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Once your Web site is up, you must maintain it. Maintenance means changes, and each time you make a change, you may make a mistake. If your visitors get a link that doesn't work or incomplete instructions, or if your copy is lackluster instead of passionate, they will leave your site and not boo...

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,...

Ever since Google began placing importance on its Page Rank system, website owners have been scrambling to get incoming links to their websites, usually through the means of trading links. Incoming links are important in the Page Rank system, because they are seen as "votes" for your site, and t...

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...

You are not only a Web Consultant, Internet Entrepreneur, or Web Business Owner; you're also an Internet user. Since you are reading this article, you have already achieved a certain level of Web sophistication. It is vitally important that when you make decisions regarding a website, an Inte...

Is your website listed on search engines? When people search for you, does your site show up on page 1 or page 20 of the search engine results? Optimizing your site to get it ranked highly on the search engines can be a complicated subject. To simplify things, it's helpful to first understand...

Getting listed in search engines can be a lot of work. "Free" submission tools are worth about what you pay for them and, worse, can be detrimental to your efforts. Yet you don't have the time to do it yourself by hand. What do you do? You hire a professional. A professional search engine m...

The Basic Stuff Every website needs a domain name. Example "WebBootCamp.com" is a domain name. Your domain is your website address, a.k.a. URL (universal resource locator). Should you use your company name for your domain? Maybe, maybe not. Is it memorable? Easy to spell? Does it contain keyw...

The votes are in and everyone agrees to the fact... I knew no one was really willing, just because someone has developed that doesn't mean that we have to use it! All the experts finally agreed on the fact that one shouldn't get overwhelmed using HTML Code Encryptors. In recent times ther...

Advantages to Working with the Pay Engines The pay engines offer many advantages to Web site owners, including: 1. If you have a brand new site with little or no visibility and no link popularity, the pay engines are certainly a way to get started fast while you wait for your standard searc...

First of all, what type of keywords should you optimize for? A single word, a whole sentence. The actual question is what are people searching for? Here is a breakdown of the most popular type of searches. Two word searches 29% One word searches 25% Three word searches 24% Four word searche...

No matter if you call it "Really Simple Syndication" or "Rich Site Summary," RSS is definitely all the rage right now online. With email filtering, IP blocking and the newest "Can Spam Act," everyone's scampering for a better way to get their messages across to their subscribers. With RSS, t...

What are pay per click engines? Pay per click engines as the name suggests, webmasters have to pay a fee for each click coming from search engine results. Depending on how much the person bids for a keyword over his competitor his website will be positioned in the search engine results. Ho...

The purpose of analyzing your web site statistics is to look for trends and to research the success level of your marketing campaigns. The numbers themselves can be misleading, as statistical packages count "hits" in different ways. If someone visits a page on your site doesn't mean that they r...

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...

There are 5 elements that every page of every Web site must have. They are standard, and expected by Web users. When one of them is missing, it screams to a viewer that it's an amateur site. If a few or all of them are missing, don't expect anyone to linger for very long. These 5 elements mak...

The Internet is a relatively new medium. What works for you in your printed offline brochures and advertising materials may or may not work on your web page. If you have already invested either time or money or both in your website you should carefully scrutinize the written words on your pages ...

The world has seen the emergence of a new style of journalism, based on a 'raw feed' directly from the source. And the common notion that surrounds the emergence of serving 'raw feed' is that the journalists testing the new waters are bound to wreak havoc on institutionalized media. Also a popu...

There are hundreds, if not thousands, of hosting companies out there. They come in all price ranges, and with all kinds of bells and whistles. Here are some things you may want to look for in a hosting company, especially if your website is part of your overall marketing plan to sell products or...

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...