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Here’s a quick explanation of how email accounts provided by most website and email hosting providers work (such as us), where and how your email is stored, issues that may occur and some recommendations for different uses.
I’ve wasted hours and hours trying to find a perfect task management system. There are many task management systems out there, with Remember the Milk (RTM), Google Tasks and Todoist all coming to mind… but not a single one I have tried seem to have a crucial component which is email integration. Maybe it’s a bad time for me, I understand there are Google/Greasemonkey issues and also add-on issues with Firefox 3.6, both of which task manages use to integrate their systems into email, but the developers have had long enough to fix these known issues, so maybe they just aren’t good enough.
GMail (see previous blog) is many things to different people, but a few things everyone agrees with is it's simple, efficient and flexible. I emphasise flexible because you can configure it to work that suits your needs. I use it not just for email but as my Task Management System.
RSS Feeds are a very useful and powerful feature that allow your content to be listed on other websites, Twitter, RSS Readers and a lot more, so people can obtain instant up to date new content from you without having to visit your website all the time. So why not export your Interspire Email Marketer Newsletters in the same way? This way even people who do not subscribe to your newsletter will be updated. This blog describes how to export the newsletters as RSS Feeds, its actually very easy.
Google AdSense is a Google application that allows website owners to earn revenue from visitors to their website. It’s those “Ads by Google” links you see on this blog page below this post, and on the right hand column. It’s a great way to earn a little extra income if you have a busy website. This blog describes how to add Google AdSense inside a content page on your Joomla website.
I’ve had a few clients recently ask me to setup a blogging system. I nearly always recommend WordPress because it is one of the most common and powerful blogging systems available and is free to download and use. Setting up the blog is straightforward if you know how to FTP and create a MySQL database on your web hosting account. Once setup it is ready to go, you can start blogging right away.
It is well known one of the most important techniques to increase rankings is backlinks. Google in fact started its ranking algorithm based on the number of other websites that have links to yours. If someone puts a link to your site, they are in fact approving or recommending your website in a way, and that’s how Google sees it. If your website has 5 links to it from other sites, compared to your competitor who has 1000, then your competitor clearly has a site worth linking to, and its rankings will reflect that. This blog describes a great way to increase backlinks to your website without costing anything.
Having a busy schedule means I find it hard to update Twitter often so I am always looking at ways to help. Although it is recommended to write and post the tweets yourself to provide a human interaction, there are a number of automated tweeting systems that can compliment your usual tweeting schedule and make life easier. One such system is Twitter Feed.
Part 1 of my Google Apps Blog series describes what GMail is and the benefit of using it over conventional email accounts with your hosting provider for example.
Google Apps (or Google Products) is a collection of free, browser based, online tools from Google that can dramatically improve your productivity and save costs by replacing commercial systems like Microsoft Outlook. A list of all the free free products Google provide can be found at http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en/options/. To access all these tools all you need is a free Google account.
Part 2 of my Google Apps Blog Series describes what Google Documents is and the benefit of using it over conventional office applications like Microsoft Office.
Part 3 of my Google Apps Blog Series describes what Google Calendar is and the benefit of using it over conventional calendar applications like Microsoft Outlook.
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