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The 10 Most Expensive Domains Ever 2008-04-09 10:28:00 #10 VIP.comSold for: $1.4 million in September 2005Bought by: Leisure and GamingSadly this isn’t a website dedicated to that awful Pamela Anderson show of the same name, it’s a gambling website. For just $1.4 million it wasn’t much of a gamble either.#9 CreditCards.comSold for: $2.75 million in July 2004Bought by: AustinConsidering natural SEO and a strong link campaign can get a site listed for ‘credit cards’ $2.75 million might seem a bit steep, but as the revenue generated from the loans industry is so huge the high outlay on the domain has more than likely paid for itself.#8 Wine.comSold for: $2.9 million in September 1999For this sort of money you’d think they’d actually be trading globally, alas you’d be wrong. Wine.com sells only to the US market. Something of a missed opportunity there as I do believe some European countries are quite partial to a drop of wine.#7 Shop.comSold for: $3.5 millionSounds like a great domain name, but be honest, who’s ever bought fr ...

Why Design Matters 2008-04-09 01:23:00 Flashing before your eyes is a fluro green background teamed with red writing, white borders, a cutesy cursor graphic and the promise of ten free CD’s. No, it’s not Christmas. It’s bad design.Let’s face it, in the day and age where people are more likely to search for your business online than pick up the Yellow Pages – design matters. But why?The consumer will judge youType "badly designed websites" into Google and you will understand immediately. There are pages and pages on this subject citing some very worthy examples. A badly designed website can say a lot to the consumer about your business. Potential customers or clients may think a badly structured website means a badly structured business. An unprofessional design could prove exactly that – the consumer may think your business is unprofessional or untrustworthy, especially if your website doesn’t exhibit clear authenticity. Consumer judgement can cost you. Not only could your website be shamed for employing bad d ...

Social Media Optimisation (SMO) Explained For the Beginner 2008-04-09 01:21:00 Social Media appeared on the Internet in 2006 and has since grown to offer new online technologies to help people share their opinions and experiences with each other in the form of text, links, images, audio and video. It allows businesses to reach their target audience via a whole new channel. Social Media is worldwide and user-driven, which is both good news and bad news for companies as the user community can have enormous power over the reputation of a brand or a company.There are many different optimisation techniques available to the Webmaster including Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) and Conversion rate Optimisation (CRO). Social Media Optimisation (SMO) is the most recent and looks at the social aspects of your website helping your business to interact better with your website visitors and customers. The Internet is continually changing and new technologies appear all the time.SMO is about the strategies used to set up Social Media components on your website that allow your c ...

Advantages of Usuing Text Ads 2008-04-09 01:18:00 Like banner ads, text ads have their uses in online advertising as well. They can be beneficial in building traffic as well as gaining sales. They may not have the same type of eye catching result like bulk e-mail marketing once did, but it still a lucrative means to earn cash. Text ads have been around for some time. When the words "text ads" are mentioned, most people automatically think of Google Ads.They would be right in thinking that way as Google turned their text ads business into a multi billion dollar business. It is so successful that there are others who have followed trying to emulate Google's success.Text ads have a number of advantages over other forms of advertising. Here are just a few.Some sites will offer to place your text ad on their site for a fee. They can be commercial sites, or sites like traffic exchanges. In both cases here, the results can depend entirely on how much traffic is being seen by each site. Other sites that have a higher page ranking can be more ...

Internet Marketing and Advertising Success 2008-04-09 01:16:00 One of the biggest and best ways to attract a ton of visitors and traffic to your site is by offering something "free". "Free" is one of the most powerful words on the internet. the reason behind this is because when you offer something "free" to someone, it can draw them in. This creates a bait like effect to entice your customers. Another thing is, who do you know that will turn something down that it "FREE"? Internet marketing and advertising success depends on one key ingredient: traffic. Not just any traffic, targeted traffic. Any experienced internet marketer will tell you that "traffic means nothing if no one is buying".Making money off your traffic can be one of the most complicated things to do for an online business owner. Even though it is somewhat difficult to do, its not impossible. It just takes a little knowledge, proper training, and an effective steer of direction. Its just like getting to the top of the search engines. If you can get to the top of the search engines, ...

Basics of SEO for Online Marketing 2008-04-08 06:20:00 What do you know about Basics Of SEO? Its not a small part like some start tips that how you will adjust your keywords and how you can collect backlinks? etc, Because Basics of SEO are base of all online marketing like article marketing, affiliate marketing, viral marketing and more.In Marketing we attract more and more visitors to increase our traffic rate and hope for more traffic tomorrow than today and thats why you need to make 100% quality site with good contents, and adjust all keywords by natural way because if you want to put your keywords to increase your keywords ratio paragraph wise then it would be known as keywords stuffing by search engine and you site will be listed in banned site list and then after you can not get any position or quality traffic for free, because after banned if you want to continue then you have to purchase target traffic services which are payable and you need to pay regular because free traffic are very low after got banned.So if you want to gain f ...

3 Ways to Boost Your Online Success 2008-04-08 06:18:00 When I first started online, I beleive that I had the same struggles as everyone else, but I quickly realized that those who were crying foul, or scam were the ones who just didnt listen or read when they bought. So many people get caught up in the make millions and forget about the how to part. I always make sure to follow up leads and gain someones trust before actually getting them to join. I could sell anyone on the idea of making a gazillion dollars, we all can. But what people need is the know how to do it. Prove to them you know what you are doing.First of all, you need to know how to market, the marketing that works the best is different for everyone, just simply because one person excels at one aspect and fails at another. I guess its a good thing there are thousands of ways to market on the internet. Marketing will always be the most important part of earning online, because if you drive thousands to your site, someone will buy whether you sell them an idea or not. So traffic ...

How to Start Making Money with Adsense 2008-04-08 06:14:00 Adsense is one of the most powerful tool in a website publisher's arsenal. It enables a person to monetize their sites easily. If used properly, it can generate a very large and healthy income for them. However if you are not using them correctly and just maximizing the income you squeeze from it, you are actually leaving a lot of money on the table. Something we all hate doing.How you can start earning money with Adsense can be done easily and quickly. You will be amazed at the results you will be getting in such a short period of time.Start by writing some quality content articles which are also keyword incorporated. There are a lot people who are excellent with words. Writing comes easy for them. Why not make it work in such a way that you will be earning some extra cash in the process.There are actually three steps before you begin writing your ads and having an effective Adsense campaign.Keyword search. Find or discover some popular subject,keywords or phrases. Select the ones wh ...

Maximize Your Adsense Earnings 2008-04-07 10:20:00 Most webmasters know that Adsense generates a tremendous source of additional advertising income. That is why most of them use it to go after the best paying keywords. They have with them the lists that tells what the keywords are and have already used various methods of identifying them. And yet, after putting up these supposed-to-be high paying keywords into their pages, the money they expected to come rolling in is not really coming in.What's going on? What is it that they are doing wrong?Having the pages with the proper keywords is one thing. But driving visitors to those pages is another matter and often the factor that is lacking.The thing is, to get visitors to your high paying keyword pages, you need to optimize your site navigation.Stop for a moment and think about how visitors are using your website. After a visitor has landed on a certain page, they are likley to click on another page that sounds interesting. They get there because of the other links that appears on a page ...

Linux Web Hosting - Too Many Positives to Ignore 2008-04-07 08:13:00 Linux Web hosting has a history of prominence – helping millions world-wide with safe and secure hosting options. Net craft, the UK-based prominent internet monitoring company, has already reported that the eight of the ten most reliable web hosting companies of the world run Linux as the OS in their web servers. Let’s dig deep into the subject of why Linux is rapidly becoming the center of attraction for most world-wide.1. StabilityLinux, the ‘UNIX-like’ OS is based on OpenSource architecture. That makes the source code readily available to peers for regular reviewing. The resultant effectiveness in spotting bugs and incorporation of effective codes to affect enhanced stability of the entire programming structure is not hard to imagine. Any assurance for ‘long uptime’ and ‘crash-proof’ server performance is another option that is ready to be enjoyed with every Linux Web hosting facility.2. SecurityNot just because the stability factor that leads to better solutions con ...

Domain Name Idea - Things to Watch Out for in Those Domain Name Suggestion Tools 2008-04-07 08:10:00 Where do you get your domain name ideas from? Your friends? Your family? Your dog?We've launched several sites, and coming up with a good domain name is always difficult. It seems all of the good ones are taken. There are two basic strategies that people use. 1. Come up with a new domain name that isn't already registered. 2. Go after a domain name that was previously owned. (This is always the more expensive option because you are either buying a premium domain name, or buying an expired domain name on auction.)Right now, we're going to focus on the first method and try to come up with a new domain name that isn't already registered.This is the cheapest option, but it involves trial and error. There are a lot of free online tools out there that can help suggest good domain name ideas. Some of these tools are run by the registrars (i.e. GoDaddy, NetWork Solutions, etc) and some of these tools are run by independent websites (i.e. MakeWords.com). But they're all free.Basically, y ...

Tips on Choosing the Best High Speed Internet Provider 2008-04-07 08:06:00 High speed Internet is the way to go these days especially if you use the World Wide Web on a daily basis. In fact, many who have switched from dial up to a high speed connection have sworn that they will never go back to the days of the old method. If you are thinking about getting a high speed connection for your computer or if you want to switch Internet providers, there are a few tips to keep in mind in order to choose the best Internet provider for your high speed connection needs.See Who Provides Service in Your AreaThe first step to finding the best Internet provider for a high speed connection is to determine who offers service in your area. Since not all Internet providers offer service in every area, it is a good idea to first call around and determine what your choices are with regard to providers. From that point you can narrow down the options to the best choice for high speed connections.Determine the Best Internet Provider With Regard to Plan OfferingsWhen switching to a ...

Hunting Down Spyware and Adware 2008-04-07 07:57:00 Most of us hate spyware and adware. Unless you're a web developer which has a couple of spyware and adware programs tied to your credentials, chances are you belong to the majority of web browsers who seek the assistance of anti-spyware removal programs to kill spyware and adware infections in their computers.There are a number of ways to kill or remove spyware infections. Most of them involve easy enough steps. However, there are times when the computer has been too infected by a multitude of spyware programs that the only solution that remains is to format the hard drive of the computer. To start anew is sometimes the only way to free your computers from such infections.Nevertheless, there are a lot of anti-spyware and anti-virus programs out in the market that are able to identify and remove, delete or quarantine spyware utilities and their infected files efficiently. Anti-spyware and anti-virus creators are working overtime to keep up with the development of spyware and adware pro ...

Website Designing: the Accessibility Factor 2008-04-07 07:51:00 Today when there is a sea full of websites all over the web world it becomes extremely difficult to sustain a considerable amount of traffic to the site. This threat appears like a killer for any website owner. In order to overcome this threat what websites really need to do is create super duper web presences for themselves. This web presence can be created right from the website designing process itself.The question now arises why emphasize on presence when you are already there in the web. Even though your website is there it is important to make it accessible to the users because until your website is accessible no user will spend time on your website. This will appear to be a great loss to your business since websites are the most important tool of communication between you and your users and the accessibility of the website is the most essential factor that can keep them glued to your services.The accessibility factor of a website depends a lot on the user end also. It is possibl ...

Top Ten Spam Kings You Should Know About 2008-04-07 07:42:00 When we are at work and trying to get on with our day its horrible when lots of unwanted spam gets through. Even though we have all of the latest content inspection, and anti virus gear in place. Its a pain and it cost businesses millions and year and the governments of the world need to be more proactive in this area.Below is a (recently published) top ten list of the worst spammers around, from the very worst to the plan terrible. Look these names up!Leo Kuvayev / BadCowAlex Blood / Alexander Mosh / AlekseyB / Alex PolyakovVincent Chan / yoric.netRussian Business NetworkNikhil Kumar Pragji / Dark-MailerRuslan Ibragimov / send-safe.comPavka / ArtofitHerbalKingYambo FinancialsMichael Lindsay / iMedia NetworksAny start up/sme/ngo or any business for that matter should make sure that they have all their content inspection techniques tip top, their anti virus software up to date to make sure that their internet security policies are spot on. And keep updating! ...