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A PHP advance sitemap is very useful for increasing traffic to your site, and improving search engine rankings of a WordPress blog. You can enable your visitors to navigate your site easily, by making an efficient sitemap of your blog posts. However, keep in mind that we are not talking about a "Google Sitemap" here.

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The team at Boticca.com are not only the purveyors of beautiful, independently designed jewelry and fashion accessories, but they are somewhat social media savvy, too. With more than 25,000 fans on Facebook and over 30,000 Twitter followers, Boticca has really taken the online fashion world by storm.

Boticca is also one of the first brands to team up with social gifting service, Drop Gifts, which enables users to send their friends and family vouchers for their favorite e-commerce sites via social media. Fantastic!

You can use Facebook to increase traffic to your blog. With a little effort and ingenuity, you can draw from almost a billion users to give your own website a healthy shot in the arm. Regardless of what you blog about, you can find potential readers and customers on Facebook and route them to your blog. When these visitors arrive, you can convert them into subscribers and paying customers. You have almost unlimited potential when you use Facebook to build your blog, but you need to do more than create a Facebook profile and page to make a difference. The following tips will help bloggers build traffic by leveraging Facebook.

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With the world turning more and more to the internet for things these days, it has become increasingly apparent to many business owners that there is no way to compete in today’s market without creating a strong online presence for yourself. Every company should have a website that is engaging and aesthetically pleasing in order to attract more customers from a wider set of backgrounds. Advertising through word of mouth and some forms of media have become primitive in the face of the online search engine. Nowadays, if someone wants something, all they have to do is search for it. That’s why it is so important to have a great website with lots of content. If you intend on making money and creating a name for your company, you have to create a strong online profile, and much of that involves having a great website. But unless you are schooled in the art and science of web design, you will find it very difficult to create the kind of website that you need in order to get people to visit it. For this reason, it might be wise to hire a good web designer. If you are looking for a good web designer to help create a great website for your company, then here are a few things that you should pay attention to as you start your search.

When you think about your site being hacked, you probably imagine an unmistakable notice, like a flashing screen with "HACKED" in large letters across the page. But in reality, you may not know that your web site has been hacked until much later on when a lot of damage has been done. Today's hackers are getting more sophisticated with the tools and methods they use to hack web sites. But knowing the signs and what to do in the event of a hack can help you to recover.

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For every small business owner, having a website is a great asset to the rest of your endeavors, whatever they may be, and in order to make the most of all of your resources, you must do what you can to keep each arm of your business operating at its highest potential. In the old days, it was much easier, simply having to make sure that your shop was clean and you had a smile on your face when people walked in, but nowadays it is far more complicated than that.

You probably know that SEO (short from search engine optimization) is actually the process of improving the visibility of a web page. You can do that using White Hat SEO techniques but this will take you a lot of time and all these methods won’t be enough to improve the visibility of your web page. But here comes the term Black Hat or in short SEO methods that are used for manipulating the search engines’ index. These techniques are cheaper and work faster than the ones known as White Hat. As you may suppose  Black Hat tactics are forbidden and often penalized because they do not follow the rules of the search engines. Cookie stuffing, page hijacking, keyword stuffing, link farms are the names of only a few of many others Black Hat techniques that are used nowadays. Imagine that you can make ten different articles with unique content from a single one. It sounds like a miracle, but this term is actually known as article spinning and of course belongs to one of the Black Hat techniques. Even though all these methods are often penalized by the search engines who can blame you for using them when this kind of SEO practices will save you not only time but also money and efforts.

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Seems like Wordpress is no stranger to the words 'top 100', as in April 2012 the popular blogging platform has found itself in familiar territory among the hosts that top bloggers favored most, for the second time in approximately four years.

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The best deals on web hosting are not difficult to locate, but it is easy to fall for the hype. One of the things that a person looking for web hosting services and deals falls into is a bunch of affiliate marketing sites. Now, there is nothing wrong with that, per se, one must understand the motivation behind these reviews. The reviews are skewed to convince, not balanced to inform. But there is utility in them after all. Go through the blogs and look for the ones that provide the most number of alternatives. This smart marketer has gone the distance to get affiliate status with all the links and then gives an almost unbiased view of all.

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In the digital age, a well designed company website simply is not enough. While a site may be visually pleasing and easy to navigate, those factors will not help you when it comes to search engine optimization. Website reliability and speed are very crucial aspects to a website from a usability perspective as well as search engine optimization. A company website can be used to reach out to potential customers as well as add revenue through ecommerce, offer focused interaction with customers and issues relating to customer service and can provide customers with up to the minute news about your business or product. All of these beneficial website functionalities will be lost if your page is not “search engine friendly”. “Search engine friendly” means the online site can be indexed by Search and listed on search engines easily. Search engines are a primary source of web traffic, and if your site is not listed, your business will miss out on thousands of would-be customers.