Web Development Articles: G - H

Good Web Site Design
There are very few web pages on the internet that clearly state what is "good web site design" and what is not "good web site design". That's because it's completely subjective - like what is beautiful and what is not beautiful, and so it takes a hi...
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Google - Internet Democracy?
Is Google, as its creators (Larry Page and Sergey Brin) claim, 'uniquely democratic'? Well, it is certainly unique, or at least it was when it was founded. However, its claim to be democratic is extremely questionable. If it is indeed a democracy, it is...
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Google - The Ultimate Web Writers Style Guide
Indulge me for a moment.

Forget that Google is a search engine. Just for a moment, imagine it is a style guide. A very different kind of style guide.

Instead of this particular style guide being written as a static book by an expert or two, ...
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Google AdWords Tips & Tricks
Synopsis: Google Ad Words are a wonderful and cost effective way to advertise has great flexibility on the part of the advertiser, he/she can make it running in minutes and can change ads whenever feels doing it after tracking the response of the visitors...
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Google Adwords: Higher Traffic and Sales in 2 Hours or Less!
There are various ways to purchase highly targeted advertising
at very low prices. Google AdWords is one simple and quick way to
to do this. Regardless of your budget, you can actually get your
text ads appearing on search result pages within min...
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Google And Duplicate Content
I've been following the discussion about Google and mirrored
information for some time. It is "common knowledge" that Google
penalizes page rank when it determines that content is
duplicated somewhere else. In fact, I've read many experts ...
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Google Bombing or Legitimate SEO?
Today I visited the WebProWorld forums and stumbled across
a topic "New Google Bombing Technique" and was startled to
see that the topic had been viewed over 22,000 times! It is
by far the most active of the forums in the "Search Engine
In...
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Google bring Deskbar search to Windows desktop. Now any website can take advantage of this search technology.
Google's premier of desktop search proves that the desktop is an
extremely valuable marketing real estate. Google, which holds
about 75% of the Internet search market, just introduced
"Deskbar" – a small desktop application that allows user...
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Google Chase a Worthwhile Endeavor
Google Chase a Worthwhile Endeavor

Pursuit of high search engine ranking has other marketing benefits

If you run an on-line business or operate a website in support of your traditional small business, you have probably desired at some time ...
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Google Flaws and Fixes
There have been many criticisms recently of Google and it's page rank algorithm. First, to the criticisms of Google itself.

Has anyone noticed that Google currently indexes 4 billion odd web pages? Very few of us had the time to trod through Goog...
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Google has a flaw? Didn’t think it was possible.
First off, Google is king. Yahoo buying Inktomi and Overture puts them back on top for now, but Google is clearly the Yahoo of the 00’s. However, we do have a few particular beefs with the mighty and mostly benevolent Google.

Google has a problem ...
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Google Is Changing Quickly!
Google is quickly changing...

With the big buzz of Novembers fall within Google comes a newly
indexed data-base...

Did Google do something bad to our great placements?
No I don't think so and here's why.

While people are screa...
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Google Page Rank Is Dead - Or Is It?
Google Page Rank Is Dead - Or Is It?
By: Martin Lemieux

For a long time now, marketing gurus all over the world have been talking about google page ranking. Page ranking is simply Google's way of measuring your pages accordingly.

But th...
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Google PageRank: Not Worth The Worry
I notice that a lot of webmasters are obsessed with Google PageRank (Entire sections of SEO forums are even devoted to PR). Web sites do not live and die by their PageRank. A PR 6 web site may rank lower than a site with a PR 5 due to other Search Engine ...
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Google Patent Application - SEO Highlights
The recent patent application filed by Google details
numerous items the search engine uses to rank web pages. The
specific application is summarized as:

“A method for scoring a document, comprising: identifying a
document; obtaining o...
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Google Ranking WITHOUT submitting to Google
A while back, I read an article that explained how to get a good
google rating without ever submitting your site to their submission
forms. Like you, I was kind of shocked by this statement so I decided
to give it a try.

In the beginning,...
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Google Tops Fifty Billion Market Cap With Innovation
Google Tops Fifty Billion Market Cap With Innovation
Yahoo See, Yahoo Buy Strategy Makes Them Number Two

by Mike Banks Valentine © October 26, 2004

Google market value has topped $50B, so now they're worth
more in dollar value t...
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Google Wealth Pyramid
The absolutely fortunate thing about the Internet is that you can guarantee yourself a certain level of traffic, and certain profitability. This is usually impossible with many other businesses – but not the Internet. Here, we shall look at one sure-fire ...
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Google's AdSense Soon To Have New Rival?
A large part of Google's multi-billion dollar annual turnover comes from its nifty AdSense advertising program. The software enables website owners to drop in a piece of code to their pages that then serves advertisements provided by Google.

How D...
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Google's AdWords Select(tm) Groundbreaking Program
One of the absolute best online marketing processes available to any business today is Google's AdWords Select advertising program. It produces immediate results within minutes after being setup, drives highly qualified traffic via selected keywords and ...
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Google's Groundbreaking AdWords Select Program
One of the absolute best online marketing processes available to any business
today is Google's AdWords Select advertising program. It produces immediate
results within minutes after being setup, drives highly qualified traffic via
selected k...
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Google's New SEO Rules
Google has recently made some pretty significant changes in its ranking algorithm. The latest update, dubbed by Google forum users as "Allegra", has left some web sites in the dust and catapulted others to top positions. Major updates like this can happ...
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Google's Next Big Move
November 2003 might go down in history as the month that Google shook a lot of smug webmasters and search engine optimization (SEO) specialists from the apple tree. But more than likely, it was just a precursor of the BIG shakeup to come.

Google to...
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Google, and the History of Link Building.
I can't begin to tell you how sick I am of reading articles and posts that mention the two words "Google" and "penalty" in the same sentence!

So many webmasters are walking on eggshells these days when it comes to Google, and it just doesn't ...
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Google, Wherefore Art Thou Google? Sites Abandoned by Googlebot!
Google, Wherefore Art Thou Google? Sites Abandoned by Googlebot!

© August 30, 2004

As a search engine optimization specialist I often optimize
existing web pages for small business clients, upload them to
the site and see pages ...
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Google’s Shake Up: A View From the Beginning - Part 2/3


December 3, 2003 - Google’s Florida Update

The impact of Google's Florida Update has not been fully realized yet, but it appears the damage will be extensive considering the reports we are getting from some clients. Literally hundreds of t...
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Google’s Shake Up: A View From the Beginning - Part One
Monday, December 16, 2003

It has been exactly one month since Google introduced its infamous Florida Update. As the Florida Update has brought about the largest and most comprehensive shake-up of Google’s listings ever, it has generated a great dea...
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Google’s Suggestion Beta Search – New SEO & Webmaster Wonder Tool or Over Rated Popularity Meter.
With Google’s release of their new Beta Google Suggest site,
many SEO’s are jumping on the bandwagon to preach praises
about Google Lab’s latest breakthrough. However, in a recent
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Got Traffic?
Here's what your website must have to get lots of traffic - links pointing to your site. The more you have, the more traffic you get.

But how do you get links pointing to your site? Well you could email webmasters and ask them to put a link on th...
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Goto.com: Small Investment, Big Payoffs
[skimp: To deal with hastily, carelessly, or with poor
material. To give inadequate funds to; be stingy with:
misers who skimp their own children.]

Your web-based business is your baby. This article is all
about not being stingy with your ...
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Graphic Design Using Color
Color is everywhere and conveys a message even if we don’t realize it. While this message can vary by culture it pays to know what colors “say” in your own corner of the universe, and even what color...
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Graphics for the web: Animated GIF Format
Oh, so you've seen cool websites with animations moving all over the place?
You've seen balls bouncing, finger's pointing, women dancing and lots of
other pictures moving on the screen while you surf. And now you want to make
your own homepage...
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Graphics for the web: GIF Format
The GIF (Graphics Interchange Format) format was invented in 1987 by
Compuserve to allow images to be displayed. This format allows for 256
colors (which was a lot at the time), compression, interlacing and
animation. It is a very powerful format...
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Graphics for the web: JPG and PNG Files
JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group) is a very efficient, true-color,
compressed image format. It uses lossy compression, which means that bits
are removed from the image in order to save space. JPEG files support
millions of colors (compared ...
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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...
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Graphics for the web: The Most Common Formats
One of the early problems on the net was how to display graphics. The first
browsers only displayed textual information - the modern browser with it's
images, multimedia and plugin's did not exist. Everything was text based.

Now there are h...
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Graphics Optimization
Graphics images on the internet come in three major formats: GIF, JPEG and
PNG (and PNG's close relation MNG). Each of these formats has it's
associated advantages and disadvantages. It is important that you understand
all three formats to make...
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Great F.A.Q's Mean Great Sales!
Did you know that you have about one minute to get your customers
attention on the Internet these days! Despite the fact that more
e-businesses are going out of business than ever before, more people are
shopping on the Internet than ever before....
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Grow Your Subscribers Exponentially With These Javascript E-mail Capture Boxes!
Here's an exciting pop-up tactic that can literally boost
the no. of opt-ins from your existing traffic. In fact the
first one to use this tactic is by the very successful list
management/autoresponder tool - OptinLightning.

I love my lis...
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Growing Your Business In CyberSpace
A synopsis of Philippa Gamse's Presentation to the National Speakers Association, Washington DC chapter on Saturday, January 10, 2004 Someone had asked Philippa why Websites are such a 'pain' in a pr...
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Guaranteeing an Increase in Your Site Traffic
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 ...
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Guide to creating simple chromeless popup windows.

Popup windows - hate 'em or love 'em; they are a constant companion during our Internet surfing. They can be quite useful, especially the chromeless variety.

A chromeless popup window is one that doesn't show the browsers menu or tool bar, b...
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Guide to Internet Business - Website Setup
After planning the design and content of your website, it's time to actually physically set up your website. This is the step where you put all your designs and plans into action, creating a website that will attract visitors and earn income.

a) W...
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Guide to Internet Business - Website Setup
After planning the design and content of your website, it's time to actually physically set up your website. This is the step where you put all your designs and plans into action, creating a website ...
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Handling Your Email Addresses
--Company Email Addresses--

Web hosting companies should provide company email accounts for each person in your company. Email addresses should appear like this:

yourname@domain.com

lester@definiteweb.com

myname@companyname.com...
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Hansel & Gretel Left a Breadcrumb Trail.....So do Your Website Guests!
So, who's been visiting your website lately?
What do you mean you don't know? How can you tell
what's working if you don't have some sort of
tracking in place? Measuring website traffic,
also known as "stats," is how you know who's vis...
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Harmonize Elements for High Ranking
Ranking high in search engines is like a carefully balanced high-wire act:
you can't tip too far to either side or you will not reach your goal. When
creating a website, you must use both content and meta tags effectively, but
not excessively. T...
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Has Google Lost the Plot?
With the help of MSN, recently I’ve been reminiscing about the Google of old. Remember those days? When you could take a good quality site, add a few keywords, get a few incoming links and bada-bing, bada-boom, it’d be #1 on Google? Remember the old days,...
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Has your site been crash tested?
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 po...
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Having Your Personal Portfolio On The Internet Will Help You Infiltrate The Workforce And Get Your Identity ‘Out There’.
If you’re an up and coming graphic/web designer just out of university, you’ll know it’s quite hard to break into the workforce. You have to contact employers one by one, spend your time traveling an...
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Headlines: Your Big Opener
The headline is probably the most important thing on
the most important page of your web site.

Yet far too many web designers ignore its power and
simply put up a meaningless statement: "Welcome to my
site."

If your headline doesn...
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Heavenly Inspirations-original writings
A resource for Web Owners, News Groups, Church Leaders, and more.

Receive occasional, author approved, original inspirational writings in your inbox, free; for use in their entirety, with credits in tact, for non-profit ministering purposes.
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Help Your Customers Buy More – Make Them Feel Safe
You have permission to publish this article free of charge either
electronically or in print, as long as the bylines are included.
A courtesy copy of your publication would be appreciated.

One of the biggest fears of online consumers is that ...
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Hexadecimal Color Notation on the Web
When designing elements for your webpage, you will often be called upon to specify a color. For example, the code for a span shown below specifies that the color of the text within the span will be y...
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Hey, Client, This Is Me! Sell With Your Writing Voice.
In a crowded market, clients will be seeking personality as they read what you've written -- they'll click right past pages that feel "been there, read that." They're looking for a voice that says,...
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Hi-Tech Poster Reigns!
Modern world equates to greater involvement. But we cannot involve our body with lots of socialization, functions and other activities all at the same time. To maximize involvement we extend our pers...
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High Google Rankings: Frequency vs. Positioning
There's an assumption that the higher a ranking or positioning you have with major search engines; the more people will beat a path to your web doorstep. But based on my experience, that's simply not true! There's another factor that is just as importa...
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Higher Page Rank Brings More Web Traffic
Many surfers use the Google or Alexa toolbars that integrates into their web browsers which and makes it easier for them to search and navigate through Internet. However, how many of these same surfe...
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Hip Hop Music Videos Meet The Film Festival Circuit

In Radio, What is Commercially heard is not what is Culturally happening. You can guarantee the same logic applies to music videos. The music video industry is controlled by the major distributors of music. The marketing systems that are in place forc...
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Hiring A Custom Website Designer
Hiring someone to build or promote your website costs considerably more than building it yourself, but it can be a good way to quickly get your site online and start doing business, especially if the site you intend to build is relatively complex or you ...
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Hiring a Graphic Designer
You’ve come up with a great product. You’ve got the sales letter written for your website. Now you need the graphic design to complement your product and the text that describes it. Not being artistically inclined or adept at the technicalities of compute...
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Hiring a Professional Designer
The reasons for hiring a professional designer are the same reasons as hiring any other professional. You want someone who is knowledgeable in design, understands the needs of clients, and is able to accommodate any issues that arise. As such a profession...
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History of the Claddagh rings
The Claddagh ring is Irelands most romantic and enduring Celtic jewelry tradition. It is customary for the ring to be worn as a wedding or engagement ring and then to be handed down from generation to generation.
Claddagh itself is one of Ireland’s old...
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Hits, Unique Visitors and Page Views - Studying Web Traffic.

Hits, Unique Visitors and Page Views - Studying Web Traffic.

When studying your web site traffic, it is important to be able to differentiate the above terms. A question that webmasters are often asked is "how many hits does your site get?". ...
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Hollander Consultants Named One of the Hundred Best Companies to Work for in Oregon
Hollander Consultants Named One of the Hundred Best Companies to Work for in Oregon

PORTLAND, OR: Hollander Consultants was named one of the hundred best companies to work for in Oregon by Oregon Business magazine. Hollander Consultants ranked 39th...
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Home Page Essentials: Miss These & You're Missing the Mark!
The home page (also known as "index" or "default" page) is
usually the first thing people see upon entering your site.
If it doesn't grab them - or contain certain information -
many people won't venture past it... and might just leave
y...
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Homepages
In my humble opinion, everyone should create a homepage. Wait, let's back up
a minute. What's a homepage? Well, there are really two definitions. First,
a homepage is the first page of a web site, usually named index, default or
home. Second, a...
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Honor Your Viewers
If you own a web site, you never know who has saved a page from your
site to their favorites file (bookmarked it). It might be your home
page, a great article, or a terrific resource. And since you don't
know, every time you remove a page, you r...
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Hosting your e-business for free? Smart thinking Johnny...
Yes, there are dozens of websites on the internet that offer free web hosting solutions, but before you place important information on Geocities
or Freewebs, there's s...
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Hosting Your Own Web Server: Things to Consider
Are you disgusted or disappointed with your current web host? Have you switched web hosting companies too many times? Have you thought of hosting your own website(s)? Do you have the ambition to cont...
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Hosting-The Silent Partner for Your E-Business
We have all been hearing the hype about online
business--proponents declare that it's the way of the
future; detractors claim that it will never replace
brick-and-mortar business...which is reality?

The truth falls somewhere in the middle...
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How To Get An Extra 108,160 Hits A Year!
Most of you have seen those little award graphics on
web sites. They are given to the web site by another
web site or award association to reward the web site
for a specific reason. They usually link right to the
site that has given the award....
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How "Secure" is YOUR Web Site?
A few days ago, an incident happened to me that has prompted the
writing of this article. I’m sure that if this is an issue for me
and one of my Web sites, it’s an issue for many others.

With my personal Web site, I use a nationally known In...
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How "User Friendly" Is Your Site?
Is an Over-Complicated Site Costing You Sales?

Clarity Is Everything. How "User Friendly" Is Your Site?
In general, we designers will often find ourselves preaching about
keeping things simple when it comes to our design... but is that
a...
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How a Blackbelt Got Raped By a Bunch of NERDS!
I’ve got to tell you a funny story that happened to me recently… A few weeks ago, I was playing golf with a friend of mine who owns a chain of martial arts studios. While we were playing he began tel...
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How a Business Can Benefit from a Website
With over half of all U.S. households shopping online, the internet has become a massive market for small businesses to sell their products and services to consumers. The Internet is quickly becomin...
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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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How and Why Reverse Linking Will Help Your Rankinks
What is "Reverse Linking"? These are links that you set up to other "relevant" web sites. You link to them but they DO NOT link to you. I classify these as my "resource" links!

I set up a separate page on my web site and call it a resource pa...
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How Autoresonders Can Put Your Business On Autopilot
Owning your own online business is a lot of work.
Don't let anyone tell you that it's not.

Daily tasks can include reading emails, handling
orders, advertising, promotion and the list goes on.
Very often at the end of the day you could ...
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How Best To Stand Out In The Crowd
Promotional products and quick printing are made for each other. For obvious reasons, printing has been the primary source of promoting, marketing and advertisement even way back then. It also follow...
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How best to use Links
How best to use Links
By Clare Lawrence 21st August 2003

Introduction

Google is the world’s leading search engine and it measures link popularity as a key component of its ranking algorithm, using what is calls PageRank.

Read t...
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How Can I Get The Web Host Services And Support I Need, Hassle-free?
Choosing a host or switching hosts can be an agonizing experience. There are so many choices and price structures.

You see the service level guarantees you want, but there is no way to ensure the Host's promised service level will be kept. Sadly,...
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How Can I Stop Getting Spam?
Are you getting too much spam? We all are, but if you're a webmaster the word spam takes on a whole new meaning. It’s not uncommon for the luckiest of email users to receive a dozen or so spam messag...
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How Can Search Engines Help You with Your Business?
What Are Search Engines?
Most of us often face the problem of searching the web. Nowadays, the global network is one of the most important sources of information there is, its main goal being to make information easily accessible. That's where the mai...
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How Can You Learn How to Achieve Top Search Engine Rankings?
How Can You Learn How to Achieve Top Search Engine Rankings?

By Robin Nobles

If you're serious about having a successful online business, you
need to spend some time studying the search engines and how they
operate.

Why? Beca...
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How Compatible Is YOUR Site With Search Engines?
Remember those little quizzes you used to see in magazines with headlines like: 'How Compatible Are You and Your Partner?' or 'Are You Dating Mr Wrong?'. Well, we thought it might be fun to create a 5 min quiz for you to test the compatibility of your...
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How designing a "helpful" website can kill product sales!
Think you need an "interesting" website, with lots of valuable
content, interactivity, and frequent updates -- to keep visitors
returning? Think again!

Enticing visitors with lots of free content and hoping for an
impulse sale is a quick...
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How Disabled Users Access The Internet
In 1995 a new era of accessibility for disabled people began. The Disability Discrimination Act was passed, stating that: “It is unlawful for a service provider to discriminate against a disabled per...
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How do I get my business on the internet?
This is one of the most frequently asked questions by small business owners. They are feeling the pressure from their customers and competitors, yet for many business people it is a daunting task, as they don't understand the whole process.

In fa...
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How do I submit my site to Search Engines?
You've built up a good site, put in a lot of content, but none of
the search engines lists your site? If you'd like to know how to
go ahead with Search Engine Submission the right way, read on.

How do I get my site to be included in search-...
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How Do I Submit My Site To Search Engines?
You've built up a good site, put in a lot of content, but none of the search engines lists your site? If you'd like to know how to go ahead with Search Engine Submission the right way, read on. Ho...
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How Do They Find You?
The movie, "Field of Dreams", starring Kevin Costner
and James Earl Jones, made this line famous:
"If you build it, they will come."

That idea worked great in the movie but it is a whole
different ballpark when it comes to a web site o...
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How Does Your Website Make Me Feel?
When people think about the Internet, they think about technology. When people hear that I am a Website strategy expert, they see me as a "techy type". But for me, the most intriguing aspect of your...
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How does your website measure up?
Does your website make a good first impression? Is the navigation intuitive? Is the content appropriate for your audience? You've had your website up and running for a while now but you've always had a nagging suspicion that your website is lacking effe...
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How Does Your Website Measure Up?
Does your website make a good first impression? Is the navigation intuitive? Is the content appropriate for your audience? You've had your website up and running for a while now but you've always had...
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How I Got Number One Position In Yahoo/Google and Altavista...On My First Attempt!
This article may be freely used in ezines, on websites or in e-books, as long as the by-line is left intact.

Notification of publication would be greatly appreciated, and if possible, a copy of the relevant ezine or newsletter.
Please send noti...
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How I Host My New DOT-COM Domains For Free!
When it comes to selling online, one thing is
certain: a small focused website that features just
one lead product will far outsell a big website that
features lots of products and links.

By focusing on just one product, you avoid distrac...
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How I reached #1 in Yahoo!
By accident, no all that reading and studying statistics finally paid off. I started out by reading articles from people with opposing views and trying to figure out who was wrong and who was right....
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How I reached #1 in Yahoo! Part 2
How I reached #1 in Yahoo!® Part Two

KEI - Keyword Effectiveness Index. The value of a keyword or keyword phrase that helps a web site reach the #1 position in search engines by comparing how often the keyword or keyword phrase is used and comparin...
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How I Slashed The Load Time For My Website By 200-300%...And So Can You, For Yours!
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.

I would appreciate notification of where it was used, and if possible, a copy of the ezine or newsletter that it was ...
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How important are back links?
By Jakob Jelling
www.sitetube.com

When setting up your website for SEO (Search Engine Optimization) on Google there are several factors you need to look at in order to obtain a high rank on their search engine. Of course your content and meta ta...
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How MSN and Yahoo Sells Your Traffic
By Nicholas Dixon
The Island Marketer

Yes, it really happens. Now you might find it hard to believe but
you will understand after I explain.

Prior to late 2004, Google undisputedly ruled the search engine
world. During the second ha...
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How much bandwidth does your web site need?
One of the most common concerns people have when deciding to host a web site is figuring out how much bandwidth they’ll need. Get too little bandwidth and you might be hit with overage fees or have your web site shut off altogether. Get too much and you’r...
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How Much Bandwidth Does Your Web Site Need?
One of the most common concerns people have when deciding to host a web site is figuring out how much bandwidth they’ll need. Get too little bandwidth and you might be hit with overage fees or have ...
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How much does a website cost?
How much does a website cost?
To receive a complementary consultation and free quote for your website project, complete our project survey form located here.

As a website designer, this is often the first question that I am asked by a new client...
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How Much Does A Website Cost?
To receive a complementary consultation and free quote for your website project, complete our project survey form located here. As a website designer, this is often the first question that I am asked...
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How Much Hosting Space Do You Need?
Many web hosts try to sell you a large amount of web hosting space
that then costs you a lot each month. However, you may not need this
much space. Have you ever calculated just how much disc space (MB)
your web site uses? Do you really need a...
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How Multiple Server Hosting impacts your website's uptime
Please consider the following article for your ezine,
ebook or web site. It is free to use as long as you
include the resource box at the end. It contains 792
words. If you use this article, please send a brief
message to let me know where i...
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How not to make a website
I have desinged my own homepage, and i have come to the following conclusions.
I can't do it.
The result is ALWAYS rubbish.
And i need someone to link to me.

www.tom-archer.co.uk

About the Author

Tom Archer is the owner of www...
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How Not to Start a Website

Are you planning on making your first website? Then please don't do it this way !

1. Buy yourself a web editing tool like Dreamweaver, Frontpage -cost: $150
   
2. Get a web hosting provider that supports 100G storage, SQ...
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   How PHP Can Help Save You Time And Mistakes.
   (c)2004 by Ben Rourke
   
   Here's a really simple way... to maintain and speed up your
   web site development.
   
   As your web site grows, so does the problem of maintaining
   it become more complex.
   Even a two or three page site can have a lo...
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   How popular are you,... online that is?
   
   With the web today you "sorta haveta" have a rank in the major search engines if you want to be seen. I mean with 250,000,000, yes 250 million searches a day on Google™ alone, how are your visitors and potential customers going to find you?
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   How to "GoTo" the Top of the Major Search Engines
   When it comes to pay per click search engines, GoTo.com is the clear
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   How to Acquire One Way Inbound Links.
   How To Acquire One Way Inbound Links.
   
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   How to Analyze Your Web Site Traffic
   How to Analyze Your Web Site Traffic
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   Getting traffic to your web site without analyzing it, is like
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   How to Analyze Your Web Site Traffic (Part 2)
   How to Analyze Your Web Site Traffic
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   Copyright 2002 by Herman Drost
   
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   How to Analyze Your Web Site Traffic (Part 3)
   How to Analyze Your Web Site Traffic (Part 3 of a 3 Part Series)
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   How to Avoid Sloppy Web Site Copy
   If your web site visitor can't find the information on your web
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   How to Avoid the 12 Common Web Design Mistakes
   How to Avoid the 12 Common Web Design Mistakes
   Copyright 2002 by Herman Drost
   
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   HOW TO AVOID WEB SITE GROWING PAINS
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   How to Build a Basic CSS Layout
   Designing without tables by using CSS layouts is fast
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   How to build a home page that sells
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   HOW TO BUILD A SUCCESSFUL WEB SITE
   Think you have a successful site? Maybe you really do, but chances are it might need
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   How to Build a Website
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   How to Build and Make Your Own Website
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   How to Build Link Popularity - The Natural Way
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   How To Build Your First Web Site
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   How To Build Your First Web Site!
   How To Build Your First Web Site!
   by BB Lee (C)2003
   
   (400 words)
   
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   Most Internet service providers offer their customers
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   How to Calculate and Speed-Up the Download Time of Your Web Site
   Have you ever experienced the frustration of waiting for a web
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   How to Choose a Quality Webhost
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   How to Choose a Reliable Web Host ?
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   How to Choose a Web Host
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   How to Choose a Web Host - Frequently Asked Questions
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   How to Choose a Web Hosting Company?
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   How to Choose a Web Hosting Service!
   1. Support. Is there really anybody there? Send them a
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   How to Choose a Web Site Designer
   It seems that everyone from the 15-year-old kid to their Grandmother
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   How To Choose A Website Designer
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   How to Choose Keywords for Maximum SEO Effectiveness
   Choosing the right keywords and phrases for your search engine optimization (SEO) program is critical to its success. The right keywords drive targeted traffic to your website – prospects that are ready to buy. The wrong keywords attract web visitors that...
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   How to Choose Stock Photography for your Web Site
   So you’ve decided to take the plunge. You know that stock photography is an effective tool for your web business, but where do you start and how do you choose the stock photo that’s right for you. Here are some tips to get you started so that you are happ...
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   How to Choose the Autoresponder Right for Your Business?
   Let's give a definition to autoresponder first. So, what is an autoresponder? Think of it as a 'fax on demand' service. When a customer sends an e-mail to the autoresponder address, this smart 'robot' sends back an e-mail response, usually informativ...
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   How to choose the right domain name for your company
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   HOW TO CHOOSE THE WRONG KEYWORDS
   Search engine optimization (SEO) is not a guessing game. Much like
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   How To Choose Your Web Host
   Ask any Internet entrepreneur what the most important
   decision they had to make for their Web site was, and
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   How to Choose, Register or Transfer a Domain Name
   
   Copyright 2002 Herman Drost
   
   Every professional business should be keeping up with the
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   How to Chose Stock Photography for your Web Site
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   How To Conceal Your Website's "Fingerprint" From The Search Engines
   The internet marketing industry is now flooded with various page and portal generators.
   
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   How to create a great website
   The web is a medium designed to communicate with people. As the written
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   How to Create a Links Page and Build Page Rank
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   How to Create a Professional Website In Less Than a Week
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   How to Create a Useful, Popular Website
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   How To Create a Web Site that Makes the Sale (Corrected)
   Nothing can be more frustrating than visiting a web site and not
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   Maybe the site is just plain ugly, or looks like it was done by
   a kid attacked by a box of Crayola crayons.
   
   If you're going ...
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   How To Create A Website In Less Than A Week
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   How to create a website; the do-it-yourself way
   So you have a product, service or information that you feel the whole world should know about. But you aren't quite sure how to tell them? Fortunately, for you it's the 21st century and we have the internet.
   
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   How to Create an Effective Navigation Structure for Your Site - Part 1
   A ship captain traversing the open seas without a good
   navigation system will surely get lost. Maybe he'll strike sharp
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   How to Create an Effective Navigation Structure for Your Site - Part 2
   Searching for information on the Web has recently become like a
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   How to Create an Enjoyable Web Page Design
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   How to Create an Enjoyable Web Page Design
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   How to create an RSS feed
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   How to Create Columns with Div's
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   How to create lists in HTML and control the way they look
   You make lists every day - shopping lists, "things to do"
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   How To Cure "Invisible Website Syndrome"
   A new "virus" is sweeping the Internet. It strikes by stealth
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   How to customize web templates on your own to create unique websites
   
   How to customize web templates on your own to create unique websites
   
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   How to Design a Corporate Website in 10 Easy Steps
   How to Design a Corporate Website in 10 Easy Steps:
   
   By Ali Z. of www.VB7.net
   
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   How to Design a PopUp Window to Boost Opt-Ins
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   How To Design A Search Engine Friendly Website
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   How To Design A Web Site
   I'm not a professional web site designer and openly admit
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   How to Design a Website for the Search Engines
   What is the best way to build a website, in regards to ranking well in the search engines?
   
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   How to Design and Setup a Website
   Note that the online version of this article contains
   screenshots that are helpful but could not be included in
   this article. To view it
   http://dollarware.us/websitedesign.htm
   
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   How To Design Your Web Site With CSS
   Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) allows you to create fast
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   How To Design Your Website
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   How To Design Your Website For Maximum Sales
   1. Front Page
   
   Make it brief and quick loading. Avoid large graphics, fancy
   Flash movies and hefty Javascripts. Have a sharp marketing focus.
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   How To Display RSS Feeds On Your Website
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   How to display RSS feeds on your website.
   How to display RSS feeds on your website.
   
   
   

   
   This article is intended as a guide for webmasters who want to display automatically updated content on their website in the form of RSS feeds. In this article I will cover the