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Dynamism in life is the main thread of union that is present in his works.
Born in Calcutta in 1974 he received a First Class Degree in Fine Arts from College of Art , New Delhi in 1997.
Energy, strength of emotions, sometimes painful, sometimes quiet and solitary, that reflects in life and the silent architecture of the bygone days. Architecture is mesmerizing for Indranil. It is a true reflective self of the people who built them.
Indranil has exhibited at the Delhi College of Arts exhibition (1994,95, 96, 97), Bal Bhavan Art camp (1996, 97, 98, 99), Gallery Heart and Soul annual exhibition (2001, 02, 03, 04, 05) and Moksha Art group exhibition in Mumbai (2006).
His works are in the private collection of many in India, USA, London and Germany.
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The ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary. - reply by Thomas A. Edison, when asked: "What do you think is the first requisite for success in your field, or any other?"
You must be single minded. Drive for the one thing on which you have decided. - George S. Patton
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There are two big forces at work, external and internal. We have very little control over external forces such as tornaados, earthquakes, floods, disasters, illness and pain. What really matters is the internal force. How do I respond to those disasters? Over that I ave complete control. LEO BUSCAGLIA
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Here are your building blocks to your marketing success;
-Defining your product or service: How is your product or service packaged? What is it that your customers are really buying? You may be selling web-based software tools but your clients are buying increased productivity, improved efficiency and cost savings. And if you offer several products or services which ones are the most viable to promote?
-Identifying your target market: Everyone or anybody might be potential clients for your product. However, you probably don't have the time or money to market to Everyone or Anybody. Who is your ideal customer? Who does it make sense for you to spend your time and money promoting your service to? You might define your ideal customer in terms of income, age, geographic area, number of employees, revenues, industry, etc. For example a massage therapist might decide her target market is women with household incomes of $75,000 or more who live in the Uptown area.
-Knowing your competition: Even if there are no direct competitors for your service, there is always competition of some kind. Something besides your product is competing for the potential client's money. What is it and why should the potential customer spend his or her money with you instead? What is your competitive advantage or unique selling proposition?
-Finding a niche: Is there a market segment that is not currently being served or is not being served well? A niche strategy allows you to focus your marketing efforts and dominate your market, even if you are a small player.
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The question is what and where can you find items to sell that will guarantee a profit?
Well there are no 100% guarantees selling anything through auctions because there’s always the chance that someone else may be selling similar items at a lower price. But it’s not too difficult to find out what’s already selling well and what the average prices are by doing some simple research.
For example, go to the eBay.co.uk or eBay.com homepage and choose a category dealing with something you would be interested in. (It’s better to deal in items that you have some knowledge of in order to sell convincingly) Let’s take a look at musical instruments for example.
Now refine your search to acoustic guitars. From the list available it’s easy to see how popular certain instruments are by how many bids have been placed. Bearing in mind that more bids come in during the later stages of the auction. To get a more definite idea of what sells you can check the items that have already been sold and how much the winning bid was. Choose the search option which you can find in the side column for ‘completed items’ and click on ‘show items’.Now, musical instruments might not be your thing, but you can see what I mean about research can’t you?
Once you have decided on what to sell, you then need to find a reliable supplier who can supply you on a regular basis.
Notice I said ‘reliable’ supplier. If you intend to make this venture a regular source of income, it’s essential that your source can supply you with top quality goods when you need them and without any delay.
You might even consider finding a supplier who can ‘dropship’ the goods direct to your buyer. Which means there will be no need for you to get involved in posting and packaging the goods. Dropshipping in the USA is quite common. See the The Dropship Directory.
In the UK there are very few companies at present who do this. However, if you need a directory of wholesale sources in the UK then try the UK-Trader's UK Wholesale Guide which is used by thousands of traders and popular with online auction sellers.
Selling on eBay can be a lucrative and enjoyable experience. If this sounds like something you would like to get involved in, then I suggest reading the ebook Make Your Net Auction Sell which is a useful source of information that will teach you more about how to use eBay to sell for profit, or even start your own online business.Source: 500ways
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This is the last of the series of speed reading self-pacing methods the Zig-Zag!
The last method is a type of modified scanning technique. In this one you take your hand and cut across the text diagonally about three lines and then slide back to the next line. Now the idea here is not necessarily to see each word, but to scan the entire area, letting your mind pick out the main ideas. I wouldn't recommend this for material that requires very careful reading, but it is a way to help you get the general ideas of easy material.
Here are a couple more telephone mistakes that may be costing you potential or existing customers.
Have you ever said, “Please hold” to a caller?
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Never put a caller on-hold without asking for their permission, and then waiting for their response. Putting customers on hold without their consent is a sure-fire formula to lose customers.
How long does it take a person on hold to become annoyed?
a) 2 minutes b) 30 seconds c) 1 minute d) 17 seconds
Studies show that after only 17 seconds, callers on hold become annoyed. The exception is when the greeter explains why the caller is being asked to hold and provides the estimated time required. Knowing beforehand how long they can expect to wait reduces the chance of annoyance, particularly among long distance and cellular phone callers. Another option to prevent frustration is to offer the caller the option of either holding or hanging up and having their call returned within a brief, specific time period. By: Jeff Mowatt || Source: Business Know-How
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I'm a big believer in the telephone. Getting on the phone is really the secret to any successful recruiting strategy, and yet software, e-mail, job boards and vendor lists distract us.
Every boss I've ever had will tell you they wanted me on the phone more than I was. Sales positions by their very nature are defined by phone activity - but I wonder if using the phone in today's day and age is effective for TPR's or corporate recruiter.
That may sound like blasphemy - but I'm thinking that there's a reason that most corporations (and TPR's that function like corporations) don't need phone heavy recruiters.
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My favourite source is:http://www.seocompany.ca/directory/web-directories.html a very good list of free directories, the list gives the PR of all the directories, the number of Google, Yahoo & MSN documents, and Alexa Ranking (you can have an idea of how much traffic the directory is getting, this will help you to decide whether to submit your website or not).
Another list that I really like is http://www.addurl.nu/ PR of all the directories is provided with some comments, read them before submitting your website as some directories have some problems while submitting.
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eBay PowerSellers sell anywhere from $1,000 to more than $150,000 monthly on the site and also get a high level of positive feedback - with a 98 percent or better rating by other eBay users.
eBay "is a ready-made business platform," McGrath said, because of its low barrier of entry, high traffic and millions of customers with credit-card information on hand and ready to use.
Jonathon Garriss worked in a small shoe store before he started selling overstock on eBay; now he runs Gotham City Online, a $6 million to $8 million business selling shoes on eBay.To get your hands on a piece of that $45 billion, McGrath offers these tips that could help you become a PowerSeller.
Learn to buy before you sell. By racking up experience buying, eBay-style, you will learn to bid successfully, how PayPal works, how to post feedback and how buyers and sellers communicate with each other.
One man's junk is another man's treasure. For starters, McGrath suggests finding something in your home that is usable but that you don't want anymore and sell it online. That way, you can establish yourself, get the hang of selling and use the proceeds from those first sales to buy more merchandise.
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Smart report readers know they do not have time to read everything which lands on their desk. This would be impossible. Instead, keep your purpose in mind and scan the main elements of the report. The idea is to gain an overview of the document and determine its relevance. Use the table of contents to skip to parts which appear relevant. Don.t waste time blindly reading the report in a linear fashion . the table of contents is there for a reason. 'Smart report readers know they do not have time to read While reports contain a wealth of useful information, there Scan the abstract, introduction and conclusion. Summaries give a good overview of the report. Peruse headings, subheadings and highlighted words and sections to find relevant passages. Consider the first and last paragraphs of each section. Look at the non-verbal elements of the report such as photographs, figures and graphs. These elements give important clues as to whether the document suits your information needs. If the report appears to suit your needs, you can then proceed to read the relevant sections in detail.
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The first idea to help with annoying telephone matters such as voice mail and telephone screeners.
Don't Get Lost in the Phone System.When initially trying to locate a decision maker you've never spoken with, if you detect even the slightest bit of hesitation in a call screener's voice when they give you a name, continuing questioning. Nothing is as frustrating as being shoved from one unwanting soul to another like a hot potato. Find out the title and department before you're sent there.
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Here are four tips for using blogs to increase your small business income;
Cohesive: Unlike personal blogs, a professional blog should contain a cohesive body of work. For example, if you are a financial writer, you might want to include entries commenting on what's happening in your sector.
Posts can be critiques, comments and feedback on popular news topics. This serves two purposes: a) shows that you stay on top of current events in your industry, and b) that you can write intelligibly about it.
Own a retail store: Use your blog to feature fashion trends, what body type they look best on, post photos of celebrities in the latest looks.
Update regularly: Many bloggers update daily; some weekly; others less regular. Black advises that professional blogs should be updated on some type of consistent schedule, no less than bi-monthly.
Anything less than this can be too infrequent. Like a store window, you have to update it to keep potential customers coming back.
Personality: I advise bloggers to let some of their personality shine through in their posts -- in a professional way, of course. This is perhaps the most important use of a professional blog space. Why?
Because your personality is unique to you. You will not appeal to everybody, but those you do appeal to can easily be turned into life-long, loyal customers once they are bonded to you. How do you get potential customers to bond?
As an example, say you offer commentary on a recent hot topic in your sector; let some of your dry wit, quirky observations and personal experiences shine through. This begins the bonding process. People do business with those they know, like and trust.
A blog space is a perfect place to build all three of these sentiments. Once bonded, it is so much easier to make the sale because a "relationship" has already been established.
And finally,
The basics apply: no profanity, nudity, racist or otherwise obscene content. This is never acceptable.
It's amazing what you can tell about a person by having several months of their work in front of you. Certain personality quirks shine through, which can lead to an employer choosing Candidate A over Candidate B.
Is this an effective, or even a professionally accepted, form of canvassing for freelancers and small business owners? I think so.
Freelancers and small business owners are often at the forefront of technology. Freelancers are because they must update their skills more often than in-house employees to stay competitive. Small business owners often are because they usually do everything from the bookkeeping to the marketing, and need to work more efficiently. Technology helps them to accomplish this.
I think that as long as a blog is a professional representation of a person or their business, I see them as an additional selling tool -- a really powerful one.
As more and more of the work sector begins to telecommute and/or freelance, which cuts down on face-to-face time with employers and clients, blogging is another way to give potential employers more than "just a resume."
A article about organization of a blogs architecture;
Perhaps one of the most frustrating things for me as a professional blogger with decent depth in my archives - some really good content and some (perhaps more) not so great content - is figuring out the best way to present it. Blog architecture is a challenging topic since most blogs are structured pretty much identically.
Sometimes concepts are presented that just smack of "obvious". Chris Pearson presented one such concept today. In his view, most of his readers (and I would venture most of my readers and most of Darren's readers) consume blogs via RSS and RSS is reverse chronological by its nature. By default, most blogs are also ordered reverse chronologically.
Chris instead challenges his readers to think outside the box and avoid being redundant. If RSS is already reverse-chronological, why do the same thing on the web? Why not take a more nebulous approach to blog presentations - perhaps placing the "best of" on the home page or taking a Digg approach and letting entries with more comments migrate up to the front page.
The second approach is an idea that I had but would likely work best on a niche blog as opposed to personal blogs. The idea that mostly niche readers will read niche blogs suggests that a blogger would not get unrelated "junk entries" that garner a lot of comments on the front page.
Use These stratagies to drive traffic to your website or blog;
Pay-Per-Click Search Engines PPC search engines are fairly simple. The website owner develops a set of keywords that people use to find you in the search engines and pay a premium to the search engine each time a visitor clicks on the link. It is important to the web site owner that their site obtains the top search engine rank to appear as the first slot. Obtaining the highest rank is fairly simple in the PPC search engine mode. Find out how much the person who currently occupies the number one slot is paying per click, and outbid them by paying a penny more. The website owner pays as little as .001 per click for site traffic and earns their position in the search engine through bidding.
PPC possesses several benefits as a marketing strategy. Besides supplying customers with effective marketing, it is also cost-effective because you pay only when someone actually accesses your site. Moreover, with this method your listing gets posted quickly anywhere within a few hours or at the most, a few days.
The website owner using the PPC method needs to pick the keywords cautiously. Use specific keywords. Avoid being general or it may attract a lot of traffic uninterested in the website's products or services. This would push the costs of a PPC campaign too high. Most importantly, calculate how much to bid on keywords. The website must still turn a profit after such expenses.
Affiliate Programs An Affiliate Program is a no-risk partnership with a company, promoting that company's products on a website. In return, the affiliate earns a percentage of their sales. After signing up for an affiliate program, the affiliate is assigned a special "affiliate URL" that tracks all the visitors the affiliate sends to a company's web site and all the sales the affiliate generates. The affiliate earns a commission each time someone the affiliate referred makes a purchase.
The best way to motivate affiliates to promote a company's product or service is to pay those affiliates well for their efforts. Offer attractive commissions and additional incentives such as bonuses for a certain number of sales to push the affiliates to actively promote the website.
Combine both the strategies mentioned above to develop an integrated marketing strategy. This yields even bigger profits. An easy way to start an integrated marketing campaign is by encouraging affiliates to bid on keywords.
Blogs build brand Smart companies today are managing their blogs with the same dedication they invest in their television advertising. There are blogs dedicated to supporting a specific advertising campaign (check out chadland.ca for Bell Solo Mobile Phones) and blogs dedicated to supporting corporate positioning in the market place. Soon, not having a blog will be a positioning statement of its own.
Blogging builds relationships Blogging brings senior executives in direct communication with your customers. It provides a forum for execs to share their ideas, their inspirations and, most importantly, their passion for you business. The result - customers who feel as though they can get to know the people at the helm of your business. And whether the purchase is a $2 tube of chapstick or $2 million ERP investment, we're always more comfortable buying from people we know than people we don't.
Blogging is the new cornerstone of effective public relations It's crisis time. You need to kick into damage control mode - and fast. Sure you can hold a news conference, place calls to your friendliest journalists, issue a formal statement that you email to key contacts and clients. But that all takes time.
Within minutes a post can be published to your blog outlining your position and letting your customers know where and how to get more information. And with RSS enabled, those same customers will be immediately notified. They might even see your post before the press conference is over.
Search Engine Rankings A well-managed blog can directly support your search engine rankings. Invest the effort to write regular posts - original content and good information are key. Don't forget to let your personality shine through - corporate and personal. A unique approach and fresh content are powerful allies in your search engine marketing efforts.
But be careful - like every successful tactic this one has been abused. Simply re-publishing someone else's content or developing a link farm disguised as a "useful resource" will do more harm than good.
Lead Generation Bet you didn't see this one coming! It's true. Make sure that your blog is interesting to the people most likely to be purchasers of your products or services. Develop an interested audience for your blog, encourage them to subscribe via an RSS feed or an email digest. You get a qualified list of potential customers and permission to put your brand front and centre on a regular basis.
This is an article about the interactions between blogs;
As your blog’s content increase, people in your niche will definitely mention you for intelligent or interesting discussions. This is, in a sense, an initiation of an interaction. When people speak of you, you should thank them for the mention and build up the interaction!
When you use a traffic tracking script such as the free www.statcounter.com, you can see where traffic comes from. If a large number of visitors come from a certain blog, you can be sure they have mentioned you in their latest post or linked to you from their sidebar or links page. What you should do is pay them a visit, leave constructive comments on their posts and build up a conversation!
As you continue doing this, you will start to gather a lot of friends in your niche. This is helpful later on when you decide to do collaborations such as interviews. In fact, when you’re out of ideas for writing on your blog, you can interview other blog owners in your niche! Human beings are curious creatures, so naturally they would like to know more about a person whose writings they read so often.
If you’re using Wordpress, Textpattern, MovableType or any other advanced blog engines, you can also post trackback links on your posts. This means you can post an article about what other people have posted! Your particular post will then appear as a link on that post you have written about. This is definitely a great way to get traffic if you post brilliant insights about a post on a very famous blog. Since the famous blog already has a per-existing pool of readers, this is like a shortcut to hog their visitors! The only thing you would want to observe is to keep your posts sensible and insightful, or you’ll be viewed as a spammer.
On the other hand, if you’re using Blogger, you would not be able to use trackback links. However, you can post insightful comments on other people’s blogs and subtly include a link back to your blog. You can make it seem like you’re pointing to your blog as an extra reference to the subject of discussion. Of course, this technique is not only limited to Blogger users and users of other blog engines can employ this strategy as an additional traffic source.
Articles - submit articles to the article directory and the resource box will accommodate a link to your website - a free backlink!
Directory entries - every niche will have at least several hundred directories of websites that are pertinent to that niche. Get yourself listed in all of these, and you have a ton of free backlinks!
Three way link exchange - unlike conventional reciprocal link exchanges where two sites point to each other, this is a somewhat more cunning way, which is meant to trick the search engines. It does mean one of the link partners needs two websites though. Website A links to Website B which links to Website C. Person A owns Websites A and C and Person B owns Website B. To the search engines, these appear as one way links (at the moment! There is gossip of the search engines catching on to this).
Forums - posting in forums is yet another mode of getting your link seen. If you engage in the forum discussion then usually you can have a link to your website in your signature file. Remember though that you must add value and not just blatantly promote your website or post to get your signature file shown as this will result in ill feeling towards you and eventual blacklisting or exclusion.
Blogs - putting comments on blogs is another way to get backlinks. However, be aware that if you are not adding value with your comment it may well be considered spam and then deleted and blacklisted. So don't just post "great blog", writing something that is useful and becoming.
Backlinks are surprisingly easy for you to obtain with a small amount of work. If you don't want to do the work yourself then you can very easily hire someone who will do it on your behalf, though make sure they will be ethical about it!
With backlinks you can increase your search engine rankings and get yourself free traffic, which means free money when they buy your product!
Some great tips - How to generate traffic to your website or blog!
1. The primary way of promoting any website is by creating valuable content. It is important to have something of value to offer to your readership. Adding quality content to your Web site or blog is the best way to keep visitors returning. Not only will it keep them coming back, but it will encourage them to create links to your website or blog. Make sure that you update your content regularly. Once people realize that you add fresh content regularly, then they will constantly check back to see what is new. The purpose of having a website or blog is to attract regular visitors.
2. You've worked really hard on your Blog, but no one is reading it. Read and comment on other blogs, but make sure that you comment on the topic at hand. Don't ask them to come and visit your blog. Write valuable comments and leave a link to your blog.
3. Technorati currently tracks 35.3 Million weblogs. It is one of the best traffic providers for bloggers. If you don't already have a Technorati account, you can create one at http://technorati.com. Once you sign up you'll be required to claim your blog. Technorati will give you two codes. You'll need to put one of these in your blog for Technorati to verify that your blog exists. Technorati also offers tagging. When you use the tagging system of Technorati, you're drawing attention to your keywords. Tags tell the search engines which category your posts are under. Many of Technorati tagged pages rank high in search engines. Once you've added tags to your post be sure to ping it.
4. Use http://pingoat.com to ping more than 50 directories each time you republish to your blog. What does pinging do? Pinging lets the weblog tracking sites know that your site has just been updated with fresh new content.
5. Write articles and submit them to article directories. Writing and submitting articles is a free and easy way to drive traffic back to your website. Article directories are a huge hype with new ones sprouting up all over. When a webmaster or blogger uses one of your articles it increases your web exposure though backlinks to your blog or website.
6. If you want to drive traffic to your website or blog and keep visitors returning then why not consider giving something of valuable away. Giving items away for free is a great way to increase traffic. Some of the things that you can give away are free downloads, free e-books or a free audio. If you administrate a community, you might suggest that your members donate something to give away as a way of supporting their community. Also holding a contest is a great way to boost traffic.
7. Make a commit to yourself to blog regularly. All it takes is ten minutes everyday to increase your traffic. Ask any SEO expert and they will tell you that search engines love content. However don't blog for the sake of blogging. Make sure that what you're blogging about is of interest to your readership.
Have a look at these blogging myths - the third one is my favourite, blogging does takes a lot of time and energy.
Anyone can start a blog! Not just anyone! There are some requirements, some more obvious than others. Obviously, you need a computer that you know how to use, an Internet connection and some experience using the Internet. You also need a host for your blog; there are blog hosts that are free and some that cost a small amount per month. One last requirement is not just an ability to communicate your thoughts but also a willingness to do so.
Anyone can set up a blog! Some blogs are much easier to set up and use than others, this depends on your blog host (e.g., blogger, iblogs, typepad, tblog, etc.). Some blog hosts take you through a couple simple set-up steps and you're off writing your first post but there are others that get far more technical than the average user may be ready for.
Blogging doesn’t take up that much time! That depends! Some posts, when you have a clear idea of what you want to say, may take just a few minutes while you may struggle for days (literally) with others that involve complex issues or thoughts. In general, blogging is a daily activity for the serious blogger (some bloggers write up to ten posts a day) and a once-a-week activity for the casual blogger.
Most blogs are political! Many blogs focus on political topics but most blogs are just bloggers discussing their lives, loves and travels. A list of the 50 most visited blogs at BlogHub (http://www.bloghub.com/top50blogs.htm) shows very few political blogs.
Blogs are in competition with the main-stream media! This is true in a few cases (not as many cases as bloggers would have you think). Just recently, there have been some very popular and influential social and politically-oriented blogs that have caused main-stream media outlets to back-track and change their coverage of important events.
Bloggers just criticize and have no new information to add! This may be true in some cases but blogging today is much more than the personal activity it used to be. Corporations, media outlets, public personalities, politicians and experts in almost every field have now joined the ranks of blog producers. Considering all this expertise, one would have to say that bloggers have a lot of new information to add to any debate.
You can't believe anything you read in a blog! That's a bit of an overstatement. You'll run across bad information and even intentional untruths in blogs but, for the most part, bloggers who state facts are stating what they honestly believe to be fact. It is always up to the readers to verify that any information they receive is accurate information.
The blogosphere is a meritocracy! Does the cream rise to the top? Of course it does but outside of the world of the dairy, a lot depends on how you define cream. If you consider the those bloggers who have the highest readership to be the “best“ than yes, the blogosphere is a meritocracy with readership being the 'payoff' for being the best. The best, however, is not always the most popular. You will, while surfing, run across some extremely intelligent, extremely poignant and extremely erudite bloggers who have a very small readerships, as evidenced by very few, if any, comments to their posts. That can be explained by those blogger's lack of willingness to 'play the game' that must be played to attract a large readership, e.g., aggressively promoting their blogs, spending many times more hours reading and commenting on other's blogs than they spend writing for their own, listing their blog on every available directory, etc.. Every one of us has a different definition of success, to some, a large readership is adequate success, to some using their blog as a money-making device and actually making some money is the ultimate success while to others, like those with an intentionally low profile, feel that simply creating posts that are perfect expressions of what they want to say is reward enough.
Juicy Studio’s Readability Test is an interesting tool to test your blog’s readability.
It’s more than just a test for keywords. It puts a page from your blog through a variety of tests that is, frankly, rather amazing. The content on your page is run through several reading level algorithms which test your content for a variety of factors and generate statistical information to help you evaluate how readable your content is. The tests include the Gunning-Fog Index, Flesch Reading Ease, and Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level.
The readability of your content is based upon how easy it is to read and at what grade level of education a person would expect to have completed in order to understand what is written. The tests are designed for the United States educational system, but could be applied internationally.
Newspapers used to be written in the United States for a 6th grade level. When that theory was developed, there were many immigrants and farming and industrial communities within the United States where the average person left school between the 6th and 10th grade to go to work. Today, the majority of people in the United States have graduated from high school (12th grade), and have at least 2 years of college or vocational training, though it isn’t an overwhelming majority. Yet, tmost newspapersoday still aim for the 6th to 10th grade levels.
If you are reading your local newspaper, odds are that it is aimed for the 6th to 8th grade reader. If you are reading the Wall Street Journal, the reading level is much higher, aimed at college level reading. The editors aim for their audience’s reading level, not the statistical average of everyone in the country.
Should a blog, like a newspaper, have a unwritten rule to be written at a specific reading level? I don’t think so. Just as different books, magazines, and newspapers now write for their audience, taking their readability and educational level into account, so should a blogger.
The readability of your blog’s content should be aimed at your audience. If you are writing your personal journal and opinions about your day-to-day life as a teenager, the words should reflect your audience’s ability to read, which is most likely other teenagers. If your blog is writing about the technical aspects of finite stress analysis and structural engineering, it is definitely more likely that your blog’s audience will have at least four years of college under the belt and possibly a master’s degree.
Determining at which reading level to write can be tricky. Writing under the readability level of your audience can hurt. While it may help to simplify your words in order for people to understand what you are talking about, if your average audience reader is of a higher reading level, they can feel insulted and easily dismiss your content. Writing above your readers reading level can make you look arrogant and pompous.
You might not be thinking about the reading skills of your audience, but now is your chance. This readability test is a good way to find out how you are writing and who you are writing to.
By: Lorelle VanFossen Source: Lorelle on WordPress
Are you someone that types up these wonderful blog entries in Microsoft Word and then copy and paste them into the blogger software ready to publish. Check out this article that will change your mind about doing this.
You may be tempted to use Microsoft Word to compose a first draft of blog entries. After all, it will spell check for you, let you add colors and font styles and put in hyperlinks. You've probably discovered that you can copy directory from Word into your blog and now that Epoz is loaded up, it will carry over all the formatting. Seems cool and it would be if Microsoft Word were not Pure Evil!
Let me show you some code (if you don't care about code and just want to know the cheat so you can still use Word for spell check - skip all this). Here is what happens when you copy/paste from Word into Epoz.
If you know any HTML at all you will see deprecated tags (tags that are no longer supported as standard). MS Word also makes up its own style classes which are unrelated and contradictory to the styles used on our sites. And what in the world is this? That's not HTML! They're just making stuff up now!
Here's the happy code that Epoz will write for you when you use IE. When you use Firefox you would select the paragraph and choose the Paragraph option from the drop down box to get this nice, neat code.
How to use Word and still have a nice blog entry
Now if you would like to use Word for spell checking you can still do this. There is an extra step you will need to do. First, create your document in Word for spell checking but don't add any formatting. Then copy the text into Notepad (not Wordpad) to remove formatting. Then copy that text from Notepad into your blog entry and add your formatting (links, etc) there using the lovely green buttons. That way Notepad will remove all of Word's crazy code and you have a clean yet spell-checked slate to work with.
The result of this extra step is that you get a blog entry that looks like the rest of site as far as font face, font size, colors and spacing. Even though this is a more "casual" area of a Web site, we do want to maintain a professional look and quality here. The other nice perk is that you get valid HTML by using Epoz to format which means fewer problems for browsers and Section 508 accessibility compliance.
Some tips to consider for search engine optimization;
Even A perfect Website cannot get enough visitors, until it is not related to the big Internet linkage system.
1. Most of the visitors come to your site by the search engines or the ads you provide on others sites. The biggest number of you visitors is from the search engines.
2. The website should be submitted to all big search engines.
3. The website should contain keyword rich and links rich contain so that it results in higher search engine ranking and attract more visitors.
4. You should decide the keywords by assuming, what your visitors will type, when they will need to find a site like yours one.
5. Links also higher the ranking of your website, so put the relevant links on your pages, which adds more arms in the octopus of your site's connections. The bigger the octopus, easier it is to reach for the spiders and robots of search engines.
