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Beauty School

It is no longer easy to spare some moments for ourselves.

There are always a bunch of things to do like going to places,

seeing friends and relatives, meetings to attend, eat

every thing possible at happy hours etc. etc. Taking

care of yourself is not worth the effort any more.

Try to do the best you possibly can during your first

semester at school. Enjoy it while redesigning the style

of your fashion and beauty regimen, unravel the inner beauty

secrets of yours. You need to get each and every fashion

accessory from shoes to purses to trendiest shades of

eye shadow and lip gloss. You can improve the gorgeous

beauty of fall with your own individual choices of what

you are wearing.

Soft, smooth skin…

Take good care of your skin to save it from the rigors of

seasons. The best pampering of your smooth skin can be

done with whipped body creams during the chilly winter

season. You need to stock up on your favorite lotion,

body cream and moisturizer in your dorm room locker as

well as in your purse or back pack so as to have easy

accessibility from any where to tackle dry or cracked skin.

Check online and find out the beauty secrets of celebrities.

The perfect pout…

For the current season, the importance is on your lips.

The trendiest shades for this autumn are bold wine

stain hues. You can choose burgundy, brick, scarlet,

plum etc. out of the list of colors. You need to make

sure the lip color complements and goes along with your

skin tone and hair color. Add some tinted lip gloss to

your favorite lipstick and it will be sure to garner some

passionate kisses!! During this season, check out the

latest in beauty secrets of celebrities.

Flirty fingertips…

The current craze in finger nails is short oval or short

square nails surrounded by dark bold designs. In case you

hate dark, do not choose them. You can use your

traditional favorite. You can achieve a really elegant look

by doing a French manicure which will go great with any

dress you wear.

The sexiest and most popular tones for your eyes this

season are blue, gray and silver. You can experiment

a little bit by mixing textures and hues with your choice

of make up. Apply some eye liner as well. White colored

eye pencil is a rage as of now. If you check out some

magazines or check out the stars and celebrities online

you will find the looks they attain with the help of white

eye liner.

If you want to get attention to your eyes without getting

all the attention away from your lips, the best thing to

do is play up your eye lashes. On special occasions, you

can try some fake eye lashes as well. For your daily use,

you can use a lengthening or thickening mascara as per

the size of your own eye lashes.

Get a little cheeky…

Applying a little bit of pink or reddish shade to your cheek

is always great. This is true at any age. You can totally

change a dull look by light dusting of blush. The most

popular trend of the season is matte skin.

Sexy and subtle eyes will be perfectly alright as the emphasis

during autumn is on lips. You need to always keep your skin

soft, smooth and smelling great with regular application of

quality body creams. You can improve the fall beauty

designs further by your smoky eyes and dark finger tips.

Any lady's appearance will be improved by the subtle

application of blush.

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How to Get Search Engine Traffic to

Your Blog

1. Search Traffic has been an important

part of my blogging

The amount of traffic that the blogs I’ve worked on get from

Search Engines varies considerably from blog to blog but on

my two current blogs I get 25-35% of my traffic from Search

Engines (largely Google).

You can see that Search Engine Traffic is not the biggest source

of traffic (social media takes that award) but it is significant

considering the site gets over a million visits a month.

2. Search Traffic isn’t Everything

Looking at the above chart you see that if I was to only ever focus

upon Search Engine Traffic that I could potentially be loosing up

to 67% of my blog’s traffic.

One of the main points I made yesterday is that people shouldn’t

become obsessed by Search. While it has amazing potential – I

find that sites grow best when they have a variety of sources of

traffic (including from Search Engines).

Here is another chart from the presentation which shows the four

main areas that I put effort into when thinking about driving traffic –

Search, Social Media, Community and Content.

Search Engine Optimization, participating in social media, building

community and producing content are four important elements of

building a site that gets (and keeps) high levels of traffic. When a

blogger becomes obsessed by any one of them

(to the detriment of others) the site can suffer

(or at least not realize its potential).

When the four elements come together a blog can

grow quite rapidly.

3. SEO is Important

Learning the basics of Search Engine Optimization is important

as a blogger. While most blog platforms these days come fairly

well optimized for Google there are always tweaks that can be made.

For example on

WordPress the title tags that are served up by default can be tweaked

to not show your blog’s name on each post on your blog

(or at least to put it after the post name).

There are also a lot of easy ways to optimize a post for search

engine traffic while writing posts. For example

formatting images well with SEO in mind and

using good keywords in titles.

SEO really does make a difference and bloggers who

learn the basics can see significant increases in traffic.

It is well worth investing time into learning it.

Learn more SEO techniques in previous posts on ProBlogger:

• Search Engine Optimization for Blogs
• How to Herd Organic Search Traffic to Your Blog
• Do a Search Engine Optimization Audit on Your Blog

Highly Recommended – Also check out Aaron Wall’s SEObook

for some excellent training on SEO. Consider it an investment

in learning how to drive traffic to your blog.

4. Great Content is More Important than SEO

I felt strange saying this at a conference where SEO companies

were pitching for clients and talking about the importance of

building links to a site – but in my experience the most important

thing you can do to build your blog’s search engine traffic is to

write the most amazing, useful, authoritative and inspiring

content possible.

Here’s the question you need to be asking while writing

each post:

How can I make this the type of post that people

will want to share with others?

Search Engine authority has a habit of coming to those blogs

who consistently produce content that enhances peoples lives,

meets needs and solves problems. If you create something that

does some of these things it is quite likely that the all important

links that your blog needs to build search engine authority will

come as people link up on their blogs, share the link on social

messaging and bookmarking sites, email their friends etc

While great content doesn’t automatically equal lots of traffic –

if you produce it consistently over time and actively participate in

social media and within your blog’s niche it has a habit of building

your traffic and search engine authority.

I’m not anti using link building strategies

(ie asking people for links) but I’ve never really done it

(I may have once or twice in the early days of my blogging).

I know some bloggers who spend many hours each month

‘building links’ but wonder what would happen if instead they

concentrated on using that time to build linkable content?

Perhaps I’m a little naive – but Google is in the business of

ranking the best sites highest. They want to rank great content

in the #1 position – so, my aim as a blogger is to write that kind

of content.

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5 link building tips to increase

your search engine rankings

Links control the web. Links are the basis of search engine rankings

and more links equals more traffic.

I have personally observed that link building is one of the most

solid search engine link factors that are not always easy to

game due to the work it takes to get them. It is also important

to note that the authority of a link matters even more than

the quantity.

Below are 5 solid link building tips to significantly increase

your search engine rankings.

1. Directory Submission: Directory links are one of the

easiest links a webmaster can get. Even though many

webmasters are saying directory links are no longer

effective, I have personally used only directory links

to get more search engine traffic and even Google

pagerank 3 for a website I maintain.

Submitting your website to high quality directories will

help you increase your website search engine rank

and authority. It is also very important to know that

you might not see instant results but I can assure you

that directory links are one of the best and easiest type

of link you can get. Search engines don’t easily rank

websites due to lots of people trying to spam the

search engines, so they take weeks and sometimes

months to rank websites.

2. Article: Using article marketing to get back links

to your blog or website is a little bit

tedious but if properly used can bring about great

results.

It is very important that you write great high quality,

keyword targeted articles because this helps other

webmasters using article directories as their article

source to easily find your articles. If your article

has the right keywords, they will easily find you and

if your article is good enough they will use your article

on their blog which will eventually increase your

back links. It is also very important to use anchor text

keywords at least once in your article and also in your

author bio. Using your anchor text will also help you

get additional backlinks because some webmasters will

just scrape your article without giving you credit but

your backlink in the middle of the article will still be

there.

3. Press Releases: Using Press releases is an effective way

of getting links to your website. Press releases if written

properly can go viral; there had been cases of press

releases being picked up by news websites, which means

more traffic and backlinks for you.

When writing press releases, it is very important to make

sure your press release is newsworthy and compelling,

try submitting it to press release websites and as many

editors as possible.

4. Contests: Website contests are very good ways to get

back links to your website or blog. Depending on how it

is being done, contests can be an effective way to get

traffic to your blog. Some people prefer to do their contests

through twitter but in order to get backlinks, you will

have to tell all your participants to write about your contest

and link back to your blog which means you get more

back links. When holding contests, it is important to give

out great prizes because this is what will make people

join your contest.

5. Social Bookmarks: Social bookmarking sites such

as Digg, reddit and stumbleupon can be a good way to

get backlinks to your blog; they also make it fast and

easy for search engines to index your blog.

Try as much as possible to submit your blog and

always submit your latest posts to top social bookmarking

sites, if done properly, your post can go viral thereby

leading to thousands of visitors to your blog on a single

day but if your post does not go viral, that single link you

get has a long way to help your website.

It is also important to use tags when submitting your

posts to social bookmarking sites because some tag pages

on social bookmarking sites have pagerank which in

turn flows to your website.

Links control the web; leaving link building out of your website

/blog’s schedule can have a negative impact on you on the

long run. The above are 5 great ways to get quality long-lasting

backlinks to your website or blog.

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Nine Things to Know Before Selecting

the Web Host for Your Business

It may seem simple yet it is often times overlooked. When it comes to

choosing the right Internet hosting provider for their websites, the majority

of business owners or companies know very little about making the best

Internet/Web hosting decisions.

• What makes a good Internet/Web hoster for a business website? What makes a bad one?
• How can the wrong Internet/Web hoster help/harm your business?
• What are the different types of Internet/Web hosting services?
• Which ones are best for which industries?

Here are some tips to help you make the right decisions:

1. Understand the types of hosting.
   Know the distinctions between shared, collocated, unmanaged dedicated, and managed dedicated hosting so you can choose the one that is right for your business. It is crucial to understand the difference between the types of hosting offered. As the hosting industry has matured, hosting offers have split into several distinct categories, each with its own strengths and weaknesses.

2. • Shared hosting (sometimes called virtual hosting), means that you are sharing one server with a number of other clients of that company. The host manages the server almost completely (though you maintain your site and your account). They can afford to charge you little since many clients are paying for use of the server. However, companies other than yours are using the resources of that server. That means heavy traffic to one of the other sites on the server can really hammer the performance of your site. Also, you are typically not able to install special software programs on these types of machines, because the host will need to keep a stable environment for all of the clients using the server.
   • Collocated hosting means that you purchase a server from a hardware vendor, like Dell or HP for example, and you supply this server to the host. The host will then plug your server into its network and its redundant power systems. The host is responsible for making sure its network is available, and you are responsible for all support and maintenance of your server. Good hosters will offer management contracts to their collocation clients so that you can outsource much of the support to them and come to an arrangement similar to managed dedicated hosting (see below). Most collocation hosts do not offer this service, however.
   • Unmanaged dedicated hosting is very similar to collocation, except that you lease a server from a host and do not actually own it yourself. Some very limited support (typically Web-based only) is included, but the level of support varies widely from unmanaged dedicated host to unmanaged dedicated host. This type of server can be had for around $99/month. Support levels are typically only provided in general terms.Ask the host to go into specifics about what support they will provide — e.g.,will they apply security patches to your server? — before signing up. This service is typically good for gaming servers (like Doom or Counterstrike servers) or hobbyist servers, but not for serious businesses that need responsive, expert-level service.
   • Managed dedicated hosting means leasing a server from a host and having that company provide a robust level of support and maintenance on the server that is backed by quality guarantees. This maintenance typically includes services such as server uptime monitoring, a hardware warranty, security patch updates, and more. Be sure your managed dedicated host gives you specifics about the managed services included, so that you can be sure they are not disguising an unmanaged dedicated offering as a managed dedicated server. This has been known to happen, unfortunately, which is why it is important to do your homework and ask the right questions.
3. Ask if your potential host’s network has blackholed IPs.
   Many hosts care little about who is actually hosting on their networks, so long as the clients pay their bill. That means many hosters will allow porn sites, SPAMMERS and servers that create security issues on their network for the sake of the dollar. Even if you are to place ethical issues aside, this does, however, have a negative impact on customers in general, when a network gets blackholed for spamming, for example.Getting blackholed means that other networks will refuse e-mail originated from IP addresses that are blacklisted. Some hosts have a number of entire class C (up to 256 IPs) networks blackholed, and will try to redistribute these tainted IPs to new clients. That means if your business relies on legitimate closed loop opt-in e-mail marketing to drive sales, being on such a network can severely cut response to your campaign because your e-mail may never get to its destination having been blocked and filtered out because of the activities of the previous IP users. And you’ll likely be unaware that it is happening.Check with any hosts you are considering to see if their networks are blackholed. Also, here is a link to a third party source that tracks blackholed networks and lists them: www.spamhaus.org/sbl/isp.lassoThe following URL is a good resource to help you understand what is labeled SPAM and what isn’t: www.spamhaus.org/mailinglists.html
4. Don’t confuse size with stability.
   Just because a Web hosting company is big, does not mean it is stable and secure. In fact, many of the biggest filed for bankruptcy protection or were saved by being sold to some other company, in some cases causing uncomfortable transitions in service for their clients. How do you protect yourself? Ask some key questions: How long has the host been in business? Is current ownership the same as always? Are they profitable and cash flow positive from operation-generated revenue?
5. Don’t make price your only priority.
   The old saying “you get what you pay for” applies to most things in life, and hosting is certainly one of those things. When you over-prioritize price, you run the risk of ending up with a host that will provide you with a connection to the Internet and little else in terms of support (and even that connection may be running at maximum capacity or have uptime issues).
6. Make sure your host has fully redundant data centers.
   When dealing with smaller vendors, make sure that they have their own data centers and that those data centers are fully redundant in terms of power and connectivity. Here are a few questions to ask:
   • How many lines do they have coming into the facility?
   • What is the average utilization of their connections? (No matter how large the connection, it if is running at maximum capacity it will be slow.)
   • Do they have redundant power to the servers?
   • Do they have a generator on-site?
   • How often do they test their generator?
   • What sort of security measures do they have in place for the network?
   • What physical security do they have?
   • What type of fire suppression systems do they have in place?
7. Find out if they have actual experienced systems administrators on their support staff.
   When you call in for technical support, it can be a frustrating experience to be stuck talking with a non-technical “customer service” representative when you really need to talk to a systems administrator who can resolve your issues. Find out the structure of their support department, how quickly you can get to an actual systems administrator when you need to, and which systems administrators can help you when you need help.
8. Make sure the host is flexible.
   It is important that the hoster understands how important quality servers are to their clients’ businesses. Even most managed dedicated hosts will not go near supporting applications that are not part of their initial server setup. Find a hoster that has a vast amount of experience to support a wide variety of applications, and one that can bring that expertise to you through their services.
9. Find out what their former/current clients say about them.
   Can your prospective host provide you with success stories for clients with similar configurations to yours? Are they able to provide references from clients who can tell you about their experience using that company?
10. Make sure the host’s support doesn’t include extra charges.
    Make sure any host you consider provides you with a comprehensive list outlining the support they offer so that you can have an understanding of what is supported for free, what is supported at a fee, and what is not supported at all. Many hosts will try to hide a sub-standard level of free support behind non-specific statements of high quality support, so make them get specific to win your business.