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Web Site Management: Watching Your Visitors
When you visit a web site an entry is made into a file exposing just about everything you can imagine. Your TCP/IP address is recorded, as is your browser type, JavaScript version and monitor resolution. Even the URL of where you came from is recorded in these log files! By Richard Lowe

Don't Be a Browse and Run Victim
Do you get a fair amount of traffic? Maybe, you are getting thousands of hits eachday but your visitors are leaving empty handed. If this sounds like your website,you could be a Browse and Run Victim! With little or no sales, you know what it means. By Robert Olson

How-To Fail Miserably in Business on the Net - in Seven Easy Lessons Starting Today!
Do you know how much easier it is to learn the right way to dothings if at first you see the wrong way? Think about it. Thinkabout everything you ever learned by trial and error from thefirst time you fell off you bike onwards. By Pamela Heywood

Being a Webmaster
It's easy to become a webmaster. But, to become a really good webmastertakes a lot more. And this takes a lot of work and study. By Phil Bate

Web Source Web Design Tips - Preformat Your Forms
The FORM tag is used to set up input forms on your web site. To properly align your forms, instead of using a table, use the tag for the same results. Your form will be displayed exactly as you format it within your HTML. By Shelley Lowery

Web Source Web Design Tips - Resizing Your Images
The IMAGE tag is used to display images on your web page. By Shelley Lowery

Web Source Web Design Tips - Creating A Customized Marquee
The MARQUEE tag is used to scroll text across a web pageand is only supported by Microsoft Internet Explorer. By Shelley Lowery

35 Deadly Website Sins That will Kill Your Business!
After reviewing thousands of web sites over the past coupleof years for my Exceptional Sites Award, I have come to the conclusion that many business web sites are missing the boat. By Shelley Lowery

The Internet is Not Everything to Everyone
When the webmaster's full-time attention is on publications on the Internet,and all full-time efforts are to increase public distribution of data postedin these publications, it is difficult not to over-concentrate. By Todd Rockwell

Internet Strategies for Success
Inthis article I would like to share some thought provoking points that willhelp you in the development of winning Internet Strategies for Success.So with that let's jump right in: By Richard J. Niemeyer

The when, how and why of using transparent gif graphics to cross link pages
Recently I wrote an article on how your web site can generate over 25 times more buying customers in less than a year. There seemed to be some confusion on how a transparent gif graphic could be used to cross link pages. Many of you asked for samples or downloads to look at. By Michael Campbell

Profit From PleasureProtecting your site from Theft and Poaching - Combating Smart Tag and TOPtext technology
Several respected publishers; jl scott of iCop in theWHISTLE BLOWER mailto:WhistleBlower-on@mail-list.com BoogieJack in Almost A Newsletter http://www.boogiejack.com andArmando in F.B.C.N. http://www.emailexchange. By Pamela Heywood

Choosing A Web Site Content Management System
As the saying goes on the web “Content is King.” There is no argument thatif you are going to have an effective Internet presence you must havecurrent, dynamic content that gives your visitors reasons to come back timeand again. By Michael Park

What's Wrong With My Website?
I ask myself that question about once a month.My website looks fine to me, but what are otherpeople seeing? And what are the Search Enginesseeing? Here's a checklist of 10 ways to keep yourwebsite at peak performance: By Michael Southon

Choosing A Web Site Content Management System
As the saying goes on the web "Content is King." There is no argument that if you are going tohave an effective Internet presence you must have current, dynamic content that gives yourvisitors reasons to come back time and again. By Michael Park

Take Off Your Blindfold! Discovering your visitors' thinking using your log files
After 2 years of designing Web Sites, I decided to take a peek at one of my customer's log files. My fear disappeared after about 10 seconds of looking at it. In the midst of some weird symbols and long lines of funny characters, was able to see something familiar. By Milana Nastetskaya

What's IN and OUT For The Information Sales Industry In 2001
OUT - Giving away all of your valuable content. By Monique Harris

Internet Tip - Don't Count Your Hit's!
Do you have a hosting service that provides statistics for yourwebsite? Did you notice that the number of "hit's" to your site isastronomical? Many individuals think that the number of "hit's" tellsyou how many visitors you've had to your site. By Maria Marsala

Increase YOUR Sponsoring Ability
Are you good at getting people to look at your programs? When I firststarted Internet Marketing, I couldn't sponsor ANYONE!!! The harder I tried, the more I failed...Sound familiar? By Laurie Dyke

Credibility: A crucial component of Web success
The vast majority of Web site owners on the Net focus all theirtime and attention on two things: building their revenue andincreasing their traffic. By Marc McDonald

Wearing Many Hats as a Web Site Owner
If you've run a Web site for very long, no doubt you'vediscovered that the process of actually building yoursite is only the beginning of your challenge in creatinga successful Web business. By Marc McDonald

No Website Sales? Maybe Your Site is Missing the Mark!
If you've moved your brick and mortar store online or recentlystarted an Internet business and the sales just aren't comingin, the culprit may be your website. By Merle

Need Fresh Website Content? Syndication May be Just the Answer You're Looking For!
Fresh content is an important aspect of any successful website. But who has all of the free time that it takes to changeyour web pages on a daily basis? Allow me to introduceyou to "syndicated content." By including syndicated contenton your site, it stays fresh with very little effort on yourpart. By Merle

10 Practical Suggestions For Fostering a Successful Website
1.) Write every idea and task you have down. Ideas can easily be forgotten and never used. Plus you can miss tasks that need to be done, which is much worse. By John Karnish

Content is king: Enhancing web site success with original content
As a webmaster providing information content to an ever-growing Internetaudience, you should become familiar with the expression, "Content is king!" Thereason is because once you’ve spent time and money building your audience andclicking off major hit counts each month, content is the one thing By Jon E. Dougherty

Creating Sites That Work For You
Let me preface this article by saying that I am not an Internet millionaire,but I have learned enough about the Internet to make a living doing what Ilike to do, that is creating and running successful web sites. There are afew principles that all successful web sites have in common. By James T Kendall

Should You Translate Your Web Site to Another Language?
In 2001, half the users of the Web do not speak English as a first language.What's more, the number of non-English speaking newcomers is growingat a much faster rate than the number of English speaking Internet newcomers.However, 80% of the information on the web is in English. By June Campbell

Going Global
It‘s not always easy to think globally, yet many of our site‘s visitors liveabroad. In fact, most ofthem do. This has forced us to pack a lot of learning into a short time. By Roberta Beach Jacobson

Fix My Website: Copy is Copy is Copy?
Gertrude Stein insisted that a rose was a rose was a rose. And Iwill proclaim, right here, that boring is boring is boring.You've probably heard (ad nauseum) that writing for the web iscompletely different than writing for print. Keep your copy asshort as possible. Don't use italics. By Stefene Russell

Four Ways To Make Your Web Copy SELL!
Is your web site getting visitors, but not selling anything?It's the most common problem on the Internet. By Ron Sathoff

10 Reasons To Survey Your Visitors, Subscribers And Customers!
1. You'll find out what type of content visitors wantto see at your web site. This will attract your visitorsto revisit and read the content. By Larry Dotson

3 STEPS TO PROFITABLE WEB SITE!
1) CLEAN THE CLUTTER By Larry Dotson

Link Rot Kills
"My site had a severe case of link rot and yours may too!" By Jim Daniels

Do You Know What Your Website Visitors Are REALLY Looking For?
Through the last few years I've tried many solutions to anagging problem... how to let visitors easily search throughmy website. Each time I'd try a new service, script orsoftware program I'd run into a problem. By Jim Daniels

WAP for Webmasters
What is WAP? By James Scott

Sites for Budding Beginners
So you want to put up a web page? As a relative newcomer myself to the magical world of web sites - I only went online in July of '99, and I didn't even know how to send emails - I have picked up many valuable tips from the Jaydee newsletter. By Grant Hewlett

WHAT'S THE QUALITY OF YOUR WEB SITE?
A good web site receives thousands of visitors a day. But how many of those turn into customers? People sign-up or buy when they feel comfortable with a web site. If it's down, slow, or broken in any way, the visitor will usually be uncomfortable and go elsewhere. By Miles J. Nixon

Content is King
Time and time again content has proven to be the single most important component of successful web sites. Virtually everywhere you surf the web, you can locate just about any type of information or content you are seeking. By Damian Bazadona

Seven Sure Fire Ways to Scare Your Customers Away
Your visitors are your most important Internet asset. Withoutvisitors, you don't have buyers, and without buyers you don'thave a business. By Daniel Barnett

Become a resource and they'll return!
One of the biggest challenges every person conducting business on theworld wide web faces, is how to get qualified traffic to return to theirweb site. Business people are always looking for affordable ways to getrepeat traffic. By Daryl Clark

Is There Spice in Your Websites?
When someone visits your web site, do they think, “Wow, here’s somethingto look at!” Or, “Oh, here we go again, same old thing. Boring.” Youneed to know that a visitor extending their visit or leaving may dependon the spice in your site. By Dr. Denise Bennerson

Real Audio and Real Video, streaming media for your web site
Anybody interested in creating RealAudio and RealVideo content ontheir sites will find it's a great deal easier than they might haveinitially imagined. By Dominic Arnold

Why Do I Need A Database?
If you're not familiar with the term as it relates to the web,a database is a structured collection of data. It can be anythingfrom a list of email addresses to a set of names, addresses andphone numbers. By Dan Grossman

The Top Ten Non-Techie Ways to Drive Traffic to your Web Site
Bring those visitors back for more, applauding you and saying BRAVO! They will create a buzz about your great site, bookmark it, and send you many new visitors. These visitors are your personal marketing force. Give them reasons to return! By Judy Cullins

80% of your Web site is Maintenance
Once your Web site is up, you must maintain it. Maintenance means changes, and each time you make a change, you may make a mistake. Today, someone pointed out a mistake in an entry that was time-sensitive. By Judy Cullins

How To Keep Visitors On Your Site Longer and Bring Them Back Again and Again
You work very hard to bring traffic to your site. When they finally do get there what happens? Well in a lot of cases they.... leave. Yup, they simply move on to the next site. That click happy mouse hand just doesn't like to stay put for long. By Chris Small

Free online content to make your website sticky!
Depending on what you are reading, most sources state that a person must see an offer somewhere between 3 and 10 times beforehe or she will actually purchase. By Chuck McCullough

A GRAPHICS PRIMER
You’ve downloaded buttons and horizontal lines and other good stuff from the web — but — it’s not all exactly what you want. Besides, you have some photos that would spruce up the site, and you want to feel as if some part of the graphics were your own. You can do it. Gather your photos. By Ruth McIntyre-Williams

Does Your Web Site Need A Tune Up?
Your web site may contain flaws or glitchesthat are driving your visitors away! Such athought is enough to give the most laid backwebmaster a migraine. How can you uncoverand fix any problem areas that may be lurking in the dark recesses of your site? Relax gentle readers, there is a simple answer. By Bill Daugherty

12 High Readership Content Ideas!
1. How To Articles: they include detailed step by stepinstructions. Examples: how to publish your e-zine,how to promote your business, how to attract visitorsto your web site. By Larry Dotson

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