I am one of those that have preached for years that it’s all about the back links. It doesn’t matter how much content you’ve got, when it comes to ranking for competitive keywords, it’s all about back links.

So how do we get them?

Start by creating a blog and submitting a couple articles to article sites as well as submitting your blog to the directories.

Then start posting like a wild man or woman.

The more you post, the more you will appear in blog search engines like Technorati, Google Blog Search, and Blog Search Engine.

However, people aren’t going to link to posts that are garbage so don’t sacrifice quality for quantity.

People will link to post that make them think and creates a desire in them to react.

Yes, back links are king but the best way to get them is with content.

“Website Design Companies”

I know that I sometimes come off as being very critical of the web design industry, and I don’t mean to be.

I do believe that most web designers and web design companies are gifted people and the web design community puts out more free resources than any other community I know of.

It doesn’t matter if you’re looking for textures, Photoshop brushes or WordPress themes, there are lots of freebies created and given away by web designers and web design companies all over the internet.

But all that doesn’t change my desire to point out what I feel is a bad design when I come across one however I also enjoy pointing out good designs.

This one was pointed out as being a really good design on another blog however, after checking out the site I was very disappointed, so much so that I had a desire to blog about it.

My problem started the second I landed on the site and couldn’t figure out what I was supposed to do. And once I figured that out and entered the site it didn’t get any better.

Why do people build entrance pages that serve absolutely no use?

I would imagine this site loses half its traffic at the entrance page. The unlucky find their way into the site.

You can check out the site here.

I live in Colombia S.A and the one thing I’ve noticed is the things the government controls never work correctly. Makes me wonder why people would send their kids to them to be educated.

I was reading an article today by John Taylor Gatto and in the article he says that he is quitting and will no longer be teaching.

I just can’t do it anymore. I can’t train children to wait to be told what to do; I can’t train people to drop what they are doing when a bell sounds; I can’t persuade children to feel some justice in their class placement when there isn’t any, and I can’t persuade children to believe teachers have valuable secrets they can acquire by becoming our disciples. That isn’t true.

Government schooling is the most radical adventure in history. It kills the family by monopolizing the best times of childhood and by teaching disrespect for home and parents.

The best part of the article was this;

Good schools don’t need more money or a longer year; they need real free-market choices, variety that speaks to every need and runs risks.

We’ve allowed the government to come in and slowly take charge of assuring our enjoyment and fate. It has absolute power and a desire to be the agent in charge of our happiness.

It provides our security and anticipates our needs. It has developed a society of networks for regulations used to control us. It didn’t break our will but slowly softened it and bent it until they were able to direct us and heard us like sheep.

The government is destroying the free market and if the people around the world don’t make a stand our children will never run their own business or the one we’ve crawled, scrapped and bleed for. We need people in charge that understand the small business owner is the backbone for any economy.

Cool Designs

There are designs around us that we overlook every day, yet when it comes to choosing one product over another, these designs influences our decision without us even realizing it.

Effective packaging designs go outside the box and break the rules that we have become accustomed to, giving the product a unique edge that allows it to stand out from the rest.

People who work in packaging design know that it’s a tough market and they have to have a unique package that appeals to the target market while breaking all the standard rules.

The design has to convey the information about the content and quality of the product, while creating a desire and emotion inside the customer.

Website Designs

Your website design has to work the same way, it needs to create a desire while being unique and telling about the quality and content of your product.

I did an article a while back about colors and how they can affect our emotions. I found it fascinating that colors can create desires in us without us even knowing it.

But did you know pictures do the same thing?

In two studies, young Dutch children share more candy with others after being primed with attributes of Saint Nicholas compared to being primed with a dwarf in the control condition. In a third study, children evaluate sharing more positively after being primed with attributes of Saint Nicholas, and more negatively after being primed with the Toys R Us logo, compared to being primed with a dwarf.

If you didn’t understand all that I’ll try and clear it up a bit.

Kids wanted to share when they were shown a picture of Saint Nicholas and didn’t want to share when shown the Toy R Us logo.

Just like when picking colors, we need to pay attention when picking images for our website.

Images on your site will create a desire when the site visitor sees them, you need to make sure they create the desire your website desires.