http://www.articlealley.com en-us editorial@articlealley.com By David Callan Many of you have read with enthusiasm my article entitled Search engine optimization guide and believe if you follow the guidelines within the article and then submit to hundreds of search engines you will be flooded with visitors and pro... http://www.articlealley.com/article_882_6.html 09th January 2005 By David Callan Not by any sense of the word is search engine marketing a secret. However there are secrets and tricks to search engine marketing. In this article we'll try to successfully educate you on the different factors which contribute to SEO, SEO... http://www.articlealley.com/article_881_6.html 09th January 2005 By David Callan Search engines, do you use them? Of course you do! Most if not all internet users use them at some stage or another, and why not, they are very easy to use, simply go to the address of the engine be it Google.com, Alltheweb.com or any oth... http://www.articlealley.com/article_880_6.html 09th January 2005 By David Callan Getting listed on Yahoo should be without doubt one of the most important missions on any Internet marketers mind. Yahoo is the biggest of all the search engines, well actually that's not true, you see Yahoo is not technically a search... http://www.articlealley.com/article_879_5.html 09th January 2005 By David Callan Google is by far the most popular search engine available today for both ordinary surfers and webmasters alike. Surfers like it because of the highly relevant results it gives and the speed at which it delivers them. This is due to its ... http://www.articlealley.com/article_878_6.html 09th January 2005 By David Callan The year is 2000, Google is seen as the leader in the search engine industry by now. Many of Googles competitors are trying their hands at different advertising models as a way to generate revenue. Google currently seeing the most growth ... http://www.articlealley.com/article_877_7.html 09th January 2005 By David Callan What are pay per click search engines? Pay per click search engines (also called pay-for-performance and paid listings among other names) are engines which allow site owners to determine their sites ranking in that particular search engi... http://www.articlealley.com/article_876_7.html 09th January 2005 By David Callan Tired of the search engine optimization game? Lots of webmasters are, today the Internet is more a big shop than the information library it became so popular for. This of course means that there are hundreds if not thousands of sites comp... http://www.articlealley.com/article_875_6.html 09th January 2005 By David Callan The Open Directory Project (ODP) based at http://www.dmoz.org is perhaps the most important directory any webmaster can submit a site to these days. Even more important than Yahoo? You might ask. Well yes in my opinion anyway, you see the... http://www.articlealley.com/article_874_5.html 09th January 2005 By David Callan We all know search engine optimization is a tricky business, sometimes we rank well on one engine for a particular keyphrase and assume that all search engines will like our pages and hence we'll rank well for that keyphrase on a number o... http://www.articlealley.com/article_873_6.html 09th January 2005 By David Callan In my opinion reciprocal links are second only to search engines as a way to get traffic to ones site. Reciprocal links are links with other sites which are generally related to the theme of your website. The concept is simple, you li... http://www.articlealley.com/article_872_6.html 09th January 2005 By David Callan Reciprocal linking is one of the most effective ways of driving targeted mass numbers of people to your website, however in order to be successful you've to carefully target and choose the sites you want to link with. What you need to ... http://www.articlealley.com/article_871_6.html 09th January 2005 By David Callan Now you know how important reciprocal links are and who you should target when looking for links, but when you've found your targets what's the best way to actually get them to link to you. What should you say to the webmaster in the emai... http://www.articlealley.com/article_870_6.html 09th January 2005 I guess you can't really call this an article, maybe a resource article though. I've decided to include it in the reciprocal links section anyway. Below there are six templates and a couple of subject lines too which you can use when emailing other webmas... http://www.articlealley.com/article_869_6.html 09th January 2005 By David Callan Autoresponders are just that, they're programs set up to automatically respond with an designated email when a blank email is sent to a certain email address. Have you ever seen something like this For a Free Guide to ? send a bla... http://www.articlealley.com/article_868_3.html 09th January 2005 By David Callan In this article I'll go through some of the features and factors of choosing an Autoresponder service. First off you'll want unlimited hits. Autoresponders were designed to process and send large amounts of data easily and quickly, th... http://www.articlealley.com/article_867_3.html 09th January 2005 By David Callan What are affiliate programs? Affiliate programs also known as associate programs, referral programs and partner programs among others things are Internet sales systems whereby a website which sells products or services can have hundreds ... http://www.articlealley.com/article_866_3.html 09th January 2005 By David Callan Affiliate programs have quickly become the most popular way for webmasters to use traffic to their sites to make money. The amount of money however an affiliate earns depends on three main factors: 1. Level of traffic to the affili... http://www.articlealley.com/article_865_3.html 09th January 2005 By David Callan You've got a decent amount of traffic to your site and your signed up with some affiliate programs hence you want to know how you can make the most money from with these programs, right?. Well there are a number of ways in which you can i... http://www.articlealley.com/article_864_12.html 09th January 2005 By David Callan Utilizing affiliate programs is the most powerful way to market a product online. All the top marketing professionals agree with this and most of them have used affiliate programs to make hundreds of thousands of dollars online in a very ... http://www.articlealley.com/article_863_3.html 09th January 2005 By David Callan Before going into the pros and cons of having a forum on a site let's first explain what forums actually are. Most of you are familiar with them but mightn't have heard the term 'forum' before. Well forums are just another name for discus... http://www.articlealley.com/article_862_12.html 09th January 2005 By David Callan There are plenty of good scripts available on the Internet which will provide you with all the features you could want in a forum. Having the most sophisticated and advanced features on your forum however doesn't mean it's going to be... http://www.articlealley.com/article_861_12.html 09th January 2005 By David Callan Ebooks are electronic books which can be downloaded from any website or FTP site on the Internet. Ebooks are made using special software and can include a wide variety of media such as HTML, graphics, Flash animation and video. As a r... http://www.articlealley.com/article_860_12.html 09th January 2005 By David Callan An ebooks business is the number one Internet business to run. You may have heard this before but that's because it's so true. It's based on the fact that the Internet is and always has been the information superhighway and the main r... http://www.articlealley.com/article_859_12.html 09th January 2005 By David Callan As a webmaster, running your own free Ezine (also known as a newsletter) can bring huge benefits to your website and help increase your profits. You have seen them all over the Internet, nearly all sites related to marketing offer them to... http://www.articlealley.com/article_858_12.html 09th January 2005 By David Callan The amount of people subscribed to your ezine has a direct affect on how much money you can make with it either directly through advertising or indirectly through you mentioning and recommending your product in it, so you'll always want t... http://www.articlealley.com/article_857_12.html 09th January 2005 By David Callan Advertising in Ezines has to be one of the best mediums for advertising your product, free ebook or website. If you want to reach an audience which is highly targeted and cost effective then advertising in Ezines is the way to go. You... http://www.articlealley.com/article_856_12.html 09th January 2005 By David Callan Building your reputation online is one of the most important things you can do to aid the success of your Internet business. One of the most popular ways among the top Internet gurus to do this is to provide highly useful, interesting... http://www.articlealley.com/article_855_12.html 09th January 2005 By David Callan On the Internet content is king and always will be. This is because the Internet is the information superhighway and most people use it for information of some sort. The information on a website is its content. Generally the more usef... http://www.articlealley.com/article_854_6.html 09th January 2005 By David Callan You may have read the article entitled Webdesign don'ts, the article as the name suggests covers some of the things you should avoid when designing a website, things that will likely cause visitors to never want to visit your site again. ... http://www.articlealley.com/article_853_4.html 09th January 2005 By David Callan Your website is the life and soul of your Internet presence, if your website appears and acts unprofessional your company will seem unprofessional and people won't feel confident buying from you. With that said webdesign is a complex ... http://www.articlealley.com/article_852_4.html 09th January 2005 By David Callan Your domain name is imperative to the success of your website, if anyone tells you otherwise they're either lying or don't know what they're talking about. You need a domain name if you're serious about being an online entity, it's wh... http://www.articlealley.com/article_851_1.html 09th January 2005 By David Callan You've spent a couple months developing a really great site with pages and pages of excellent content and now all you've to do is choose which company you want to host with, beware however that choosing a host isn't usually an easy proces... http://www.articlealley.com/article_850_2.html 09th January 2005 By David Callan Favicon.ico is the name of the icon Internet Explorer 5+ uses in the address bar when someone's viewing their favorites. There should be one beside the address of this page now if you using IE5+. If you want to see favicon.ico in action a... http://www.articlealley.com/article_849_4.html 09th January 2005 By David Callan Link Rot is everywhere on the Internet. Link rot is the name often used to refer to broken links on the web, by broken I do of course mean links that don't work. When someone is trying to access a page on your site and either the page ... http://www.articlealley.com/article_848_4.html 09th January 2005 By David Callan You may have already come across the .htaccess file while on www.akamarketing.com, we used it in the article Custom error pages to enable you to set up custom error pages so visitors will be taken to a custom error page on your site and n... http://www.articlealley.com/article_847_4.html 09th January 2005 By David Callan Banner advertising is by far the most popular and widespread form of advertising on the Internet, almost every website has some form of banner advertising on it. There's just no escaping the banner on the net. Even though we've all re... http://www.articlealley.com/article_846_3.html 09th January 2005 Newsgroups can be an effective way to get the word out about your product or service. Nowadays however it's a lot harder to utilize them because everyone thinks that your just spamming. Newsgroups are also useful for product feedback, you can easily find ... http://www.articlealley.com/article_845_3.html 09th January 2005 By David Callan The case of St. ALBANS CITY & DISTRICT COUNCIL v INERNATIONAL COMPUTERS LIMITED of the mid Nineties set the precedent for subsequent cases involving the sale of software, both off the shelf and bespoke custom developed software. The case ... http://www.articlealley.com/article_844_11.html 09th January 2005 By David Callan You have all read them, offline anyway, in papers, magazines and journals among other places. Well online classified ads work the same way. You write a headline, description and post some contact details for potential buyers to get in tou... http://www.articlealley.com/article_843_3.html 09th January 2005 By David Callan FFA marketing involves using free-for-all pages to promote your site. In my opinion FFA pages are one of the most overrated forms of Internet marketing there is. No serious web marketer spends much time with this method of marketing b... http://www.articlealley.com/article_842_6.html 09th January 2005 By David Callan Banner ads, search engines and link exchanges. We've all tried them while promoting our sites and online businesses, some have worked more successfully than others mind you but just because you run an online business doesn't mean you've t... http://www.articlealley.com/article_841_3.html 09th January 2005 By David Callan You've started using autoresponders, Ezines and opt-in lists to market your products and websites, you've been waiting for a few days for the profits to roll in, but nothin, not even one sale. Why? Well the problem's either that your ad c... http://www.articlealley.com/article_840_12.html 09th January 2005