Commission is an ugly word to many, but in the right circumstances a commission can be huge and worth your effort. As a service company you expect to be paid for your services. But sometimes you come across situations in big business where the economy is bad and the potential customer does not want to spend the money right now. Even if the possible return on investment makes sense.

This is the first post in the new unofficial script support category. I will be posting these unofficial script support blogs here and there. You can comment on the post to request assistance (knowledge) and we will do our best to help you out.

This post is about XZero Classifieds. The script is a classifieds php script from http://www.xzeroscripts.com

The reason for posting it here is because the script author has mysteriously vanished and not answering calls to verify customers on the forum. The forum is limited access hence the issue for new customers. This type of things occasionally happens when freelance developers come out with a commercial script. Maybe due to health issues or other personal matters they cannot tend to the product as much as they used to.

If you have any issues with the XZero Classifieds script such as install errors or anything feel free to comment below and we will answer as soon as we can.

Meta tags used to have a huge impact on rankings way back in the day. This is because even the now-a-day big search engines used to use meta tags in their algorithm. What happened afterwards is keyword stuffing and abuse of meta tags. Webmasters would post text in the keywords and descriptions that did not match the page content and redirect visitors to websites that were not relevant to their search.

Search engines quickly put out this fire. These days, big search engines do not go by the keywords and descriptions that websites use, but rather the actual content on the website. This brings up the question of whether or not to use meta tags.

It shouldn’t really be a question. Search engines do look at your meta tags, and if it matches the page content then search engines sometimes use your meta description in your listings. However, if you are listed in the DMOZ directory then your description may default to the DMOZ version. It does not always happen but you will see it happen a good amount of the time.

I have come across so-called seo experts who argued that meta tags make no difference in rankings whatsoever. Well guess what buddy… you are a moron. Through my many YEARS in the seo business I have tested the theory. My findings show that if you DO create meta tags and match it to page content 100% then you will achieve better rankings than a website with the same exact content as you without using meta tags. This does however depending on other factors on your website. Factors such as cluttered javascript, validation issues, div versus tables, etc. But if you build identical websites and one uses while the other doesn’t then the one WITH will win the fight in the end.

When you create a website using a dynamic cms you are able to update your website regularly with new information. For example this wordpress blog we are using allows us to post new blogs and pages any time we wish. We can even create a new post and delay it’s publishing until the time and date that we want. This specific post was written on Saturday night after 9pm cst, but it will not be published until Sunday around noon. This allows you to create posts constantly and by delaying the posts you are leveraging them as a frequently updated blog with original content.

By adding new content on a regular basis you are keeping search engine spiders on your website. Your posts will end up getting priority rankings over other websites with static content. It does not happen instantly, but you should see a huge difference in traffic within 90 days of this process. If you have analytics installed then you can keep traffic source statistics so you can see this process as it takes place.

Dynamic content allows your website to gain a high PageRank quickly because other websites link to your posts and content. This is because they read something they liked and wanted to share it with their visitors. You may also get inbound links from pingbacks as well if you use a blogging platform.

Your next step is to gain regular readers who comment on your content posts. This will keep spiders on old content and show that the old content is being updated for that page.

Using this process you can effectively avoid having to trade links with websites. Reciprocal linking is ok, but getting inbound links without trading them is much more effective and adds to your PR value faster.

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Check the special offers page often to see how you can save on your next design or marketing project.