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It is important to list your keywords in the meta tag of your webpages. This keywords tag help the search engine to understand what your webpage related to. In this article, we will introduce a keyword tool which help you find out more keywords related to your webpage.

Keyword Crawler is a freeware which helps you to explore the website from the view of a search engine. It crawls your pages and generates a list of keywords that were found and list them in order of occurrence. It is an small and easy to use tool (only 400Kb) that tells you the top 50 words in any website. You can also use this tool to study your competitor website.

In addition, it can count and display internal links and broken links, word density, and retrieve the Google page rank for each page.
It also creates a keyword tag for you. Keyword Crawler can also generate a Google XML sitemap.

You can find the details information from following URL
http://www.webkeysoft.com/en/keyword_crawler.php


First impression is very imporant. You don’t get a second chance to make a first impression.
You need to provide a good impression for your visitor and make them feel comfort to visit your website.
This can build up their trusts and increase the chance to make a deal. Follows are some rules to provide a good impression to the visitor and build up their trusts.

1. Choose a good domain name and webhosting. Don’t opt for the free-hosting.

2. Professional website design. Find a professional web designer to help you.

3. Menu/Navigation must be consistence and intuitive.

4. Ensure no broken links or error pages.

5. Use appropriate language. It’s okay to use technical term if your target visitor is Technical people. But use some simple term if your target visitor is not technical people.

6. Good grammar and spelling or gives the impression of carelessness.

7. Add new contents and update your website regularly.

8. Make a objective comparison with your competitors and not simply put down them.

9. Write a comfort and friendly ‘About Us’ page.

10. Provide email form, tel, address in “Contact Us” page.

11. Post a phone number that people can be found easily. Visitors can call and talk to a person.

12. Provides email address associated with your domain. Don’t use free email address, like hotmail or yahoo.

13. Only ask for information from customers that you really need. Make it as few as possible.

14. State clearly your privacy policy.

15. State clearly your security policy and let visitors know the transaction made is secure and safe.

16. Post your guarantee policy in an eye-catching position.

17. State clearly your refund/returns policy.

18. Put the PayPal logo on your site if you use PayPal.

19. Put the logo of industry association that you have joined.

20. Most important is to build a long-term reputation and not make it in rush.


1. Defrag your computer at least once a month.

Go to “Start > Program Files > Accessories > System tools > Disk defragmenter”.

You can click on “analyze” first before you choose defrag, it will tell you if your disk need to defrag.

2. Do Disk Clean Up at least once every two weeks.

Click “Start > Program Files > Accessories > System tools > Disk Clean Up”. Select the disk you’d like to clean up. It will shows you the files to delet and the spaced released after clean up.

3. Delete and Uninstall unwanted programs from your computer.

Go to “Start > Control Panel > Add/Remove Programs”. You are advised to restart your machine after uninstallation.

4. Unload services from Windows startup.

Check to see any unnecessary program is running when Windows startup.

5. Run anti-spyware programs every week to remove spyware.

6. Run complete scan with your antivirus software at least once a week.

The above tips help to speed up your computer by removing necessary files, stopping unwanted programs, and removing virus/spyware run on your machine.


Reach-a-Mail is a portable email client that can be carried on a USB Disk. You don’t need to install the software into the hard-drive and the software can be run directly on the USB Disk. It’s extremely useful if you need prefer a desktop application rather than a web mail interface.

Reach-a-Mail is a freeware. You can use it to check your email, download mesages, and also send or forward messages.
It also includes a simple address book to store your contacts. It also allows you to import existing contacts (as well as mail and settings) from Outlook Express.

Reach-a-Mail can be used with multiple POP accounts. You can choose to leave messages on the server so they can be retrieved later with your regular email program.

If you need to access your POP email while on the move this is the program to use.

It can be found in following URL

http://smartpctools.com/portable_email/index1.html

Clean Up your Computer



November 29th, 2007


You may preform virus scanning regularly to keep your computer clean from virus. You should also preform regular cleaning on your computer, monitor, keyboard, mouse and other hardwares.

1. Monitor

Use a soften cloth and do not use detergent or other liquid. You are advised to turn the monitor off before cleaning it.
Keep your monitor clear can make your work more effective. It is also important to keep the vents clean to avoid overheating, so remember to remove the dust on the holes at the back of the monitor.

2. Keyboard

Keyboard is easy to trap the dust and dirt. These dust will make your key sticky and not as sensitive as before.
Turn the keyboard upside down and shake to remove dust and dirt. You can also use a soft brush or a can of compressed air to squeeze out the dust. Remember to uplug the keyboard before cleaning.

It is better keep your keyboard covered when you are not using them.

3. Mouse

Take off the cover at the back and the ball out. Clean the ball with a soft cloth. Remove the sticky dust on the two thin wheels. You can also try to shake out dirt that gathers in the hole.

4. Case

Open the case and remove the dust gathered there. Remember to unplug the machine before cleaning and also avoid any physical contacts with the inside components.

Find and delete duplicate files



November 22nd, 2007


In your computer, the temp files, internet temporary files and browser cache always occupied a lot of disk space.
Actually, there are some other files which also occupy a lot of disk space. They are duplicate files.

If you find out the duplicate files in your computer, you will find that there are many.
We introduce a freeware which can help to locate those duplicate file and delete them.

Easy Duplicate Finder is a freeware which can help you to find and delete duplicate files.
The software scans selected folders or drives and produces a list of all files that have the exact same content.
You can choose to delete all of them or only selected files.

It also allows you to preform filtering and setup exclusion.

This freeware can be found from following URL

http://www.snapfiles.com/get/easydupfinder.html


You may receives few hundreds emails each week, but most of them may be spam. Most of these emails will be deleted unread.

If you’re using email marketing to promote your product, how to ensure your email get opened?

1. Don’t spam

2. Use premission email marketing

3. Use real sender name

4. Provide useful information in your email.

5. Don’t bomb your subscriber every days. It is better to send email weekly, monthly but not daily.

6. Send special issues irregularly

Start build your opt-in list. You can put the sign-in form in different pages of your website. It is better if you can provides some free gift to the subsriber, e.g. e-books, reports, discount coupon, etc.


CCleaner is a freeware tool to clean your system from temporary and unnecessary files that accumulate over time. It cleans out allot of things like Temporary internet files, cookies, history, recent documents, Run (in start menu), Empties your Recycle bin, Temporary files and lots more. Also scans for issues and fixes them. You can select the items that you want cleaned, and also specify cookies that should not be deleted.

It is a very fast junk (unused and temporary files etc.) cleaner. It also optimizes the PC with a built-in registry-cleaner. The program comes with a registry scanner that scans for invalid references and options to start cleaning automatically or from the command line.

It is a must have if you want to have a clean and fast PC.

CCleaner is completely free for both individual and commercial use.

Visit the product website at

http://www.ccleaner.com/

Compress more with 7Zip



October 31st, 2007


When we need to handle some big file, we always compress the file with some compression tool to make it smaller. This can greatly save the disk space or the time to transfer.

7Zip is one of the famous compression software. It is s freeware which you can use it freely. You can use 7Zip on any computer, including a computer in a commercial organization.

Better Compression

7Zip offers a the highest compression ratio, which delivers compression results that are usually 30-50% better than standard ZIP.

Support multiple format

7Zip also supports 7z, ZIP, CAB, RAR, ARJ, GZIP, BZIP2, TAR, CPIO, RPM and DEB formats, so it can be used with all popular archive files as well.

Easy to use

7Zip offers a basic file explorer interface and also integrates into the Windows right-click menu. It can be associated with any of the supported formats and also offers commandline support.

http://www.7-zip.org/


BootZilla is a free toolkit for diagnostics and cleanup of malware on Windows-based computers.
It is a compilation of tools intended for use in diagnosing and fixing viral and spyware-related infections on computers. It also has the ability to test memory and hard drives.

It contains of many useful application, includes

  • 7-zip
  • .NET Framework
  • Firefox
  • Java Runtime Environment
  • Microsoft Installer Cleanup Wizard
  • PCI File Recovery
  • DVD Decrypter installer
  • ImgBurn installer
  • Unlocker
  • AVG Free Antivirus installer
  • HijackThis
  • Spybot Search & Destory
  • Symantec Removal Utility
  • WinsockFix-XP
  • Microsoft Sysinternals Tools

and many others…

You can customize your copy to includes those applications that you need.
When your copy is prepared, you can save it into your machine for later use.

It can be saved into USB disk or burn into CD-ROM. When your computer crashes, this USB disk or CD-ROM can provide important recovery tools.

Go to the following website and download the “Latest Build”.

http://www.bootzilla.org