A Freelance Web Designer’s Blog

Squidoo is a website that allows you to create your own pages on it. Like free website builders, you can put videos, guestbook, images and more on your page without any technical knowledge. So why would you want to use it? One of many benefits is that you can put a page pretty quickly with its easy to use tools. If you know how to write a blog post then you already know how to use Squidoo.

By having your own page on Squidoo will boost your main website’s ranking on the search engines. If your content is compelling you will get many visitors from this high traffic website. The best part is that you can easily update your page on Squidoo with new and fresh contents from anywhere that have Internet access. Which means you can build your page up slowly.
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Having a business without a website is like having a bike with no wheels, you will not get very far with your business. Understandably, many offline businesses have enjoyed much success but the potential for growth with a custom designed website will increase your company’s brand presence.

Promote your business with a website
It will be much easier to promote your business if you have a professional designed website in place. Of course there are many ways to promote your business. One great way is to make business cards and give them out to everyone you meet, even strangers!

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If you are an Internet marketer you know how important website traffic is. Search engine optimisation is one of the best ways that can help you to get more traffic. And to do well in the search engines you will need links. The main problem with link building is that it takes time and most people are aware of this. If you have been doing Internet marketing for a while then you know exactly what I’m talking about. So how PHP Dir Submit script can help you? There are multiple ways to use PHP Dir Submit to get traffic your web site and here are three to get you started:

1. The most obvious way would be to use PHP Dir Submit to promote your own websites. You will save time by submitting your website(s) to hundreds of link directories, article directories and social bookmarking sites and the end result is same as if you did the work manually in Firefox or Internet Explorer. If you have your own list of directories you can add that to your PHP Dir Submit site too.
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Web design is basically a process of coding and graphic design is a much different process. We have logic (coding) on one side and creation (creativity) on the other side. They both play an important role in the creation of a great looking website. Many web designers underestimated the importance of graphic design knowledge in designing websites as a result, they struggle to create “attractive” websites. The visual part of a website can really make a basic brochure type website look more valuable.

Here are some key points that why graphic design does play an important role in web designing.
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With the popularity and profitability of engaging in website design, the competition as a web designer is getting to be tougher and tougher. But when you work hard to pursue your passion, and you are able to market yourself and your skills, you will find that as a freelance web designer, there will always be work for you.

Any newbie freelance web designer will say that the most difficult part of their careers is on the earliest stage when they have yet to establish their credibility as a web designer. Of course, customers will want someone who has an established reputation in website design.
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E-commerce is continuously growing with more and more people bringing in their normal transactions from the table to the dashboard of their websites. Since the discovery of the World Wide Web, people from all over the world have found it easier to transact with other people from other countries through the internet. All they need to do is buy a domain name, build a website, buy online marketing tools such as shopping carts and merchant accounts, and of course design the entire online shop.
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2Hot Web Directory is a SEO friendly and human edited directory that gives you an easy way to bid on links. Our link directory displays links alphabetically, and lets you bid your way to the top of the list. With a starting bid of $1, you are guaranteed a spot in our directory!

Increase your bid to take a top position, and not only will your link list higher in the directory, but you could join our Top 5 Link Leaders on the homepage.

All links in our directory are guaranteed to be available online for at least 10+ years.

Benefits of Links
Links get results. Link popularity is one of the most important factors in search engine performance.

Increasing the number of links to your Web site can get your site listed higher in search engine results, bring more visitors to your site, increase your Google PageRank and improve your site’s overall strength.

Why Buy Links From Us?
This directory will be promoted heavily over the next coming months. We are planning to invest a 4 figure amount on marketing and advertising in the first half of next year!

We are now giving away 50 free $1 links in our directory, if you’re interested in this special one-time offer simply send us your website title, url, your prefered email address and the url that links back to our site.

If the page you link back to us has:
PR0 – you will get a $1 link
PR1 – $10 link
PR2 – $20 link
PR3 – $30 link
and so on .

If you don’t know what Pagerank your site has, you can use this tool. This free offer will end as soon as we reach 50 links!

Email – info[at]2hotdirectory.com
Website – www.2hotdirectory.com

Free IQ is the place where you can find tons of video and audio tutorials on marketing, blogging, SEO, and more.. This site is like Youtube but aimed at a more specific area.

http://www.freeiq.com

Today I bought a huge collection of ebooks, PLR articles, scripts, adsense sites and more. There are over 100,000 items in total, most of the materials are 2-4 years old but the information can be still be used today… I hope! And the cost for all that? – £2, now that’s truly a bargain.

So am I going to go through all those materials? Of course not, I bought them mainly because 99.9% of those items have resale rights or no copyrights at all, which means I can use them to crank up the Google ranking of my upcoming (money-making) site, or I could use them to build a list. This “little” investment will save me hours of work, and not to mention that they can be reused over and over again!

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