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Site Services for Webmasters in a Hurry

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Currently, I offer five services for existing site owners through Fiverr.com. Check out my profile and order with confidence.

#1 Site Archive: Just in Case

Back up and store your entire site in a zip archive so that you have a record of your site on your own computer. You can open it and use it as a reference.

Now SBI’s servers are pretty stable, and secure… but wouldn’t it be nice to know that you have an archive off site that you can reference. Just in case.

Order Your Site Archive for $5.00 only at Fiverr

#2 Keyword Density Report

Get a detailed report on the keyword density of your pages that will help you determine if your pages are over the recommended limit set by the SEs. The report will help you figure out any pages are likely to be problems, and what words you need to remove.

Order Your Keyword Density Report for $5.00 only at Fiverr

#3 Website Spelling Report

The Website Spelling Report is designed to cut through the nitty gritty details of spell checking thousands (possibly tens of thousands) of words on your site. It will cover most typos, slang words, poor spelling… and much more. The final report will help you to target your errors so you can find them quickly, conveniently & get them done.

Order Your Spelling Report for $5.00 only at Fiverr

#4 Outgoing Links Report

Google now frowns on outgoing links. So it’s a good idea to check with are still valid, which are broken. This outgoing link report will help you do that!

Order Outgoing Links Your Report only at Fiverr (soon)

Needing Blog Hosting

SBI has long offered the ability to connect your own blog as an integrated part of your site. SBI makes use of the subdomain structure… so a blog could be hosted at http://blog.yourdomain.com.

But most hosting companies like Bluehost just don’t get SBI. They don’t know the differences, they don’t know the jargon. I do.

I offer two services for SBI webmasters looking to add a blog. I can… (soon)

Set up a Blog at your hosting | Offer hosting for your blog.

Testimonials

“I’d like to tell everyone just how amazing a job Kenneth’s done in so little time. I’m particularly impressed with his header images, which he designed and if you refresh the site or change pages you’ll see that it changes every time to another image. He fully migrated the site from BB1 to BB2, sorted out all the HTML problems my site had, fixed my relationship with Google, built the mobile site, integrated my social media channels into the site, created a wonderful right sidebar, gave me a great deal of advice to take the site forward, and generally set me back on the path to motivated productivity again. I can’t thank him enough!”

Scott from Top-Ten-Glasgow-Guide.com

“I did enjoy both of these reviews. In fact it was the first time that anybody has reviewed my site and given their honest thoughts and suggestions. These reviews were more helpful than any others and I have already taken one on board with loan store and removed the loan offers from the side menu.”

Joe Kenny from Insure121 dot com

Investing in the Stockmarket: Simple Guide to Beginners

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E*Trade has been one of the top online brokers for stocks & shares since well before the dot com boom of the 1990’s. Now ANZ Share Trading has partnered with E*Trade to bring online dealing to the Antipodean marketplace. Attractive pricing, top quality research and tools make it easy, perhaps too easy, to enter the stock market.

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I was intrigued by some of the tools that E*Trade offers its Australian customers, including a popular education center. Though the basics are well covered in terms of actual trading, it’s likely that unless the new investor is tempted towards ETFs, Sharepacks or Managed Funds, she will need to learn and study some of the basics.

Why? Because prices do go down as well as up. And shorting stocks can be the fastest way to send your account to $0. Especially if you’re using borrowed funds! So I’d like to offer readers my how-to guide on getting started in the stockmarket.

Tip #1: Do your reading

Read about the market in general, get a feel for the general situation right now; find out what sectors are doing well and badly. Look for top tier companies that seem, even in adverse situations, to be doing the ‘right’ thing. Don’t buy anything.

Tip #2: Listen to the Pundits

It’s important to have some idea what people in-the-know are talking about these days, what they’re concerns are, what the buzz words are. But don’t let them influence your choices.

Tip #3: Choose a few companies

Choose a few companies, and start to follow their progress in the newspapers, on TV, and online. Check out their accounts, find out if you can read their public documents. If you can’t, start to study them. Find out what they’re doing, and check for the important numbers: EPS, Book Value, etc. You need to know these.

Tip #4: Start Paper Trading

That’s right. Simply trade on paper (or on Excel). Buy imaginary lots in your head, write it down, and see how it feels. Follow the news, chart the progress, and check the dividends. See how you feel, if you can cope with the ‘ownership’ and risk.

Tip #5: Build your watchlist of companies

That’s that simple. Build a watchlist of companies that you are interested in. But don’t buy or sell. And don’t be afraid of missing out. This fear alone contributes to enough mistakes I’ve made.

Tip #6: Get a grip of your finances

That simple. If you are eager to invest, can you answer these three questions positively? Do you have a 6 month emergency fund? Do you think you can afford to not have access to the month for more than 3 years? Do you think you can bear it if you lose all the money?

Tip #7: Choose your broker carefully

Now it’s time to choose your broker carefully. Read the reviews, check the tools and see if you can try the demo accounts. Perhaps you’ll be lucky and find that you can set up fantasy portfolio!

Remember once you start trading, keep your calm, don’t trade more than you can afford, and try not to churn your trades. If you’ve been a trading investor for a few months, you’ll likely find that you can win and lose money. But remember, never invest all of your cash in one stock… just in case.

Please note: these are personal comments, and as such do not represent investment advice. Do your study carefully, make your own choices. And remember, you can lose far more than you intend to in the stockmarket. It may not be a suitable place to invest for your personal life. Consult a specialist if you’re unsure or don’t understand anything about the stockmarket.

Now if you’ve been investing for a while, what do you wish you had known before you go started? Share with us!

Summer Doldrums or Summer Glee?

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The key to solid investing sounds quite simple in theory, but it is incredibly difficult to do in reality. The overall goal for investors is to find a stock that has a low value, buy it, wait for the value to rise, and then sell it to make a profit. In that one sentence, you get the entire essence of an entire line of work in which brilliant people, such as Scott Reiman, have had a lot of success. However, you can imagine how hard this is to do, so how have they managed it?

What is their secret?

While there are many things that you need to know if you are going to be a successful investor, one of the most important things to understand is the global economy. As the years go by, the world seems to be getting smaller and smaller. People are able to deal with other companies that are located in other countries and even in different continents. Despite this, many businesses work together closely developing products and service.

Parts could be produced in Japan, for example, only to be assembled in the United Kingdom. In this way, the economy of one country can be directly linked to the economy of another country. When the first country starts to struggle economically, it can have a trickle-down effect on the second country. If less parts can be produced, for example, then there are not as many finished products to be assembled. Because of this, consumers are not able to get what they want, and they do not spend their money as freely. They may spend it in other ways, or they may just hold onto it.

Opportunity Strikes?

This means that the economy can begin to look worse, and stock values may dip. However, this dip is not permanent. When the first company begins producing things quickly again, the economies of both countries can rebound, and the stock prices, which are tied to the overall economy, could begin to rise. Those who are very good at investing know how to look for these signs and signals in the numbers.

They can tell when things are shifting and when the economy might be coming back around. They can even tell which specific companies are involved in the process. They can then buy those companies’ stocks while they are still doing poorly, anticipating the upswing, and make a lot of money if they are right and the stock values begin to rise back up again.

Hold on to your Wallet?

With the stock markets wobbling again, some economies are looking ‘spent’ while others are raising their production, it’s hard to figure out which companies are worth looking at, and which are worth avoiding. What stocks are you looking at? What are you selling, too?