Free CSS template with tabbed navigation bar

One more new free css template is available for download. It is 21st free template on my blog since I started blogging.

This is simple two column css template. It has tabbed navigation, orange white and blue color scheme and sidebar on the right.

I think this free css template is very nice and simple. It can be used for various projects.

Template is 100% CSS and XHTML 1.0 Strict Valid.

This is an open source template and is released and distributed under Creative Commons 2.5 licence. You are free to use this template in any way you like. All I ask for is that you leave the web site design credit links in the footer of this template intact. Thank you for downloading.

Download this template here.

Free CSS Template 020

After a very long time I have created one new free css template for my blog. I have been bussy with my other project and I have also moved from one city to another so I didn't have any spare time for blogging.

This is simple but nice two column free css template with tabbed navigation in the header section. Main content is on the left. I have integrated one 250x250 add box in the left column as a placeholder for adsense ads.

Template is 100% CSS and XHTML 1.0 Strict Valid.

This is an open source template and is released and distributed under Creative Commons 2.5 licence. You are free to use this template in any way you like. All I ask for is that you leave the web site design credit links in the footer of this template intact. Thank you for downloading.

Download this template here.

10 Things That Help Make A Successful Website

Today the Internet is highly competitive, it is not longer good enough to just create a website and watch the money roll in. Modern websites have to go that extra mile if they want to see a good return on their investment.

I will discuss the 10 things that you need to get right to be successful in the world of ecommerce. You could fill several volumes of books describing everything; however, I am going to discuss the more important ones.


1. First things first, you must do your research and make sure what you are planning to sell is actually in demand. If your product is already being sold online try and offer a new spin on products that you know that already sell well.

2. Content is king, you website must have good original content that people will want to read.

3. Your web copywriting must be of a high standard. You must grab the reader’s attention then give them the desire to buy your product. You then must give them a call to action and then you must offer customer satisfaction.

4. Accessibility, you have to make your website as accessible as it can be. The internet should be accessible to everyone regardless of their handicap.

5. Test your website; too many online companies never test their websites to see what works and what doesn’t. I strongly believe that you can’t improve a website if you can’t track it. A good tip here would be to use Google’s website optimiser. This free service lets you test different elements of your website.

6. Keep in contact with your customers, send out a newsletter at least once a month to keep in contact and inform your customers of any special offers.

7. Use Google analytics to track your visitor’s behaviours. This is an excellent tool for tracking what people do on your website and what they don’t. This is invaluable information and it’s free.

8. If your budget permits start a pay per click campaign to sell you products while you’re waiting on your SEO taking effect. More on SEO on a moment.

9. Get some SEO servicesfrom a company that knows what they are doing, this will save time and money in the long term.

10. Hire a website design company to design your website professionally.





Author Jack Mack SEO services | website design Edinburgh

Yamaha Piano Facts

I have written a page of information that is designed to dispel some myths associated with Yamaha Piano sales. You can view the page below:
Yamaha Piano Facts

If you have any questions just drop me a line, I'll be happy to help.
Regards,
Mark of Royton for Yamaha Piano and Kawai Piano sales. See the Yamaha U3 page for special interest.

Yamaha Piano Tips

I have made a "Yamaha Piano tips" page that contains useful information regarding Yamaha Piano Cabinets and brasswork. Hopefully I will be adding more cabinet-related information to that page over time, but for now, that is all it contains.

As ever,
signing off
Mark
Signature:
Pianos for Sale in Royton. I recommend the Yamaha U3 and the Yamaha U1 upright pianos.

Yamaha Piano Guide

I've just made a Yamaha Piano guide that deals with some important aspects of buying a used Yamaha Piano. I recommend the reading material contained within it. Much of which can be found at my other Yamaha U3 and Yamaha U1 pages. Or just go straight to my Yamaha Piano page for the full story.

that's all for now
regards,
Mark from Royton

Web Templates for SEO Services

This article is very informative so thats why I have decided to publish it on my blog. It is about Templates and SEO.
Author of this article is Rajeev Guglani.

Web templates are designed in HTML which means hyper text mark up language. The templates should be easy to access, specific in width with the adjustment of image, links, banners, header, and footer as well as navigation structure. The image inserted in the template must be of the specified professional look along with the text and color combination schemes. The html tags must be used in a right way to make its appearance attractive.

The website must provide all information about their products or services line by line as user access your information. There must be right placement of ads, link navigation, company logo and menu bars etc. color appearance in the template must be bright background with the color of text that is readable. The template can be set as more professional with a defined created CSS (Case Coding Style Sheet). You can also add banners, insert background image along with picture and color defined in the text. All this features in template makes the website beneficial from SEO Services point of view.

Proper anchor tags must be defined in a href tag of html. Create extra interest in the website to get user attention. Since site owners try to make their website humorous and catchy to attract more visitors and make it user friendly but it should not disturb the entire theme of the website.

While implementing a professional web design for SEO Services the actual basic theme and illustration design must be kept in mind. All the places in the website like header part, menu, content area and footer part matters a lot in the web design. The header is used at the top of the website servers as a type of intro to the website. Company logo is also inserted in this part. This enables the user to know what site they are on. The navigation part gives the user information about the pages of your website. Menus can be displayed in different ways. In the content area you define the complete function of the website that is to be promoted for SEO services. This can include the text and the user information along with images and pictures or mixture of any of these. The footer part is on the bottom of the website and usually includes the closing information such as copyrights, design credits and text based navigations.

Rajeev Guglani writes articles for SEO.He has vast exposure in writing for Web Promotions.He is working for NDDW. For Web Promotion,Internet Marketing and SEO Services India visit http://www.nddw.com

Free CSS Template 019

Finaly I have created one new free css template for this blog after very long time.

This is simple and nice two column 100% valid XHTML 1.0 Strict and CSS template with sidebar on the left. Vertical navigation bar is in the left column and main content in the right.

Template is SEO Friendly and is very simple to customize.

It can be used for number of different projects.


This is an open source template and is released and distributed under Creative Commons 2.5 licence. You are free to use this template in any way you like. All I ask for is that you leave the web site design credit links in the footer of this template intact. Thank you for downloading.

Download free CSS template here.

Couple more Yamaha U3 links (U3a,

We have a couple more today. There is a Yamaha U3 / U3A page and a Yamaha U3 Silent page too.

The above pages talk about different aspects of the Yamaha U3. Each page covers something different.

Regards,
Mark
Mark Goodwin Pianos of Royton

More Yamaha U3 links (Yamaha U3G)

I've made another Yamaha U3 / U3G information page. It will soon be full of useful info but for now, they are still worth a look if you are interested in the very popular model of piano.

Any questions, just let me know.
:)
Mark
Mark Goodwin Pianos of Royton

I'm making some pages about the Yamaha U3

I just wanted to report that in the interests of spreading free information about the Yamaha U3 / U3M, I am creating a series of web pages that cover this topic. This morning I made the following Yamaha U3 page and last week I made this Yamaha U3 / U3H page. For now, there is not much to read but I hope to develop each site to cover a different aspect of the excellent Yamaha U3 piano.

I hope this is useful to some people.
Mark Goodwin Pianos, based in Royton, Manchester

Websites and User Friendly Web Designs

FIVE SECONDS... that’s how long you have to capture the attention of a website visitor. Does your website engender trust, credibility and reliability within 5 seconds? Site visitors are impatient people seeking immediate gratification … they want to ooh and ahh … even before the page is fully loaded.

I've been designing websites since 1995, in the hey-day before Google, Yahoo and Web 2.0. The one thing that has not changed is the user; they want their information faster. If they have a 28K modem, they want the information at the speed of 56K. If they have DSL, they want it to load at cable modem speeds. A Web Designer has to take this into consideration when designing a site. At the same time, they have to create a site that captures the attention of the visitor and prompt them to interact with the site, and even buy something or fill out a form (the goals of the website).

User-friendly web design always begins with the visual effect.

COLORS

Colors are a “primary” factor. Most sites are designed with a white background and black fonts. This combination is eye-friendly for a comfortable reading environment. Eye strain is a definite no-no. If you want your visitors to read text, make it as easy as possible … that starts with the right color combination.

The obvious potential exception would be an entertainment site with a high reliance on multi-media video and photos. Different color combinations may be desirable here for emphasis and enhancing the entertainment value of the site.

The Psychology of Color

Check these 3 sites out for great insights on how psychology and color work together:

1. http://www.squidoo.com/colorexpert
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_psychology
3. http://www.infoplease.com/spot/colors1.html

Entertainment sites are about emotion, passion, energy, enthusiasm. Colors to be used are always strong. For instance black is used for Power and Authority while red is used to evoke passion, high energy and enthusiasm.

A business site, for instance a mortgage company, should not use the color scheme I suggest in the entertainment sites. Here I use blues and greens as these colors evoke trust, peace of mind and a sense of calm. The visitor is considered to be nervous entering the site because they are making a decision about pretty important things like their home, their money and their overall finances. They need someone they can trust.

LAYOUT

Layouts begin and end with simplicity. Make the site complex with a lot of so-called “features” and you will lose a great deal of your audience.

With layouts, “less is more” … the fewer feature or complexities, the easier it is for the visitor to understand your message and “engage.”

It’s always a good idea to check out your competition and see what it is you actually like about their website … view it as a customer not just a competitor … it can be a useful experience.

Always keep in mind the ultimate goal of your website … what is it you want the visitor to actually do … your layout should reflect the shortest distance between the first impression of your website and that ultimate goal you seek.

Additional Key Considerations

1. Simple Site Navigation is a must. Your visitor has to be able to move through the site quickly and in a logical sequence that they have become used to when visting other websites. They want their info fast and if your navigation goes against the generally accepted conventions of navigation, the visitor will move elsewhere.

2. Make your paragraphs easy to read... organize your information well by highlighting lists by number, symbols or bullets.

3. Look throughout our site and see that paragraphs are not just streams of uninterrupted text. The words, sentences, paragraphs et al are woven together through a structured hierarchy of organizational enhancers that make it easy for the visitor to read and understand and engage.

4. Don’t try to crush your competition with an overwhelming advantage in website features. Remember the Panasonic slogan … "just slightly ahead of our time"... keep this in mind here. Keep your “competitive bullets” in your gun and holster until they are needed. For instance, if your competitor doesn’t have a newsletter sign-up, add it. If they respond by adding one, consider adding a click-to-chat feature and so on and so on.

So, website design is about gaining the attention of the visitor through strong use of color, content, ease of use and navigation. Most of all … KEEP IT SIMPLE!

Optimum7.com is an Internet Marketing Company with primary focus on Small and Mid-Sized Enterprises (SME’s). Optimum7.com offers a rich consultative approach that our clients find refreshing. We actually listen to our clients to learn exactly what their problems and objectives are. Websites and User Friendly Web Designs.

The War Between Google Adwords and Google Free Traffic

Adwords -vs- Free Traffic


A couple of weeks ago I stumbled upon a site that advertised free website traffic. As you might have guessed my first thought was yeah sure, and what’s the catch. As I begin to read the article, there were several things that got my attention. One of the first things that got my attention was what I was reading on the subject of Adwords. The author of the article made this glaring statement “people are making Google money, no, lots of money with run away Adword accounts.” He was basically SHOUTING we are giving Google all of our cash, while we earn a pittance for an income. And I ask you What is wrong with this picture?

What gave this statement so much authority was not so much of what I have heard over the years as what a fellow marketer from a program where “a certain guy” tells all, wrote me four days prior to reading this articlet about free traffic. And this guy was on a limited income. This is what he says: “Larry, I did try to get my Marketing /Advertising in place by using Google Adwords (pay per click) to market my website as instructed in the program.

Using Google Adwords however is not as simple or anywhere near as cost effective as K's System leads you to believe... If you CAN get it right it can work for you... However it takes a lot of trial and error to get the correct combination of " KEYWORDS and COST/PER CLICK " to make it work without costing a small fortune as I found out.”

You did get that, didn’t you? “Without costing a small fortune.” This is the very thing I was reading about in this article, and I am hearing HELLO! loud and clear here. It isn’t like I haven’t heard it all before, but somehow it was like a light bulb going on at mach speed and flooding my brian with the news.

So one has to ask themselves, what’s the real skinny here? Can you really make out with adwords without it costing you a small fortune as some say? Then what about free traffic? Does anyone ever get anything for free, I mean really for free?

Having some experience with SEO, being a webmaster and network administrator a few years back my first thought was this is probably just about SEO. I was wrong. In fact I was almost entirely wrong about what I thought this guy was trying to sell me on. I hate admitting I am wrong, as do most of us, but I was dead wrong. Not only was I wrong, I had many things to think about after purchasing and reading the e-book this guy was selling.

There was something else he said that got my attention and that was this: “After I got this down right, I closed my Adwords account.” Then he dared me to do a search in Google to where one of his sites is number 1 and click on that link once, and double dared me to do it a thousand times, why? It wasn’t going to cost him a cotton picken penny. That’s right, not one red cent.
You know what? Not only was he right, he is getting free traffic from Google and the other search engines. The best part is he is more than happy to show us how he does it. I don’t know about you, but I’d rather get my traffic for free! And guess what the good news is? You can get this information for a whole lot less than what a Google Adwords campaign will cost you and a whole lot less than a night out on the town would cost you.


The Internet is a fascinating entity particularly the area of marketing, with many ever changing faces. Those changes faces intrigue me, giving me reason to study trends and ways to earn and save money. My motto is to pass on valuable info to those who's interest is in making and saving money.
http://www.moneymakingdollars.com/free-traffic.html

Pay Per Click (PPC) Advertising - How to Get Success

PPC advertising is an internet marketing method which generates instant traffic to your website. However, unlike Search Engine Optimization, pay per click advertising requires investment without being able to guarantee a return. Visitors may click on your site but this does not mean an automatic sale, order or lead. PPC campaigns require focus, attention and need to be regularly monitored to stay effective.

PPC started in the year 1998 by Goto.com, a 25 employee startup company (later Overture, now part of Yahoo).However, Pay Per Click Advertising was only introduced in 2002, until then, advertisements were charged at cost per thousand (CPM) but Yahoo Advertisements have always been PPC, since its introduction in 1998. Google AdWords, Yahoo Search Marketing and Microsoft Ad Center are the largest operators in PPC advertising.

PPC advertising on search engines allows you choose keywords you would like your site to appear when a search is done. You decide how much you are want to pay each time a person clicks on the search results that is ad copy. The more you are willing to pay per click, the higher your site will appear in the results for the keywords you choose.

According to a recent US study, web searchers will not click on a search engine's results beyond page number three and 66% of users in the study clicked on sites listed on page number one only. Based on this research it is worth doing PPC besides other popular internet marketing methods like SEO, Article Marketing, Social Bookmaking and Affiliate Marketing.

Why Pay Per Click (PPC)?


Instant Results - No need to wait for your product or service to reach the user review. Immediate Traffic to your website.
Economical - It is economical as compared with other traditional advertising techniques.
Ideal for Testing Market - Pay Per Click is Ideal for short term advertisement campaigns. We can test the user reaction on particular products or services with immediate results.
Return On Investment - It can provide immediate return on Investment especially if your website is processing business or sales online.
Extremely Flexible - Its easy to adjust, add, delete or edit your keywords and copy, target geographic locations and set timings of appearing of your ad copy.
Avoid Unnecessary Keywords - For those keywords which you do not want your adcopy to get appear & hence clicked can be avoided by using negative keywords.
Total Control - In PPC Campaigns, the steering wheel is totally in your hands i.e you decide the daily budget, keywords, adcopy ( tile, description, URL) .



Some Basic Tips for Pay Per Click Campaigns:


Make a sensible budget for your PPC advertising campaign. Spend per click must be less than profit per click. Cost Per Acquisition/Lead/Sale must be kept in mind. Once the campaign has been launched, the number of leads or sales generated can be reviewed to ensure the campaign is going on the right track.
Make separate Ad Groups & ad copies for particular set of keywords.
Bid & Position for keywords & ad copies must be monitored on regular basis.
Choose specific keywords relevant with your website. Broad and non-specific terms must be avoided.

Besides the Benefits...Some Drawbacks of PPC

Junk Traffic sent to your website via some less known Search Engines and Click Fraud are the major drawbacks in Pay Per Click Advertising. It does not offer you discount if your site gets more traffic i.e Cost Per Click will remain the same. Advertising Budget must be agreed and bid price per keyword must be confirmed so bid wars are avoided and you don't go over budget.

For effective Pay Per Click (PPC) Advertising Campaign for your online business, visit expert SEO Companies - TIS India and SEO.india-designers.net that specializes in delivering high quality, cost effective and result oriented PPC advertising services in an efficient manner

Making Money Online With Website designing

As the years passed by, website designing, its definition and its presentation all have substantial changed. There are several new software like flash, 3D and Photoshop that had been developed and new technologies, such as broadband, to stay as a backup of these software are emerged. In contrast, people have altered the way of screening online information. So the life of the website designing brings along with it a hope of contact with content data and present web designs are all become an element of web designer’s work. Anyhow the basics principles of any website design are yet remain the same. Further it is usual; a website has to be easy to use and should have the capability to keep a viewer to remain enthusiastic to your website as long as necessary. On the other hand, a website designing could be favor you more than your pastime and interest.

There are few best approaches that one could accept if looking to make money online by websites. You can preferably focus on a few websites that could get you reasonable income or one solitary website, which can act as your "bread and butter". Actually, whichever technique you choose it certain to make money. For a novice that trying to make money online by website designing can also be a little irresistible, however if in progress and stay focused then no one can stop your cash flow. So one of the most excellent examples, which could be given is to get started your own auction website design.

When it comes to auction website design, the initial thing could come to anybody’s mind is the auction site called eBay. But why do people admire eBay? The answer is actually simple, it is because of the profession website designed and easy to use and it does not require a rocket scientist to navigate the pages. Today, eBay auction website stands out of other websites and stay the most reliable internet resource for getting what you desire. So here the final point is to come up with your own auction website design like how eBay did and permit users to purchase and sell products through your site. You have to be a foundation for what people wish to purchase and sell.


Alberdecruz is a Copywriter of Web design Houston. He has written various articles like Houston web hosting, Graphic design Houston, Seo Houston and more. For more information visit:Web design company Houston. Contact him at alberdecruzseo@gmail.com.

Website Designing: The Accessibility Factor

Today when there is a sea full of websites all over the web world it becomes extremely difficult to sustain a considerable amount of traffic to the site. This threat appears like a killer for any website owner. In order to overcome this threat what websites really need to do is create super duper web presences for themselves. This web presence can be created right from the website designing process itself.

The question now arises why emphasize on presence when you are already there in the web. Even though your website is there it is important to make it accessible to the users because until your website is accessible no user will spend time on your website. This will appear to be a great loss to your business since websites are the most important tool of communication between you and your users and the accessibility of the website is the most essential factor that can keep them glued to your services.

The accessibility factor of a website depends a lot on the user end also. It is possible that your end user is not being able to view your audio or video content because their system does not support such high end services. It is thus advised that web designers keep this factor in mind while doing website designing for a site. It is true that video and audio inputs make the website more attractive and happening, but what is the use of having attraction when essential content itself is being restricted.

Make sure that your website follows a proper style sheet while drawing the HTML format of the website. Though styling and colouring of the website is important and essential to make it look expressive and attractive it is equally important to make sure that the tags that are used on the HTML are properly closed. Even if a single tag is misplaced, the internet will not be able to read your webpage.

In order to make your webpage accessible, it is important that you use them appropriately. Make use of diagrams and tables too. It is not necessary that the diagrams and tables be for decorative use only, you can also use them as a medium to add additional information which will attract the user’s attention more than otherwise.

When a user comes into your website, the first thing they notice about you is the nature, whether you are welcoming or not. Yes a welcoming website can be distinguished from an unwelcoming website from their navigation. A broadly expanded and open navigation is an ideal situation which is most used by welcoming websites. User friendly navigation is the best technique of retaining your clientele using simple website designing.

Naman Jain is an expert in Internet marketing, presently working with Rupiz Media, one of the leading internet marketing company, offering online marketing services, SEO services, email marketing and search engine marketing over the globe.

Affiliate Marketing for the Beginners

Those who dabble with online marketing or want to get into this very lucrative industry might have come across the concept of affiliate marketing. Basically, affiliate marketing is a form of online promotion where the ads of one business is published on another site that enjoys good traffic inflow and is not related or owned by the business, the ads of which are being published.

Before we get on to more about affiliate marketing, let us clear some of the basic terminologies -

A Merchant is one whose ads are getting published. A merchant is usually one who owns a business or has something to sell or promote. He / she can place an ad for different reasons - for selling or promoting his goods or services, for collecting important data, for leads generation or for getting feedback on his services.

An Affiliate, on the other hand, is one who owns the site where the ads of the merchants get published. Usually an affiliate's site is one that enjoys a reasonably good number of visitors regularly.

Affiliate marketing is a performance driven concept where a merchant has to pay only when a defined goal is accomplished. This goal can be anything that a merchant has to get done, for example getting conversions, accumulating data, leads generation, getting feedback or anything at all. It is when this goal gets accomplished, the merchant pays the affiliate that has brought in the visitor from his site. The amount is fixed at the time of commencement of program.

Affiliate marketing has a lot of benefits for both the merchants as well as the affiliates. For merchants, this reduces the amount that has to be invested for promotion purposes and it also gives more returns on investment. It can also be fruitfully used to get qualified leads or for conversion of visitors into customers.

It is a good money making option for an affiliate since there is no investment or any cost involved. And the affiliate can simply earn by monetizing the web traffic that comes to the site owned by the affiliate. Each time a visitor clicks on an ad shown on his site, the visitor is taken to the destination site of the ad (the merchant's site) where the visitor may perform the activity that has been defined by the merchant. On successfully doing that, the affiliate gets paid a fixed amount by the merchant.

Hence, affiliate marketing is a win-win situation for both the affiliates as well as the merchants and therefore it has gained a lot of popularity from the time of its conceptualization.

About the Author- Naman Jain is an expert in Internet marketing, presently working with Rupiz Media, one of the leading internet marketing company, offering online marketing services, SEO services, web application development and search engine marketing over the globe.

Does Size Really Matter? Global Domains International Thinks So.

Need a web site? What kind? How big? What do you want to do with it? These are some of the questions you should consider and research before even setting a web site up. We'll give you a few tips here to help you make a more informed choice.

What's In a Domain Name and How Important Are They To You?

A domain name is a web site address and can be used only once. They are usually made up of words or letters so they are easier to remember and can be more relevant to a person or business. Extensions are the codes at the end of a domain name. The extensions signify which country the domain name belongs to, i.e., .ws belongs to Samoa and .us belongs to the United States.

Getting just the right domain name may be important to you if you need recognition for a product, service, event or your own name. In this case, you may want a web site name with a .ws extension, because you may more likely find just the name you're looking for. Dot com and dot net still have some names available, but many of them have been used up after the dot com boom of the late 1990's.

Domain names can also be more important to you if you want a domain name that relates to something you know is being searched for on the Internet and if you want to be found when people are searching for that name or keyword. Some of the larger search engines like MSN and Google still give a higher ranking faster to a web site that has the keyword being searched for - in the web site or domain name address. If a this is important to you, it might be a good idea to find out what is being searched for on the Internet that relates to the domain name you have in mind before you choose one.

Handy keyword tools that can help you do this can be found at http://inventory.overture.com and http://freekeywords.wordtracker.com . Just put a word or phrase related to the domain name you have in mind into the search box window. They will search all the related terms that were searched for last month on the Internet, and tell you how many times they were searched for. These tools can also identify related keywords you can use for your web site title and on your web site pages that will help you achieve higher rankings in the Internet search engines for those keywords, but this is a whole other topic reserved for a later discussion.

Think About How You Want To Use Your Web Site...

What would you do with a web site? Teach? Show and tell? Make money? Build an email list? Have fun? There are so many options on the Internet today, that it could be mind boggling to a newbie. Doing a little research on the Internet before setting a web site up is a very good idea. It will help you become familiar with all the different web site options and features available so you can make a better choice before you get started.

Some of the things you'll need to consider before setting up a web site are:

Q: What do you want the web site to accomplish?

A: Teach? Show and tell? Make money? Build an email list? Have fun?

Q: How many pages will you need - 3, 5, 10 or more pages?

A: Some web sites limit the number of pages or bandwidth available.

Q: How much should you pay per month?

A: This can vary from usually $3.95 to $100 or more, depending on available features.

Q: What is disk space?

A: How much space is available for your web site words, pictures, reviews, etc.

Q: What is bandwidth?

A: How many times and how many people can access your site during a period.

Q: What is down time?

A: How reliable is the server that your web site is on?

Q: What is security and do you need it?

A: Yes. Protection from hackers. Secure service available for your customers.

Does Size Really Matter?

As you can see, there are many things to consider before setting up a web site, but making the right choices up front can save you much time, effort and headache in the long run. If you set up a web site on a server that only allows 5 pages of space, and you find you need more down the road, you would need to move your web site and domain name to a new server, which could be quite involved. It may be easier for you to make a better choice up front if you have all the options available to you ahead of time. A suggestion would be to type into your search box window top 10 hosting or best hosting to get more information to help you make the right choice before setting up a web site.

Bottom line, investigate your options and be prepared. Size really does matter.

About the Author
Global Domains International is an online business opportunity that offers many unique features, including making the sales for you. You may read an in-depth article and learn more by going to http://globaldomainsint.ws . DMarie Holtz, the author, has a B.S. in business and 10 years experience marketing online.

Adsense Web Tool: Increasing Your Adsense Revenues Starting Today!

There was an individual named Joel Comn who once making only $30 daily with Adsense, a program where it allows you to make money when visitors of your site are clicking on the advertising links that are placed in the host’s website. Until one day, he decides to have a try of other ways of increasing his Adsense earning.

After he had used several Adsense tools, Joel doubled his commission from $30 to $60 daily. But would you believe that his commission actually sky-rocketed for more than $500 per day? His earnings climbed up, making it $18,343 last December 2004 and it is quite possibly that his revenues may keep climbing after that period. It sounds impossible, but an individual have done it.

Adsense Basics

Joel Comn is now one of the successful Internet marketers that derive some of their revenues through the Adsense program. But you need to keep in mind that you can not earn as much as $18,000 per month if you will just allow Adsense to place its ads on your website. There are things you need to consider in order to make as much money as Joel did.

You need to apply for an Adsense account. Remember that you must be investing in your own domain so that your application will not be rejected. Make sure that your site’s contents are organized and be viewed as professional.

After your site has been accepted, Adsense will give you a code that you will place on your website, enabling them to start placing ads on your site that are with relevance to its content. For instance, if your site is about air-conditioning, Adsense might place ads that deal with different kinds and models of air-conditioning equipment.

Adsense Web Tool

Part of Adsense program is the use of Adwords, or relevant words that is integrated with Adsense advertisement. In order to attract more visitors that are generating impressions or “clicks” to the ads in your site, you must let Adsense know what Adwords are relevant and related to the contents of your webpage. In this case, the Adsense Web Tool can help you.

Adsense Web Tools provide you with Adsense HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language) ad code to place on the web pages which you want to display the ads. The Adwords that will be generated using the Web Tool are based on the keyword analysis, word frequency, and the overall link structure of the web. Adsense will have an idea what your webpage is all about, and it can precisely match the advertisement on each page.

Maybe you will wonder how Adsense know what appropriate Adwords needs to be displayed in your site. If Adsense has spidered your site, it automatically knows what Adwords are to be displayed in your site. However, if your site has not spidered yet, Adsense makes use of your site’s URL first to decide what Adwords are appropriate. This is where your own domain will be important. You must invest on your own domain. Keep in mind that it has a significant impact on your Adsense revenues.

It is important that you make use of Adsense Web Tool so that you can maximize your possible earnings with Adsense. Do not rely alone on the displayed ads. Remember that you need to make it “clickable” to every Internet user that will visit your site. Start right and earn as much as $18,000 a month through Adsense!

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Register A Domain Name - How People Make Money Off Of You

It seems everyone is trying to give you some free advice on how to register a domain name. That's because registering domain names is big business and we all want a slice of the pie.
But, make sure you do your homework before you register that domain name because once you've signed up, you can't get a refund. (Registrars may give you a refund on the web hosting package, but you'll never get the price of the domain name back.)
If you understand a little bit about how people make money selling domain names, you'll be able to take our information with a grain of salt. Here are three levels of people who make money off of domain names:
1. Large companies like GoDaddy or NetWork Solutions are Domain Name Registrars. They make money by registering the domain name for you. (You can't register a domain name by yourself. It has to be done through a registrar.) Domain names cost anywhere between $2.99 to $34.99 per year. If someone tells you it doesn't matter where you buy your domain name from, don't believe it. Different registrars offer different features and you need to find out what you get before you buy.
2. Smaller domain registrars might be domain name resellers. If you've ever seen a domain name registrar website that looked an awful lot like another company, it might be because one is a domain name resellers. You can make big bucks as a domain name reseller. Basically, they buy a whole bunch of domain names from the big companies at wholesale cost and then they resell the domain names to you.
3. People like me. We make money on commission by referring people to the big companies. It doesn't affect the price that you have to pay - that's set by the registrars. Our business model is to give out advice based on our personal experiences. People check out the registrars that we recommend, and if they decide to buy, then we get a cut of the action.
So, now you know. The reason why everyone is offering you free advice about registering a domain name is because, ultimately, we want you to use our links when you go to the registrar so that we get a referral fee.
Bottom Line: Search through the internet for information and reviews about domain name registrars and web hosts. Read things with a critical eye. Don't believe everything at face value. And, make sure you check out a few different sources.
When you're ready to register a domain name, just click on one of those companies that you've been reading about and buy your online property.
But, don't forget - you can't get a refund on a domain name registration. Buyer Beware!



Article By: Mark Shin



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Adsense Tips That Double Affiliate Earnings

Most of us would love to double our Adsense earnings. It doesn’t take long to learn that Google uses a sliding scale, so a $10 keyword that promised to pay $1 to the affiliate only pays $.05.

Many affiliate marketers, especially work at home professionals, assume that affiliate marketing is a scam and quit. Unfortunately, affiliate marketing through Google or Yahoo is not a scam. It is the marketer’s ignorance that is costing them money.

No matter what type of internet business a person operates, most will include affiliate marketing to a greater or lesser degree. Many businesses consider affiliate income as passive income, but they remain frustrated by the lack of success.

How Earnings are Calculated

Many factors are involved when calculating the affiliate’s earnings. Page rank, hits, inbound links, and Page Rank are all important. However, the search engines also track how many people click and compare it to how many people remain at the site for more than 30 seconds.

Ad Appearance

The effectiveness of an ad depends on its appearance. Adds that mimic a link bar on a webpage will do better than ones that appear to be advertisements.

This is why Google allows web publishers a wide variety of layouts and color combinations.

Many affiliate marketers tell small business owners to post three, four, or even five bars of Affiliate links. This rarely works. Instead, it can make the visitor feel like they’ve hit a MFA (Made For AdSense) spam site. In most cases, visitors just leave.

Content

You’ve all heard it – Content is King. Many people mistake this to mean that content attracts search engines – not true.
Content, and meta tags, determine what ads appear on a site. A web page that is not doing well can be improved, dramatically, by altering the keywords to attract sites which have good products to sell at an affordable price.

The keywords in an article rarely effects search engine rank in today’s SEO world. However, they are 100% effective in controlling the ads that appear on a web page.

Know the Ads

NEVER click an ad on your website. However, you can read the URL and go visit the site. What are they selling? Is it a good product? Do you know how to write an article that can ‘pre sell’ the product? Can your article ad value to the product? All of these questions will play a vital roll in the difference between the number of the ‘click through’ from your site and the number of ‘decisions to buy.’

There is nothing wrong with manipulating the ads that appear on your web page. If too many of those ads lead to ‘Hard Sell’ pages then change the keywords and topic of the page to attract something more ‘user friendly.’

AdSense Analytics

All business owners need to familiarize themselves with web analytics. AdSense has its own analytics program. Keep an eye on the pages, which ones work, which ones don’t, and which ads pay best. When you target an ad that earns a high affiliate payout then create more pages that attract that ad.

It is easy to track hits and traffic by creating ‘channels’ in the AdSense program.

Reversed AdSense

Don’t forget to improve your PPC campaigns success by using this advice in reverse. One thing that many small businesses often overlook in their Pay Per Click programs is the websites where their ads appear. If the ad appears on too many Made For AdSense pages, or the Return On Investment is low. Take a look at the sites where you want the ads to appear.

Use your browser’s ‘view’ button and look at the page’s ‘source code.’ The meta information may give a few insights to how the ads are placed. Sometimes a PPC campaigns success can be increased simply by changing one keyword, or a single word in the ad.


About The Author

Mark Walters is a third generation entrepreneur and author. He offers free training and investing videos designed to speed you towards financial independence at http://www.cashflowinstitute1.com/Articles.html

How to Create a MySpace Layout

MySpace by far is one of the most famous and spectacularly popular social networking site and blogging entertainment and almost everything rolled into one. It still remains on top of the Google search engines too. They have very customizable screens. How this works is, we have a login account created with the help of an email ID. Then we customize our pages and put in whatever we feel we need to show the world to, whichever content we feel is good enough to be put in.
Any body logging will have to create a Myspace layout so that the content is displayed in a desired manner by the web page.

Steps To Create Myspace Layout:

. First create an account
. Login to your pages and add some content, blogs etc which ever you feel like.
. Then go to Profile Editor and click on the Edit tab.
. Now we can see variety of options including Background images, layouts, Images to be added, space for text etc.
. Now we can use whatever is currently in resource in Myspace, tabulations, color etc.
. After selecting whatever we need we can save the settings.
. Whenever someone or we login to our screen to check what we are displaying the layout will have been what we selected in profile editor.

Not only these but in internet we have lots many Myspace Layouts and which individual programmers or free layouts created by websites are available. We can use them to upload to our login. It's as simple as that.



About the author
Jack Dalton is a writer for the Tech FAQ. Visit the Tech FAQ find to answers like What are MySpace Layouts? and How do I Create my own MySpace Layout?

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For the last month and a half I have been very bussy with my other projects so I didn't have any spare time to design free templates until today.

So today I have built one very simple but nice template. It is two column template with sidebar on the left. There is a vertical navigation bar in the left column and content is in the right column. It has neutral "web 2.0 color scheme". It includes colors such as Shiny silver (#EEEEEE), Gmail blue (#C3D9FF), Mag.nolia (#F9F7ED) and Qoop Mint (#CDEB8B). These colors are known as neutral colors.

Template is SEO Friendly, easy to customize and can be use for various projects. It can be used for a simple personal web site as well as a business web site.

This template is 100% XHTML 1.0 Strict and CSS valid.

This is an open source template and is released and distributed under Creative Commons 2.5 licence. You are free to use this template in any way you like. All I ask for is that you leave the web site design credit links in the footer of this template intact. Thank you for downloading.

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How Search Engine Optimization Expert Depend On Google Update

The latest update of Google dubbed "Jagger," and is causing great difficulty for the owners of Web sites around the world. As with most updates to Google there is an initial period of movement in the rankings. This can be and is often quickly followed by a cavernous empty feeling in the pit of your stomach.



However, before thinking about panic and jumping from a tall building, firing or your local Search Engine Optimization (SEO) expert, take a deep breath and remember this is normal and natural, the dust will settle. Google updates last time from 1 day to 8 weeks depending on the size of the update can be. With an estimated 16-24 billion Web pages in its database, is it surprising to take these updates as long as they do? White Hat SEO is sharp some usefull seo tips about



During that time to update the Web site owners will see their search engine results vary from day to day (if not hourly), sometimes with wild swings in both directions. Do not Fret! For the same sentence key to the ranking of results is down 1 to 100, or vice versa (cross your fingers).



In any case do not become too attached to these results, they will change. One way to put your fears at ease during this transition period is to check your Google Page Rank (PR) and see if it has moved too. If it stayed the same then you can be relatively sure of the key phrases will rebound. However, if your PR has decreased as well as your keyword rankings then it might be time to look more closely to see what happens. If you are not familiar with obtaining a Google PR please use the link below for a system to monitor online:



Google will update the page in their rankings a few times a year, depending on where you are either a blessing or a long wait unbearable. This time lag, however, do a pretty good barometer with which to gauge your site. As with most aspects of the SEO can change without notice or logic.



With the evolution multitude of factors contributing to elusive Google ranking algorithm rest assured that if your site has undergone a lower rank, the same is true of millions of other Web site owners. Granted this does not really help you sleep at night, that is what is Ambian, but he did confirm that you, and by you I mean that we are not doing anything wrong with this site. Just wait and watch, once the update is completed and the dust had settled, we can see where we are, SEO adjust our plans accordingly, and to continue the domination keyphrases win!



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How Can an Effective Web Design Boost Your Business?

These days, it is a cut-throat competition. Unless you take advantage of the resources and the latest technologies right now, you may never be able to make it and eventually compete with other businesspeople in your field. Hence, you have to make sure that you can build your own website.

However, it should not just be any other site composed of multiple pages. You should also ensure that you have implemented an effective website design.

How Your Business Can Gain Something from Good Website Design

Why do you have to focus on your website design? Here are the numerous reasons why. Keep in mind that this list is not exhaustive. Nevertheless, there are the best purposes:

1. A good website design can drive traffic into your site. Whether you like it or not, Internet users will always go for websites that appear neat, easy to navigate, and professional looking. And these are usually the basic benefits that you can derive from having a good website design. The more people going into your website, the higher will be the possibility that you will be able to obtain the kind of sales conversion rate that you have always wanted for your online business.

2. You can generate sales leads from a good design for your website. An efficient web design allows you to build your number of potential customers. This is because you can include a mailing list where they can place their full names and e-mail address, making it real convenient for you to promote your products and services as well as send out news and other updates.

3. You can gain your own spot in search engines. This is also another huge advantage of an effective website design. As a business owner, it should not be sufficient that you can see your website in the Internet. Most of all, you must appear in at least the first pages of search engine results. A professional web designer can implement search engine optimization techniques that can make your web pages extremely friendly search engines such as Google, allowing spiders to index your web pages. You should bank on your maximum visibility.

4. An effective design for your website can help you increase your credibility. In business, it is very essential that you can build a good reputation or credibility not only for yourself but, most of all, for your small business. Otherwise, if people do not trust you, you will not be able to improve your sales, and you cannot even maintain your customer base.

Your web design, however, can increase your credibility. With excellent content to balance the aesthetic value of your web pages, you can provide information to your target market, allowing them to make careful and wise decisions. Your Products and Services page will also help you let your customers know that you can offer everything they need. Most of all, you can steer clear from penalties of search engines. After all, if you are doing web designing right, then you shouldn’t have implemented any online marketing techniques.



John Mahoney is a freelance author who writes about various technology related subjects. For more information about John visit his website:
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Why does your Company need to invest in a Website

Small business might ask themselves the questions of why they should invest in a website, especially if business is going well. After all, if your business has been running for a couple of years and hasn’t needed one, what’s the point of investing in one now. Well, the answer is simple, times are changing. More and more people are turning to the internet to search for companies, either as consumers or B2B. If small, medium and large companies decide not to get a website, then they are basically cutting themselves off from a growing demand of potential clients.
There are other advantages of having a website. A site can hold a lot of content about what your business does, the services and products, the history, contacts and other information. It will also give the user a general idea about what you are all about. The amount of information it provides cannot fit on other types of marketing, such as business card.

A website is available 24/7. It is more efficient and less expensive to have a website that clients can go to during non-working hours. It allows users to e-mail you from across the globe, regardless of whether you are at work, home or somewhere in between. They will feel more relaxed that they have e-mailed you and you can answer when you receive it. This is of course if they still feel the need to ask you anything, as chances are most users would have found the answer on your site.

Having a FAQ page will provide users answers to questions that, in the past, clients have asked over and over again. The contact page will give all your details without clients asking for directions or pulling out the phone book.

Having a blog is one of the simplest forms of public relations. They will have a platform to build a relationship with you and give feedback on your services or products. You will be able to liaison with a variety of clients at once through your website.

Of the course the biggest bonus of all is, if you are a small or medium size company, you can finally play with the big boys. There is no limit favouritism or class online. If you have the know how, you can finally get ahead of any of your competition.

You will also be able to see how overseas company’s size up compared to your own region and see how prices compare. Having your own website and using to its advantage opens a whole world of information to your company.

Having a website and marketing around it doesn’t necessary mean you have to give up on traditional types of marketing. It just opens the door for more possibilities to work with and get new clients all over the world. It allows you to air your business on a global scale without the complications or expenses of previous marketing techniques.

Celeste writes for Celestial Online an online company that specialises in inspirational images, words and design for websites.

Getting Listed Is The First Goal In Google Optimization

Getting listed in Search Engine is the first choice of people and part of Google Optimization Process. Google has indexed more than 8 billion pages and now it has become a bit slower. It is believed that now it takes 4-6 weeks for you to get indexed in search results. But waiting for such a long period requires a lot of patience when there are time constrains to promote a website.

It means a lot to rank high in major search engines. Around 40% of the search engine traffic comes from Google. The question that may come in your mind is that if it is there any way to get listed more quickly despite hearing a lot about sandbox. Well it is possible to get listed in short period of time if you take care of certain basics. Among the many ways of getting listed quickly is the best known method and that is to make the Sitemap. Other method is to increase the inbound links to your website.

This is created by programmers that help people to get their site listed in much faster way. This informs Google what your site is all about and what it is related to, how many pages are there in your website and which updates are done in the website on regular basis.

Try to build the inbound links of your website. This can be done through article submissions, directory submissions and link exchange etc. All this will help in indexing your site faster. These links will also help you to rank higher in search engines. You can simply visit the http://www.xml-sitemaps.com and this website lets you create free sitemap for your website. Just follow the guidelines and submit the sitemap.

Apart from being the biggest search engine, Google is fast and simple to use. In less than a second you are able to find the most results. They also show the cached version of the web page. It provides results with information and links related to your query. This helps to make and quickly find what you are searching for.


Rajeev Guglani writes articles for SEO. He has vast exposure in writing for Search Engine marketing. He is working for NDDW. For Google Marketing, Get Listed in Google and Google Optimization visit www.nddw.com

Simple SEO: How To Create Content The Search Engines Will Like

Improved search positioning means greater exposure to targeted traffic, but few E-Biz owners really understand how to run an effective search engine optimization (SEO) campaign. According to Andy Jenkins, founder of online business forum http://StomperNet.com, “Your web site ranking is determined, in large part, by the quality of your content – it must be both compelling to your visitors and consumable to the search engine spiders.”

A Matter of Substance

Jenkins reveals two key practices that can help you cooperate with the search engines and give them the kind of useful information they’re after:

Avoid Duplicate Content

When pages living on separate domains are extremely similar, the engines will classify them as “duplicate content” and rank them very poorly. One page will go in their normal index; the other will be relegated to their supplemental index, where none its value is manifested. This often poses a problem for eCommerce stores selling numerous similar items.

Every page of your web site probably has some design elements that are the same, like your navigation bar, header and footer, and any special messages, like “In Stock” or “Money Back Guarantee”. To keep from ending up in the supplemental index, you should strive to have at least more original content in your product descriptions than exists in the permanent template layout of your pages. In other words, if you have two hundred fifty words of repeating content on each page, you should also have at least two hundred fifty-one words per page of new and different content.

If writing interesting, witty descriptions of your products seems difficult, it may help to try manifesting your copy in some form of ownership. For instance, if you’re selling a box of tortellini, talk about how simple it is to cook, how good it tastes with pesto sauce, how wonderful it is to enjoy with your family around the dinner table. You’re simultaneously engaging your customers, sharing the benefits of using your product, and avoiding the mire of the supplemental index.

Implement Latent Semantic Indexing

Search engine algorithms have grown increasingly complex over time. Optimizing your copy is no longer a matter of stuffing it with keywords: “This pasta site is the best pasta site for the pasta lover’s pasta needs.” Now, in fact, repeating a keyword or phrase too often will raise red flags, and may even cause your site to drop in the rankings.

The engines have learned to recognize the relationships between many words. So to rank well for a keyword, you need to talk about things that relate to it, also know as “latent semantic indexing”. For example, if you’re trying to rank for the keyword “pasta”, you might talk about carbs, marinara sauce, fusilli, linguini, and so forth. It’s okay to sprinkle “pasta” throughout your copy, but concentrate on using latently related words. You’re generating copy that’s interesting to the users reading it, and palatable to the engines ranking it.

(Tip: To discover keywords latently related to your keywords, perform a Google search with a tilde in front of the keyword – like “~pasta”. You’ll bring back results containing latently related words: noodles, recipes, Italian, etc.)

While the search engines regularly revise their algorithms, the basic principles of SEO remain the same. You don’t need to play games or try to trick the engines to show up in their results. Advises Jenkins, “The engines want to give users the information they’re seeking. So if you create a user-friendly site with good, valuable content, you’re going to do well – period.”



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Handy Tips For Designing A Good Website

Techno geeks would claim that designing a website is as easy as 1-2-3 with all the available software and programs. With just a few clicks on the computer a website will be “born”. And if it is true that the success of an online business largely depends on the design of the website, why then do some online business fail? Something must be amiss with the design of the website.

Practicing good design principles is a must if you want to have a website that will reach out to potential customer as well as yield the desired sales. The web abounds with graphics and a web designer might be tempted to enhance the appearance of the website by using so many graphics and images. However it is not advisable to load the page with so many pictures as this would slow down the loading of the page. Most internet surfers who uses dial up connections would surely leave a slow loading page and click on the next link. If you really think that a picture is essential to the website it is advisable to use image editing programs. Pictures that will be featured should have a relevance to the content of the website. A picture of your favorite pet would be inappropriate for a website dedicated to dental services.

Another important factor to be considered in web design is to know the target audience. The font used as well as the layout should cater to the prospective audience. The design of the site should have a relevance to the purpose of the website. For example, if the website will sell dog food, it wouldn’t do to incorporate flashy model cars. If the target users of the website belong to the senior group, using the smaller fonts favored by the young generation is not advisable since the senior readers would need to make font modification in their own computers just to read the content of the website.

The page layout is equally important in web design. The front page will serve as the “face” of the business and as such should be able to provide the visitors with information regarding the company and the services and products it offers. The page should be clean and uncluttered with many unnecessary images and bouncing animations. The color of the text should be complimentary to the color of the background for easy reading. It is a known fact that glaring and vibrant colors as well as rotating and bouncing animations could distract readers. And readers who leave the site would mean lost sales.

Easy navigation should be a feature of a company website who wants to achieve marketing success. Nothing is more frustrating to a visitor than a site where the navigation bar is hidden by so many other features. It is comparable to finding a sock from a mound of clothes.

Content of a website should be clear and concise. Surfers are “lazy” individuals and they won’t have the patience to read overly long paragraphs especially if it lacks substance. Keeping it sweet and simple is very appropriate for the content of a website who aims to attract loads of traffic in order to generate more revenues.



Dolphin Promotions are a web design and SEO company based in Blackpool in the UK.

Blogging for Bucks

A blog is a website used to present written entries in reverse chronological order. The term itself is a shortening of the original words used to describe these websites, which was "web log." Blogging has become an extremely prevalent means of expression on the Internet, and it's also become a moneymaker for entrepreneurial bloggers.

Blogs are generally presented primarily in text form, though they may also use images, video, and audio files. Generally the person who writes the entries, known as the blogger, chooses a subject of interest and writes entries surrounding that topic. Common topics among bloggers are food, politics, and news items.

Early blogs were nothing more than online diaries. The people who used them basically kept an online account of their lives. At the time, they usually called themselves diarists or journalers. The entries appeared on websites that were manually updated as new entries were created.

However, today, bloggers enjoy the use of software that has made the process much easier. Some common software programs in use are WordPress, Movable Type, and LiveJournal. Bloggers may also choose to utilize the services of web hosting services. With the advent of software and services, blogging has become accessible to even the most novice of Internet users.

Blogging has become so popular that in May 2007, the blog search engine Technorati reported the existence of more than 71 million blogs. Having started as online diaries, blogging has since evolved into not only a form of expression, but also as a way to make money on the Internet.

Some companies are now paying individuals to blog in a way that boosts the buzz about their new products and services. They may pay the blogger a set fee for the entry, a commission for any sales made as a result of the blog, or a combination of the two.

In addition to direct payment from companies, some bloggers use their sites as a place to post paid advertisements for businesses. Successful bloggers can make a significant amount of money in this manner. The key to success in this manner is to create an interesting blog that attracts many visitors each day.

Fortunately, blogging can really be an enjoyable way to make some extra cash. The first step, and probably the most important step, is to choose a topic that will appeal to a large number of people. In addition, the topic has to appeal to you. If you don't enjoy discussing the topic, you're not likely to update your blog very often and when you do, you won't have fun doing it.

When you choose a topic, think about what your passions are in life. Perhaps you have a particular hobby that lots of people are interested in. Maybe you're an avid fisherman, create fabulous scrapbooks, or possess a great deal of knowledge about a certain topic. Then, consider which of those passions will be most likely to interest other people and provide fodder for a number of entries.

Once you've gotten your blog up and running, you can participate in the affiliate programs of companies that will pay you for placing an advertisement on your blog site. Because most affiliate programs pay a fee for each time an individual clicks on their ad, it is a good idea to look for companies whose products and services are in some way related to your topic. For example, if you write a blog about dogs, you might look for companies that sell pet products.

There are a number of resources available on the Internet that can help you get started blogging and using your blog to make money. Before purchasing any products or services for learning about blogging or setting up a blog, be sure to do some research. Look for companies or individuals with a good reputation on the Internet and beware of claims promising overnight success.

A blog takes work and it will take time to attract visitors. However, there are great rewards to be had in blogging, not the least of which is sharing interesting information and networking with your peers.


Author of this article is James Angell. He would recommend "Carbon Copy Profits" as a very good resource to help anyone get started blogging to make money. I personally prefer the free ebooks offered entitled "Blog Link Generator and Blob in a Box" to become successful at this. Just click on www.easywayincome.com

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This is an open source template and is released and distributed under Creative Commons 2.5 licence. You are free to use this template in any way you like. All I ask for is that you leave the web site design credit links in the footer of this template intact. Thank you for downloading.

Click here to download Free Business Website Template