Want to build trust with ten simple trust building techniques?

OK, that was a silly question. Of course you do.

Trust is generally an exercise in creating a site environment in which readers respond well to and are willing to pass along your site details to others. To present a case that visitor find beneficial and trustworthy you need to follow some simple common sense techniques..

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It seems that just about everyone has some type of website these days. People have different objectives such as services, content-driven, entertainment, personal, selling products and much more.   Regardless what your website is designed to carry out the primary objective is get users coming and to continue revisiting.

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Are you prepared Sony’s latest PC range and concept ideas? When I first laid eyes on these machines a feeling of being outdated had overcome my mind. My recent purchase of the Dell XPS 1210 notebook seemed worthless and inadequate to the new Vaio Zoom concept, designed by Eno Setiawan.

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So it’s been around ten days since the new theme and adding the new vanilla forum.  Something that I’ve noticed about the site even before the re design was the slow load time. So what have I’ve done to help speed things up more?

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There are number of reasons that you should be using PHP redirects for your affiliate ads. Redirects are nothing new really and bloggers have been using this method to mask their affiliate URLs for some time now.

Why exactly would a blogger want to hide an affiliate ad anyway? Just a few reasons; maintain site integrity, load speed, prevent search engine penalization, keep code clean from complex affiliate javascript, domain consistency, maintain affiliates one sub-directory, and insure that your site receives credit for the given resource.   

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Certainly a lot of hype at the moment over the new Blog Rush widget and many bloggers seem to be in agreement that they are willing to give it a shot.

Since its launch on the 15th a great deal of real blogrush buss has been radiating from this new service that helps bloggers find new readers.

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It seems that there has been an interesting debate for quite some time on whether bloggers should accept gifts from vendors.

Many mainstream companies, even Microsoft have been working closely with their PR agencies in a rather aggressive attempt to target the blogosphere in order to get coverage for their up and coming products.

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Some Tuesday humor: I went golfing a while back and came across this sign on the golf course. A very strict policy, removing golfer balls!  Sorry for the pic quality taken on my phone cam. 

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UPDATE: New Vanilla Forum Is Live, Signup and post your discussion!  Just click sign in upper right in the header and then click Apply for membership. Once you’re approved you can start posting your discussions.

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Most all printed text in media books, magazines, newspapers and magazines are justified.  During the process of the new site redesign we decided to set text to be justified.  In general I do not have a preference when reading, over justified text or a jagged right margin.

The decision for Ja Kel Daily was made after analyzing the over all look of the site and determining from our opinion mostly that the over all look is better for the site. What do you think?

There have been many debatable arguments made in support of both justified text and keeping with the jagged right margin.  Supporters of justified text will tell you that it looks professional but the jaggetors will quickly let you know that it comes at the expense of readability.

My overall observation of the blogosphere is that most everyone is using jagged right margins. Is it time to make a change and go with the mainstream look or are you having trouble reading this article because I’ve justified it? 

Just yesterday I started the new site re design and blogger.com integration.  To catch all readers up too date my wife and I started out blogging with a blogger.com account and around 1 year later I decided to start a blog tips slash personal blog with Wordpress. 

At that time this is when the domain Ja Kel Daily became a reality - Ja Kel stands for Jason and Kelly abbreviated.  Our blogger account still alive and well (http://fashionbyjakel.blogspot.com) but forwarded with a cname record to (http://www.jakeldaily.com). 

For most it’s a hard decision to up and move to Wordpress and say good bye to all those back links and even PageRank.  We on the other hand have decided to stick with blogger and attempt to integrate the two.

I’m not a website design guru by far but I have to admit I have impressed myself this time with the current process of the integration of the sites.  So far I have not had any help, just the use of Google searches.

Site navigation tool bar I am sure that you have noticed a few new sections.  The celebrity gossip section is in fact the Blogger account located under the celebrity + fashion link and all others are Wordpress blogs individual installed into separate folders representing what the content will be. 

My personal blog that you are currently reading is under blog tips and starting tomorrow I will only be posting articles releted to blog tips and all personal posts will now be posted under the personal section.

Video podcast yep I’m not exactly sure when we will start our videos but it will be a weekly video posted every Sunday.  Last but not least the forum this area I will actually have to hire someone unless I figure it out sometime soon because I want it integrated into the layout and not a separate look that it has now.

 Almost forgot also working on a new logo!