TurboScout.com Makes Web Searching 20 Times Faster

Written by William Chee


A 21 year-old undergraduate from Singapore launched TurboScout.com, a new search tool that helps Internet users to access and compare original results from over 90 search engines across 7 categories on a single web page, removingrepparttar hassle of retyping keywords into different search engines.

Comparing results from different search engines like Google, Yahoo, MSN Search, and Ask Jeeves is a common practice for many users. This is because different engines use different ranking methods and thus no single engine can give users exactly what they’re looking for.

“That’s where TurboScout.com comes in handy.” Says William Chee, founder of TurboScout.com. “Grown out ofrepparttar 118418 frustration of typing and retyping keywords into different search engines, I decided to create an online search tool to get rid of these hassles and make such searching 20 times faster.”

“Users who visit http://www.turboscout.com only need to enter keywords once, and getting original results from different search engines is as simple as clickingrepparttar 118419 engine’s name. No more retyping keywords into different search engines.”

Improving the Link Popularity Of Your Site

Written by Sumantra Roy


Link popularity, i.e.repparttar number of sites which are linking to your site, is an increasingly important factor as far as search engine placement is concerned. Other things remainingrepparttar 118417 same, morerepparttar 118418 number of links to your site, higher will be its ranking.

What is important is not onlyrepparttar 118419 number of links to your site, but alsorepparttar 118420 types of sites which are linking to you. A link from a site which is related to yours is more valuable than a link from an unrelated site.

In this article, I explore different methods by which you can improverepparttar 118421 link popularity of your site. I start with a method that you shouldn't bother using, then go on torepparttar 118422 moderately effective methods, and then end withrepparttar 118423 most effective methods you can use to boostrepparttar 118424 link popularity of your site.

1) Submitting your site to Free For All (FFA) pages

A common misconception among many Internet marketers is that while FFA pages may not directly bring in traffic to your site, it will help to improverepparttar 118425 link popularity of your site, and hence, will indirectly bring in traffic throughrepparttar 118426 search engines.

Nothing could be further fromrepparttar 118427 truth. Most FFA pages can contain only a certain number of links at a time. This means that when you submit your site to a FFA page, your site will be placed atrepparttar 118428 top ofrepparttar 118429 page. However, as more and more people submit their sites torepparttar 118430 FFA page, your site will be pushed down, and finally, when it reachesrepparttar 118431 bottom ofrepparttar 118432 page, it will be removed.

Now, since you can bet that plenty of other people are also submitting their sites torepparttar 118433 FFA pages, your site will remain in these pages for only a short span of time. Hence, in order to ensure thatrepparttar 118434 search engines see your site if and when they come to spiderrepparttar 118435 FFA page, you will need to ensure that you submit your site to these FFA pages on a regular basis - at least once a week.

Even if you used an automatic submission program to do it, can you imagine a worse way to spend your time and/or money? Furthermore, many search engines recognize these pages which only contains links to other sites as FFA pages and may completely ignore them. And while I haven't yet seen any evidence that submitting torepparttar 118436 FFA pages will actually penalize your site, there is every possibility that this might happen inrepparttar 118437 future.

Hence, when it comes to FFA pages, my advice is simple: don't even think about them.

2) Starting an Awards Program

A moderately effective method of improvingrepparttar 118438 link popularity of your site is to start an awards program. You can have web sites which are related to yours apply for an award from your site. The sites which winrepparttar 118439 award getrepparttar 118440 chance to displayrepparttar 118441 logo for your award. This logo is linked to your site, preferably to a page which contains more information onrepparttar 118442 award.

If you publish a newsletter, consider declaringrepparttar 118443 winners in your newsletter. You can also perform a review ofrepparttar 118444 winners' sites in your newsletter. This adds useful content to your newsletter and also gives more webmastersrepparttar 118445 incentive to apply for your award, since you may review their sites in your newsletter. This also gives themrepparttar 118446 incentive to subscribe to your newsletter to see if they winrepparttar 118447 award.

Make sure that you give awards to only those sites which deserve to win. If you give your award to sites which don't deserve it, your award will have little credibility, which will, in turn, hurtrepparttar 118448 credibility of your company. Furthermore, make sure thatrepparttar 118449 logo you design forrepparttar 118450 award looks professional. If it doesn't, not many webmasters will want to display it in their sites.

3) Giving testimonials

This may sound a bit unusual, but giving testimonials for products or services which you find useful can be another moderately effective way of improvingrepparttar 118451 link popularity of your site. If you really like a product, simply write torepparttar 118452 company and tell them why you likedrepparttar 118453 product so much and how it has helped you. Chances are,repparttar 118454 company will write back to you to thank you for your comments and will ask you for permission to display your comments in their web site. Tellrepparttar 118455 company that you have no problems if they publish your comments, but request them to add a link to your site along withrepparttar 118456 testimonial. There is every possibility thatrepparttar 118457 company will agree since publishingrepparttar 118458 URL of your web site gives more credibility torepparttar 118459 testimonial.

Of course, please don't go about giving testimonials to every company you can locate just because it will improve your link popularity :-)

4) Posting to Message Boards and Discussion Lists

Another moderately effective method of increasingrepparttar 118460 link popularity of your site is to post to online message boards. Atrepparttar 118461 end of every message that you post, you can sign off by mentioning your name andrepparttar 118462 URL of your web site. Ifrepparttar 118463 message board allows it, you can even include a short promotional blurb about your site atrepparttar 118464 end of your posts. However, make sure thatrepparttar 118465 individual messages that are posted to that message board are archived in static HTML pages (i.e.repparttar 118466 URLs forrepparttar 118467 individual messages should not contain a "?"). Otherwise,repparttar 118468 search engines will consider these pages to be dynamic pages and may not spider these pages and hence, will not be able to find your link.

Email based discussion lists which are archived onrepparttar 118469 web in static HTML pages can also be used to boostrepparttar 118470 link popularity of your site in a similar manner. In this case,repparttar 118471 signature file that you use with your email program should containrepparttar 118472 URL for your web site.

5) Starting a Link Contest

A good method of improvingrepparttar 118473 link popularity of your site is to give away prizes to other webmasters if they link to you. The prizes that you give out should ideally be something which other webmasters will find valuable enough to want to link to you, but which do not cost you too much. For instance, if you publish a newsletter, and have unsold ad inventory, you can give away some free advertisements in your newsletter torepparttar 118474 winners. If you sell a software (or an ebook), you can give away a free copy of your software or ebook torepparttar 118475 winners, since it doesn't cost you anything to produce an additional copy of digital goods like software and ebooks.

Link contests work best if you runrepparttar 118476 contest on a continuous basis and if you declare new winners frequently. If you runrepparttar 118477 contest for a few months, and then stop it,repparttar 118478 webmasters who had linked to you will all remove their links. However, if you run it on a continuous basis, and declare new winners every month or so,repparttar 118479 webmasters will haverepparttar 118480 incentive to keep their links to your site.

Also, make sure that you require all participants to have a link to your site either in their home page, or in an internal page of their site which is linked to their home page. Also ensure thatrepparttar 118481 page which containsrepparttar 118482 link is no more than two levels deep from their home page (i.e. it should not take more than two clicks to go fromrepparttar 118483 home page torepparttar 118484 page containingrepparttar 118485 link). If they don't do this,repparttar 118486 search engine spiders may not indexrepparttar 118487 page which containsrepparttar 118488 link to your site, and hence, may not find your link.

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