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Merry Christmas from the FTC, a Decline in SPAM Up to 9%
If you were waiting for your Christmas Present from your government for all the taxes you pay every year; for all the fees, harassment and fear purported on your Television Set, well you have finally received it. Merry Christmas from the FTC, a decline in SPAM up to 9%; now aren’t you so proud to know that your government is helping to make SPAM decline by up to but not including the nine percentile? What bunch of crap? Nine percent after how many millions of dollars; after over 60 lawsuits and how much government worker’s time that we, the American Tax Payer paid for? Only nine percent; I want my money back that is a dismal and pathetic showing indeed. Only nine percent; are you people high? What on Earth are you smoking over there?You cannot be serious at the FTC, which stand for; “Failed the Consumer” again! The Department of Justice needs a full investigation on all the people that work at the Federal Trade Commission’s Consumer Protection Division’s Anti-SPAM; CAN SPAM Act group as they have once again failed the American People? Nine percent? Please, that i

em is caused by a Webmaster having too many graphics or animations on their website. Large graphics and animations will definitely slow the load time to your website. Keep in mind the majority of Internet users are still using dial-up for their Internet connection, so the time it takes for a website to open with a lot of graphics, can seem like eternity to them.

To avoid this problem do not use too many graphics on your website and try to resize the ones you want to keep. The ideal is to set your pages to load within ten seconds to avoid losing visitors.

Setting The Right Resolution

Setting the right resolution when creating your web pages can save you from visitors leaving your site rather quickly. The most important thing to understand is that the majority of all PC’s are set at a 800 x 600 resolution. The problem here is, if a internet user with these settings goes on a website that was created with a higher resolution, the user will end up scrolling left to right in order to view all of the web page.

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Sell the Benefits in Your Advertising
Ignoring a product or service's benefits, choosing instead to focus on features, is considered by many marketing experts to be one of the most widely committed sins in advertising.Features are important, no doubt. Features are the things that create the benefit. For example:Feature: Powerful 250 hp V6 engine. Benefit: Go up hills without losing speed and getting other drivers mad at you.Feature: The most powerful graphics processor. Benefit: Never again get fragged by your friends due to low frame rates.Notice that I try to cater the benefits directly to the target market. For the graphics processor, I didn't say that the benefit was "faster rendering of 3D maps in AutoCAD". My target market for the graphics processor is video gamers, not map builders. I also spoke in their language ("frag" is common terminology among gamers that means to have your game character kill or be killed by an opponent.)If my target market was map builders, I might choose the benefit of "increase productivity by substantially lowering the rendering times fo

Over the course of the last decade, the Internet has grown beyond all expectations. Each and everyday there is a new website that is being developed. The biggest challenge a new website will face is getting viewers to stay on their site long enough and to attain high search results with search engines.

One of the factors that could help you address these issues is having a website with good web design. The importance of knowing proper web design can very well determine where your site is listed in search results and how long a visitor stays on your site.

Proper web design is not a difficult task, it is just a matter of designing your website from a viewers point of view. This article will give you suggestions on proper web design to enhance your search results with search engines and capturing a higher interest from your visitors.

What Your Site Is About

First off, it is vital that your home page explains in detail the purpose of your website. Did you ever go to a website that was filled with a lot of links, graphics or banners, but you really didn’t have a clue of what their website was all about? If a person has to search from page to page just to understand what information your website really offers, the chances are they will move onto another site. Don’t keep them second-guessing, it's important that you are very specific on your home page, letting your viewers know up-front your websites main purpose.

Font Size/Style

When creating your website keep in mind not all people have the same eyesight. It is best to use nothing less than10 point, with12 point being the most recommended. Keep all pages in your website consistent with the same font size and style (this of course is in exception to titles and sub-titles).

Text Colors

Make reading your pages easy by always using a dark text with a light background. Using a light colored text against a light background can make it difficult for your readers to read the content. There are a few sites that reverse this process by using a light text on dark background, which is found acceptable in some cases, but you are better off using dark on light for your overall content.

Paragraphs and Spacing

To make reading your web pages easy for your viewers, do not use long paragraphs on your web pages. Try to keep your paragraphs to only 6 to 7 lines with proper spacing between each one. Try to implement sub-titles to break up several paragraphs, as this creates easier reading and is more attention getting.

Content

Does your website provide more useful content than advertisements? Providing viewers with very little content is a common mistake many webmasters make when they develop their website. I can’t begin to tell you how many websites I’ve seen that may only have a couple paragraphs of what I call useful content, and the rest being advertisements, sales pitches, links, banners, etc.

If you are going to take the time to develop and invest in a website, you need to focus on providing your viewers with informative information. Search engines favor sites that have useful content, not to mention you will capture a stronger interest from your viewers.

Page Size

Try to keep each of your pages no more than four pages in length. The reasons for this is that no one likes to spend a lot of the time scrolling just to read the entire content. If you have a lot of content, break it into separate pages. You can put in a link of “continue”, “next”, or “go to page #” at the bottom of each page.

Navigation Links

Nothing can be more frustrating than trying to figure out how to maneuver around ones website. Most any person (including myself) will leave a website as fast as they came in if they find it difficult to get from page to page.

Make it easy for your viewers to navigate around your website by putting navigation links on all of your pages. It is advised that all navigation links follow the same pattern on each page so as not to confuse your viewer. Setting your navigation links on the either side and also on the top or bottom is highly recommended.

Page Load Time

Did you ever click on a link to a website and found you had to wait 20 seconds or longer for the website to open? I don’t know about you, but if I have to wait too long for a website to open, I will click off of it and go to another website.

This problem is caused by a Webmaster having too many graphics or animations on their website. Large graphics and animations will definitely slow the load time to your website. Keep in mind the majority of Internet users are still using dial-up for their Internet connection, so the time it takes for a website to open with a lot of graphics, can seem like eternity to them.

To avoid this problem do not use too many graphics on your website and try to resize the ones you want to keep. The ideal is to set your pages to load within ten seconds to avoid losing visitors.

Setting The Right Resolution

Even though there are ways around this by implementing tables into your we

The Four - Hour Work Week
I sure wish I had read this book twenty years ago. But then I could not have, since most of the technology he describes and uses to make his argument did not exist back then. I’m talking about a revolutionary new book titled: “The 4-Hour Work Week”...or How to escape the 9 to 5 rat race, live anywhere in the world and join the ‘New Rich.’ Timothy Ferriss has written a book that everyone is talking about because it not only strikes a responsive chord in most of us; but it also shows you how to get there from here. The general idea of this book is how to examine your current lifestyle (particularly your work or business) and learn to take the appropriate steps to find yourself living where you wish, working only as much as necessary, and getting a much bigger bang for your bucks.Ferriss attacks the traditional way we have been brought up in modern western society--to practice long-term deferred gratification until retirement, doing without, working ridiculous hours and likely being too tired, too poor, infirm, or impatient to then use the time and (hopefully the

website was all about? If a person has to search from page to page just to understand what information your website really offers, the chances are they will move onto another site. Don’t keep them second-guessing, it's important that you are very specific on your home page, letting your viewers know up-front your websites main purpose.

Font Size/Style

Text Colors

Paragraphs and Spacing

Content

Page Size

Navigation Links

Page Load Time

To avoid this problem do not use too many graphics on your website and try to resize the ones you want to keep. The ideal is to set your pages to load within ten seconds to avoid losing visitors.

Setting The Right Resolution

Even though there are ways around this by implementing tables into your w

Why a Database Can be a Goldmine For Your Business
If you own a business then customers are the life blood of your business. The biggest mistake you can make in business is to assume people will be buy from again if they have bought from you previously, without inviting them to.If you sell something people only buy once or once every 10 years or so, you are assuming they don’t know anyone who might buy from you. Again this is a big mistake!Market research has proven a few points relative to both of these areas.First of all, 67% of people who buy from a business wont do so again because of one reason, perceived in difference. This means they got satisfactory service, not fantastic, or great or incredible. They got what they expected or less than they expected.To make your business “memorable” so customers want to come back because you stimulated their emotions you need to over deliver on their expectations. If you’re not exceeding customers’ expectations your service is probably considered either poor or satisfactory.The second relevant fact from market research is birds of a feather f

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Content

Page Size

Navigation Links

Page Load Time

To avoid this problem do not use too many graphics on your website and try to resize the ones you want to keep. The ideal is to set your pages to load within ten seconds to avoid losing visitors.

Setting The Right Resolution

Even though there are ways around this by implementing tables into your w

Writing Articles Online That Attract Readers Like Crazy
Writing articles online is an art and a science. Offline, there are thousands of writers and books get published every other day. But that does not mean that every writer is successful. Some writers’ books stay in the bookstores collecting dust, while others sell like gangbusters. However, the advantage of article writing online is that the playing field is leveled and everybody gets the chance of getting their articles read. We will learn a couple of things we need to do in article writing that would make writing articles a sure way of attracting readers.Writing articles has always been a favorite method of internet marketers simply because it works. Article marketing is marketing with articles. Online authors write articles to provide content to readers. There is always a demand for content and writing articles would satisfy that demand. There are many places that are willing to publish your articles such as article directories. So you effectively solve the problem of finding a publisher. Once it is published, readers would now be able to find and read the arti

that no one likes to spend a lot of the time scrolling just to read the entire content. If you have a lot of content, break it into separate pages. You can put in a link of “continue”, “next”, or “go to page #” at the bottom of each page.

Navigation Links

Page Load Time

To avoid this problem do not use too many graphics on your website and try to resize the ones you want to keep. The ideal is to set your pages to load within ten seconds to avoid losing visitors.

Setting The Right Resolution

Even though there are ways around this by implementing tables into your w

RSS For Geniuses And Other Dummies
I get quite a few emails like the one below, asking for a simple guide to RSS..."I read your information on RSS. Frankly, it was frightening, as new things usually tend to be. What you need is a tutorial for absolute dummies. Your article moves too quickly into a form that is reminiscent of people who it for is assumed know more about web sites, source codes, and the like."...This email is so true for the majority of webmasters and I will try to provide the simplest explanation of RSS as possible.Fastest and easiest route to take:Go to www.blogger.com (owned by Google) and create a free blog -- in the process you will create an RSS feed that you can use to send your content/podcasts. You can place this RSS feed on your site.While there, look around, check out the FAQ and read all the information on RSS and blogging. You will discover every blog has an RSS feed attached to it. It is a way of broadcasting/syndicating your content to all interested parties.Please understand, in most cases, your blog URL

To avoid this problem do not use too many graphics on your website and try to resize the ones you want to keep. The ideal is to set your pages to load within ten seconds to avoid losing visitors.

Setting The Right Resolution

Even though there are ways around this by implementing tables into your web page, you are better off creating all your web pages so they can be viewed on PC’s with a lower resolution.

Contact Information

If you don’t have a link that is accessible to a contacts page, most people will not purchase anything from you.

It is highly recommended to place links that are plainly visible on all of your web pages that go to a separate contacts page. This page should give your viewers a way to contact you with any questions, concerns or comments. This helps ensure support and trust in doing business with you.

Pop Ups

This can be the most annoying feature a website can have in my opinion. Pop ups are used to get the viewers attention to either sign up for something or purchase their products. Although I understand the basis to pop ups and what they are meant to achieve, I feel there are other ways to capture your visitors attention that should get you the same results.

The most effective way to capture your visitors interest is having solid content on your website with informative information, as mentioned earlier. With that being said, you can implement title links in between some of your paragraphs, which can take your visitors to separate pages on "special promotions", "newsletters" or "products". On these pages, you can list the same message you would have in your pop up. This is far more acceptable since the viewer is making the choice to click on the link.

If you feel your website needs to use pop ups, use a pop under instead. This form of pop up only comes up when a person leaves your website and is far less annoying.

Site Map

A site map is a separate page that list a complete directory to your entire website. You can relate to it like what a table of contents is to a book. Having a site map on your website helps the viewer maneuver through your site without confusion or second-guessing where to find something. Most search engines favor sites with site maps, which in turn will improve your search rankings, as well as placement.

Privacy Policy

With the ever increasing problems with Spam on the Internet, a privacy policy is a crucial element to your website. You are letting your viewers know that any information they supply you with, is held in the strictest confidence and that you will not share this information with any other third party. You are instilling trust to all who do business with you.

Update Your Site Often

This is a valid step you want to take seriously. Updating your site with new content gives your viewers a reason to revisit your website. Search engines love sites that update their site often, which will definitely increase your search engine rankings.

It can be an added benefit to add a section on your home page that tells your viewers when your site was last updated, the type of changes that were made and a link to each update.

Updating your site once a week or every other week should work very well for you.

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Fun description of a real life experience where branding made the individual want to invest. A good example of how successful branding can make people want to invest in you.

There are hundreds of varieties of Consultants these days. We can find Consultants to take care of our diets, our physical well being, our mental well being, and pretty much anything you can imagine when it comes to business. The story below might just indicate that we take ourselves a little too seriously sometimes.

Why is that only the most intelligent affiliate marketers usually make a decent amount of profits? Simple, they do things that most of the competition fails to do, and take advantage of that fact.

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