20th December 2004
MS Frontpage
By Clare Lawrence 15th August 2004
Thinking of designing your own website?, MS Frontpage is a good starting point.
It is widely available, well supported and reasonably priced.
Why MS Frontpage?
If you're familiar with the other me...
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20th December 2004
Your own Ecommerce Website
By Clare Lawrence 8th June 2004
Thinking of setting up your own ecommerce or on-line store? I set my first site up in July 2002 and this article shares some of my experiences.
Research
Before you start, invest time in...
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18th December 2004
Writing Articles
By Clare Lawrence 15th August 2004
How can I promote my website without paying mega bucks?
I have been writing Internet articles since 2002 and besides being satisfying in itself, it has actually given my sites a great boost.
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13th December 2004
On-line Advertising
By Clare Lawrence
Looking for ways to give your website a traffic boost?
The web offers a bewildering array of advertising opportunities – looking at the options: -
Pay per click
As the name suggests ads are charged only w...
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13th December 2004
Directories
By Clare Lawrence
Directories can play an important role in a website promotion program.
Google the leading search directory places considerable importance on links from related themed pages.
Provided a directory is organised so that...
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13th December 2004
Creating your own web directory
By Clare Lawrence 16 July 2004
Building your own web directory can be a very rewarding project in its own right.
I spent a lot of time looking for directories for my own use, before I decided to start my own.
I co...
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13th December 2004
Joining forums can boost traffic and be fun
By Clare Lawrence 1st January 2004
Are you looking to boost your websites traffic? Why not try joining on-line forums. There are a number of benefits:-
Credibility
Forums are useful places to chat to...
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05th December 2004
Dynamic pages and the Search Engines
By Clare Lawrence
10th March 2003
Clare is the CEO of Discount Domains Ltd a leading UK Domain name registration service.
Do search engines such as google penalise dynamic pages?
Dynamic pages are used to ...
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04th December 2004
Which Directories?
By Clare Lawrence 19th August 2004
There are literally 1,000 of directories on the web and new ones pop up every day.
Which ones should I submit to? Well firstly, provided a directory's pages are indexed by the search engines (e...
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04th December 2004
Submission scams
By Clare Lawrence 19th August 2004
Submit your site to 1,000,000 search engines and directories for $19.99. Sounds too good to be true. Well it is! 90% of submissions sites are a waste of money.
It's a common fallacy that you nee...
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04th December 2004
7 Steps to success
By Clare Lawrence
Every webmaster wants a successful site, if you follow this step by step guide you'll do well.
Step 1
Search engines such as Google return web pages, based on keyword or keyphrase searches. Your first step the...
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04th December 2004
Conquering the search engines
By Clare Lawrence 18th August 2004
Search engines can take one of several forms. Firstly there are the pure search engines such as Google (the leading search engine), which send out spiders or robots to scan web pages.
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04th December 2004
Want a better website ranking?
By Clare Lawrence 8th June 2004
Almost everyone wants to improve their rankings in the search engines, also known as Search engine results placement. How to do it? The web is full of services offering to submit your we...
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04th December 2004
How to rank well in the search engines.
By Clare Lawrence 30th May 2004
I get this question all the time!.
Everyone wants to be listed on the first few pages of the search engines.
Here is what I tell my customers:-
a) Firstly do your research...
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04th December 2004
Google and its data centres.
By Clare Lawrence 2nd January 2004
Ever wondered how Google manages its 3 billion plus index? In this article I explain how big G is organised.
Google uses data centres, these spread the workload between more than 10,0...
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