Author: Humayun Mujahid

What I look at as the most amazing phenomenon of this present time is simply ‘The Internet’ that has unlocked an enormous door for everyone who wants their business to flourish, and flourish swiftly. That explains the reason why having a business nowadays is a lot easier than before. Just a small website can transport your voice, any of your products to the farthest corner of the world, and that too like a flash of lightning. Now there is little cost involved in the running of a business and making it flourish, because you are no more required to spend huge amounts of money on rent, employees and other things like that. The key to all your success is merely a website with which you can conduct all your activities from the comfort of your own home.

One of the basic parameters for judging the success of a website is the number of visitors coming to the site from all sources over a given period of time. We, in common terms, call it Website Traffic.
What a simple mathematics reveals is – more visitors result into more conversions, though this is not necessarily compatible with what the truth is. We often tend to ignore a few other important things.

The most leading item in this list is a focused content, which should be so tailored that it appeals to different set of visitors. Make concerted efforts to keep your content to-the-point. It is just as you would like to see content on another site that you stumbled into. So a strictly relevant and focused material is vital. The quality of writing is irrefutably a top-notch thing on which you should never be compromising.

Second, always care to offer original information on your website. It’s been seen that unique and original information throws a huge gravitational pull which ultimately results into attracting a huge number of visitors. What makes a website attractive to a visitor is the content it provides, and not just developing viral marketing tools and attractive affiliate programs. Unless your website is rich in content, the traffic spikes that result from your efforts will only be transient.

Now the question is whether it is really possible for anyone to create a content-rich website? The answer is a big ‘Yes’. Anyone can create a website that offers a rich, original and impressive content.

Now look, only a tunnel vision and a laser sharp focus can enable you to come up with attention-grabbing stuff. And for that purpose you need to limit your online content explorations by preventing yourself from wasting hours clicking your way from one site to another. Get focused only on websites and resources which you find directly connected to your own website’s theme. In shorter words, discipline yourself.  

Another important thing is regularly updating or modifying your website’s content. You must develop a schedule to add content to your Website, and follow it. Just look around, you will find that successful people do not wait for inspiration before beginning their work. They, instead, develop a regular schedule to go for the task whatsoever, and they stick to it. Hence, whether you feel like or not, you should sit down and write and add content to your site to update it on regular basis.

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The foremost thing is of course having your own website with useful content and eye-catching layout. But what’s next is equally important—how to promote it or make others approach it. To make your site visible to everyone connected to the internet, you will need website promotion. For that purpose you must not be captivated by that common belief that once your URL is on the net, it is searchable by the search engines. It seems just apparently simple, as website promotion entails a lot of labor. Let me now introduce a few unavoidably important steps which you will need to get your site linked with millions of other sites so as to ensure high trafficking on your site.
Submitting your site to search engines is not as important as submitting your site to directories. What makes them different is that a site submitted to directories is only approved if it has quality content, while sites or pages submitted to search engines are just simply accepted; hence, it becomes essential for you to read and follow the directory rules when submitting your site to it. One must not forget that the editors do their job vigilantly and carefully while approving your web content
As for submitting your site to sear engines, it obviously helps in website promotion but it may take quite a while, normally around three to six months. There are actually a few things to consider when submitting to search engines. You need to prepare your website first—and quite painstakingly.
Also you will need to learn SEO or search engine optimization. It’s not difficult, as you may do this by optimizing your blog by improving its elements of web design like loading time; it’s compatibility with the browser, etc. Next comes key word optimization in which you make use of appropriate keywords; these would considerably facilitate your website.
I will now talk about a few more website promotion techniques:
· Write articles – that are helpful to your website and allow other people to publish these like in article directories. The idea of sending newsletters is also favorable to your site as it includes a link to your website. Your subscribers are, in this way, informed and updated on what’s going on at your website.
· Let people link your site to theirs – too is a wonderfully useful technique to generate more visitors to your site. It would definitely improve your ranking in search engines.
· Connecting with forums and discussion boards – is also a good way to broaden the scope of your site and multiply its links on the net.
· Use signature file – that is affixed at the end of your every post may also favor your website a great deal.
· Displaying banner ads in other websites related to your web content also promotes your website, but here you are advised to take pains in designing your ad which must look attractive and appealing enough.
· Writing a press release also helps in website promotion unquestionably. What does it mean? Take pains in writing a good article about your website, then submit it to a variety of publications. You will see how fast and tremendous is the response. You will get new visitors instantly.
I can now hope you are enlightened enough on the subject. You know what to do. At the same time you also need to know what’s to be avoided. I’ll first talk about a very common mistake i.e. relying on free web hosting services. Remember, its biggest disadvantage is that it’s harder for search engines to detect your website if it happens to be just a sub-domain to some main domain on the net. If you are serious about the content and value it as ‘something’, then paid web hosting is the only way to go. Another mistake which many have committed with no results is being attracted by lucrative offers by some companies who promise to connect your site with thousands of other sites or search engines. I will advise you not to be cheated, as majority of these engines or directories has minimal or negligible traffic.
Putting everything in a nutshell, website promotion is slightly difficult and time-consuming a job. You first need to educate yourself by doing good research, and then you and your business will obviously flourish in no time.
I wish you good luck!

By: Ali Jafar Bukhari

The Internet- dependence:

The internet is a blessing as well as a nuisance for man.Many users, being located in the Internet, begin to experience ardor, they ” look forward” their output into the network, feel nervousness, being located off-line, the large part of the free time is carried out in the virtual space.

From one side, virtual contact compensates the incapacity of man to establish “living” contacts with other people, while with another – it preserves and often aggravates its psychological problems. With Kimberly Young, chief researcher of this phenomenon, give certain signs of the forming of dependence on the Internet- space:
One, there is an Obtrusive desire to verify electronic mail.Two, Constant desire to leave into the Internet.
Three, the complaints of those surrounding of the fact that men too much time carries out in the Internet and spends on it too many money.

Rigid prohibitions here will not help. To work at this problem stands gradually.First of all we have to limit Internet access. For example, psychologist Jean- Charles [Nebi] advises to spend on a stay in the world network not more than 10 hours in the week.
Secondly it should be clearly traced out, how one deals in the network. The Internet must become for one, not the place of conducting leisure, but by the method of transfer and obtaining the necessary information.
Thirdly the preference should be given to the real, but not virtual contacts and forthly one should realise the fact that this dependence can impoverishes one’s life , as it negatively affects health. Realization of harm – already step toward the release.

Mobile dependence:

Mobile phone is an invention as important  as computer is.To reproach contemporary person in the fact that it practically does not part from the cell phone, at least, is strange: cell phone became the integral part of our life. But nevertheless now and then our predilection to the contact by means of this miracle of technology oversteps the limits.

Mobile Phone Dependence:

Psychologists revealed the following factors, which signal about the forming of the mobile dependence: Firstly, Unjustifiably frequent use of a cell phone. Men constantly use mobile in the hands: balance is checked, he writes or reads SMS, can find any information just pressing a button.Thus it usually protects from the uncomfortable situation. Secondly the frequent replacement of telephones now and then overgrows into the present mania. Man is ready to forego “old” model only on the ground, that left its newer version. Telephone no longer is received as the means of contact, but is converted into the fashionable accessory, the marker of personal significance.

It is said,”Bell for the bell and SMS for SMS.” In Mobilophobia, one is ready to use a telephone literally on any occasion, even if in this case more convenient it would be to have a talk personally. SMS mania is one of the manifestations of mobile dependence. Man prefers to be exchanged virtual messages instead of conducting of oral conversation. Again a question arises; how to deal with this problem amicably?
At very early stage, it is necessary to try objectively to look to itself from the side and to find the reason, which does not give to forego the attachment.
secondly one should turn off his or her telephone on the night. When it is not necessary – to remove it into the pocket, into the bag, and not to twirl in the hands.
Thirdly one should disconnect cell phone on leisure, having preliminarily warned about this of close ones

How this does occur? Processings, an excessive feeling of responsibility, the need to constantly remind all about its significance, of anxiety, inability to be weakened. Most frequently man departs with the head to the work in order to fence off from the peace, to deviate from the solution of some personal problems.
Psychologists concur in the opinion: dependence usually testifies about the inability to exist in the real peace, by such means of men simply he attempts to be protected. But departing to the virtual peace, it only deprives itself the possibility to live valuable life.