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The Importance of a Sitemap

2011-04-25T23:23:00.000-07:00

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.

1) Navigation purposes

A sitemap literally acts as a map of your site. If your visitors browses your site and gets lost between the thousands of pages on your site, they can always refer to your sitemap to see where they are, and navigate through your pages with the utmost ease.

2) Conveying your site's theme

When your visitors load up your sitemap, they will get the gist of your site within a very short amount of time. There is no need to get the "big picture" of your site by reading through each page, and by doing that you will be saving your visitors' time.

3) Site optimization purposes

When you create a sitemap, you are actually creating a single page which contains links to every single page on your site. Imagine what happens when search engine robots hit this page -- they will follow the links on the sitemap and naturally every single page of your site gets indexed by search engines! It is also for this purpose that a link to the sitemap has to be placed prominently on the front page of your website.

4) Organization and relevance

A sitemap enables you to have a complete bird's eye view of your site structure, and whenever you need to add new content or new sections, you will be able to take the existing hierarchy into consideration just by glancing at the sitemap. As a result, you will have a perfectly organized site with everything sorted according to their relevance.

From the above reasons, it is most important to implement a sitemap for website projects with a considerable size. Through this way, you will be able to keep your website easily accesible and neatly organized for everyone.

How To Have Websites Built For You The Cheap Way

2011-04-22T11:50:00.000-07:00

Normally, if you want to have professional designers custom build your site, you must be prepared to dish out at least a few hundred dollars. All this can change if you know where to find the best deals, the best designs for the lowest price. Here's a rough guide:

First, you must understand that it is a rip off to get companies to design websites for you. Have you ever seen those advertisements in newspaper classified ad sections that offer a 5-page website at $500? These companies are established companies with physical locations, therefore they have to increase the amount they charge to pay off some overheads: office rent, designer's wages, advertising costs and so on.

Therefore, it would be wise to find freelance designers who work from home. These people are often working from home so they do not have a high operation cost like that of a company. On the other hand, they will be able to design images with quality similar to those of designers from big companies, so it's a "no-brainer" choice.

However, choose freelancers with care. The best way to do this would be to go to elance.com. There, you can post the abstract of your project and get thousands of freelancers to bid on your project, so you will surely get the best deal. On top of that, you will be able to choose the designers based on their experience, past transactions and ratings, so your value for money is secured.

Another route you can take is to design your website yourself. Think about it, if you only need 5 simple pages to present some simple information, why waste hundreds of dollars for it? Just spend a little time to sit down and do it yourself. You'll be able to design your own sites even if you do not know a single line of HTML code with the help of WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) programs such as Microsoft Frontpage, Macromedia Dreamweaver and so on.

Good Design Practices

2011-04-18T15:09:00.000-07:00

Your website is where your business resides -- it's like the headquarter of an offline company. Hence, it is important to practise good design principles to make sure your site reaches out to the maximum number of visitors and sells to as many people as possible.

Make sure you have clear directions on the navigation of your website. The navigation menu should be uncluttered and concise so that visitors know how to navigate around your website without confusion.

Reduce the number of images on your website. They make your site load very slowly and more often than not they are very unnecessary. If you think any image is essential on your site, make sure you optimize them using image editing programs so that they have a minimum file size.

Keep your text paragraphs at a reasonable length. If a paragraph is too long, you should split it into seperate paragraphs so that the text blocks will not be too big. This is important because a block of text that is too large will deter visitors from reading your content.

Make sure your website complies to web standards at www.w3.org and make sure they are cross-browser compatible. If your website looks great in Internet Explorer but breaks horribly in Firefox and Opera, you will lose out on a lot of prospective visitors.

Avoid using scripting languages on your site unless it is absolutely necessary. Use scripting languages to handle or manipulate data, not to create visual effects on your website. Heavy scripts will slow down the loading time of your site and even crash some browsers. Also, scripts are not supported across all browsers, so some visitors might miss important information because of that.

Use CSS to style your page content because they save alot of work by styling all elements on your website in one go.

Generating Revenue With Good Planning

2011-04-13T21:06:00.000-07:00

For anything to work well, care must be taken to make firm, workable plans to execute it and the same goes for website designs. With a well thought out website design, you will be able to create a site that generates multiple streams of revenue for you. In fact, may websites turn into online wasteland because they are not well planned and do not get a single visitor. Gradually, the webmaster will not be motivated to update it anymore and it turns into wasted cyberspace.

The crucial point of planning your site is optimizing it for revenue if you want to gain any income from the site. Divide your site into major blocks, ordered by themes, and start building new pages and subsections in those blocks. For example, you might have a "food" section, an "accomodation" section and an "entertainment" section for a tourism site. You can then write and publish relevant articles in the respective sections to attract a stream of traffic that comes looking for further information.

When you have a broader, better-defined scope of themes for your website, you can sell space on your pages to people interested in advertising on your page. You can also earn from programs like Google's Adsense and Yahoo! Search Marketing if people surf to those themed pages and click on the ads. For this very reason, the advertisement blocks on your pages need to be relevant to the content, so a themed page fits that criteria perfectly.

As Internet becomes more widespread, advertising on the Internet will bear more results than on magazines or offline media. Hence, start tapping in on this lucrative stream of profit right away!

5 Ways to Keep Visitors Coming Back

2011-04-11T23:04:00.000-07:00

A lot of successful websites depend on returning visitors to account for a major part of their traffic. Returning visitors are easier to convert into paying customers because the more often they return to a site, the more trust they have in that site. The credibility issue just melts away. Hence, keep your visitors coming back to your site with the following methods:

1) Start a forum, chatroom or shoutbox

When you start a forum, chatroom or shoutbox, you are providing your visitors a place to voice their opinions and interact with their peers -- all of them are visitors of your site. As conversations build up, a sense of community will also follow and your visitors will come back to your site almost religiously every day.

2) Start a web log (blog)

Keep an online journal, or more commonly known as a blog, on your site and keep it updated with latest news about yourself. Human beings are curious creatures and they will keep their eyes glued to the monitor if you post fresh news frequently. You will also build up your credibility as you are proving to them that there is also a real life person behind the website.

3) Carry out polls or surveys

Polls and surveys are other forms of interaction that you should definitely consider adding to your site. They provide a quick way for visitors to voice their opinions and to get involved in your website. Be sure to publish polls or surveys that are strongly relevant to the target market of your website to keep them interested to find out about the results.

4) Hold puzzles, quizzes and games

Just imagine how many office workers procrastinate at work every day, and you will be able to gauge how many people will keep visiting your site if you provide a very interesting or addicting way of entertainment. You can also hold competitions to award the high score winner to keep people trying continuously to earn the prize.

5) Update frequently with fresh content

Update your site frequently with fresh content so that every time your visitors come back, they will have something to read on your site. This is the most widely known and most effective method of attracting returning visitors, but this is also the least carried out one because of the laziness of webmasters. No one will want to browse a site that looks the same over ten years, so keep your site updated with fresh bites!

5 Important Rules in Website Design

2011-04-10T23:01:00.000-07:00

When it comes to your website, extra attention should be paid to every minute detail to make sure it performs optimally to serve its purpose. Here are seven important rules of thumb to observe to make sure your website performs well.

1) Do not use splash pages

Splash pages are the first pages you see when you arrive at a website. They normally have a very beautiful image with words like "welcome" or "click here to enter". In fact, they are just that -- pretty vases with no real purpose. Do not let your visitors have a reason to click on the "back" button! Give them the value of your site up front without the splash page.

2) Do not use excessive banner advertisements

Even the least net savvy people have trained themselves to ignore banner advertisements so you will be wasting valuable website real estate. Instead, provide more valueable content and weave relevant affiliate links into your content, and let your visitors feel that they want to buy instead of being pushed to buy.

3) Have a simple and clear navigation

You have to provide a simple and very straightforward navigation menu so that even a young child will know how to use it. Stay away from complicated Flash based menus or multi-tiered dropdown menus. If your visitors don't know how to navigate, they will leave your site.

4) Have a clear indication of where the user is

When visitors are deeply engrossed in browsing your site, you will want to make sure they know which part of the site they are in at that moment. That way, they will be able to browse relevant information or navigate to any section of the site easily. Don't confuse your visitors because confusion means "abandon ship"!

5) Avoid using audio on your site

If your visitor is going to stay a long time at your site, reading your content, you will want to make sure they're not annoyed by some audio looping on and on on your website. If you insist on adding audio, make sure they have some control over it -- volume or muting controls would work fine.

Promote Your Blog !! Part 2 (Two)

2011-02-17T07:40:00.000-08:00

In accordance with my promise in previous posts, I will continue my articles about how to promote your blog. Simply go to the material that is a continuation of previous post.
3. Join The Internet Directory
Let others can easily find your blog, join the internet directory. For that do the steps below :

Open http://www.connectedinternet.co.uk/directory/ address in your browser.
Then choose one category that matches with the content of your blog.
Then click the Submit Link.
Continue by entering the blog's title, URL, and description.
After that, type the keywords and description in the Meta Keywords and Meta Description text box.
Type your name, email address, and category of your blog in the text box Yout Name, Your Email, and Category .
Next re-enter your blog URL address into Reciprocal Link URL.
Copy-paste the HTML code that is in the Reciprocal Link URL into the Page Element in your blog, precisely on the HTML / JavaScript, then click the Save button.
Next enter the security code into the Enter the code shown text box.
Then give it a check mark in the options I Agree with the submission rules.
Click the Continue button.
If the above steps is successful it will display a confirmation that says "Link Submited"

I think that's all from me, I hope this post can give you advantage.

Promote Your Blog !! Part 1 (One)

2011-02-16T23:58:00.000-08:00

At this opportunity I would like to share about ways to promote your blog so that people around the world know your blog. This is important because by promoting your blog then people will be interested to visit, so the chance of your ad to be clicked on by visitors to be increased. Here are some ways to promote your blog :

1. Blog Promotion via YouTube and Facebook

To have your blog can quickly popular, you can promote it through YouTube and Facebook in the following manner :

Make sure you have opened the Youtube page and have your own account.
Then click Upload
Choose the Upload Video File
In the dialog box that appears, choose a video file whose contents promote your blog
Then type the title of the video into the Title text box
Later in the Description text box, enter a description of the video. Do not forget to include your blog address
Next type the tag to facilitate video search
For all YouTube users can freely download and found this promotional video, switch the option Shareyour videos in the world
Wait a few moments until the video upload process is finished which is marked by the emergence of confirmation "Success" and a check in the title of the video file
Click Save Changes button to save file
Then copy the URL where the video was saved to your Facebook status

2. Submiting your blog URL in Scrubtheweb.com

Here is how to submit your blog URL in Scrubtheweb.com :

Enter http://www.scrubtheweb.com/addurl.html
Then, type your blog URL in to the Submut URL text box
Continue to enter your Email address in to the Email Address text box. This email address will be used by Scrubtheweb.com as a confirmation tool
Click Submit URL
If this step is successful, then you will find confirmation that reads "Submission Successful"
Then you just have to wait for confirmation via email within 14 days after registration of the URL is successful

For the other ways to submit tour blog, please to visit at the next post.

Google AdSense | Getting Started

2011-02-15T21:40:00.000-08:00

After you read the previous articles that most of the talk about the introduction of online business, now it's time for you to practice what you have obtained in previous posts.
Now start by creating a blog, my advice for you to use Blogger.com as your web hosting (because Blogger.com is one of Google's products). But first you need an email, if you do not have email account, please sign up here. After that go to Blogger.com and take steps appropriate registration instructions.

After your blog is finished, now it's time to start posting. But we must obey the rules, do not post the following :

Pornography or other matters relating to sexuality.
Provocation to violence, and discrimination against certain ethnic or religious.
Profanity, cursing, or anything negative.
Women and child trafficking.
Trade in weapons, drugs, and alcoholic beverages.
Articles which infringe the copyright (if copying an article must include the source).

After your blog has at least 10 articles, you can register it in Google AdSense. But this is not enough to be accepted Google Adsense. Why? Wait for the answer in the next posting.

What is Pay Per Click Advertisement?

2011-02-15T18:15:00.000-08:00

According to various sources I have read, Pay Per Click (PPC) Advertisement, can be interpreted as follows:

Internet advertising where the advertiser pays a pre-agreed price each time someone clicks on an advertisement. Also called "Paid Placement." The price is typically arranged via an auction, with ad placement determined by the relative size of the bid, and sometimes other factors.
A type of search engine marketing and advertising in which a person sets up an account and pays a predetermined price every time someone clicks on their ad.
System where an advertiser pays an agreed amount for each click someone makes on a link leading to their website. Also known as Cost-per-Click, the results are dependent on reserved keywords for which the website is shown when they are entered into a query.
A type of web advertising which allows bids for ad placements. Bids are most often measured as an amount per click-through, or each time a user visits a website, the bid amount is extracted from the bidder's account.
Each click on a link or a banner generates a commission for the webmaster.
Also known as 'pay-for-performance', 'paid search', 'paid advertising', 'pay-per-ranking', 'pay-per-placement', 'pay-per-position', 'search marketing'. Paying for rankings as opposed to gaining organic rankings owing to web site merit, ie content, relevancy and link popularity.

From the various descriptions above, we can conclude that the Pay Per Click Advertisement is an online advertising program that aired on the website or blog, website or blog owners who display ads will get a commission from each click on the ad.

Some sites that offer Pay Per Click program are :

Google AdSense
ValieClick Media
Infolinks
BidVertiser
Adsense Camp (id).

Actually there are many sites that offer Pay Per Click, but I just mention a few of the popular course. Are you ready to get started?

*quoted from various source

Ad Publisher | Getting Started

2011-02-15T10:33:00.000-08:00

In previous posts have described a variety of preparation before starting a business online. In this post I began to specialize the material to the Ad Publisher Program. It has been described in "Introduction to Online Business" post that Ad Publisher Program is an online business where we display ads from other site owners on the website or blog. And we'll earn every visitor who clicks on those ads. But before you start advertising, it helps if you read some minor tips below :

Read all the books, ebooks and articles related to online business that your ad publisher field.
Join forums that share knowledge about online business advertising publisher. For example, in Indonesia http://www.adsense-id.com/forums/
When you do not understand about an issue, do not hesitate to ask to Contact Support program you follow.
Take advantage of Search Engines such as Google or Yahoo to explore and learn to find new things that can help you in your online business.
Collect as many friends. Establish relationships with them so that you can exchange experiences with them.

*from my personal experience

Online Business | Getting Started

2011-02-14T08:46:00.000-08:00

Online business is always interesting to follow. But did you know before starting an online business there are some important things that need to be prepared, including:

1. Internet Connection
To do business online, internet connection is absolutely necessary in addition to the computer. Now it has many providers who offer Internet connections at affordable prices, ranging from ADSL, Wireless, etc.

2. Website or Blog
In your online business needs a website or blog as a medium of your business. You can create your own website with Open Source applications are easily found today, such as Joomla or Mambo with free domain. Or you can also utilize the services available for free blogs like Blogger, Wordpress and Multiply.

3. Email Accounts
In doing business online you need a communication tool that can connect you with your client. In this business people generally use the Email service. Aside from being a communication tool, email is also used to enroll in certain programs. For service you can rely on email to Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail, etc..

4. Transaction Tools
In addition to Email, the online business also needs the financial transaction instrument. Tool of financial transactions can include bank accounts, e-gold, credit cards, and other transaction devices. But actually means the transaction is not a thing that must-have, because there are several business partners who pay by check. But for smooth online business, you should have one of these tools to anticipate client transactions using credit cards.

5. Strong Mentality
Keep in mind that in starting an online business takes hard work and patience. This may often be ignored by the online business newbie, so when they find an obstacle, they will quickly despair and surrender to the state. Successful people who become millionaires through the online business is the people who are diligent, patient and highly motivated. Mentality is what will bring success in online business.

So the things that need to be prepared before starting a business online, hopefully useful and increase your motivation to become a successful online business.

*quoted from various sources

Profile of a Successful Online Businessman

2011-02-13T12:18:00.000-08:00

Many well known names in the business world online. These are the people who have penetrated into the online business when internet not yet so popular as now. But thanks to perseverance, optimistic attitude, and never give up, they finally reaping the rewards of their toil. As an example of a successful AdSense business is the world's Markus Frind, onlone PlentyOfFish.com matchmaking site administrators are able to reach revenues of $ 300,000 per month. Wow fantastic! Another example of a successful online business is the Cosa Aranda. Www.cosaaranda.com site owners are now moving to address this blog.cosaaranda.com, estimated to have earned income over $ 5000 per month from the business into an online ad publisher.
You can be like Markus Frind hard if you have the desire to succeed in the world of online business. One way to reap dollars with online is by signing up for Google AdSense. Conditions required are not easily give up, and keep trying, because there is no instant business.

Online Business Advantages

2011-02-12T17:09:00.000-08:00

Online business more attractive because a lot of benefits that can be obtained when compared to conventional business. The advantages of online business are:

1. Small capital. This is because an online business only requires a computer / laptop and internet connection. Which of course is much smaller capital compared to the conventional business (businesses that run them offline).

2. Items will be sold easily made, easily accessible, and easily reproduced. For example: e-books, software. etc.

3. Save operational costs because it does not require employees.

4. Flexible operating hours. When you start an online business initiative, you have to spend lots of time to get started. But when you're running an online business, you simply take the time 1-2 hours per day to monitor your business.

5. If your business is already running, the system will run automatically and you simply do monitoring futures.

6. No need for special business space. Online business is not bothered with the rent business premises, security payments, or business license.

So many advantages of online business. Hopefully this article may motivate you to begin to pursue this business.

*quoted from various sources

Introduction to Online Business

2011-02-11T11:55:00.000-08:00

Online business is a business that is run online or over the Internet. Online businesses are legion, as a conventional business (as we know it). But in general online business is divided into 2 lanes of Business Sales / Service and Advertising.

1. Business by selling products on the internet. This business is not much different from the conventional product selling business. The difference is in the media to display the products, namely the Internet. If you sell conventionally, you need a shop to display your products. But in the online business you only need a website or blog to display your products. In addition, you also have to set their own reservation system, payment system, and arrange delivery system. This business is also often called e-commerce. Perpetrators of this type of business among other sites that sell kutukutubuku.com bereagam books, and bhineka.com site that sells various computer devices.

2. Business with the publisher ad on the internet. The capital required to start a business is much smaller when compared with visnis sell online. Enough with the website or blog that contains unique things, are still rare, and of course attract the attention of people to visit. In addition, your blog or website should also have high traffic, because this is where the source of income will come. The higher the traffic that can be achieved, the more opportunities to put ads on your website or blog. Businesses of this type also still be subdivided into two types:
a. Affiliate Program
In this program you will get a commission if the transaction between the buyer with a leading provider of products, through advertisements posted on your website or blog. Some sites provide affiliate programs include Amazon.com, linkshare.com, and clickbank.com.
b. Advertising Program
In this program, you as the owner of the website or blog would earn revenue by placing ads belong to the owner of an advertising program. Basar padaperaturan applicable income depends on the ad program. Unlike affiliate programs, the business income of this type is obtained based on the number of ads served (CPM) or the number of ad clicks (PPC). Examples of programs that run on PPC advertising is Google AdSense. While the CPM-based advertising programs such as fastclick.com and valueclickmedia.com.

That's a little introduction from me about Online Business. To find out tips, tricks about Online Business please to frequently visit this blog.

*quoted from various sources

MAKE MONEY ONLINE

The Importance of a Sitemap

How To Have Websites Built For You The Cheap Way

Good Design Practices

Generating Revenue With Good Planning

5 Ways to Keep Visitors Coming Back

5 Important Rules in Website Design

Promote Your Blog !! Part 2 (Two)

Promote Your Blog !! Part 1 (One)

Google AdSense | Getting Started

What is Pay Per Click Advertisement?

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Ad Publisher | Getting Started

Online Business | Getting Started

Profile of a Successful Online Businessman

Online Business Advantages

Introduction to Online Business