Monthly Archives: August 2009
Joomla Tutorial
I’ve created sites based on Joomla a few times now, but the huge amount of time between each implementation means that I forget all that I learn in the process and have to embark on the same fact gathering mission each time. This beginner’s Joomla tutorial is for people who forget! I’m going to assume that you know how to install Joomla and start the proceedings at the point where you are trying to do something with it. This guide will list the common problems faced by Joe average and will detail solutions that you can use to resolve them. Continue reading
Cash Parking With Sedo
- Go to the My Sedo section (there should be a tab at the top on the right hand side).
- Add Domains. These domains don’t need to be registered with Sedo for you to add them to your account. For example, my domains were registered with Godaddy. If you have a large number of domains to park, you can upload an Excel spreadsheet that contains them. Being a small fish, I typed in my solitary domain manually.
- Adding your domain serves a dual purpose in Sedo World. As well as parking the domain, you can also advertise your site as being for sale. Continue reading
Make Money With Expired Domains
If you’ve followed the 5 Minute Guide To Buying Expired Domains, you may feel pretty confident about quickly and efficiently finding and buying a good expired domain. Once in your possession you could use your expired domain to drive affiliate sales. But is that the only money making option open to you? How do you know what the alternative methods are of monetizing your domain? Continue reading
Building Links – The Wrong Way
Using social bookmarking, you can actually bring copious amounts of traffic to your website. However, you need new content to bookmark each time you use this method. You can’t keep bookmarking the same web page. Therefore, to maintain a continual stream of visitors using social bookmarking, you need to keep publishing a constant flow of material. This is called “work”. Whenever “work” is involved, you need to be making an estimation of what your return on investment is Continue reading
Building Links – The Right Way
So, we’ve established that since links are like votes, links must be voluntarily given for them to carry more weight. Of course, fellow webmasters are more likely to link to your site if it publishes excellent content. This is fundamental to the success of any link building campaign. You must get your content right. Assuming that you have good content, let’s look at some ways you can attract high quality links – naturally. Continue reading
Building Links
The inbound links to pages on your website are very important for two reasons:
1. They bring wide eyed and credit card waving visitors.
2. They can help those pages rank in the search engines. And what do high rankings mean? Yes – more credit card waving visitors!
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Website Analysis – 404 HTTP Error
Yes, it’s time to address those dreaded 404 not found errors. A 404 is returned whenever you have a link to a page that doesn’t exist. For example, somebody links to your about-us.html page but a year later you decide that “About Us” pagesare so last year and remove it. Now the link points to… nothing. That creates a 404 not found error. Continue reading
New Website Development – Website Traffic Analysis
Imagine the scene. You’ve just bought an existing and operational website that is currently receiving traffic. However, the website is still an entity unknown to you so you need to start recording traffic statistics that you can analyse at a later date. Only when you’ve analysed those traffic numbers can you get an idea of how the site is performing, how visitors behave on the site and how best to change the site. This article illustrates the process I use when analysing traffic statistics of a site I’ve just acquired. It’s not meant to be a blueprint that you follow religiously (though there are far worse things you could do 
). Rather, it would be better to try out the ideas presented here, keep what works, throw away what doesn’t and then add your own ideas to… The Method. Continue reading
Website Development Process
Suppose you’ve just bought the website that’s going to make you an internet millionaire. Maybe you bought an expired domain with plans to start from scratch, or maybe you stalked the owner of an already established website and bought that. Now what? How do you get the best out of your new acquisition and make it successful? Continue reading