalking | Social Media Stalking | Google Stalking . . . and more! This information will keep you busy for a while.

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Interesting Interview with Professional Designer, Trevor Embury

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After spending 7 years living, studying and working in Tokyo, Japan, Graphic Designer Trevor Embury set up his design company aftermodern.lab in Toronto, Canada in 2009. He has been working in design for 10 years both as a creative director and lecturer. His enthusiasm and knowledge for design, architecture and photography comes from his extensive world travels and cultural exchanges. He has exhibited his work in Canada, Japan and the U.S.A. He is a graduate from the University of Calgary, a member of the Society of Graphic Designers of Canada and an Alumni of Sessions College for Professional Design.

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Color Psychology and Graphic Design

by Bharat Bista

Colors have psychological impacts, they are attributes of eyes, but are the chemistry of the mind. Colors are perceived though pupils and its effects are produced with associated nerves to the brain neurons.

Light reflecting through objects in different wavelengths and frequency stimulates different “cones” or color receptor cells of the retina in the eyes and makes perception possible for different colors.

Colors influence people through psychological changes and are associated with certain feelings and meanings. Colors exist everywhere else, it is omnipresent. Colors represent cultural, social customs and emotional values and its use in arts, printing, designing, websites, graphics, etc. – these days are unavoidable.

Choosing proper color is an essential constituent for your website and its graphics; as visitors to your website first encounters colors and graphics before they read your textual descriptions.

Colors are used in website design and graphic design for various forms; use of colors can be for backgrounds, navigation, logos, and navigation buttons to emphasize, highlight, symbolize your text description and outlining your site.

Despite the fact that your website is enhanced and fabricated with textual and graphical design, if you are using the wrong color combinations, then you are annoying your own visitors rather than appealing to them. As a result, to attract your customers, it is important to understand psychological behavior of your customers to your websites chromatics. The use of wrong colors results in the wrong impression.

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Viral Marketing: How to go viral with a video

1. Make it short: 1 minute is ideal

2. Put it on YouTube and put a link to a page you build specifically for that video and put the link at the very top of the video description.

3. Put credits at the end that mentions your web site.

4. Make the video funny and or extreme.

5. Do not disable comments, half of the fun of your video for viewers is reading the stupid comments people put on there.

6. Go ahead and sell your video or give companies the rights to use your video on television and cable. Once you go viral they will send an email to you.

7. Post the video wherever you can, such as bulletin boards, blogs, facebook and Reddit.

8. Once you start getting a lot of views, most likely you will get an email from youtube offering you to do a revenue share deal with them. You can easily earn $100/day off a video that goes viral. Also, google owns youtube, so it is in google’s best interest for your viral video with advertising to be placed prominently in the search engines.

9. Make sure that you own everything in the video including:

• Graphics and pictures (including photographs and artwork)
• Movie or TV visuals
• Video game or software visuals
• Performances (including concerts, events, and shows)
• Music (including lyrics, cover songs and background music)

If you do not own everything in the video, you will run into copyright issues that will stop your video from going viral, hamper your ability to get it on television, block the ability to earn revenue from it and possibly cause you legal problems.

10. Keep in mind that if you do google adsense, you may see an increase in your adsense revenue immediately, but don’t be confused, this revenue is from “other than youtube” revenue, like ads and web pages and such. Your youtube review will show no data for 30 to 60 days, so you won’t know how much money you are earning until 60 to 90 days after your youtube video starts showing ads.

11. You should check around youtube periodically, since people will grab your video and reupload it to their youtube account as if it is theirs. You can go to their video and flag it as being a violation of your copyright.

For more info contact: http://www.viralmarketing.biz

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