With some of my dev team, we created an intelligent learning platform like no other created before, the first of its kind in the online/offline education industry. It’s a basic concept that has been too complex a program to create, intelligent learning, that is the way of the future.
With advanced software created every day, we developed software that does not require upgrades, or updates, or anything once i has been run for the first time. Our education software evolves and adapts to a students studying habits and learning progress. We’ve created the ultimate learning platform that not only teaches better than real time professors and education instructors, but is also never wrong, ever. The margin of error is so thin when it comes to our programs educational style and techniques that it is truly the best out there. Programming
STDU now runs the software on it’s online learning environment, not only does this enable it to personalize learning styles, different learning passes and difficulty levels for each individual student, but the program gives each student the opportunity to get a full one on one experience with the program, it’s like having a personal professional tutor that’s always right, there for you 24/7 whenever you need help. Never sleeps, always evolves, and always gives you the best and most useful answer.
STDU is truly the ultimate online university for any online degree programs.
Feel free to go read what he said about Online Degree Programs and comment with your opinion.
A few of my bloggers have in the past gone crazy, just lost it, today is no exception. One of my youngest bloggers, barely 15 has been busy, very busy. Here’s something he did about clanspace and how to target all sorts of keywords at the same time converting useless traffic into targeted traffic. Smart boy. Check it out.
Just for those that still follow this somewhat outdated blog. Take a look at how CEOs at LoopFuse are handling their PR, beautiful stuff, there’s a fine line between viral comments that spark controversy, and ones that ruin a companies reputation. They just don’t get it yet.
I recently interviewed Johnny about his latest blog Just a Guy and a Girl which he maintains now with the beautiful Blondie. We discussed Affiliate marketing techniques, seo and targeted traffic tips and secrets. A lot of fun, and pretty educational, go have a look at it over on my main blog michael-kane.com
Understanding website marketing has never been an easy task for new web owners and webmasters. I’ve started a new blog aimed at providing every website owner with insights on rankings, making money online, tools and tricks as well as new techniques and strategies that will work. Check me out at www.websiteguru.com when you get time!
Teaching SEO is not a walk in the park, and very few professionals in todays industry offer SEO Training Courses, which has me wondering, how come there are so many so called SEOs giving seo training classes today? Some for FREE?!?! Fuck me! Should they be allowed? I mean do you hire a 45 year old unmarried man who has no children and still lives with his mom to be your 4 year old little girls baby sitter? Come on people.
Milly wrote an impressive educational article on SEO Training that I think every website owner should read.It’s one thin to surf the net for a little info and learn to develop your own techniques another thing all together to be spoon fed bullshit.
Or not…the GNC Web Creations blog post by Duane over at the blackhat blog got me thinking today, it’s all great to be able to nab traffic from competitors, or just nab traffic, but how do you prevent it from happening to you?
Pretty easy, but I bet you’re reading this now and thinking, YES! I can stop so and so for ranking for my keywords. It’s all about being creative, and no, it has nothing to do with being a gay nigerian canadian…ugh I don’t know where Duane comes up with that crap!
I’ll shoot stroke an email, have him blog about a few ways to prevent someone ‘leeching’ YOUR traffic, it’s not the same as preventing someone from ranking for a certain keyword, but just as effective when it comes to not being a victim.
I’ll also start blogging there but i’ll focus mainly on Internet Marketing, maybe a little about running a community, generating money from your high traffic to low traffic blogs and how to get traffic to actually convert!
It’s about time I get back in the game.
Kim Hughes (www.kimhughes.com) a Real Estate Virtual Assistant has recently been accused of scamming business owners. There’s a lot more detail about this virtual assistant scam over at watshit.com scam reports, but this caught our attention for several reasons.
This is not good news for the Online Real Estate Virtual Assistant community, because up until now they have held a clean record as being honest hard working individuals/companies. Never have we heard of such complaint.
How do you tell if someone is planning on scamming you? How do you tell if someone is a well known scammer? Easy, you run a search, ask for signed contracts and always remember to grab as much information from the service providers in case you need to sue their asses.
A simple search like Kim Hughes Scam now returns the warning sign results.
Be careful who you do business with!
Website Marketing Basics
Traffic means money pure and simple. The more users that come to your site, for whatever service you provide or product you sell the better. It’s not rocket science is it? Question is how does the average web owner with limited know how in SEO (Search Engine Optimization) and online marketing get the traffic they need to run a successful online business and earn good money? Here’s the answer;
Anyone with limited web knowledge can make good money online, they just need a starting point, and here it is. Traffic, that’s all you need, the more traffic the more potential clients/users the better. Ranking on search engines is one way, but to do it right this can be both time consuming and tiring, trust me, I’ve been there. Sure it works, and also does wonders for your business in the long run, but I suggest you start off with funneling traffic so that your site starts making ’some’ income, and then market it full scale and get it ranked for search words and phrases you want to target. So let’s get to the good part, how to funnel traffic, several ways which i’ll list below;
First way, and one a Slovenian Designer friend of mine uses, is by providing small free downloads to people. He’s a designer, therefor spends 15-20minutes a day designing something the web design/graphic oriented users would want to download for free. He then signs up on about 5 high traffic warez/download forums and simply creates a topic, with a screen shot of what he’s providing, or a sample, and a download link that looks like “www.yousite.com/thedownload.zip” That simple, usually you get around 500 unique visits of users wanting to download this design related product, if it’s an ebook then people interested in that ebook, if it’s a service, then people interested in your service. Do this daily for a while and this user base will only increase as you bump up old topics and keep new ones fresh, generating over 2000 unique visitors a day from direct targeted traffic and getting bookmarked by these users which will in turn generate repeated visits, thus consistently growing traffic, all by spending 25min tops a day.
Blogs are a powerful asset, because they help you target low-key phrases and search terms to rank high for and scrape search engine traffic from the small number of people looking for a search phrase, related to your service or product but not exact. Say you sell Hand made mugs, ranking for Mugs will be tough, but ranking for Home Made Mugs, or Find Home Made Mugs, Buy A Home Made Mug, Mugs made at home, hand made mugs…etc will be much easier to rank for, and combined might generate you almost half if not as much traffic as the main strong keyword. It’s common sense.
Just think outside the box, me for example, i’m aiming to rank this blog post for ‘Website Marketing’. As big a keyword as this may seem, I may eventually rank on the first or second page, in which case, mission accomplished ;)
Ok so I picked a site (spotlocal.net - they state that - “Spot Local helps you target consumers who are actively searching for your service or product” -we’ll see about that) at random online to check different webmaster SEO skills out. Spot Local is the site, and what a site it is. They claim to increase traffic to advertisers and what not, at least that’s what I got from this site. It’s rather simple really, they have some major no-no’s and I’m going to exploit them by ranking higher than them, or at least rank high enough for their keywords to bug them! Funny, they have a slogan that says “Spot the difference, with Spot Local” haha well let me spot your bloopers then so you can better satisfy your users!
No navigation - Learn from their mistake, the closest thing to your body tag and one of the first thing the search engines absorb are the navigation text based links. They help a great deal and also help spread the PR juice through your site to other important pages you want to have rank higher. Their navigation is crap, sorry to say it like that, but who on earth uses a nav like that anymore? If they were thinking creativity? Originality? Then someone please slap them with a couple pound of ‘reality check’ because it’s tacky, old fashioned, confusing, retarded and crap.
Validation/Code Compliant - Spot Local’s home page has over 40 errors. With so little content (which poses another issue) that’s way too many errors, Java, Flash, just wrongness all round.
Meta Tags - No meta description or meta keywords, which just makes me want to slap their web developers. Yes it’s not a life or death issue but any web developer knows better.
MAIL TO??? now come on, why not create a simple contact form to make users lives simpler. Fill in a couple fields and hit send, Done!
Page URL’s : They have the strangest url structure I’ve seen in a long time, numbering their pages? That’s a red light right there.
Among other things, their blog for one is not even optimized to rank at all which is sad.
Just goes to show you the sort of mistakes other webmasters are making, learn from these sites i’ll post at random here guys, don’t make the same mistakes!
So, identity theft. It’s a huge deal online, more so than in real life, but then again ‘online’ is real life, right? Today I got a call from a long time client telling me ‘they accept my new terms’…what new terms? After talking to them for a bit, I am shocked to find out, someone with the email (rnichaelkane@yahoo.com - which I guess looks like michaelkane@yahoo.com - the r and n together trick one into believing it’s just an m) claimed to be Michael Kane, me!! They went on to tell my client that an update on their site was necessary and that a bug was found and should be patched up before it gets exploited, they go on to giving my client wire details and stating payment should be made immediately (They even gave them a 30% discount on a fabricated fee as they were current clients) and that was that.
I told my client not to pay, obviously and have now sent these crooks an email, and one to Yahoo! Hopefully this will get resolved before something nasty comes of this. In the mean time, I have forwarded an official letter to all my clients noting that all emails from that said email address should be disregarded and deleted. Same goes to all my online contacts.
Be careful of online identity thieves!
So, we’re re-designing a home page for Shouting Zone, and not only that but we’ll also be setting up a personal blog for the site. The forum will get a face lift and we’ll give all our members (my friends) a friendly nudge to let them know we’re back, and for good this time.
Just to answer a couple peoples questions, I was recently asked, why bring SZ back to life, well, because it’s always been a place I could go to joke around and have some fun, I missed it.
Some asked what was going to be different this time, I personally hope not a lot, because it was great fun! There will be Design/Coding/SEO sections implemented nicely, and it wont look out of place I promise, but this is to help a lot of website owners, web developers, and regular web page designers, or users with profiles to spice things up a bit and rank higher in the search engines for more online exposure!
There will be a couple extra features, like a Shouting Zone directory for all your favorite sites and such, also, SZ members will be able to create their own fully customized WordPress themed blogs for free and so on.
I’ve always believed in freedom of speech and self expression, if by creating a forum for people to join and freely commute in I aid in giving more people a voice to shout out and be heard, then i’ll do just that! A lot of people create forums these days and sensor a lot of peoples opinion in fear of being whip lashed by search engines, law and what not, as long as my members can be civil about it, I don’t see why I should stop anyone from saying what they have to say! ShoutingZone.com - Go check it out.
How many people out there love Yahoo!? The Yahoo search engine, in my honest opinion, is the ONLY search engine for me! Why? Well I go on and on about why Yahoo Search Engine is the best search engine in the world over at iheartyahoo where i talk about pretty much everything Yahoo related. How much I love yahoo and how I am probably the biggest Yahoo fan alive.
I hope you guys can go check it out, it’s a few days old and I’m really trying to do something new with it. Some say I’m on this one man crusade to convert all none yahoo believers, others say I’m just a Yahoo fan boy, one thing is for sure, on iheartyahoo.com I post crap worth reading, crap worth noticing. Crap you probably wont read anywhere else, so check it out. :)
Amanda is one of the few people I respect as an armature SEO. She really does think outside the box. It all started when a friend came and talked to me about giving him a hand in ranking high for a keyword, related to some seocontest2008 contest. Prize for ranking first (if all the rules were followed) would be $1,000. With a prize as small as that you would be right in thinking, what a waste of time, but for some, it’s all about Ego.
Anyway Amanda has been experimenting for the past year or so and she overheard me talking about helping this friend out. Next thing I know, she enters the contest with a unique blog post already late in the game, long after several hundred people had started over 2-3weeks before her. It was her unique post, and some of her enginuity that has now got her ranking higher than that friend that first asked for my help, having started weeks after him, she has skyrocketed from not being indexed, to ranking on the fifth page for that keyword, with only 1 real backlink to her site.
So Amanda, congrats, and show those link buying, spamming fools that it’s really not about all that, it’s about what the rest don’t really know ;)
I personally don’t have anything against freelance designers, I’m pretty much as freelance as they get, but a friend of mine recently hired a freelance graphic designer for a small job, mainly because I was down with the flu and she was too shy to call the office and ask for one of my designers.
Her experience fell in the “I hate freelancers” category which to me was a low blow. I have always tried my best to keep the freelancing general reputation (on my end anyway) as high as possible, but some people, some low life good for nothing design bums have to go and add to the bad name that is slowly being forced upon the freelance community.
To all you new freelance designers out there, please read the following tips with care and carve into the inside of your eyelids;
If you don’t know your clients Gender, for the love of everything holy do NOT guess. After my friend and the Freelance Designer (who i shall call Design Bum here on in) emailed a few times, Design Bum called her, and asked for Mr Murphy. She was at work, and simply said “There is no Mr Murphy.” To which he replies “Oh alright, I thought you were a man.” What a moron, a sexist assumption like this could loose any freelancer a client, in a heart beat. Be careful when talking to a client, word things right, take your time, think before you spit bull shit out of your mouth.
Follow the clients instructions to the bone. Don’t cut corners, don’t be creative, don’t crap where you eat, you’re a designer, not fucking Houdini. Client has a vision, but does not know how to bring it to life, as a designer, that is you job. Sure, sometimes you will see a fatal mistake or decision the client is making, as a designer, it is your obligation to note that so and so could be done in a more efficient way, or adding something here or there would be to the clients interest. Give feedback because the client will feel better that way. Why else would they be paying?!
DO NOT take jobs if you can not meet a clients deadline. This is a big NO NO. The client has a deadline, you don’t meet that deadline the client looses time and money, now instead of helping the client profit, and making money off the project, you’re hurting the client and with any luck will not get paid. Simple math, are you freelancers following me here? 1 + 1 = 2. yes, 2 not 8 or 0.827, just fucking 2. Client says blue text you do the text blue.
Remember, if you run out of time and you’re not done yet, tell the client, don’t hide it and play them for fools. They know what they want, so if it’s not there or not finished they’ll notice!
Don’t rip other peoples work. I wont go into detail on this because I plan to make a full blog post later on this very same matter, but remember, rip a template, you hurt the client and end up loosing all credibility. After being found out you might as ell just kill yourself. Gun to the head, pull trigger.
Just be honest and make a decent living and name for yourself - Michael Kane