Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Day Trading Strategies, Intraday Trading Strategies Rules
1. Don't Fight The Trend
2. Don't Overtrade
3. Consistent Trade Sizes
4. Buy Near Support Levels
5. Manage Losses
6. The 30 Minute Rule
7. Overnight Rule
Trading is all about profits and losses.... But, successful trading is about making your losses small and profits big.....
Bias Flexibility
Bias Flexibility
One of the stocks highlighted during today’s Stocks In Play call was GILD. It had gapped lower on Friday to 43 but then trended higher to Open around 46. It spent the rest of the day trading between 46 and 47.20. There was quite a bit of accumulation around 46.50 and it never traded below the key 46 support.
Based on Friday’s price action I discussed my plan for trading it on the long side today. I would first look to see if it supported at 46.50 and if it not I would look to buy close to 46 for a move back to 47 and eventually higher.
As the market Opened today GILD quickly traded below 46.50 so there was no trade at that level on the long side. It then dropped quickly close to 46 and I got long. I took some risk off when it move back up towards 46.50. I placed my stop below 46 for a break even trade.
Its next move was to drop very easily down to the 46 level. It attempted to bounce one more time but couldn’t get above 46.15. The price action didn’t bode well for my long. I was stopped out 2 minutes later below 46. As it continued to move lower each bounce attempt was met with a lower high establishing a very clear downtrend below 46. The price action was clearly signalling an intraday short. Traders on the desk who were still trading it had adjusted their intial bias and were now trading it on the short side.
I was off the desk by this point but was glad to see others were now focusing on trading it short (I can see traders’ positions on the SMB VTF). There is this tendency when young traders come up with an idea to be unable to accept being wrong and focusing on the other side of the trade. I have developed a “trick” over the years that makes it easier for me to quickly flip my bias when the price action warrants. I remind myself that there were probably many other short term traders who were thinking the same thing as I was initially and when the stock moves in the opposite direction a ton of people are probably trapped and will continue to fuel a powerful move in the opposite direction.
If you have that attitude it is easier to detach yourself from your initial trade idea. As short term traders we aren’t attempting to discern whether the FDA news released on Friday should cause GILD to trade to price X or Y (job for hedge fund analysts i guess?). We are following the price action and using key levels in an attempt to capture then next significant intraday move.
Paying Attention To The “How” Of Trading
Paying Attention To The “How” Of Trading
Welcome to my first post on the SMB Blog. My first encounter with the team was reading Mike Bellafiore’s One Good Trade—and thinking that it was one of the best books ever written on trading. Most people who write about trading are trying to tell you what they do and how to become more like them. What makes SMB’s work different, and what I like about it, is that their focus is on how to train traders—how to find the principles that work for everyone, how to make good trading decisions that are tailored to the individual. What inspired me to write for them is that they are dedicated to trading as a profession, as a performance endeavor—and take improvement quite seriously.
In my own trading, I have encountered my own set of failures and difficulties. Despite starting my career in one of the most coveted spots in the world, I stumbled and lost money. It took me a long time and lots of self-education to dig myself out of the hole and to right the ship of my own trading. A lot of the struggle came from having to learn the same things that the SMB guys are teaching—namely, that trading is about making good decisions; that developing trading skill is similar to improving performance in other areas; that psychology can play a profound role. However, in the end, I felt like I got there and started to figure things out, drawing upon a lot of the greatest minds.
In my own struggles and in my own professional experience, I have run into one observation that astounds me to this day. Recalling the expression, “You can lead a horse to water but you can’t make it drink”, I have found that you can tell lots of people what works, but there’s no guarantee that they will stick to it. On the surface, this is pretty shocking. Many famous investors, such as George Soros, Bernard Baruch and Jesse Livermore, have written books describing exactly how they “did it”. For almost any market, trading style and personality type, you can get a book or a course that gives you a run through of a winning, profitable trading system. Moreover, these are readily accessible and low-cost; William J. O’Neill’s books are a detailed walkthrough of how he does things and they cost no more than $40.(Incidentally, the risk/reward on that is phenomenal). Usually, these same works cover the pitfalls associated with trading, such as how to manage P&L swings, how to control emotions and maintain discipline.
Thus, even with every kind of resource available to make you a great trader and avoid the pitfalls along the way, people still want to spurn or ignore or tamper with what works. The desire to tamper or avoid success speaks of the complicated nature of our personality—while we like to think that we can actively direct our thoughts and energies, scientific research suggests that 80% or more of our decision-making is subconscious. We are constantly acting on impulses, beliefs and mental patterns that we are not even aware of. We can all think of examples of this—our friend who just can’t seem to lose weight, our relative who can’t quit smoking no matter how hard they try, etc. Just like with other spheres of our lives, these subconscious decisions will show up in our trading. As the trading coach Van K Tharp likes to say, “We don’t trade the markets—we trade our beliefs about the market”.
Hence, I have become interested in the psychological side of trading and how it interacts with every aspect of trading performance. The key question is “how?”. While anyone can give you hollow advice like “Trade better” “Stay disciplined” and “Control your emotions”, what’s really helpful for you is learning exactly how to do it. If you already knew how to do it, you wouldn’t need to ask the question!
Thus, the kinds of questions I am seeking to answer are:
How do you identify the trading style that works best for you?
How do you make yourself stick to what works?
How do you avoid the siren’s call of bad trading concepts and ideas?
How do you refine your mental state for the best trading results?
How do you orient your life so that it makes you a better trader—and trading makes you a better person?
My interest in psychology and its relationship to performance has taken me down some very unorthodox paths which nevertheless have a lot to offer for traders who are trying to improve. These include Neuro-Linguistic Programming(NLP) , which is all about understanding mental patterns and strategies and then tuning them to change our results; hypnotherapy, which uses a variety of techniques to interact with the subconscious to resolve the inner blocks and conflicts that manifest in other problems, like phobias; and spiritual development, which offer the blueprint for a life well-lived and how to make good trading the foundation of a life well-lived.
While these are not definitive solutions, and you may not even find them helpful, I hope to join the rest of the SMB Training Blog team in continuing the dialogue about peak performance trading and helping people to improve as traders.
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Trade, control your risk, breathe (VVUS)
Sifting thru the daily trading reviews from yesterday it was clear that many traded VVUS. Here in Capetown training former elite athletes and now traders I work to make one point. See your trades as patterns. Trade the set up and then accept the result. Trading is not about being right. It is about controlling your risk. And finding patterns where your risk/reward for you is exceptional.
Match Play winner Hunter Mahan teaches us the importance of this mindset for elite performers (traders):
“If I wanted to be the player that I felt like I could be, I was going to have to change,” Mahan said after capturing the WGC-Accenture Match Play in a 2 and 1 win over Rory McIlroy. “I had to take it easy on myself, not try basically not try so hard.
“I didn’t want to have my identity stuck with my golf score. They needed to be separated, and I needed to play golf because I enjoyed it and accept the result and move on and not get attached to it.”
One of our SMB Traders sent a “proper” (as we say in South Africa) review of his VVUS trading. He summarized his trading precisely with this thinking……….
I traded 22 tickets on VVUS and there were about 7 distinct trades I made
1) pre-market scalp
2) open drive at 23
3) fade the ticks to buy a pullback during an open drive, move from 23.80 down to 23.30
4) buying into a pullback after 10am, after it puts a top at 24.83
5) intraday resistance breakout at 23.50
6) one last try for the big move to the long side: taking a feeler and scalping the range from 24.40-24.80
7) getting short when the range fails and confirms a lower high for the afternoon sell-off
1) pre-market scalp
2) open drive at 23
3) fade the ticks to buy a pullback during an open drive, move from 23.80 down to 23.30
4) buying into a pullback after 10am, after it puts a top at 24.83
5) intraday resistance breakout at 23.50
6) one last try for the big move to the long side: taking a feeler and scalping the range from 24.40-24.80
7) getting short when the range fails and confirms a lower high for the afternoon sell-off
Perhaps thinking of your trading like this will help your trading.
Stock Recommendations:: Ranbaxy
Stock Recommendations:: Ranbaxy
Ranbaxy has entered a strong earnings trajectory with high visibility on FTF upsides till CY14 and improving outlook for base business. Ranbaxy’s focus on settling Para IV cases and more effective operational execution supported by business development moves has started to deliver. Steady growth in emerging markets (2/3rd of sales) and recovery in US generics will drive 18% CAGR in USD revenues and 320bp expansion in EBITDA margin over CY07-09 in base business. Ranbaxy is expected to generate ~USD2.5bn gross profit from the confirmed FTF opportunities over CY08-14. Given the strong earnings outlook and significant incremental positive news flow potential, we expect Ranbaxy to get rerated. Reiterate Outperformer with SOTP-based price target of Rs610 excluding NCE R&D business value. Ranbaxy is one of our top picks in the pharma space.
FTF value unlocking begins: Ranbaxy has among the best Para IV pipelines in the business with 18 potential FTF Para IVs. Based on visibility on eight of these FTFs, Ranbaxy will have 6-month exclusivity on at least one >$1bn sales molecule each year (barring 2013) from CY08-14 along with Nexium settlement revenues that will accrue over CY09-14. Ranbaxy is expected to generate ~$2.5bn of gross profit from this opportunity which, in turn, can create multiple new growth engines for the company.
Base business; gradual but steady progress: Driven by recovery in US generics market (20% growth in CY07, 17% CAGR over CY07-10E) and strong growth momentum in non-US/ EU markets (21% CAGR in CY07-10E). Ranbaxy’s early entry in newer markets of Canada, Japan, Nigeria, Mexico, etc is beginning to pay off. Multiple sales growth initiatives undertaken recently will accelerate the momentum.
Golden phase; stock to get rerated: We believe the market will begin to view FTF upsides as an integral component of Ranbaxy’s business model and reward the strong multi-year earnings growth visibility. Exclusivity earnings flow will also enable Ranbaxy to further strengthen its base business. Demerger of the NCE R&D business will also trigger value unlocking. Ranbaxy is one of our top picks in the space.
Avoid Common SEO Errors
Avoid Common SEO Errors
The business world is no doubt is today controlled by the internet. In order to optimize your website , it is necessary to avoid some common SEO errors that most businesses make during the website designing phase. These are as follows:
Keyword Stuffing: Keyword stuffing in your metadata is increases unnecessary traffic flow to your website. Therefore, when you decide keyword, make sure the keywords are relevant to your website's content.
Splash Pages: Usually the user views only the first page when he or she visits your website. Do not put Flash object with a “click here to skip” button or a large static graphic in the first page with a “continue” button. These pages don't work. They are not optimized for search engines to crawl becuse they contain little content for search engines to index. So these pages are of little interest. Therefore, if at all you want a splash page for your site make sure they are optimized correctly with text and graphics for the search engines to read and index.
ALT tag: This tag was designed specifically as an alternative to an image. This tag can index your images properly. Most of the search engines provide an “image” search facility, which is an important source of traffic to sites. If your products have been indexed and tagged properly then image search could act as another source of revenue for your site.
Flash Websites: They look great with moving images, sliding navigation and sleek designs. However, flash websites are not always preferred by search engines. The search engines can't view the text given within a Flash object and so can't index your content. In order to make Flash objects more search engine friendly, Adobe, Google and Yahoo have recently introduced “SEO Technology Center for Flash” to improve search engine ranking for Flash based websites. Adobe still recommends an HTML version for websites.
Duplicate Content: Make sure that there is no duplicate content in your websites. The search engines require fresh and unique content to index.
Competitors Links: With so many websites around, you may be tempted to link to your competitor’s products or website to get a “vote,” and this Google views as a recommendation. If your website haS high quality relevant links, you must remember that the more of a trusted source you become, it will improve your search engine rankings.
Link Spamming: There are many sites which offer the option to submit your website to hundreds of directories. One of the major threats for such websites is that they have content of low quality and treated as spam by Google.
Non-utilization of Meta: Every page in a website has three main areas were you can include content to, such as the TITLE tag, DESCRIPTION tag and the KEYWORDS tag. To ensure that your site is search engine friendly it is important to write each tag correctly. But do not provide tags which are irrelevant to your website.
Never Avoid Google Guidelines:Finally, be aware of any changes made to the Google Webmaster Guidelines.Google constantly changes its search engine algorithm and any failure to these guidelines will affect your website's rankings.
Keyword Stuffing: Keyword stuffing in your metadata is increases unnecessary traffic flow to your website. Therefore, when you decide keyword, make sure the keywords are relevant to your website's content.
Splash Pages: Usually the user views only the first page when he or she visits your website. Do not put Flash object with a “click here to skip” button or a large static graphic in the first page with a “continue” button. These pages don't work. They are not optimized for search engines to crawl becuse they contain little content for search engines to index. So these pages are of little interest. Therefore, if at all you want a splash page for your site make sure they are optimized correctly with text and graphics for the search engines to read and index.
ALT tag: This tag was designed specifically as an alternative to an image. This tag can index your images properly. Most of the search engines provide an “image” search facility, which is an important source of traffic to sites. If your products have been indexed and tagged properly then image search could act as another source of revenue for your site.
Flash Websites: They look great with moving images, sliding navigation and sleek designs. However, flash websites are not always preferred by search engines. The search engines can't view the text given within a Flash object and so can't index your content. In order to make Flash objects more search engine friendly, Adobe, Google and Yahoo have recently introduced “SEO Technology Center for Flash” to improve search engine ranking for Flash based websites. Adobe still recommends an HTML version for websites.
Duplicate Content: Make sure that there is no duplicate content in your websites. The search engines require fresh and unique content to index.
Competitors Links: With so many websites around, you may be tempted to link to your competitor’s products or website to get a “vote,” and this Google views as a recommendation. If your website haS high quality relevant links, you must remember that the more of a trusted source you become, it will improve your search engine rankings.
Link Spamming: There are many sites which offer the option to submit your website to hundreds of directories. One of the major threats for such websites is that they have content of low quality and treated as spam by Google.
Non-utilization of Meta: Every page in a website has three main areas were you can include content to, such as the TITLE tag, DESCRIPTION tag and the KEYWORDS tag. To ensure that your site is search engine friendly it is important to write each tag correctly. But do not provide tags which are irrelevant to your website.
Never Avoid Google Guidelines:Finally, be aware of any changes made to the Google Webmaster Guidelines.Google constantly changes its search engine algorithm and any failure to these guidelines will affect your website's rankings.
Top Business-to-Business (B2B) Marketplaces in the World
Top Business-to-Business (B2B) Marketplaces in the World
- Alibaba: Alibaba.com is marked as the largest online B2B e-commerce website in the world serving over 35 millions of users.
- IndiaMart: It is the largest Online searchable business (B2B) directory & yellow pages of India with more than 300,000 Indian & Foreign companies maintaining the list of indian exporters, importers & service providers, foreign exporters, importers & service providers. Recognized by CNBC & BBC for its contribution to Indian suppliers.
- Bridgat: Bridgat.com, established in 2007 has within short period of time has proved its presence in b2b marketplaces.
- China.cn: China.cn is a government authorized B2B website based in Beijing, and founded by the China Internet Information Center.
- EC21: EC21 is the largest B2B marketplace in South Korea, with buyers and suppliers from over 200 countries and regions.
- ecplaza: This is another Korean e-commerce website based in Korea. It has launched four language versions: English, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.
- ECVV: This is a new business-to-business directory in China. It is serving millions of manufacturers and global buyers in the world. It categorizes its content by Product Directory and Business Directory.
- DHgate: Dhgate.com, a totally new entrant in B2B industry, is serving a third-party payment escrow. The buyers pay through PayPal and funds are deposited into DHgate account.
- DIYTrade: Based in south China, DIYTrade is one of the leading directories for exporters and importers. It is. Formerly known as eBigChina.com.
- globalsources: This is the first company listed in stock market. It is famous for its quality suppliers. Infact many manufacturers from China choose to pay a big amount of money to become a verified supplier.
- GlobalSpec: This is search engine specially designed for the engineering industry. It provides online resources for industrial parts, specifications and related services.
- Kellysearch: One of the leading directories of U.S. manufacturers in the world. It also has country specified B2B search engine in U.K., Germany, Netherlands, and India.
- KOMPASS: The second largest companies directory in the United States. It has web pages in 27 languages and 8 individual sites for country-based markets.
- Made-in-China: The world second largest manufacturer directory in the word. It provides sell offers for buyers all around the world.
- MainOne: It is a big Chinese manufacturing directory. It has recently launched its English website for foreign buyers and suppliers.
- Manta: This is actually not a B2B marketplace. It simply provides company profiles for B2B industry.
- Meritline: With headquarter in US and operating branch in China, it is one-stop trading solution for suppliers and buyers.
- ThomasNet: The largest B2B directory in the North America. This portal focuses on machinery and other industrial products.
- tradeindia: An Indian B2B website, Tradeindia offers trade leads for both India and Foreign exporters, manufacturers, and service providers.
- TradeKey: The largest Business to Business marketplace in Middle East.
Importance of B2B in International business
It was found in a recent survey conducted by one of the top Business to Business (B2B) portals that there was 140% increase on international traders taking the help of B2B portals for their business requirements.
The major reason for this sudden upsurge in B2B premium memberships is because of the global economic depression. In the latter half of 2007, many leading B2Bs attracted exporters. In the early part of 2008, these portals saw an unprecedented demand for premium membership and this demand came not only from exporters but also from the importers, brokers, transporters and international service providers.
Initially the main reason for showing interest in B2B was cost cutting as it brings down the expenses incurred in the entire process of attaining global recognition through trade shows and other expensive advertising tools. Today the premium members feel that B2Bs are the right comprehensive business tools in any long distance trading. The B2B platform has a kind of interactive nature which enabled international businesses to expedite their business processes. Besides, the traders were able to channel their energy towards effective business deals with fewer work forces.
B2B portals have done an excellent job for international businesses. There has not only been a cost cutting of marketing but they have offered quick delivery of positive results. B2B portals have succeeded in convincing as well as delivering an international trader about the exciting business opportunities available.
They are indeed the most effective and efficient business tool of modern times. Acting as the database of businesses around the world and also an interactive tool in the business world of business, B2Bs have shown their importance in its 2 decades of existence and have become an incredible concept even in times of global economy down.
Many businessmen have used the portals’ premium services and have been able to run their international businesses single handedly. It is surprising that many have carried out their businesses alone or as ‘one man’ business.
Thus, business to business portals have empowered small and medium businesses to excel in international business arena and derive manifold returns, and that too without investing large sum of money. In a few years time, there will not be any international business in the world which would not seek the services of a B2B portal.
Do Companies Really Need Business Blogs ?
Do Companies Really Need Business Blogs ?
There’s a lot of hype about business blogs nowadays. Professional SEOs are using social media marketing to promote business presence on the web. It is said that social media optimization is one of the most important aspects to boost your rankings in universal search engines. But the question is does your business really need a blog, in addition to a website?
For some companies, blog is not a viable idea. However, a blog can definitely boost your site’s web presence and traffic by leaps and bounds if it's in the in the right hands and the correct methods are used. Let’s explore how a business blog can do well and how can it help you .
Provides Information and Solves Problem
Just like newspaper, your blog is simply an editorial column, your own column where you put forward your views, ideas, your message to the outside world and how at the same time you control it. You can talk about your company's challenges and successes, new product developments, explain complicated products or processes in a manner that goes beyond a generic email or booklet.
Relationship Building
If your business has something that is worth sharing with others, a blog is a great place to do it. This is an upcoming method where you interact with your clients, colleagues and visitors in ways that just weren’t possible ten years ago. A blog is your invitation to your online visitors, who can be anybody.
You bring your visitors right into your company, giving them a feeling of personal contact. Through your blog, visitors give their feedback , input, and opinions, which help to further improve your company and help you better understand their needs. Visitors comments provide opportunities for you to improve upon your existing corporate or business model. You respond to blog participants directly and sooner or later it brings that ‘personal touch’ to doing business.
The look of a business blog
You can give any look you want but there is chance of messing it up as well. So it is better to consider few things when thinking about implementing a blog.
- Always remember your blog is not an advertising platform. You already have a website to do this. Posts written solely to make money and not to provide anyone with useful information are bad.
- Always provide relevant, interesting and useful content to your visitors. Present the latest news about the industry, market or product in a refreshing way which will boost them to come back often to your blog and through it to your website where actual sales and RFQs happen.
- Always provide the the search engines fresh material. Fresh content on a regular basis keeps the search engines coming back again and again. You will see your placement in universal search results rise.
- Implement smart SEO techniques into your blog. Give importance to keyword placement in your titles and throughout the blog. Include links back to your site, to encourage traffic and enhance interest in your website.
Conclusion
The old method of public relations is not relevant now. In this fast, technologically advanced world, people are listening to pod casts and online radio, they are getting newsletters and articles delivered to their inbox, so it is better to employ an immediate and personal form of contact to carry your message. You can do it, fast and often free, with a blog!
Generate More Leads Through Trade Shows
Buyers just love to attend trade shows because they can find find hundreds of vendors under one roof, selling the product they are looking for. Trade shows help them save time and money. Buyers get a chance to study the products, discuss with company owners or exhibitors, access their company and at the end choose a particular company to buy its products. Buyers get to access the value of the product in various stalls and ultimately come up with the right purchasing decision thet give them the value of their money. In the same way, for sellers, exhibiting at a trade show offers you one of the easiest ways to get in front of a lot of customers and prospects in a relatively short amount of time.Attending trade shows will help you find hundreds of new and old quality buyers or leads in just one day.
Reasons for attending trade shows by buyers
Reasons for attending trade shows by buyers
- Trade shows help to keep up with industry trends.
- To observe new trends and innovations.
- Trade shows positively affect their buying decisions.
- Buyers intend to purchase minimum one product through trade shows.
- Buyers establish a relationship with atleast one new seller.
- Trade shoes help to make up their mind what they should buy.
- Buyers visit shows to find new vendors.
Goals for sellers in trade shows
Sellers should set their goals before exhibiting to make their trade show a success.They need to ask themselves:
Sellers should set their goals before exhibiting to make their trade show a success.They need to ask themselves:
- Why are you exhibiting?
- Are you trying to extend your relationship with present customers?
- Introducing a new product or service?
- Positioning your company within the market?
- Generating genuine leads for new sales?
- Countering a competitor's claim?
- Who is your target audience?
- What do you want to convey?
- What do you want to get out of the trade show? Home leads, sell your product/service, or build/improve or create upon your company image?
Select the right show
There are more than 10,000 trade shows being held every year. So make the right choice of participating in the show that matters to you most because attending or participating in trade shows costs you money. For this, start with your industry's associations. These shows will typically be targeted right to your market, and often are reasonable. You can also check with the trade publications. Another resource is, of course, the Internet. Go to tscentral.com, TSNN.com, or FITA.org for directories of shows around the world in all types of industries.
There are more than 10,000 trade shows being held every year. So make the right choice of participating in the show that matters to you most because attending or participating in trade shows costs you money. For this, start with your industry's associations. These shows will typically be targeted right to your market, and often are reasonable. You can also check with the trade publications. Another resource is, of course, the Internet. Go to tscentral.com, TSNN.com, or FITA.org for directories of shows around the world in all types of industries.
Differences in B2B and B2C Email Marketing
We all know about email marketing. It is a cost effective, powerful tool of direct marketing to sell your product, advertise your company or to get new customers and so on. However email marketing in b2b is different from b2c. The main differences are as follows:
- One of the biggest difference is that in b2b, email campaigns have led to lead generation but not an immediate sale. In b2bc, a click can lead you to the home page, and then within minutes you reach the shopping cart, which is the prime objective. This is not so fast in B2B. There is always a time gap from click to sale in b2b. Often many months are required to close a sale on a lead gathered through an email campaign. The mail must be combined with other communications both online and offline, sales representative's follow up, a PDF attachment with the mail, a face-to-face meeting etc.
- In B2B email marketing, the target audience, for example, “you” offer valid information about your company. The B2B email marketer, will provide access to an informative and useful guide or white paper. In B2C, if the email recipient enters name, mailing address and phone in response to a B2C promotion, it is evident that the product can be shipped immediately. In both cases, permission is important. In B2B information may be kept private but in B2B you have to be ready with your answer whether to opt in or opt out.
- In both b2b and b2c email marketing, you should write the subject line that define a compelling message for your target audience and deliver it in the right voice.
- The number and quality of rental email lists available also donot match in B2B and B2B . The more targeted and less techie your audience, the less number of B2B lists exist. Here in the list you get detailed information about the prospect and his company, like size, annual revenue, job function etc. Out-of-date email addresses is a big problem in B2B than in B2C. The business email address is untraceable once that person leaves company A for company B if the return path is not mentioned.
- The more interesting option is always B2B. It is more interesting than B2C. The step-by-step process of forcing a prospect down the path to close on the sale of an expensive product or service is complex.The retail sale is not very exciting.
Paid links affect your Google rankings
Many websites on the Internet will link to your website if you pay them for the links. Is this a good method to increase the link popularity of your website or is there a problem if you use paid links.
What does Google think about paid links?
Google is very clear about paid links. They don't like them. Google even has an official form that enables webmasters to report paid links to Google:
Links are used to determine reputation. A site's ranking in Google search results is partly based on analysis of those sites that link to your website.
Link-based analysis is an extremely useful way of measuring a site's value, and has greatly improved the quality of web search. Both the quantity and, more importantly, the quality of links count towards this rating. However, some SEOs and webmasters engage in the practice of buying and selling links that pass PageRank, without considering the quality of the links, the sources, and the long-term impact it will have on their sites.
Buying or selling links that pass PageRank is in violation of Google's webmaster guidelines and can negatively impact a site's ranking in search results.
A recent problem
A webmaster recently reported problems in Google's webmaster discussion forum:
"Today I found that my entire site has dropped out of site in search results. I have a site that received over 2,000 search visits per day and today that has stopped."
It turned out that the website has many affiliate links and other links to advertisers that looked like paid links to Google. Unfortunately, these links were not marked as paid links and Google penalized the website for having the paid links.
What does this mean for your website?
You should avoid paid links if you don't want to get in trouble with Google. If you do buy or sell links, make sure that the links contain the rel="nofollow" attribute. By using that attribute, you show that the paid link is for advertising purposes only and that you don't want to manipulate your website rankings with the link.
While Google doesn't like paid links at all, they also make clear that links are very important: "Link-based analysis is an extremely useful way of measuring a site's value, and has greatly improved the quality of web search. Both the quantity and, more importantly, the quality of links count towards this rating."
For that reason, you should try to get as many good links to your website as possible. The quality is more important than the quantity. Links that point to your website are a very important factor that influences the position of your website in Google's search results. The links that point to your website should be from related websites and they should contain the keywords for which you want to get high rankings.
Do not manipulate the links to your website by buying links and do not join automated link systems to increase the number of links to your website. There are many ways to get good links (related websites, blogs, social bookmark sites, directories, etc.).
This article is taken from Axandra.com
Twitter Like a Journalist : Marketing Tip
Think as a journalist when you twit. This is one fast growing technique to market your business. But how ? Just follow the following journalism rules:
Make every word count: In Twitter, you have a limited space of mere 140 characters. In news journalism, the news caption should be short and crisp but effective. In journalism school, writing short is to choose your words wisely, and be concise. A single line is sufficient enough to arouse the curiosity of the readers. Same goes with Twitter as well. Keep a tweet really short. This also makes your tweet more “Retweet Friendly,”
Keep it simple: The best news reporters tell a story simply and clearly. Similarly, don’t try to provide too much information into a single tweet. Also link directly to blogs or other online sources. Finally, avoid to fit more into a tweet by the use of abbreviations. Such shorthand might maximize your character count, but they make your tweet read like a teenager’s text message.
Provide context: Journalists do this by plugging in some of the back story on any given news item. On Twitter, offer context by using keywords so that readers can more easily get the gist of a conversation, thread, or topic.
Lead with the good stuff: In journalism, the first paragraph of any news contain enough information to give the reader a solid overview of the entire story. Approach information on Twitter in a similar manner, giving the strongest and most compelling bit in the tweet, and then link to the rest of the story elsewhere.
Write killer headlines: Headlines “sell” a news story or a blog post. Similarly a great tweet invites a reader to click. Author tweets that are short and compelling. This applies to so much for B2B marketers: blog posts titles, subject lines, press release headlines, etc.
Graphics expand on the story: A picture on Twitter tells a story with far more impact.
People make things interesting: News reporters often focus on how people are affected by a given situation or event. On Twitter, it’s also the people that keep it interesting. That means adopting a conversational tone and community spirit is good. And this applies even when you are representing a brand.
Consider the reader: News reporters spend a lot of time coming up with the right angle for a story. On Twitter, be similarly thoughtful in your approach. If you respect your followers similar to the way journalists consider their readers, you’ll spend more time thinking about what to tweet, than you will actually doing it. Your followers will appreciate your efforts. A good question to ask yourself before you tweet - “Will anyone care?” If it is what you ate for breakfast, probably not. If you ate the best pizza of your life, maybe so.
Source: http://blog.reachforce.com/
Make every word count: In Twitter, you have a limited space of mere 140 characters. In news journalism, the news caption should be short and crisp but effective. In journalism school, writing short is to choose your words wisely, and be concise. A single line is sufficient enough to arouse the curiosity of the readers. Same goes with Twitter as well. Keep a tweet really short. This also makes your tweet more “Retweet Friendly,”
Keep it simple: The best news reporters tell a story simply and clearly. Similarly, don’t try to provide too much information into a single tweet. Also link directly to blogs or other online sources. Finally, avoid to fit more into a tweet by the use of abbreviations. Such shorthand might maximize your character count, but they make your tweet read like a teenager’s text message.
Provide context: Journalists do this by plugging in some of the back story on any given news item. On Twitter, offer context by using keywords so that readers can more easily get the gist of a conversation, thread, or topic.
Lead with the good stuff: In journalism, the first paragraph of any news contain enough information to give the reader a solid overview of the entire story. Approach information on Twitter in a similar manner, giving the strongest and most compelling bit in the tweet, and then link to the rest of the story elsewhere.
Write killer headlines: Headlines “sell” a news story or a blog post. Similarly a great tweet invites a reader to click. Author tweets that are short and compelling. This applies to so much for B2B marketers: blog posts titles, subject lines, press release headlines, etc.
Graphics expand on the story: A picture on Twitter tells a story with far more impact.
People make things interesting: News reporters often focus on how people are affected by a given situation or event. On Twitter, it’s also the people that keep it interesting. That means adopting a conversational tone and community spirit is good. And this applies even when you are representing a brand.
Consider the reader: News reporters spend a lot of time coming up with the right angle for a story. On Twitter, be similarly thoughtful in your approach. If you respect your followers similar to the way journalists consider their readers, you’ll spend more time thinking about what to tweet, than you will actually doing it. Your followers will appreciate your efforts. A good question to ask yourself before you tweet - “Will anyone care?” If it is what you ate for breakfast, probably not. If you ate the best pizza of your life, maybe so.
Source: http://blog.reachforce.com/
Top 15 Most Popular Gadgets Websites
Top 15 Most Popular Gadgets Websites
What are the best gadgets websites on the internet? Here are the top 15 most popular gadgets websites and blogs to keep you well informed of thousands of gadgets and have a look at the future trends.
1. Engadget is a web magazine with obsessive daily coverage of everything new in gadgets and
consumer electronics.
2. Boy Genius Report, also known as BGR, is another one of the best gadgets websites featuring Apple, Android, Blackberry, Mobile, gadgets gallery, reviews and buying guide.
3. AppleInsider is a news and gadgets website which focuses on Apple Inc. It also offers a forum for discussing Apple related topics.
4. SlashGear is a weblog devoted to gadget and tech published by R3 Media LLC. It is updated daily and published in two languages – English and Japanese.
5. 9 to 5 Mac – a gadget and technology website focusing on Apple Intelligence.
6. TechCrunch is a web publication that offers technology news and analysis, as well as profiling of startup companies, products, and websites.
7. Android Central is one of the best android websites online, which offers android news, reviews, forums, videos, guides & tips, apps, devices and more gadgets.
8. Mashable is an Internet news blog which covers news and developments in mobile, entertainment, online video, business, web development, technology and gadgets.
9. IntoMobile delivers breaking news, information, and analysis on the latest cell phones and cell phone technology.
10. Android Police is one of great sources for latest Android news, applications, games, upcoming phones and Internet devices, tips and tutorials and more.
11. Ubergizmo is a popular news website that features honest, opinionated news & reviews of consumer electronics products, gadgets and trends.
12. Gadget Lab is Wired.com’s hardware news blog, covering computers, consumer electronics, laptops, notebooks, netbooks, smartphones and more.
13. CrunchGear is a one of the most popular blogs on gadgets and computer hardware, edited by John Biggs.
14. Android Phone Fans is a website for Android Phone Reviews, News, Apps, Games and Rumors. Also covers Android Tablets and other Android devices.
15. AnandTech offers reviews of computer hardware such as motherboards, graphic cards, and CPUs and mobile phones.
Top 10 Websites
Top 10 Websites
Here is the list of world top 100 websites in 2011 list based on a combination of Alexa Rank, content richness, users’ reviews and freshness. Check it out to see how many of your favorite sites fall in this list.
1-10 of top
1. Google
Google is undoubtedly world No. 1 search engine website. Besides search, google also provides many other products like gmail, adwords, google earth, voice, talk, groups, sitemap, webmaster tools.
2. Facebook
Facebook is No.1 social networking website which has revolutionized the way of keeping in touch on the internet.
Facebook is No.1 social networking website which has revolutionized the way of keeping in touch on the internet.
3. Yahoo!
Yahoo provides many free services: search, yahoo mail, maps, yellow pages, games, shopping, jobs, movies, news, finance, sports, messenger and much more.
Yahoo provides many free services: search, yahoo mail, maps, yellow pages, games, shopping, jobs, movies, news, finance, sports, messenger and much more.
4. YouTube
World largest videos sharing and hosting website owned by Google.
World largest videos sharing and hosting website owned by Google.
5. Live
Windows Live is a website runned by Microsoft Corporation. Live provides Windows Live Essentials applications, web services, and mobile services like download, mail, live messenger, photo galleries.
Windows Live is a website runned by Microsoft Corporation. Live provides Windows Live Essentials applications, web services, and mobile services like download, mail, live messenger, photo galleries.
6. Wikipedia
Wikipedia is the best and largest free encyclopedia, written collaboratively by its readers. Many people are constantly improving Wikipedia, making thousands of changes per hour.
Wikipedia is the best and largest free encyclopedia, written collaboratively by its readers. Many people are constantly improving Wikipedia, making thousands of changes per hour.
7. Blogger.com
Most popular free blog publishing tool for easily sharing your thoughts with the world.
Most popular free blog publishing tool for easily sharing your thoughts with the world.
8. Microsoft Network (MSN)
MSN, also called The Microsoft Network, is a collection of sites and services provided by
Microsoft.
MSN, also called The Microsoft Network, is a collection of sites and services provided by
Microsoft.
9. Myspace
Myspace is an extremely popular social networking website whose main features include Bulletin board, Groups, MyspaceIM, Tv, Classifieds, Karaoke, Polls and forums.
Myspace is an extremely popular social networking website whose main features include Bulletin board, Groups, MyspaceIM, Tv, Classifieds, Karaoke, Polls and forums.
10.Twitter
Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service website which enables its users to send and read messages called tweets.
Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service website which enables its users to send and read messages called tweets.
Make your Caller Tune In Reliance
Make your Caller Tune In Reliance
http://124.124.227.249/diy/
Register yourself, password would be sent to your email.
Be ready with your clipping it should be 30 Sec and max 300 kb in size.
But as we all know that the size of the audio file increases in following order i.e
AMR (Smallest)
MP3
WMA
AAC
WAV (Largest)
So on one side these idiots want it under 300 kb and on the other side they have designed their website so as to allow uploading of WAV files only.
Completely hopeless and impractical people they have stuffed in their IT department.
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