Google and me

It is not only Google that gives away free things nowadays; other companies have taken after the trend and are given away free software as well.

If you want to start as a webmaster you need a FTP Program to connect to your sever.
Some editing programs like FrontPage and others have a FTP include but a real FTP program is always better when you start editing the pages your self.

There is many options on the market but one small totally free FTP program I found useful when I was starting up is this one.

It is has all the basic functions and it is free to download and use

Matt Cutts has written to Search Engine Journal and told them that the PageRank that happened this week was to correct the paid links to gain PageRank. No shit Matt!

Matt Cutts said

The partial update to visible PageRank that went out a few days ago was primarily regarding PageRank selling and the forward links of sites. So paid links that pass PageRank would affect our opinion of a site.
Going forward, I expect that Google will be looking at additional sites that appear to be buying or selling PageRank.

There is no word when the next PageRank is going to take place or what we should think about until then. But Google has to blame themselves they are the once that created PageRank and people use it and abuse it out of Google’s control right now.

The word goes out even stronger don’t sell or buy link you get spanked by Google or at least by Matt.

Web directory penalizations

Google is punishing so called Directory rings and paid directory and taking away links coming and going from them. It has been a lot of talk on different forums what’s really going on but not many people know how they really determine what link that should go away or not. We can just see one paid directory after another loosing PageRank and the owners are crying out.

Matt Cutts warned the paid directory people long time ago so this was something that expected. But still it must be terrible for those how are affected.

You can read more about the web directory penalizations here

Most people that hire are from western countries and wanted western workers

Found an article in DN.SE a Swedish newspaper about how to get work in IT on the internet will its simple just read this.

Many think that freelance work is just done by people from India and Pakistan but that is not true. You from a western country have a big advantage inform of culture and social behavior. Most people that do the hiring are from a Western country and they want to deal with western people.

There are many problems when you put out a job in a freelance site and most people I deal with waste my time. I would gladly pay 100 $ more if I know that this person will actually fulfill his work.

This is where you come in, you know the language and the culture and that’s what we want.

Many different jobs

People will pay for what you know and its not just php and coding it so much else you can find works such as

Graphic design
Translations
Posting
Submitting
Video editing
Software programming

And all other fields you can think off.

There is also a section where people will advertise for work per month now as well, give it a try you might be hired next week.

I will give you free support

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I have been using Script Lance a few times now this last month because I have a new few projects coming and my webmaster can not keep up.

If you want to bid on any off my projects join Script Lance and look for my name - Mindstream.

Since Script Lance started they have made some nice changes in the affiliate system

•If you referred the Webmaster who posted the project you will earn 40% of the fee they are charged, as well as 40% of the fee charged to the Programmer that your referral works with!

•If you referred the Programmer you get paid 10% of the fee they pay us, plus 10% of the fee the Webmaster they work for pays us.

•These rates apply to the Featured project fee. The Webmaster’s referrer gets 40% of the $25 fee ($10) and the Programmer’s referrer gets 10% ($2.50). This is in addition to the normal commission you will get based on the Programmer’s fee.

Affiliates also earn 50% of Certified Member fees ($5 or $12.50) and 50% of a Job Listing fee ($19.50).

On top of all this, if you refer another affiliate, you will earn 10% of whatever they earn in commissions!

The have also started another category of ads where you can ask for people for hire. You pay one fee and the advert will be out for 45 days. I did one add and I got quite a few answers I will let you know if anyone of them was worth it.

The also fixed the Pay Pal payments so there will be no fee and they add Money Bookers as a payment option.

For more information visit the Script Lance forum

Is it always a good idea to use outsource webmasters?

Asian webmasters are very popular to use right now but is it always a good idea to use outsource webmasters?
No it is not for some work you really need the webmaster with the same background and education level as you. I am not telling you that Asian webmasters for example are worse then Western I just saying they think in a different way.

For example Asian people are very often used to copy what you say to them or do what they are told rather then think for themselves. If you ask them to copy something and make it look like your site, you might end up with other names and phone numbers then your own because the webmaster just copy the hole thing.

Another scenario is they will work for 1 month with the script or site and you wasted your time and they you think wasted yours. Everything in the script looks great then you sees that the difficult part is not done and when you ask them about that they just vanish.

Do not use freelancers for upgrades

Do not plan to use a freelancing webmaster for long term they are often snapped away by other companies and can not upgrade your products. If you want to make a script or site make sure you make it easy for other webmaster to upgrade.
A even worse scenario is that you give the pass and log in to a for you total stranger and he will take all your email addresses from your forum for example.

Double check with other webmasters

If you have doubt about the quality of the site hire webmasters with god reputation and pay those to check the work before you pay the freelancer. It will save you time and money as well. You can also give some of the code to some other webmaster in some forum you know just ask him to take a look at it.

Let them fight for the money

If you have big budgets make a contest in you favorite webmaster forum or blog and ask people to send in work to you. Let them fight for your money and you will get very good results.

If you have similar experience with Western webmaster from a Asian perspective let me know.

It can be difficult to hire a freelancer as a webmaster it can cause loss of time and also money. Let me give you a few ideas what to write when you hire someone in for example Script Lance.

I post a few clear rules in the end of each project

*** I will not pay until the script is working on my server.
*** I can provide you with a server to work on.
*** Payment with Pay pal or Scriptlance only
*** Only members with good REP should offer the service
*** Please give me a dead line you can hold or I cancel the product
*** I work with MSN Yahoo you should have that as well
*** All spam messages will be reported
*** Do not post if you can not do it for the price it will be reported as spam

1. Stops everyone from cheating you but can scare away serious programmers if you do not have any reputations points on Script Lance.

2. If everything is done on your server you have total control but be sure he will not use it to spam or hack into your other system, close down emails and mail from script if you can.

3. This is off course up to you but I prefer this way. Any serious webmaster can find a way to get a pay pal account nowadays.

4. This can make you loose out on the new people but if you do not waste time stick with this.

5. The programmers are notorious to take to much work but keep it clear that you will cancel even if he half way into the work.

6. You need to communicate quick and easy sometimes it is better the email.

7. Some webmaster just give you a long list of website the have done and do not even read what you said. They give you a price of 5000 $ so you not use them

8. See number 7.

In Script Lance there is not much point doing the project private since you only get a few programmers but if it is a lot of money and you need some serius people then this is for you.

I tried the hide project bids one time but it did not work very well I did not get the work cheaper so just skip that one.

To do the project featured can be good in some cases specially if you want more bids but otherwise you can skip it. I got lots more bids when I did it.

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If you are not that great with DHTML and JavaScript and want to create nice menus for your website then you might have a look at this nice software. You can create fabulous drop down menus like you seen in many popular websites but you do need to know any programming to do this. The menu can also connect to your database and that also without you need to know any programming. The program have plug in for all popular Html programs and the menus will work on all platforms of web readers like IE, Fire fox and even Opera.

The Value of SEO

Some web masters gladly jump into the bandwagon and eagerly engage the services of a search engine optimization or SEO company. The fact that SEO is allegedly good for a web site is enough inducement for some. However, the amount of money that full blown SEO campaigns can cost web masters may make these web masters back out of their SEO programs before the SEO process has borne fruit.

In most cases, it is not the cost per se of the SEO campaigns that daunt the web masters into backing out of their SEO programs. It is actually the inability to appreciate the value of the said SEO campaign in the context of the returns that make web masters withdraw their SEO plans. Read on to find about the value of SEO for business owners.

SEO, SERP, Page Rank, and Web Traffic

SEO makes your web pages more search engine friendly. SEO campaigns have enormous potential to propel your web site to the top of search engine results pages (SERP) and increase your site’s Google page rank rating (Google’s measure of the importance of a web site). This means that you get a chance to be one of the top 10 results in the Google, Yahoo, MSN and other search engines’ results pages.

Why is this important?

A typical internet user relies heavily on any of the search engines to get to web pages that supply the information and services that they need. Different sources of figures on the proportion of web traffic attributable to search engine queries differ, but these sources agree on one thing: search engine traffic is a major part of a site’s total web traffic. If people can’t find you through search engine or organic queries, you lose a great proportion of potential costumers. Most internet searchers do not bother to look at the second page of the search engine results and click one of the ten web pages on the first SERP. It is therefore of utmost importance that your web page have a high page rank and high SERP position.

SEO and Return on Investment

Pay per click advertising and any other paid advertising tools can indeed get your ad displayed on the top SERP, but they don’t assure you of better conversion rates and sales. For instance, if you pay a penny for every click your ad gets and, on the average, you make a sale of only $10 for every thousand clicks, you’re at the losing end of the deal. Every cent you make goes to your pay per click advertising scheme.

Search engine optimization costs largely depend on how much optimization your site needs, the firm you entrust your SEO to, and the level of competition in your niche keyword. All of these factors are highly manageable and the amount of money you spend for SEO are strictly within your control.

Moreover, SEO has long-term positive effects on your web site traffic. Throughout your SEO campaign, you can try to gain as much expertise as you can on SEO so you can do your own SEO maintenance yourself. In the long-run, you only need to check your niche market trends to see if you are still optimizing your site for the right keywords. If a change is necessary, your SEO experience can be enough to help you make minor modifications.

Do not make the same mistake as one of my clients did. They paid over 10 000 $ for a website they could not use. Well they can use it but it is full with flaws. Before you even hire a programmer check the market. Go to places like Script Lance and check the real price for the product your doing. In this case dating sites there is 100 of dating script for the fraction of the price and if you still not happy then you can hire a programmer to change the script for you. But it will never be this much money if you not building a new Google site or something.