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Reading time: 2 – 2 minutes There comes a time in every bloggers career they have to make a choice about monetizing their blogs. Monetizing isn’t the right thing for every blogger, surprisingly enough. There are plenty of vanity bloggers or those who blog to support a separate business venture. You can rest assured that when I finally get my novel in print there will be absolutely no ads other than products on the corresponding site/blog. Just as not every blog is meant for monetizing, not every blog should be monetized in the same way.  Most people recommend starting off with adsense, which for sure is (was) the easiest program to get into.  As I understand it from a great many noobs plenty of sites are getting rejected these days and many more are getting their accounts cut within the first couple of days of going active with Google’s normal no explanation given email.  If this has happened to you, don’t get worried over it since it happens to a lot of bloggers... 

Reading time: < 1 minute Attracting Traffic with Banner Ads By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Nowshade_Kabir]Nowshade Kabir Internet is an ever evolving business platform. Doing business on the Internet differs in a number of ways from every day brick and mortar business. Change here is more frequent, more dramatic and may have greater impact than in a conventional business. Success in this climate can only come from quick response to the changes. Look at web advertisement! Just in a few short years, we have seen rise and fall of banner advertisement, email marketing, pop-ups, pop-unders and number of other marketing tools. convey_source = "English"; Read More →

Reading time: 1 – 2 minutes By Sharif Aly Technology makes our presence lively. So maintaining an online identity is a necessary thing in this biz-world. In this scenario, where everything has been made online, it’s essential for you to make the readers hooked up on your site. There are millions of pages that are available online and your site has to stand out from the rest. So what makes your site more unique? Is it your design; or the content which make your site attractive? Absolutely not! Of course your design should match with your prose. But beyond these aspects, there is a term called Traffic. So, how can it be done? Its quiet a meticulous thing that has to be done with at most care. To traffic a site is something tricky. This can be done in many ways. Every site owners follow their unique ways to traffic their site. The most general way which is followed by many users is Site Engine optimization. Popularly termed as “SEO optimization”. Though it’s a... 

Reading time: 1 – 2 minutes By David A Robinson I’ve just had a meeting with a potential client regarding their website. They launched into a list of things they wanted including, videos, animations, 360 degree images etc. What they hadn’t thought about was the whole purpose of the site. Who is was for, what it was for, who the stakeholders were and what success looks like. Building a website is a time consuming and costly exercise. There are many component parts to a website, the look and feel being only one of them. The problem is many people only focus on the pretty pictures and Flash animations, only stopping to think about SEO once the site’s live. This is a recipe for disaster. SEO starts before a single line of HTML is written or a single pixel has been added to an Illustrator canvas. SEO can be used to help you figure out some of the BIG questions you should be asking when developing a website. convey_source = "English"; Read More →

Reading time: 2 – 4 minutes By Leonardo Wood Google Analytics is a handy tool that you can use to help you with your SEO and traffic generation. Google Analytics is a Free Tool which you can utilize to learn more about your website visitors google.com/analytics. You can use it to find out where your website visitors came from, what they searched for to find you, how long they were on your site, how many pages they visited etc. It is an invaluable tool for helping you test, measure and maximize your SEO and online marketing strategies. To install it on your website you simply open an Analytics Account and get a code that needs to be inserted into your website. Your website designer will be able to do this for you, it will take them a few minutes, if they are going to charge you for this, start worrying. You may already get statistics from your website designer or hosting company but with Google Analytics you can go into the Account and have a real good look round for yourself. Google...