Create a website that will be of interest to your target audience and urge your visitors to take the action you desire.
The most important step toward how to make a website successful, will be to target it for one particular topic.

Select relevant keywords and phrases for each web page. You should use your keywords a few times within your web page, as this will enable the search engines to determine what the website is about.

When you begin adding your content, it is very important that you use the heading and sub title tag with your main title at the top of your webpage.

Be sure to include meta tags between the head tags of your webpage. Search engines will display this description in the search results.

The best display is a web page with a white background and black text, as this will make the text easy to read. Crazy backgrounds will make the text hard to read. Be sure to use a font for your text that is easily read and large enough. Basically, keep it simple, avoid the fancy stuff. Flashy graphics are annoying and so are a sea of banners. Basic also makes loading time quick and limits lagging while images and graphics load.

Be sure to include navigation links on every page, preferably in the same spot on each page, and near the top.

Be consistent with your design and layout. Mixing these can be distracting.

Spelling is very important, so check it over several times for errors, and look for any broken images or links.

Basic pages that should be on every website include: What Your About (your company information,telephone,address, email, etc.), Privacy/Terms/Disclaimer, a combination page, or separate (protects you), Site Map (for the search engines)

Perhaps a feedback form, blog post with enabled comments, ezine subscription form, etc., can be included.

Test the look of your website in “Any Browser” to see how it looks in different browsers.

Every day, we open the browser, look at new opportunities and find new web sites, ezines and affiliate programs. We scan hundreds of ads, articles and click to new sites.

Perhaps you have your own particular rules set up to follow when you are surfing/browsing the web. I collected certain items to check off before I sign up/submit my information to others.

I always look for contact information. For example: An email, a telephone number, an address and a name.

I ask questions and wait for an answer before I hit submit.

Look for a privacy policy or ask for one. [ This will often give you vital information, such as the length of time in business and credentials.]

Look for excessive spelling errors. An occasional error is normal and can be easily missed and is not something to be   excited about.

If it is an ezine I am subscribing to, I ask for a complimentary copy or check out the archive if they have one.

Page load time is important… If it takes too long to load, we all move on. [An important note: Update your browsers - old browsers do not always display properly and often hang. This is not the web sites fault.]

Easy navigation. Can you find everything without reloading, and clicking the back button a zillion times?

Readable pages… fonts and backgrounds

Oodles of reading may indicate a scheme – do they go around in circles repeating themselves? [This one really ticks me off!] Then scroll way to the bottom of the page… and WHAM..here is where you PAY that outlandish price.

Payment options – go for your gut feeling. I offer PayPal but there are others. Often a business simply is not large enough to offer credit card payment, this does not mean they are not reliable!

Can this business provide a reference if asked?

Outdated links, or broken links indicate updating of site irregularity.  These are just a few points to help you make up your own mind Before you hit Submit.

Link cloaking refers to hiding your web/affiliate links from website visitors. This is done by redirecting from one link to another, hiding the destination link from the web page visitor.

If you are promoting a product as an affiliate, you would be using your affiliate link to send visitors to that web page. Visitors can easily see that the link is an affiliate link and prefer going to the website directly. Link cloaking hides the affiliate(s) link and replaces it with a tidy, short URL.

Affiliate commissions can be easily stolen. This is done by substituting the original link with the new affiliate id. Link cloaking hides the affiliate id from the visitor, and thus can prevent your commissions from being stolen.

It is also easy to track your links and obtain traffic statistics by using cloaked URLS/LINKS

Another reason for cloaking is probably become one of the most common complaints that most ISPs face when someone complains that their bulk emails from a marketing campaign or a newsletter/ezine are blocked out as spam. This can cause problems for the the person(s) and their ISP as well.This problem may result in blacklisting from ever mailing again and the chances of the end users marking your emails as spam are pretty good.

Spam filters are the ones responsible for this action. Even legitimate mails get lost in the process.

So, when you are in a position in which spam filters have blocked you out, the first step that you should take is to check if you have gotten a report from the domain that you were mass mailing to. Some filters will actually send you back a mailing stating that your activity seemed like you were spamming and are now blacklisted. The site will also give you the option of getting yourself delisted.

Spam filters are a fact of life and the chances of blacklisting are quite good, unfortunately. One good remedy for this is not to mail at domains but rather to mail to webmail accounts.

A good link cloaker is Tiny Url, and free to use. http://www.tinyurl.com

I’ve been working on some great additions to my website in addition to the ebook store. I have added two pages of FREE Ebooks all ready to be downloaded.
These ebooks are helpers, and how tos including
blogging,writing, and tools that you can utilize on your own computer.to help you work smarter. Some of the more useful ones are Website Templates,Ebook Marketing for Newbies, 3 Volumes of Marketiing Tips, and an excellent ebook of Wordpress Website Secrets. They are all Free for the taking and Best Wishes to those that want them. You can find them here
http://www.bizwizebooks.com/nocostebooks.html

There are tons of resources available that show you how to make money on the internet. I’ve written a few myself. But, maybe it’s easier to show someone WHAT TO DO, on WHAT NOT TO DO. I can show you how to drive visitors away from your website. Want your website all to yourself?

Then follow the steps below and you’ll get rid of them as easy as clicking the X.

1. Don’t tell anyone what you do or what you sell. Now, that’s a mystery to write about! Not to mention, there’s no contact email.(Didn’t want the spam anyway}. Is this for real?

2. Give those visitors lots of information all over the place. There is an ocean of banners, with links everywhere and articles galore. What now? And how do I stop all these popups? Egads! Get me outta here..
(But now my computer is froze). Reboot..Gone

3. Make the ordering process really complicated. It’s so much fun shopping around and then spending a half hour trying to figure out how to pay. Well, never mind, don’t need this stuff that bad. Another customer who wanted to spend money went “POOF”.

4. Fill your site with outdated information and broken links. This link goes to a 404 not found, that one is going nowhere, not even click able, and last updated 2001, Oh my it’s 2009!…GEEZ

5.I am at this website, but can’t read the information, and I’m wearing my specks!! Keep your page nice and dark and the print itty bitty. Kinda spooky, but it doesn’t do me any good if I can’t see it…BYE.

6. Here’s a goody, don’t make your links open in another browser. Well whatcha know, clicked right outta there!

Isn’t that what drives you away? Obviously, if you are spending time and energy putting up a website to make money, this is NOT what you want a visitor to find.

This ebook covers the whys,what fors,and howtos
of starting a home business.

There’s actually 50 chapters of information but they are
short and to the point.

You’ll find the scams to avoid being caught up in and
pros and cons to working at home, yes there’s a bunch!

Take it from me, been there, done that!

Lots of requirements….really? Let’s do it legally.
Need legal advice? Some of that too.

How to handle the stress part of home based business.

Plans, plans, more plans, marketing,advertising,pricing,
expenses, your website content, the list goes on.

Ah…yes, the money part, well investing, loans,and credit,are
a few.

Setting up your space at home, time management, children,
safety, your choice of computer, tools, not a wrench, or
screwdriver, tools for your business, oh there’s a bunch!

This one covers about anything you can think of so this is
a keeper.

I recommend it “before” you start a home business and
even after, gives you some good advice.

You can find it at:
http://www.bizwizebooks.com/view_item.php?ItemID=6

For $2.00

Learn HTML

Give “Learn HTML” by Dan Thompson a whirl!
35 pages of great illustration in pdf format, which means
you need Adobe Reader and a zip program to open after
downloading. I recommend Jzip. These links can be found on
our ebook main page. No worries, they are free!

This ebook is exactly what it says and describes your basic
tags and how to use them, giving updated examples along the
way. I did find a couple links that really go nowhere, but
this ebook was copywrited in 2006 and there are no current
updates.
I recommend it for beginners doing their first website.
You can resell this ebook of course and name your own price.
It is available in our ebook store at:
http://www.bizwizebooks.com/view_item.php?ItemID=14
And sells for $2.00

Be back in a few days with yet another ebook review related
to website design.

Hello Everyone!

I am the mother of four children, and live in Northeastern Pennsylvania with my disabled husband. I am a country girl at heart and down to earth love the outdoors and my online business.

I am very excited to have a personal blog of my own and this decision comes after many years of publishing my home business ezine. I started in October 2000 after graduating with an Associates in Accounting, which I thought was going to give me a better income.

Instead I ended up searching online for a “job”. I put up a website and basically found publishers that had home business ezines. I decided to dedicate my online time to help others learn about and find a home business.

I learned everything by trial and error, losing my reader list a few times, and my website, not to mention my hard drive and numerous other problems we all suffer.

I was totally lost, and had no idea how to begin.

I taught myself to build a website, write some articles, find useful tools and compose my ezine, HomeBiz_Bites, formerly Dee’s Helpful Info.

A few of my closest friends are:

o  Theresa Cahill of MyWizardAds
o  Terri Seymour – Seymour Products
o  Mike Hills – 10Dollar20Ads, and
o  Ronald Dunn who published The Christian Marketer.

Now I will add one more tool to help others by analyzing and reviewing ebooks in my new ebook store, making comparisons and the like. Why? I, for one, don’t want you buying something you don’t need! Simple as that.

Warm Regards,

Donna Sweat
Publisher HomeBiz_Bites Ezine
Owner Home Biz Ebooks
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