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Mar 15 2008

A free gift for you – 7 hrs of DVD training!

Published by Barbara under Internet, Online Resources, Basic Business Tools & Info

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I just stumbled across the craziest news…

… Derek Gehl is giving away his $297 “Internet Millionaire’s Protege Bootcamp” DVDs for FREE!

This means you can get 7 hours of professional online business training in the comfort of your very own home — and all YOU have to pay is the cost of shipping the package to your door!

But apparently there are only 121 copies of Derek’s world-class training DVDs left…

…So to claim your free 7-hour DVD training system now, go to:

http://www.marketingtips.com/free-dvds/t/844212

Oh…one more thing…Derek is also throwing in a free 30-day membership to his exclusive Internet Entrepreneur Club… Which means you’ll have unlimited access to his online building experts — and can ask them any questions you want — for a whole month!

To claim your free 7-hour DVD training system, go to:

Basic Business Tools & Info Internet Online Resources

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Oct 22 2007

Royalty Free Images

Published by Barbara under Online Resources

Getting quality royalty free images is difficult. Finding truly free images can be even more difficult. But guess what, there is a site where you can get free clip art, photos, sounds and animations.

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Mar 05 2006

XSitePro - My experience

Published by Barbara under Online Resources, Computers, Product Development, Website Tools & Information

We have been looking for a relatively easy way to build websites quickly. The forums have all been abuzz about two different products. Well, we now own both products, and let me tell youâ€¦there is no comparison between the them as I was lead to believe.

XSitePro is a pleasure to use. Itâ€™s intuitive, comes with a 101 page tutorial, a 461 page manual and several videos â€“ all of which walk you through the program with ease. If you have your content all together, you can have a site up and running in less than 2 hours (if you are green like me) and thatâ€™s right out of the box.

The other program we bought, while it makes nice sites, actually ended up having a steeper learning curve as the instruction manual left much to be desired, not to mention the frustration that we experienced. While it makes nice sites, it is not as flexible, nor is it as robust.

While itâ€™s a breeze to build your pages, XSP also tells you what you need to do in order to optimize your pages. In addition:

It automatically creates your site map
Adds Google Adsense in easily allowing you to format your ads on the go.
You can easily add in images and graphics.
Create a links page easily.
Automatically run several preinstalled scripts such as print this page and bookmark
Make redirect pages
Format your robots txt file
Create pop ups â€“pop ins- pop-unders with a few clicks.
Make global changes to your design and navigation in one place.
And so much moreâ€¦(I’m sure I’ll be able to tell you more as we continue to build sites)

I just know Iâ€™m going to be so much more productive with this softwareâ€¦I already am. And while much of this stuff is rather new. I recently heard from a hard core dreamweaver user that this program is unbelievable.

This is one program I cannot recommend highly enough. If you are trying to make a decision between XSP and another program, let me tell you, XSP is a no brainer.

Now if I could just find a graphics program that was as easy!

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Feb 23 2006

Site Maps - guest article

Published by Barbara under Online Resources, Computers, Website Tools & Information

Tips on Creating a Site Map

A quick search on Google for advice on creating a site map initially threw up many links to software you could buy or download for free to create a site map.

But why do you need a site map?

Basically as websites get larger and more complex both the human browser and the search engine spiders need an easy to follow map to find all the pages within your site. A site map gives them a simple navigational tool.

Site maps have 3 main benefits:

1) A site map allows visitors to easily find what they are looking for by simply visiting your site map and clicking on the link to go directly to the page they want to visit.

2) Often technologies employed to assist in reading webpages such as web page readers and screen readers can only follow text links. For practical reasons it may not always be possible to show a text link to every other page within your site on your main page and other pages within your website and so use a site map.

3) Search engine spiders like text and text links. If they cannot follow a text link to a page of your site it may not get indexed. Make it easy for the spider to index all your pages through a site map.

A site map consists of the two things search engines love - text and keywords. To build a good site map combine relevant keywords with a hyper text links. For example on your site map you may have a link to your webpage about website promotion so your hyperlink should contains the words ‘website promotion’ and link directly to that page within your site.

A site map does not need and indeed should not be fancy, but should be clear and easy to navigate.

Here are some tips for a good site map:

1. Place a prominent link to your site map on every page and lable it SITE MAP.

2. It should show all your webpages through different levels as basic text links.

3. Use standard colours for links and visited links.

4. It should show a quick, easy to follow over view of the site without the need to scroll around in the web browser.

Google started allowing people to submit site maps to their account as a way of letting google know about all your webpages and updates to your site. It does not increase your page ranking at all but is worth taking the time to set up properly.

You can find free software for creating site maps at:

http://www.likno.com/sitemap.html
http://www.freesitemapgenerator.com
http://www.sitemapspal.com

And when you are done, don’t forget to tell Google about your site map so they can trawl and hopefully index all the pages of your site.

http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/login

A well planned site map can ensure your Web site is fully indexed by search engines.

(c) Rachel Gawith
Rachel Gawith runs her own homebased business website at http://www.computerincome.net where you can find recommended business opportunities, ebook reviews, articles, classifieds and a link exchange.

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Jan 24 2006

Favicons

Published by Barbara under Online Resources, Website Tools & Information

You know those little icons (16px x 16px) that show up in your browser address bar next to the url? Those are called favicons. And there are some places online where you can create one for free. All you really need is a graphic of some sort…like a picture, or a logo.

Give it a try! ~ http://www.favicongenerator.com/

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Jan 23 2006

Yahoo! Site Explorer | Yahoo! Publisher Network

Published by Barbara under Online Resources, Marketing Tools & Information

Do you Yahoo!?

Being online, world sometimes seems so…”googlized” (you heard that term here first!). It seems that many of us (or is it just me?) are not aware of other search engines and tools that are available to us.

I don’t know if you know about this, but I just learned about it. It’s called Yahoo! Site Explorer.

I’m not entirely sure of all it does, but I did find out two nifty things.

You can search your site and see what pages are indeed indexed by Yahoo!. If something is not..well, there is a palce you can submit that particular url.
You can see all the incoming links (inlink) to your site, and even explore that particular site.

While I am not entirely sure what I can do with this yet (other than check my inlinks in regards to my link partners), I’m sure I’ll figure it out soon.

While on the subject of Yahoo!, I understand they have their own version of “Adsense” - The Yahoo! Publsiher Network - now and that MSN will be joining in by June.

Competiition amoung the big three can only be a good thing.

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