Marketing your website - Getting Visitors!

When you have visitors coming to your site, those visitors are called “traffic” in Internet terms.

The cool thing about traffic is that the rich get richer! High traffic leads to even more higher traffic.

Once you get a decent amount of traffic, your traffic will grow each day. It will grow and grow and grow. But when you are just starting a site, getting high traffic is a difficult.

So, the question is:



How to have high traffic levels if you’re starting from rock bottom?
You have to have great content on your site. You have to have great content on your site. You have to have great content on your site! We have repeated this 3 times because this is the key to success. This is the key to traffic.


If you have good information on your site, the popularity of your site will grow. It will grow slowly, but it will grow! As mentioned earlier, if you just keep adding good content to your site day-after-day for a year, you will have a very successful, very popular site.


Initially, forget about everything. Think only about making you site popular. Concentrate on writing great content. Don’t even bother putting up something if you feel it’s quality is not good. If you are able to create good quality content, consistently, people will start to recognize your site as the place to go when they want quality information. Over time your traffic will gradually increase. You will see your traffic increase every month.



“Links”
Initially, you will have to try to get as many links as you can from other sites. Links are the best way to get traffic when you are just starting out a new site. You need to get other sites to link to your site. This is the way in which you are going to get your first readers.


If a popular site or site with a large amount of traffic, links to your site, then many people from that high-traffic site will click on the link and come to your site. Generally speaking, you want to get links from sites that get a large amount of traffic.


Basically, you want to advertise your site on other sites. This is how you will get your initial traffic.


Why would other sites and sites link to you?
If you have a site that is about real estate and how to buy land, then a property site will probably be interested in linking to you because the information on your site will be useful to the property site’s readers. For this too, you need to make sure that you have good content that is worth reading.


Getting other people to link to you is generally a pretty difficult. People will not just link to you for no reason. You will have to show people a good reason why they should link to you. You will have to be creative here. Also do not be disappointed, when people do not shown any interest in linking to your site.

You just have to keep trying. Two out of ten people might agree to link to you initially, but don’t be afraid of asking.


If you find a site on the Internet, whose users would be benefited and interested in the information on your site, then that would be a site that will probably be interested in linking to you. Obviously, if you are in the exact same field as that site and both yours and the other site are offering the users, the exact same information, you will not get a link from that site because you will be that site’s “competition”.


In any case, assuming you find a site you like and you want a link from it, all you have to do is go to the “contact us” page of the site, find the e-mail id of the owner or webmaster of the site and send him an e-mail saying that you would like a link. Try to write a good letter convincing him that he/she should link to you because it will also benefit him. However, keep the letter short and sweet.


Most webmasters and site owners will only link to you if you give them a link back. If they are going to send you some of their traffic, then they want some traffic in return. If you don’t mind giving them a link, then they probably won’t mind giving you a link so long as your site is moderately decent.

This is called “reciprocal linking” or “link exchange”. Generally, people have a “Favorite Links” or “Useful Links” or just “Links” page on their website. They use this page for reciprocal linking. They give other people links in this page and in return they get links in other website’s “Links” page.


Unfortunately, links from the “Links” page will get you very little traffic. If you want to get decent traffic from a link, you need to get a link from a page that gets a lot of traffic.



“Cheap” way to get links when you are just starting out:
Find forums, message boards, chat room’s etc. where people would be interested in reading what you have to say. For example if your site is about your experiences in the stock market, find a forum about the stock markets. When you find someone looking for information or asking questions whose answers are available on your site, send them a link telling them this is a good place to find the answer they are looking for.


Check out Yahoo Answers! If you are not familiar with the concept, on Yahoo Answers, there a thousands of people asking questions each day and thousands of people giving them answers. If you find a few people asking questions whose answers you know and are on your site, give them an answer and a link to your site.



One more reason why links are important!
Search engines, decide the worth of a site by looking at the number and quality of the pages that link to it. From the point of view of the search engines, if you have more links pointing to your site, you must be a good site because no one will link to a stupid site.

They use this basic thinking to run their search engines. So if you have a number of links pointing to your site, you will be considered as a good site by the search engines. You will show up in their search results. However, don’t get links for search engines, get links for getting traffic.


Maybe all these concepts are new to you now, but you will start to understand them better once you get into the game. An excellent resource to really get into the game of website design is WebmasterWorld. Webmasters, and site owners from all over the world meet at this forum and discuss various topics. You must definitely join this forum. I am there too, my nic. On WebmasterWorld is “must_learn_more”


(Once you set up a site, write a small article about indiahowto.com on your site and send this site some of your traffic as “Guru Dakshina” – Thanks ;-)


So now you know all the basics of web development. Congrats, if you read this huge article. It covers all the basic skills that are required. I hope you have benefited from it. Read more...

Paid hosting – Setting up a “.com”

The first step to setting up a “.com” is to buy a “.com” name for yourself. Sometimes, this can be a very big problem. For common topics, it is very hard to find the “domain name” you are looking for.


(In case you don’t know, “domain name” is another way of saying website address.)

But before you make any choices about the domain name, it would be good if you take a look at these basic domain name selection guidelines. Sometimes a bad domain name can be very bad for your website.

Here are the basic guidelines:
Make it relevant to your company, product, or project so it's easier to remember.
Keep your name short and simple if possible-around 5 characters
Include keywords in the name
Remember the Internet is global in nature. Try to choose a name that people all over the world can understand.
Avoid tying your name to a calendar year, unless its for a product launch.
Avoid Trademarked Names. Like coca-cola.
If your company has a strong brand or is trying to get a strong brand then forget all about keywords, make you domain name your brand name.
These are just general guidelines. Keep them in mind when selecting a domain name. But if something makes more sense, or the name that you were going for is already taken then you might have to improvise and compromise.

Also, there are many possible domain names other than “.com” There are “.org”, “.tv”, “.biz” and all sorts of other names. Choose these only if really required. For example suppose you want the domain name www.cake.com and unfortunately the name is taken, and you cannot go for any other name then and then only go in for something like www.cake.org


Generally try to buy a “.com” name only. People know about “.coms” people don’t know about anything else.

So, using all the above given guidelines you have selected your domain name. Now what? How do you buy it?


How to buy a domain name?
This is pretty simple. There are thousands of people who are selling domain names. You could go to Rediff, Indiatimes, Net4India and a whole lot of other companies. I cannot suggest any one company in particular for buying a domain name. All the companies I have stated above are pretty big companies that are as good or as bad as each other, so whichever one you go for things will be fine!

All the companies have random prices. Some are high. Some are low. Some are in schemes and offers! (As if they are selling soaps!) They seem to be based on nothing in particular. Select which ever company from the above list you trust and is cheapest and go for it.

It is generally a good idea to buy the domain name from the same company, you want to host your website at. So if you buy the domain name from Net4India then host your website also at Net4India.

I have selected Net4India mainly because it has an office in Pune (where I am located) and I can go sit on their heads if these is any problem! Besides that, Net4India is pretty cheap also and it’s servers are located in Noida, Delhi.

This is good from the SEO point of view. If your website on servers located in India, the search engines think that the website is Indian and your website shows up in the “pages from India” results. Net4India does have a few minor problems from time to time though. In any case, you too might want to go for Net4India.)




Buying the domain name:
To buy the domain name you just have to go to the hosting site (Rediff, Net4India, Indiatimes etc.) check availability for the domain name and book it. As soon any you pay the money the domain name is yours. It’s not very hard to do.

However, it would be good to do this swiftly. Decide your domain name offline and then just go online and book it. If you check the availability of a domain name two or three times, before booking it, there is a possibility that it will be gone. There are people out there who make money from buying domain names people are interested in and selling it at a much higher price. So basically do the whole domain name buying process quickly.


Buying hosting space:
If would be a good idea to buy hosting place from the same people you bought the domain name from. Here also there are many people offer this service. The service is offered at a whole range of prices. We recommend that you go in for an offers like, book web space and get a domain name free. They will link the web space to domain name you select and everything will be fine. Try to get a good offer with one of the big companies stated above and take it.

The process of buying web space is also pretty simple. Just go to the hosting website, book the plan, pay the money and you are set. They will handle everything for you.

Finally you will have to put your website up on the Internet. You can do this using FTP or browser upload methods that were talked about previously. Once your website is uploaded, you are set. Congrats! Read more...

Uploading Your Website

Putting up your website is pretty simple, use your username and password to get into your account that your hosting website has given you and upload your website on the Internet.

There are generally two kinds of upload methods. These are:


FTP Uploads
Browser Uploads

Browser Uploads
Most people who are new to website development, find the browser upload method far more easy to do. Once you sign into your account with the username and password, you will have to find “Upload Files” or “Upload Website” or something like that. Click on this. If they allow you to “browser upload” your website, they will ask you to select the files that make up the website on your computer and upload them. You select the files using the "Browse.." button and then click "Upload".

This is quite easy to do I am sure you will figure it out. The whole process is very similar to uploading an attachment, when you are sending and e-mail.




FTP Upload
In some cases however, you have to FTP upload the files of your website. To do this you will need an "FTP client". You can find one on some "Digit" or "PC Quest" kind of CD’s. If you can’t find one there, go to www.download.com and search for “Cute FTP” and download it.

Once you download and install the FTP client, the FTP client will ask you for some information.

Generally the:


Host/IP/URL
Username
Password
(And sometimes port!)

It should be easy to find out this information from the hosting website. After you sign in, this info should be available in the “Upload files” type section.

In case you cant find this info. anywhere, just send the hosting website a message though their “Contact Us” page saying that you want to upload files and so you want the following information:


Host/IP/URL
Username
Password
(And sometimes port!)

If the hosting site does not have a “Contact Us” type of page. Forget that hosting service. It is most likely some kind of fraud.

Once you obtain this information, you can feed it into the FTP client program that you have. It will connect you your website and you can upload the web pages.

If all this sounds scary don’t worry. This is easy. When you do it will happen.

Once you put your website up its on the Internet for the whole world to see. Congrats!

But you probably have a very long website address still. Let us try to solve that problem now.... Read more...

Designing a search engine friendly website! - SEO

What is the meaning of search engine friendly?


Search engines are funny creatures. They like certain sites and they do not like other websites. They are a little like women. They are hard to please and it takes time and effort to figure out why exactly they don’t like you. (Sorry all the women who are reading this.)

If Google for example, likes your site, your site will show up in the Google search results then you will start getting many visitors from Google. This always a good way for a site to get it’s first visitors. You want Google and other search engines to like your website. So you have to design it in a particular way so that you make it easier for the search engine to like you.



What do you mean?
You see, when a search engine first finds your site, it wants to know what your website is about. If they know what your website is about then they can display it when someone is searching for the information your website provides. So, to figure out what your website is about, they look at certain pars of your web page…like your title, heading etc. On seeing these things they know what your site is about so they can show your site when something related to your site is searched for.

So, when you design your website, make sure that you make it as easy as possible for the search engines to know what your website is about. This is called “SEO”, Search Engine Optimization.

There are whole companies who are dedicated to SEO and pleasing the search engines. SEO is a art and people are studying it all over the world. It’s like a business and a game to get your website to show up in the first page of the search results at Google.

There are some very important things you must do SEO wise while designing your website. But before we go into them, let us go into the concept of a “keyword”





What is a “keyword”?
When you have a website about “caps” for example, you want your website to be the website that shows up when some one goes to Google and types “caps”. If you have a website about health and a web page about “cancer” then you want this web page of your website to show up when someone goes to Google and searches for “cancer”. This is basically a keyword.

A keyword is the word that you want your website or web page to show up in the search results for. Search Engine Optimization is all about putting the “keywords” in the right paces when designing your site.


So when making your web pages, fists decide, “What is the key word for this web page? For what keyword should this page show up in the search results?”

Once you decide this follow the SEO guidelines:



The SEO web design guidelines:
Put the keyword once in the “title” tag of the page.

Put the keyword once or twice in the “description” tag of the web page. (By the way, you must unique title and description tags for all your pages.)

For all your pages, the heading of the page must be done though the “H1” tag. The keyword must be there in the H1 tag.

The file name of the web page must contain the keyword. For example, the keyword of a page is “lung cancer” then the file name must be “lung-cancer.html”

These are the basics of SEO. You should try and follow these rules. There is mush more to learn and I will tell you about it as we go along. For now, from the design point of view this is enough.

In some cases, it may be so that your visitors may get confused if you use a particular “keyword” in the heading etc. then DO NOT use the keyword just for SEO.

The VISITOR is more important. The VISITOR IS MOST IMPORTANT! DON’T CONFUSE THE VISITOR.

SEO is important, but don’t confuse the visitor. The visitor is more important.

(If you don’t know HTML, some of the above things might not be understood by you. Once you know HTML, this will make more sense. So go learn HTML)

Okay, once you follow all this, your pages should be ready and your website should be ready to go. So in the next section we will show you how to put your website on the Internet though free as well as paid hosting. Read more...

Website Design Guidelines - Making your website "User Friendly

Some of these guidelines are quite easy to understand and some you will understand only once you know a little about HTML. So save this page in your favorites and come back to it often while making your website often. Also make sure you read these guidelines before and after selecting your template for your website.





Design guidelines - Making your site user friendly (Very Important!)
Your main page is the “first impression you give” and should specifically let your visitors know exactly what you're offering. If your potential customer or visitor can't find your product or service or information, they definitely will not waste a lot of time looking for it. They'll go to the next site and probably never return. They're visiting your site for a specific purpose. They want something your site offers. Provide them with what they are are looking for!

Branding will play a major role in your success. Make sure you place your company or website logo and slogan in the top left corner of each page. This will help your visitors to remember your site. It will also give your pages the same look and feel.

It's much better to keep your main page containing the most essential elements only and link to the detailed informational pages.

A good rule of thumb is "less is more." In other words, keep your main page as small as possible and include your most important elements only. A main page that contains too much information will NOT get you good results.

Navigation
When you begin designing your pages, keep in mind, your visitors may enter your site from pages other than your main page. Make sure you include good navigational links on every page.

Place your navigational links together at the top, bottom, left or right side of the page. Use tables to neatly align your links and maintain a nicely organized and uniform appearance throughout.

When someone requires to go from one page of your website to the other he should have to click a maximum of two links.

It should NOT BE under any circumstances confusing for your visitor to find out how to use your website. No body sits around on slow confusing websites. People leave!




Fonts
One of the most important parts of a web page is text. The way in which you display the text on your web page will have a great impact on your success. It can make your page look very professional or very unprofessional.

When placing text within your web page, always be consistent with your fonts. In other words, don't use different fonts throughout your pages. The standard fonts used on the Internet are Aerial and Verdana. The standard text size is 2. Aerial and Verdana are the standard simply because they are the easiest to read on a computer screen.

Headlines, which require a larger font size, are a bit different. A popular headline font used is Georgia, as it displays nicely in the slightly larger font size.




Background and Text Colors
Use caution when selecting your background and text colors. Some backgrounds make text difficult to read and draw the attention away from the text. In addition, always be consistent with your background theme on each page of your site.

Select your colors very carefully, as colors affect your mood and will have an affect on your visitors as well.

Bright colors, such as yellow and orange, cause you to become more cheerful or happy. Colors such as blue and purple have a calming effect. Dark colors, such as brown and black, have a depressing effect.

A good rule of thumb is to use colors based on the type of effect you're trying to achieve. However, it's always best for your text areas to have a white background with black text. Read more...

After you have learnt HTML - Wesite making tools!

Once you have learnt HTML, the tools that we are going to show you in this section will make much more sense. These tools will help you to make your website at a much faster speed and much more easily.



A WYSIWYG Editor!
I know the wired name might have scared you. But do not worry. It’s a very simple name.


WYSIWYG stands for "What You See Is What You Get!"


You probably find this a little weird, but that is exactly what it stands for. Computer geeks are a little cool. They give fun names to everything.



So what is a What You See Is What You Get Editor?

A WYSIWYG editor makes it very simple for you to make web pages. It makes it very easy to design websites without bothering too much about HTML. It’s like word or some other simple program. To make the web page you just have to select the pictures you want to put, put the text you want to put in, decide how it looks and all that. You don’t have to bother about writing the HTML for the website. You just decide the colors, fonts, sizes and all the looks, the program writes the HTML code for you. Cool isn’t it!

Even though it is possible to make a website only using a WYSIWYG editor, you must still learn HTML. Many a times you want to “fine tune” your website or do certain things that the program cannot handle, then you need to use hard-core HTML.

So now probably the name WYSIWYG makes a little more sense. What you see on the screen as you make the website is what you will get in the final web page.

Here is a very good free of charge WYSIWYG editor. This is the editor that is used to make this website. It’s called NVU. Check out their website for more info.. http://www.nvu.com/

Once you download it, and after learning HTML, this editor is very easy to use.




Website Templates
There are many websites on the Internet that will provide you with free website templates. These are basically completely designed blank templates that can be filled with your information and your content and your website. The cool thing about these templates is that they are very easy to use if you have a WYSIWYG Editor and know the basics of HTML.

Another great thing about these templates is that they look great and are professionally designed. So you do not have to design you website from scratch. This saves you a whole lot of time and money. There are thousands of templates available on the Internet of all shapes sizes colors etc. You can easily find one that looks cool and matches your business and theme.

In case you are still not clear about what templates are, check out these sites:


http://www.templatesbox.com/
http://freesitetemplates.com/
http://www.steves-templates.com/

After learning HTML, using WYSIWYG Editors and Free Website Templates, you should be able to make your website on your computer.


Get your-self a complete web-design "TOOL BOX"
You could also get your self a web-design "TOOL BOX"! The tool box will contain thousands and thousands of templates, WYSIWYG editors, HTML, flash, java codes and everything else you will probably need for making a website! The best thing is that this tool box is available quite cheap!

You can get yourself your own "tool box" from ebay.in: "4 CD Tool Box" OR "9 CD Tool Box"

The 4 CD Tool Box is good enough for you if you are just a beginner. The 9 CD Tool Box is just bigger than the 4 CD one. It contains more templates, more HTML scripts etc. Both are quite reasonably priced.

If you are new to ebay, do not worry, you can just sign up from here free and buy whatever you are interested in right now! It's quite easy!

Once you are signed up, search for "Logo Templates HTML Scrpts". You could then choose one of the results and buy the kit!

We recommend that you buy the tool box from Ebay.in since it is quite safe & secure. If you are not comfortable with Credit Card payments, there are always other options like DD, money order etc. that you can go in for. Besides that, it will be hard for you to find this kind of complete kit anywhere else.


After you have the tools, do not just make a website. When designing a website there are some things that you must do so that your website is easy for the users to use, for the search engines to find and still looks cool and professional.

In the next section we have provided certain guidelines that you must follow when you are making your website. Follow them… Read more...

Making a website - First Step Learn HTML!

To make your website on your own computer, you need to know HTML. All the web pages on the Internet, are fundamentally made up of HTML. To understand what I mean, go to any page of any website and go to “View > Source” in Internet Explorer or “View > Page Source” in Mozilla Firefox. (You can find “View” along with “File” “Edit” and all those other options on the top of your browser window.) A new window will open and what you will see is a confusing combination of words and brackets and a whole lot of other stuff! This is the HTML of the page.

Now, HTML is basically a language. If you know programming languages like C, C++, VB etc. then HTML will be very very easy for you. HTML, is one of the easiest programming languages. In fact HTML is not even a programming language.

HTML is a very simple “markup” language. This means that HTML decides how the different parts of the web page will “look”. HTML is all about how everything “looks”. For example, if I want this text to look bold. Then I can control how this text looks with HTML.

If you want a particular image on a web page in a particular place and of a particular size, you can decide exactly how it will look on the web page. Controlling the look of the web page is what HTML is all about.

Nowadays, the Internet is changing. Websites are not made only of HTML anymore. Websites are made using HTML, XHTML, Dynamic HTML, CSS, Flash, ASP and a whole lot of other things. To make a decent website you must know at least HTML and CSS.

Note: There are many ways of making a website without knowing anything about HTML or CSS. We will tell you some of them here. However, we are saying that you should know HTML because if you don’t, you will waste a lot of time and money doing something that is very simple. There are simpler ways of doing things if you know HTML.

If this does not make sense now, then just take our word for it. As you learn HTML, you will understand what we mean.

So since you are going to be learning HTML, let me give you the basics of HTML.




Basics of HTML
HTML is a very simple language. It’s all about “tags”.

What are tags?


Tags are the main part of HTML. Suppose you want to make some text look bold. You put the text between & tags. The "" & "" are the tags. is the starting tag. is the ending tag. The ending tag is exactly like the staring tag. The only difference is the “/”.

Anything that comes between these two will appear in bold on the web page. So suppose I want to write “You must learn HTML!” on the web page in bold. I would write:

You must learn HTML!


This probably gives you a basic understanding of tags. Just like there are tags to make text look bold, there are also many many other tags. There are tags to make text look italic, of a particular color, make text blink, make text scroll across the screen, make images show up and a whole lot of other things.

Just to give you an example, to make text bilk, you use the tags. It’s that simple!

These are the basics of HTML. There is a lot more to learn, and I am sure you have many questions in your mind. Don’t worry, we will help you with all of them. Here are some excellent resources where you can learn all about HTML:

http://www.w3schools.com/html/
http://www.utexas.edu/learn/html/

Just for fun you can try to see the “View > Source” and see if you can understand anything now.

In any case, you can come back to this page and learn HTML through the links we have given above a little later. For now, let us assume that you know HTML and move forward towards making your website.. Read more...

The Basics of WEB DEVELOPMENT

First of all, let us clear up the basics.


What is a website? & What is a web-page?


Since a large number of people are confused between these two, it would be a good idea to explain them first. A website is a whole group of web pages. Just like a whole group of "pages" make up a book, a whole group of web-pages make up a website. A web-page is an individual “page” or unit of a website.

For example: You are currently reading a “web page”. This web page combined with all the other web pages linked to this page make up this website…indiahowto.com




Creating a website free of charge!
It is possible to create a website “free of charge” on the Internet. This is done though “free hosting”. The problem is, that your website will not look very professional. This is because the companies that let you create a free website, will make you put their adds on your website.

Another problem that you will have is that, your website address will not be a “.com” like www.indiahowto.com. On the other hand, it will be some long name like "www.freehosting.coolsite.com"

Because of these reasons, it would be good to NOT create a free website if you are doing something serious, like making a website for your business etc.

On the other hand, if you are creating a website just for fun or just as a learning experience etc. if would be best to go in for a free hosting website.



Creating a Professional Website:
If you are interested in creating a professional looking website, you will have to go in for “paid hosting”. Paid hosting has many advantages over free hosting. Firstly, since you “buy” space on the Internet, it’s your space and so nobody will make you put any annoying adds on your site.

Also, you will have your own “.com” like www.mysite.com!

These are required if you intend to use your website for any serious purposes. In any case, paid hosting is not very costly. It is around Rs.450/- for buying the “.com” name and around Rs.800-Rs.1500 for a 50MB space for one year.

The process of creating a “free website” and the process of creating a “paid website” are a little different. In this article we will explain to you how to do both.




What is hosting?
We have used the word “hosting” many times in the last few paragraphs. You may be wondering, “What is hosting?”

Hosting is basically putting your website up on the Internet. Hosting is pretty much like buying some land or buying a shop, so that you can start a business. However, on the Internet, hosting is buying space. Space in terms of MB.

Free hosting companies give you some space free. They give you this space free of charge in return for putting their adds on your website. Paid hosting companies charge you for the space that they give you.



The general process of creating a website:
Make your website on your own computer
Use hosting to put your website up on the Internet
Promote your website

Basically making a website is all about these 3 things.

In this article we will show you how to do all these things so read on! Read more...

How to create a website? & Why?

The need for having a website...
If you are running a business, you MUST have a website. Why? You see, the world is growing, the Internet is growing, India is growing! There are more and more computers all over the place now. There are more and more Internet connections all over the place now. So, thinking about “Who is going to come visit my website?” is hardly a question anymore.

As you probably already know, the harder you make it for someone to do something, the lesser the possibility of them actually doing it! If something is hard for people to do, they will not do it. If something is easy for people to do, a large number of people will do it. The Internet is very important because of this! You see, it is very easy to find out information from the Internet. You just have to go to a search engine and type in what you are looking for. You will find hundreds of answers.

If someone was looking for a “fiber optic cable manufacturer” in Pune for example, a few years ago, he would probably first start looking in the “Yellow pages”. A few years ago, there were no other options that people had.

Now, since information can be found so easily on the Internet, people don’t waste time with yellow pages. They will just go to Google and type in “fiber optic cable manufacturer pune” and find all the info they are looking for.

What if your competitors have websites and you don’t? All the customers who look up information on the Internet will immediately go to them! You may have better products and services, but since no body can find you, you are loosing customers. You have to make it easy for people to find you.

Assuming that your competitors don’t have websites, then YOU SHOULD be the first one to put up a website. Do it now! The customers who search for the products or services you are selling will know you before they know your competitors. If they visit your professional looking website before they visit you, they will already know that you are a company worth dealing with.

If you are running a business, a good professional looking website is a very important marketing tool. If your website shows up for every search for a product or service you are selling, it gives a very good impression to your customers who are online. So if you are running a business, there is no doubt that you MUST have a website!

If you belong to any “government organization” or service that the government of India provides, I especially urge you to have a website. There are many young Indians who use the Internet all the time as a source of information. They would love to see information that is provided by their Government supporting them. There is a lot the Indian govt. has to offer. However, few people know about these things. They are not marketed very well. So, if you belong to a Government organization or service, MAKE A WEBSITE! If you are not interested in making a website yourself, contact us we will make it for you.

If you belong to some organization that works towards a better India or for the people of the country, contact us, we will try to help you with everything we can.

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Six Buffett-Style Small-Caps

As the chairman of a company that has about $280 billion in total assets--including more than $35 billion in cash--Warren Buffett's investment decisions are, naturally, a bit different from those of most investors.
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Because of its huge size and the amount of money it invests, Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway (nyse: BRK - news - people ) generally has to focus on very large firms: Coca-Cola (nyse: KO - news - people ) ($134 billion market cap), American Express (nyse: AXP - news - people ) ($56 billion cap), Johnson & Johnson (nyse: JNJ - news - people ) ($188 billion cap) and Wells Fargo (nyse: WFC - news - people ) ($94 billion cap) are among some of its major holdings.
But if Buffett weren't constrained by Berkshire's size--if he were working with a similar investing universe as the rest of us--what would he buy?
A question along these lines was posed to the "Oracle of Omaha" during Berkshire's annual meeting earlier this month, when an investor asked him how Berkshire would invest differently if it had only a few million to work with, Buffett responded that most opportunities are likely in small stocks, or in distressed bond situations.
That advice got me thinking about whether any smaller stocks get approval from my Buffett-based "guru strategy"--a computer model I developed that mimics Buffett's approach. Sure enough, I found that my model is high on a handful of small-caps, as well as some smallish mid-caps.
One stock that scores particularly high is Landstar System (nasdaq: LSTR - news - people ), a Jacksonville, Fla.-based firm that provides specialized transportation and logistics services--primarily trucking--throughout the U.S., as well as in Canada, Mexico and other countries.
Landstar, which has a market cap of $2.85 billion, has several "Buffett-esque" qualities. First off, the firm's earnings per share have increased every year for the past decade, rising from $0.39 to $1.99. That's key for the Buffett method. Ever the conservative, he likes firms whose earnings are predictable, and 10 straight years of EPS increases is about as predictable as you can get.
Another way Buffett targets solid, conservative stocks is by looking at debt. My Buffett-based model likes firms that generate enough earnings that they could, if need be, pay off all their debt within two years. Landstar's total debt is $124.2 million, and its annual earnings are $109.2 million. It could indeed pay off its debt in less than two years using those earnings, a great sign.
Buffett is known for seeking out companies that have what he terms a "durable competitive advantage" over their peers--a strong brand name, the lowest prices--that make it very difficult for other companies to compete with it. A sign of a company with such an advantage is a high return on equity. My Buffett-based model looks for firms that have average ROEs of at least 15% over both the past three years and the past 10 years--and which haven't had an annual ROE lower than 10% in any year of the past decade. That's a difficult task, but Landstar passes with flying colors. Its average three-year ROE is 49.5%, its 10-year ROE is 36.5%, and it hasn't posted an annual return on equity lower than 28.9% in any year of the past decade--very impressive numbers. Read more...

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The 8 Steps for Starting a Business Online

Chose Your ProductsFind the needs or demands, not the products.Go to wordtracker (commercial) or overture (free), and look for well-searched keywords (searched a lot of times). Then, find a product related to those well-searched keywords. Being searched a lot of times means a lot of people are looking. If you find a product which a lot of people are looking for, you can sell it a lot.
Other things you may want to know about choosing products
Buy a Domain NameYou need your own domain name, not like YourISP.com/~UserName. You can get one less than $10/year. Though, don't buy any keyword-rich domain name. It won't give you a boost in search engine rankings. (At least, it isn't a significant factor.) Your domain name will be your own brand name, like aol.com or amazon.com. You don't want a keyword-rich domain for your brand name, do you?
Make Your SiteYou have only 8 seconds or less to grab visitors' attention. If you fail, they are gone. Moreover, if you confuse visitors, they are gone. You need to make a website that people want to brows.
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Get HostedForget about free hosting services; find a reliable hosting service. For conventional businesses, time is money. For internet businesses, uptime is money.
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Publish Your Own NewsletterUsing your own opt in list is the most effective way of marketing. Don't forget to ask visitors to subscribe to your newsletter.
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Sell It RightNo matter how many visitors you receive, you cannot make money if no one buys your product. To sell your product, you have to do it right.
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Get TrafficYou might already know that if your site is ranked high at any search engines, you will get a lot of visitors. But, that isn't the only way to get visitors. There are other things you can do to generate traffic.
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Test & ReviseSuccessful online business depends on consistent analyst and test. So, always analyze the results and find flaws. As you correct those flaws, you will make more money.
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6 Of The Worst Internet Acquisitions of All Time

Today some people question recent internet acquisitions such as Google paying 1.65 billion for Youtube, and Microsoft valuing Facebook at $15 billion. What they don’t realize is that companies of far less reach, making little to no profit, and having very vague business plans were bought out during the 1999-2000 Internet bubble for much larger prices. Here are the 6 worst internet acquisitions of all time:

1. Yahoo Buys Broadcast.com

In 1999 at the time of the internet boom, Yahoo! paid $5.65 billion for Broadcast.com, acquiring the company and renaming it Yahoo! Broadcast Solutions. Over the next couple years Yahoo split the services previously offered by Broadcast.com into separate services, Yahoo Launchcast for music and Yahoo Platinum for video entertainment. Platinum has been discontinued, its functionality being offered as part of two pay services, AT&T Yahoo! High Speed Internet and Yahoo! Plus, both of which turn little to no profit for Yahoo. The price tag on Broadcast.com ended up being $710 per user for Yahoo. That shows just how large the Internet bubble really was. What if Yahoo had invested that 5.65 billion into its search technology or even better yet bought out Google in 1999?

2. TimeWarner Merges with America Online

What was Ted Turner and company thinking? In the midst of dial-up becoming a thing of the past, they merge with the leading dial-up company in AOL. Although, almost 8 years after the merger Timewarner has made strides with AOL, Google now Owns 5% of AOL, and they are considering merging yet again with Yahoo who happens to have made the #1 biggest acquisition blunder. (as seen above)

3. AOL Buys Netscape

In 1998 when the Internet was just starting to creep into people’s minds, America online dished out $4.6 billion for Netscape, the leader in web browsing technology. The problem here was that Microsoft had just begun rolling out its Internet explorer web browser. Netscape now is used by under 2% of web surfers, and even Internet Explorer is second rate to Firefox, a totally free web browser. Netscape.com is now a news portal with relatively low popularity, losing money.

4. Yahoo Buys Geocities

In 1999, at the height of the Internet boom, Yahoo made another amazing acquisition, they thought. They dished out a mere $3.5 billion for Geocities. For those of you just starting out website creation back in 1999, Geocities was a free web host. At the time it was barely turning a profit, yet, we all had our heads in the clouds. Yahoo bought them the same year that they paid $5.6 billion for Broadcast.com. Today Geocities is barely alive, and far from turning a profit. They could have easily turned Geocities into a sort of social networking site like facebook or myspace, but you know how those Yahoo people operate.

5. @Home Purchases Excite.com

Also in the midst of the internet boom, @Home paid a staggering $6.7 billion for Excite.com. At the time it may have seemed like a good deal, considering Excite was #2 to Yahoo in internet portal traffic. I recall using excite as one of my main search engines back in the day. What happened since? Well it is quite amazing that they actually have users still. Now they are not even a search engine, they just use Yahoo, Google, and Ask.com’s data. They have a main portal page that resembles a 1999 version of Google Home, and continue to just barely survive with the help of Google advertising.

6. Terra Buys Lycos.com

In the midst of the Internet bubble collapse, this deal still managed to occur. Initially Terra, a relatively unknown company today, had agreed to buy Lycos for $12.5 billion. 6 months later when the final deal was struck, the sale price had fallen 60% to only $4.7 billion. Why? Because both company’s stock prices were crumbling before their eyes, as the internet bubble began to pop.. Today Lycos is nothing more then a second rate search engine that fills it’s results with ads.

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Microsoft (MSFT) Bids to Buy Yahoo (YHOO)

The rumors had been flying for months now, that Microsoft may consider buying the second most popular internet search engine, Yahoo.com. Most analysts wrote them off as just internet rumors, however, Microsoft surprised us all this morning but entering a bid to buy Yahoo.

This wasn’t just any bid, not one that we think Yahoo can easily turn down. Microsoft offered to pay $44 billion, which is approximately $20 billion over the market cap of Yahoo. This means that if the deal was to go through, each Yahoo shareholder would receive almost double the current value of their shares. This is a hard offer for the board of directors at Yahoo to turn down. Yahoo just layed off 1000 employees last week, and could use the cash that Microsoft would bring into the equation.

The offer will be part shares, part cash, and would give Microsoft quite a standing against Google, who currently owns approximately 60% of all US search traffic.

What does this mean for the future of Yahoo, Microsoft and Google?

Well it will certainly drive innovation. With Yahoo and Microsoft teaming up they will have more power to take on Google, who in turn will likely have more incentive to innovate. If this deal does go through, we will quickly see major changes in the online search scene, and they will all likely be great for consumers.

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Why Google’s Stock is So Undervalued

As many of you may know, Google’s stock (GOOG) has recently plummeted. Just 3 months ago in November of 2007, the stock hit an all time high of $747 per share. At the time of writing this article, the stock sits at $518 per share. Quite a difference, considering there hasn’t really been any negative news to fuel this decline. Here are 5 reasons why I am bullish on Google (GOOG).:

1. Google is about to see huge growth in the mobile phone ad market. Android, their cell phone operating system, should begin making its way onto phones within months. This will set the stage for mobile ads that will be targeted by the users location. Google will be at the forefront of this industry.
   
2. Google should perform well even in a recession, and with a weakening dollar. A large portion of Google’s ad sales come from Canada, Europe, Asia and Australia. They are compensated with alternative currencies from the dollar. Even if advertising budgets decline worldwide, Google will not see declines in revenue which are equal to these worldwide declines since many online companies are not affected as much from a recession.
   
3. The decline is due, in part, to no new news. Google had been on a role up until November, with all kinds of great news popping up. We have been in a Google news drought as of late, but expect this to change by the end of this month. Google is constantly working on new technology, and should have some fairly large announcements shortly. Stay tuned.
   
4. Yahoo rejected Microsoft’s $44 billion offer to buy them out. This does two things. It values Google higher since Yahoo basically told the world they feel they are valued at over $44 billion when their market cap was only in the mid $20 billion range before the buyout discussion began. It also makes sure that Google will not be competing against a huge Microsoft run Yahoo.
   
5. Rumors that Yahoo may outsource all their search ads to Google. This would be major news. It would basically be the same as Yahoo, the second largest US search provider, saying “Google you are better then us, lets work together”.

Predicted stock price by Dec 2008 - $825

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Top 52 Online Money Making Blog - Ranked by Value

As many of you know, we love our Money Making Blogs, therefore we decided to make a list of the top 52 most informative Money Making Blogs there are online today. We have ranked them using a formula we have come up with, rating the value of information and uniqueness of content over the last 5 months. The higher ranked the blog the more likely you are to learn something of value. Having said this, all these blogs are extremely valuable, afterall they made the list. Enjoy:

1. ShoeMoney

2. doshdosh

3. JohnChow

4. Seth Godin’s Blog

5. ProBlogger

6. JohnCow

7. Daily Blog Tips

8. Entrepreneurs Journey.com

9. Courtney Tuttle

10. Andy Beard Niche Marketing

11. BlogStorm

12. Moms At Home

13. Caroline Middlebrook

14. Performancing - Helping Bloggers Succeed

15. Blogging Tips

16. Tyler Cruz

17. Strategic Profits

18. CarloCab

19. Zac Johnson

20. Affiliate Marketing Blog by Shawn Collins

21. Marketing Pilgrim

22. Se RoundTable

23. Search Engine Watch Blog

24. SEOBook

25. The Top Rank Blog

26. Bruce Clay Inc

27. Earners Blog

28. Super Affiliate Mindset

29. 5 Star Affiliate Blog

30. Jom Kukral

31. Reve News

32. Cash Quests

33. Self Made Minds

34. Uber Affiliate

35. Fraser’s Affiliate Marketing Blog

36. Here.org.uk

37. 5xMom

38. CopyBlogger

39. PSFK Online Trends Blog

40. David Airey

41. Blog About Your Blog

42. Who Is Andrew Wee

43. Gather Success

44. Search Marketing Gurus

45. Marketing Profs Daily Fix

46. Search Engine Guide

47. One Mans Goal

48. Blogtrepreneur

49. Winning The Web

50. Drews Marketing Minute

51. JanGro

52. EZ Online Money

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Yahoo “Buzz up” To copy Digg.com

Well, it looks like Yahoo will be the next to copy Digg. Soon they will allow users to “Buzz Up” a website, picture or video. This will start with 100 publishers and then spread to the general public.
Although on the verge of a buyout from Microsoft, Yahoo didn’t let the guard down and announced the introduction of a new service, called “Yahoo Buzz”, which will imply users’ votes on the most interesting stories on the Internet. The service will be similar cu Digg and will have users “buzz” the best stories, which will later bring them to the Yahoo homepage.
“Yahoo is a good example of how we are continuing to innovate and open up our key starting points to third party publishers, making Yahoo more social and personally relevant for our half a billion consumers,” Jeff Weiner, executive vice president of Yahoo’s Network Division, said in a statement.
The new service will include anything from the latest news, to intriguing images or videos, and viewers will need to vote their favorites if they want to see them among the most popular. The system is meant to increase both the popularity of Yahoo’s website, as well as improve the way viewers relate to the content of Yahoo pages.
The main purpose will not be the ranking itself, but rather allowing users to contribute to Yahoo’s front page and better relate to it. According to statistics, Yahoo has an audience of 90 million viewers monthly in the United States alone, which means plenty of Buzzes.
Yahoo Buzz adds up to the openness of Yahoo’s initiatives, an aspect that Jerry Yang, company co-founder and chief executive, has been trying to promote. For starters, the service will include collaboration with 100 publishers, which means a “Buzz Up” button will appear on the websites of People, The New York Times or The Economist. The service will later extend to as many websites as possible.
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Googles 4th Quarter 2007 Earnings are on Jan 31st - What to Expect?

Google (GOOG) will announce their Earnings This Thursday. What should we expect? Well, it’s really hard to say. Google has blown out analyst’s estimates quite consistently over the last few years, and I personally think they will do it again. With the Stock down nearly $200 from its highs a few months ago, any earnings blowout could mean a huge move for the stock price. On the other hand if they miss the earnings estimate, then the downside shouldn’t be all that bad.

The other internet stocks and tech stocks have stuggled this quarter though, so many people are up in the air about Googles profits this quarter. Remember though that Google should not be hurt as much as many of the other tech companies from the falling US dollar, since they have a good deal of business overseas, especially in Europe.

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Donald Trump gives a 12,000% ($10,000) Tip on $82 Restaurant bill

Well if you thought that all billionaires were greedy, guess again. Donald Trump has been known for giving huge tips, but a 12,000% tip is a little crazy. I bet the waiter, Billy D., was happy at The Buffalo Club in Santa Monica California..

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Get Ready for a 300 Mile Per Gallon Car from Aptera

Thats right, are you sick and tired of having to pay $50-$60 to fill up your tank and have it only last you 300 miles tops? How would you like to pay only $30 to fill your 10 gallon tank and make it across country (3000 miles) on it? Well by the end of the new year that may just be a reality. A Company Called Aptera is leading the way in creating what some call a breakthrough of a vehicle.

The Aptera Typ-1 will go on sale in October of ‘08 in California only to start. There will be 2 models, the solely electric model which will get 120 miles per $3 charge, and the hybrid version which will get approximately 300 miles per gallon. The approximate cost of the electric model will be $26,900, while the hybrid will run at around $29,900.

Here is what’s available in every Aptera

-Driver and passenger side Airbags

-Energy absorbing and impact deflecting passenger Safety Cell

-Advanced drive computer with GPS navigation, CD/MP3/DVD player, XM satellite radio, Large View Rear Camera, and complete vehicle diagnostic system

-”Eyes Forward” vision system with 180 degree rear sight picture displayed in the driver’s field of view to enhance situational awareness

-LED interior and exterior lighting for maximum energy efficiency

-Solar assisted Climate Control System so you always enter a comfortable Aptera that is never too hot or cold

-And an RFID(Radio Frequency ID) key fob so you never have to pull out your keys to enter or start your Aptera. The key fob simply remains in your pocket or purse.

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Man Earns $133,000 Per Month With Google Adsense

For those of you who think its not possible to make more then a couple hundred dollars a month with Google Adsense, then think again. More and more people are quitting their day jobs blogging and creating content driven websites supported by Google adsense ads. Yes people are making big money? How big? Well check out this guys check from September 2005. He is the owner and author of the very popular blog, Shoemoney.com. The guy is a pure blogging genious when it comes to monetizing his blog:

Yes thats $132,994.93 in just one month!

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8 Inciteful Famous Quotes About Investing

I truly believe that the words of our smartest world citizens are the best incites toward both our futures and coming trends. Here are 8 simple, to the point quotes from some fo the world brightest people about investing:

“Invest in yourself, in your education. There’s nothing better”

-Sylvia Porter

“I want to work for a company that contributes to and is part of the community. I want something not just to invest in. I want something to believe in.”

-Anita Roddick

“If you want to be truly successful invest in yourself to get the knowledge you need to find your unique factor. When you find it and focus on it and persevere your success will blossom.”

-Sidney Madwed

“Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future.”

-Brian Tracy

“Before you speak, listen.

Before you write, think.

Before you spend, earn.

Before you invest, investigate.

Before you criticize, wait.

Before you pray, forgive.

Before you quit, try.

Before you retire, save.

Before you die, give.”

-Arthur Ward

“Invest in inflation. It’s the only thing going up.”

-Will Rogers

“If we invest in the American people, the American people always bring this Nation a good return.”

-Blanche Lincoln

“Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you’re generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don’t make.”

-Donald Trump

The General theme of most of these quotes happen to be about investing in ones self. I tend to agree with these philosophies. If you build up the equity of yourself you will be able to do almost anything. Education is powerful, whether it is formal or not.

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A Look at How Much Richer the Richest in America Are After 1 Year

Well, the new Forbes “400 Richest Americans” has been published. I found it interesting to compare last years list with this years. Here are some changes I’ve noted:

#1 Bill Gates, the richest man in America has remained at top. He has increased his wealth by about 11% in the last year, going from $53 Billion to $59 Billion. A $6 Billion increase in a year, not half bad.

#2 Mr. Warren Buffett remains as #2 as well. Buffett, the investing guru, increased his wealth by 13% in one year, moving from $46 Billion to $52 Billion. Also a $6 Billion increase like Gates had.

#3 Sheldon Adelson also kept his #3 spot this year. The casino owner increased his wealth by 27%, going from $20.5 Billion to $28 Billion in just one year.

#4 Larry Ellison, the Oracle founder is still listed at #4. He has increased his wealth by a very healthy 33%, moving from a net worth of $19.5 Billion all the way up to $26 Billion this year.

#5 and #6 The Google Guys. Sergey Brin, and Larry Page have leapfrogged over 7 billionaires ahead of them last year, to land the number 5 and 6 positions. The 34 year old friends both jumped 25% going from $14 billion to $18.5 billion in one year.

#7 Kirk Kerkorian was the biggest winner out of them all. In just one years, the 90 year old investor, jumped 19 positions going from #26 to #7. He increased his net worth by 100% by going from $9 billion last year to an impressive $18 billion this year, helped by selling his stake in City Center to MGM in AUgust.

#8 Michael Dell remained pretty steady. He moved up one slot from #9 last year and increased his wealth by $1.7 Billion, a gain of about 11%.

#9 and #10 Charles and David Koch moved up quite a bit themselves. The oil Investors moved up 9 positions each from #19 and #20. Their wealth each went up by $5 billion, an inpressive 41% gain.

Who moved down? Well the the Walmart, Walton family took a plunge. Four of them cracked the top 10 last year, while this year not one of them made it.

Just thought this would give you an interesting idea of how much richer the richest people in America are getting, and how the landscape is slowly changing.

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The Truth About Al Gore and The Internet

Well, Al Gore recently shared the Nobel Peace Prize for his work with Global Warming, but his real fame comes from his win of the Us Presidency in 2000 (yeah he won, but still loss), and of course inventing the internet, and global warming.

Did Gore Really Invent the Internet?

Legend has it that Al Gore actually invented the internet, but anyone who knows the actual history of the internet knows that he really did not have anything to do with it in an invention sense. The Urban legend all start on March 9th, 1999 during an interview with Wolf Blitzer on CNN where Gore was asked what distinguished him from his democratic opponent Bill Bradley. Gore stated:

“During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the internet. I took the initiative in moving forward a wide range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country’s economic growth and environmental protection.”

Although he may have used some words which were construed as if he stated that he invented the internet, all that he meant was that he was proactive in the creation of the internet and it’s mainstream use, which is true. As a Congressman Gore actually was very active in promoting the system that we all enjoy this very day. If Gore never entered politics back in the early 1970’s would we have the internet today? More then likely we would, however it may have been slower to develope, and not as widely available to the public at first.

Who Invented the Internet?

Well its not a matter of who invented the internet, as it was a slow process of separate ideas and inventions which has led to what we see as the internet today. Here is a timeline:

* 1961: Leonard Kleinrock writes the first paper on packet switched networks.

* 1962: J.C.R. Licklider of MIT writes a paper describing a globally connected “Galactic Network” of computers.

* 1966: Larry Roberts proposes the ARPANET to the Defense Department’s Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA).

* 1968: ARPA issues Request for Quotations for the Interface Message Processors (IMPs), which became the first routers.

* 1969: First IMP is installed at UCLA.

* Early 1970s: Universities and defense agencies and contractors begin to connect to ARPANET.

* 1973: Bob Kahn and Vint Cerf begin research into what eventually becomes IP - the Internet Protocol and its companion, TCP - the Transmission Control Protocol.

* 1973: Bob Metcalfe develops Ethernet, which had been the subject of his PhD thesis, while working at Xerox.

* Early 1980s: The Personal Computer revolution begins.

* Mid 1980s: Local Area Networks (LANs) begin to flourish in business and university environments. Campus area networks soon follow.

* January 1, 1983: All “old-style” traffic on the ARPANET ceases, as TCP/IP becomes the only protocol used. [Arguably, this is the date of the birth of the Internet as a functioning, practical, production network.]

* 1985: Dennis Jennings chooses TCP/IP as the protocol for the planned National Science Foundation Network (NSFnet).

* 1988: NSF sponsors a series of workshops at Harvard on the commercialization and privatization of the Internet.

* 1988: Kahn et al. write a paper “Towards a National Research Network.” According to the Brief History, “This report was influential on then Senator Al Gore, and ushered in high speed networks that laid the networking foundation for the future information superhighway.” [Emphasis added.]

* 1991: Mark McCahill et al. (University of Minnesota) release the Internet Gopher, the first widely-adopted menu-based system for browsing and retrieving Internet-based documents.

* 1991: Tim Berners-Lee et al. at the European Center for High-Energy Physics (CERN) describe the World Wide Web. The first browser is a line-mode tool.

* 1993: Mark Andreessen et al. at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois release Mosaic, the first widely-adopted graphical browser for the Web

* 1993: NCSA releases Macintosh and Windows versions of Mosaic.

Now, Lets look at Gores Actual Contibutions:

* A 1983 proposal to build a national computer-based registry of organ donors and those in need of transplants.

* Legislation in 1987 to mandate copy protection mechanisms for Digital Audio Tape [ironic given the much greater copying problem introduced years later by the Internet and by Napster].

* A 1989 bill, unenacted, “to amend the Antarctic Conservation Act of 1978 to protect the environment of Antarctica.”

* A 1989 resolution, not passed, to “designate the month of May 1989 as National Digestive Disease Awareness Month.”

* A 1989 resolution, not passed, to “urge Noble Commission to consider awarding Nobel Prize recognition for achievements in preservation of the world environment.”

* A proposed resolution in 1990 calling on the government of Malaysia to preserve tropical rainforests.

* Proposed 1992 legislation, not enacted, that would “stabilize emissions of carbon dioxide to protect the global climate, and for other purposes.”

* Various bills over the years supporting funding for NASA.

* A resolution to establish the month of October 1989, as Country Music Month (not enacted).

As we have shown here, President Gore (Ooops I keep forgetting), didnt actually invent the internet but had a role it’s creation just like hundreds of other notable figures.

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16 Oct 3 Stocks That are Bound to be Winners Over the Next 10 Years.

Anyone that knows me knows that I’m always looking long term. I don’t care if I invest in a stock that drops 50% as long as over the long run it will bounce back big time. Some people feel a stock is a great purchase but keep waiting for the right time to get in. If you like a stock for its long term prospects, don’t worry about when you get in, because more than likely there is no time better than the present.

Here are 3 stocks I feel will be sure gainers over the next 10 years. They may have their ups and downs in the short run, but in the long run should beat out the market big time:

#1 Google (Goog)

Google has already gone up over 600% since it’s IPO, which of course scares investors away. Having said this, their growth rate and potential growth rate is amazing. Consider that the Internet is growing at a rate of 18% per year. Over 60% of searches online are done through Google. Google is spreading it’s reach all over the place. They are rumored to be involved in the cell phone industry, and have their hands in just about everything related to the internet. They have so much information about everyone that uses their search that it is almost like they can predict what the markets will do next, what products will be hot, and what markets they can enter. Google is taking on Microsoft with their online software, and seems to be a step ahead of all the other large corporations.

Projected gain in 10 years time - 420%

#2 Genetech (DNA)

Even the ticker symbol is cool. Genetech is responsible for a wide variety of Biotech developements. We all have to admit that biotechnology will be a huge player in the future of medicine. With an understanding of the human genome, and technological breakthroughs we have seen recently, combined with the high prices these medical related firms are able to charge for products and services, Genetech is a bomb ready to explode. In the next 10-20 years we will see medical developements we would have only been able to dream of just a few years back, and Genetech is at the forefront of much of these new technologies. Also with the baby boomers becoming senior citizens, the entire medical field should see a nice boom.

Projected gain in 10 years time - 325%

#3 International Game Technology (IGT)

IGT basically makes slot machines. They along with Ballys are the two main slot machine manufacturers in the world. The reason this stock was choosen is because the Gaming industry is exploding. Not just Atlantic City and Vegas in the US, but more and more states are legalizing slot machine gambling at race tracks. Gambling is bigger then ever in the US, and also overseas. One example of the industries growth is that MGM is building a new 60 acre, $5 billion casino and resort in Atlantic City with over 4000 slot machines itself. The $5 billion is almost twice as much as any other Atlantic City or Vegas Casino company has spent on a developement.

Projected gain in 10 years time - 220%

Of course I can’t guarantee you will make a killing on these stocks, but if you read up on the companies as well as the industries they are in, you would see the room for huge growth is there over the next decade.

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