by: Hunter Blyth
In web designing, design is more than just using HTML tags on a web page. The principles outlined below will help you create a more useful and effective website.
Balance
One of the most basic principles in web designing is balance. It is the distribution of the light and heavy elements on a page. It shows one to layout web pages so that they will work effectively. It is also a visual interpretation of design gravity. Remember that darker and larger objects appear heavier than lighter and smaller objects.
Balancing designs can be done in three ways:
Symmetrical Balance – done by placing elements in an even manner
Asymmetrical Balance – more challenging to design because they don’t have elements that match across the designs centerline
Discordant or off-balance – designs that suggest more action and motion
Contrast
When people encounter the word contrast, color is the first thing that comes to mind. However, contrast is more than just a difference in color. There can be contrasts in shapes, sizes and even textures. It is an accentuation of element differences in a design. When you apply contrast in a web design, think beyond or more than just colors. Think about how you can attract your readers in terms of contrasting font sizes, shapes, images and text styles.
Moreover, contrast in web design can be done in four ways. It can be done by
Changing of fonts
Providing links
Using different sizes of images and elements
Using contrasting colors
Emphasis
The eye is drawn to what is emphasized in a design. Though it is very tempting to give emphasis on everything in your website, as a designer you should determine element hierarchy and apply emphasis accordingly based on the hierarchy.
With emphasis, you make the most important element stand out in your design. To include emphasis or dominance in your design, try doing the following ways:
Use semantic mark up that will provide some emphasis even when there are no styles
Changing of fonts or images
Use of contrasting colors
Rhythm
Rhythm is also called repetition. It allows the design to build an internal consistency which helps the viewers to understand it easily. It is said that the whole design can only be understood once the brain has recognized the pattern in the rhythm. Furthermore, rhythm instills a sense of order in the design because it seldom occurs on its own. Due to this, viewers become attracted and therefore tend to investigate further.
To include rhythm in your web design, you can repeat actual HTML texts, add images several times, use background-repeat property and repeat navigation elements of your design.
Unity
In design, unity is also termed as proximity. It is the method of keeping same elements together and keeping different elements apart. It provides cohesiveness to designs and is said to pull elements together. It is primarily achieved through layout placement but can also be accomplished with the use of padding and margining of the elements.
Unity can be implemented through adjusting the layout of elements, changing the text spacing and playing with the box properties to influence the padding and margins.
Web Design Basics
by: Hunter Blyth
When designing something, a designer should first go through the basics of designing. Whether he is designing a print design or web design, he must know the dos and do not's. The following items will help you know the basics of web designing as well as some techniques that are specific to coming out with the best web layout.
1. Create a design that seems friendly.
There are actually a lot of web designs that scare people away and not attract them. If you want people to return to your website, make it soothing and light. Keep your site as friendly as possible.
2. Create a great homepage
When designing your website, you should keep in mind to conceptualize a homepage that would attract your viewers. Remember that the first page that your customers see can also be the last. So learn to create a page that will attract your visitor’s attention and then draw them deeper into your site.
3. Keep in mind the principles in designing web sites
Remember to apply your design principles such as balance, contrast, emphasis, rhythm and unity. This will serve as your guide and will help you conceptualize a good web design.
4. Think small in terms of graphics
Slow pages can be really very annoying. Whether you like it or not, one cause of slowing the pages is large graphics. To avoid such problem think of using images with a size of 10-12 kb.
5. Use graphics that fit the content
Just because you have a wonderful picture of you and your boyfriend doesn’t mean that you should include it on your website. Use images that are appropriate and that connect with your site’s content.
6. Don’t use blinking images
There have been studies proving that blinking images actually annoy people. If you want to use them, though, use them sparingly. You wouldn’t want your site viewers to leave your page just because of an annoying blinking image.
7. Stay with standard layouts
Try to use a layout that is simple as possible. The 3-column layout might sound corny and boring but it helps to keep your readers stay where they are and keep reading your site’s contents. Keep in mind that readers and site viewers stick with things that are simple and easy to understand.
8. Use standard fonts and limit the number of different fonts
Use standard fonts such as Arial, Verdana, Geneva, and Helvetica. They might seem too familiar but they look better on most browsers. Now, you don’t have to worry whether your fonts will work or not.
9. Don’t be greedy
Though ads help you make money by posting them on your site, keep in mind that people visit your site because of their perceived content and not because of the ads that you put in it. For all you know, these ads may drive your viewers away, if they are too many, and could possibly make you lose money.
10. Remember your readers
Understand that, unless you’re writing a site for yourself, your site’s content should include topics that your viewers might want to read.
When designing something, a designer should first go through the basics of designing. Whether he is designing a print design or web design, he must know the dos and do not's. The following items will help you know the basics of web designing as well as some techniques that are specific to coming out with the best web layout.
1. Create a design that seems friendly.
There are actually a lot of web designs that scare people away and not attract them. If you want people to return to your website, make it soothing and light. Keep your site as friendly as possible.
2. Create a great homepage
When designing your website, you should keep in mind to conceptualize a homepage that would attract your viewers. Remember that the first page that your customers see can also be the last. So learn to create a page that will attract your visitor’s attention and then draw them deeper into your site.
3. Keep in mind the principles in designing web sites
Remember to apply your design principles such as balance, contrast, emphasis, rhythm and unity. This will serve as your guide and will help you conceptualize a good web design.
4. Think small in terms of graphics
Slow pages can be really very annoying. Whether you like it or not, one cause of slowing the pages is large graphics. To avoid such problem think of using images with a size of 10-12 kb.
5. Use graphics that fit the content
Just because you have a wonderful picture of you and your boyfriend doesn’t mean that you should include it on your website. Use images that are appropriate and that connect with your site’s content.
6. Don’t use blinking images
There have been studies proving that blinking images actually annoy people. If you want to use them, though, use them sparingly. You wouldn’t want your site viewers to leave your page just because of an annoying blinking image.
7. Stay with standard layouts
Try to use a layout that is simple as possible. The 3-column layout might sound corny and boring but it helps to keep your readers stay where they are and keep reading your site’s contents. Keep in mind that readers and site viewers stick with things that are simple and easy to understand.
8. Use standard fonts and limit the number of different fonts
Use standard fonts such as Arial, Verdana, Geneva, and Helvetica. They might seem too familiar but they look better on most browsers. Now, you don’t have to worry whether your fonts will work or not.
9. Don’t be greedy
Though ads help you make money by posting them on your site, keep in mind that people visit your site because of their perceived content and not because of the ads that you put in it. For all you know, these ads may drive your viewers away, if they are too many, and could possibly make you lose money.
10. Remember your readers
Understand that, unless you’re writing a site for yourself, your site’s content should include topics that your viewers might want to read.
Issues On Web Design
by: Hunter Blyth
Different issues can’t be avoided even in web designing. Due to conflicts between differing goals and web design methods, conflicts arise. Some of them are listed below.
Liquid vs. Fixed Layouts
Web designers do not have control over everything when designing a web site. Some of the factors that they do not have control over are browser window (the web browser used), used input devices (such as mouse, touch screen, voice command, and text) and the size and characteristics of fonts available.
However, some designers choose to control the element’s appearance on screen with the use of specific width designations. This may be done with the use of HTML table-based design or CSS. Fixed width design happens when images, texts and design layouts do not change as the browser changes. Supporter of this design prefer to control the look and feel of the site as well as the placement of objects on the page. However, other designers use liquid design, as in Wikipedia. In liquid design, the design moves so that the content will flow on the whole screen or a portion of it. The supporters of this design wishes to use all the available spaces on the web.
CSS versus tables
During the days where Netscape Navigator 4 was the most popular browser, Web designers use tables to layout pages on the web. This was considered as the practical solution then. However, popular as it is, it requires dozens of nested tables even for simple designs.
With the emergence of dominant browsers such as Internet Explorer (which became more compliant to W3C), designers started to turn their attention in using CSS. Proponents of CSS say that tables should only be used for tabular data and not for page layout. In CSS, on the other hand, HTML returns to a semantic set-up. With this, search engines are able to understand what is happening in a web page. But one major downfall of CSS is the fact that control is essentially abandoned because each browser has its own trait which leads the page to have a different display.
So to avoid this stand off, you have to decide firsthand on the approach you will take when designing that webpage, here are some of the key elements you have to bear in mind:
Website Planning
It is important to plan on the kind of website that you would be establishing. Keep in mind the audience or your target market, as well as the purpose for creating the site and lastly, its contents.
Audience
The key step to website planning process is defining your target market or audience. Your audience is the group of people you visualize as the ones who would most likely visit your website. These people will be visiting your website for a purpose so it is beneficial to know the things they are looking for. To help you decide on this, you should clearly define the goal of the site and also understand what people want to feel or do when visiting your website.
Looks vs. Function
Some designers pay more attention on how the site looks rather than on how it works. Some even rely on advertisements, so that clients will find their website, instead of search engines. On the other hand, SEO’s or Search Engine Optimization consultants are concerned with how a web site works, textually and technically. As a result, designers and SEO’s end up having fights because of the differences of their concerns.
Different issues can’t be avoided even in web designing. Due to conflicts between differing goals and web design methods, conflicts arise. Some of them are listed below.
Liquid vs. Fixed Layouts
Web designers do not have control over everything when designing a web site. Some of the factors that they do not have control over are browser window (the web browser used), used input devices (such as mouse, touch screen, voice command, and text) and the size and characteristics of fonts available.
However, some designers choose to control the element’s appearance on screen with the use of specific width designations. This may be done with the use of HTML table-based design or CSS. Fixed width design happens when images, texts and design layouts do not change as the browser changes. Supporter of this design prefer to control the look and feel of the site as well as the placement of objects on the page. However, other designers use liquid design, as in Wikipedia. In liquid design, the design moves so that the content will flow on the whole screen or a portion of it. The supporters of this design wishes to use all the available spaces on the web.
CSS versus tables
During the days where Netscape Navigator 4 was the most popular browser, Web designers use tables to layout pages on the web. This was considered as the practical solution then. However, popular as it is, it requires dozens of nested tables even for simple designs.
With the emergence of dominant browsers such as Internet Explorer (which became more compliant to W3C), designers started to turn their attention in using CSS. Proponents of CSS say that tables should only be used for tabular data and not for page layout. In CSS, on the other hand, HTML returns to a semantic set-up. With this, search engines are able to understand what is happening in a web page. But one major downfall of CSS is the fact that control is essentially abandoned because each browser has its own trait which leads the page to have a different display.
So to avoid this stand off, you have to decide firsthand on the approach you will take when designing that webpage, here are some of the key elements you have to bear in mind:
Website Planning
It is important to plan on the kind of website that you would be establishing. Keep in mind the audience or your target market, as well as the purpose for creating the site and lastly, its contents.
Audience
The key step to website planning process is defining your target market or audience. Your audience is the group of people you visualize as the ones who would most likely visit your website. These people will be visiting your website for a purpose so it is beneficial to know the things they are looking for. To help you decide on this, you should clearly define the goal of the site and also understand what people want to feel or do when visiting your website.
Looks vs. Function
Some designers pay more attention on how the site looks rather than on how it works. Some even rely on advertisements, so that clients will find their website, instead of search engines. On the other hand, SEO’s or Search Engine Optimization consultants are concerned with how a web site works, textually and technically. As a result, designers and SEO’s end up having fights because of the differences of their concerns.
Web Design Facts
by: Hunter Blyth
Fact 1: We can’t deny the fact that when browsers enter a site, they look for something that is relevant to their needs. If they ended in a particular site through advertisements, then they would expect to see something related to that ad.
Fact 2: On the other hand, when a search engine scans a site’s contents, it looks for contents which are useful enough for other sites to reference. It expects to locate a content that is consistent with the keywords.
Fact 3: Moreover, visitors who go to a shopping cart would expect to find photos with high quality, a variety of applicable views and lastly, a concise and clear description and costs. They also expect that the cart should work in all types of browsers.
But sad to say, some viewers do not find what they need in a website or sometimes they have a hard time going around the site. The following things should make you aware on the things why web sites fail.
One fact that web designers must know is that people wouldn’t enter your site unless they know their way around it.
Due to this concern, web designers must take into consideration that they need to conceptualize user friendly and easy to understand websites. For most customers or viewers, very extravagant design won’t matter as long as they don’t get lost in your site.
Your competitors are just a click away
When designing your web site, think very carefully on things that could give you a plus over your competitors. Think of the things that you can offer your customers in order for them to stay on your site and choose you above all else.
People hate slow websites
Designers must understand that searchers can be very impatient when surfing through sites in the Internet. Therefore, designers must find a way to minimize the slowness of websites and at the same time offer viewers with quality contents.
Searchers look for relevant information
Dr. Jim Jansen of Penn State’s School of Information Sciences and Technology said, “A web site has to be relevant to a searchers needs. Otherwise, by the time three minutes have elapsed, 40 percent of searchers will have moved on. While some may have found what they wanted, others may simply have given up and move to a different site." When designing web pages, designers can’t help but become graphic artists with the aim to make your site look great but sometimes lacking in information. Therefore, remember that while it is important to make your site attractive, it is equally important to place in your site the information that visitors need.
Sites should have clear abstracts
The first thing that appears on the result page as an answer to a search engine query is the site’s abstract. The abstract explains everything about your site. According to a study done by Penn State, more users or searchers can be drawn to a site with the use of an abstract. That is if the abstract is informative enough and gives relevant and enticing information about the site. Dr. Jim Jansen said, "For site developers, if you want to be looked at, it is absolutely critical that the abstract be crystal clear about the purpose of your Web site."
Fact 1: We can’t deny the fact that when browsers enter a site, they look for something that is relevant to their needs. If they ended in a particular site through advertisements, then they would expect to see something related to that ad.
Fact 2: On the other hand, when a search engine scans a site’s contents, it looks for contents which are useful enough for other sites to reference. It expects to locate a content that is consistent with the keywords.
Fact 3: Moreover, visitors who go to a shopping cart would expect to find photos with high quality, a variety of applicable views and lastly, a concise and clear description and costs. They also expect that the cart should work in all types of browsers.
But sad to say, some viewers do not find what they need in a website or sometimes they have a hard time going around the site. The following things should make you aware on the things why web sites fail.
One fact that web designers must know is that people wouldn’t enter your site unless they know their way around it.
Due to this concern, web designers must take into consideration that they need to conceptualize user friendly and easy to understand websites. For most customers or viewers, very extravagant design won’t matter as long as they don’t get lost in your site.
Your competitors are just a click away
When designing your web site, think very carefully on things that could give you a plus over your competitors. Think of the things that you can offer your customers in order for them to stay on your site and choose you above all else.
People hate slow websites
Designers must understand that searchers can be very impatient when surfing through sites in the Internet. Therefore, designers must find a way to minimize the slowness of websites and at the same time offer viewers with quality contents.
Searchers look for relevant information
Dr. Jim Jansen of Penn State’s School of Information Sciences and Technology said, “A web site has to be relevant to a searchers needs. Otherwise, by the time three minutes have elapsed, 40 percent of searchers will have moved on. While some may have found what they wanted, others may simply have given up and move to a different site." When designing web pages, designers can’t help but become graphic artists with the aim to make your site look great but sometimes lacking in information. Therefore, remember that while it is important to make your site attractive, it is equally important to place in your site the information that visitors need.
Sites should have clear abstracts
The first thing that appears on the result page as an answer to a search engine query is the site’s abstract. The abstract explains everything about your site. According to a study done by Penn State, more users or searchers can be drawn to a site with the use of an abstract. That is if the abstract is informative enough and gives relevant and enticing information about the site. Dr. Jim Jansen said, "For site developers, if you want to be looked at, it is absolutely critical that the abstract be crystal clear about the purpose of your Web site."
Simple SEO: How To Create Content The Search Engines Will Like
by: Chris Malta
Improved search positioning means greater exposure to targeted traffic, but few E-Biz owners really understand how to run an effective search engine optimization (SEO) campaign. According to Andy Jenkins, founder of online business forum http://StomperNet.com, “Your web site ranking is determined, in large part, by the quality of your content – it must be both compelling to your visitors and consumable to the search engine spiders.”
A Matter of Substance
Jenkins reveals two key practices that can help you cooperate with the search engines and give them the kind of useful information they’re after:
Avoid Duplicate Content
When pages living on separate domains are extremely similar, the engines will classify them as “duplicate content” and rank them very poorly. One page will go in their normal index; the other will be relegated to their supplemental index, where none its value is manifested. This often poses a problem for eCommerce stores selling numerous similar items.
Every page of your web site probably has some design elements that are the same, like your navigation bar, header and footer, and any special messages, like “In Stock” or “Money Back Guarantee”. To keep from ending up in the supplemental index, you should strive to have at least more original content in your product descriptions than exists in the permanent template layout of your pages. In other words, if you have two hundred fifty words of repeating content on each page, you should also have at least two hundred fifty-one words per page of new and different content.
If writing interesting, witty descriptions of your products seems difficult, it may help to try manifesting your copy in some form of ownership. For instance, if you’re selling a box of tortellini, talk about how simple it is to cook, how good it tastes with pesto sauce, how wonderful it is to enjoy with your family around the dinner table. You’re simultaneously engaging your customers, sharing the benefits of using your product, and avoiding the mire of the supplemental index.
Implement Latent Semantic Indexing
Search engine algorithms have grown increasingly complex over time. Optimizing your copy is no longer a matter of stuffing it with keywords: “This pasta site is the best pasta site for the pasta lover’s pasta needs.” Now, in fact, repeating a keyword or phrase too often will raise red flags, and may even cause your site to drop in the rankings.
The engines have learned to recognize the relationships between many words. So to rank well for a keyword, you need to talk about things that relate to it, also know as “latent semantic indexing”. For example, if you’re trying to rank for the keyword “pasta”, you might talk about carbs, marinara sauce, fusilli, linguini, and so forth. It’s okay to sprinkle “pasta” throughout your copy, but concentrate on using latently related words. You’re generating copy that’s interesting to the users reading it, and palatable to the engines ranking it.
(Tip: To discover keywords latently related to your keywords, perform a Google search with a tilde in front of the keyword – like “~pasta”. You’ll bring back results containing latently related words: noodles, recipes, Italian, etc.)
While the search engines regularly revise their algorithms, the basic principles of SEO remain the same. You don’t need to play games or try to trick the engines to show up in their results. Advises Jenkins, “The engines want to give users the information they’re seeking. So if you create a user-friendly site with good, valuable content, you’re going to do well – period.”
Improved search positioning means greater exposure to targeted traffic, but few E-Biz owners really understand how to run an effective search engine optimization (SEO) campaign. According to Andy Jenkins, founder of online business forum http://StomperNet.com, “Your web site ranking is determined, in large part, by the quality of your content – it must be both compelling to your visitors and consumable to the search engine spiders.”
A Matter of Substance
Jenkins reveals two key practices that can help you cooperate with the search engines and give them the kind of useful information they’re after:
Avoid Duplicate Content
When pages living on separate domains are extremely similar, the engines will classify them as “duplicate content” and rank them very poorly. One page will go in their normal index; the other will be relegated to their supplemental index, where none its value is manifested. This often poses a problem for eCommerce stores selling numerous similar items.
Every page of your web site probably has some design elements that are the same, like your navigation bar, header and footer, and any special messages, like “In Stock” or “Money Back Guarantee”. To keep from ending up in the supplemental index, you should strive to have at least more original content in your product descriptions than exists in the permanent template layout of your pages. In other words, if you have two hundred fifty words of repeating content on each page, you should also have at least two hundred fifty-one words per page of new and different content.
If writing interesting, witty descriptions of your products seems difficult, it may help to try manifesting your copy in some form of ownership. For instance, if you’re selling a box of tortellini, talk about how simple it is to cook, how good it tastes with pesto sauce, how wonderful it is to enjoy with your family around the dinner table. You’re simultaneously engaging your customers, sharing the benefits of using your product, and avoiding the mire of the supplemental index.
Implement Latent Semantic Indexing
Search engine algorithms have grown increasingly complex over time. Optimizing your copy is no longer a matter of stuffing it with keywords: “This pasta site is the best pasta site for the pasta lover’s pasta needs.” Now, in fact, repeating a keyword or phrase too often will raise red flags, and may even cause your site to drop in the rankings.
The engines have learned to recognize the relationships between many words. So to rank well for a keyword, you need to talk about things that relate to it, also know as “latent semantic indexing”. For example, if you’re trying to rank for the keyword “pasta”, you might talk about carbs, marinara sauce, fusilli, linguini, and so forth. It’s okay to sprinkle “pasta” throughout your copy, but concentrate on using latently related words. You’re generating copy that’s interesting to the users reading it, and palatable to the engines ranking it.
(Tip: To discover keywords latently related to your keywords, perform a Google search with a tilde in front of the keyword – like “~pasta”. You’ll bring back results containing latently related words: noodles, recipes, Italian, etc.)
While the search engines regularly revise their algorithms, the basic principles of SEO remain the same. You don’t need to play games or try to trick the engines to show up in their results. Advises Jenkins, “The engines want to give users the information they’re seeking. So if you create a user-friendly site with good, valuable content, you’re going to do well – period.”
How To Build A Website That Makes Money
by: Patricia Taylor
As little as one decade ago an ecommerce site was the domain of techno wiz’s and coding geniuses. Today the Internet business world is not limited to the technically gifted and motivated. Anyone can build an ecommerce business due to the advent of WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editors, web building wizards, open source blog and web site platforms, as well as platform like Ebay, Amazon, etc.
A person can build a viable web business without ever understanding how to configure a Mysql database or coding in HTML or PHP. A strong computer background or time needed to learn, is all the skills needed to get started.
Static Pages & Content Management Systems
Static pages are like digital paper. They do not change. They end in .htm, and remain the same until the owner changes the content on them.
A content management system can be as simple as a www.blogger.com or Wordpress blog. Or, it can be a complex $10 000 platform that is powerful enough to run 100 000 pages of content. The objective is to create something for the search engines to send their robots to for ranking and traffic generating.
The content should be designed to create demand, solve problems, and offer solutions. The secondary purpose is to optimize the website increasing the traffic and profit.
What Are You Selling
The Internet does not require a tangible product for sale. There are dozens of things to sell which are not tangible including downloads, education, affiliate and advertising, pre-selling, or social/ entertainment. Creating a site where people can come and share their love for a hobby, venture, belief, or view, can provide a good opportunity for a savvy business owner.
It is possible to sell entertainment. It is possible to sell ‘meeting people.’ Many Internet businesses have grown to unbelievable levels of success doing just this. Some examples are youtube.com, facebook.com, myspace.com and more.
The first step to building a website is not designing the site. It is deciding what is being sold. Why will people come to the website? What will attract them? What will make visitors stay at the site?
Understanding what is for sale will help the business owner pre-sell the product without continually telling people to buy something. In fact, the most profitable sites are those that do not try to sell anything.
Monetize the Website
The term monetize the website means to create a website that doesn’t sell anything. Its sole purpose is to pre sell a product and make money by driving people to websites that do sell something. This is a popular method of income generation as it lets Internet businesses to create multiple streams of income and diversify without needing to invest money into products, merchant accounts, and warehousing or drop shipping.
Shopping Carts
Once the website owner decides what to sell, they need to determine what type of platform. Many new companies stick with paypal.com an ebay company. Other people do not try to do it their own. Instead they take their time and explore their options.
One way is to use prostores.com, ebay.com, or amazon.com to sell their products.
Stay Up To Date
Being behind the times is a quick way to go out of business. Ecommerce companies need to stay up to day. That e-book should be changed into a home study or an e-course. The download should become a video or audio file. The free blog – a personalized website. The internet world is evolving. As fast as users become familiar with one form of Internet tool or feature, another is quickly increasing to take its place.
The key to success is remaining educated, reading everything you can, and staying up to date with the web and all the tools it has. What makes money? Something new.
As little as one decade ago an ecommerce site was the domain of techno wiz’s and coding geniuses. Today the Internet business world is not limited to the technically gifted and motivated. Anyone can build an ecommerce business due to the advent of WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editors, web building wizards, open source blog and web site platforms, as well as platform like Ebay, Amazon, etc.
A person can build a viable web business without ever understanding how to configure a Mysql database or coding in HTML or PHP. A strong computer background or time needed to learn, is all the skills needed to get started.
Static Pages & Content Management Systems
Static pages are like digital paper. They do not change. They end in .htm, and remain the same until the owner changes the content on them.
A content management system can be as simple as a www.blogger.com or Wordpress blog. Or, it can be a complex $10 000 platform that is powerful enough to run 100 000 pages of content. The objective is to create something for the search engines to send their robots to for ranking and traffic generating.
The content should be designed to create demand, solve problems, and offer solutions. The secondary purpose is to optimize the website increasing the traffic and profit.
What Are You Selling
The Internet does not require a tangible product for sale. There are dozens of things to sell which are not tangible including downloads, education, affiliate and advertising, pre-selling, or social/ entertainment. Creating a site where people can come and share their love for a hobby, venture, belief, or view, can provide a good opportunity for a savvy business owner.
It is possible to sell entertainment. It is possible to sell ‘meeting people.’ Many Internet businesses have grown to unbelievable levels of success doing just this. Some examples are youtube.com, facebook.com, myspace.com and more.
The first step to building a website is not designing the site. It is deciding what is being sold. Why will people come to the website? What will attract them? What will make visitors stay at the site?
Understanding what is for sale will help the business owner pre-sell the product without continually telling people to buy something. In fact, the most profitable sites are those that do not try to sell anything.
Monetize the Website
The term monetize the website means to create a website that doesn’t sell anything. Its sole purpose is to pre sell a product and make money by driving people to websites that do sell something. This is a popular method of income generation as it lets Internet businesses to create multiple streams of income and diversify without needing to invest money into products, merchant accounts, and warehousing or drop shipping.
Shopping Carts
Once the website owner decides what to sell, they need to determine what type of platform. Many new companies stick with paypal.com an ebay company. Other people do not try to do it their own. Instead they take their time and explore their options.
One way is to use prostores.com, ebay.com, or amazon.com to sell their products.
Stay Up To Date
Being behind the times is a quick way to go out of business. Ecommerce companies need to stay up to day. That e-book should be changed into a home study or an e-course. The download should become a video or audio file. The free blog – a personalized website. The internet world is evolving. As fast as users become familiar with one form of Internet tool or feature, another is quickly increasing to take its place.
The key to success is remaining educated, reading everything you can, and staying up to date with the web and all the tools it has. What makes money? Something new.
An Introduction to Typefaces
by: Frank Woodford
This article has been designed to give the layman or beginner an easy to read introduction to typefaces, sometimes referred to as fonts and the different attributes they hold. Effective use of a typeface is incredibly important in all forms of design and especially so in web design where text is one of the most important forms of communication.
Knowing what you are looking for when choosing a font is incredibly important. The fonts are mainly grouped by their physical appearance. The most recognised groups are serif, sans serif, script, blackletter, monspaced and ornamental.
Serif
Serif typefaces are named after the small features at the end of the letter strokes. They are sometimes referred to as “roman” typefaces and are used most commonly used in print media such as magazines, newspapers and books.
It is widely believed that serif fonts make long passages of text easier to read (hence their use in newspapers and books) but actually studies have shown a large amount of variation in results suggesting that the ability to better sustain serif typefaces is based on practice and familiarity with the style.
Serif fonts are also commonly divided into three subgroups called Old style, Transitional and Modern. Old Style Serif fonts are directly descended from written styles and tend to have a diagonal stress. They are still quite widely and you may recognise the fonts Garamond and Goudy Old Style as examples of this group.
Transitional fonts are much more common and are in between the old style fonts and the modern. They have more definition between thick and thin lines within the letters and you will recognise Times Roman and Baskerville as recognisable examples of Transitional Serif Fonts.
Modern fonts are characterised by extreme contrast between thick and thin lines. They are considered less readable in large blocks than the other two classifications and are more commonly used in headings.
Sans Serif
A sans serif font is named after the lack of a serif at the end of each letters pen stroke and they are generally associated with more modern designs.
Sans serif designs appeared further down the time line than their serif styles brother yet are just as popular, especially in digital media. This is because sans serifs fonts encourage legibility over readability and are perfect for use in smaller text blocks.
Sans serif is also used more commonly in the digital field because it holds its legibility better on low resolution or poor quality screens; some thicker sans serif fonts have become especially synonymous with the web 2.0 styling. Sans serif fonts are also commonly used on road or public information signs.
Commonly recognised sans serif fonts include Arial, Helvetica and Futura.
Script
Script typefaces are the ones often associated with handwritten text or calligraphy. They are quite difficult to read in large passages but are still used in some situations, especially print media. This is because script fonts often give off the impression of elegance when compared to some of the other font groups.
You will often find Script fonts used in restaurant menus or invitations for the elegant connotations and because these formats often don’t feature huge amounts of text collected together.
Commonly used Script fonts include Coronet and Handscript.
Blackletter
Blackletter typefaces are fairly complex fonts that use an especially complex set of serifs and design tweaks. They are predominately designed to fit in with “old English” style calligraphy and often appear Medieval. They lend a certain amount of power to text as it becomes instantly noticeable, especially alongside normal fonts.
Blackletter is very rarely used for full sets of text and is usually centred around headers and titles. It becomes difficult to read if set to small and therefore it does not lend itself to excessive use. Blackletter is sometimes referred to as “Gothic” but this should not be confused with certain styles of sans serif font that have gothic styles.
Common Blackletter styles include Schwabacher and Textualis
Monspaced
Monspaced fonts are specially designed fonts in which every letter or symbol has the exact same width. They were originally designed for typewriters which could not move a dynamic amount of space in-between letters so every one had to be the same. Early computers also used this style of typeface as did early printers.
Monospaced text is still used because of how easy it is to read in large groups and can be found today in computer programming and plain text documents and you will very often see it inside internet error messages or server commands.
Because of its relationship with computers and programming monospaced fonts often end up making blocks of text look very “geeky” or “technical”, it would be wise to avoid publishing anything in this style unless you wanted to purposely achieve these effects. While its legibility is high reading it in large amounts can prove to be difficult.
Modern examples of monospaced fonts are Courier and Monaco.
Ornamental
Ornamental text is often referred to under different names such as display or novelty text. It is very rarely suited for body text and is designed for distinctive titles. The style will very often carry extremely specific connotations (such as Horror or Fantasy) and can end up being associated with brands or products very easily.
Sometimes the font features picture or icons built into it and will often be involved in logos.
There are many other, less commonly used typefaces out there such as none latin based ones or symbol fonts such as Wingdings and Webdings. These all have their uses but are not always installed on every browser and reader.
The most important thing to remember when choosing a font is to find a balance between readability and suitability. If you site is all about castles and knights it may make sense to use Blackletter but no-one wants to read more than 20 or so words of Blackletter at a time, pick an Old Style serif font for the body of your text and use the distinctiveness of another font for headers and titles.
Hopefully this has been at least a little educating and next time you decide on a font for a project you will be a little better suited to making the right choice.
This article has been designed to give the layman or beginner an easy to read introduction to typefaces, sometimes referred to as fonts and the different attributes they hold. Effective use of a typeface is incredibly important in all forms of design and especially so in web design where text is one of the most important forms of communication.
Knowing what you are looking for when choosing a font is incredibly important. The fonts are mainly grouped by their physical appearance. The most recognised groups are serif, sans serif, script, blackletter, monspaced and ornamental.
Serif
Serif typefaces are named after the small features at the end of the letter strokes. They are sometimes referred to as “roman” typefaces and are used most commonly used in print media such as magazines, newspapers and books.
It is widely believed that serif fonts make long passages of text easier to read (hence their use in newspapers and books) but actually studies have shown a large amount of variation in results suggesting that the ability to better sustain serif typefaces is based on practice and familiarity with the style.
Serif fonts are also commonly divided into three subgroups called Old style, Transitional and Modern. Old Style Serif fonts are directly descended from written styles and tend to have a diagonal stress. They are still quite widely and you may recognise the fonts Garamond and Goudy Old Style as examples of this group.
Transitional fonts are much more common and are in between the old style fonts and the modern. They have more definition between thick and thin lines within the letters and you will recognise Times Roman and Baskerville as recognisable examples of Transitional Serif Fonts.
Modern fonts are characterised by extreme contrast between thick and thin lines. They are considered less readable in large blocks than the other two classifications and are more commonly used in headings.
Sans Serif
A sans serif font is named after the lack of a serif at the end of each letters pen stroke and they are generally associated with more modern designs.
Sans serif designs appeared further down the time line than their serif styles brother yet are just as popular, especially in digital media. This is because sans serifs fonts encourage legibility over readability and are perfect for use in smaller text blocks.
Sans serif is also used more commonly in the digital field because it holds its legibility better on low resolution or poor quality screens; some thicker sans serif fonts have become especially synonymous with the web 2.0 styling. Sans serif fonts are also commonly used on road or public information signs.
Commonly recognised sans serif fonts include Arial, Helvetica and Futura.
Script
Script typefaces are the ones often associated with handwritten text or calligraphy. They are quite difficult to read in large passages but are still used in some situations, especially print media. This is because script fonts often give off the impression of elegance when compared to some of the other font groups.
You will often find Script fonts used in restaurant menus or invitations for the elegant connotations and because these formats often don’t feature huge amounts of text collected together.
Commonly used Script fonts include Coronet and Handscript.
Blackletter
Blackletter typefaces are fairly complex fonts that use an especially complex set of serifs and design tweaks. They are predominately designed to fit in with “old English” style calligraphy and often appear Medieval. They lend a certain amount of power to text as it becomes instantly noticeable, especially alongside normal fonts.
Blackletter is very rarely used for full sets of text and is usually centred around headers and titles. It becomes difficult to read if set to small and therefore it does not lend itself to excessive use. Blackletter is sometimes referred to as “Gothic” but this should not be confused with certain styles of sans serif font that have gothic styles.
Common Blackletter styles include Schwabacher and Textualis
Monspaced
Monspaced fonts are specially designed fonts in which every letter or symbol has the exact same width. They were originally designed for typewriters which could not move a dynamic amount of space in-between letters so every one had to be the same. Early computers also used this style of typeface as did early printers.
Monospaced text is still used because of how easy it is to read in large groups and can be found today in computer programming and plain text documents and you will very often see it inside internet error messages or server commands.
Because of its relationship with computers and programming monospaced fonts often end up making blocks of text look very “geeky” or “technical”, it would be wise to avoid publishing anything in this style unless you wanted to purposely achieve these effects. While its legibility is high reading it in large amounts can prove to be difficult.
Modern examples of monospaced fonts are Courier and Monaco.
Ornamental
Ornamental text is often referred to under different names such as display or novelty text. It is very rarely suited for body text and is designed for distinctive titles. The style will very often carry extremely specific connotations (such as Horror or Fantasy) and can end up being associated with brands or products very easily.
Sometimes the font features picture or icons built into it and will often be involved in logos.
There are many other, less commonly used typefaces out there such as none latin based ones or symbol fonts such as Wingdings and Webdings. These all have their uses but are not always installed on every browser and reader.
The most important thing to remember when choosing a font is to find a balance between readability and suitability. If you site is all about castles and knights it may make sense to use Blackletter but no-one wants to read more than 20 or so words of Blackletter at a time, pick an Old Style serif font for the body of your text and use the distinctiveness of another font for headers and titles.
Hopefully this has been at least a little educating and next time you decide on a font for a project you will be a little better suited to making the right choice.
How Search Engines Find Websites
by: Timothy Tye
One of the sweetest things for a webmaster is to go to a search engine - maybe Google, Yahoo, or MSN - type in a keyword, and voilà, they see their own website listed on the first page, or better still, ranked at the top of that page.
You can go to Google and type "Guide to earning a living without a job", you'd see that this website, HappyJoblessGuy, is ranked at the top spot of the first page. It's just less than 3 weeks since I started this website (many of you have followed it since Day 1, so you know I have not misrepresented the dates). How do I get there so fast? Well, that's what I want to share with you. And, if I can do it, so can you! But why should I teach you the secret? Because I firmly believe that everybody should have the opportunity to earn a living without holding a job. Whether or not you want to do it as a side income or a full time job is entirely your business. And what do I get in return? Quite honestly, I make HappyJoblessGuy into a very important website that helps lots of people.
I do say that, if this website provides you valuable lessons, please feel free to donate - especially after you have become successful. If asking for a donation makes the information not free, fine, regard what I am sharing with you as not free. In fact, regard it as priceless - you can name the price, any price, from zero dollars and more. In a future chapter, I will also show you how you can place a donation link on your website. If you are freely giving away valuable information that touches people's lives, you'd be pleased to see that some actually show their appreciation by donating back to you.
One of the easiest ways for you to earn money from home is through advertisements that appear on your website. I covered in the previous chapter how you can add Google AdSense to your website. If you are keen to see it happening, set up your website and apply for the AdSense account. Otherwise, all your success is a fragment of the imagination. I have seen it happening to my websites, now I am sharing this with you so that you can try it and start earning money too. But that's just the first step.
In order to be successful, your website needs one key ingredient: traffic. Yes, Virginia. No traffic equals no search engine ranking equals no money. Simple as that. And you know, you'd never get any traffic till you get a good ranking in Google and all the other search engines. But how do you do that? How do you get the search engines to find your website?
There are millions and millions of websites out there, how do the search engines find websites and rank each of them? That’s the whole purpose of this article, to supply you the answer. If you're on the verge of starting your own website, I hope it also provides you the motivation to get started. The reward is very sweet. Not only is there the pleasure of seeing your website listed for all the world to see, you also improve its traffic, and if you've added Google AdSense, it means getting more advertising dollars.
In the early years of the Internet, it was pretty easy to get a top rank on the search engines. Granted there were fewer webpages back then, search engines were also less sophisticated than they are today. If you ask me, do I prefer them now or back then, my answer to you is a resounding NOW. Although search engines today are more sophisticated - and there are more websites to compete with - today's technology allows for more relevant search results. Today's search engines are more sophisticated than years ago; now they are better able to recognize quality, and are not so easily fooled into ranking dubious websites. The likelihood that someone fools a search engine into providing his website an unfairly high ranking has diminished, and the likelihood of searchers finding the most relevant results has increased. How was this achieved, and how then can we increase the chances of our website to be listed?
The answer, quite simply, is by understanding how the search engines of today work.
There are many search engines out there, but the most popular are Google, Yahoo and MSN. Of these three, Google takes the lion share of all Internet searches - no small feat, considering Google was the newest player in the field. On the Internet, however, being newest does have its advantage. Google's search engine simply outshone the rest. It was more sophisticated and accurate. And looking at Google homepage, the search engine also appears deceptively simple. But behind that simple front lurks a mighty beast. As a result, close to half of all Internet searches today are done on Google. Yahoo is a distant second, MSN an even more distant third, and everybody else bites the dust. So if your webpage ever want to be anywhere significant on the web, it has to be ranked high on Google.
An entire industry has sprouted up to help people get their websites ranked high on the search engines. Many use honest ways to improve your website but there are also those that use dubious ways to try and fool the search engines. My advise to you is: don't ever try to fool the search engines. Search engines expect you to play by the rule, and if you let them catch you trying to fool them, they'd throw you out of the rankings faster than you can yell "Google!"
Rather than getting someone to help get your website ranked high in the search engines, however, I recommend that you learn to do it yourself. I may have mentioned it before but I'll say it again: you cannot be a captain who can't tell stern from starboard. You need the acquire the skill necessary to guide your website up the ranks, and I'm here to help you.
There is a lot to learn, and I'll break them down into different chapters:
- Choice of topic
- Content
- Keyword Density
- Search Engine Optimization
- Page Rank
- Back Links
- Promotion
In the subsequent chapters, I will go through with you how you can improve your website on each of the above areas. To reach these and other related articles, go to my website, HappyJoblessGuy.
One of the sweetest things for a webmaster is to go to a search engine - maybe Google, Yahoo, or MSN - type in a keyword, and voilà, they see their own website listed on the first page, or better still, ranked at the top of that page.
You can go to Google and type "Guide to earning a living without a job", you'd see that this website, HappyJoblessGuy, is ranked at the top spot of the first page. It's just less than 3 weeks since I started this website (many of you have followed it since Day 1, so you know I have not misrepresented the dates). How do I get there so fast? Well, that's what I want to share with you. And, if I can do it, so can you! But why should I teach you the secret? Because I firmly believe that everybody should have the opportunity to earn a living without holding a job. Whether or not you want to do it as a side income or a full time job is entirely your business. And what do I get in return? Quite honestly, I make HappyJoblessGuy into a very important website that helps lots of people.
I do say that, if this website provides you valuable lessons, please feel free to donate - especially after you have become successful. If asking for a donation makes the information not free, fine, regard what I am sharing with you as not free. In fact, regard it as priceless - you can name the price, any price, from zero dollars and more. In a future chapter, I will also show you how you can place a donation link on your website. If you are freely giving away valuable information that touches people's lives, you'd be pleased to see that some actually show their appreciation by donating back to you.
One of the easiest ways for you to earn money from home is through advertisements that appear on your website. I covered in the previous chapter how you can add Google AdSense to your website. If you are keen to see it happening, set up your website and apply for the AdSense account. Otherwise, all your success is a fragment of the imagination. I have seen it happening to my websites, now I am sharing this with you so that you can try it and start earning money too. But that's just the first step.
In order to be successful, your website needs one key ingredient: traffic. Yes, Virginia. No traffic equals no search engine ranking equals no money. Simple as that. And you know, you'd never get any traffic till you get a good ranking in Google and all the other search engines. But how do you do that? How do you get the search engines to find your website?
There are millions and millions of websites out there, how do the search engines find websites and rank each of them? That’s the whole purpose of this article, to supply you the answer. If you're on the verge of starting your own website, I hope it also provides you the motivation to get started. The reward is very sweet. Not only is there the pleasure of seeing your website listed for all the world to see, you also improve its traffic, and if you've added Google AdSense, it means getting more advertising dollars.
In the early years of the Internet, it was pretty easy to get a top rank on the search engines. Granted there were fewer webpages back then, search engines were also less sophisticated than they are today. If you ask me, do I prefer them now or back then, my answer to you is a resounding NOW. Although search engines today are more sophisticated - and there are more websites to compete with - today's technology allows for more relevant search results. Today's search engines are more sophisticated than years ago; now they are better able to recognize quality, and are not so easily fooled into ranking dubious websites. The likelihood that someone fools a search engine into providing his website an unfairly high ranking has diminished, and the likelihood of searchers finding the most relevant results has increased. How was this achieved, and how then can we increase the chances of our website to be listed?
The answer, quite simply, is by understanding how the search engines of today work.
There are many search engines out there, but the most popular are Google, Yahoo and MSN. Of these three, Google takes the lion share of all Internet searches - no small feat, considering Google was the newest player in the field. On the Internet, however, being newest does have its advantage. Google's search engine simply outshone the rest. It was more sophisticated and accurate. And looking at Google homepage, the search engine also appears deceptively simple. But behind that simple front lurks a mighty beast. As a result, close to half of all Internet searches today are done on Google. Yahoo is a distant second, MSN an even more distant third, and everybody else bites the dust. So if your webpage ever want to be anywhere significant on the web, it has to be ranked high on Google.
An entire industry has sprouted up to help people get their websites ranked high on the search engines. Many use honest ways to improve your website but there are also those that use dubious ways to try and fool the search engines. My advise to you is: don't ever try to fool the search engines. Search engines expect you to play by the rule, and if you let them catch you trying to fool them, they'd throw you out of the rankings faster than you can yell "Google!"
Rather than getting someone to help get your website ranked high in the search engines, however, I recommend that you learn to do it yourself. I may have mentioned it before but I'll say it again: you cannot be a captain who can't tell stern from starboard. You need the acquire the skill necessary to guide your website up the ranks, and I'm here to help you.
There is a lot to learn, and I'll break them down into different chapters:
- Choice of topic
- Content
- Keyword Density
- Search Engine Optimization
- Page Rank
- Back Links
- Promotion
In the subsequent chapters, I will go through with you how you can improve your website on each of the above areas. To reach these and other related articles, go to my website, HappyJoblessGuy.
Creating Information Products
by: Robert J Kennedy
Information products are amongst the most popular items to sell online. Not only are they relatively easy to produce, they are also easy to market.
Maybe you've thought of writing and selling an ebook, but you abandoned the idea because you were unsure of your writing skills. Well, the great thing about selling information products is that you don't have to write them yourself.
Here are a few of your options.
Resale Rights (RR)
Not everyone has the time, skill, or inclination to write an ebook. And that's where resale rights come in.
With resale rights, someone else creates the information product, and you pay them for the right to sell it, and keep the profits you generate.
With some information products, all you have to do to receive resale rights is purchase the product. With others, you are given the opportunity to buy the resale rights after you’ve made your initial purchase. If you buy resale rights, you can set up a sales page on your own domain and begin promoting and selling the product as if you'd created it yourself.
Remember, other people will have resale rights to the same information product, so you might have a little competition. Also, with resale rights, you cannot give or sell anyone else the rights to sell the information product. To do that, you need master resale rights.
Master Resale Rights (MRR)
Master resale rights are like resale rights, but you can sell the right to sell the information product to other people.
Master resale rights open the door to greater profits. While you can sell an ebook you have resale rights to for $15, having master resale rights means you can sell the resale or master resale right to that information product for $50, or $100, or even more.
Private Label Rights (or PLR)
When you purchase private label rights, there are few limitations on what you can do with the information product you've purchased. You can put your name on the ebook as the author. Or you can break it down into a series of short articles, short reports, or auto responder ecourses. And if you buy a pack of PLR articles on the same topic, you can compile them into an ebook.
Hiring a Ghostwriter
The only real drawback to using resale rights is that a lot of other people will have purchased the same rights. So your information product won't be one hundred percent unique.
If you want an information product that is entirely unique, but don't want to write it yourself, you can always hire a ghostwriter to write it for you.
While a ghostwriter might create the information product, your name will be on it as the author, and you will be the only one who has the right to sell it unless you sell the resale rights or master resale rights to someone else.
Selling ebooks is one of the best ways to make money online. And, thanks to resale rights and ghostwriters, you don't have to be a writer yourself to make money selling information products on the Internet.
Information products are amongst the most popular items to sell online. Not only are they relatively easy to produce, they are also easy to market.
Maybe you've thought of writing and selling an ebook, but you abandoned the idea because you were unsure of your writing skills. Well, the great thing about selling information products is that you don't have to write them yourself.
Here are a few of your options.
Resale Rights (RR)
Not everyone has the time, skill, or inclination to write an ebook. And that's where resale rights come in.
With resale rights, someone else creates the information product, and you pay them for the right to sell it, and keep the profits you generate.
With some information products, all you have to do to receive resale rights is purchase the product. With others, you are given the opportunity to buy the resale rights after you’ve made your initial purchase. If you buy resale rights, you can set up a sales page on your own domain and begin promoting and selling the product as if you'd created it yourself.
Remember, other people will have resale rights to the same information product, so you might have a little competition. Also, with resale rights, you cannot give or sell anyone else the rights to sell the information product. To do that, you need master resale rights.
Master Resale Rights (MRR)
Master resale rights are like resale rights, but you can sell the right to sell the information product to other people.
Master resale rights open the door to greater profits. While you can sell an ebook you have resale rights to for $15, having master resale rights means you can sell the resale or master resale right to that information product for $50, or $100, or even more.
Private Label Rights (or PLR)
When you purchase private label rights, there are few limitations on what you can do with the information product you've purchased. You can put your name on the ebook as the author. Or you can break it down into a series of short articles, short reports, or auto responder ecourses. And if you buy a pack of PLR articles on the same topic, you can compile them into an ebook.
Hiring a Ghostwriter
The only real drawback to using resale rights is that a lot of other people will have purchased the same rights. So your information product won't be one hundred percent unique.
If you want an information product that is entirely unique, but don't want to write it yourself, you can always hire a ghostwriter to write it for you.
While a ghostwriter might create the information product, your name will be on it as the author, and you will be the only one who has the right to sell it unless you sell the resale rights or master resale rights to someone else.
Selling ebooks is one of the best ways to make money online. And, thanks to resale rights and ghostwriters, you don't have to be a writer yourself to make money selling information products on the Internet.
Building Dynamic, SEO Optimzed Websites The Easy Way
by: Gary Nugent
Tired of spending, hours, days, weeks or months building a website, only to see a small return for it? Yeah, maybe you do it because you love your subject and want to share it with others. But wouldn't it be nice if you made some money from it, even if only to cover hosting fees?
Building a quality website can take a huge amount of time and many people are frustrated at the low levels of money they earn from Adsense ads placed on their pages. That can be down to something as simple as the placement of those ads on the page.
But there is another approach...
Instead of putting all your time into one website, why not put a small amount of time into many websites and start building a Virtual Real Estate Empire. Now each website might only earn between $0.10 and $0.50 per day, but if you had 10 websites, you'd be getting $1 - $5 per day. With a 100 sites, you'd get $10 - $50 per day.
You see, Adsense is a numbers game...
The more websites you have, the more meney you make. All those little amounts combine into one big monthly check. But how do you go about building multiple sites? Well, one thing you can do is buy those Adsense website templates you see all over the internet. Or you can go one stage further and buy complete website packages in a box, but there are problems with these:
- Most look very cheap
- You have to modify them to suit your content and tailor them to your affiliate promotions
- If any content is provided, it's static, unchanging, and the search engine spiders, along with visitors will get bored looking at it
- And, most importantly, 100s if not 1,000s of others are using exactly the same templates and content
That hardly leads to a dynamic, unique website. Google hates duplicate content and you don't stand a chance of being remotely unique in a sea of sameness unless you start individualising your sites. And, guess what? You're back to square one, putting a lot of time into each site to make it different.
But there is a solution...
What if you knew there was a piece of software that would create dynamic, unique websites, optimized for Adsense, customizable as you need with options for adding other affiliate revenue streams, and you could create such a website with the click of a button?...
Tired of spending, hours, days, weeks or months building a website, only to see a small return for it? Yeah, maybe you do it because you love your subject and want to share it with others. But wouldn't it be nice if you made some money from it, even if only to cover hosting fees?
Building a quality website can take a huge amount of time and many people are frustrated at the low levels of money they earn from Adsense ads placed on their pages. That can be down to something as simple as the placement of those ads on the page.
But there is another approach...
Instead of putting all your time into one website, why not put a small amount of time into many websites and start building a Virtual Real Estate Empire. Now each website might only earn between $0.10 and $0.50 per day, but if you had 10 websites, you'd be getting $1 - $5 per day. With a 100 sites, you'd get $10 - $50 per day.
You see, Adsense is a numbers game...
The more websites you have, the more meney you make. All those little amounts combine into one big monthly check. But how do you go about building multiple sites? Well, one thing you can do is buy those Adsense website templates you see all over the internet. Or you can go one stage further and buy complete website packages in a box, but there are problems with these:
- Most look very cheap
- You have to modify them to suit your content and tailor them to your affiliate promotions
- If any content is provided, it's static, unchanging, and the search engine spiders, along with visitors will get bored looking at it
- And, most importantly, 100s if not 1,000s of others are using exactly the same templates and content
That hardly leads to a dynamic, unique website. Google hates duplicate content and you don't stand a chance of being remotely unique in a sea of sameness unless you start individualising your sites. And, guess what? You're back to square one, putting a lot of time into each site to make it different.
But there is a solution...
What if you knew there was a piece of software that would create dynamic, unique websites, optimized for Adsense, customizable as you need with options for adding other affiliate revenue streams, and you could create such a website with the click of a button?...
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