SEO

Upon invitation by PITA(Palestinian Information Technology Association of Companies) and PICTI (Palestine Information and Communications Technology Incubator) and working with  the U.S.-Palestinian Partnership (UPP), Case Foundation and USAID, Google hosted a GPals day in Ramallah. On March 24th and 25th a Google team from around the world, provided cutting edge skills to more than 300 software developers and entrepreneurs.

The GPals day was spread across two days. The first day focused on pushing the boundaries of web applications using Google developer technologies. The day was also about bringing brilliant developers together to share their own ideas. Whereas day two was focused on a full review of Google product demonstrations for small or medium sized businesses to help spur innovation and entrepreneurship in the region which included a discussion on  how to create Arabic content using online tools, and how to use free Google applications (such as Google Docs) to better manage businesses. continue

Here’s an extremtly nice pluign I found mentioned in AdesBlog. This Wordpress plugin turns your normal search string from: continue

If you are generating revenue off your website or blog, chances are you serve banner ads and they are either updated manually by adding the images and URLs into the source codes or with the help of external ad-serving scripts like OpenX or OIO Publishers.

Google has a similar web service, call the Google Ad Manager. In a nutshell, it is a simple (and free) web service that helps you manage banner ads. It also comes with a pretty complete inventory report module. Ad Manager integrates with AdSense, therefore webmasters have the ability to serve AdSense ads if there’s no banner for any particular slot. Here’s a quick look into advantages of Google Ad Manager: continue

1. Write something great about your niche and email other bloggers to let them know – there’s a good chance they’ll link to you.

2. Have a signature link in forums that  points to your site.

3. Post links to your pages to social        bookmarking sites.

4. Leave comments on other people’s blogs and link back to your site (tip: look in the digg upcoming section for blog posts about to get a lot of traffic).

5. Have the opposite opinion on everyone else on a popular topic. Everyone will link to you saying your wrong.

6. Answer questions on Yahoo Answers.

7. Post in Yahoo and Google Groups with a link to your site in your signature.
8. Make a 404 page that redirects to your homepage – no point losing visitors.

9. Have an opt-in form – trade links with someone else who has an opt in form on your confirmation page.
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