Tuesday, January 30, 2007

About Blogs

You might have noticed many people selling sites on Ebay. Some of them sell blogs too. A blog is basically like a site, which is like a journal of sorts. So all blogs can be sites, but all sites cannot be blogs.

The number of blogs in today's world has increased manifold, and virtually everybody has one. One of the rise for the number of blogs, could also be fact that signing up with a blogger blog is one of the easiest ways to get accepted into Google's Adsense program. The number of blogs on blogger is quite high, but blogs hosted on their own domain are also increasing.

There are various types of blogs existing today- SEO blogs, Travel Blogs, Soccer Blogs, Movie Blogs-- you name what you want, and there will always be a blog which will cater to your need.

So, get started and jump onto the bandwagon today.

Monday, January 29, 2007

Improve Your Website Rank

One of the best ways to improve your sites rankings and search engine positioning is submitting links to high quality directories. Directory submission lets you build up many relevant backlinks to your website by being listed with other sites that fit in your same category. The first step is to submit to as many free directories as possible. Unfortunately, the benefits only go so far because free directories do not bring you the premium service that paid ones do. When you want to get the best backlinks paid directories are the best way to go.

One of the best new directories on the scene is Best General Directory by LennyP. In just a month it has already achieved a pr4. The best thing about this directory is all money from submissions is being put back into growing the site. If you would like to add your site to a high quality directory simply submit a link and get listed. The more quality links you have, the more success you will find out of your website.

SEO Experiment: Two SEOs Take On The Mighty Google

Rob Taylor and Mike Carter have been building and optimizing websites for themselves, and their clients for many years. They have a wealth of experience with website creation and promotion.

They have just launched a new SEO blog website Web Or Dead as a shop window for their optimizing services. The site was set live on Friday 12th Jan 2007, and they will be using their own SEO services on this new site to see how long it takes to get the site into a prominent position within Google for SEO Marketing and Optimization keywords.

Mike Carter quotes “this is an experiment and a test to show off our expertise, watch as we put our reputations on the line, as we try, and hopefully succeed in launching this website into the SEO world, and gain outstanding search engine positioning”.

To see Mike and Rob in action or for a free SEO consultation please visit Web Or Dead.com
It’s been a whole five years since Windows XP was launched. Numerous patches and multiple updates have been released for the operating system. The Internet evolved a lot during that time so did security threats. The Internet is now used to download tools, products, software, music and video.

Vista had been in the making for quite some time now and finally its ready for release round about the same time that you’re reading this article. But what will Vista really mean for you? Vista, in many ways, isn’t that different from Windows XP at all, so most users can feel at home and comfortable with it. Beneath the surface you see many, many differences which will make users prefer Vista over XP. Vista has new features and tools ready to make computing faster easier and more fun, while also being more intuitive and Vista Ready to secure.

All these extra features have made it that there will be many versions of the new Operating System released - eight editions in total! Some of these will only be made available to large companies or in specific countries. For most users there will only be a choice from 3 editions, which all have different tools and special features. For consumer in the UK, the choice will be between Vista Home Basic and Vista home Premium, which can both be compared to Windows XP Home Edition. More experienced and demanding users will want Vista Ultimate.

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SEO

Let me introduce you to a site called SEO Experts. It is a flash based SEO web site and and it seems to load pretty quick.

If you read around the website they give their explanation of SEO and how they can service your business. You can then send them a request for proposal (RFP), to request more information on the service's they provide.

Everyone knows that SEO is the foundation for every successful website and good search engine ranking is king. Without it your just another website lost in web space.

To quote a good friend of mine - Ricky Bobby - "If You Ain't First, You're Last!" (Talladega Nights - Movie)

Have Nigerian Scammers invaded eBay?

I have used ebay for several years now, starting out with small sales and purchases then, after a few years, branching out into bigger deals. For the most part, this involves selling high value electricals for friends and family. For a fee, of course.

Now the advantage of that is that I have become respected through the feedback system and also have attained Powerseller status (you don’t get too much for this achievement by the way, unless you are earning ebay an utter fortune).

However, there are drawbacks too. The main one is that the types of items I am looking to sell are exactly the sort of high value, desirable items that scammers are looking to get hold of for nothing.

Their methods for doing so are numerous, from using hacked ebay and paypal accounts, to using stolen credit cards, fake websites and less than secure payment processors – the mere mention of Western Union is enough to get me to ban someone from bidding on any of my auctions!

Spotting a scammer takes a bit of experience but isn’t too difficult. Offering more than an item is worth and offering to pay excessive shipping costs to faraway places are the most common signs. The most obvious giveaway though is one simple question – “Do you ship to Nigeria?”

It’s unfortunate for the honest people of Nigeria but that country is probably the biggest haven of scam artists and fraudsters in the world (quickly followed by Russia, Amsterdam and France).

Be very wary if someone asks you to ship to one of these destinations – on ebay these days there is a very high probability that they will take your item and leave you without a penny in return.

Submit Your Scripts

When you submit your site freely and without registration at http://www.sickscripts.com, you also get something extra. Unlike the other script and resource index sites, here you get 4 SEO (search enginge optimization) friendly links pointing to your resource. This means that you get great traffic and your search engine rankings will increase. Just login as guest and add your webmaster script, tutorial, article, etc.

FREE Submission - No cost at all to submit your resource.

NO Registration - No email checking, password remembering hassles. Just login as guest and password guest. It is already filled out for you, so just hit the "sign in" button.

SEO Friendly - No dynamic URLs like hotscripts.com. Your links will be counted by the search engines and your rankings will increase.

Traffic and Exposure: 50,00 backlinks pointing to this site that will increase traffic to yours.

By the way, some of you may want to register to keep up with the stats and listings you have submitted.

Software Testing Guide

What kinds of Software Testing should be considered ?

Black box testing – This kind of Testing is not based on any knowledge of internal design or coding. These Tests are based on requirements and functionality.

White box testing – This is based on knowledge of the internal logic of an application's code. Tests are based on coverage of code statements, branches, paths, conditions.

Unit testing - the most 'micro' scale of testing; to test particular functions or code modules. This is typically done by the programmer and not by testers, as it requires detailed knowledge of the internal program, design and code. Not always easily done unless the application has a well-designed architecture with tight code; may require developing test driver modules or test harnesses.

Incremental integration testing - continuous testing of an application when new functionality is added; requires that various aspects of an application's functionality be independent enough to work separately before all parts of the program are completed, or that test drivers be developed as needed; done by programmers or by testers.

Integration testing - testing of combined parts of an application to determine if they functioning together correctly. The 'parts' can be code modules, individual applications, client and server applications on a network, etc. This type of testing is especially relevant to client/server and distributed systems.

Functional testing - this testing is geared to functional requirements of an application; this type of testing should be done by testers. This doesn't mean that the programmers shouldn't check that their code works before releasing it (which of course applies to any stage of testing.)

System testing – this is based on the overall requirements specifications; covers all the combined parts of a system.

End-to-end testing – this is similar to system testing; involves testing of a complete application environment in a situation that imitate real-world use, such as interacting with a database, using network communications, or interacting with other hardware, applications, or systems.

Sanity testing or smoke testing - typically this is an initial testing to determine whether a new software version is performing well enough to accept it for a major testing effort. For example, if the new software is crashing systems in every 5 minutes, making down the systems to crawl or corrupting databases, the software may not be in a normal condition to warrant further testing in its current state.

Regression testing – this is re-testing after bug fixes or modifications of the software. It is difficult to determine how much re-testing is needed, especially at the end of the development cycle. Automated testing tools are very useful for this type of testing.

Acceptance testing – this can be said as a final testing and this was done based on specifications of the end-user or customer, or based on use by end-users/customers over some limited period of time.

Load testing – this is nothing but testing an application under heavy loads, such as testing a web site under a range of loads to determine at what point the system's response time degrades or fails.

Stress testing – the term often used interchangeably with 'load' and 'performance' testing. Also used to describe such tests as system functional testing while under unusually heavy loads, heavy repetition of certain actions or inputs, input of large numerical values, large complex queries to a database system, etc.

Performance testing – the term often used interchangeably with 'stress' and 'load' testing. Ideally 'performance' testing is defined in requirements documentation or QA or Test Plans.

Usability testing – this testing is done for 'user-friendliness'. Clearly this is subjective, and will depend on the targeted end-user or customer. User interviews, surveys, video recording of user sessions, and other techniques can be used. Programmers and testers are usually not suited as usability testers.

Compatibility testing - testing how well the software performs in a particular hardware/software/operating system/network/etc. environment.
User acceptance testing - determining if software is satisfactory to a end-user or a customer.

Comparison testing - comparing software weaknesses and strengths to other competing products.

Alpha testing - testing an application when development is nearing completion; minor design changes may still be made as a result of such testing. This is typically done by end-users or others, but not by the programmers or testers.

Beta testing - testing when development and testing are essentially completed and final bugs and problems need to be found before final release. This is typically done by end-users or others, not by programmers or testers.

Mutation testing - a method for determining a set of test data or test cases is useful or not, by intentionally introducing various code changes ('bugs') and retesting with the original test data/cases to determine if the 'bugs' are detected.

Sunday, January 28, 2007

Directory Submissions

Building links isn’t getting any easier these days. With the number of people realizing the value of links increasing by the day, it’s becoming harder to get natural one-way links.

Most people would rather sell links from their sites than just give them out. So the question of how to go about getting quality one-way links to your site arises.

Well, there are a few things you could do but none could be easier than submitting to web directories. Web directories serve as a catalog of links sorted by relevant topics. There are hundreds of directories out there that are willing to link out to useful sites and such links are counted by the search engines. Especially given that most directories are free to submit to, it would only make sense to submit your site to these directories to get more backlinks. Of course, it can be quite a task to go about finding quality directories and then taking the time to manually submit to all these directories.

This is where directory submission companieslike Directory Maximizer can help. They provide the service of submitting your website manually to hundreds of quality seo-friendly directories, thereby saving you the time and effort involved in such a task. To top that, the service is extremely affordable and there couldn’t be an easier and cheaper way to build links than to use such kinds of services.

Daniel Millions Comments: I have never personally tried their service but it appears to be a very good deal. Building backlinks in the key to any successful website so why not start now!

Top 100 Business

What is Top 100 Business? It is a new web site dedicated to building your backlinks. Not just any backlinks.

The top ten listed backlinks are in H1 tags. H1 tags are highly valued by Google. It costs $1.00 for links placed. The page listing the links will have a maximum of 100 links.

When a new link is paid for the number 1 spot, the 100th link falls off the end and then links can be positioned at the number one spot for another $1. This web site provides excellent value for PR3 link building.

Daniel Millions Comments: Any backlink for 1.00 is a good backlink in my opinion.

License Plate Blanks

We, American Dye Sub, offer high quality, low price aluminum blanks coated and ready for dye sublimation, screen printing & vinyl application.

All of our aluminum blanks come in various thicknesses including 025, 030 and 045 gauge (all come with a UV-protective coating); various sizes include license plates (auto, motorcycle, atv, snowmobiles, bicycle, etc), dash plaques, crossing signs, sign blanks (many options available), clipboards (standard, legal, etc), refrigerator magnets, clocks & more.

We have spent a very long time dedicating our research to make sure we provide the highest quality aluminum and coatings at the best prices available and we've done a good job of it!

Daniel Millions Comments: Pretty cool little website offering unique product. For the price I am considering picking up a few myself.