Do I just go on Yahoo! HotJobs or Indeed.com or simplyhired.com, and type "international" as a keyword? This doesn’t seem to be working so well!

I live in the United States, but I have dual Canadian-American citizenship. I want to spend a year overseas, but I want to work during that year.

Currently I work as a research assistant at a federal agency, earning k per year plus full health benefits, and I want to find the same at a multinational company.

My bachelor’s degree is in both political science and economics, but alas I don’t have a master’s degree or a specialization in something technical like actuary or GIS.

Thanks for reading!

I run an embroidery digitizing business and would like to increase my customer base, I have already tried online advertising with many providers, such as Google Adwords, Yahoo and the likes.

Unfortunately nothing seems to work – I have done my own Search Engine Optimization – and even though my site is listed in the top 10 of Yahoo organic search, I have not been receiving any significant enquiries.

I also tried my hands on direct marketing, by mailing postcards – that doesn’t seem to work either and I might I add – its very expensive.

Besides, I reckon that most of the businesses involved in retail embroidery are still not using internet as a means of communication, sales or outsourcing.

I am planning on advertising in newspapers and the thing that I can’t seem to decide is that should I go for ‘Thrifty Nickels’ or ‘Penny Savers’ to get the most for my money.

The basic consideration is that the ads should have a longer shelf life and big circluation and inexpensive.

I simply want to see how my site is ranking in Google, Ask, Yahoo, and MSN. i don’t want to pay a fee for a huge report, nor do I want to be solicited for SE optimization. Just looking for a glimpse into how my site is performing with out having to scroll through endless pages to find it’s listing.
In Response to the post regarding googleranking.com – This is taken from their FAQ:

Q: I am a new user and don’t have an API Key yet. Can you still generate a new Google™ Web Search API key for me?
A: No. The SOAP API program support is now limited to the system working with the existing keys.

I have a site that has done great in the search engine results (top 5 most general term in yahoo, 1st page google) that has had no flash, just basic html and good optimization. I want to add some very basic flash nothing too fancy, will this affect my search engine placement? I guess what I am asking is, do search engines look at flash as a negitive in all or some cases?

Or at least near the top. I have read some great articles about search engine optimization but Ive received mixed information. Im sure each search engine is different, so lets use YAHOO.

Ive read that meta tags (keywords) aren’t looked at anymore. Other places Ive read that having a certain keyword density will push you towards the top.
I understand it would vary based on keywords you use also (like certain keywords are more popular than others, making it more difficult to compete with other sites that use those same keywords).
I also am aware that there are people out there who you can pay to do this seach engine optimization for you, but I really want to do it myself (because this is a service I would like to offer others in the future).

(note: I havent "turned my site in to yahoo’s search engine" yet. I am just trying to work this out before I do)

So what does it take to get towards the top in YAHOO’s search? Is it the meta tags? The keyword density? Something else?
Oh yeah, I’ve also read that it takes like 6 months (once you’ve submitted your site to a search engine) to show up in search results. How much truth is there to that? (Probably varies by search engine, but as much info as possible would be helpful). Thank you!

Link Popularity

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When a Webmaster adds a link to one of the pages of your website, he is basically qualifying the fact that the content in your website is somehow related to the content on his website.

Also it is a claim that the visitors coming to his website can find additional information on the topic by going through your website. This is the fundamental fact of incoming links that most search engines recognize.

So basically, the relevancy and rankings that a search engine imparts to your website will depend a lot on the number, quality and relevancy of incoming links to your website. There are some very specific things that I mean by the three adjectives which I have used in the last statement.

Number: The more the number of incoming links to your website the more highly it will be ranked by a search engine. However when counting the number of incoming links you should almost always focus on the relevant and quality ones.
Relevance: The more relevant the links are the more value your site has in the eyes of search engines. Relevancy basically means that the incoming links comes from a web page, which has content, related to the content on your web page. So for example an incoming link to this tutorial is more relevant if it comes from a SEO oriented website, as opposed to from a website for online gaming.
Quality: One another criteria, which goes into rating incoming links, is the age of the links themselves and the age of the site which houses those links. By age, I mostly mean the time when the Search Engine has discovered the link. The older the website (which houses the incoming link) the more weight the link carries. Please note that this is something, which is used mostly in Google and has little effect for rankings on Yahoo and MSN.

However some caution is required while proceeding on a link building campaign for a website. There are sites which will allow you to ‘buy’ incoming links from them. This is usually a waste of time and resources and these links do little to boost the popularity of your site. This is due to the fact that these sites are mosty unrelated to the content of your website and hence such incoming links are not valued much by search engines.

Moreover, some of these sites are specifically set up for the purpose of providing huge numbers of inbound links to different sites. Such ‘link farms’ distort the natural democratic process of link building which is more based on content relevance and association rather than on an overtly economic interest. Infact some search engines like Google have started black listing such ‘link farms’ and sites which are associated with them. As a result, such methods might do you more harm than good by getting your site blacklisted from Google’s result pages.

There are still a lot of valid techniques you can use for link building. Read ahead and find out the best ways to boost link popularity of your site.

2. Site Optimization

Almost all Search Engines try to use a bit of natural language processing to understand the content of the website and related it to the search terms that they are fed with.. This association of keywords with websites is driven by keywords that appear at specific places in your website. For example:

Keywords that appear in the heading of a web page.
Words appearing in the link text of hyperlinks in a web page.
Words which are not common (like ‘a’, ‘the’ etc.) and which appear in high density in the sentences in the site.

I have been wondering and trying to test this. If you have a website with a Google calendar embedded on it, such as my website http://www.liverystable.net (Events) will the events on the calendar be visible to search engines?

For instance, if someone is searching for a Peter Campbell Horse Training Clinic in Olympia, Washington on March 14, 2008 will the google or yahoo search engines give them my website as a result? I realize my site would probably be listed on the umpteen-millionth page, depending on the popularity of the event searched for. But I have tried to test this, and they don’t seem visible. Which, for search engine optimization purposes, our Events listings would draw more traffic to our website if they were not set up on a Google calendar.

Am I correct? Or can you find events on a Google calendar by searching for them through popular search engines such as Google and Yahoo?

Is it about to come back down to earth? Weak jobs, manufacturing, and auto sales reports this week on top of S & P being in the negative for the first time this year.

BQ: What do you think of this quote below from a Yahoo Finance article today?

"Investors have made the shift from Washington to what I’m calling economic realities," said Fred Dickson, chief market strategist at The Davidson Cos. in Lake Oswego, Oregon.

I need several people to review an article marketing book, and provide me with feedback prior to the publication.

For those that provide feedback, I will provide you with the complete book with all its supplemental information on publication. There will be something else in it for you as well. That info is in chapter 9.

When I have enough reviewers I will choose an answer to this post so as to close it out.

If you desire to help, contact me through my profile. I will supply you with a download link.
Mr. Gurusnith, Thank you for the reply and I would send you the link, but your profile is restricted. cheers JD
If you want access to the book, I will gladly send you the link, however I need some way to send the link. You can either send me a contact through our mutual Yahoo profiles and I’ll respond with the link, or you can give me your website address and I’ll send it that way.

People are always asking what you can do with a history degree and I’ve seen plenty of folks insist it’s worthless. Not according to this:

"Liberal Arts and Business
Besides government, there are a few surprises in the non-numbers oriented college degrees. Several that can lead you to a mid-career salary above ,000 include film production, marketing, advertising, history, philosophy and fashion design. You might not earn the 0,000 per year that you could with one of those top-ten engineering degrees, but if you’re happy in your chosen field then job satisfaction may be enough to compensate for that lost ,000 potential in earnings."

Now then it’s not an assured thing that a history degree would bring in ,000, but it is something to consider as a possibility. And let’s keep in mind that most folks don’t end up making the higher levels of pay any job offers.

Read the full article here: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/The-College-Degrees-You-investopedia-2266073243.html

Also what app will automatically put my files & text into categories by keyword
recognition as well or something similar??
My desktop is a mess & I write lots of notes & sometimes
record research I do on the net.The files are all over the place
(the best i do is just date each note/doc I write & store it by months)
I am running a P4 windows XP stand alone system.
Thank you,in advance.
I understand that part of it Julie but then is there must be some sort of virtual Filofax,organiser or similar? I mean where are you supposed to store them???
I used to use a Filofax for my sales business & that was perfect but the secretary used to store all my admin etc on the PC so i would like to know where she would put them quite simply?
(The Vietnamese guy:)
Yes I agree with you also as I have seen similar programs that are used with other utilities.
It only really needs to make a suggestion for a category(similar to when you post a question on Yahoo, u r advised of a suitable category!)
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like Dysturbia or Rude Boy? How much for composing and recording, and how much for marketing?

I was debating this with my friend. A recent article on yahoo said about ,000 for the song and million for marketing, but I don’t know who did that estimate and if it is accurate

is there any simple steps for how to put my html web site in to the gogle’s or yahoo’s search results..
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i’m not marketing anything i just want to find my web site with google..
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maybe i should change the code or smth.. i’m not a prof web designer so?/
i need some simple and understandable tutorials or steps for SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION …

Often I want to search for reviews of a particular consumer product, but omit the hundreds of sites that sell that product. I have tried various strategies, and none seem to work. Adding the qualifier word ‘review’ doesn’t do any good, as most sales sites have reviews. How can I search for reviews only of a popular consumer product? What search engines would be best? In the past two days, I’ve been looking for reviews of an external hard drive called the ‘Smartdisk Crossfire’ and had to sift through hundreds of pages to find a few reviews. After finding one review, I tried using Google Advanced with the ‘pages similar to this’ option and it struck out badly. Some of the consumer reviews and feedback on Amazon were pretty good though, I must say. THANKS!

(I am new to Yahoo Answers, and posted this in Search Engine Optimization = Wrong place!)

i need the yahoo article describing the details of the batman 3 viral marketing campaign with bane. or any detailed account is fine, as long as you tell me the process in depth.
but i’d like the article nonetheless. thanks!