Search Engine Optimization or SEO can be tricky at some points or a real nightmare at others. These quick tips will help you optimize your site and each will only take a few seconds.

Step 1 - Choosing the Right Keywords
Before starting any optimization you need to define your keywords, this will greatly improve the process and make things easier for you.

Step 2 - Fix that Title
Each page should have it's own title and should contain your the keyword(s) that you are targeting on that page. Watch out for stop words such as and or or these can cause search engines to stop reading the title. Instead use the pipe character ( | ).

Step 3 - Use your Head, well Headers
Header tags are very important during optimization, try to get your keyword into one of these tags. The H1 tag is the most important, the H2 - H6 tags are also important.

Step 4 - Strengthen your Keyword
Make your keywords pop with the bold and strong tags.

Step 5 - Use Alt Text
All images on your page should have the alt attribute set, use your keywords here when possible and help boost your site.

Step 6 - Use Titles
Links have an attribute called title which you should set, the title appears when hovering over a link and can also help your optimization. Use your keywords here when possible and help boost your site.

Step 7 - Use Titles
Links have an attribute called title which you should set, the title appears when hovering over a link and can also help your optimization. Use your keywords here when possible and help boost your site.

There are so many more tips and tricks for SEO and these are just a start.

Contact a representative today and let us do all the hard work for you!

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Fast Track Sites has just entered the ranks of the SEO community. True to our motto we will be making Search Engine Optimization affordable to our customers. Our in-depth process will help your site soar to the top of Google quickly and easily, we will take care of all the work while you take care of your business.

Learn more about our process by visiting our SEO page.

Contact a representative today and watch your business soar!

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After much thought and deliberation, we will be discontinuing the free version of all of our applications. This will allow us more time to focus on the Professional versions and give more features to our customers. In the coming days we will be releasing a security update for our applications that build upon the last update and will allow us to pave the way for the future.

As a Thank You gesture to the users of the Free versions of our applications we are offering a 50% discount until the end of March. Simply add the products you wish to buy and enter the code free50 at checkout. We will verify that you currently have the free version installed and we will then send you everything you need to use the professional version of our applications.

Stay tuned in the coming weeks for more info on updates and coming discounts!

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We have released updated packages for all of our applications that implement a new version checker system and have placed a few fixes to make sure this check and others succeed.

There are 4 main files that need to be uploaded from these packages:

php.ini
index.php
includes/constants.php
includes/functions.php or includes/functions/general.php

If your application contains a functions folder you will use the latter version of file 3. The included php.ini is used to make sure that fopen and associated functions are available to the system as some hosting providers block this by default.

In the coming months we will also be working on bringing our Simply AJAX Forum System up to par with our other applications, expect plenty of new features, an updated administration panel, more AJAX, and some new icons. As we have in the past, current license holders will get an upgrade discount.

Stay tuned to our main site and our Twitter page for more info.

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We've begun the process of revamping our custom applications to make them not only better, but easy to use, and with more features than they have in the past. For all of our applications we are utilizing a new icon set and letting you, the user, customize these with your themesinstead of having to use ours and ours alone. We are also doing code cleanup and small bug fixes in each application and rebuilding our free versions from the professional codebase.

So far the following applications have been updated:

• Fast Track Sites Blogging Technology System
• Fast Track Sites Content Management System
• Fast Track Sites Serial Number Tracker System
• Fast Track Sites Trouble Ticket System

That leaves only the following applications:

• Fast Track Sites Client Management System
• Fast Track Sites Simply AJAX Forum System

We are also now offering modules for our applications starting with modules for our Fast Track Sites Blogging Technology System.

For our current clients we are offering discounts on our applications as a way to say "Thank you for your conftinued support!". For more information please contact a representative today.

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If you've ever used Norton you know the woes of subscription, whenever we see someone having to subscribe to these types of services we always recommend AVG Antivirus from Grisoft.

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Today an upgrade for the pro edition of the Fast Track Sites Blogging Technology System has been released. This update fixes the list options for the bbcode section, and also adds lightbox support.

Usage:
[lightbox=path/to/big/image]path/to/small/image[/lightbox]

[list]
[item]Text[/item]
[item]Text[/item]
[/list]

[olist]
[item]Text[/item]
[item]Text[/item]
[/olist]

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April marked the month of the newest release of Ubuntu: Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn. Read the following review to see how stable the system is and how easy upgrading from the extremely stable Dapper Drake release is.



Our Setup:
For our setup we have 3 year old computer running on the following specs.

PC Specs
Ubuntu Dapper Drake
Abit IC-7G Motherboard
Intel Celereon 2.6 GHz Processor
512MB DDR SDRAM
160GB Western Digital Harddrive
LG DVD-ROM Drive
LG CD-RW Drive
nVidia MX440 Graphics Card

Other Hardware:
HP Photosmart Printer
Logitech LX710 Laser Mouse and Keyboard
USB Thumbdrives

Programs We'll Use:
Envy

Overview and Upgrade:
This review is going to be over upgrading my main computer, i've been working on a replacement but since thats noot finished and Dapper is over a year old i decided id test the upgrade. Edgy had given really bad issues with this pc before and a total reinstall became necessary back then, so i was a little on edge about the upgrade.

Before i began the process i made sure i had backups of everything i would need incase of data loss and then fired off the first command:


Sure enough i was able to click and begin the upgrade to Feisty. After several screens i got a few errors about broken packages and the installer stopped from here i edited my /etc/apt/sources.list and changed all my dapper entries to feisty and ran the following:


I had to do this several times to get it working right, finally after a restart i had a new kernel and some new errors, seemed like my system had hit edgy then feisty and one of my new kernels wasnt working properly. After fixing my sources.list, running the above commands a few more times, installing the nVidia drivers using envy, and changing to the new usplash(the custom one i had wasnt working) i had most of my applications working.

Problems:
Other than some boot up errors that were fixed by removing a flash drive on booting, i only have a few complaints, but also a few congrats as well.

My thumbdrive always automounted as usbdisk, in feisty this gets changed to disk. If you try and change the mount point, the drive no longer automounts and you then have to manually mount it, remove the custom mount point, and then unmount it, and replug it in. Apparently if you change the label the drive will mount with that name though.

Something nice but irritating is that Feisty tries to repair or add broken menu items. I had to manually make a kasablanca menu item in the past, when i upgraded, Feisty threw in its own instead of replacing the one that was there. There are both postive and negative sides that could be argued, but hey its just a heads up.

The overall Experience:
The actual upgrade wasn't as bad as it seemed, no life threating errors, no bricked system(the new .20 gave me a scare though), and completely stable in the end. There are several nice new features in feisty. The ability to add desktop effects is nice, my systems kind of buggy with it, but its nice that its there. Theres also a tomboy sticky note replacement that is nice, as well as several new programs.

All in all the new release is extremely stable and extremely great, its also very fault tolerant as i found out. Thumbs up to the Ubuntu team for a great and timely release!

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