Days to sell

hard work on your part. But you are not relying on someone who claims that they will research your business and be expert enough in a matter of days to sell your product line. Do not fall for the hype. Once you have a web site that you are confident will convert searchers into sales, ...

Fact - Google is the biggest search engine now with more than 200 million searches PER DAY. Suffice to say you're losing out big time if your websites are not listed in Google. Of course your web pages must be indexed by them in the first place to guarantee any rankings. Note you'll not ...

Who is more important to you as a webmaster: the visitor or the search engine? Needless traffic may be important to websites that seek advertising revenue (well, they too need targeted traffic) but you need traffic that caters to your requirement. So for a successful website, both are import...

1. Start a content driven site. Slashdot, Ars Technica, and PlanetSourceCode are all great examples of sites that do not explicitly sell products or services, but make money anyway. They are all about a certain subject that the authors are familiar with. The authors, although they might not g...

Starting an online business can be as simple as opening a Yahoo Store. And as complicated as building your own dynamic e-commerce web site. But no matter how you go about it, you need 7 key ingredients to ensure the success of your online business. 1. Demand You can have the most awesome...

The rules for search engine directory submissions are very different than the rules for getting listed in the search engines. Therefore please read the general submission guidelines in my previous article (Part 2), before proceeding with the more detailed explanations below for each search engin...

Hosting of web sites has essentially become a commodity. There is very little distinguishing one hosting company from the next. Core plans and features are the same and price is no longer a true determining feature. In fact, choosing a host based on the cheapest price can be more expensive in t...

You know the scenario. You get an occasional click from Google for a certain keyword. You go to find out why you aren’t getting more clicks, and you find out that you’re ranked in the 30's, 50's, or heaven forbid, the 300's. “Great”, you think, “I finally get ranked for a good keyword and it’s a wor...

If you are reading this then you have probably experienced the chargeback problem. Over the last 6 months I have prided myself on not getting any chargebacks from a new Mini Site I created. In fact I did have one in that period and I won that dispute. Then May hit and I got slaughtered with 4 in...

If you ever used Google AdWords to advertise your product or service online, you'd have experienced the sheer power of this online advertising medium. In fact, more and more online marketers, both large organizations and 'one-man' companies alike, use Google AdWords for a variety of purposes,...

Just before the close of business on Wednesday, Google announced that it will be launching Gmail, its new free e-mail service set to offer 1000 megabytes of free space to its users. This announcement comes after a flurry of changes at Google, all of which are geared to securing their place as the d...

In-bound links from other web sites to yours provide two avenues to success for your site. First, the number of quality in-bound links pointing to your web site are a major factor that the search engines (including Google) use to rank web pages in their databases. Lots of high-quality in-boun...

Getting your web site listed in the major search engines is an absolute necessity. Why? Because 85% of all people on the Internet use them when searching for information. When they type the keyword or keyword phrase in a major search engine, up pops your web site, or at least you hope so. The...

One of the common issues that marketers face when using Google Adwords, is that the use of popups on the target page for their ad is not permitted. Many Adwords advertisers just completely remove popups from their web site, which can not only significantly damage the profitability that results ...

I'll have to admit that I didn't believe all the hype about Google Adwords for the longest time. Then I caught myself clicking on some of the Adwords ads instead of the search results. That made me think. Five bucks. What's five bucks? Lunch at McDonalds. I could skip that for a day. So I surfe...

What is crontab? Crontab is a unix program that acts as a task scheduler. It serves one purpose and only one. It runs programs at the times or dates that you tell it to. A lot of people seem to get confused whenever the word crontab is mentioned. While the usage may seem somewhat difficult,...

In every myth there is an element of truth. Read the sections below to discover the grain of truth in all of these Internet marketing myths. Myth #1: Internet Marketing is EASY This is probably the biggest myth of all, and let me tell you Internet marketing takes time, effort not mention m...

What makes a good domain name? Well, it's a subjective issue, of course, but here are ten tips to point you in the right direction. 1. Good domain names are easily memorable and easily typed. Generally this means keeping them short. 2. Hyphens should be avoided if possible. When I chose ...

Using PPCs (pay-per-click engines) to get visitors to your web site can be a very effective way to drive traffic to your web site and increase your profits. If you do it right, the profits you receive will far out-weigh the costs. But if you do it wrong, you can end up spending a lot of mone...

It's tempting. There are so many companies offering cut-rate hosting - loaded with astounding post-futuristic techno-gizmo features ! - that it just makes sense to save a few dollars, right? Think again. First, consider how much you would be saving. If you run a business site, saving $5, $10 ...