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Archive for November, 2009

Do you find it difficult staying focused on what you set out to do when you get online? Do you spend hours online without achieving your primary aim of getting online? Do you desire to achieve more online within a specified time? Here are four invaluable tips that would help you stay focused online.

1. Have a ‘To do’ List.

This requires that you list all the vital things you need to do when you get online before starting. Try to prioritise managing this list by attending to the quick, short task first and deal with the things you’ve been putting off for a while. Decide you would do the things on the list first before you do anything else. Working with a ‘to do’ list creates a great sense of satisfaction when a completed task is crossed off the list.

2. Set a Time Limit For Yourself.

It is not how long you spend online that matters but how much you’re able to achieve. And to make such time worthwhile is the satisfaction derived from the fact that you were able to achieve so much within a short time and also able to get around to do some other task online. Set a time limit for each task on your list and stick to it. This will help you not to stay on a particular task longer than required.

3. Check Your Emails at Scheduled Intervals.

Check emails and if there is need to reply do it quickly and go over to the next task on your ‘to do list’. This is simple, for example if you’re waiting for an urgent email that you’ve not received, you don’t have to stay on that spot while waiting for it. Go over to other task but check back every 5-10 minutes while doing some other tasks. So you won’t end up spending longer than required time just looking up your email box. This would put off the feeling of overload later on when you have some other things to do online.

How to improve your page rank

Google’s Page rank is usually a concept which is misunderstood, yet the concept is relatively easy to understand. It’s Google’s method of indexing all content and websites based on how important it feels they are in the internet community. If you can understand how it works, you’ll know how to boost your own rankings. It is page based, not site based.

To rank your page, Google looks the amount of links there are from other websites. The more links there are, the higher your page rank.

However, all links are not considered equal. Pages with a high page rank are more powerful allies than those with low page rank.

As an example, receiving a link from a PR5 page is of more benefit than 20 links from pages with no page rank. It’s the quality of the links which is important not how many you have..

• There is an equation for working out how much PR value you’ll get from a link, but that is not something you should bother about – just get those PR4 and up links.

The main factors which determine the Page rank of a page are:

1. The amount of page rank coming in to your page. Page rank can not only come from external sites linking to your page, but also from other pages within your own site linking back to your page.
2. You must manage” the flow of these links so that they go back your most important pages. Don’t link back to your “contact us” page, link back to the page you want to rank highly for.
3. The more pages there are in your website, the higher the page rank.
4. As discussed, a key factor is the number of external sites which link back to you.