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  • Web Content (Mass + Keywords) + Links = SEO
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:SEO] Of course, the whole goal of the search engines' ranking schemes is precisely to deliver good, relevant content to users. The mechanism for how search engines select and reward good, relevant content...


  • The Spyware That Shagged Me
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Security] There may be a spy hiding on your computer, and it's not a spy that loves you. Find out how to spot spyware and keep from getting shagged.


  • Beating Adware, The Sneakiest Software
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Security] Promoters of adware, software that shows advertising on a user's computer, use some cunning tricks to get you to install their software on your machine. Here's what to look out for. Adware is, by def...


  • Used Cars: "Certified" No Substitute for Extended Warranties
    [Automotive] Thinking about a used car extended warranty? Nervous about what's under the hood? Used car dealers are feeling your pain all the way to the bank. In an ironic twist, "pre-owned vehicle" dealers have ...


  • Used Auto Warranty Warning: Beware Dealer-Issued Extended Auto Warranty Coverage
    [Automotive] Buying a used car? You need an extended auto warranty to protect you from expensive surprises down the road.


  • SEO Outbound Link Relevance
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:SEO] You know search engines evaluate a site based primarily on the links going to it (inbound links). The PageRank of the sites on which the inbound links are located, and the anchor text of the links, matter a lot. But if you're like most webmasters, you don't appreciate the value of outbound links.


  • Web Content & Consumer Corporate Sites: More Important than You Realize
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Internet-Marketing] Executive summary: for a website to be truly successful, it can't just be a shopping cart, a page full of advertisements, or a lead capture form. You can keep such sites alive with massive advertising outlays. But to enjoy natural traffic, a website needs to be a destination that people actually want to go to willingly. And that requires some kind of content. Almost every successful website is built on content, as I'll show with some big-name examples.


  • Consumer Website Marketing with Content: The Case of Amazon.com
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Internet-Marketing] Amazon is widely recognized as the most successful ecommerce site in history. Much discussion has been devoted to the role of Amazon's affiliate program, website usability, website personalization, and capital investments. But little attention has been paid to the vital role content plays on the Amazon site, and how big an advantage Amazon has over its competitors thanks to content.


  • Wedding Planning on the Web
    [Relationships:Wedding] Tips for getting the most out of the web when planning a wedding.


  • What Web Businesses Can Learn from Online Gambling
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online] learn how to gain visitors' trust by studying how online casino websites have overcome enormous obstacles to building trust among site visitors.


  • Need a Website? You Have 3 Options
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Web-Design] When it comes to building a website, most individuals and small business owners think you either have to do it yourself or hire someone to do it. Web builder software is often the better option for this group by far.


  • 90s Web Design: A Nostalgic Look Back
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Web-Design] A nostalgic look back at 90s web design, and a warning to anyone whose website is an accidental anachronism.


  • Website Buying Guide Checklist
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Web-Design] Can you really get a website even without knowing anything about code, and without paying a fortune? Find out.


  • The $10,000 Credit Card Challenge
    [Finance:Credit] Thinking about conquering your mountain of debt but too scared even to give your debt much thought? Read this real-world scenario of how one person erased $10,000 of credit card debt within a few years.


  • Your Credit Card Payment Is Rising: Warning & Tips
    [Finance:Credit] Did you know your minimum credit card payment is rising? A new government program working to get Americans out of credit card debt is pushing credit card issuers to raise minimum monthly payments. Will you be able to make the higher monthly payment? Here are some tips for getting by.


  • Dry Skin Care Quiz
    [Health-and-Fitness:Skin-Care] Most people who think they know all about dry skin, chapped skin, chafing, redness and other signs of skin dehydration really don't. Take this quiz to make sure you know who your skin's enemies are.


  • Web Advertising Stealth Tactics of "Illegal" Sites
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Internet-Marketing] Advertising a website is never easy. But imagine how much harder it would be if advertising your website were illegal.


  • VOIP Small Business/Home Business Advantage
    [Communications:VOIP] Small businesses, home-based businesses, and self-employed individuals have been turning to internet telephone service (also called broadband phone or VOIP) in droves.


  • Small Business Web Shopping Cart Software: 7 Reasons Hosted Is Better
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Ecommerce] Why should you pay for a remotely hosted shopping cart for your small business website, rather than just install a free OpenSource shopping cart on your site?


  • Small Business Ecommerce Web Design
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Web-Design] If your small business is venturing into ecommerce, you may be daunted by the technical wizardry you think is involved. But fear not: complete web store software packages will keep all the technical wizardry safely behind the screen, so you don't have to worry about it. All you have to do is choose a design, stock your store, and promote it. Here's how to do that.


  • E-commerce Solution: Shopping Cart or Web Store?
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Ecommerce] If you’re planning on opening your own online store, you should make sure that you learn all about e-commerce, so that you can select the best online store builder for your business. One big decision you want to make early on is whether you want your online store to consist only of a shopping cart, or if you want your online store to be your entire site, with shopping cart functionalities available to every page. Let's look at the options.


  • Web Business: What's in a (Domain) Name? For Casino Sites, a Lot!
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Domain-Names] You've seen them before and wondered what the heck they were thinking: small businesses with domain names like eallylonganduniquebusinessname.biz. Half-out-loud you say: what, was reallylonganduniquebusinessname.com taken? A new advertising technique of "illegal" casino websites helps prove that your snickering is absolutely justified.


  • Buying Furniture Online Can Be Safer than Offline
    [Shopping-and-Product-Reviews] Furniture sales have historically been a major area of consumer complaints. Luckily, there are a number of reasons why buying furniture online may be safer than offline.


  • Discount Bedroom Furniture Set Buying Guide
    [Home-Improvement:Interior-Design-and-Decorating] You don't want to break the bank buying bedroom furniture. But you don't want to break the bed because you bought cheap. You don't have to sacrifice quality for affordability, or affordability for quality. But you do have to keep your eyes open and your expectations realistic. There are plenty of furniture manufacturers that will be more than happy to part a furniture fool from his money.


  • Bedroom Furniture Contemporary Choices: Beds
    [Home-Improvement:Interior-Design-and-Decorating] Buying bedroom furniture? Here are some ideas for choosing a bed for a contemporary bedroom.


  • Credit Counseling Services Checklist
    [Finance:Credit-Counseling] There are credit counseling agencies that rescue people from the deepest financial holes. There are also credit counseling agencies that just shovel in more dirt. How do you tell them apart?


  • Home Skin Care Tips: Emily's Smart Move
    [Health-and-Fitness:Beauty] Thinking about home skin care but worried about looking like Tammy Faye? Read this real-world scenario of how one person found home care tips for skin online to become beautiful.


  • Skin Care Tips: Online Product Shopping Check List
    [Shopping-and-Product-Reviews] There are so many good skin care products online, you'd be missing out if you didn't look into buying your products via the web. But, as with everything on the web, it's buyer beware: there's plenty of junk thrown in with the good stuff. Here's what to look for and what to look out for:


  • Using Art Prints with a Minimalist Home Decor
    [Home-Improvement:Interior-Design-and-Decorating] Most decorators traditionally recommend a minimalist décor for many spaces, particularly small spaces such as apartments and guest houses. Unfortunately, many people believe that this means that the walls should be kept completely bare for a minimalist décor to work. Aren't pictures too flashy for a minimalist décor?


  • Art Prints for Home Decorating
    [Home-Improvement:Interior-Design-and-Decorating] Learn how to make your home's interior look as good as the ones you see on the home-decorating shows--without a budget running into thousands of dollars--using art prints.


  • Affordable Paintings: Art Prints Buying Guide
    [Arts-and-Entertainment:Visual-Graphic-Arts] The fastest way to bring beauty and style to a room is to put up prints of beautiful paintings. Here's what you should consider:


  • Getting One-way Inbound Links: the 5 Major Strategies
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Web-Development] Do you know all the major strategies for getting valuable one-way inbound links?


  • Web Content Strategy 101
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Web-Development] Your web content makes or breaks the profitability of your site. Here’s how you can develop a strategy to make the most of your site’s content.


  • Web Content: How Much Should I Pay?
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Web-Development] How much should you pay for web content? It depends on what you can expect to get back on your investment. Find out how a web content writer can increase your site's revenue 20% or more.


  • Google's Good-Writing Filter
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:SEO] Summary: The web pages actually at the top of Google have only one thing clearly in common: good writing. The usual SEO sacred cows and bugbears, such as PageRank, frames, and JavaScript, are less important, if they even matter at all.


  • MSN PPC Advertising Behavioral and Demographic Targeting: Killer App. or Achilles' Heel?
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:PPC-Advertising] Privacy advocates, bloggers, and many people's own low tolerance level for creepiness may damage not just the advertising program but MSN itself.


  • Why Your Online Advertising Traffic Leaves as Soon as It Arrives
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Internet-Marketing] Online advertising traffic leaves when advertisers don't make it easy to stick around.


  • Online Advertising Traffic and the First Law of Web Surfing
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Internet-Marketing] Hint: don't send send your online advertising traffic to your homepage.


  • MSN PPC Advertising Network Finally Debuts
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:PPC-Advertising] MSN is launching its own PPC advertising program with new demographic and behavioral targeting features in France and Singapore in mid-late 2005.


  • New Form of Click Fraud Discovered
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Internet-Marketing] If you use PPC advertising and are in a highly competitive market, you can't afford not to read this.





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