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Mar
21

How to Get Indexed on Google Faster and Get More Backlinks!

Social Bookmarking:

Submit your new website URL to the top social bookmarking sites first, before submitting to Search Engines, your pages will be indexed within days not months! Add ‘tags’ to your bookmarks so surfers can find your link when they search. Submit pages on a regular basis to stay at the top of site lists, creating more traffic.

Top Social Bookmarking Sites:

* StumbleUpon

* de.licio.us

* Furl

* Technorati

* soc.ialize.us

Search Engines:

Optimise keywords in your meta titles, discriptions, keywords, anchor text, header tags, image alt text. Use keyword generators to create the best keywords possible. Like Good Keywords v.2, Google Sandbox Keyword Tool. Write articles with keywords throughout your content. Make the articles informative and interesting. Submit your URL to link directories, article sites, social bookmarking sites, and other links back to your site, to increase your page rank.

Top Search Engines:

* google.com

* yahoo.com

* msn.com

* search.com

* altavista.com

Link Directories:

Link Directories are an important part of gaining quality links back to your site. A directory is organised into categories and subcategories. Human editors review each directory submission and evaluate the site’s quality and relevance. Success only comes when you submit a high quality site to the proper category. Because the directory submission process is so specific to each particular directory, your website must be submitted manually.

Top Link Directories:

* Yahoo

* DMOZ

* SoMuch

* AbiLogic

* Pegasus

Mar
16

Guerrilla Job Search Tips – How to Find Jobs & Get Hired Faster in a Recession

In any economy, you can find a job faster by doing three simple things:

1) Know the position you want, with absolute clarity, right down to the job title.
2) Know where you want to work, right down to the names of 10-20 ideal employers.
3) Use unconventional “guerrilla” tactics to get noticed — and get hired.

Here are the stories of two people who did all the above — and found great jobs — right in the middle of the current recession.

1) Anyone for Coffee?

Janet FritzHuspen from St. Paul, Minnesota, landed a job after mailing coffee cups to area employers.

That’s right — coffee cups.

Here’s what she did …

FritzHuspen found jobs advertised online, then sent a box with a travel coffee mug, her resume and a cover letter inside. Her letter said, “I would like to meet you over coffee to discuss how I can benefit the ABC Corporation as your director.”

“I sent the box via FedEx Ground, so I could track and know when they signed for it. I waited about 20 minutes after it arrived. Then, I called and said, ‘Hi. You just got my package!’ and I went from there,” she says.

FritzHuspen sent three coffee cups in two weeks. “I called and spoke with somebody at all three employers, and had a conversation with one hiring manager that resulted in an interview.”

About two weeks later, FritzHuspen got the job!

Here are three ways to make this tactic work for you:

1. Find names and phone numbers of hiring managers on Google or Linkedin.com. Can’t get a name? Call and ask the receptionist — that’s what Janet did. Then, she dropped the receptionist’s name into the first sentence of her cover letter, by saying, “I spoke with Sally Smith today about …” This instantly established a rapport with the reader. Smart!

2. Save money on shipping by using FedEx Ground or UPS. Speed is less important than real-time delivery confirmation — you want to call recipients right after they open your box. This makes an incredible first impression!

3. You can buy travel coffee mugs for under $5 at any department store. So, for about $15, including shipping, you can get on the radar of almost any hiring manager you want to meet. What would that worth be to you?

2) Smart Calling

Gilbert Fonseca from Pharr, Texas, got hired for an insurance sales position very quickly after doing something simple and direct: He called an employer that was expanding, introduced himself, and asked for an interview.

That sounds like cold calling, right? Wrong.

Fonseca did several smart things first, before calling his future boss.

Through research, Fonseca learned his target employer was expanding. And, thanks to his prior job, he knew all about one of their key competitors. A call to company headquarters produced the name and number of the local hiring manager.

“I called the hiring manager and introduced myself. He wasn’t too eager to talk, but I did what any job seeker should do — I sold myself,” says Fonseca.

Here’s what he said: “Good afternoon Mr. X, my name is Gilbert Fonseca, I live in Pharr, and I heard that you’re coming to our area. I wanted to introduce myself and explain how I know about you — I worked for one of your competitors in the past.”

At this point, the hiring manager pushed back and tried to get rid of him. But Fonseca pressed on.

“I know how your products work and I have a big book of business I could bring with me,” said Fonseca. This got the manager’s attention — who wouldn’t want to hire someone who brings his own customers?

“That’s pretty much where the conversation ended,” said Fonseca, who got the names of other hiring managers and was told to call them.

No interviews resulted, so Fonseca pursued other leads. But two weeks later he got a call. “The hiring manager said that things had changed and I was asked to come in. I interviewed on Tuesday and had the job on Wednesday,” he says.

Here are three things to keep in mind as you “smart call” for interviews:

1. Tell employers — specifically — what you’ve done before and can do again. Example: “I’ve saved more than $90,000 a year the last three years and can do the same for you.” Do your homework and assign a dollar value to any time you’ve saved or money you’ve earned.

Alternately, drop the name of a competitor they hate, a client they’d love to have, or something valuable you can bring — that’s what Fonseca did. How can you help? Be specific!

2. Follow a script. It can ease your nerves to read from a piece of paper. Just be sure to practice until the words flow smoothly.

3. The worst that can happen when you call employers is … they say no. Nobody dies or goes to jail. But you may land a job interview. All you have to do is ask.

Chances are, you’ve never thought of sending coffee cups or “smart calling” employers. But these Guerrilla Job Search tactics work, as the stories above demonstrate.

Why not give them a try today?

Jan
6

Rocketinfo: Faster Than Google, Deeper Than Yahoo, More Specific Than a Speeding Bullet

All of us are hip, on-line and Internet-savvy. But we don’t know the beast.

This is the core message of Bill Ganz, the president and CEO of next-step search engine ROCKETInfo Inc. (OTC:RKTI). It is a search technology company in the spirit of Google and Yahoo!, but with a new approach to the delivery of results, news and business information.

The growth potential for ROCKETInfo is remarkable: Just the business process management (BPM) aspect of this industry, including software, services and maintenance, will grow to $6.3 billion annually by 2011, according to a report by Forrester Research, an independent technology and market research company. Analysts project a growth rate for the BPM sector of up to 35 percent annually.

ROCKETInfo does two things very well for businesses of all kinds: It is provides search engine services and is a content server that delivers targeted and relevant content such as news and financial information. The software has been designed to automate the process of defining, collecting, analyzing and delivering relevant, current news from an international pool of reputable news, media and other sources.

It is essentially publishing monolith of potentially gargantuan proportions.

Ganz’ homily: “The nexus of the dot.com era afforded a lot of ideas that were funded and what’s happening right now is that these ideas have worked. Things are now better, faster and cheaper if you understand your media and technology.”

Ganz said that exploring ROCKETInfo’s services is much like waking up in a new world. Internet users who have become used to searching for information with providers like Google and Yahoo, he said, get millions of results per search, much of them segregated into paid-for categories. The problem is, most of this information is neither wanted nor needed. ROCKETInfo’s proprietary software filters the junk, the ads, the spam, and delivers only the desired content.

He added that, like Google and other popular search engines, ROCKETInfo provides an advanced Boolean search, but with a higher IQ – the search engine can be trained to discern the quality of information it gathers. Ganz said that for businesses, this means profound changes for gathering information on competitors, and especially in media monitoring.

“In today’s economy, the gold standard of currency is intelligent, dynamic and real-time information and knowledge management,” Ganz said. “The truth is, people are looking for information that is relevant – for us, about us.”

In one of its most popular applications, Ganz said, ROCKETInfo delivers RSS news to the desktop, and especially to the investment industry. His system parses out information where it’s wanted, from a growing database of 80,000 sources, including 16,000 publishers, plus 30,000 blogs and podcasts.

“Simply put,” he stated, “we’re similar to what TiVo (which finds and digitally records select television broadcasts on demand) does for television, except we do it for the Internet.”

“A ROCKETInfo search,” he said, “specializes in news that is happening right now. We don’t store news like Google, Yahoo, MSN, Alta Vista, Ask – those other large search companies – because we believe that news happens, that decisions you make now in your business and personal life today, are your future.

“It’s the speed, immediacy and the breadth of information that we deliver to our clients. We provide this learned data to you, metaphorically, in a box with a bow on it. We deliver it to your desktop, website, e-mails or newsletters – this is synthesized, refined data.”

The reason ROCKETInfo is so fast is because of how it decides to refine the information and how fast it decides to refresh it. Its web services are an integrated collection of technology layers based on the proprietary Rocket Enterprise Server platform. The technology stack is comprised of collection, storage, search, analysis and delivery layers.

“We choose to refresh so quickly and search our databases so frequently because the speed of the information matters so much in the sporting world, the investment world and the business world. Speed matters. The time latency is the liability.”

Ganz describes ROCKETInfo’s search capabilities with a drilling metaphor: “Google offers a two-mile-wide search that is three inches deep. ROCKETInfo,” he said, “offers a three-inch hole that goes two miles deep.”

Founded in 1998, ROCKETInfo, Inc. has its headquarters in Newport Beach, Calif., with research and development operations in Vancouver and Toronto and professional services in Ottawa. It claims over 95,000 registered users and RSS Reader / desktop downloads and more than seven million monthly searches. It has a staff of 17, plus many consultants and contractors.

Currently trading at 24 cents, ROCKETInfo has reported a market cap of $12.46 million, which demonstrates incredible upside potential for the ground floor investor.

ROCKETInfo has 41.21 million shares outstanding.

This article is intended for information purposes only, and is not a recommendation to buy or sell the equities of any company mentioned herein. It is based on sources believed to be reliable, but no warranty as to accuracy is expressed or implied. The opinions expressed in the article are those of the author except where statements are attributed to individuals other than the author, in which case the opinions are those of the individual to whom they are attributed.

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