Wordpress SEO - Joomla SEO - Link Building

Joomla upgrade from 1.0 to 1.5 can be an ordeal. There are tons of sites that provide info on how to do this but very few seem to really nail down the BIG TICKET items - the stuff that is almost guaranteed to give you problems. At least I didn't find any. So here you go. There are still plenty of of 1.0 sites out there so hopefully this will help some:

 

o. Joomla upgrade from 1.0 to 1.5 is NOT straightforward and something that you can follow a script and complete. I would allocate anywhere from 5 to 40 hours  of effort to it depending on the size of your installation, the 

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According to the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the research and support of entrepreneurship, in the past decade the highest rate of entrepreneurial activity belongs to those between 55 and 64 years old. According to the study, "The 20 to 34 age bracket...which we usually identify with risk-taking youth (think Facebook and Google(GOOG Quote)), has the lowest rate."

 

http://www.thestreet.com/story/10669129/1/retire-or-start-a-new-business.html?puc=_tscrss

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http://www.ecommerce-guide.com/resources/article.php/3656806

This is an EXCELLENT piece - precise and informative on when, why and how to go about collecting sales tax on your ecommerce sales. If you have a website and are selling anything "tangible" on it then most likely you need to pay sales tax in one more more jurisidictions. Even if you sell something intangible such as digital products - ebooks or software, you still need to pay sales taxes in some states. 

 Read the article. If you are planning to be in Ecommerce as a career or a serious business initiative, it's worth knowing and doing the right thing upfront instead of paying back-taxes or pentalties after an audit 14 years from now.

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I've been dabbling with the idea of setting up several 1-800 numbers for customer support for my Ecommerce sites. I am based out of San Diego CA but my staff is all over the world. So that makes that whole process a bit more complicated - at least that's what I used to think.

First thought was to do that with Vonage or other VoIP service. But given the poor Internet bandwidth that my Indian and Phillipine office gets, that was out of the question almost right away. Not worth the constant troubleshooting and mess. Even though my budget was small and call volume was likely to be very small - less than a 1000 calls per month, but I wanted something reliable.

I searched and considered several companies - JetNumbers.com, RingCentral.com, Etc. But none had the features for international call forwarding that I wanted - at a decent price. Until I ran into this provider - Call Me 800. They seem to have a great product out there for international call forwarding.

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Five-six years ago, people hadn't still figured out the Google formula as clearly. Good ol' dark ages when SEO was a term not many even knew about. Times when you could rank high with just a few links from random sites via link exchanges. Times that have changed for the better now.

Now,  link exchanges are almost a thing of the past. They still work and are beneficial to get direct traffic but getting links from links pages with tons of other links are not really that helpful anymore. From highly relevant pages, OK, may be..

 But why am I telling you stuff you already know? Let's get to the point. I know you want to know what works today. Here you go. This is it.

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Contests make for great SEO! We talked about Hosting Contests to Generate Links earlier and we've seen this work more and more. Here are some ideas to host contests that serve more than one purpose.

 1. Caption contest

Put up a funny picture relevant to your website. Then invite your visitors to log in to your site (there you go, more registered users) and write a caption for that image (more content). Have others vote for the best caption (more user interaction) and then give away something super cool for that audience as prizes (this gets proomted on giveaways sites and usually catches on in twitter, digg, etc. - so more buzz and links!). And the best part? You don't have to offer expensive prizes. Just offer them something that's valuable to them and overstocked with you or a service that's not much of an additional cost to you or your staff.

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I love it! Slicker, faster, and more integrated with the rest of Yahoo.

 Now only if Yahoo actually made similar progress on their Calendar tool, I'd be in love with them even more.

 I've always thought that Yahoo kicks google's ass when it comes to mail. Gmail is the most confusing email client I've seen. The only  thing it does better than Yahoo mail is faster results on maibox searches. But yahoo takes just a few fractions of a second longer and I can live with that. Their mail folders, automatically moving emails to folders by clicking numbers on the keyboard, just well organized email lists, easy flagging, unlimited email and RELIABILITY (it's hardly ever down in the 10 years that I've had it) just is awesome. Having maintained exchange servers for clients, I can imagine how hard it must be to pull off an email service like that for 100  million users. Yahoo, your email rocks!

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As I wrote on my previous post - 2009 Internet Sales Trends for Specialty Stores, I've been thinking about ideas on how to source goods and sell them online ourselves. We specialize in figuring out what to sell and to estimate demand for products on the Internet. For any ecommerce business, really, to me, it boils down to -

 - Decide on what to offer (this is the hardest part)

- Establish reliable supply chain

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As a small business that helps companies establish their brand online and drive traffic to their sites, we spend a very large portion of our time analyzing Internet search traffic and sales trends on sales of things that our clients sell.

Over time, we've noticed some very interesting facts. For instance, in the present year 2009 and last year (2008), we've seen a significant increase in the number of people buying things online. OK, that's what everyone says and reports but we've actually seen that in many Ecommerce stores that we promote - so I can say a 10-20% increase in sales on average despite the recession.

In particular, sales of vegan products are on the rise. We can say that based on sales on veggieplaza.com - a store for vegetarian and vegan cookbooks. Sales of clothing stores such as stores selling jeans, Etc. appear to be going down, we will not name the stores to protect our clients' identities. Gay and Lesbian apparel sales online are on the rise as well.

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One of the reasons why Google began to gain so much importance as a search engine in the past couple of years was because it was accurate, superfast, and had plenty of innovative ways in which you could find the right search results. No wonder MSN hit number 3 as a search engine in search engine rankings, because people found the search engine result pages too cluttered and too many mistakes. Yahoo came out as 2nd in the ranking. Now there are some points, which are pretty good in Google, like accurate results, fast loading of pages, and even video results.

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