ChatterBox allows you to monitor Twitter conversations that matter to you.

ChatterBox is a new Social Media tool that lets you:

CSS can be tricky-but once mastered you can let your imigination free to create awe inspiring sites that leave the older-table versions in the dust. All you need is ome inspiration. We have collected 15 of the best CSS Galleries that rank the most cutting-edge CSS sites on the web today.

1. CSS Zen Garden aims to excite, inspire, and encourage participation. To begin, view some of the existing designs in the list. Clicking on any one will load the style sheet into this very page. The code remains the same, the only thing that has changed is the external .css file.

2. CSS Illustrated is the first CSS gallery to exclusively showcase websites using illustration as the foundation of modern web design. However, this doesn’t preclude sites that may not be entirely illustrated in their overall design, but contain elements of an illustrated nature.

3. Web Designer Wall: list of 50 websites from 2008 hand-picked from Best Web Gallery.

4. Css Website is an innovative gallery of simple websites. Its purpose is to showcase designer’s work and to expand the CSS design community. We propose a classification by color and contents for a better usability.

5. CSS Elite is a CSS Gallery and Web Development Resources web site

6. CSS Vault useful site for  designers, developers, programmers, managers, or just a CSS advocates.

7. Best Web Gallery is an inspirational gallery site where they collect a wide range of quality design websites.

8. CSSBEAUTY is a project focused on providing its audience with a database of well designed CSS based websites from around the world.

9. Divine CSS website showcases some of the world’s best designed websites (Flash & CSS) from around the world.

10. Best CSS Gallery provides its viewers a huge number of well designed CSS and flash based websites

11. CSS Lounge is a  growing project focused on providing ythe best designed CSS based websites.

12. Web Creme is a clean and  gallery gathering many CSS websites.

13. Stylegala is an online  inspiration guide for web agencies, designers and developers who combine the powers of design, web standards and CSS.

14. CSS Heroes is a gallery of the best standards-compliant web designs which hand-pick the sites and only accept the highest-quality code and visual design.

15. CSS Princess is project with the main idea of promoting and supporting beautiful and interesting CSS sites made by women.

Why Use Facebook for your Business

A well developed Facebook Page can  help you business popularity and recognition by attracting  fans that visit your page often and share it with their Facebook friends and family.

Create your Facebook Page

1. Click the Create a Page for  My Business Link

2. This is found on the bottom of any Facebook Page or this Facebook Link

3. Create your Facebook page by simply following the page’s directions:

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Once you have created your page-then make your Facebook Page work for your business by using these essential Facebook Applications:

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Blogs and Feeds

Facebook Notes: Use this application to pull in your RSS feed from your blog or another content source automatically. The Facebook Note is an important communication tool that can visible to millions of active Facebook users.

How to Add Notes:


1. Click Notes button (on top of your Facebook Page)



2.  Click Import a  Blog Link

You can import posts from one external blog so that they appear along with your notes. Facebook will automatically update your notes whenever you write in your blog. Imported blog posts cannot be edited. If you import too many blog posts in a day, you could be blocked from writing or importing new notes, and this could result in your account being disabled.

3. Enter a URL below to import to your notes.

Add Twitter: Use this application to have your Tweets automatically update your business Facebook Page.

Add Blogg RSS Feed Reader: This RSS App allows you to add a personal blog, corporate blog RSS Feed or any other RSS feed to your Facebook profile for your friends to read. It’s a great way to drive traffic to your blog or website. The RSS feed doesn’t have to be your own blog and you can use the application to publish your favorite feed on your profile, say Engadget, CNET, CNN, BBC Sports or even a custom Google News Feed on your favorite topic.

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Facebook Customization

Add FBML Application: By adding FBML and HTML applications you can add more unique elements to your Facebook Page, like interactive content, clickable images and anchor text. Static FBML Application allows you to add  functionality to your Facebook page by placing a  box in which you can render HTML or FBML (Facebook Markup Language).

How to Add FBML to your Facebook Page:
1. Install
2. Go to edit your page
3. Edit FBML – FBML
4. On the bottom click on “Add another FBML box”
5. Edit the new one
6. Save
7. Add tab onto page

Add Flash: This Facebook Flash application will add a box to your Page in which you can upload your own Flash Files to achieve advanced customization. It can be renamed to maintain the integrity of the page and keep the look and feel consistent with your brand.

Add Extend: With Facebook, your profile comes with fields such as Activities, Interests, and Favorite Music, but Extended Info allows you to add extra fields to your profile, such as Currently Reading, Favorite Foods, or anything you can think of.

Add Posted Item Pro: You can use Posted Items Pro to publish items (videos, photos, web site links, etc.) to your Facebook pages in the same way you publish items to your own profile.  To manage a page, you must first add the Posted Items Pro app to the page and you must be an admin of the page. To edit the Posted Items Pro content displayed on your page, find the page in the list on the right and click “manage page”.

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Business and Promotions

Add Promotions: Wildfire Promotion Builder is a service outside of Facebook that enables you to easily create and manage interactive promotions (sweepstakes, contests, coupon giveaways, etc) within Facebook.

Add Define Me:  Define Me allows others to anonymously list words that define you. The words are then displayed on your profile in a cloud, with the most common words appearing larger to offer an honest look at how others really view you.

Add  a Digital Business Card : GLPrint Business Cards – Use creative tools and instruments to design your virtual business card through a variety of choices offered and display it on your Profile.

Add  IEndorse: I Endorse is a Facebook application that allows you to collect endorsements for the purpose of building your business relationships and reputation whether you provide a product, service, or just want to have fun. There is also a section for users to browse all the business categories to help them find products and services.

Add  My Business Blink Web: With the My BlinkWeb widget, you can show off your website to all of your friends, as well as all of their friends. When your friends install the My BlinkWeb widget,your website will be shown on their profile.

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Facebook Communication

Add  Smart MessageCenter: Send one message to as many group members or event attendees and get back a single, organized, visual result that everyone can share or can be totally private with this Facebook Communication App. Share the results on your group or event wall or your profile. Or output them to XLS, PDF or RSS.

Facebook Networking

Add Linked Badge: Promote your LinkedIn account with a badge on your Facebook profile with this LinkedIn App. Just enter your LinkedIn username or full url to your LinkedIn profile and choose the style of badge.

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Website banners have been around on the World Wide Web since near its conception and precede more dominant web advertising such as Google Adwords and other ‘Pay Per Click’ schemes.

The success of such marketing, apart from the overall rise of users on the Internet is helped by eye-catching and appealing graphics, titles and slogans. Some banner ads ask you to interact with the banner to get the user to click to the sponsor page.

Across the Internet there are many examples of banner ads on a continuous basis as you browse the web and can be found on popular websites such as Yahoo, Facebook and IGN.

Banner Ads are designed in lots of different sizes and shapes. Oblong, square, vertical and horizontal banners cover the Internet in sizes differing from 50 pixels to 1500 pixels and lots of combinations in between. Primarily the banner graphic were still images with images, graphic design and a catchphrase and some kind of text. More recently animated banner ads have renewed these, especially from advertisers with bigger budgets and include as many as five different ’screens’ of graphics, animation and text. Smaller companies and individual website owners do use banners however,yet they have become much less commonplace, especially on websites with high volume traffic as they are more expensive.

Lately differing types of banner ads have produced in line with new web technology and coding. This includes ‘popping-up’ banner ads that stretch over the website’s page that they are displayed on or that enlarge as the mouse cursor moves over the advertisements area. While many do not like the new concepts the ads are said to have an excellent success rate for their advertisers and will therefore remain a favorite for advertisers on the Internet.

Since the early 2000’s new types of Internet advertising have become popular, however large companies still include banner ads as part of their advertising campaign as well as the newer pay per click methods.

The cost of banner advertising depends onthe website they are shown on. As a general rule the more the host’s site’s traffic is the more the price will be to advertise your banner.

Banner graphics are in the form of jpg, png or gif files and animation is created using a Javascript with technology such as Java or Silverlight.

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Linkbaiting is hard to define because it can be a variety of practices – all of which are to generate incoming links to a website or blog. This can be by giving awards awards, having competitions,  and writing posts on other  blogs–something interesting  to catch people’s attention and get them talking.

Linkbaiting is often thought about in negative terms. Some  say that its quality content, others believe its all spam. However  way you do it-it can have a positive affect of bringing traffic to your site.

Think of link baiting  like fishing. You create  a new page/post  and dangle it out into the ocean  of the web.  You wait and hope that some visitors will come and take a nibble and find it a whopper that they have to link to it. The article is the bait and  the link is the catch!

Like a fisherman there are some different kinds of hooks you can use:

News hook is one where you report on industry news-a scoop.

Contrary hook are  contradictions to what someone else says-make it juicy and controversial.

Attack hook is a  personal attack-be careful because with this one you can become fish bait.

Resource hook is an  informational page-like top 20  SEO tools…

Humor hook you post jokes, funny stories, videos, or pictures-think YouTube

Some Popular Link Baiting Ideas:

• Write an interesting article or interview

• Run a newsworthy ‘event’ or contest

• Write something new or controversial

• Be the first to write the latest news in your niche

• Create a tool that others can put on their websites but that links back to you

• Create a resource that is just in time for a major event or holiday

• Give something valuable (a service or good you provide)for free

• Become an expert in your niche and write content rich information about it on your website.

Contextual Link Building and Link Baiting can also be enhanced by publishing Press Releases for other industry related web sites about your web site .

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Keywords are the first step in content writing and SEO (Search Engine Optimization). Without thoroughly researching what keywords you-and your competitors-are targeting, your site will just be another pretty site on the web.

Keywords and Keyword Phrases

Research and evaluate keyword terms that are likely to drive targeted traffic that will result in qualified leads  Create a list that represents the relevant terms and phrases that your company desires to be well ranked for.

Things to consider when developing keyword  search term list:

• Be concise. It is difficult to optimize a site that has an excessive amount of content.
• The more specific the content, the more specific you should make the keywords and phrases on the page.
• There are considerable differences in query volume of similar terms
• Use regional language nuances for international sites.
• Use multi-word phrases, as single word phrases produce low-targeted traffic.
• Utilize paid search results when available.

When targeting a key search phrase, cover as many related keyword phrases as possible to achieve the highest-possible rank. To be effective, it is suggested that an entire page be dedicated to a particular search phrase.

It is recommended that a separate page is created to each solution or service that is offered or provided. This will allow the site to do the following:

• Each page will have target-keyword-rich Metadata; which includes the Title and Description.
• The use of a targeted-keyword-rich page Headings.
• Opportunities to include all the necessary keywords within the content of the page.
• Keyword rich Internal Links to the other pages of the website.
• When formulating keyword goals for the website, use the terminology that internet searchers use versus what professionals use.

Keyword Don’ts:

• Don’t: Hide text from the visitor: Text colored to blend with the background; CSS “Z” positioning to place text “behind” an image; CSS absolute positioning to have the text positioned far from the page center are all common Black Hat techniques.
• Don’t: Use “Noscript” tags to place hidden content within a page.
• Don’t: Insert frequently searched words or terms in order to attract traffic to pages.
• Don’t: Spam or overuse keywords on a page.

NINE FREE SEO  TOOLS:

1. Google.com Keyword Suggestions tool

2. Wordtracker.com Keyword Suggestions tool

3. Digitalpoint.com Keyword Suggestions tool

4. Keyworddiscovery.com Keyword Suggestions tool

5. Selfseo.com Keyword Suggestions tool

6. Bad-neighborhood.com Keyword Suggestions tool

7. Addme.com Keyword Suggestions tool

8. Webconfs.com Keyword Suggestions tool

9. Iwebtool.com Keyword Suggestions tool

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Author:

Angel Singh of  Trendy Geek Design. SEO Expert for companies-large and small. Clients include Intelius, Microsoft, HP and many others.

About the Author
GILL Media is a leading provider of strategic internet marketing and affordable web design for small, medium and large businesses. GILL Media’s services include economical search engine optimization (SEO), social media marketing, e-commerce web design, hosting and internet video. These are only a few of its diverse range of services.