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February 2007 Monthly Archive

Cooperative Advertising

Advertising is expensive. As a result, successful businesses are looking for more and more ways to save money on their marketing packages.

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Opinion ? Search Engine Success

This article is actually the summary to a book soon to be released by the author, titled "Guaranteed Website Success". Opinions are quite often controversial. Such is the nature of this one.

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Graphics for the Web: Plug-Ins

You've probably noticed that just about any application of any real significance these days has the capability to be expanded in some way. Usually these are called "plug-ins", although they are also called snap-ins (Windows 2000), add-ons, add-ins (Outlook 2000), ActiveX Controls (Internet Explorer) and filters (Adobe Photoshop, as well as any number of other descriptive names.

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Test, Test and Re-test

We could all take a lesson from children. As they are growing up, and learning right from wrong, they are constantly testing to see what they can do, and what is not acceptable.

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Using Affiliate Directories to Improve Your Program

Who joins an affiliate program? The most common group is people who want to become rich quickly and easily using their computer, the majority of which will never become productive affiliates. The second most common group is webmasters who have some good content and regular traffic, but are looking for a way to generate revenue from their web site. (Note these classifications are not based on quantifiable data; these are simply my impressions of the industry.)

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WRITING A WEBSITE THAT SINGS!

If your online sales have taken a dip lately, your product or service isn't necessarily to blame. Even the best products and services can be hidden in obscurity when covered by a blanket of bad website copy. So what can you do to make sure your copy sings the praises of not only your product, but your business smarts and credibility as well?

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Contact Methods

How many times have you been visiting a website and had trouble finding what you wanted? Have you found a broken link? Did a product description lack important information? There are many reasons a visitor may need to contact a webmaster or customer service agent, and if they can't, they may never visit your website again.

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Is Adsense Going To Turn Associate Programs Obsolete

When Google introduced their new Adsense revenue sharing program, people began to wonder if things would change. Certain questions have been burning in people's mind like: what's going to happen to Associate Programs, how do they compare against Google's Adsense and will Adsense cause Associate Programs to be obsolete?

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Do Not Spam!

The temptation to sp*m is powerful but must be resisted.
The temptation among internet marketers to SPAM is greater than ever. If you're new to the Net, be aware that SPAM isn't the popular food from Hormel but a pseudonym for "unsolicited commercial email," also known as UCE.

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Building Downlines and Keeping Them

You know the scenario: You join some program, work your butt off to promote it, to get signups, and you feel like you`re hitting a brick wall. After a few months, you give up, and try something else, or give up completely.

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"Beginners Luck" a guide to Web Page/Site Design

Ever wonder why the cheapest looking, mostly all text, boring web sites get all the top rankings? Me Too! So I found out. As it turns out most search engines have been fooled once or twice by idiots (or genius's depending on what side of the fence your on) who have placed code in their sites to fool rankers into giving their site more weight. So they have put measures in place to stop these people, and in return made "Ranking" more of a challenge than ever. What is this Magic code that places sites at the top?

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IS YOUR WEB SITE UNFRIENDLY? Part 8 of 9

1. Don't use __"click here"__ for your links (the link should be attached to where you want your visitors to go: "Return to __home page__" rather than "__Click here__ to return to Home Page"). "Click here" is meaningless and the visitor has to keep scanning the text to find the link's content--very time-wasting.

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How Active is Inter-Active?

"Interactive," like "post-modern," is an impressive word, though no one precisely knows what it means. This can be confusing--not to mention annoying-but the lack of a clear definition provides a good launching point for brainstorming.

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Cracking the Mystery of Hosting Services and Domain Registration in Canada

In this article I will attempt to take the mystery out of how your hosting package interacts with your .ca domain name, how the .ca domain registry works, and what your web geek should be helping you with.

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5 Tips To Choosing The Right Affiliate Program

Affiliate programs can be a great way to make money online. You don't have to spend time developing your own product, worry about taking orders, or take care of customer service.

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Ask Mr. D on Banner Exchange

I recently joined a banner exchange. This is my first venture into banner advertising and I was shocked to see my banner getting a measly .3% click-through rate.

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What Color is Your Website?

During site creation, it is very easy to fall into the trap of "if I can, I will" thinking. This method of thinking is very dangerous. The premise is if I can create a site with 256 differently colored words, backgrounds and graphics, I will. Your site may look great, but what will you accomplish? The disadvantage to creating a single site with dozens of different colors is color compatibility between different operating systems, monitors and browsers. If the browser of your visitor cannot show an exact color from your website, it will choose the closest or mix the nearest two colors. This is called dithering. The result can be something you did not want or expect.

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INITIAL FACTORS OF WEB PAGE CONSTRUCTION

So you have a product that you want to market, and now you want to start promoting it through your own web page.

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"Chase Those Page One Blues Away...Get Themed Content On Your Site And Get On Page One!"

Here is my latest article. It may be freely used in ezines, on websites or in e-books, as long as the Resource Box is left intact.

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I've Got To Get This Off of My Chest!

I have got to get this off my chest before I EXPLODE... Stephan Ducharme just became a Millionaire on the Internet ? in weeks!!! He went from 100 hits a day up to 1 MILLION visitors in less than a few weeks ? without paying a dime in advertisement !!! ? and this just paid him over 1 MILLION DOLLARS !!!

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