Nowadays speed and agility are essential parts of day to day life especially when we talk about computers and internet. Gone are the days of dial-up internet and 133Hz Pentium processors. Thank God for Broadband and multi-core processors. But despite all the technology available to make our computers faster with time they tend to slow down. What to do then?

In this article I’ll give you some tips to improve the processing speed of your computers. These tips are more or less in chronological order and when you reach the end of this article you will understand why.

Removing Temp Files

Many people are not even aware they exist, but they and with time they occupy huge slots of space within hard drives and start to slow computers down.

There is a simple and easy solution for this problem and it is called Ccleaner. This software is free to download and will clean up all the unwanted Temp files from your hard drives and optimise your computers performance which leads us to my next tip.

Where to find Ccleaner?

Simply do a search in Google and many download options will show up.

Optimising Performance

It sounds geeky but it is also fairly simple. To optimise performance you need to defrag your disks. Wait don’t panic!

Assuming that you use Windows, go to the start menu, all programs, accessories, system tools and select disk defragmenter. Run it but first make sure all programs are closed, it might take some time so I recommend living it running when you go to sleep. You can also schedule auto-runs, that you way you machine is always optimised to its best performance

SDD RAM Memory Upgrade

This one is a little more complicated and you will require the assistance of an IT Man or your local computer repairs man. If you installed many games, heavy software’s like Photoshop for instance you might notice that your computer is running slower when you play or run this programs. This is because they are using most of your computer memory the SDD RAM Memory.

To solve this problem you need to buy and install more SDD RAM Memory cards and to do that you will need professional help. Contact your IT Man or local computer repairs guy and he or she will be able to assist you in the best options available for your computer and more importantly mother board.

Formatting

Again I suggest you seek professional help for this one. Formatting is in other words restoring your computer to factory settings. By doing this all the data will be erased so make sure you ask whoever does that to you to backup the files and folders you don’t want to be erased.

Buying a new computer

This is my last resort! If you have the money to spare why not buy newer and faster computer but remember the first two tips should be done periodically to any computer be it new or old.

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Touch typing is an essential life skill learnt at primary school age these days and the earlier you learn the faster you will type with time. But if you are like me who self taught yourself how to touch type and still not happy with your typing speed here are some tips to increase your touch typing speed.

It is rather frustrating to see your nephews and little cousins flying through the keyboard typing hundreds of keywords per minute without looking at the keyword, isn’t it? Yes, I know the feeling I’ve been there once.

Or at work when your boss asks you to digitalise a document and you take ages to do it because you can’t look at the paper and type at the same time.

Worry no more, your hunting and pecking days are over after you follow my tips to increase your touch typing speed you’ll be typing as fast as those little devils that were making fun of you.

Considering that you are already familiar with the keyboard place all ten fingers over the keyboard in a way that both thumbs are over the space bar. This is way you will start using all ten fingers when typing.

Customise your keyboard, this might sound childish by it does help improve your speed. Now a written text place it next to you and start typing only looking at the paper, you are allowed to occasionally look to the screen but not the keyboard. Aim for 40 words per minute and move yourself up as you feel more confident.

To make things a little harder, cover your keyboard with a piece of cardboard in a way that you can type but can’t see the keys. Repeat the same process as before with the written text.

Consider a touch typing tutor; don’t be ashamed of referring to one. There are touch typing programs specifically made for older people just like you and me. These tutors will help you increase your typing speed as well as improve your literacy as the senior versions of these software’s use more complex words than the ones used in their junior versions.

Computer games are very useful to help one increase speed, despite not using all keys when play they help your finger become more agile and since you can’t look at the keyboard while playing you develop the confidence you need to type without looking at the keyboard.

Going back to those typing tutors most of them offer “Speed Boosters” which are computer games aimed to help you increase your speed while having a bit of fun.

Last but not least we have practice. Despite everything suggested in this article only with daily practice you will increase your touch typing speed.

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Page optimisation and link building are the bread and butter of SEO, is to say that you can’t have one without the other. In other words a page will never rank first if it doesn’t combine page optimisation with links.

Over the past couple of years a lot of weight has been put in links and the vast majority of SEOs consider it to be the most important ranking signals either on Google or Bing ranking algorithm. But if the page that these links are pointing is not optimised for the right keywords it will lack in relevance which in turn will affect its rankings.

For instance, if a page has 100 links pointing to it with the anchor text “Internet Marketing Bedford” it is likely that this given page will rank well for that term. But if the page itself is not optimised for that term it will never reach the top position on the SERPs.

On the other hand, if the same page is optimised for the term “Internet Marketing Bedford” and has no links pointing to it with the targeted anchor text it won’t reach top position either.

In other words you can’t reach first place by only optimising a page or by only pointing links to it. To reach top positions on the SERPs you need to combine page optimisation with links and vice-versa. I know I haven’t invented the wheel but many SEOs overlook a really important aspect of search engine optimisation and that is relevance.

Many search marketers think they can game the search engines by pointing thousands of links to irrelevant pages in order to rank them well or over-optimise a page to include as many keywords as possible thinking that the more the better.

Search engine optimisation is fairly simple and that is the beauty of it; you can not optimise a page or a website thinking solely on the search engines. Optimise with your end users in mind, provide them with the stuff they are looking for and the search engines will value your efforts by ranking your website on the top of their results pages.

As afore mentioned SEs are looking for relevance because that is their end product, so if your website provides the best relevance for a search query it is more likely to rank higher.

By combining a well optimised page with a good number of links pointing to it with the right keywords as anchor texts I can guarantee you that you will achieve good rankings.

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Many will say that SEO is Internet Marketing, to certain extent that is correct but the right way to put this is to say that SEO is a part of Internet Marketing. Nowadays websites that rely solely on search engine optimisation to market their products and services online are missing out on wide array of opportunities to capitalise.

In this day and age Internet Marketing goes way beyond achieving top rankings on SERPs (search engine results) even thought that still is one of the most profitable ways to make money online.

For those of you that are not familiar with SEO, it is the process of optimising a website with keywords/keyphrases that best describe the products and services offered by this given website in order to rank high in the search engines results pages which in turn will drive qualified traffic.

As afore mentioned there are more ways to advertise your products and services online than simply relying on the search engines to drive traffic to your website.

The Social Media Power

Take Social Media for instance, with millions joining social networks sites like Facebook and Twitter by the hour it has become a valuable and powerful online marketing tool. A recent study revealed from Nielsen’s revealed that 75% of Active American Social Networkers Shop Online and at least 60% of active internet users spend the majority of their time online on Social Media channels like social networks and blogs.

According to the report: “As the influence of social media – and those using social media – continues to grow, it’s crucial for traditional media, retailers, brands and advertisers to understand how different consumer segments use and share content. Consumers frequently trust the recommendations of their peers, making social media an ideal platform for influencers to spread their ideas and purchase power.”

Email Marketing can still work

Email marketing is considered by many outdated and has been overlooked by many marketers these days but if you have audience and do it right and can still be an effective tool to advertise and capitalise online.

In my opinion there are still ways to use email marketing effectively. For example when launching a new website it is a great way to let people know about it and spread the word.

Another good way to use it effectively is to let your costumers know about new products and services. Don’t just send email for the sake of sending them, give your audience a reason to open your emails make them attractive and compiling, add a strong call to action and viola.

Banner Marketing

Many SEOs use banner marketing as part of their link buying schemes which is deemed by Google and other search engines. But if done in way that you clearly show the SEs you are adding banners on websites to advertise your products and services you shouldn’t have a problem and the benefits can be rather good to say the least.

The way forward with banner marketing is to identify high authority websites within your niche that accept advertising and place your banner there. This will not only drive qualified traffic to your website and it will still benefit your SEO campaign. Because these banners are like links and everybody knows that links from high authority websites have great influence in rankings.

These banner links might not carry the same weight as a natural link but I can guarantee you that they help.

As you can see Internet Marketing goes way beyond SEO but that doesn’t mean you should turn your back to search engine optimisation as it still is the most cost effective way to market products and services on the web.

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