Rating your website

e added > http://www.lilengine.com/images/googletoolbar/toolbar1.gif This is the Google PageRank indicator. PageRank is one of Google's ways of rating your website and plays a role in the position of your site in their search results. This value is calculated based on several variables includ...

An ongoing challenge for webmasters today is to provide fresh content that gives visitors a reason to return to their site. Unless you have a full-time staff dedicated to creating regular content, the time involved can be crippling. Wouldn't it be great if someone else would write timely, rel...

UNDERSTANDING THE WWW. I came to the web with an itch to build content, and I needed to understand the technology utilized to build the Internet. Early on, I confronted the question about whether it was necessary to use the www. in my website URL. It really began to be a concern to me when ...

Google's recent November changes to its algorithm, now known as the "Florida Update, have left many site owners in a quandary. Many who were enjoying top placements, have lost their spots, and apparently, for no real reason. Now keep in mind, that periodic algorithmic changes are a normal an...

By now, virtually every webmaster has heard or read that the major search engines are responsible for 80% or more of the traffic received by most web sites and that most searchers never look beyond the first 20 - 50 search results. Not surprisingly, an entire industry devoted to search engine r...

After Google latest update nicknamed "Florida", many webmasters discovered that their traffic plummeted. What happened? More importantly what can you do about it? And what will Google do next? What happened was that Google made an algorithm change on how they rate web pages. Every tim...

Submitting your website to the Search Engines today may seem like a futile task or at very least, a complete waste of time. When you consider that there are millions of websites that could be listed just for the word FREE, it hardly seems worth the effort. Most websites today compete heavily ...

You spent a ton of time getting your website just right for Google. And now your site has sunk to the very bottom of the results for several key phrases. Your traffic has plunged, and, worse, so have your profits. Sure, you know now you shouldn't have relied so heavily on one source of websit...

How do you know when it's time to update your site? We've come up with this five minute website makeover quiz to help you determine the answer. Score each question from 0 to 3, add up the total-- then see our recommendations at the end. 1. Does your site have up-to-date content focused on y...

Did you know that over 580 million people worldwide now have access to the Internet? That's a lot of potential customers, yet most webmasters still have trouble even getting a few hundred visitors a month. Do you want to know a few secrets that will explode your Internet business into the str...

1. Generate Targeted Traffic from Online Discussion Forums. Online discussion forums provide an excellent way to promote your website without paying any money. Nowadays, you don't even have to lurk around before you begin to post. Just browse the messages and you can start posting. There are b...

Website owners: do you know how many links are out there on the Internet, pointing back to your site? If you're interested in getting free search engine placement for your site, you ought to know. An easy way to find out is to download the Alexa toolbar from http://www.alexa.com. One of it...

According to a recent study by Jupiter Media Matrix over 55% of all Internet purchases begin with a search engine. But 93% of these consumers did not look past the first two pages of the search results. In other words, if you are not listed in the first two pages of the search results, then you ...

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...

To link or not to link? That is the question we face when we receive e-mail from people asking us to make a link to their website, or when we are looking for link partners ourselves and find a prospective site. How can we decide if it is worthwhile to take the effort to make a link for such site...

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...

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...

(Will your website be ready, or will you be playing catch-up six months too late?) November 2003 might go down in history as the month that Google shook a lot of smug webmasters and search engine optimization (SEO) specialists from the apple tree. But more than likely, it was just a precursor...

Whether you're concerned with business-to-business, or business to consumer, whether your organization is large or small, commercial or nonprofit, these are some fundamental questions around your Website and technology strategy that should be addressed. Otherwise, you risk missing opportuniti...

Listen up if you want an almost instant solution to your traffic problems. I'm going to show you one simple technique to increase the traffic to your websites or affiliate programs, which will make you more money immediately... It's called expired domain names. If you have not even been...