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The Latest from Site Builder News
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August 28, 2008
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Most Common Search Engine Optimization Mistakes
Understanding exactly what search engines do and what search engine optimization is seems to elude many new website owners when first starting out. The fact is that when you’re not familiar enough wit... |
The Best Traffic Generation Tool Is Free
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Although search engines have been around since the beginning of the Web, many businesses (large and small) are just now waking up to the gigantic benefit search engines provide. ... |
Syndicate Your Headlines With RSS
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Learn to use RSS for syndicating your site's headlines, including the creation of a basic RSS channel, and useful tutorials and resources for building and using RSS feeds... |
Survey Part II & Choosing a Web Host
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The second most asked for topic in the subscriber survey: gaining website traffic. Read about our new service, and about the important factors to consider when choosing a web hosting company for your ... |
Picking Profitable Affiliate Programs, Custom 404 Errors
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Learn how to choose which affiliate programs to promote. Choosing wrong could cost you time and money. Also learn to create custom error pages to replace default 404 errors.... |
Preparing for Inktomi and Get Return Visitors
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Yahoo! shows strong signs of an impending switchover to Inktomi search results. Are you ready? Also, learn how to keep your site visitors coming back again and again.... |
What Makes A Great Web Design?
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Steve Adcock teaches us about designing better sites by outlining the main features of a great design.... |
Effective Ezine Advertising, Recommended Reading
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Ezine advertising can be cost effective, even with a small investment. Also, recommended reading for web designers.... |
Netscape Dead, Bigger Affiliate Checks
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AOL fires 50 Netscape employees and signs contract with Microsoft. Also learn about earning more from affiliate programs.... |
Yahoo! Buys Overture, Google AdSense
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Yahoo! announces plans to buy Overture and its 88,000 advertisers. Also learn about Google AdSense and its revenue potential for your content site.... |
How to Quadruple Clickthroughs
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This week's article by Grady Smith contains some very effective
and easy to use ways to improve the clickthrough rate of your
banners, no matter what business you're in.... |
Secrets to Using Keywords
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Once upon a time, not so many years ago, if you needed
to find something all you had top do was to let your fingers
do the walking for you. And the Yellow Pages are still are
great place to look fo... |
Creating the Ultimate Mini-Affiliate Site
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Why would we create a mini affiliate site if all throughout this
book I've been telling you to never send people to you're web
site when you're advertising online? No, it's not because I'm a
hypocr... |
Designing Web Navigation: Traffic Light, Not Neon Light
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Navigation allows reader to find the content they want by moving
through a Web site using classification links. It should be
designed in a simple, clear, consistent, and functional manner --
like a... |
Is your website idea a "bad" idea?
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I've gotten many emails lately from people that were having
trouble figuring out what topic they should develop their
website around.... |
Your Web Site Should Have an Opinion
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People want your opinion when they come to your Web site. They
want to know why you think your products are so good. They want
to know the latest news from your organization. They want to know
why ... |
Design for the Stupid
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The days of the Web as a frontier for pioneers are over. In a
growing number of countries, the Web reflects society at large.
eBay, AOL, and Yahoo! have long had sites that are simple and
easy to u... |
10 Ways for Web Designers to Find New Clients
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Given the "dotcom" bust and the global recession of the past
18 months it can be difficult for Independent Web Designers
to put food on the table these days. However, the business
is out there -- y... |
Give Your Web Site a Big-Company Look and Feel
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We all DO judge a book by its cover, and the same
saying goes for Web sites. I've seen many
entrepreneurs offer great information on their Web
pages, but compromise their image dramatically with a
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How to Layout Your Web Pages
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Searching for the right information on a web page can be a very
frustrating experience. Have you ever encountered web pages that are
so cluttered with information and graphics, that you leave, total... |
Online Marketing: Banner Ads, Web Rings, etc.
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As we continue to look at advertising on the web, we were
going to have to touch on the subject of banner ads and web
rings. Banner ads are graphics (usually of a set size -
more on that later) tha... |
PPC Bid Management Software Showdown
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If you've been keeping up with the search engine industry lately,
you'll know that Pay-Per-Click (PPC) is a fast growing trend.
Nearly all of the major search engines and directories have now
integ... |
29 Ways to Drive Traffic to your Website
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1. Build a solid business foundation. Design a business
plan, marketing plan, ideal client profile, and a site map
for your web site.... |
Never Redesign Your Website
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"We want to completely redesign our web site". If I had a penny for every time I heard that, well you know the rest.... |
Introduction to Cascading Stylesheets
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CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) have been around for a while now,
and act as a complement to plain old HTML files. Style sheets
allow a developer to separate HTML code from formatting rules
and styles... |
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