kenneth: July 2008 Archives

BPO: Achieving Operational Excellence

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As cost demands continue to take business process outsourcing (BPO) decisions, companies increasingly look for development in business outcomes and transformative advantages when outsourcing finance and accounting, human resources, procurement, and other business processes.

The advantages to be gained by pulling the "operational  excellence" of partners, which includes better business outcomes and results, efficiency, process innovation, improved quality, standardization, data privacy, compliance and continuity. That can be as important as the customary outsourcing benefits of minor labor costs and assets transfer.

This scrutinizes the opportunities for leveraging a BPO partner's operational excellence for improving business results. It also examines the potential impact of the BPO provider's operational practices on delivery, quality, cost, compliance, risk, agility, and continuing optimization.

Speeding up business performance improvement by leveraging a BPO partner's capabilities, operational expertise, and assets is a plan that is gaining attention among organizations that outsource business processes.  Finance and accounting, human resources, and procurement, are the business functions usually viewed as support functions, are now seen as areas of opportunity.  Where a tactical partner's ability to improve speed, quality, process, continuity, security, and compliance can deliver important additional cost savings, reduce risk, and enhance competitive advantage.

Significantly, cost savings through labor arbitrage was the dynamic force for most of the early BPO dealings. Though, with price rises and exchange rates reducing the labor arbitrage benefit, both buyers and providers of BPO services are increasingly looking to improved operational capability and improved business outcomes as the more sustainable benefits of an outsourcing relationship. Business outcome benefits are now common, such as improved cash flow through working capital management or integrated business intelligence far exceeding simple operational cost savings."

Effective Link Baiter

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There are a lot of techniques developed in the World Wide Web today just to increase their website traffic in SERP's, and gain the no.1 spot. Link Baiting is one of the process used to lure surfer's attention in the form of content. When we say bait, it means to "attract". Webmasters used hooks to bait; it is the World Wide Web version of fishing. The hooks can take the avatar of news hook, opposing hook, resource hook, attack hook, or humor hook.

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Essentially, the innovative ways to "get attention", could be anything from gossip, to hard news, to generating opinions, to asking for suggestions. To be effective it must have use, or in other words, content which feed the interests of others.

To be an effective link baiter you need to create link-worthy content and "spread the word" through blogs, interactive forums, and reviews of your work. Taunt the natural curiosity of internet surfers and techies. Maintain your hand on the pace of the World Wide Web.

Be acquainted with what is popular, what works, what methods are ineffective, and so on. The best thing to do is to read blogs, RSS feed, and forums about the Internet and SEO. Make sure or check regularity sites like Technorati, PC world, and Google Zeitgeist. Study reviews as well as headlines and keep an ear open for whispers and excitement.

Try to be unique, and bring facts that are refreshing and not rehashes. Discussions and dialogues work because people love to speak out and give advice, so write content that invites reactions.

Therefore, you must be updated of the ins and outs in the World Wide Web today for your content to keep up with the internet trend. For that reason, it will be easier for you to lure visitors or surfers attention, and link back to you as well.

Avoiding Black Hat SEO

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Let me first discuss what Black Hat SEO is all about. Black Hat SEO is usually defined as techniques to get higher search rankings in a wrong or what search engines consider to be the illegal way. It usually includes one or more of the following characteristics: It directly creates a poor user experience because its process breaks search engine rules and regulations, unethically presents content in a different visual or non-visual way to search engine spiders and search engine users.

In reality, many companies are using this method to increase rankings, trying to confuse spiders and search engine algorithms, and at that, some webmasters don't even know that their formulated technique to increase rankings is "black hat".

The black hat SEO practices will only provide short-term gains in terms of rankings, and if discovered to be utilizing these spammy methods on your Web site, can run the risk of being penalized by search engines.

There are some techniques to avoid Black Hat SEO. First, keyword stuffing: packing long lists of keywords and nothing else onto your site will get you penalized eventually by search engines. Second, doorway pages: basically, doorway page is a "fake" page that the user will never see. It is merely for search engine spiders and attempts to trick them into indexing the site higher. Third is invisible text: putting lists of keywords in white text on a white background in hopes of attracting more search engine spiders. It's not a good way to attract searchers or search engine crawlers.

The tricks above have already worked, temporarily giving sites higher search rankings; that is, until these same sites get banned for using unethical practices.

It is important to learn more high-quality SEO techniques to avoid the risk of being penalize by search engines, as well as to be fair to others. Make use of efficient search engine optimization techniques to get your site ranked higher, and stay away from anything that even looks like Black Hat SEO.


Major SEO Tips

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A lot of different kinds of techniques have been done by website owners, just to achieve higher ranking in SERP's. However, the fundamentals of SEO tips have not changed for a long time now, and every webmaster should implement them to achieve better search ranking.


Many web site owners prefer Google Optimization to refer their sites. Because of quick result of SERP's, compared to Yahoo, MSN or other search engines, and we know that Google is the number one choice for many. The tips that I will share are not just only for Google, but also work for all search engines.

Here are the top most important SEO Tips:

 

            1. Find Related Keyword

This simply means that before building a website you must determine first the niche or theme of your website.  Once you decide on your topic, you need to find keywords and phrases that are related or relevant to your theme, and analyze if the keyword is popular or known by many searchers. It's a waste of time to optimize your website for keywords that nobody is even searching for.

You can find the most popular keyword on WordTracker, KeywordCountry and KeywordElite. These tool's helps you to narrow your keywords to ones that have the highest search volume and not that many websites to compete against which is known as Keyword Effectiveness Index (KEI).


2. Analyze Your Competitors

The website linking structure and number of links pointing to your site or page is vital to ranking High in Google and if you rank good in Google, chances are you'll do well in Yahoo and other search engines, but the top 3 search engines that will bring most traffic are Google, Yahoo and MSN.

It is important to analyze your competitors because search engines do analyze incoming links to your website as part of their ranking criteria which is called Page Rank (PR).

 

       3.  Title Optimization

You should display the title as the first line of text in blue row at the top of any browsing window. The search engine friendly title tag is preferably 3-9 words (60-80 characters) maximum in length, and it shows up in search engine results as a link to your page as well.  You should have at least one main keyword in title tag but don't stuff all of your keywords in it. In addition, make sure that your Page Title Tag is relevant to the content on the page and EVERY page should have its own Title tag.


4. Meta Tags Optimization

Hidden codes of information in the head area of your website are called "meta tags". Meta tags are used to communicate with search engine spiders/crawlers, such as, description, keywords and robots. These Meta tags are the most important Meta tags to utilize in your WebPages. The Meta description tag consists of 25 to 30 words. The best Keyword Meta Tag has 15 to 20 words max. Robots Meta tag will allow search engines recognize if you want a particular page to be indexed or to be follow, and/or not to be followed links on a given page.

The tips above are worth it to optimize your site well in all search engine result pages.

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