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John V. W. Howe is an entrepreneur, author, inventor, patent holder, husband, father, and grandfather. He has been involved in entrepreneurial activities for over 40 years and has recently started several web sites to help Boomers (baby boomers) become entrepreneurs when they retire. During his career, John has founded and managed several successful companies including computer services, plastic injection molding, and assembly operations. He is currently Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of ... [More]

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  • Social Security Spousal Benefits - What Social Security Does Not Tell You
    [Home-and-Family:Retirement] Social Security spousal benefits can be confusing, but it is well worth your time to do your homework and learn how to take full advantage of them. You may receive thousands of dollars of additional income when you had no idea that it was available.


  • Your Retirement Calculator is Probably Inaccurate
    [Home-and-Family:Retirement] Your retirement calculator is probably giving you wrong answers and you don't know it. Almost every free Internet retirement calculator I evaluated is inaccurate.


  • Garmin Approach G5 Review
    [Communications:GPS] Garmin charges to the front of the pack with the Garmin Approach G5. The G5 is the first Garmin branded golf GPS.


  • Garmin Nuvi 1690 Review
    [Communications:GPS] With the release of the Garmin Nuvi 1690, Garmin has opened another chapter in the development of portable automotive GPS. Here's why.


  • Golf GPS Finder - Easily Find the Best Golf GPS
    [Communications:GPS] Trying to find the best golf GPS can be overwhelming with all the different websites and the volumes of information. You need a golf GPS finder to simplify your search.


  • Garmin Approach G5 - Fantastic Golf GPS
    [Communications:GPS] Garmin recently released the Approach G5 golf GPS and it has taken the golf world by storm. Here's why.


  • Best Golf GPS - How to Find It
    [Communications:GPS] The best golf GPS change often so listing them in an article is somewhat fruitless since the information quickly becomes obsolete. These changes are caused by advances in technology, competition, and the release of the latest golf GPS.


  • Garmin GPS For Trucks and Truckers
    [Communications:GPS] There does not seem to be the perfect GPS for trucks and truckers cannot totally rely on the GPS to keep them out of trouble. This article covers the GPS for trucks that are available from Garmin.


  • Garmin Voice Recognition Could Save Your Life
    [Communications:GPS] Garmin has long been the respected leader in GPS technology and now it has incorporated voice recognition into its top line of automotive GPS. Garmin voice recognition could save you life.


  • Looking For a New Garmin GPS?
    [Communications:GPS] When you look for a new Garmin GPS, there are seemingly endless possibilities. Read on and let's go through the process of making your selection easy for you.


  • How to Buy Garmin GPS
    [Communications:GPS] Making the decision to buy Garmin GPS can be complicated unless you know how to simplify the process. The first decision to make is the type of GPS and in this article, we will narrow the GPS type and search for a portable automotive GPS.


  • Looking For a Garmin GPS 4.3 Inch Display?
    [Communications:GPS] The Garmin GPS 4.3 inch display is considered Garmin's "wide screen" GPS. Garmin makes portable automotive GPS units in three sizes. The diagonal dimension of the standard size is 3.5 inches. The wide screen model is the 4.3 inch dimension, and the third size is the 5.2 inch diagonal dimension.


  • Do You Fear Spaghetti Bowls? - Lane Assist Can Help
    [Communications:GPS] Just think how lane assist can help you conquer fear of "spaghetti bowls". When you are approaching a spaghetti bowl interchange at 70 MPH, you want to know what lane you should be in before you get there. Some turns can be made from two lanes, but the outside lane will be an "Exit Only". If your turn is the second turn after the first major turn and you are caught in the outside lane, you will be "trapped off" and end up who knows where.


  • Your GPS Can Kill You - GPS Voice Recognition Can Save You
    [Communications:GPS] Taking your eyes off the road at 70 MPH to manually input information into your GPS is inviting disaster. How would you like to talk to your GPS and tell it what to do? Wouldn't it be great to input your destination address by voice instead of taking your eyes off the road to key in the address? Well, guess what. Now you can.


  • Pink Garmin Nuvi
    [Communications:GPS] OK, ladies. Are you tired of the standard old black GPS units? Garmin heard that you were not happy with the drab black color and made some GPS units in pink just for you.


  • Garmin Nuvi 885T - Talk to Your GPS
    [Communications:GPS] How would you like to give your GPS voice commands so you do not have to take your eyes off the road to enter information? Well, your wish has been granted with the Garmin Nuvi 885T.


  • Garmin Nuvi 780 GPS Compared to Other Nuvi 700 Series GPS
    [Communications:GPS] The Garmin Nuvi 780 is a great value right now. The perfect time to purchase the best GPS for the money is when the manufacturer discontinues a GPS and the merchants lower the price to clear the GPS from inventory. This is why the Garmin Nuvi 780 is currently such a great value.


  • Nuvi 760 Price Compared to the Nuvi 360 Price - Which is the Better Value?
    [Communications:GPS] The Nuvi 760 price is higher than the Nuvi 360 price. They are both among the best selling GPS on Amazon. Which one do you think is the better value for the money? You will be surprised.


  • Garmin Traffic Receiver - What You Need to Know
    [Communications:GPS] Considerable confusion exists about how a Garmin traffic receiver works and how it interfaces with the GPS. Also, how do you decide which traffic receiver to use with your Garmin traffic GPS?


  • Garmin Traffic GPS - Everything You Need to Know
    [Communications:GPS] There is considerable misunderstanding about Garmin traffic GPS units. The description of Garmin traffic GPS units is unclear about exactly what "FM traffic included" means and how it works.


  • Nuvi 255W GPS Compared to Nuvi 760 GPS - Be Surprised
    [Communications:GPS] The Nuvi 255W GPS is a current model and costs less than the discontinued Nuvi 760 GPS. Why do you think the Nuvi 760 GPS outsells the Nuvi 255W GPS? Read on and be surprised.


  • How to Compare Garmin GPS
    [Communications:GPS] With all the makes and models of Garmin GPS on the market, comparing the various models is very difficult unless you know where to find the tools to use to help with your comparison. This article makes it easy for your to compare Garmin GPS units.


  • Nuvi 760 Versus Nuvi 1200 - Which is the Better Value For the Money?
    [Communications:GPS] Garmin discontinued the Nuvi 760 and recently introduced the Nuvi 1200 as its "latest and greatest". Is the Nuvi 1200 really the better buy for the money compared to the Nuvi 760?


  • Garmin Nuvi 1200 - Multifunction GPS
    [Communications:GPS] The Garmin Nuvi 1200 is really a multifunction GPS. It works as well in your car as in your pocket to help you hike around the city. It is the first GPS to allow you to interface public transportation into your urban route planning in both North America and Europe.


  • Discontinued Garmin GPS - How to Find Them
    [Communications:GPS] When you read about a discontinued Garmin GPS in a blog or an article, have you ever wondered how the author knew the GPS was discontinued? This article tells you how you can find out if a Garmin GPS has been discontinued.


  • The Garmin Nuvi 1200 GPS Has Finally Arrived
    [Communications:GPS] The Garmin Nuvi 1200 GPS was first announced by Garmin in early March 2009. The release date on Amazon has slipped a couple of times, but this new, thinner, lighter, pedestrian friendly GPS is now shipping.


  • Garmin Nuvi 1300 Series GPS - Newest Wide Screen GPS From Garmin
    [Communications:GPS] Garmin announced the Nuvi 1300 series in March 2009. The projected date for release was originally in May, but it is now set for June 28, 2009. The 1300 product line is a wide screen model with a diagonal dimension of 4.3 inches. Garmin made this model to be a multi-functional unit so it works well in your car and you can take it with you when you navigate abound the city on foot. The five units in the product line are all thinner and lighter than the wide screen models in the old product lines. All these units are 0.6 inches thick versus 0.8 inches for the older models.


  • Garmin Nuvi 1490T Has it All
    [Communications:GPS] Garmin announced the Nuvi 1490T and this GPS seems to have it all. It has the widest display for a Garmin automotive GPS. Yet is twenty-five percent thinner than its processors, and it is packed with many other great features.


  • Garmin Nuvi 760 GPS - Discontinued But Still a Great Buy
    [Communications:GPS] The Garmin Nuvi 760 GPS may be discontinued, but it is still a great buy for the money. The best buy for the money on a GPS can usually be found after the manufacturer announces that the unit is discontinued and merchants start clearing the discontinued units.


  • Garmin Nuvi 1200 Series GPS - Newest GPS From Garmin
    [Communications:GPS] The Garmin Nuvi 1200 series is the newest in the long line of great Garmin automotive GPS units. It has many improvements over it's predecessors for approximately the same price as the older models.


  • How to Find the Top Rated GPS (Automotive)
    [Communications:GPS] Finding the top rated GPS can seem like a daunting task with all the information that is available on the Internet. Another challenge is the top rated GPS changes frequently with advances in technology and competition between manufacturers. What you need is a simple way to cut through all the noise and easily find the information you are looking for.


  • Garmin Automotive GPS - How to Easily Find the Best Ones
    [Communications:GPS] The easiest way to find information about Garmin automotive GPS is to use Amazon as a research tool to locate the information you want. Amazon allows you to easily find all the product information, technical information, and customer reviews about Garmin automotive GPS in one place.


  • GPS Reviews - How to Find Them
    [Communications:GPS] The best GPS reviews are written by GPS owners. They have used their GPS in real life situations and are better qualified to review the GPS than a person who does a short evaluation and goes on to evaluate the next GPS. So where do you find these reviews?


  • Running GPS - How to Find the Best One
    [Communications:GPS] The selection of running GPS units is limited when compared to the offerings of automotive GPS units. However, unless you know how to do so, it is difficult to get all the available running GPS units together in one place to make your comparison and select the best one. Here's how to do it.


  • Best Car GPS - How to Find It
    [Communications:GPS] Finding the best car GPS can be a challenge when you consider that "the best" means you are looking for one automotive GPS that stands above all the rest. "The best" also depends on what your selection criteria are and on competition in the marketplace. However, there is a way to find the best car GPS as of the current moment.


  • 10 Top GPS - How to Find Them
    [Communications:GPS] Listing the 10 top GPS in an article is not effective. The information is obsolete as soon as it is published. The 10 top GPS change almost daily due to advances in technology and competition. This article addresses the problems of listing the 10 top GPS and tells how to find the current 10 top GPS whenever you want.


  • Top GPS - How to Find It
    [Communications:GPS] Since the top GPS changes often with competition and advances in technology, this article does not name a specific unit as the top GPS. Rather, it shows how to use a very popular website as your research tool to find the top GPS any time you wish.


  • Lowest Price GPS
    [Communications:GPS] When shopping for the lowest price GPS, you may find one with such a low price that the features are less than what you really want in your unit. What you need is a research tool that will sort your possible units in a low to high price order. With this sorted list of global positioning system units, you can start your selection process at the lowest price GPS and keep increasing in price until you find the unit that matches your desired features and target price.


  • The Best GPS For the Money
    [Communications:GPS] There is always a best GPS for the money. This best GPS for the money will change periodically as manufactures compete and as GPS units are discontinued and stores clear the discontinued inventory. The problem is how to find it. There is a very simple solution.


  • #1 Most Important Step to Build a Successful WAHM Website
    [Home-Based-Business] Too many moms decide to start a work at home online business and launch off to build a website without taking the single most important #1 step. Without performing this step, your website will probably fail.


  • #1 Best Work at Home Moms Web Host - How to Find It?
    [Home-Based-Business] You are thinking about starting your own work at home moms business and you have decided to build a website. You start looking for the right web host for your site and you are overwhelmed by all the possible web hosts that are advertising on the Internet. You must make a really important decision. How do you pick the right one?


  • WAHM Business - Build it and the Money Will Come
    [Home-Based-Business] As a work at home mom (WAHM), there's never enough money to make ends meet. Don't you want to help the family money crunch by starting a work at home business? Creating a successful WAHM business can be a challenge, but with the correct tools, training, instructions, and support you can create the WAHM business you've always dreamed about to help pay the bills.


  • Spend Your IRA First - Minimize Tax on Your Social Security
    [Home-and-Family:Retirement] Current conventional wisdom says that you should spend your non-qualified money first and your IRA money last. There are very good reasons for not doing this since it will very probably cost you money in your retirement. Spending your IRA first can substantially lower the tax you pay on your Social Security benefits.


  • Spend Your IRA First - Maximize Your Social Security
    [Home-and-Family:Retirement] Current conventional wisdom says that you should spend your non-qualified money first and your IRA money last. There are very good reasons for not doing this since it will very probably cost you money in your retirement.


  • Double Dip Social Security - Legally
    [Investing:Retirement-Planning] Did you know that you can legally double dip on collecting social security? Have you looked at combining individual benefits with spousal benefits? Here is our personal example how this works.


  • 70 - 85% of Pre-retirement Income - Do You Really Need That Much For Your Retirement?
    [Home-and-Family:Retirement] The financial planning industry uses the percentage of 70 - 85 percent of your pre-retirement income as the amount of income you will need in retirement to maintain your current standard of living. Who developed this magic number and is it really accurate for you?


  • Inflation - A Retiree's Worst Enemy
    [Home-and-Family:Retirement] Inflation is the worst enemy of a retiree. It robs the retiree of future purchasing power and diminishes the value of retirement savings over time. What do you know about your worst enemy? Who calculates inflation figures and what are the long term projections for inflation?


  • Real Retirement Living Expenses - Do You Know What They Are?
    [Home-and-Family:Retirement] Most financial advisors use 70 - 80 percent of pre-retirement income as the amount of post retirement income that will be necessary for a comfortable retirement. When we examine real numbers, this percentage seems higher than is really necessary. This should come as good news for many of the Boomer generation who have not saved as much as they should for a comfortable retirement.


  • Definition of Site Build It
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Web-Hosting] Site Build It is a very successful web host on the Internet. It is really much more than just a web host. Here is the definition of Site Build It.


  • Beware of Investment Company Retirement Calculators
    [Home-and-Family:Retirement] Retirement calculators are not all the same. Continuing to work after retirement can have a very positive impact on your retirement savings. Make a post retirement job part of your retirement planning. Use the right retirement calculator in your retirement planning.


  • Fire Your Web Host
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Web-Hosting] Have you been fighting the website wars for a couple of years now and you seem to be going nowhere? Do you not get the support from your web host that you feel you need to succeed? Well, fire your web host and find one that will help you succeed.


  • Prior Planning Prevents Poor Performance (PPPPP) - Building a Successful Website
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Web-Hosting] Anyone who has been in business for any time knows the meaning of PPPPP. It is the mantra that a person should learn early in their lives to be successful.


  • Gigabytes and Bandwidth Are Not Measurements for the Best Web Host
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Web-Hosting] When evaluating the best web host, don't get bogged down in evaluating the gigabytes and bandwidth of the various hosts. That is not what really matters in your decision about which is the best web host. Do you know what really matters?


  • Make Your Site Easy for Your Visitors to Navigate
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Web-Design] Site Navigation is a very important consideration of your website design. Your site should be designed so that the newest newbie can thread through your site without getting lost. It is the road map of your site so that your reader knows how to effectively navigate through it.


  • How to Build a Successful Website
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Web-Design] Learning how to build a successful website can be a daunting task for anyone starting on the Internet. Stack the deck in your favor of success with some diligent research and planning.


  • Web Host for Beginners
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Web-Hosting] Finding the right web host for beginners can be a challenge with all the web hosts claiming to be the best. Let's discuss web hosting options for a person who is inexperienced about how to select the best web host for beginners.


  • Looking for Hosting in All the Wrong Places
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Web-Hosting] Sounds like the old country and western song by Johnny Lee from the movie "Urban Cowboy"? Well, most people are looking for web hosting in all the wrong places. They enter "web hosting" into Google or Yahoo and are inundated by all of the advertising for web hosts.


  • Stack the Deck in Your Favor – Find the Right Web Host
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Web-Development] Stacking the deck refers to prearranging the cards in the deck so the best cards are dealt to you so you can win the hand. In the Old Wild West, you would be shot if you were caught doing it. On the Internet it is legal and you should stack the deck in your favor.


  • A Great Retirement Job - Consultant
    [Home-and-Family:Retirement] Becoming a consultant in retirement can be a rewarding retirement job. It can be rewarding both in self-fulfillment and in additional income.


  • Cookie Cutter Websites
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Web-Design] "Cookie cutter websites" are websites that are duplicated like using a cookie cutter. They are sold under the pretense of making the purchaser a lot of money. They usually make money for the seller not the purchaser. They border on being a SCAM.


  • CRON – Automatically Run Jobs on Your Website
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Web-Development] Sometimes you have repetitive jobs to run on your website. Most web servers have a function that will schedule and run jobs automatically for you. Just set up the schedule and let it run on autopilot.


  • Retirement Calculators - Before and After Retirement
    [Home-and-Family:Retirement] Many of the retirement calculators on the Internet do not fit the plan of many Boomers and that is to continue to work after retirement. Income from a retirement job can have a very positive impact on your retirement finances.


  • "Free" Is Not Free
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Web-Hosting] The old adage, "You get what you pay for" applies on the Internet just like in the offline world. "Free" is never really free.


  • Choosing the Best Web Host for A Content Website
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Web-Hosting] When you build a pure content site, you need to know the workings of the Internet in detail. You must attract free traffic to your site from search engine referrals which is very difficult without extensive experience. Choosing the best web host that can guide you through this process is crucial to your success or failure.


  • Using Excel to Organize Your Browsing Discoveries (Create a Mini-Database Using Excel)
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online] Situation: You are browsing the Net and find a great site with solid content. You are rushed and intend to come back and read it later. When later comes, you cannot remember the URL and cannot find it. Has this ever happened to you? Microsoft Excel can help you solve this problem.


  • Live Above the Fold-Die Below the Fold
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Web-Design] The "fold" is the imaginary line on a web page that separates the part of the page that is visible when the page first loads from the part that is off the monitor screen. If your information is above the fold, it might be read. Otherwise, it is invisible.


  • Finding the Number of Backlinks to Your Site
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Link-Popularity] One of the measurements of your website’s popularity is the number of backlinks that point to it. There are some simple tools available to measure this number.


  • Establishing Your Identity on the Internet
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Internet-Marketing] If part of you business plan is to brand your name on the Internet, investigate if some else with your same name is already well established. Vary your name to create a unique name that will have very little competition on the search engines.


  • The Value of Detailed Web Site Traffic Statistics
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Web-Design] Most of the standard traffic statistics reporting packages do not report some of the most important and helpful information that you need to really understand how to improve your website. This information is available if you know where to find it.


  • The Best Retirement Job - Become an Entrepreneur
    [Home-and-Family:Retirement] As part of the Boomer Generation, you will be retiring in the next few years. Do you want to fully retire, or would you like to work from home on flexible hours that generates supplemental income to preserve your retirement savings and is fun to boot? Becoming an entrepreneur and working for yourself is a viable option that many retirees are doing.


  • Dealing with Forum SPAM
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Forums] A forum can be a great place to meet and exchange ideas, but it can also be a place for spammers to post tons of trash. A little prior planning can prevent much of it.


  • Page Rank
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:SEO] Page Rank is an extremely important measure of your web page by Google. Do you know what the rank is of the pages in your website? Do you know how to find page rank?


  • Social Bookmarking – What is It?
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Social-Bookmarking] Social bookmarking is a very powerful way to promote your website or blog. What do you know about it?


  • Social Bookmarking – How to use it to promote your website.
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Social-Bookmarking] Social bookmarking sites can be very important in the promotion of your site. Having links in these sites can drive traffic to your site and help increase your page rank with the search engines.


  • "LAMP" – What is It?
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Web-Hosting] When you see the term "LAMP" on the Internet, it is not a light you turn on with a switch. Do you know what it means?


  • Choosing the Ideal Web Site Host
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Web-Hosting] When you build a website, you need to know the workings of the Internet in detail. You want to attract free traffic to your site from search engine referrals and this is very difficult without extensive experience. Choosing the ideal web site host that can assist you in your efforts is crucial to your success.


  • Defensive Domain Names
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Domain-Names] You should register defensive domain names to protect your main website names.


  • Placing a Link on Your Auction Page Pointing to Your About Me Page
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Auctions] The eBay About Me page is a powerful tool for increasing your sales on eBay. In order to make it easier for a viewer of your auction to get to your About Me page, you should place a link on each auction page that will take the viewer to your About Me page. Read on to learn how to this.


  • How a Web Page is Read
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Web-Design] When you design a webpage, you should be aware that most readers are actually scanning the page. There are areas of the page that are not even scanned and are all but ignored. Being aware of this will improve your webpage design so you put the important information in the areas of the page that are read by the viewer.


  • What is DNS and How Does It Work?
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Web-Hosting] Each time you enter a domain name or an email address on the Internet, the domain name system goes to work for you to convert the alpha information in the domain name into a numeric address that the Internet understands. All this is done automatically for you and you are probably not aware that it is even happening.


  • Understanding Number Systems
    [Computers-and-Technology] Many people who work with computers have never learned binary or hexadecimal number systems. While we may not have to use these number systems often, it can be handy to know about them.


  • An Overview of Pay Per Click (PPC) Advertising
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:PPC-Advertising] Pay per click (PPC) advertising has revolutionized advertising on the Internet. This allows for very targeted advertising to Internet users who are searching for the particular item that is being advertised. Google Adwords and Yahoo Search Marketing are the two major PPC programs on the Internet today. Microsoft AdCenter is a recent newcomer to PPC programs.


  • Economics of Pay Per Click Advertising
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:PPC-Advertising] Before you launch a new pay per click campaign, you should estimate the profitability of the campaign. This is easy to do with a few assumptions and simple calculations.


  • eBay About Me Page
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Auctions] If you are going to sell on eBay, you should take advantage of the About Me page. This is a webpage that eBay permits you set up to tell your visitors about yourself. It also can be used to drive traffic from eBay to your website.


  • Voice Recognition - Switch from Pounding the Keyboard to Speaking to the Computer
    [Computers-and-Technology:Software] If you are publishing on the Internet, you must spend a considerable amount of time typing information into your computer. Why not talk to your computer and let it do the data entry for you? Voice recognition has matured and may be in your Windows system and you don’t know it.


  • Finding Programming Help on the Internet
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Web-Development] Sometimes when you run into a programming problem you need a little help to get moving again. You can quickly find that help on the Internet (at a reasonable price).


  • Understanding Copyright
    [Legal:Copyright] When you create original content, it is automatically copyrighted, but you should know about copyrights and how to specifically mark your work. Also, establishing the date of creation is very important.


  • Making Money With Your Publications
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Ezine-Publishing] There are several ways to publish on the Internet and if you are profit motivated in your publishing, you need to know how to profit from your efforts.


  • Apache on the Internet is Not an Indian Tribe
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Web-Hosting] Apache server is the most popular web server on the Internet today. How much do you know about Apache? Read on for some interesting facts.


  • Outsourcing Projects on the Internet
    [Business:Outsourcing] Many times people working on the Internet quit because they encounter problems that they cannot solve themselves due to lack of expertise or lack of time. Solutions can be found on outsourcing websites like eLance.com where you can hire an expert to help you solve your problem.


  • Write Articles and Multiply the Results of Your Effort
    [Writing-and-Speaking:Article-Marketing] Being an online entrepreneur is a solo experience and since usually we are a company of one or two, we need to find ways to multiply our efforts and get the most "bang" for our time. This can be done by writing articles and using them or using the basic information in them many times over.


  • Using Bookmarks for Site Navigation
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Web-Design] Bookmarks are very helpful tools for making the navigation of your site easier for your reader. Well placed bookmarks can allow your reader to link directly to specific topics on a large web page without having to scroll down to find the topic. The result is a happy reader who stays on your site longer.


  • Affiliate Programs – How to Use Commission Junction
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Affiliate-Revenue] Commission Junction is the largest affiliate program provider. It handles many great companies including eBay. To fully explore what is available through Commission Junction, you need to sign up at Commission Junction and look for affiliates there.


  • A Great Retirement Job – Become an Affiliate
    [Home-and-Family:Retirement] Internet affiliate programs are the best return for your effort with the least demand on your time. Being an affiliate is a great retirement job since it allows a very flexible work schedule.


  • Autoresponder – A Major Consideration in Building a List
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Autoresponders] One of the first considerations in building a mailing list should be “how am I going to handle all those names that I will have in my list”. An autoresponder is the answer to this “nice to have” problem.


  • How Pictures Appear on Web Pages
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Web-Design] Did you know that when you see a picture on a web page, the actual picture might not actually be residing on the website you are viewing, but might be residing on a website on the other side of the world?


  • eBay Affiliate Program
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Affiliate-Revenue] Learning about the eBay affiliate program and how it functions within eBay can be time well spent toward developing an effective affiliate program.


  • Google and Yahoo Site Maps
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Web-Development] Setting up a site map for your website can help the search engines crawl your website. This is important to increasing your site’s ranking with the search engines.


  • Publish Your Own eZine Without A Website
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Ezine-Publishing] Publishing an ezine just got easier with the invention of blogs. Now ezine publishers can easily post past issues of the ezine on a blog and do not have to maintain a website for that purpose.


  • Really Simple Syndication – RSS
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:RSS] Really simple syndication (RSS) is a very simple, but efficient way to notify readers that your site has new content to read. It also allows you to publish your information directly onto a page on another website. Learning about RSS is a must for any person who maintains his/her own website.


  • Search Engine Optimization (SEO) the Safe Way
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:SEO] The best and safest way to optimize your site for search engines is to create a website full of solid content. Trying SEO tricks to fool the search engines may work in the short term, but will cause you problems in the long term.


  • Remotely Accessing Your Home Computer
    [Computers-and-Technology:Software] Windows XP operating system contains the software needed to remotely access your home computer from any Internet connection. This is a powerful tool when you are traveling and need to have full access to your home computer to keep your business running efficiently.


  • A Custom Google Search on Your Own Site is a Powerful Tool
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Web-Development] Installing a customized Google search on your site is a very powerful tool. It helps your readers find information on your site more easily. If you use Adsense for search, you can make income from the Adsense ads that are displayed. The best news is it is free.


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