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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...

As a website owner, getting your site listed and placing well in the search engines can turn into a full time job. Search engine optimization is the process of altering your site so it appears in the top listings of the major search engines. You can hire someone to do it for you and pay out th...

"Free Autoresponders!" It sounds to good to be true. But is this the right option for You and Your Home Business? There are three sources of free Autoresponders that might be considered when you work at home : [1] Autoresponders offered by your web host [2] Services like Sendfree a...

Does your website make you money? My website does. I've built several successful websites, actually, and this 2-part article shows the steps I take when creating a profitable website. I can't guarantee *your* success, obviously, but the article's based on the checklist I use to create my...

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 ...

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...

One of the most common needs of online business owners is traffic. Without traffic, your web site barely exists, and is unlikely to make any profit whatsoever. With traffic, you stand a much greater chance of success - but not just any traffic. As the owner of a network of web sites receiving...

A Pay-Per-Click search engine (also called Pay-Per-Ranking engine) allows you to place your site at the top of their results almost immediately. This comes at a price, though. The idea is pretty simple. You put in a "bid" for how much you're willing to pay per click-through on certain keywords...

The days of free search engine traffic are over! (And the reign of cheap search engine traffic has begun!) Okay, that may not be quite the case *yet*, but you really do have to work hard (or pay someone to work hard), to even get close to guaranteeing a top 10 position on search engines lik...

The effective design is this one, which is maximum simplified, conformable to your users because they are your main purpose. This one, simply and clearly announcing what is your website about. This one, quickly offering the users exactly what they are expecting to see on your pages without bein...

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 ...

"Avoid Turning Off Your Customers" Since the average web surfer will, only wait 8 seconds for your web page to download (or appear in their browser) it is important to have small file sizes on your web pages so, they download quickly. Most usability experts (persons who study how people like ...

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...

Images are used on web and intranet sites for many reasons: branding, highlighting, navigation, providing supplementary information, division, humour etc. Images consume more space than text, however, and thus take a longer time to download. On an intranet, this additional time is usually with...

The headline read, "A funny thing happens when you don't promote your website... NOTHING." Experience has taught me that that's a fairly accurate statement. If you are not promoting your website, you're not building your web business. However, there is one thing you need to focus on MORE than...

I frequent a number of search engine optimization forums on a daily basis and the one thing I see more of than anything else are optimizers who will quickly tell you that this method is evil, or that method is spam, or this other method is cross- linking. The search engines each have their ow...

PHP and MySQL -- Adding data There comes time when your website tends to transcend the boundaries of mere brochure type looks. There is a need to interact, to seem dynamic, and to respond according to your visitor's behavior. You also want your visitors to go through a list of offerings that...

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 ...

Building a successful web site is a process that works best when done in a deliberate, logical step-by-step manner. The first step is to build a top quality web site that is packed with interesting and useful content. Next, you need to submit your site to the major directories and begin a ...