Driving Traffic in Your Direction With Effective Titles

Creating Attention-Grabbing Titles for Maximum Results

If a web surfer likes what they see in a title, they may be interested in the rest of the article. However, if it doesn't draw them in, they'll surf away from your article.

The title is really just a small snapshot to give readers an idea of the full value of the article. But in most cases, it's your one chance to get the attention of those potential readers and make an impression, and you'd be ill-advised to waste that opportunity.

Getting hundreds or even thousands of potential readers to read your articles and then be converted into potential customers via the links in your Resource Box takes time and effort. One way for you to facilitate that process is to write effective, keyword-rich titles. In this video, I'll share 5 tips for creating those effective, keyword-rich titles to maximize your traffic results.

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5 Tips to Create Article Titles that Maximize Your Traffic Results

Find Benefit-Oriented Keywords for Your Readers - Making the title benefit-oriented gives potential readers a positive reason to read on. Your title should make your article stand out and be unique among other similar articles or search results.

Use 3rd Party Services for Keyword Research - Look for services like:

Google Insight

Google Suggest

Wordtracker.com

Yahoo! Clues

Good Keywords

Keyword Discovery

These services offer searchable databases that enable you to find out how popular certain keywords are and get suggestions for related keywords based on high search volume. Then, take those words and create keyword-rich titles for your articles.

Use the Long Tail to Position Your Titles - At the head of the keyword distribution curve, you will find the most popular keywords used in searches. Toward the tail end, you will find the more specific keywords that are used less in searches. If you only use the keywords toward the head, you may find your articles lost in the abyss of the Internet.

On the other hand, if you exclusively use keywords near the tail, you may find there isn't enough traffic to be beneficial. The trick is finding the right balance and using keywords that span across the entire long tail distribution curve.

Avoid Using Any Special Characters - For best search results, stay away from special characters. If you include them, you may confuse the search engines. And confusion will only limit the possibility for loads of traffic to your articles.

Now, some special characters are allowed, but as HTML has evolved over time, the list of restricted special characters has grown, so please reference the Editorial Guidelines for up-to-date information on what types of characters are allowed and which ones aren't. But, to effectively craft your titles, it’s a good idea to avoid them all together.

Try the Title Suggestions Tool - You can also let us do the "work" of writing titles for you by using the Title Suggestions Tool. To give it a try, log into to your Member Interface. Under the Author Tools dropdown, select the Title Suggestions option.

This resource offers keyword-rich titles from your niche for free. Our dedicated Article Title Writing Team uses the most popular keyword search term data to hand-craft original titles just for you.

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Scaling the image

There is one problem here, and that is that the image may be too wide. In this case, the image is always 136 px wide and the DIV is 30% of the surrounding text. So if you make the window narrower, it may be that the image overflows the DIV (try it!).

If you know the width of all images in the document, you can add a minimum width to the DIV, like this:

DIV.figure {
min-width: 150px;
}

Another way is to scale the image itself. That's what we have done with the image on the right here. As you can maybe see if you make the window very wide, JPEG images don't scale very well. But if the image is a diagram or a graph in SVG format, scaling in fact works beautifully. Here is the mark-up we used:

Saint Tropez and its
fort in the evening sun

St. Tropez

Saint Tropez and its fort in the evening sun

And this is the style sheet:

div.figure {
float: right;
width: 30%;
border: thin silver solid;
margin: 0.5em;
padding: 0.5em;
}
div.figure p {
text-align: center;
font-style: italic;
font-size: smaller;
text-indent: 0;
}
img.scaled {
width: 100%;
}

The only addition is the last rule: it makes the image as wide as the inside of the DIV (the area inside the border and the padding)

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jQuery simple UI Slider

In this tutorial I’m going to teach you how to construct a simple UI slider using jQuery. It’s very effective and can be used for almost anything. You can slide through text, pictures, videos, etc. So let’s get started!

picprev jQuery Simple UI Slider Tutorial

You’ll first need to set up the HTML and add some basic styling to the content. So within the body of the HTML file, we’ll write:

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This sets up a “main_body” div that contains everything within in. Then it has the “content-slider” div which will be the actual sliding bar. The “content-scroll” div is what will be
controlled by the sliding funtcions we write later in jQuery. And finally the “content-holder” div is simply what contains the plain text that is written; all the paragraphs also have
the same class attributed to them.

Here’s the CSS setup with comments so you can understand what each property does:

* { margin: 0; padding: 0;}
a:focus { outline:none }
html {overflow-y: scroll;}
#main_body { width: 510px; margin: 0 auto; padding-top: 100px; }
/* This is the background of the slider (not the knob you actually move) */
#content-slider {
width: 490px;
height: 6px;
margin: 5px;
background: pink;
position: relative;
}
/* How big the inside of the scrolling box is */
#content-scroll {
width: 500px;
height: 300px;
margin-top: 19px;
overflow: hidden;
border: solid 1px black;
}
/* the width & height of ALL the paragraphs when aligned next to eachother */
#content-holder { width: 2500px; height: 400px; }
/* each paragraph must be "floated left" so it's next to each other paragraph as you slide */
.parag { width: 490px; height: 300px; padding: 5px; float: left; }

So as you can see, we set up a pretty simple base for our content slider. When you open up the HTML file, the content should look like this.

pic1 jQuery Simple UI Slider Tutorial

The reason you only see one of the paragraphs now is because we aligned each paragraph to be floated to the left, and we set each of them to have their own width, so that means
all the other paragraphs are all aligned right next to each other, you just can’t get to them yet.
Since everything seems to be properly aligned, let’s add an actual slider function so that we can slide through all our content.
Aside from the jquery library, we’re going to be using the ui.core and ui.slider libraries to make our sliding effect. So this is how we’re going to set up the javascript in our
HTML file (You may need to download jQuery from their website if you don’t have these libraries).






We now have access to jQuery and the UI part of jQuery, so we can create our slider functions. Put this code within

function slide_change(e, ui) {
var maxScroll = $("#content-scroll").attr("scrollWidth") - $("#content-scroll").width();
$("#content-scroll").animate({scrollLeft: ui.value * (maxScroll / 100) }, 800);
}
function slider_sliding(e, ui) {
var maxScroll = $("#content-scroll").attr("scrollWidth") - $("#content-scroll").width();
$("#content-scroll").attr({scrollLeft: ui.value * (maxScroll / 100) });
}
/* setting the final properties */
$(document).ready(function(){
$("#content-slider").slider({
animate: true,
change: slide_change,
slide: slider_sliding
});
});

The first function, “function slide_change(e, ui)” focuses on the actual changing from one content area to another. The function takes the arguments event & ui, which is why the
e and ui are in parentheses. It sets the variable maxScroll to equal a certain width
by subtracting one width from the other. Then the animate function will allow an animaton to take place when you slide the slider from one point to another. The speed is set to
800 milliseconds. You can change this number to get some different effects.

The second function, “function slider_sliding(e, ui)” focuses on the slider knob you move. This event is triggered by every mouse move during the slide. It syncs up the slider
with the content.

Then we set te final properties. We access “#content-slider” and set it to be our slider. Then we set animations to be true, and its change option is the function “slide_change” and
our slider option comes from the “slider_sliding” function. After the jQuery commands, there’s one more thing left to do, and that’s set up the CSS for the sliding knob.

To access the slider in the CSS, use the class “.ui-slider-handle”. So for this example write up the CSS like so:

.ui-slider-handle {
width: 35px;
height: 14px;
position: absolute; /* this is very important */
top: -4px;
background: purple;
border: solid 1px black;
}

And that’s it you’re done! You can play around a little with the functions and CSS styling to make it look and work exactly how you want it to. Thanks for reading the tutorial
and hopefully learning something new!

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Figures & captions

HTML doesn't have an element that allows to insert a figure with a caption. It was once proposed (see HTML3), but never made it into HTML4. Here is one way to simulate such a figure element:

Scale model of the
Eiffel tower in
Parc Mini-France

Then in the style sheet you use the class "figure" to format the figure the way you want. For example, to float the figure to the right, in a space equal to 30% of the width of the surrounding paragraphs, these rules will do the trick:

div.figure {
float: right;
width: 30%;
border: thin silver solid;
margin: 0.5em;
padding: 0.5em;
}
div.figure p {
text-align: center;
font-style: italic;
font-size: smaller;
text-indent: 0;
}

In fact, only the first two declarations (float and width) are essential, the rest is just for decoration.

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Starting On-line Bussines

When the time came for me to embark on a new career, I made the decision to try something that was totally new and different. That was the beginning of my on-line business career as I already knew I wanted to be my own boss and work from home.

I enrolled in training as e-commerce was something I knew nothing about, except as an on-line buyer. I must admit that I do buy many products on line and actually start looking on-line before I even attempt to leave my house. I prefer shopping on-line because no one lingers' at my side while I browse-which I find quite annoying. In my experience, on-line shopping is hassle-free and easy, most of the time.

I had no clue what happens behind the scenes to make this magic' happen. I learned early on that it is not magic by any stretch of the imagination. It is a coordinated process of events that must happen that makes it appear like magic' to the buyer.


Starting and operating an Internet business is surprisingly similar to operating any other business. Good business practices, like building the confidence of customers through truthful advertising, providing products and services at a fair price, and developing long-term business relationships, are as applicable to Internet businesses as they are to any other businesses.

Having said that, there are some important differences related to Internet businesses.

Low Start-up Costs - When you decide to start a business online, you can do so with as little as a few hundred dollars and a good idea. However, don't be misled into believing that the Internet is an arena for instant riches with little or no effort. Nothing could be further from the truth. Like any business, it takes creativity, planning, money and hard work to be successful.

Multiple Skill Requirements - Suddenly it's not enough to simply have a good product or service. To use the Internet effectively, you now need to have or be able to acquire skills in graphic design, web server technology, programming, and a brand new marketing medium, not to mention skills needed in multi-lingual translations, international accounting and legal issues. Fortunately, it is not necessary that you have all this knowledge yourself. With the right combination of strategic partners and associates, all of these skills are easily found, if you know where to look. That's where we come in! We can get you in touch with all the professionals you need to accomplish your task.

Determine Product Delivery Methods
Depending on your product type, your delivery methods can range from very simple (downloadable information product or an online service) to more complex (shipping of goods via courier, using a fulfillment company). For downloadable products consider an electronic fulfillment company like E-junkie.com.

Fulfillment Companies, for shipping of physical goods:

Motivational Fulfillment
Mailing Fulfillment Service Association

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Cloud Computing Comparison

by: SINGER.

Cloud computing can be defined as a data service, software and storage service, where the end user is not aware of the physical location and system configuration that delivers the services. Comparison to this concept can be made with electricity power grid where the consumer is mostly ignorant of the component devices that are needed to give this service.

Cloud computing has evolved from virtualization, autonomic utility computing as well as service oriented architecture.

Here are some clouds computing comparison, which have similar characteristics but should not be confused with the following:

1.Autonomic computing-This is can be defined as a self-capable management computer system.

2.Grid computing-This is a form of parallel computing that is distributed and connected to a main super computer. This super and virtual computer is networked to a cluster of loosely interconnected couple of computers working in unison to perform large tasks.

3.Client-server model-This kind of server computing is a general term that refers to any application that is distributed and is able to differentiate between service requesters (clients) and service providers (server).

4.Mainframe computer-These are very powerful computers that are found mostly in large organizations that work with important applications, usually bulky data processing like census, statistics of both consumers and industry, financial transaction and resource planning. 

5.Utility computing-This can be defined as packaging of computing resources that involves computation and storage. A good example is the metered service that draws similarities to public utility like electricity. 

6.Peer to peer-here the distribution architecture is devoid or doesn’t require central coordination having the participants acting as both the suppliers and consumers of the resources unlike the client server model. 

7.Service oriented computing-it models around computing techniques that revolve on software service. Cloud on the other hand relies on services that have a relation with computing. 

One of the notable characteristic of cloud computing is that the processing and data is dynamic meaning that it is not found in a static place. The model is totally different from the ones which the processes take place in known specified servers and “not in the cloud” like cloud computing. In other words all the other concepts act as complementary or supplementary to this concept. 

The cloud computing comparisons don’t end there. The system software architecture that is involved in delivery of cloud computing involves the following: Multiple cloud components that inter-communicates over interfaces application programming. This is achieved through web services on the 3 tier architecture. The principle follows that of UNIX where multiple programs work concurrently over universal interfaces. 

Front end and back end are the two most significant components of cloud computing architecture. The computer user is able to see the front end which is the computer as well as the applications that are used to access cloud on web browser and other interface. The back end, on the other end, of the cloud architecture is the ‘cloud’ that comprises of data storage devices, servers and various computers. 

Those are some of the cloud computing comparisons.

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