What is cloud computing?

Every business bigger than one person needs to store its data and run its business applications and communications, including email. Many generation of businesses has installed servers   and hired specialist IT staff to run and manage those servers.

With cloud computing you instead rent capacity in a provider’s data centre and connect over the internet. The provider’s staff install, maintain and upgrade hardware and software as required. Typically you’ll rent a service, such as data storage or email or accounting, rather than ‘a server’ as such, and pay €X  amount per user .

Why is it called cloud computing?

Network diagrams have traditionally used a cloud symbol to denote ‘the internet’ or, before that, the telephone network outside the customer’s zone of responsibility.

What services are on offer?

You name it. Google’s Gmail and Microsoft’s Windows Hotmail are email in the cloud. In the lucrative business productivity market, Google Docs and Google Apps compete directly with Microsoft Office and Exchange — the latter now ‘in the cloud’ as Microsoft Online Services.

Accounting, customer relationship management (CRM), project management, email marketing, spam and virus filtering, data storage, ecommerce, online publishing, audio and video streaming, general databases — all available in the cloud.

Why use cloud computing?

Potentially cloud services are cheaper and more flexible. Because they’re internet-based, you can access them from anywhere — often including mobile devices.

Most servers and internet links lie idle most of the time. Cloud providers host many businesses on a pool of hardware, sharing the cost of servers, electricity, data links, backup systems, IT staff and even real estate. A cloud provider can quickly add extra capacity or scale it back again when you need it. Capital expenditure on servers and up-front software licenses, and the unpredictable costs of dealing with emergencies, are replaced by a predictable operational cost.

Can it really cut IT costs by 80%?

That’s hype. Hardware and internet costs are dropping, sure, but supporting end users is still a significant cost. Moving to the cloud removes the cost of maintaining your own systems, but you still need to configure the generic cloud-based service to match your business’ unique needs, train your staff and help them find lost spreadsheets.

Is it secure?

Big cloud providers like Microsoft and Google have some of the best security staff on the planet. Their backup procedures are likely to be better than yours too. (Where are your business data backups right now?) However big cloud providers do represent an attractive target to hackers — if they can break in.

Where is Ireland in all this?

Some big companies have committed to cloud computing and CloudStrong.ie are one of the biggest and well financed cloud computer company in Ireland

On the supply side, CloudStrong.ie is investing heavily to become a player — they’re providing the most up to date  services.

#1: Boosting Your Search Engine Optimization

There are three areas to add website links to your LinkedIn profile. Instead of displaying “My Blog” & “My Website,” click on Edit and then click on Other.  Type in a keyword phrase that describes how people can search to find your business.

For example, I changed my main mortgage website to say Foreclosure Options

I changed “My Blog” to say Social Media Marketing

I changed my Facebook fan page to say Facebook Marketing

What an incredibly easy way to boost your rankings in the search engines! Be sure to optimize your LinkedIn profile as soon as possible before your next client enters your main keyword(s) and finds your competition.

#2: Promoting Your Blog Feed

It is also possible to import your Wordpress blog feed to your profile by searching for the Wordpress application. This is a quick way for others to scan your blog content at a glance.

There is also another blog application on LinkedIn—Blog Link—which supports TypePad, Movable Type, Vox, Wordpress.com, Wordpress.org, Blogger, LiveJournal and many more.

Promote your blog and develop your personal brand. Everyone knows blogs are the best way to cultivate your personal brand. Now you can share your thoughts and insights on your blog on your professional home, LinkedIn.

#3: Creating LinkedIn Ad Campaigns

I had no clue that LinkedIn has its own Direct Ads Campaign targeted to professionals. I felt like I found a hidden treasure at the bottom of a huge sea! Because LinkedIn is a professional site, there is less likelihood of views from random people; rather, more from people interested in business-related information. I will definitely be utilizing this advertising feature this year.

Reach a rapidly growing community of over 57 million professionals (average household income: US $108,000), and select your ad’s audience by seniority, industry, job function, company size, and more.

It is possible to write, target, and start your ad in minutes, pay by clicks or impressions and get started with as little as US $50. Be sure to leverage the power of LinkedIn by using your professional brand to put a face to your business.

#4: Utilizing Events to Engage Clients

I really love LinkedIn’s event features because I “plan” to be an event planner in my next life. It’s not required to be the event coordinator to create an event. An event can be created if you have an interest in going to an event or will be an attendee.

Invitations can also be sent to your LinkedIn network, which will give you an opportunity to meet face to face if they decide to attend. The best feature is the ability to view at a glance all of your network’s upcoming events. As an event planner geek, it rocks my world to promote business events online just like I do in my personal hemisphere.

#5: Using Groups to Connect With People

Most people join groups and never come back to participate in them. I can raise my hand and say that I’m guilty of this bad practice too. I’ve started changing and participating in a lot more groups lately. However, STARTING a group is a great way to have access to email and stay in touch with your group as it grows. It does take some focused effort to grow your group but a great place to start is to invite your current network. As the people from your network join your group, this is visible to their networks’ news feeds which can potentially pique new interest.

I’m really amazed at the size of various groups on LinkedIn. Then I remember that professionals really enjoy networking, so I really shouldn’t be so surprised. Let’s take a look at a few groups on LinkedIn:

Social Media Today—18,078 members at the time of this writing

On Startups—Community of Entrepreneurs—123,680 members at the time of this writing

Real Estate Open Networkers—17,795 members at the time of this writing

Can you imagine having access to this many people at your fingertips?

#6: Getting Recommendations to Attract More Clients

Recommendations are one of the unique features of LinkedIn that sets it apart from other social media networks. What better way to really market your business than by having your colleagues and clients share your expertise?

I’m sure your next question is, “How can I obtain recommendations?” The best way is to live by the old adage:

“Give and you shall receive.”

Recommend your peers and they will return the favor. This is one area that I need to work on this year. It doesn’t take that much time, but if we don’t make it a focus, it won’t happen.

So what about you? Do you feel that LinkedIn is the red-headed stepchild of social media? Do you have any plans for this network in 2010? Let us know in the comments.

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    // connect to mysql database server
include ‘config.php’;
include ‘opendb.php’;

    // fetch data. I am only going to display 8 products.
    $res = mysql_query(“SELECT * FROM usedbikes where Publish = ‘Y’  order by BikeID desc LIMIT 8″);
    $num = mysql_num_rows($res) ;

    // calculate table dimensions. This will display 4 products in a line and then another 4 on the next line.
//If you wanted to display more products change the Limit 8 to Limit 12.
     $per_row = 4;
    $rows = (int) (($num + $per_row – 1) / $per_row);
    $count = 0;
 
    //Create Html table
    echo “\n<table>”;
    for ($i = 0; $i < $rows; $i++)
    {
        echo “\n\t<tr>”;
        for ($j = 0; $j < $per_row; $j++)
        {
            if ($count < $num)
            {
                $it = mysql_fetch_array($res);
                $Model= $it["Model"];
                $Make= $it["Make"];
                $Price= $it["Price"];

//I have a bike details page that i’m going to link to. I am also diplaying the bike image. The images are held in folder called ProductImages.

                  $item1 = “<td width=’160′><br><a href=’UsedBikeDetails.php?BikeID=$BikeID’><img border=’0′ src=’ProductImages/$BikeID.jpg’ width=’150′ height=’200′></a><br><font color=’#CA0202′>Model:</font> $band<br><font color=’#CA0202′>Make:</font> $album <br><font color=’#CA0202′>Price:</font> $Price<br><font color=’#CA0202′>Product ID:</font> $BikeID</td>”;  
                     }
            else
 
                $item1 = “”;

            echo “\n\t\t<td>$item1</td>”;
            $count++;
            
        }
        echo “\n\t</tr>”;
    }
    echo “</table>”;
?>

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<?php

//All the below variables are related to your mysql database
$username = “your_name”;
$password = “your_password”;
$hostname = “localhost”; 

//connection to the database
$dbhandle = mysql_connect($hostname, $username, $password)
 or die(“Unable to connect to MySQL Database”);
echo “Connected to MySQL Database<br>”;

//select a database to work with
$selected = mysql_select_db(“DatabaseName”,$dbhandle)
  or die(“Could not select DatabaseName “);

//execute the SQL query and return records
$result = mysql_query(“SELECT id, model,year FROM cars”);

//fetch tha data from the database
while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
   echo “ID:”.$row{‘id’}.” Name:”.$row{‘model’}.”Year: “. //display the results
   $row{‘year’}.”<br>”;
}
//close the connection
mysql_close($dbhandle);
?>

Don’t forget to create your mysql database and table.

http://slashdot.org (PR9)

http://digg.com (PR8)

http://technorati.com (PR8) (Only Blogs)

http://www.furl.net (PR7)

http://www.backflip.com (PR7)

http://www.hugg.com (PR7)

http://www.mixx.com (PR7)

http://ma.gnolia.com (PR7)

http://www.connotea.org (PR7)

http://mystuff.ask.com (PR7)

http://www.reddit.com (PR7)

http://www.dzone.com (PR7)

http://www.folkd.com (PR7)

http://multiply.com (PR7)

http://www.searchles.com (PR6)

http://de.lirio.us (PR6)

http://www.dotnetkicks.com (PR6)

http://www.bloghop.com (PR6)

http://www.plime.com (PR6)

http://www.bibsonomy.org (PR6)

http://www.clipclip.org (PR6)

http://linkagogo.com (PR6)

http://www.spurl.net (PR6)

http://www.zlitt.com (PR6)

http://www.indianpad.com (PR6)

http://www.tumblr.com (PR6)

http://www.myvmarks.com (PR5)

http://www.listible.com (PR5)

http://www.bringr.com (PR5)

http://faves.com (PR5)

http://www.linkinn.com (PR5)

http://spotback.com (PR5)

http://www.mylinkvault.com (PR5)

http://my.xilinus.com (PR5)

http://linkatopia.com (PR5)

http://www.bumpzee.com (PR5)

http://www.bookmarktracker.com (PR5)

http://www.healthranker.com (PR5) (Only for health retated websites)

http://www.a1-webmarks.com (PR4)

http://www.wirefan.com (PR4)

http://www.bmaccess.net (PR4)

http://blogmarks.net (PR4)

http://www.diigo.com (PR4)

http://www.oyax.com (PR4)

http://socialogs.com (PR4)

http://www.contentpop.com (PR3)

http://www.pixelmo.com (PR3)

http://www.memfrag.com (PR3)

http://getigadget.com (PR3)

http://www.jumptags.com (PR3)

http://www.plugim.com (PR3)

http://www.syncone.net (PR3)

http://postonfire.com (PR3)

http://www.business-planet.net (PR3)

http://www.hatedorloved.com (PR3)

www.HappyNews.com PR 6
www.fannation.com  PR 7
www.poynter.org  PR7
www.ojr.org  PR7
www.longwarjournal.org PR6
www.newsvine.com  PR7

http://blogs.msdn.com  PR7

www.USAToday.com PR7
www.iVillage.com PR7

http://22.tmz.com  PR8

www.espn.go.com PR8
www.dooce.com  PR7
www.tvsquad.com PR7
www.thatsfit.com PR7

http://www.bizjournalsdirectory.com
http://www.zoominfo.com/
http://www.incrawler.com/
http://searchsight.com/
http://www.illumirate.com
http://www.info-listings.com
http://www.ubdaily.com
http://directory.classifieds1000.com
http://www.directorym.net
http://www.prolinkdirectory.com
http://www.dmegs.com
http://www.a1webdirectory.org
http://www.all-linkdirectory.com
http://www.esiq.org
http://www.treshella.co.uk
http://www.ldmstudio.com/
http://www.profitchoice.com/webdir
http://www.aaatattoodirectory.com
http://directory.ezweb-tools.com
http://www.ablazedirectory.com
http://www.ctapda.com
http://www.directory-global.com
http://www.dirozo.com
http://www.pakadtrader.com
http://www.skypemedia.com
http://www.the-free-directory.co.uk
http://www.towerpromote.com
http://www.mygreencorner.com
http://www.dirint.net/
http://www.jetlinks.net/
http://amerifindit.com
http://directory.askbee.net
http://www.boomdirectory.com
http://www.crazyleafdesign.com/webdirectory
http://www.kingoftheweb.net/directory
http://www.madhavweb.com
http://www.monsterdirectory.com.ar
http://www.seagency.net
http://www.webdirectory.co.in
http://www.xland.info

3 CTR Click-through rate. The number of clicks divided by the number of impressions. Expect costs for a click-through to be higher than costs for an impression.

4 PPC Pay per click payment method

6 Conversion rate The number of actions taken or purchases made divided by the number of clicks received

7 Auto Bidding A means by which your bid on a given keyword is automatically changed by 1 cent if your nearest competitor changes their bid.

8 Impression Also known as ad views. “Impression” is the term used to describe the viewing of an ad by the user’s browser.

9 Bounce rate this is the percentage of people who enter a website but leave without going to any other page.

10 Long tail keywords A keyword longer than one phrase. Typically 2 or 3 phrases long and these are typically cheaper and are used by people at the buying stage of their search journey.

11 Quality score Used in Adwords, this is a metric based on relevancy and is used to calculate bid prices for keywords. This has become more advanced over the years.

12 Link Building Campaign An process of connecting with businesses conducting a type of business comparable to yours in order to exchange links and thus move up both in natural search engine robot crawls as well as in pay-per-click campaigns.

13 Link Farming A practice considered unethical by most. It involves a web site linking to others to which it has no connection in terms of the type of business they do, but rather solely for the purpose of increase page ranking in search engines that consider the number of links in their decision on ranking pages.

14 Page Rank (PR) The position that your website has on a given search engine. Often seen abbreviated, as in “I’ve got a PR6 in Google”, meaning you are ranked as number 6 under Goggle for a certain keyword.

15 Reciprocal Linking A practice by which one site links to other (and vice versa) because they offer complementary products, are an affiliated site, etc. The more links one has to other sites usually results in a higher page ranking in search engines, as long as the links are not perceived as link farming.

16 Unique Visitor The number of people who visit a web page. If one person visits the same web page 3 or 4 times, the statistics will list them as 1 unique visitor only.

17 Daily budget amount of money you are ready to spend for the specific AdWords campaign.

18 Google content network Hundreds of thousands of high quality websites, newspapers and internet magazines that cooperate with Google to include targeted AdWords ads.

19 Google search network is a large number of websites as well as email applications and blogs, who have partnered with Google. Advertisers have the option of placing their ads on Google as well as the Google Network for no extra cost. Ads are placed to be as relevant to user searches as possible.

20 Position preference advertisers have an option to choose their preferred positions among other ads, i.e., only be the first or be in positions 1-3 but not lower, etc.

21 Maximum cost-per-click the highest amount that the advertiser is ready to pay for each click. The advertiser can set a maximum CPC for every keyword.

22 Minimum CPC a minimum cost-per-click is assigned to each keyword in the advertiser’s account according to its quality score.

One of the most critical components to getting top search engine rankings is the number of inbound links and link popularity a web site is able to build. Although there are several existing link building strategies available to small businesses (e.g., press releases, directory submissions, article syndication, etc.), social media can help create additional high-value, on-target inbound links that are essential to achieving top placements in the search engines.

For example, each time you use Twitter to publish a link to new content on your web site, that link gets “planted” on the Twitter page of each person following you, and has the potential to spread even further as your followers share that information with their own network of contacts.

Integrated Social Marketing (ISM)TM

If you have properly integrated your social networking profiles together, that same Twitter “tweet” could then be fed via RSS to your Facebook business profile, your corporate blog, your LinkedIn account, and any number of other social sites that you have set up for your business. It’s not a far stretch to imagine the link you broadcast on Twitter could reach dozens, hundreds, or even thousands of other places on the web, all pointing back to your web site! By integrating your social networking profiles with each other, with your web site, and with your existing marketing initiatives, you can easily make one single marketing action (such as a tweet) show up in multiple places online, each containing a new, relevant inbound link to your site.

Quantity AND Quality

In addition to the sheer number of inbound links that are created through social marketing, the value of the links that are created is another important criterion that search engines consider. To be valued by the search engines, inbound links must be from relevant, “quality” web sites, and search engines today give social sites like Facebook and Twitter great value. These sites are highly visible to the search engines, and are constantly taking updates from users. Links tend to be shared according to subject matter, which means the search engines will see them as being relevant and on-target. All of these factors combine to create high-quality inbound links in the eyes of the search engines.