1. Content is king: Enhancing web site success with original content

By Jon E. Dougherty As a webmaster providing information content to an ever-growing Internet audience, you should become familiar with the expression, "Content is king!" The reason is because once you?ve spent time and money building your audience and clicking off major hit counts each month, content is the one thing that will keep your visitors loyal to your site. When I first hear... read more

2. Does Your Web Site Need A Tune Up?

By Bill Daugherty Your web site may contain flaws or glitches that are driving your visitors away! Such a thought is enough to give the most laid back webmaster a migraine. How can you uncover and fix any problem areas that may be lurking in the dark recesses of your site? Relax gentle readers, there is a simple answer. All you have to do is follow a few basic guidelin... read more

3. How To Keep Visitors On Your Site Longer and Bring Them Back Again and Again

By Chris Small You work very hard to bring traffic to your site. When they finally do get there what happens? Well in a lot of cases they.... leave. Yup, they simply move on to the next site. That click happy mouse hand just doesn't like to stay put for long. What?s a poor webmaster to do? Following are five suggestions that will keep the mouse clicks within you... read more

4. Top 10 Ways To Irritate Your Visitors

By David Bell Let's face it. It is really hard to come up with new ways to fully irritate visitors to your site. I thought I would share some ways that I have found to irritate visitors and drive them away, thereby saving you money on your hosting bills. These tips are not in order according to their effectiveness, however #1 is by far the most effective. For 100% effective... read more

5. When "inexpensive" isn't cheap enough.

By Bob King Let's face it; most people who journal or blog do not do it for the money. Most of us pay for the privilege. My flagship site, Graphictruth, [ http://www.graphictruth.com ]is such an effort. It pays for itself most months - but only just. It's my ambition that it will do much more, but long before profit, there must be content. What if you simply cannot afford... read more

6. Has your site been crash tested?

By Robin Porter Are you absolutely certain that everything on your site works correctly? We recently had the following unfortunate experience. After focusing heavily on marketing, we launched a new marketing campaign. Soon we had an irate email. A gentleman pointed out he could not get the free download nor could he place an order. We had already received orders, so we were just a... read more

7. Should you Purchase a Turnkey Site or Build Your Own?

By Francisco Aloy You see them all the time, pre-packaged websites selling everything from acorns to zinc. Most of them have a nice professional look about them, with good pictures and graphics. Of course, the sales literature with the offer telling you how you're going to make a gazillion dollars! Most of them are one page mini-sites devoted only to selling their particul... read more

8. How to Sell your Website

By Matt Dobinson How to Sell your WebsiteThere are hundreds and thousands of websites on the internet today being bought and sold and there are many places you can sell your website such as ebay and website brokers. Though this article we will explore each of these possibilities in greater details. Ebay - Selling a website on ebay can perfect for some and completely ... read more

9. Free online content to make your website sticky!

By Chuck McCullough Depending on what you are reading, most sources state that a person must see an offer somewhere between 3 and 10 times before he or she will actually purchase. And unless you are a master copywriter with expertise in forcing the sale down your visitor's throats, chances are that you will need to figure out how to get them back to your site for another visit, ... read more

10. Guaranteeing an Increase in Your Site Traffic

By David Gikandi Start at the goal. Walk backwards, feet on the ground. Then forward. That is how you guarantee positive results for any quest, including a guaranteed increase in your site traffic and revenues. Let us take a brief look at this philosophy, then see how we can use it to increase our site traffic, guaranteed. What you will discover is that the most simple and affordable of traffic bui... read more

11. The importance of feedback in improving your sales, site and software.

By Michael Wall Customer feedback A while back I received an email from a potential customer suggesting that he liked a piece of membership software that I sell. Over the course of the next few days he sent me numerous emails with suggestions for features that I might want to include in a new update. I was only to happy to get to work on his suggestions after all they could only make for a bet... read more

12. Live support from your website? Can you do it for free?

By Ed Charkow I'm a freelance programmer and somehow I managed to get clients, speak with them, and generate leads for years without a live help system. To be honest, I had put in bids for a "live" help system several times, and I wasn't aware there were free options out there. Well, early last week I went hunting for something that would be my help desk and give me l... read more

13. Making Money With Adult Pay Per Click Affiliate Programs

By Sinemerald Yes, you can make money with an adult pay per click affiliate program. I know because I get checks every month in excess of a thousand dollars. These type of affiliate programs have a bad rap for not paying webmasters and accusing them of cheating. Stick with trusted sponsors and follow the affiliate guidelines and terms of the sponsor and you will make money. Remember a sp... read more

14. Message Board Security Problems

By T Frady Security leaks can be a big problem for any site using a message board. Hackers can actually use your message board to go in and change things on your site. This has happened to me at least four times. Once an iframe was added to every single page of one of my very large sites. Thankfully, I had it completely backed up, so all I had to do was send the pages back up to the serve... read more

15. Need Fresh Website Content? Syndication May be Just the Answer You're Looking For!

By Merle Fresh content is an important aspect of any successful website. But who has all of the free time that it takes to change your web pages on a daily basis? Allow me to introduce you to "syndicated content." By including syndicated content on your site, it stays fresh with very little effort on your part. So how do you get it? How does it work? Slow down... All will... read more

16. Web Site Maintenance

By Richard Lowe There are many things that all webmasters must do on a regular basis to ensure that their web sites remain useful and functional. Some of the tasks you should be performing are listed below. Promote You must promote your web site constantly. Every single day you should do something, anything, which attempts to get people to your site. This is extraordinari... read more

17. Self appointed Guru?s, black hat SEO, link exchanges, and other things that go bump on the internet

By James R. Sanders If you have a web site and are looking for traffic, then I am sure you have done your fair share of research on the internet. With so much at stake and your web sites success or failure hanging in the balance, there is a wealth of information to be had on the internet to fix whatever problem might be ailing your web site. But with the cut throat competition... read more

18. Why Do I Need A Database?

By Dan Grossman If you're not familiar with the term as it relates to the web, a database is a structured collection of data. It can be anything from a list of email addresses to a set of names, addresses and phone numbers. By far the most popular database management system is mySQL, because it is free, works well, and most web hosts have it installed. This can be used in con... read more

19. Keeping it clean could give you a boost.

By mark white Keeping it clean could give you a boost. By Mark White Everyone is striving to be at the top of the pile, we all want to get a better google PR and want this to reflect in more visitors to our site. But after we have followed all the advice about keyword placement and alt tags is there anything else we can do? I recently asked Tinu Abayomi-Paul the well respected ... read more

20. Link Rot Kills

By Jim Daniels "My site had a severe case of link rot and yours may too!" Have you ever run a link checking program on your website? No, not one of those quickie link checks, but a "full site" link check? What you learn about your website may disturb you. It happened to me this week. As owner of a fairly large website that has been online about four years, I realized... read more

21. Website Promotion Internet Marketing Will Keep You On Top

By Daegan Smith Website promotion Internet marketing is perhaps the most important part of your Internet sales strategy. Without creativity, your website can get lost among the thousands of options awaiting surfers online. The first step in defining your website promotion Internet marketing plan is to set reachable objectives and make sure you know how to measure their success. Zero in on the ... read more

22. Should You Translate Your Web Site to Another Language?

By June Campbell In 2001, half the users of the Web do not speak English as a first language. What's more, the number of non-English speaking newcomers is growing at a much faster rate than the number of English speaking Internet newcomers. However, 80% of the information on the web is in English. Should you make your web site available in languages other than English? If you are... read more

23. CodeLock V2

By www Protect your website with htmlblock.co.uk. Our software package gives you the highest in encryption and security levels for both the business and home user. Hide your source code by, encrypting HTML, PHP, ASP, XHTML, JSP, SHTML files. Protect your images and graphics on your site by adding anti-copy to your pages. Stop spam in your emails by using the HT... read more

24. Rules To Problem Solving

By Richard Lowe I've been working in the world of computers for 23 years, and I've learned a lot about problems during that time. I've found a few rules which, if followed, make it easier to find, understand, correct and verify problems. Rule #1: Don't assume you understand the problem. This is one of the classic mistakes of problem solving - you think you understand what's going o... read more