Archive by Author

Huge Sale at Geeks.com!

Geeks.com is in the middle of an End of the Month Sale that’s pretty amazing. Big Deals…Huge Savings….all to the tune of up to 85 percent off in a lot of cases. The Compaq Presario SR2170NX tower system (to the left), for example, is regularly $349.99, but it’s marked down to $299.99. Even with my [...]

Read More

Toxic Web Links – Keep Them Off Your Site!

by Lauren Hobson Most small businesses know that a good link building strategy is essential to a web site’s success in the search engines. If you want your site to show up on the first few pages of search results, you really need other credible web sites to “vote” for you by linking to your [...]

Read More

The importance of building search engine friendly web sites

by Robert Griggs There are many aspects in regards to search engine optimisation. There are on-page procedures such as optimising meta tags, titles, page copy, urls, alt tags and the like. We also know that another important aspect is off-page seo whereby a lot of time and effort is put in in order to obtain [...]

Read More

Online Video Marketing

by Mac Craig Internet video marketing : Watch your sales soar! A lot of people prefer watching to reading, especially on the computer screen. Calling movies a ‘video’ is actually a misnomer – it is ‘audio + video’ or what is called an AV. Audio Visuals have been seen to have a far greater retention [...]

Read More

What Are You Waiting For?!?!

You’ve heard how fun (and financially rewarding) a website and/or can be. Your only problem is that, like most people, you don’t know how to build one.

…or register a domain…

…or make the graphics…

…or submit it to search engines…

…or add pictures…

…or add Google ads…

…..etc. after discouraging etc…..

To cut to the chase, you need a little help!

Your options?———–

Read More

Passion + talent + Specialization = Success

by Rick Sloboda

Those who tap into their raw talents and passion get ahead further and faster in the ever-expanding Web world.

It seems obvious, but most web types get drawn toward immediate, short-term opportunities and wander far from their true calling.

Enter specialization

Renew your drive by specializing in an area where you naturally thrive.

When you focus on one particular area or niche, your knowledge and experience increase rapidly. Within a short timeframe, you get in tune with leading technologies and trends, become established in your industry and market, start to earn top dollar and ultimately gain full control of a satisfying career.

Conversely, if you attempt to be all things to all people, you’ll produce mediocre work and attract comparable clients.

Such was the case with a web-savvy individual who recently……….

Read More

GoDaddy Love

We’ve been in business online for over 8 years and have seen the best of the best and the worst of the worst. There are services and companies we’d recommend without reservation and there are those we’d do everything in our power to keep people away from! The World’s Largest Registrar – GoDaddy.com got its [...]

Read More

Five Key Steps In Online Business Planning

by Jim Edwards Copyright (c) 2007 Jim Edwards It rates easier than ever to start a new business on the Internet. Never before have the opportunities been more available, the tools cheaper, or the prospects of success more likely. Whether you’re a seasoned veteran looking to expand an existing online business, a casual dabbler looking [...]

Read More

How to Create a Website – Simple Steps to get your Online Business Running

by Noah Ulrich

Creating a website can and should be a fun and profitable endeavor. If done correctly, the entire process of establishing your web presence can be done in as little as 48 hours. In this article, I will establish some basic guidelines any newbie webmaster will want to know in order to make this process as smooth as possible.

The first and most important step is the Planning Stage. This stage is so critical; I could easily devote an entire separate article on this step alone. For this however, I will summarize the important steps and try not to go into too much detail. You will need to decide what you intend to sell or promote. Once this done, you will need to determine your target market. Then you will want to decide on your domain name and targeting keywords. Be sure your domain name is as relevant to what you are selling as possible and try to make it contain that keyword. Now you want to determine the overall layout of your site. Be sure to choose your words and graphics carefully, and try to optimize your site as best you can.

This brings us to our next step, properly designing your website. It is always a good idea to design with both search engines and customers in mind. Proper search engine optimization can provide your site with many free visitors and potential profits. For those looking to do it themselves, proper education should be their number one priority. The best part about this education is most of it can be received free of charge. You have hundreds of resources in article websites such as Goarticles.com and Ezinearticles.com. Plus with hundreds of good webmaster forums also available, the extent of your education is only limited by the amount of time and effort you are willing to commit.

With this knowledge of how to design a site, you will now want to create it. Using HTML editors such as Microsoft FrontPage or Macromedia’s Dreamweaver, you will find that the actual task of creating your site is quite easy. You can also find other free HTML Editors online by doing a search at www.download.com. Other ways of creating your website can be done using templates, or pre-built sites where all you change is the ———-

Read More

Free SEO Tools

Who says you can’t get anything for free anymore? I was researching html validation, search engine spiders, and search engine performance today and came across a few websites that made my job SO MUCH easier. I’ve linked them below, so give them a look when you get a chance. On second thought – make a [...]

Read More