I recently invested quite some time into generating search engine friendly URLs for several of my websites to increase my ranking and to have more pages indexed. I can highly recommend looking into this if your own website does not have se-friendly URLs. Especially Google (the most important search engine nowadays) can be very picky in regards to URLs that are not se-friendly.
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Example (the 2 URLs below bring you to exactly the same page):
http://www.beefkabobs.com/ShowCategory.php?CategoryID=13 -> this URL is not se-friendly and search engines will eventually ignore any page behind it or rank it much lower in search results. Visitors will have difficulties to remember this URL. These kinds of URLs often come from dynamic database driven websites. Each page is dynamically created when requested. Look at the forums URL this moment, too. It is dynamically created and not very friendly to search engines or the visitor. You get the idea.
http://www.beefkabobs.com/kabob-recipe-category-13.html -> this URL is se-friendly and search engines will spider the page behind it easily. It is keyword enriched to increase search engine ranking. Overall - this URL is easy to be spidered and easy to remember by a visitor.
For one of my own sites I was able to increase the number of pages indexed from 36 to over 150 pages - just by making the URLs search engine friendly. The additional pages were ignored by the search engines because they could not read the URLs properly. The domain used in my example went from 20 pages to 80 within 2 weeks and should go to over 120 pages indexed (by Google) with the next Google update.
How do you make your URLs search engine friendly?
Your web host/web server needs to support the Apache Web Server module "mod_rewrite". This module allows to rewrite URLs a certain way. By using a ".htaccess" file you can give the web server the necessary commands to work with se-friendly URLs.
How does this now really work?
In general - you are faking the nice clean looking URLs and fool search engines and visitors to believe that the URLs of your website are se-friendly.
SE-friendly URLs work in 2 steps. 1) Your site needs to display the se-friendly URLs. 2) mod_rewrite and htaccess 'translate' the se-friendly URL and redirect the traffic to the ugly looking se-unfriendly URL in the background (invisible to anyone). You will need to setup the htaccess file with the command how you would like the URL to look like and what does it translate to (a certain ugly looking dynamic URL).
The code that generates the URLs dynamically needs to be adjusted to match the rules from your .htaccess file. You upload the code changes and the htaccess and off you go.
Can every website be modified?
Most websites with dynamic URLs can be modified if the server environment meets the requirements. Each website needs to be looked at separately to get the best results.
The learning curve on creating se-friendly URLs can be quite challenging. Spend the time and resources on creating se-friendly URLs. The results can be overwhelming.
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Saturday, November 22, 2008
Friday, October 31, 2008
How to Make Money Online & Create Internet Wealth
Creating cash from the internet involves offering a Service, or a Product. Lets have a quick look at both these business models.
1. Offering a Service to make money online
Some websites make money by offering a service and online identity built over the years and people are comfortable to do business with them because they know its a trusted website. Imagine sending $1000 of dollars across the internet to people you might never meet in your entire life, and the only impression you have of them is their website, testimonials and if all turns out well, a good product.
Services offered by these type of ecommerce sites are usually hired help for internet business owners. Services include, Copywriting, Graphic Design, Mini Site Graphics, Mini Site Design, Website Design, Wordpress theme design, Video design, Ghost writing services, Programming of software such as landing page generators. Having said that, there will always be some form of investment in terms of domain name purchase as well as monthly webhosting. The returns will often outweight the cost because an identity gives people some confidence in your service, that you won't just take their money and shut down your website over night, which does happen.
Some free lancers choose not to have their own site and use business match making services such as elance or guru.com. Competition in these sites are stiff because everyone is bidding for jobs posted by internet business owners. Internet business owners, that drive big cars and live in nice houses usually will pick the cheapest with 5 star reviews. By having your own identity and website, you can lend your services to private clients and instead of slugging out with the "rest", you can earn better margins.
2. Be a professional blogger
This involves no monetary cost. The blog can even be gotten free from wordpress or blogger. Blogger blogs are very quickly indexed by Google. In fact, some of my blog posts are indexed in less then 1 hour after I make a post, that's how quick it can be. Google bots like blogs that are fresh in content, unique and offer a different prespective of a subject. If your blog is fresh, you can expect to be on the 1st page of Google for the keyword your chose. Having said that, blogging is not a quick rich scheme, it can take up to 2 months to get some regular traffic to your blog, and even then, you may not even be able to effectively monetise the traffic into a full time $10k per month income.
3. Build databases
Building a database has alot of power. Its very easy to earn obscene amounts of cash simply by being able to generate traffic. And this is not only restricted to online traffic. In fact, if you can generate customers and interest to an offline event, skating event, latin ball room event, nite club event, golf, formula 1 event, job placement for high level CEOs, you can just about make tons of cash just for sending out an email. That's how powerful it is. Of course it does cost money and a credit card to do this, and purchase services, and that could be a potential stumbling block for many people whose current income does not allow them a master or visa card.
Hope this "How To Make Money Online" article gives you some ideas to build your own business. If you have no finances, perhaps the best bet is to 1st be a hired help and lend your talent to good business owners that are also good paymasters!
To your success! Sherman
http://www.shermanchoo.com/ezine.php Sherman Choo is the Internet's Top Recurring Internet Income affiliate. "Who else wants to turn a measly $10 biz into $11,737/mth?" Go to: http://www.shermanchoo.com/ezine.php
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Sherman_Choo
1. Offering a Service to make money online
Some websites make money by offering a service and online identity built over the years and people are comfortable to do business with them because they know its a trusted website. Imagine sending $1000 of dollars across the internet to people you might never meet in your entire life, and the only impression you have of them is their website, testimonials and if all turns out well, a good product.
Services offered by these type of ecommerce sites are usually hired help for internet business owners. Services include, Copywriting, Graphic Design, Mini Site Graphics, Mini Site Design, Website Design, Wordpress theme design, Video design, Ghost writing services, Programming of software such as landing page generators. Having said that, there will always be some form of investment in terms of domain name purchase as well as monthly webhosting. The returns will often outweight the cost because an identity gives people some confidence in your service, that you won't just take their money and shut down your website over night, which does happen.
Some free lancers choose not to have their own site and use business match making services such as elance or guru.com. Competition in these sites are stiff because everyone is bidding for jobs posted by internet business owners. Internet business owners, that drive big cars and live in nice houses usually will pick the cheapest with 5 star reviews. By having your own identity and website, you can lend your services to private clients and instead of slugging out with the "rest", you can earn better margins.
2. Be a professional blogger
This involves no monetary cost. The blog can even be gotten free from wordpress or blogger. Blogger blogs are very quickly indexed by Google. In fact, some of my blog posts are indexed in less then 1 hour after I make a post, that's how quick it can be. Google bots like blogs that are fresh in content, unique and offer a different prespective of a subject. If your blog is fresh, you can expect to be on the 1st page of Google for the keyword your chose. Having said that, blogging is not a quick rich scheme, it can take up to 2 months to get some regular traffic to your blog, and even then, you may not even be able to effectively monetise the traffic into a full time $10k per month income.
3. Build databases
Building a database has alot of power. Its very easy to earn obscene amounts of cash simply by being able to generate traffic. And this is not only restricted to online traffic. In fact, if you can generate customers and interest to an offline event, skating event, latin ball room event, nite club event, golf, formula 1 event, job placement for high level CEOs, you can just about make tons of cash just for sending out an email. That's how powerful it is. Of course it does cost money and a credit card to do this, and purchase services, and that could be a potential stumbling block for many people whose current income does not allow them a master or visa card.
Hope this "How To Make Money Online" article gives you some ideas to build your own business. If you have no finances, perhaps the best bet is to 1st be a hired help and lend your talent to good business owners that are also good paymasters!
To your success! Sherman
http://www.shermanchoo.com/ezine.php Sherman Choo is the Internet's Top Recurring Internet Income affiliate. "Who else wants to turn a measly $10 biz into $11,737/mth?" Go to: http://www.shermanchoo.com/ezine.php
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Sherman_Choo
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Making Money Online - How Many Ways Are There?
If you had asked the question "how many ways are there for making money online" ten years ago, the answer would have been correct in saying just a handful. Ten years ago it was 1998 and the main working from home businesses were those connected with eBay or Amazon and a handful of one-man enterprises. Today all that has changed.
Yes it sure has. There are now in the UK alone 3.5 million people working from home both employed and self employed, but the actual number of business opportunities for making money on the internet? Well, it seems almost limitless. If you search yourself as I have you will find that of course, all figures are estimates, and don't they vary.
Some are estimating that there are world wide hundreds, while others suggest thousands, while others still, suggest tens of thousands. I tend to go for the latter. There are just innumerous opportunities on the internet for making money online and new ones are raising their heads each and every week.
With the current credit crunch lots of folk are seeing the opportunity to make some extra cash online far more appealing than before which is good news particularly for the robbing scammers. Ah yes you knew about them all along didn't you. As desperation sets in, Joe Public is more willing to pay that tenner to "find out more information" only to discover it's what he knew anyway or it's down right obvious, or worse, it's downright fraud.
Listen up folks, most of us are not stupid. Of all the masses of so called business opportunities on the internet today, you must check them out and then check again, in person if possible. Put aside your desperation. Clothe yourself with common sense. Put their name in a search engine together with the word "scam" to see if they are scammers or not. But, check, check, check!
So the real answer to the title question is, no one knows exactly. But suffice to say that there are literally thousands upon thousands and new ones entering the market each and every day.
Along with these come the scammers - beware. But also the legit ones. When you are 100% convinced of the legitimacy, not 90%, only 100% will suffice, you can then start your own website business working from home.
John Milligan
http://www.websites4wealth.co.ukhttp://www.makingmoneyonline-dot.blogspot.com
If you want to set up and run your very own successful website with help every single step of the way simply visit the above site and take a look. Or simply copy and paste into your browser.
You will not be disappointed and you will not be left on your own!
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=John_Milligan
Yes it sure has. There are now in the UK alone 3.5 million people working from home both employed and self employed, but the actual number of business opportunities for making money on the internet? Well, it seems almost limitless. If you search yourself as I have you will find that of course, all figures are estimates, and don't they vary.
Some are estimating that there are world wide hundreds, while others suggest thousands, while others still, suggest tens of thousands. I tend to go for the latter. There are just innumerous opportunities on the internet for making money online and new ones are raising their heads each and every week.
With the current credit crunch lots of folk are seeing the opportunity to make some extra cash online far more appealing than before which is good news particularly for the robbing scammers. Ah yes you knew about them all along didn't you. As desperation sets in, Joe Public is more willing to pay that tenner to "find out more information" only to discover it's what he knew anyway or it's down right obvious, or worse, it's downright fraud.
Listen up folks, most of us are not stupid. Of all the masses of so called business opportunities on the internet today, you must check them out and then check again, in person if possible. Put aside your desperation. Clothe yourself with common sense. Put their name in a search engine together with the word "scam" to see if they are scammers or not. But, check, check, check!
So the real answer to the title question is, no one knows exactly. But suffice to say that there are literally thousands upon thousands and new ones entering the market each and every day.
Along with these come the scammers - beware. But also the legit ones. When you are 100% convinced of the legitimacy, not 90%, only 100% will suffice, you can then start your own website business working from home.
John Milligan
http://www.websites4wealth.co.ukhttp://www.makingmoneyonline-dot.blogspot.com
If you want to set up and run your very own successful website with help every single step of the way simply visit the above site and take a look. Or simply copy and paste into your browser.
You will not be disappointed and you will not be left on your own!
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=John_Milligan
Cash It Online
Hi, Welcome to my latest blog.
I'm going to present you all a collection of articles and reviews on ways to make that extra cash, money, or dollars (you call it) on the internet or online. Hope these articles would give you ideas or motivate you guys to do what so many have achieved over the years.
Wish you all the best.
I'm going to present you all a collection of articles and reviews on ways to make that extra cash, money, or dollars (you call it) on the internet or online. Hope these articles would give you ideas or motivate you guys to do what so many have achieved over the years.
Wish you all the best.
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