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Good news for all the new e-commerce seller, especially for those who just start their online business with very low capital (like me).

Now webShaper is target to help this group of people to join the e-commerce market. With this new “Webshaper + Paypal” promotion, you can start your online business as low as RM 1 per day. This special attractive promotion started by today until the end of September 2009.

At the mean time, if you first 100 user who sign up this special promotion within the promotion period, you may get an authentic Paypal Crumpler-Style bag for FREE.

Why Webshaper + Paypal?

I believe of the online user should know that Paypal is one of the world well know payment gateway which allow you to accept 19 different currencies from 190 countries around the world. (Paypal 2009 Fast Facts).

On the other hand, Webshaper is one of the top SEO friendly e-commerce solution in Malaysia. Webshaper is develop by Neowave who they have a very good experience in e-commerce field because they are only focused on building the best and most cost effective e-commerce solution for SME as ranging from one-men-show to large enterprice such as AirAsia and Telekom Malaysia.

With the combination of most powerful, SEO friendly, Cost effective E-commerce solution and the well know payment gateway in the world, now you may turn the whole wold web user become your customer.

Are you ready to turn the world web user become your customer? Just kick start from here.

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A small tips for all the website owner. You may include your web blog url, web site url or RSS link in your email signture to help you in attracting some free traffic to your site.

You may design the signature in HTML form with the editor tools such as Macromedia Dreamwaver or Microsoft front page, then attach it in your email client. But for Gmail Webmail user, you need a tools such as WiseStamp to help you to attach it, as by default Google don’t allow HTML signature.

With the website url and the RSS link provided, you may attract your receiver who are actually wish to know you better. It may be useful for those who like to send the forwarded email to your friend.

I did this few weeks ago and it did help me in increasing my web blog traffic and also increase the subscriber number for by feed.

Hopefully this small tips can help you all.

My sample siganture in my Gmail

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According to Google, the bounce rate is the percentage of single-page visits at your website and the visitor left your site from the entrace page without contribue any single click.

Google is using this metric to measure the visit quality. The higher bounce rate generally indicated that the site entrace page aren’t relevant to your visitor. So the more relavent your page content with the keyword, you may keep them to stay at your page with a longer time.

What to do with the Bounce Rate with Google Ranking?

From the Google defination, Google actually look at the bounce rate very seriously when they are ranking your page.So if you page contain the keyword with the high bounce rate, Google will lower your page ranking for that particular keyword. This is because your page content is none related to that particular keyword.

On average, the bounce rate around 50% is consider normal.

How to reduce the bounce rate?

The bounce rate is a value helping you to measure the quality of your website traffic. By analyzing the bounce rate (using the free tools such as Google Analytics), you are able to to fix the problem of your web pages and ultimately increase your website traffic.

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Are you know how your web site/blog actually look like from the eyes of Search Engine Spider? What are they see, what are they don’t see?

Actually there are a lot of content and link on the webpage may or may not visible to the Search Engine. Some of them are Flash base content, content generated through javascript, content display as images without the title or alt tag. Besides that, frames are also another killer for the SEO ranking.

This SEO tools (Search Engine Spider Simulator) actually simulate as a search engine spider and will display the contents of a webpage which exactly how the Search Engine would see.

This tools also display the link which will be followed by the search engine spider when they visit your webpage.

So you may fine tune your web page to optimize for SEO. Just visit this page and key in your web site URL and it will display the detail that the Search Engine Spider actually see.

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Online news publishers should take note of the 8 importants tips that annouce by Google News to help them to crawl your site better.

8 most important way:

1. Keep the article body clean – Remove all the broken tags, ads, sidebars or other non-article content from your article body
2. Make sure article URLs are permanant and unique (Read more)
3. Take advantage of stock tickers in Sitemaps (Read more)
4. Check your encoding – make sure it’s consistent and uniform
5. Make your article publication dates explicit (Read more)
6. Keep original content separate from press releases (Read more)
7. Format your images properly – use large images (JPEGs are crawled better) with “reasonable” aspect rations as well as descriptive captions.
8. Article Titles in Google News – be sure to have the title in both the title tag and as the headline of the page (Read more)

You may also find the complete article on Google News official blog

Please do leave your comment to share with other what your opinion and your finding as well.

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We also found the blog post on SEO, but what is more important then SEO where every site owner/webmaster should be take into consideration before you start your SEO journey for your web blog or web site?

The answer is Web Hosting.

The main objective for doing SEO is to increase our traffic, attract more and more reader come to our site to read our content, by that, you may increase your ad revenue. No matter how good you did your SEO job and you get a very good ranking in the search engine result page, but without the uptime reliable hosting it mean nothing.

Can you try to imagine that if your reader come to your site and hoping to get some interested topic or content, but they are keep getting the error message of server down, server too busy, page not found. What will your reader think? Will them visit again? Will them introduce your site to other?

Besides that, bandwidth is another question for the site owner. When you start your new site, you will not feel the pain of the heavy traffic. If your traffic increase, then your site will go down very frequently. By that, you lost your valueable reader again.

The other important issue is the disk space. For a blog site, you actually don’t need too much of disk space. The hosting package that provide your around 50MB – 100MB will be more then enought for you. Unless you get more space bit with the same price then will be fine. I believe most of the hosting company do provide the facilities for you to upgrade your package from time to time.

Do communicate with the hosting company and check with them where is the server located. Try to get the datacenter as close as your target reader as possible. This can maintain your web site speed and also the uptime.

Last but not lease, every site owner or webmaster, please bear in maid that do more research on the package, hosting company that you are going to sign up with. Do some comparison on the package provided before you start your long journey on SEO.

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