Thursday, December 25, 2008

The Best Way To Gain Website Traffic

By Don Bethune

Generating website traffic is not as daunting as one might think. It just take well thought out ideas, and common sense. There are many points we can examine, but here are a few example to help the popularity of your blog.

Evaluate your blog and ensure that you are running an exciting, yet organized site. Navigation between pages must flow easy and pages must be linked by no more than three clicks. Your design must not be overdone, cluttered or cause the reader confusion.

How much is too much? Your first instinct is to flood your blog with ads. The more ads you have the more money you make, right? Wrong. In fact readers are turned off to a page that is covered in ads. Some ads contain harmful adwares that can harm computers. It is better if you are choosey about the ads you use.

Finding a niche and sticking with it is important. Write about a subject that you are knowledgeable about. If you stay on topic, others will come to you when they are looking for information. If you write about something you know, sounding like an expert wonat be hard.

Keep up to date on current news and trends pertaining to your subject, and breaking news will always keep readers returning to see whatas new. Everyone loves to be ain the knowa, so the more relevant information you can provide the better.

Letting people know your blog exist is essential to your popularity and your website traffic. You can post link to your similar sites, though you should be careful that you donat get associated as a spammer. Donata be that poster, itall make you loss more traffic than itall ultimately generate.

Social networking sites can be a great tool for generating traffic. Some sites allow users to vote on articles and the one with the most votes takes its place on the front page. If your readers post your links to social networking pages, your site traffic can increase dramatically. Ensure that your server can handle the traffic.

Once you have increased your reader base, it is up to you to keep them interested. Stay positive and upbeat. The majority of people enjoy reading positive articles and stay away from bloggers who are negative about everything. You want your readers to be uplifted, not bring them down.

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Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Sales Web Hits and Leads for Global Domains International

By Sonja Schuyler

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Thursday, December 18, 2008

Top Mistakes Made When Shopping Online

By Amy Nutt

Shopping online is something that has grown in popularity throughout the years, especially since websites have become more secure and the shopping as a whole has become a much easier experience. As a matter of fact, many people are finding that it is simply easier to just sit at their computer and plug in a credit card for the items they want. This is opposed to hopping in their car, driving to the shopping mall, and standing in lines all evening long. In other words, the online method of checking out is much more efficient than standing in a cashier?s line.

However, there are mistakes that people make when shopping online. It is very important to know what these mistakes are so that you don?t make them the next time you buy something online.

The mistakes

Now, you might be wondering what these mistakes could possibly be because the Internet is safe, right? Well, it is true that there has been technology put in place that allows the Internet to be safer when carrying out transactions. People have worried about identity theft and stolen credit card numbers for years when it comes to the Internet. But these new and improved ways of shopping online have changed.

But some things have not changed, which is what contributes to these mistakes:

? Shopping from a site that doesn?t have https:// in the address bar. You are used to seeing http://, but the https:// means that the connection is secure. This is very important when entering personal information such as a credit card number.

? Shopping from an unfamiliar site. Although someone may have said, ?You have to shop from this site.? You need to ask them if they have actually received the item. You also need to ask them if the charge was carried out correctly on their credit card. Again, make sure that the site is secure.

? Entering too much personal information is another issue. If you have a merchant asking you for your social security number, you need to hit your browser?s back button because there is no need for that. If they say it is for ?verification? purposes, that is not so. They shouldn?t be able to compare your social security number in the first place because they don?t really have access to any part of it.

? Make sure you keep an eye on the shopping cart. There are some instances in which it does not distinguish between adding something to the cart and checking out. You need to be careful because you might find yourself checking out instead of adding more items to your cart. This could result in you having to go back and do another transaction, which means additional shipping charges if you choose to use the same merchant.

These are some of the basic mistakes that can be made. In a nutshell, always be mindful of what it is you?re doing on the Internet.

Consequences

If you are wondering about the consequences that could be suffered from these mistakes, you?re looking at possible identity theft, theft of credit card numbers, money taken for an item that you never receive, and the possibility of having to pay more than what you really have to pay.

Fortunately, these consequences can be avoided by ensuring that you?re doing business with a reputable site and one that is secure. This means that you can have confidence in the company that you are doing business with. You shouldn?t have to be afraid to carry out a transaction on the Internet. By taking the right precautions you can do just that. You can have the confidence that you are going to get exactly what it is you ask for.

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Wednesday, December 17, 2008

The Best Website Reviews In One Location

By Joyce M. Stuart

I found a really grat website last week, and thought I should spread the word, because it was so great. The website is filled with reviews of other online sites, and provides some excellent information on what each one offers, and what sets it apart from the crowd.

From music to news, and everything in between, the internet is full of websites dedicated to andless variety of topics. Social networking is currently popular, as one example. As another, your favourite print publication is probably available online, if you only knew how to find it. And just because the print version is great, you still don't now about the quality of the online version.

The global community combines people from all over the world in groups linked by interests and beliefs, likes and dislikes. Through the use of reviews on website like this one, which are objective and helpful, you are able to find exactly the kind of information you want, and make new discoveries. That's why I wanted to tell you about this site, after all. You'll be surprised by some of the sites you listed on it, and the scope of information available.

Music hath charms to soothe the savage breast, so it is said, and the internet makes the sharing of individual expression through music as easy as finding just the site to do it. I can't make you visit this site I keep talking about, but it really was informative, with reviews of sites I've known about for years, but including innovative ones music, and a plethora of easy and affordable online shopping.

The reviews were really excellent. Not only did they cover a wide range of websites, but they were also very informative, offering all of the key information about every site I was interested in. Those I wasn't interested in as well, but I undertandably spent less time looking at the reviews. In all, this is the best website review site I've visited, which is why I am suggesting it to others.

To me, it's important to know what a site is going to be like. If I'm shopping, I like to go straight to the products, and if I'm looking to socialize, I want to know how to find the chat and message forums. These reviews were that good, that I was completely familiar with what to do when I clicked the link. And the image of each site's home page in the review was the final kudo for a job well done.

Maybe I'm over-reacting, but I don't really think so. This was the best website review spot I've seen. But don't take my word for it, take a look for yourself, and you'll see the wide variety of information it offers. And then you'll believe me next time I make a suggestion.

To find some great websites, try visiting a website review site like this one, and you'll be telling others about it, too. From furntiure shops to online music, it had something for almost every style. It is indeed a great place to find the latest website reviews, and have a clear idea of what is currently hot.

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Tuesday, December 16, 2008

UK Companies - How To Turn The Search Engines Into Find Engines

By Mary R Stewart

Designing and building a UK website can be a thankless task. You spend hours of your time planning, designing and creating the whole site, carefully assembling it into a work of digital art. Having lovingly pored over every word and put heart and soul into a decent navigation system and a well thought out layout, you eagerly publish your site and hold your breath for the torrent of visitors. It is somewhat disappointing, therefore, to find that days can go by without a single hit. You know that it can take a while for the search engines to identify and crawl your site, but as the days crawl by it can become very disheartening.

After some time you will, almost certainly, start to welcome a few visitors to your site, and maybe a few of them will spend their hard earned money there as well. But you'll probably find that you get terribly excited if you have a few visitors, and a little dejected when you start to work out how much the current rate of visitors will earn you, and dreams of the Mediterranean cruise next month might have to be put on hold. If this sounds familiar, ask yourself what you have actually done to ensure that your site does become a success? Other than a slick design, nice graphics and a catchy address, what practical measures have you employed to ensure success?

You may have spent some time thinking about the keywords used throughout the pages of your site, since you are almost certainly aware of the fact that these will help the big search engines locate your site and evaluate its relevance. Clearly being listed on Google is a significant step, but this in itself is in no way going to guarantee a flood of eager customers desperate to part with their cash. What matters more than being listed, is where you are on the list.Thats why UK search engine optimization is so so important.

The rank of your site refers to how far up the list of results your website is when someone searches the internet. If your website sells left handed calculators for example, then you will expect and hope that if someone enters the keywords 'left handed calculator' in a search engine that your website is near the top. If it is at the top, that is fantastic, but you really need to be in the top ten, on that first page, to be a success. Unbelievably, only 3% of people who search online ever look past the first page of results that a search engine brings up. That means that if they search for 'left handed calculators', which brings up almost 400,000 results in Google, you need your website to be high up the first page to stand any chance of someone finding it. Even being in 11th place out of those 400,000 will mean that you're missing out on 97% of visitors.

So what is it that helps you get to the top of your keyword search rank? Is there a single big secret that many SEO companies are aware of, and will only tell you for a huge fee? Certainly many companies do seem to suggest that they alone have the answer, and that only by going through them will the Golden Secret be revealed to you, and suddenly your site will rocket to the top. In fact, there are three things wrong with this. Firstly, there is no single solution - it's a combination of many varied factors. Secondly, no one single company can ever offer guarantees, promises or assurances that your site will be at the top, or near the top - they can try, and almost certainly your site will rise, but this depends on other factors beyond anyone's control. This might, for example, be because your website is in a mass market, such as insurance. With hundreds of thousands of keyword competitors, getting near the top is a huge endeavour, whereas if you're selling rainbow coloured light bulbs then there is likely to be much less competition, and so more chance you'll rise more quickly, and further. The third thing is that any rise is never going to be overnight, and any progress can take weeks, if not months or even years.

Be very wary of those sites that suggest that the best way of getting your site noticed is to use keywords. Although this is certainly true, search engines now take the number of keywords as only a minor factor in judging a site's rank. Search engines got wise to the fact that many website owners were simply cramming great blocks of keywords into the code of a page just to get attention. They get attention now all right - and the result it that they lose their rank position very quickly. There are many other ways now which the search engines use to judge how good a site is, one of which is its popularity. This is measured in several ways, but the most significant is how many other websites are linking to yours. The more links, the more popular, and this in turn implies more relevant and useful.

There are many free things available on the internet, and many good services that cost money. I rarely come across a good service that I'd recommend, which also happens to be free, but if you're a website owner like me, and are interested in knowing how your site's doing as far as the search engines are concerned,it's great to find a free service that offers interesting and valyable information on how you're website is ranked in the major search engines. As the work is done manually, the results are very thorough. Of course, they'll offer to do the work for you, but if you've already built your site, the chances are that you'll be quite happy making the changes they recommend.With so many companies out there, to get one who actually put their money 'where their mouth is' is a bonus.Actually and to be fair, they were really down to earth to deal with and explained it all in simple english.

Once you understand what can be changed about your site to help improve its position, it's obviously up to you what you do. Picking and choosing at features that you can easily apply will certainly help. Over time, you can start to implement more of these suggestions, and little by little you should see a difference. I've done this myself - I used to be a keyword freak and just include as many as I could think of, but it started to make no difference. I'm trying things now such as amount of text per page, position of text on the page, number of links I include and so on, and I can see the increase in rank each day. My advice to any website developer is to keep a tight grip on your wallet and don't pay companies to fob you off about magic solutions. Try a valuable free assessment today, it will pay dividends in the end.

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Sunday, December 14, 2008

How To Find Great Online Website Reviews

By Russell R. Hughes

As the worldwide web becomes more and more popular, finding the sites that interest you the most becomes a more difficult task. Luckily, there is a great website that specializes in providing reviews of other websites. I discovered it accidentally, but thought that I could save you the trouble of finding it for yourself.

There are an endless number of websites, each one catering to a particular topic, or designed to achieve a particular purpose. There's no doubt that your favourite topics are contained on a site, but you still have to find that site. And in the process, you may even find a few others that are just as interesting which you had never even considered before.

Finding a great site in your favourite niche is a fast way to get involved in online community. People who share your interests, shops that have your favourite brands, and exactly the kind of music you prefer. And the first step is to know where to look, which is the beauty of a website with objective and informative reviews.

From the world famous to the community artist, music has found new avenues to reach an eager audience. Online shops offer everything from furniture to-- well, to just about anything you might be interested in. The trick lies in using a site that provides helpful and interesting reviews, so you'll know where to go, and what to expect when you've decided that is the website for you.

I was really impressed by the quality of the reviews this site offered. They told me everything important about the sites being reviewed, including their main focus, and what to expect on visiting it. There were even some quick tips to help me navigate around, which was a tremendous time saver when I finally visited one of them.

One way to describe these reviews would be to say that they are accurate. I learned a lot of useful information, and it was always exactly what I found when I visited the websites, no matter what type, from online shops to social networking and music sites. These reviews never had it wrong, and i can appreciate a place that takes the time to do the job right.

This is a truly remarkable website reviews location. They don't just concentrate of the most popular sites, but mix up the content between things we've all heard about, and subject that we have been missing out on. I liked being presented with reviews of website that are a little outside of the ordinary.

Don't underestimate the power of website reviews. You can learn a lot about the website, free of needless advertising and easy to read. Save yourself some time, and let a site like I'm talking about do the footwork for you. Unless you would rather spend as much time looking for a great site as enjoying the ones you've found, this is a good idea.

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Thursday, December 11, 2008

So What Is A Blog?

By Don Bethune

With the popularity of the internet has come a new way for people to communicate with each other. Besides email, instant messenger, and chat, some individuals are even taking up a form of journal keeping that allows everyone to read and participate in their writing. Blogs are becoming increasingly popular, and are starting to be maintained by celebrities, and even businesses. But really, what is a blog?

Your blog is whatever you want it to be: it can be a personal diary that you share with the world, or your outlet for your political views. It can keep track of stories in the media, or connect a company to its customers on a personal level. Blogs are even being kept by family members to keep other family members who live too far away involved in their daily lives.

And what is the purpose of a blog? First, it gives the author a mechanism to share his complete thoughts on topic without censorship of any type. Many blogs give their readers a way to comment on their topics. Still others are created solely to create debate or generate discussion.

Blogs allow their owners to share personal pictures or actual videos of their daily activities. Other blogs have postings by other people who want their thoughts to be visible to a wider audience. Bloggers commonly link to other web sites that they appreciate, or sites owned by their friends, and even web sites owned by visitors that leave comments on the blog.

Blogs can be insanely popular, and garner a lot of website traffic. Some of the most popular web sites on the internet are strictly personal blogs of individuals who we would otherwise have never heard of. People can gain celebrity status just from creating a popular blog.

Blogs can generate income for their owner. The main way of making money using a blog is advertising. Many blogs allow inexpensive advertising. There are advertising management programs that allow the applying blogger to post content-targeted ads, generating money for each view.

There are multiple ways that bloggers use to increase their web site traffic, such as having online competitions, or giving their visitors the opportunity to view content unavailable elsewhere. Some bloggers even shell out money for web site traffic in order to increase their perceived popularity and thus, perhaps, generate more money from advertising.

So the next time you wonder, really, what is a blog? You know itas now more than just a random collection of someoneas thoughts; it can be informative, entertaining, or thought-provoking. It can create extra income for the author, or if it gets popular enough, even become a full-time job.

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All about - Importance of a Sitemap

By Lara Crevena

A sitemap is often considered redundant in the process of building a website, and that is indeed the fact if you made a sitemap for the sake of having one. By highlighting the importance of having a well constructed sitemap, you will be able to tailor your own sitemap to suit your own needs.

The needs of navigation: a site map, literally acts as a map of your site. If your visitors visit your site and get lost among thousands of pages of your site, they can always refer to your site map to see where they are, and navigate through your pages with the greatest ease.

Conveying the theme of your site: When you have visitors to your plan charge, they will receive the bulk of your site in a very short period of time. It is not necessary to get the "big picture" of your site by reading through every page, and by doing that you are going to save your visitors.

Site Optimization purposes: When creating a site map, which are in fact the creation of a single page that contains links to every page of your site. Imagine what happens when robots search engines hit this page - follow the links on the site map, and of course, every page of your site gets indexed by the search engines! It is for this purpose that a link to the site map that has been highlighted on the front page of its website.

Organization and relevance: A sitemap lets you have a bird's eye view of the structure of your site, and every time they need to add new content and new sections, you may take into consideration the existing hierarchy only look at the site map. As a result, you will have a perfectly organized site with everything sorted according to their relevance.

From the above reasons, it is very important to initiate a site map for the site with projects of a substantial size. Through this course, you will be able to keep your site easily accessible and well organized for all.

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Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Spam Protection: PDF Spam and Protecting Your kids

By Mary Maseko

For a spammer, the use of PDF files is advantageous because PDF files are so commonly used in the business world. In fact, several companies allow or even require their business email systems to deliver these documents to the recipient. This makes it very likely that this PDF spam will reach the user's inbox.

The upside to the use of image and PDF spam is that so far, there is no hard evidence that either one can be used to embed malicious software on the recipient's computer. The only harm is done to those who do what the message says. Spammers have also begun to experiment with attachments in different file types such as excel and zip files.

Protecting Your Kids

Today, many children have an email address that they use to email their friends, submit homework, etc. It is a fun, inexpensive and instant way to keep in touch. However, as the volume of spam keeps rising, the need to protect children from the dangers of spam is a growing concern.

Spam Blocker - Your email service may come with a spam blocker. If it does not, it may be worth your while to invest in one for your child's computer. Where-as your email filter filters incoming email into folders, the spam blocker blocks spam from going through the system. It checks your mail server every 10 minutes, where it deletes the spam and destroys any viruses it finds. Legitimate email is let on the server and downloads to the inbox when you log in.

Spammers tend to direct the dictionary attacks at the large email companies, which have a large number of customers, which can be your kid.

It is very important to educate your children on the dangers of spam and how to handle it if they do receive any in their inbox.

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Monday, December 8, 2008

Finding Good Dedicated Web Hosting

By Johnson

Whether you are a newbie or an experienced webmaster one thing which you will need to have your websites online is a web hosting service which is necessary for every website owner or webmaster. Only those people should preferably opt for a dedicated server who have a serious website and who wants to run a successful business. There are various webs hosting services each of which are useful in different ways. By using the advanced web hosting services all the clients can create many email accounts along with many mailing facilities which assist them for proper managing of the mail account. And for that you need to make sure that your company website has a user friendly interface.

The plan is simple and similar to the real life comparison of passengers sharing a same cab and paying a relatively lower fare to reach their destination. The unmanaged server requires you to run the server entirely on your own. And among the several webs hosting services "shared web hosting" is by far the most popular type of web hosting, and are ideal and economical options for most websites to keep overhead cost minimum. Many people find it a bit difficult for it requires a certain amount of technical expertise.

It proves to be the most popular and cost effective choice for businesses, organizations, or people looking to host a website. The amount of data transfer that you host gives per month is the network bandwidth. It should be manageable for your website and scripts to function properly. Check the offered control panels and try a demo to make sure you are comfortable with it. When you opt to rent the entire server for your own use, and then it can be termed as a dedicated server. Also monitor the web stats. Count the number of FTP, email, databases, sub domains, parked and add-on domains they offer.

A dedicated server will give you special freedom with regard to web hosting as you don't have to worry for shared or limited resources of any server like you deal in shared hosting as in case of dedicated server you own the whole machine for your business website thus full server with its complete capacity works for you and your business website only.

If you have a dedicated server then you don't face any hassles involved in the case of sharing with other websites. You can even look for some money saving coupons on net. For the servers to be made available in their data centers, web hosts even offer data center space and internet connections.

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Thursday, December 4, 2008

Is it Rewarding to Work with Dreamweaver?

By Dirk den Besten

The rewards of using Adobe Dreamweaver over simple html coding from start are gigantic. Adobe Dreamweaver generates a lot of the coding for the user ready to us, which makes it extremely practical for beginners, for those who have no inspiration on what they want to make, but also for people who do know how to code html, they can always insert it to the written code a lot simpler.

You can switch between code view and the design view and Website Design Company can even have both in the same window to keep tabs on any changes that you have made. Also, when you save your site, you can view your page in a web browser just to see what it would look like on the internet. For this you do not have to be on the internet to view it, as you can view it without your computer being online.

If you do edit any code, there are tools on Dreamweaver that help to correct any mistakes in the syntax. There are so many great features in Dreamweaver that you would not get in ordinary html editors.

Adobe Dreamweaver has another fantastic tool which is the layout tool. This tool will assist you in placing you your navigation, menus, images, etc. Overall, Adobe Dreamweaver is worth learning if you are considering building your own web site, so why not start today and show others your capabilities.

The bigger part of qualified Web Designers wouldn't think of using Adobe Dreamweaver Dreamweaver's code view because it generates the complete code for you, and this results in code that is the best sufficient but bloated and over-complicated.

The best is to learn working with Dreamweaver and to get a good understanding of standards-compliant XHTML / CSS.

Adobe Dreamweaver is also very useful for the beginner in web design. Beginner designers might be slightly overwhelmed but they will find the layout view highly insightful. But also the somewhat advanced functions are amazing; Adobe Dreamweaver has tools that will able you to easily connect to a database and Adobe Dreamweaver also has a build in FTP client which can synchronize the remote files with your work folder.

You can't really compare Adobe Dreamweaver with any product. Dreamweaver can be put into a class of itself as a kind of application you use before you learn how to code properly. Drag & drop interfaces for coding just don't feel right for me - if you can't build the system yourself, then you don't know how it will actually behave when it goes live.

The benefits of using Dreamweaver over plain html coding from scratch are endless. Dreamweaver can be put into a class of itself as a kind of application you use before you learn how to code properly. There are so many great features that you would not get in ordinary html editors. Dreamweaver really outstands all other HTML editors.

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Web Design 101 for Businesses

By Dirk den Besten

Nowadays if you want to stay ahead of the completion you cannot lack in your web presence. A professional designed website can keep you ahead if the competition. It can make the customer aware of serving the client's needs.

The internet is here to stay and it is a medium that can't be forgotten. The internet is an information source used by more and more users to help them in the pre-buying decisions. But the Internet is more than an information source. The number of online buyers is just growing everyday and companies need to be organized for this flow of internet shoppers to stay ahead of the competition.

Professional Web sites should note the following key factors in the play a key role in attracting online clients: Site compatibility with multiple browsers, use of valid CSS codes and proper HTML codes. These factors will ensure that the prospective client does not leave a Website in a huff due to Webpage loading errors or prolonged loading times.

A Professional Web Design firm should be engaged when you decide to get a Website done for your organization. Your Website is the first component that makes an impression on Internet visitors and it is prudent to make the first impression the best impression.

It is absolutely necessary that a web design company understands the value of a professional looking website. A good first impression is only obtained if the web design company conforms to the key factors mentioned earlier.

You may be wanting an online presence or maybe seeking more business for your firm - whatever it be your objective, the success or failure of your endeavor is determined by the quality that your Website possesses.

For you as a business owner it is critical to find a professional web designer who can meet your business requirements. After all, you do not want to find out that your new designed Web site is sending potential clientele to the competition just because of a bad designed website.

Forrester Research has done research and discovered that a badly Designed Web site is likely to result in a loss of about 50% of repeat visitors because of the negative impression received initially.

You should look for Professional Web Designers for your online success. These Web Design companies make sure to have an extended discussion with their clients in order to get a good picture of their needs in terms of business objectives, aesthetic preferences and customer profiles. This is done even before any work is commenced on the technical side.

Do make sure that the web design company you've selected can provide additional services like Search Engine Marketing and quick support. Will it be easy for them to quickly implement changes to your website so that you are always up-to-date with future web developments? Expanding your online business is more than updating a few online pages; the web design company of your choice should realize this.

The whole objective of expending your online presence is to bring your site to the attention of online surfers. A professional website is essential and goes hand in hand with the marketing assistance of your Web site developer. If he is competent of providing that service you've got a winner and are you ready to tap into the huge potential of the internet.

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