Do you own one of those cool video phones that let people see each other while they talk? You know, those gadgets that we have been talking about for over 25 years? No, neither do I. Where are these devices? One could say that our current telephone lines don't have the bandwidth to support both audio and video, while others may state that people just do not want to see the other person (or more likely, be seen).
[2001-05-23] How To Annoy Your Visitors!
When you build a website, your goal is to get people to come to your website, look around and find reasons to come back. If your site is annoying you can be sure they will find another site to visit, never to come back to yours.
[2001-05-17] Get Rid of Those Doorway Pages
The ultimate goal of anyone running a website is to attract visitors. Without any traffic, a site isn't going to do much but take up cyberspace. There are many ways to attract traffic to your website and you should be trying various techniques in order to do so. This article will focus on increasing traffic through search engine optimization.
[2001-05-15] Doorway Pages
A doorway page is built to rank high for a particular keyword or search phrase. When your doorway page is visited by the searcher it simply has a "click me" button which links to your web site. The major search engines accept these pages as long as the end result does provide what the searcher is looking for. If you are discovered to be using doorway pages for irrelevant keywords you can expect to have your entire domain unlisted. For instance, one of our doorway pages is built to rank high for the search term -netobjects 5 download---which is quite acceptable because when the searcher gets here he can download a trial version of the software from our site. If however, it weren’t available for download then we would risk the wrath of the all powerful search engines.
[2001-05-15] Will They Come Back?
When you build a website you want people to come to your site, of course. But not only do you want them to visit, you want them to come back, and often!
[2001-05-10] Preparing a Business Plan that Guarantees Profits
Success in business comes as a result of planning. You have to have a detailed, written plan that shows what the ultimate goal is, the reason for the goal, and each milestone that must be passed in order to reach your goal. A business plan is written definition of, and operational plan for achieving your goal. You need a complete but success tool in order to define your basic product, income objectives and specific operating procedures. YOU HAVE TO HAVE A BUSINESS PLAN to attract investors, obtain financing and hold onto the confidence of your creditors, particularly in times of cash flow shortages- in this instance, the amount of money you have on hand compared with the expenses that must be met.
[2001-05-07] Weighing Your Shopping Cart Options
If you sell more than a handful of products on your website, you'll need to add what's known as a shopping cart. This is a function that allows your customers to pick out the items they want and send them to a "cart," which holds onto them until they're ready to check out. The program then totals the order and adds any applicable taxes and shipping charges.
[2001-05-01] How To Brand Your Web Site
What's your favorite search engine? Mine used to be Infoseek. For a while Infoseek was the only search engine I used, and the name "Infoseek" was fixed on my mind as the place to go whenever I wanted to find something on the Internet.
