Key Tips for Using the Search Engines

Ever felt frustrated of not being able to find what you are looking for in at Google, Yahoo, or Bing?

Why not try using the advance search options or these simple tips:

• add a - if you want the search results to leave out a certain term

• use specific terms to narrow down your search

• if you need a serial number, add 94FBR as one of the key words (I'm not sure if this works)
  

• for specific files such as an mp3 file, add .mp3 to the keywords

These are just some common tips. If you want to find more search tips, read them here: http://www.google.com/support/websearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=134479

Hope this tips will help you and if you know some, share them with us here.

Tips and Tools for Beginning Website Owners

Interested in making a website? As a beginner, I also had a hard time figuring out where to begin in making a website. To help you with your website creation, here are some useful pointers:

1. Try out websites offering website creation services
Some of my favorite ones are Yola, Wix and Weebly. With Yola, creating a website is easy with the drag and drop widgets. For website owners interested in making a flash website, then Wix would be the best option.

2. Create a blog
Creating a blog for a website will help. To create a blog, use the popular blogging sites such as blogspot, typepad and wordpress.


Once you have created the website, be sure to regularly update it with new content and improve the design to make it easier for users to navigate through the website.

After the website has been completed, the next step would be to optimize it for the search engines. To get tips on how to optimize a website, try searching for search engine optimization (SEO) in the search engines (Google, Yahoo, Bing).

Compiled Rules and Tips for Social Media Utilization

The social media uses the Internet to distribute information from users to the internet through social interaction. Through social interaction, users can build friendly relationships and share useful information with other users.

By using social media websites, internet users can easily post and access information in the internet. Some examples of social media software applications in the internet include Blogger, Twitter, Facebook, Wikipedia, Flickr, and Youtube.

Since social media websites acts as a place where people can interact and share their ideas and thoughts, learning some rules and tips on using social media websites can be effective in becoming a respectable member in these websites.

Here are some recommended tips and rules I found in the Internet:

1. Actively Participate in the community
2. Avoid Spamming and other acts that can disturb others
3. Contribute ideas that enhances the discussion
4. Avoid Flaming (posting hostile messages deliberately)
5. Build strong and open relationships with other users
6. Building a friendly and respectable profile can give you a good reputation
7. Be friendly, courteous and helpful to other users
8. Be open-minded and listen to other users
9. Be responsible for your actions
10. Use various social media tools for your social media software applications

There are plenty of social media tools that can be found in the Internet. Searching for these tools and using them for your social media software applications can give you an advantage.

It is always good to remember that social media is a medium where other users interact in the Internet. Practicing social etiquettes online can greatly help anyone become successful in the Internet.

Sources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_media
http://digitallabz.com/blogs/the-11-rules-of-social-media-etiquette.html
http://www.socialmediatoday.com/SMC/24209