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How to Get the Most Out of Networking
Networking is a must for any business, whether they are starting out or whether they are well established. Because not only do you make new contacts but you can resume old ones, find new leads, and help others to find them too.
The art of networking is fairly easy but can be a daunting prospect. The [...]
What is a Favicon and why would I need it?
What Is a Favicon?
A favicon (short for favorites icon and pronounced fav-eye-con), also known as a page icon, an urlicon, website icon, shortcut icon or bookmark icon is a 16×16 pixel square icon (image) associated with a particular website or webpage. You can see the Favicons nearly on all professionally [...]
Places to advertise – Muslim directories, Part 2
Assalamu alaykum,
On my previous post I gave the list of Muslim Directories that we have tried ourselves with the brief description and the price list.
Today I would like to post the rest of the Muslim directories, inshallah.
They are:
Muslim Web Page
Islamic Port
Halal Business Directory
Muslim 411
Business Link Directory
Muslim Businesses USA
Ummah Index
Pakistani Community Portal (Toronto)
Ya Halal
Calgary Islam Directory
Arab [...]
Places to advertise your business – Muslim directories
How many Muslim directories do you know? In how many of them is your business listed?
I was compiling a list of Muslim directories available on the Internet and decided to share it with you, inshallah.
I will try to point out whether any of them is free to join or not.
1. Tijara Pages (UK) – www.tijarapages.com
Online [...]
Ethnic minorities ‘lack online confidence’
I came across this very interesting article on Birmingham Post’s website about the research results conducted by Ofcom.
As the the article claims, the research conducted by Ofcom reveals many people from ethnic minority groups lack confidence finding content online and are concerned about content delivered on digital communications.
Ofcom’s media literacy audit of UK adults from [...]
How do the search engines rank your website? Part-III
Assalamu alaykum.
I hope everyone has had or still having a nice holiday and not too tired of standing around in queues making the most of High Street bargains from shops like PC World
As promised, I would like to elaborate on Google’s next way of ranking a website, namely Link Reputation.
So what is a [...]
How do the search engines rank your website? Part-II
Assalamu alaykum,
This is the continuation of my previous post where I discussed Link Popularity as one of the new ways of ranking websites that Google introduced a few years ago.
Google also introduced another idea which was called Page Rank where not all links were treated equal. For example, if I had 1 link from BBC’s [...]
How do the search engines rank your website? Part-I.
Assalamu alaykum,
Today inshallah, I would like to talk about how search engines like Google and others decide how to rank sites. In other words, what happens inside the search engines that decide to rank one website higher than another.
In early days, the main search engines such as Infoseek, Lycos, Excite etc. used to judge the [...]
The problems with presentations
Assalamu alaykum everyone,
I thought it would be beneficial if I shared this with you. This is an extract from the book “Presenting to Win” I recently mentioned on one of my recent posts. I did so many presentations myself and most probably fell prey to one of those mistakes.
Here is the extract:
The vast majority of [...]
Quotes from the “Presenting To Win” Book
Assalamu alaykum everyone!
Today I would like to share with you some interesting quotes from the “Presenting To Win” book that I mentioned on my yesterday’s post.
So here they come:
…Every presentation is a stepping stone on the path to ultimate success. If any one presentation fails, there will be no tomorrow. You never get a second [...]
