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What to Learn: Coding, or Coding Software?
2008-02-25 06:14:00
The question always exists for novices: should I learn to do everything with code, or should I just create the site with an editor?Some answer, "Use the editor: nothing can go wrong, and it's easier."Really? Not really. The built-in inflexibility of webpage editors makes it ideal for small webpages, but impossible to use for slightly more complex sites.Take this for an example. A friend was creating a website with Dreamweaver CS3, the newest stuff, only to have three PHP errors inside the code because DW didn't know the hierarchy of the files it was creating.Adding three "../"'s fixed the problem.Here's one thing to remember: If you learn to program in code, you will have no trouble using a WYSIWYG editor, but if you learn to go the (seemingly) easier way may produce more troubles than you desire.
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PHP vs ASP??
2007-10-01 01:13:00
Yep, there have been many blog posts elsewhere about which one to use. And they all point to... PHP. I agree.Point 1: You'll find that because PHP is open source, hosts that support PHP are cheaper. And with some hosts, ASP servers usually cost quite a bit more.Point 2: On hotscripts.com, a website providing an innumerable number (not really) of scripts, there are more than four times as many PHP scripts as there are ASP ones.If you are talking about functionality, basically anything that works in one language works in another; that is not to say that both are interchangeable, just that they both have equivalent functions.For those that don't know what these languages are, they are server-side scripting languages that allow people to view pages (containing PHP/ASP and HTML) that have been processed in the server, then only the HTML part is sent to the browser. This makes the webpage much more useful, for simple applications

ExitExplosion.com | Get Free Traffic From Exit Traffic
2007-08-19 23:17:00
In the email used to promote this tool to me, the marketer described it as 'legally stealing,' which it is, in a way. The phrase 'legal stealing' has been used so much, it's long lost it's response.All in all, Exit Explosion is a Javascript code and an account. That's it. When someone tries to move their mouse over the back button or to the location bar (address bar), an on-page pop-over pops up (forgive me).The pop-up has the ads of other Exit Explosion webmasters, and their pop-ups have yours. They have a higher click through rate (they're REALLY eye-catching). They're non-intrusive.Here's the down side: you get to show your ad once for every twice you show other people's ads. That sucks. But hey, it's free, what did you expect?You've got traffic. Check it out. Grab the code.
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12 Ways To Increase Sales
2007-08-14 23:40:00
If you're here at this blog, chances are, you have an online business. These strategies will assist your growing business.1. Make your web site a resource center on a certain topic. Choose one subject and expand. You will get repeat visitors that are interested in that topic.2. If you claim to have something free, make sure it's 100% free. If it's not, you will lose the confidence of your prospects.3. Add a online chat or forum to your site.5. Make sure your site looks good in all browsers, especially Firefox and IE. You could be losing sales because it looks distorted in some web browsers. Take into consideration that IE6 is still popular in some countries.6. Invest a percentage of your profits into your business. Spend it on marketing, product improvement, customer service, advertising, etc.7. Give your visitors a good time so they will visit your web site again. Use a few jokes or puns, and funny stories.8. Build trust with your prospects by them teaching them something. Give...
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Top 17 Ways To Get Traffic - by Aurelius Tjin
2007-07-31 02:21:00
Here's a special report by Aurelius Tjin on 'laser-targeted' traffic. Download it here for free.The key here is to actually implement these tips.You have to put your tools to work.
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YOUR Suggestions for AngleBracket!
2007-07-17 23:29:00
It's been a while since Angle bracket has been started, and most people enjoy the information in the blog. However, AngleBracket is not going to stop at simply the blog stage--it's going to go further.Imagine a webmaster friendly website with a blog, webmaster articles, forums, and other details that will be disclosed later.Are you a webmaster? What would YOU want in a webmaster resource site that NO other site has already done? What info do YOU seriously need and see lacking on the net? What format do you want it in?Do AngleBracket a favor and LEAVE YOUR COMMENT below.Thanks!

Lunarpages | Fantastic Paid Host
2007-07-03 03:54:00
Well, I have just finished a web site for a client of mine. I tried to look for a host that would meet his needs. (don't worry about my review being biased, because the affiliate commission is the same for both of the major hosts, bluehost.com and lunarpages.com) This was a painstaking process.The technical details were reviewed again and again. At this point, Lunarpages and BlueHost were close, but BlueHost had a slight advantage because of it's 'Unlimited Domains' hosting offer.Others' reviews of both hosts revealed that Bluehost's support was not very good. I checked out Lunarpages. The support was emailed three times just to see if they responded. They replied pretty quickly. Then I thought, maybe the amazing speed of their replies was because this was a sales representative, not a tech support representative.Anyways, with time running short, I chose Lunarpages for my client. Shortly after the order was processed, I emailed their tech support with a domain name question. ...
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SEO Knowledge 2
2007-06-23 08:20:00
The second in a series of SEO knowledge posts, this post is going to discuss reciprocal links.What are they: You link to a site, and ask them to link back. If they do, these links are called reciprocal links.Let's say that you are now reciprocal linking, hoping that because the site linking to you has a high PR, you will get a higher PR also. Used to be that way, but not anymore. PR is Google's measure of a pages importance, and hence the ranking of a page in the Search Engine Result Pages (SERPs). Thus, beside that fact that the links might bring some visitors from that site, your reciprocal link will not do you much good in terms of higher PRHowever MSN and Yahoo! Search still count reciprocal links as 'backlinks,' and thus reciprocal links are still effective in raising your rank in those two SEs.Remember, the most effective PageRank-and-SERP-rank-raiser is still the one-way link to your site, from a high PR site.
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SEO Knowledge 1
2007-06-19 06:51:00
This is the first post of what will be a series of Posts on general SEO knowledge.If you haven't already read the first post on basic SEO, read it now.Here are a few things every SEO should know:Google does not like duplicate content. Do not copy other's articles, or content, because that will not help your ranking at all. Google actually knows which website had the content first, so they won't rank that one down.The text on links have less effect on what the page ranks well for, after some people created thousands of links to President Bush's website with 'miserable failure' as the link text, and when one searched for the string 'miserable failure,' his website would come up.Write naturally. SE's like naturally styled content, not keyword stuffed trash.Avoid buying links. Google does not like them and might penalize your site.That's all for now. Check back later for more tips!
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Popular Posts
2007-06-07 01:34:00
Here are informative previous articles:Traffic and SEOTen great ways to get visitors -- freeAll the basics about SEO -- in one articleWant a constant source of highly-tageted free traffic?How to actually start getting PageRankTipsEverything an email marketer should do and not do (we tell you the rule to go by)Should you use PLR?How to make your website user friendly
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Links
2007-06-07 01:21:00
Links do not necessarily mean endorsement or affiliation with the site linked to.SEOElite SEO SoftwareWebsite linking and analysis software to help build link popularity and increase your search engine rankings!
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Useful Firefox Add-ons
2007-05-28 10:49:00
Here is a list of some very useful addons for FireFox (get it free here), listed in order of usefulness:SEOQuake - View the Google PR, Alexa Rank in this bar; the number of pages of this website that are indexed in Google, MSN and Yahoo are shown all at once.Cooliris - Preview another page from any page.AngleBracket - Get notified of new AngleBracket posts and breaking news from around the world, includes webmaster links. Customizable to include weather forecast, email notification, gadgets, and moreGoogle NoteBook extension - Take notes to your Google NoteBook from any page.Measureit! - useful for measuring your screen in pixelsIE Tab - View webpages with MSIE that is embedded in Firefox . Very useful for checking if pages work in both browsersFireBug - Error console with editing and debugging abilitiesColorZilla - Advanced color picker letting you revealing the color code for the any element on the screenfirefox extensions

On PLR And Recycled Content
2007-05-22 06:45:00
As Private Label Rights become increasingly popular due to their completely editable and resellable nature, what should webmasters and internet marketers take note of when gathering content for their websites?Content , is king. This is true when applied to search engines and most importantly, your visitors. For an internet marketer who regularly provides helpful tips through email to his subscribers, he is pressed for information to provide to his prospects -- and turns to PLR content, which is often already 'recycled' two or three times before landing in the hands of the marketer, who then condenses it and presents it to his subscribers. But they have seen it before, somewhere, from someone else.That's the case with PLR editing, what I call recycling.But here's another thing about information compiling -- some people will say compilations are now original content; but more often than not, people have already seen this information before -- from different sources, just that now, ...
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Article Writing: Road to PageRank
2007-05-20 04:05:00
Many people know of numerous ways to increase their PageRank, but ironically, because there are so many ways to do this, most don't know where to start. Of all the methods I've tried before to increase my PageRank, the most effective and least time-consuming method is - Writing articles. It is by far the most powerful PageRank increaser.My PageRank jumped from zero to one in a week, and to two in three weeks. Before I had started writing articles, I had mostly said to myself something like, "Yeah, yeah, when I get more knowledge about the topic, I will write articles."But eventually, still without a lot of knowledge, I tried writing articles. There was a month in which I didn't check the PageRank, because the Google Toolbar wasn't installed on that machine. One day, I used one of the online PR checkers and found out that there was PR2 on my website! I was shocked at the effectiveness of article writing.For those who aren't familiar with the whole business of article writing, he...
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Splash page tricks
2007-04-06 13:37:00
Here's another use of forms: many internet marketers use 'splash pages,' pages with a two-field form for signing up for their '$199 Value Internet Marketing Course. Sign Up Now!' newsletter. People who have become savvy in the internet marketing field will simply avoid all these splash pages, knowing that people are trying to get their email to sell them things. Making the visitor comfortable with sending you your info is the key to more sign-ups.Make your splash page 97% free of things you would see in other splash pages. Make your form and copy short. Make sure you don't use 'conversion-pulling, action-packed' words in your copy. People who've become acquainted with these words simply ignore these words and the page.Remember that a funny headline, a comical graphics work to bring more opt-ins! If they feel that you are not some professional web copywriter trying to sell them the latest great e-book, your will nearly double your chances of generating a productive lead!I re...
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Website Form User-Friendliness
2007-04-02 15:14:00
Here are some tips on form user-friendliness. A good rule of thumb is to ask, 'Will this form be inviting people to fill it in?' This article has a few examples of making your forms friendlier.Website forms can be convenient, but are also intimidating. A form should be as helpful as possible - try to clearly identify all your fields, so that all people, from 'dummy' to geek, can easily see specifically what the field is for.Text labels can be a great help when filling out forms. Try to direct the user to the field you want them to fill in. A subject field in a comments form can be used to nudge the user to help them say what they want to say. Of course, there would be more than five, but keep it to less than seven.Details for what is to be filled into the form can be placed inside the text field, like the AngleBracket Newsletter signup form to your right. This is a real space-saver, whether you're tight on it or not.A helpful form element utilizes Javascript to guide the visito...
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SEO Basics | Finding Keywords for Your Title
2007-03-31 10:33:00
The title of a page may be the single most important onpage factor that can boost your search engine rankings. When you make your webpages, make sure to include your keywords in your title. This is a must. If you don't know what you want to be ranked highly for, you won't rank highly at all.I had seen more than fifty times "research your keywords" but have never payed attention -- until I Googled 'AngleBracket.' AngleBracket is a relatively new site, so I had expected it to be far behind in the results. But no -- this site was ranked number one -- even though it has a Pagerank of zero. The reasons? AngleBracket is in the title, and the term 'AngleBracket' has virtually no competetion.The trick here is to come up with a bunch of keywords that will attract a small amount of visitors each, but combined, will provide a steady source of visitors.Here's how to come up with keyword (about your page) specific enough for the SEs to rank you relatively higher. If you were looking for t...
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Creating the User-Friendly Website
2007-03-15 16:07:00
A site with lots of CPM ads covering the face of the website means it is a high-traffic site, but what do those ads say about your website? You care more about 'revenue' than about aesthetics.A site with lots of 'helpful' links and banners, scrolling marquees, blinking text (that works only in FF), and fancy logos and backgrounds: what do these tell about your site? You're a novice. Those add-ons don't necessarily equate with un-user-friendly; they're usually signs of web novices who don't have content for their website. When you have real content, you won't have room for those add-ons.There are uncountable gazillions of websites on the net, with reports popping up all over say that there are thousands of new websites every day. Which of those are considered user-friendly?Here are a few guidelines to give you an idea of what a user-friendly website should have:Keep every site within one to two clicks from your home page. Not only does this make it easier to navigate, it let...
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10 Free Ways To Get More Visitors
2007-03-06 07:38:00
Here are 10 ways either to increase or get free traffic.With these methods, you don't even have to be listed in the search engines!NOTE: As with any and all things, do not SPAM any service. Even if the Web 2 sites have no strict Terms of use, don't take advantage; all websites are made so that their visitors will benefit. If people do things that are not good for their user's experience, they will eventually ban the activity. What would you do if you had a website and hundreds, if not thousands of webmasters are taking advantage and using your site as a free classified ads section? You get the point.Using Forums1. Write helpful answers in forums and use your website as your signature. Better yet, write the helpful answer in your website, mention a little bit about the answer, and link to it from the post. This is guaranteed to bring traffic.Using Yahoo!'s Free ServicesYahoo! actually provides two extremely good sources of traffic: Yahoo! Answers, and Yahoo! Groups.2. First of al...
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Website Magazine | The print magazine for webmasters
2007-03-02 08:20:00
This magazine has been running for a few years now; it's called Website Magazine . Topics include SEO, search engine marketing, web development, general Webmastery, and more! It has two versions, print and digital, and both are free if you are in the United States. Check it out now>>They also have an affiliate program that lets you earn money for letting people know about this great magazine! Visit their site
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SEO Tips / High-Pagerank Web Directories
2007-02-26 14:40:00
Here's a note on just which sites to get links from.Google ranks pages by the quality of the sites which link to yours,by the quality of the sites you link to, and the PageRank of the two types of sites above.By this, I mean that if you get a link from, say, Yahoo!, your PR will leap up, because Yahoo! has a PR of 9.So, the conclusion is??Submit your site to high PageRank directories, and never, never,link to websites of bad quality. By bad quality, I mean sites with no real content (Just ads), and banned sites.You can tell which are high PR and which are banned by looking in the Google Toolbar. White means PR 0, while all green means PR 10,the best. Grey means that the site is banned.The Google Toolbar can be downloaded with Firefox to the right or on the bottom of this page.On to something else------------------------------------- ----------------Here are examples of good directories:www.maxlinks.orgwww.urlz.netw ww.botw.orgGetting a link from these directories like these not only ...
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SEO Basics--How to rank highly in search engines
2007-02-25 12:05:00
This question is simple enough: how do I get free visitors?The answer is also simple enough: Search Engines .Q: How do I get into the SE's?A: Get a blog, write a post (w/ a link to your site), and submit it to Yahoo! (see related post Blog and Ping)Q: How do I get higher in the search results (rank higher)?A: Search Engine Optimization, or SEO.Alright, so here are the "secrets" of how to rank highly (forgetthose SEO softwares, "courses," and e-books)--what almostevery White Hat SEO expert will tell you, what nearly every SEOe-book mentions, what the SEO courses teach: 1) put the right keywords in your site, and 2) get people to link to your site.Stop here, let me tell you what you're thinking:Sure, I can do 1), but 2)?? It's easy enough for you to say-Before you start buying links on high-traffic, super-ranked website, or banging your head in despair, let me tell you the number one source for obtaining 100% free, legal, links to your site.Do a quick search on Google for "Web Dire...
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Important tips for email marketers
2007-02-24 09:40:00
I'm not an email marketer. In fact, I'm far from one.Needless to say, if you've clicked on the TrafficSwarm or InstantBuzz adsand have signed up for the average 'free offer,' your email is sure to be barraged with- "How this guy made 291239.23 in one month from Adsense alone" or "Mr X will be making a secret call exposing the secrets of Internet Marketing."-and the like.When you sign up, they say they "will not rent sell, give way, exchange your email address",which is good of course, but the emails from them alone are already cluttering every nook ofmy inbox. I unsubscribe quickly.Although I myself am not a email marketer, I do have a few suggestions:1. Keep the email short. Most people are BUSY. They will delete your email. (or worse, unsubscribe)2. Try very, very hard not to send emails every day. It kills the effect. Try to remember: It is annoying. Instead, try to send emails, every three or four days, with some free stuff occasionally.3. Don...
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Forums--Powerful source of free traffic
2007-02-17 16:45:00
What's the best source of targeted visitors?It's not Google Adwords, Yahoo! Search Marketing, link exchanges, or even Traffic swarm.It's the forum--and it's free.You've probably heard time and again that forums can be a great way of bringing traffic to your website; but have you implemented it?Yesterday, I went to a high traffic forum and did a simple post telling people to go to my website and boom, my number of visitors shot up.Take advantage of this "offer" and go post on forums.They are TARGETED; meaning the people that go to your website will be interested in what is there.
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How to use Yahoo Search's Site Explorer
2007-02-16 09:59:00
Yahoo! Search has a tool which allows you to authenticate you ownership of a site.Authenticated sites seem to be indexed faster. Feeds can also be submitted.It's called Site Explorer (Google has a similar tool which I will talk about in a later post).Just go to siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com and log in to you Yahoo! account.Add you sites manually, then authenticate them. This is done by adding a line of code,namely a meta tag, or a file with a specific name and text string, to your website.That's it! You site "will be authenticated within 24 Hours."
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Free Automatic Pinging Software
2007-02-15 08:51:00
Blog and Ping might really be a great thing, but, of course, you use some help.Pingomatic.com lets you ping over 20 different site to let them know you'veupdated your blog--for free!Click here--Blog and ping tool
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