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Are you having difficulties in selecting an internet affiliate program to join and promote? Too many opportunities to sort through? Uncertain of your next step? Guess what – you are not alone. Join the crowd! You will probably find the road full of potholes in your research, review and selection...

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,...

Are you ready for a web site? Not sure what to look for? Use this article to help you determine the best hosting company for your site. Growth Is this a company you can grow with vs. having to change companies when you outgrow the service? Customer Service Many people start with a lost co...

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...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

Exchanging links has been an important part of generating traffic since the concept of Internet marketing was first established, but at least 90% of people looking to trade links don't understand the real benefits and, therefore, fail to make the most of them. The vast majority of web site ow...

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...

Repetition is the key to getting your adverts and promotion efforts noticed but when does repetition become over saturation which inevitably leads to boredom? Boredom and apathy. This is one of the biggest challenges you'll face when promoting your site in the hit exchanges. So how do you cut t...

If you're just beginning to try your hand with the pay-per-click engines, one thing you need to know is the importance of setting up tracking URL’s so you're better able to track click-throughs and sales. Why go to the trouble? Because if you don't set up some sort of tracking system, you'll ...

Most Internet marketing methods are risky and many will not have any affect on traffic to a web site. Some online marketers will sell you anything from banner impressions, to mass email campaigns (spam), to popup ads. All these marketing tools can work, but they are also extremely risky. Some pe...

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...

Pay-per-click (PPC) search engines are a highly effective and inexpensive way to attract targeted traffic to your web site. With the most popular PPC search engines (www.overture.com and www.adwords.google.com) you can often buy this search engine traffic for 10 cents or 5 cents per click. It is...

A recent post in a discussion list suggested that Google is becoming the Microsoft of search (dominating web search as Microsoft dominates PC operating systems). So I decided to research a theory - one I'd developed about search engine traffic. I dug into the traffic stats on three of my own si...

What do the key words represent? Key words - these are the words that the users enter in a given search engine to find services or products you offer. It is extremely important to know what key words they will use. Selecting the appropriate for your activity key words is the first thing you h...

Let us look at these two options. Assigning a query string value to your link. This method can work in pay-per-click engines, but when working with other engines and links, it can become cumbersome and not always work. By assigning a query string, you are adding a value to your URL that wil...

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...

Dynamic content is delivered to the Web browser in a different form than it exists on the server, while static content is stored on the Web server in the same format that is delivered to the Web browser. Dynamic site pages are generated from a database ³on the fly² as users request them. You c...