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Internet Marketing
Ten Ways to Increase Traffic to your Web Site (Read 100 Times)
At this point you’ve probably put in a lot of time developing your site. If you’re looking for something to do today, here are ten things for you to do to put the wheel in your favor and acquire new visitors to your site. Spider your site with the AuditMyPc XML Sitemap Generator and provide the results to Google (via Webmaster Central) to insure all of your web pages are indexed. Download a search engine submitter and submit your homepage or entire website to the internet’s top search engines [ref: All-in-One Submission]. Submit your site to web directories [ref: Submit Suite Website Submitter]. Exch...
Thursday February 11, 2010
Affiliate Programs
Niche Affiliate Program Marketing (Read 321 Times)
Finding a balance between your website and your affiliate partners is one of the most important things you can do for yourself and your website. The key to succeeding can be showing the right ads to the right audience. That audience doesn’t even need to be large just as long as it is converting. In today’s industry, it’s tougher than ever to find success, nevertheless the opportunity is still there. Those who are succeeding have found a niche in their marketing tactics. If you are running a gaming site, you want to show the right ads across your site. Non-converting ads are in short, a waste of space and should be replaced immediatel...
Wednesday November 25, 2009
Finance
Balance Transfer Credit Cards (Read 577 Times)
If you have existing debt on a credit card and are paying interest you may want to consider consolidating your debt onto a 0% APR Balance Transfer Credit Card. There are several pro’s and con’s to take into consideration before taking the leap (and some things to learn), but if your debt is substantial you will probably find that this is an excellent option for you. Let’s get down to the details, you will want to be sure you understand these prior to applying for any credit cards.The con’s of balance transfer credit cards:Adding a new credit card to your portfolio can negatively affect your credit score, lowering the average age of you...
Thursday November 12, 2009
Internet
Developing a Successful Website (Part 1) (Read 620 Times)
Having and maintaining a successful website takes more then a set-it and forget-it attitude. Maintaining a successful website that stands out from your competition and attracts a broad audience is and should be treated as an on-going process. In this process you might conceptualize a number of different designs and layouts before you get it just right, even then, you should expect to make changes and revisions and additions down the road. Allowing your website to evolve over time is one of best things you can do. As this evolution occurs, you might come up with new ideas that would make your website more attractive, user friendly and useful f...
Thursday October 29, 2009
Computers
Windows Calculator Tape (Read 681 Times)
If you’re like me, you’ve noticed the standard calculator apps that come pre-installed on the Windows operating systems do not come pre-installed with a calculator that has a tape for accounting. Now with Microsoft’s recent upgrades to their calculator (for Windows 7) this is starting to look like a bit of a blunder. Windows Vista and XP come pre-packaged with a Standard / Scientific calculator and now Windows 7 comes pre-loaded with Standard / Scientific / Programmer / Statistics calculator.Hello, anybody there? You’ve added a Programmer Calculator and not a good old-fashioned tape for accounting? It’s my hope that once they realize ...
Wednesday October 28, 2009
Web Development
Cross-Browser Web Development (Read 475 Times)
Web development is not what it used to be. The advent of countless new browsers and advancements in CSS coding things have gotten (to say the least) complicated. Currently we find four primary rendering engines (Gecko, WebKit, Trident, and Presto) that make up 99.99% of the browsers used to view web pages. Aside from this, Trident (Internet Explorer) makes up 80-85% of the market, followed by Fire-Fox and Safari (taking up just 2-4%).After looking at these stats, you might come to the same conclusion I did…Ok, I’ll be writing for IE. So I have ever since, but I do on occasion double check my work in other browsers (I have about 8 of them inst...
Monday October 26, 2009
Finance
Facing and Handling a Credit Crisis (Read 413 Times)
Having too much debt can be a serious problem which can take a toll on your self-esteem, cause anxiety and sleepless nights, and require individuals and families to make serious changes in order to avoid foreclosure and/or bankruptcy. I am not a financial expert, however I have first hand experience with finding myself caught in a financial crisis and through persistence and perseverance, I was able to work my way out of debt and back into good financial standings.A few questions you might be asking yourself right now are how far in debt I was, how was I able to get my debts resolved and how long did it take me to get my head back above water...
Saturday October 24, 2009
Computers
Adobe LiveCycle 8.0 Review – Generate PDF Documents from Scratch (Read 933 Times)
Adobe LiveCycle is a great and incredibly easy application to learn how to use to create professional PDFs for use online and off. If you have used WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) editors in the past you will find that everything is point and click, drag and drop. Create your form elements, name them, assign default values and allow options for users to select a date from a calendar script or a value from a pull-down menu.I found the most complicated part of this application (something that most people would not normally use) to be the HTTP Submit Button. There seemed to be no real explanation on how this worked or how to process value...
Thursday October 22, 2009
Computers
Anti-Virus Software; The Pro’s, The Con’s and the Solution (Read 516 Times)
Anti-Virus software is definitely a double-edged sword. Some applications that you install to protect your PC end up acting just like the viruses that you’re trying to avoid. These applications can slow down your system to a grinding halt and require you to walk away from your computer for hours at a time because they need a chance to run. Not only that, some of these services also expect you to pay expensive subscription fees that hit the pocket book; let’s face it, there are other places your money might be better well spent.So how do you protect yourself without having to pay expensive fees and avoid having to run daily scans? For years, I...
Thursday October 22, 2009
Computers
Microsoft Windows 7 Officially Released (Read 363 Times)
Probably one of the most anticipated Operating System releases to date, Microsoft’s Windows 7 has been said to be a best of both-worlds Windows XP and Windows Vista hybrid while at the same time improving on responsiveness and lowering RAM requirements to run Windows. As we didn’t take part in the Windows 7 Beta program we can neither refute nor deny these claims.What we do know is that operating systems always seem to have room for growth and we most often see improvements in one of any of these areas; Design, Organization, User Responsiveness, and Functionality. What is it that Windows 7 will be able to do that others can’t? Will this be an...
Thursday October 22, 2009
Music
Pandora Internet Radio Review (Read 867 Times)
I’ve been an avid music lover for most of my life, I’m going to stress the word most. A few years back I gave up on it. I was tired of the same old music and unable to find anything new that I liked, what-so-ever. This was….2004? I can’t say for certain. But it has been awhile since I took a liking to anything other then something that might have come out of my studio.Have you ever burned out on music? I cannot be the only one. I listened and listened and listened to artists almost non-stop. Self-employed and working out of your basement, you can do just about whatever you want. I opted to work the (20-22 hour) days away days building website...
Wednesday October 21, 2009
Computers
Windows Vista SP2 Update (KB948465) Causing an Infinite Boot Loop (Read 736 Times)
My dual-boot Mac Pro fell victim to a Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate SP2 Update (KB948465) which caused it to reboot, then say installing updates Stage 1, Stage 2, Stage 3, and reboot again, continuing this process infinitely. As I began reading other reports of this it seems like maybe Microsoft had now had the problem cleared up, but I am afraid this is probably not the case (the most recent report of this problem I am seeing is on Oct 19 2009). No, it’s definitely not cleared up!For my MacPro? Seems dual-boot was causing nothing but problems anyways so I am now converting over to a single boot system. I had 4 hard discs installed in the ...
Wednesday October 21, 2009
Finance
Managing Out of Control Debt by Making Sales on eBay and Amazon (Read 5648 Times)
There was a time in my life when credit card debt plagued my finances. Anyone who’s been there knows that this can quickly get very out of control. When you are unable to make even your minimum payments you start getting hit with late payment fees and higher interest rates. Not good. So what did I do to get my finances back in control? I started selling on eBay.For me, it was easy. All I had to do was look around my house (and trust me, I didn’t have to look far). There was literally money everywhere, money in the form of stuff I bought that I no longer needed. Video games, posters, DVD’s, books, clothes, software, electronics, magazines (the...
Wednesday October 21, 2009
Computers
How-To Tweak the Windows OS for Maximum Performance (Read 243 Times)
Learning how to effectively tweak a computer running the Windows OS could almost be viewed as an art-form. When it’s done correctly, your old or even “out-dated” computer could end up running better then the day you originally bought it. If things are done incorrectly though, well, that’s an entirely different story. Things can stop working, Windows can become corrupt or even worse, files could be lost. You need to know what you are doing and to learn this can take several years of trial and error. The good news is that after you know a handful of tricks, (in a matter of an hour) you should be able to take a computer that is running at a snai...
Tuesday October 20, 2009
Internet
Managing Your Website Logins (Read 209 Times)
How many web site logins do you have and how do you manage them? I personally cannot count how many logins I have setup with other sites but this number is easily in the thousands. How is it at all possible to safely and securely manage all of these username and password combinations?I tried recording everything in an Microsoft Excel database. This worked out for a while, and even though I might only need to retrieve 1 in 10 of my logins it still proved to be a painstaking and impossible task.Then, in came a little application who in it’s early stages appeared to be lacking in features is now incredibly robust and nearly irreplaceable. It’s c...
Tuesday October 20, 2009
Internet
Managing Email via IMAP vs POP3 vs Web-Based Email (Read 283 Times)
For the past ten or fifteen years the vast majority of our culture has relied on Web-Based Email and POP3 to read through spam filled inboxes, now, those days are over. In comes IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocal) a beautiful mix between the good old POP3 email you checked with your software based email client and everyone’s favorite (or least favorite) access-anywhere web based email. Though, don’t get me wrong, IMAP based email accounts didn’t just show up, the technology has been around for awhile though it has just recently started to become a very popular substitute.More of a hybrid IMAP allows you to check and manage your email acco...
Tuesday October 20, 2009
Computers
All You Need To Know About Windows PC Backups (Read 201 Times)
Hard drives crash, it’s a fact of life; make sure you have a backup.I’ve lost months of work, major projects, graphics, web pages, (the list goes on) due to the fact that I did not have an active backup running. At the time, secondary hard drives were big, bulky, expensive, and un-reliable. Now, everything has changed. For less then $100, the average user can now have a daily, weekly or monthly backup running giving them piece of mind knowing that if the worst happens, they can recover from the loss.Backups are the key to being able to recover. Losing work sucks and you don’t know what you’ve lost until you’ve lost it. If you haven’t lear...
Tuesday October 20, 2009
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