This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of Snapdragon by Qualcomm for SocialSpark. All opinions are 100% mine.

I spent almost two decades (19 years to be exact) in San Diego, and the stadium underwent a few name changes during that time. When we left, San Diego’s famous stadium was renamed Qualcomm Stadium. Hey, Qualcomm is huge and who wouldn’t want a stadium named after one’s corporation, right

From Qualcomm to Snapdragon

According to news reports such as Sports Business Daily, Scoop San Diego, and Sign On San Diego, Snapdragon will become the name of the San Diego stadium as the Chargers host the Sunday night football game against Baltimore.

In addition to the Sunday night Chargers game, two college football games will take place inside Snapdragon Stadium:

o December 21 hosted the San Diego County Credit Union Poinsettia Bowl, and

o On December 28th, fans enjoyed the Bridgepoint Education Holiday Bowl.

11 Days Only

During the 11 days Qualcomm “gives up” its name in place of “Snapdragon” as a very smart business move to announce their new power smartphones. You see, Snapdragon processors by Qualcomm are the digital brains inside mobile devices made for top manufacturers like HTC, Nokia, and Samsung. These top mobile phone manufacturers will be using these new brains in their devices!

Eleven short days to make a big impact on the world! And watch for Qualcomm’s new digital brains coming to a mobile device near you

While we are all making our New Year’s resolutions, I’d like to suggest that you add, “In 2012, I’m going to hunker down and build that web site for myself I’ve been putting off for way too long!” And, to make things even easier for you to select a hosting site most appropriate for your needs, Webhostinggrating has ranked hosting possibilities to make it easier for you to select the right host.

Some Words of Wisdom on Web Hosting

When it comes to choosing the right place to host, I suggest first that you not buy your domain name at the same place you plan to host. It may be “easier” but it is (in my opinion) much better to have the domain name separate from your hosting service. Most places are on the up and up, but some hosting companies can make it a royal pain – and more or less hold your domain name hostage – if you pick incorrectly and need to move. Ecommerce is tricky enough, choosing the wrong host will just make things a whole lot more difficult for you.

Using a Web Hosting Directory To Help You Seek Out the Right Host For You

Sure you could go to a major search engine and hunt until the cows come home, but why? A solid web hosting directory is going to make your hunt easier. With the prices listed, and reviews from other users posted, you’ll have a good idea where your resting spot on the web should really be. Lots of information is often provided within such a directory, but do make sure to go to your selected potential host and read the fine print, too.

Whether you’re looking for cheap hosting, a more robust account, or even your own dedicated server, a web hosting directory give you that much needed starting point.

Do make 2012 the year you finally realize that having one domain to advertise (and you can list various programs, products or services on that domain) is much more cost effective. Whether you are an affiliate marketer or a business owner, nothing beats have your own domain and hosting to build links to and ensure good search engine optimization for others to find you.

To this day things have not changed, people love getting “free” stuff, and promotional products are the ideal way to cover that love and get the word out about your services! Selecting a good source for your promotional products though can be tricky. That’s when I ran into a web business called Promopeddler.com.

Variations of Promotional Products

Traditionally most of us picture pens as the mainstay for providing clients and customers with take away gifts to remember us by. However, all that has changed giving your business a much broader range of promotional products.

A small sample of promotional products available at Promopeddler include:

o Corporate gifts
o Promotional apparel
o Promotional shirts
o Promotional shirts
o Promotional tote bags
o Trade show promotional items
o Promotional blankets
o Eco-friendly promotional items

Eco Friendly Promotional Products

One of the most novel ideas I found at their website could be the ideal product you give as a promotional item to clients and customers. The beauty of this particular product is that it is interactive – it practically begs you to “play with it.” I’m talking about their eco friendly wooden maze.

The price is right and, of course, logo branding is the whole point. Whether you take my suggestion or not, you are sure to find the perfect solution and the right promotional products that will serve to remind your clients about you and your service for years to come!

To this day, regardless of what you may be hearing about search engines, search engine optimization remains a key factor for anyone starting out, or maintaining, a website or even a blog. Yes, content is vital. You need to keep your reader interested in what your web site or blog is all about, yet your content itself must reflect proper SEO strategies or you’ll work and work, getting no where fast.

Why Optimize?

Whether your business is local (which by the way is a bit easier to accomplish a presence online) or global, you still need to do what everyone else has been doing for the past decade (or longer):

o Keywords – I’ve seen too many web sites online that either over do the use of keywords, trying to target everything they can lay their hands on or conversely, using all the wrong keywords; ones they don’t stand a remote chance of hitting the front pages of any search engine at all. There are courses out there that assume they are showing you the proper way to select keywords. Most are wrong. While it is a great strategy to see what your competition is doing, if you are not using those keywords on that particular page (or post) as a reinforcement as to why you’ve got it listed at all, then it’s a waste. And, even worse, over time the search engines will pick up on the fact that you are basically cramming keywords into your coding for one purpose only – and they penalize you for doing it wrong.

o Competition – There is an enormous amount of competition for single or smaller phrases, that’s where the idea of the long tailed keyword came into play. It also makes more sense because if you are doing proper research, then you already know that what you are thinking but what others are typing most likely are two very different things. People’s minds work in odd ways. If you are thinking keywords in a straightforward, well this makes the most sense, then you are missing out on all the really strange, but usable, phrases people are typing into the search engines. You could easily place yourself on the front page just by doing your best due diligence to find the proper terms for your area of expertise.

Outsource Your SEO and Get It Right Straight from the Beginning

If you are in doubt regarding your current use of your existing SEO or you are starting a web site and facing the repetitive, but highly necessary, job of optimizing your web site to its full potential, you do have choices. Outsourcing is, of course, a primary one. So don’t ignore the challenges with search engine optimization pretending you don’t have to optimize. It would be more than a bit like shooting yourself in the foot.