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How to Get the Most Out of Networking
bismimg 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 [...]
What is a Favicon and why would I need it?
bismimg 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 developed websites. Favicon [...]
Places to advertise – Muslim directories, Part 2
bismimg 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 [...]
Places to advertise your business – Muslim directories
bismimg 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 [...]
Ethnic minorities ‘lack online confidence’
bismimg salaamimg 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 [...]
How do the search engines rank your website? Part-III
bismimg 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 [...]
How do the search engines rank your website? Part-II
bismimg 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 [...]
How do the search engines rank your website? Part-I.
bismimg 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 [...]
The problems with presentations
bismimg 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: [...]
Quotes from the “Presenting To Win” Book
bismimg 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 [...]
