With the slow death of newspapers and magazines in favor of new media, the loss of revenue from classifieds has been a tough reality for printed paper.

Paid ads have been a constant source of revenue for small and big newspapers until some years ago. Or, more precisely, before the Internet. The explosion of Internet penetration brought a huge number of alternatives for those who want to buy or sell second hand.

Some weeks ago the Norwegian media giant Schibsted entered the Indian market with Sahipasand, an Indian version of their free classified ads model. Sahipasand is based upon the Swedish Blocket and belongs to a network made of more than twenty sites in as many different countries.

Considering the number of competing sites in this sector I was expecting to see the standard model (let’s call it “the Craigslist model”). Instead, what Shaipasand offers is a very clean and stramlined experience.

From the homepage the user is prompted to choose a region. This is a pretty strong difference compared to most other classified sites, where category has the priority. From this very first approach, Sahipasand shows its interest in focusing exchanges on the local level.

After the user has choosen a region, is possible to see all the most recent ads in that region. The number of ads is remarkable, especially considering how young the site is. From houses to cars and jobs, the categories are limited in number but cover most merchandise. In order to keep a family feeling to the site, there are no personal or dating ads.

Inserting an ad is also very simple and just requires filling a form (with no registration required). The system used by Sahipasand represents a rethinking of the traditional model of free ads sites and it will be interesting to see how they will do in a relatively young but competitive market such as India.

The Samsung Galaxy S should seriously take a look in the mirror and ask itself, “Am I really a Galaxy Samsung S or am I an iPhone?” This phone is very similar in design to the latest release by Apple and with dimensions measuring at 122.4×64.2×9.9mm, you wouldn’t be blamed for mistaking it for one.

Unfortunately for Apple, and despite the remarkable similarities, this phone is not just an iPhone replica and it is far superior to the last samsung wave. Samsung have developed a smart phone that boasts some of the most innovative technology on the market today; never mind an attempt to de-thrown the iPhone, it may just do that.

This phone is super light at 118g but don’t be fooled, its design is by no means cheap. The light chassis houses one of the highest quality Super AMOLED touch screens, and measuring at 4” it’s not exactly small, allowing for high quality picture viewing from the 5Megapixel camera.

The touch screen capability, coupled with ingenious interface design, makes this hand set so simple to use and has led to the Galaxy acquiring more of those customers who may not be totally savvy with touch screen technology.  In fact many aspects of this phone’s design would be suited to a new user of smart phone technology as all the basics are there, and more!

With a more or less unlimited call record and contact memory, it is clear that even the tiniest details have been attended to and many would struggle to find a user who has not been surprised by the increased usability of even the most basic of functions.

The Samsung Galaxy S is not the cheapest smart phone on the market but when you consider what you are actually paying for, the price seems to be fairly reasonable. This handset can be picked for around £30 a month on an 18 or 24 month deal. Pick up the Samsung galaxy s now at phones4u.co.uk, visit the site to see all thier latest deals

Websites are really becoming a necessity these days, and everyone is going to create a website these days. Now if someone is preparing the website, then does it mean that he knows everything about a website? I guess NO.

Let me guide you about a few quick terms which you need to know about the websites. You should know about these terms as you might need them while building your website from scratch.

Domain Name:  Domain name is like the postal address of your website. As someone mails us and the mail reach to the postal address, similarly if someone is sending the request to the domain name, then he or she will get the website which is associated with that particular domain name. It is the unique identity, and it has two parts. First part is known as the domain name and second one is known as the extension, like bestitcrunch is the domain name of my website while .info is its extension. There are different types of extensions available in the online world and these are .com, .info, .org, .us, .in, .co.in etc.

Web Hosting: Web hosting is the most important aspect associated with your website. It is like having your house in the postal address which you have. You can design your website in any manner but it is useless if no one other than you can see it. So it should require the web hosting where you can save your website and other people can then access your website. Web hosting is nothing special as it is simply the space of the memory of a system, which is actually a web server.

Web Space: When you purchase a web hosting you will get some amount of memory space on that server, this space is known as the web space. You must know about the web space which you are getting. I still remember my first website www.webtools-support.com and I purchased a space of 20MB for it, but later I came to know that it is too less, and till that time I was not a user who can even think about changing the web server, so I faced many problems with the website. Later I changed the web hosting of the site. So if you don’t want to face any sort of problem you should opt for higher web space, 512 MB, or 1 GB would be normal.

Bandwidth: Bandwidth is something which is not yet known to many people out there. Whenever you are purchasing a web hosting you should know about the bandwidth which they are offering to you. Bandwidth is a measure of data communication associated with your website, and it is counted on a monthly basis.

Web Designing: It is the look of your website; you can use different types of images and flash to get the perfect look of your site. You should not compromise with the designing of the site, as you won’t prefer to do the same with your hose too. You will always try to get the perfect look for your home, so why not for the website too?

Development: Popularly known as the web development part, it is the last phase of building the website and it might not be required too. It is required for preparing the admin section or for some back end process on the website. Whenever you are using any sort of database you need the help of the development part. There are many free development tools available in the market.

So knowing these terms will surely enhance your knowledge about building the website from scratch. Do let me know if I can help you in any way in building the website.

You are most likely to learn about several success stories about e-commerce. However, there are some businesses that have not made it in spite of several attempts. So there are good results and flops, too. What made some of the internet based businesspersons to reach the top level in the sale of products and/ or services? How could they achieve the target and earn a huge amount as profit? How could they succeed in this era of bold competition worldwide? What did they do to increase the web traffic to their website? The answer to all these questions is only one. And the answer is not in many words. The answer is just two common words: smart moves.

In case you are a businessperson and want to boost your business through the internet, start making smart moves right now. You are most likely to create a wining situation for you in less time than expected. Remember that you need to do some hard work and have consistency in order to accomplish your goal. You can increase the web traffic to your site; you can also increase the sale of your products and/ or services, and finally see your profit amount go up correspondingly. This is only possible by making smart moves before it’s too late. Your prompt and smart steps will allow you to survive in this aggressive business scenario. Try to take the following steps and your smart move can reap in large benefits:

1. Appropriate advertising: You may have invested a lot of money in setting up your internet based business. Now is the right time to regain the startup capital amount. You can do so by using the Internet in the right way for publicity.  The internet is definitely a trustworthy medium to find out common and unique information. For example, you can find out the price of different varieties of pizza in New York sitting in New Jersey. You can even order an overcoat from Washington to Texas through the internet. This kind of business is easier when the advertizing is in place. When you want to increase the web traffic to your site and sell your products and /or services, try to do targeted advertising. You can do so by placing your ad in Google Adwords for a fee. With selective keywords, your ad can pop up for the potential customer whenever he or she enters the relevant keywords in the Google search box and clicks on different links. The net surfer is most likely to click on the link in your ad and this will increase the web traffic. Resultantly your sales and profit figure can go up.
2. Tie-up for cross-links: One of the best and most effective concepts is of providing cross-links. Make agreements with some of the popular websites that feature different advertisements. Tie-up with some websites whereby you take ads of that website and that site reciprocates in the same manner. As a result, any web surfer goes to one site, is most likely to click on the other site, too. This can surely increase the web traffic to your site.
3. Use the perfect SEO process: What is SEO? It is the Search Engine Optimization (SEO). It has been defined as an acceptable method of improving the volume or quality of traffic to a specific web site from search engines through typical search results. You may note that the earlier any specific website appears in the search results list, more will be the number of visitors to it. The SEO may focus on different types of searches and this provides that particular web site a special web presence. The unique feature of SEO is that it allows you to get the advantage of generating a large traffic volume to your website. The use of SEO facilitates your website to be even at number one or allow your site in income generation. For example, the successful sales turnout is just 20-25 percent from your existing web traffic. With SEO support, you are most likely to increase this to double or even more. Thus, SEO enhances your net ranking, business and facilitates higher profit.

Just make these smart moves and you can add one more success story. For more information you can also mail us at admin@bestitcrunch.info.

Internet based businesses are increasing all over the world, and more so in the US.  You cannot boost your business without a web presence. It has become highly necessary to create and upload your own website. It should be designed with the business perspective only and not the general ones. Your website should display all your products and / or services that you offer. In addition, you need to make it more impressive with the appropriate content, colors, images plus attractive fonts and different font sizes.

However, this is not enough. An impressively designed website does not necessarily mean that it will be highly visible on the internet. There are umpteen numbers of websites on the net and yours will be only one of them if you do not make extra efforts to make it prominent and ‘search-engine friendly’.

Your aim, at this stage, should be twofold. On the one hand, you should be able to raise the sale of your products and/ or services through your beautiful website. And on the other, you must be able to make sure that more and more people visit your website and become your potential customers. How can you achieve these twin objectives? The answer to this significant question is simple and easy. Are you not ready to believe it? Does it sound incredible? Well, with little hard work and consistency, you will be able to improve the web presence of your site and simultaneously enhance the sale of your products and/ or services.

Remember that Viral marketing is one of the best and most effective methods that can enhance your business.

What exactly is Viral marketing? Well, Viral marketing, also called Viral advertising, relates to a marketing method that uses the pre-existing social networks to increase brand awareness or to achieve other marketing goals such as such as product sales. It can be though the word-of-mouth process or augmented by the network effect. Viral marketing can be done through test messages, video clips, advergames, e-books, images and so on.

Thus, viral marketing is also a strategy that can help divert web traffic to your site and eventually allow you vast profits. It involves a simple and easy script. Many companies have been using this method to increase awareness of the company’s name as well as the product and services offered.

One of the biggest advantages of Viral marketing is that along with another method like the Search Engine Optimization (SEO) it can definitely drive you up and ahead in the rating sphere, too.

Earlier it was said that Microsoft is going to launch a new serach engine by the name of Kumo, a few days back we heared that they have changed the plan to launch Kumo and now they are coming ahead with Bing. Today I saw their new search engine www.bing.com while they are redirecting the domain name www,kumo.com to the Bing one.

As far as look is concerned it is a cool looking search engine, with almost all the features similar to Live, the newer version of the MSN. I am not sure if what I am seeing on the home page of the Bing is same through out the world or it is different according to the geographic location. Although for me it’s look is quite amazing.

Many people are saying that Bing or Kumo is going to fight against the world’s number one search engines Google, but I don’t think that it has the ability to give serious threat to G. I am not sure why Microsoft has planned to launch a new search engine, while they already have MSN. After MSN they launched Live, and now it is Kumo or Bing.

What was the point in launching so many search engines while they were not be able to maintain the MSN too. If you ask me “Why I personally left using MSN?” then I will tell you that moment they started not showing any thing related to site:www.sitename.com query I left using MSN, just because I am an SEO and I use to search many queries related to my site only on a search engine. That is why I love Google. Now see in Bing too they don’t have this facility so why I am gonna use it?

If no one is getting any thing exceptional from other search engines then why will they proceed to use it? In this way how they can compete the world number one search engine Google?

Click here for the ful size image of Bing!

Digg, one of the best social bookmarking site, is a topic of discussion lately due to all the bad reasons. Around 9 out of 10 users of digg are not at all happy with the changes which they are making recently. People are complaining about all these but Digg is not at all interested to entertain them.

Digg

Let me first tell you about Digg. Digg is a place (a nice social bookmarking website) where you can discover and share some good content from web. Whether it is articles, pictures (images) or videos, you can easily share the material which you like to the Digg community. A few years back Digg was the most popular social bookmarking site.

Let me now tell you a few changes which they have made recently, firstly they introduced the Diggbar, a concept which ignited the fire among the heart of many people. Then a few days back they removed the shout facility from their website. It is like putting butter on fire.

Diggbar is in fact a nice concept as far as Digg is concerned, cause it directly stopped the user to take the credit for the URL. It is like earlier if you were discovering something on digg then search engines will directly follow the URL, but from the inclusion of the diggbar many people has fear that the search engines will now not crawl the URL from digg. Even the visitor which will go the news will infact not directly reach to the URL of the website, rather they will reach to the Diggbar.

Secondly, they now removed the shout facility from digg, which was a tool through which any user can share a news within seconds to his friends in digg. Now digg has given the facility to share the news with the help of Twitter or Facebook. These two are also a big name in the field of social bookmarking and social networking field. Now the major concern which is coming in the mind of many people is can they be able to gather as many diggs from the help of twit or FB?

I guess sharing the news with the help of twitter is more useful to those guys who have around 500 or more followers but for the guys who has only around 50 followers will never be successful in digg now. Another benefit which will go to Digg only is that Google gives value to tweet so Digg URLs will get the search engine benefits while they have already removed the direct links to the original story so ultimately Digg will become the King not the user will.

So, these are a few changes which will ultimately help to the so called power users only and thus Digg is losing the user base quickly. For your reference a few day’s back their Alexa Rank was 114, but today it is 181, means they are on downward lines now. Be careful digg.